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I love my dog. I love coffee. Hate Trump. Simple as. He/Him. 40+

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 17h
Seriously just enforce normal liability for AI on the owners and so much of this shit goes away AI companies want to be treated like the hired expert when it comes to pocketing any financial flows, but like a cursory Google Search whenever it comes to liability
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Gosh Shammgosh @goshshammgosh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think it's important to note Schmitt has staff he relies on from both his personal office as well as the well-staffed Committee's majority office. This *big-Hawks-game-plan* had to have gone through a dozen people first and no one caught it as being, well, the dumbest god damn thing of all time.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anyway, Gumby is arguably an autistic narrative, so let's be careful about labeling the rotating mad scientist a tradCath icon.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: two heavyset fellas sit around an unusual, scrawny humanoid alien at a diner counter. One of the guys pushes a little basket of bread in front of the alien and says, “this here is corn bread.” Panel 2: the alien takes a small bite of the golden corn bread. The alien says, “con… bred.” Panel 3: the alien begins to hover, emitting an otherworldly light and causing gravity to shift around its immediate vicinity. A frightened waitress behind the bar shouts, “what’s happening?!”
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Christian Bale is a real one for this www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/r...
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Christian Bale Built a Foster Care Village in the California Desert
The actor has been working for almost two decades to build a foster care nonprofit outside Los Angeles.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 06/06/2026
…Are you kidding me? This country's treatment of voice actors is fucking abysmal. Aqua Teen Hunger Force essentially built Adult Swim, & if there were any justice, Carey Means shouldn't have to work another day in his life. Between this & Andy Merrill's trouble, i just… what the fuck. What the fuck.
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'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' star says he is homeless: 'We have no money'
'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' voice actor Carey Means said that he is homeless as he asked for financial help with a GoFundMe campaign: 'We have no money.'
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Staten Island Action Coalition @siactioncoalition.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
U.S. Rep.Malliotakis was in House session only 72 days this year. Johnson, speaker of the House calls a recess if there is a vote he does not want on the floor. THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY. People are calling for change: the House is denying us our rights. @bkindivisible.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
please enjoy brand new tingler NOT POUNDED BY THIS FLOCK CAMERA BECAUSE SOMEONE CUT IT DOWN. HUH, INTERESTING. I WONDER WHO COULD’VE DONE THAT? out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HL6WHFVV and on buckaroo patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle/...
cover of NOT POUNDED BY THIS FLOCK CAMERA BECAUSE SOMEONE CUT IT DOWN. HUH, INTERESTING. I WONDER WHO COULD’VE DONE THAT? on the right there is a concerned ladybuck with her hands up in a gesture of NO WAY BUD and on the left is an angry lookin sentient flock camera
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JUST FILED: Sitting behind her desk in central North Carolina, Amy Beros warned me: “It’s really hard for people in the United States to understand the scale……” of what’s about to unfold macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A digital illustration of a version of the big board from Wheel of Fortune. An array of green rectangles (each bearing an icon of a hand with crossed fingers inside a circle with rays), and white rectangles that indicate the letters in the secret phrase contestants are trying to guess. The board is not yet solved and reads like this:

M_YB_ I_
_ILL H_PP_N
__D_Y

Standing next to the board in a shiny pink and maroon evening gown and ready to turn around newly-guessed letters is a woman whose head is a human hand with crossed fingers. 

