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Dave Troy @davetroy.com · 13h
🟢 LOW CREDIBILITY: We find that viral claims that drone strikes on Yandex data centers in Russia have impacted coordinated inauthentic social media activity are misstated and unfalsifiable. Treat such claims with skepticism, and bookmark this tracker. russianbots.america2.news
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The Russian Bot Collapse Report: did Russia's bots really go quiet?
A sourced, live check on the viral claim that Ukraine's strikes on Yandex data centers silenced Russian social-media bots: what the data measures, what it doesn't, and who is spreading which claims.
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 14h
I don't think people appreciate how much the coming year is going to suck
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I hope 2025 & 2026 have adequately prepared everyone for the shitshow that will be 2027: Strongest El Niño and highest global temperature on record Energy and affordability crisis from the illegal war End of 3-year federal science grants awarded in 2024 AI bubble bursting Continued rise of fascism
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 08/10/2026
A sizable chunk of California’s Democratic establishment, led by Gov. Gavin Newsom, greased the skids for the father-son duo of Larry and David Ellison to gain control of a commanding share of America’s culture and news industries. prospect.org?p=146041
The Warner Bros. water tower with "A Skydance Corporation" added
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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As California considers a wealth tax on billionaires, how does $1 Billion in wealth compare to median wealth in Californian? $1B is 3300x the median wealth in California, based on wealth estimates from the Public Policy Institute of California @ppicnotes.bsky.social www.ppic.org/publication/...
$1 billion relative to median wealth in California. The median wealth of Californians is not visible on the graph except for a value label because $1 billion is so much higher.
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Erin Okuno @thiserin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Forget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say. (Gift Article)
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
People in Florida are dying because they can't afford care. I support Medicare for All, and training more doctors, nurses and CNAs to deliver it. Catch it early at a checkup so it never becomes an emergency. #AngieForFlorida
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Baddies will destroy liberal order to play chicken with climate disaster. They don’t care about the rest of us. We can build better but the window to get in the fight is closing. We have to stop appealing to moral authority here.
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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is my understanding that with philanthropy abandoning Climate work, AI guys are trying to become the funders for it to encourage positive AI framing my social change folks.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.
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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As a philosopher of mind I’m fascinated by so many people having to confront the nature of consciousness, and also think the most important thing is that Sam Altman goes to jail.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
for whatever it's worth: as a political philosopher I fully cosign this message
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 25/09/2026
[image of saw gerrera]

People who become right wing because they get annoyed by leftists are weak willed, most leftists are annoyed by leftists every single day.
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
1,400 solar manufacturing workers at a Corning plant in Michigan have joined the Steelworkers after an intense anti-union campaign by the company labornotes.org/2026/09/four...
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Fourteen Hundred Solar Manufacturing Workers Join the Steelworkers
Workers at a Corning solar manufacturing plant in Michigan voted September 1 to join the Steelworkers (USW). The vote was a close 520 to 512, following an intense anti-union campaign by the company. N...
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Juliet Liu @juliet.social · 18/09/2026
Really painful to know how confidently dumb he is.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026
As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.
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Juliet Liu @juliet.social · 17/09/2026
When in need, Vibe Check provides
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've been talking for a while about how Big Oil has tied its fate to Big Tech & vice versa. Big Oil was just running out of products to pitch until Big Tech came along with its energy-destroying data centers. Now, a fantastic name for the unholy alliance: "Fossil Tech." substack.com/inbox/post/2...
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Big Tech and Big Oil have fused – Call it Fossil Tech
Final sneak peak before launch day of my latest book with Astra Taylor
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Agreed. I increasingly see this kind of argument invoked to argue against interventions like air conditioning in places where extreme heat events are increasingly leading to mass mortality. We no longer get to choose between adaptation & mitigation--we have to do both at an accelerating pace.
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Caroline @carolinefay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
He was only there 4 months!? Well, example #9728343 of the media's dangerous lack of attn to detail: Axios's headline is he "gave up his equity to leave the company" but he hadn't vested any yet at the four month mark. He had no ACTUAL equity to give up at this point. www.axios.com/2026/09/09/a...
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Scoop: Anthropic whistleblower gave up his equity to leave the company
"If you're under pressure to race, you have to cut corners," Jacob Coxon said in an interview with Axios.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
Do you think all this is happening right before IPOs just by coincidence?