Below the board in the space where viewers at home are informed what type of  phrase is in play it simply reads ‘PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE’
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
“Sure, it’s true that many Black people have reclaimed the word. But the lawsuit is about non-Black Tesla employees and managers abusing Black workers — including allegedly hurling the slur at them in ways that don’t sound like anything resembling gestures of ‘respect and endearment.’”
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Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances
An important trial in California kicked off with Tesla's lawyers arguing that the n-word is a term of "respect and endearment."
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JTDC @jtdc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nine games that shaped me. All have special places in my heart.
Final Fantasy Tactics, Wolfenstein 3D, Commander Keen, ZZT, Midnight Rescue, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Civ III, Oregon Trail, Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold.
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Daily Rotation @dailyrotation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gift link www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History
Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 23/09/2026
Coward shit Newsom vetoed “a bill that would have extended California’s abortion shield laws and expanded legal protections for gender-affirming care”
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A California bill sought to shore up Newsom’s abortion access plan. He vetoed it
One of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s most reliable allies, abortion rights advocacy groups, are issuing a rebuke after he vetoed a bill that would have extended California’s abortion shield laws.
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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Every building he has been involved in has to be demolished. Trump Tower? Unsafe, sorry, the city says it needs to come down. Find another place to live. Mar-A-Lago? Sorry, uninsurable. We’re replacing it with a homeless shelter. Everything inside was a total loss, shame.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY
cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If more Senators had grown up on Medicaid and food stamps like me, they wouldn’t keep cutting our health care and raising our costs. Check out my new ad:
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The tone of quite a few critics to my essay yesterday has been "Ha ha! We're going to get you now too, Evan Urquhart! You have slipped up by writing about someone in a way we don't totally agree with. You expressed sympathy for a bad person, you are bad too, just as we always knew you were."
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FoxyMoneybags @foxymoneybags.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ah, ok. Well people are also mad at her for having her baby at a Jewish hospital with alleged “ties to Israel”. This rampant antisemitism is fucking exhausting.
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They canceled Thursday so nobody had to put a name on the vote. The letter still lands. Send it.
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Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth
Contact Congress today!
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026
They even made DoorDash apologize.
DoorDash on Instagram: We messed up.
Our mistakes meant some NYC Dashers were underpaid or paid late. That's unacceptable, and we're deeply sorry to the Dashers we let down.
We've reached a settlement with the City of New York, and we will make this right by paying every impacted Dasher the amounts they are owed.
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 22/09/2026
the guys who run into target at 6 am and steal pokemon cards from children are all mad because pokemon is just printing more now
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...
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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go
The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.
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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Again, it's shocking to me how much worse this seems than Wall Street's 80s party heyday.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Of course they all fucking knew! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Unsealed Files Show Open AI/Microsoft Knew Copying Was Illegal and Could Hurt Authors
Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by Open AI and Microsoft reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would lik...
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Fucking Every Word @everyword.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
fucking depression
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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For the first time in 25 years I have fewer than 3+ cats. My beloved Isidore died two weeks ago and I have no cute tummy to hug at night or lap sitter. The two left are rambunctious and standoffish. I miss him so much and would love to see cute photos of past pets and hear a story about them.
Beautiful elderly gray and white tuxedo cat sitting in a basket of scarves
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.
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Monks of New Skeet @amagire.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters
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elevated horror: what if you're grieving your loved one TOO MUCH? 
folk horror: what if a child's disability could EAT PEOPLE? 
supernatural horror: what if your childhood trauma could EAT PEOPLE? 
psychological horror: what if your adult trauma could EAT PEOPLE? 
body horror: what if your gender dysphoria could EAT PEOPLE? 
slasher horror: what if a random guy was trying to kill you, instead of a cop or your boyfriend?
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Don’t forget, this is how the Kennedy center dismantling started. The folks at your institution doing equity work might be the first targeted, but the institutions themselves are always the target. Hope folks have learned this now.
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JTDC @jtdc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fucked up at work recently. Monday gonna be stupid. Anyhow.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We're officially entering the Fuhrerbunker phase of the Trump presidency
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026
I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Editor: I'd like a story that combines Americans' hatred of artificial intelligence, their fears about the environment, their antipathy toward data centers, and their angst over inflation driven by dwindling fuel supplies. Reporter: Got ya covered, boss. Need anything else?
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The New York Times

GIVE THE TIMES

Data Center's Spill of 5,000 Gallons of Diesel Forces N.J. River Cleanup The fuel poured from a storage tank at a large data center in Secaucus, N.J., into a tributary of the Hackensack River.

Listen • 5:15 min
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And we're gonna do it. Absolutely, we'll post about it for two months. We'll sound somewhat upset about it at times. We'll ask you all to dig deep, to dig in your heart, and your couch cushions. Deeper. Fish around inside the frame. Diesel's over $6 & regular is $4 or more. But we need your $5.
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I just realized that if you claim that "actually Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims are Semites too," then what you are actually doing is SILENCING the conversation about anti-Arab and Islamophobic bigotry by covering it up with a term for anti-Jewish bigotry – a term invented by proto-Nazi "race science."
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/09/2026
Police should not be able to bypass the Constitution with a search for "haha." www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As
With no warrant requirements, limited guardrails, and deficient audit processes, ALPR databases have fostered a culture of unrestricted access to everyone’s location information. This culture of
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 16/09/2026
Everything's falling into place
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When #Harvard has a banner year in fundraising, nearly erasing its budget deficit of $365 million, that’s when you know that the reason behind its academic cuts has been purely ideological, not financial.
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FAS Raised Roughly $800 Million In FY2026, Far Surpassing Its $500 Million Target | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences raised roughly $800 million in fiscal year 2026 — far surpassing its $500 million target and marking the school’s strongest fundraising year in at least five yea...
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