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
The last few days is like a DDOS attack from these companies 🙄 I just finished drafting an op-ed and then see another OMG Machine god is going to kill everyone 😱 post Ok walk me through the step by step action this super intelligent chatbot takes to render everyone us extinct?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think the way to read the UNEP report isn't "we'll miss the 1.5°C target so we need CDR to reach it", but "we'll miss the 1.5°C target, and we need to decarbonize ASAP because wherever we end up is where we will stay for a long time." www.unep.org/resources/li...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🧵CO₂ removal (CDR) is back in the news, but just because the UNEP report says we need CDR, it doesn't mean we'll have CDR. Many challenges will take decades of research and negotiation to solve. Here are some examples: Technological: We currently don't have any durable CDR method that scales.
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Experts say now is the right time to consider getting flood insurance. That’s because some policies have a mandatory waiting period of a month or so before coverage kicks in, and others may become unavailable when storms arrive.
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Get this key protection for your home before El Niño hits California
Regular home insurance doesn’t cover all of the impacts of winter storms. If you want a flood insurance policy ahead of El Niño, the time to get it is now.
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 05/09/2026
Students from more than 200 high schools across Colorado walked out of school Friday afternoon to protest federal immigration enforcement. Some clashed with pro-ICE counterprotesters in Denver's La Alma-Lincoln Park.
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Colorado high school students participate in statewide walkout to protest ICE | Colorado Newsline
Participating high schools span the entire state, but students in the Denver area will gather for a larger demonstration at La Alma Park in Denver at noon.
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👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hi my book HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS: INSIDE THE SYSTEMS THAT SHAPE THE WORLD talks about network monopolies and exactly this, and many policy folks and activists (hello, @publicgrids.org ) talk about and *work towards* doing something about it. We don’t have to accept this state of affairs.
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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
what Florida Democrats have flipped today: —the school board of Sarasota County (one the more symbolic strongholds of Moms for Liberty) —the office of the school board chair in Orange County —an at-large city council seat in Jacksonville
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Dr. Kenneth A. Gould @enviroprof.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Every so often it is worth reiterating that there is zero possibility of solving the climate crisis, let alone the larger ecological crisis, within the current structure of the global political economy.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Imagine a country where the ruling regime is putting babies in concentration camps and people openly advertise the fight for higher wages and universal healthcare as their greatest foe.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 05/08/2026
Modeling teams have their work cur out for them. Many thought the high end model runs were very unlikely to come true. See purple dotted line for the actual El Niño temps for the main 3.4 region, compared to the forecasts from April. The biggest harm will come from underestimating tail risks:
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
NYT stating this like it’s normal when it’s absolutely berserk.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nuclear and fossil fuel power plants have a problem that wind and solar don't: Heatwaves across Europe have forced power plant shutdowns in six countries due to low river levels and high water temperatures.
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Heatwave forces power plant shutdowns across Europe, putting electricity grid under strain
Six European Union countries have had to shut down some of their power plants due to lower river levels and increased water temperatures caused by heatwaves. The solar eclipse on August 12 also threat...
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
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Emily Dolhansky @emilydolhansky.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Not sure which hurts worse this morning: the fact that 600+ families just lost their home, or the knowledge that this will only keep happening in a warming world.
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Geoffrey Cubbage @geoffreycubbage.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Update: well that’s wild y’all. Filter on top is a clean, unused one fresh out of its packaging. Filter on bottom was the same when I installed it yesterday evening; this is what it looks like after roughly 24 hours of HVAC in Chicago’s blanket of wildfire smoke.
Photo of two HVAC filters. The top one is clean white, while the bottom is a dark, dingy gray.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Another cold blooded execution by ICE today in Maine, just days after the murder in Houston. The only acceptable position for politicians is eliminating the agency. Do not for one minute tolerate any politician calling for "training" or "body cameras." The demand is clear.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 11/07/2026
In Minnesota, girls sell lemonade on the street to help their sisters arrested by ICE. Stephen Miller’s goons are very much still here. Sign reads, “Please help us raise money for my sisters because they were arrested by ICE” & this has been confirmed by trusted community members.
A jug of lemonade that reads “Please help us raise money for my sisters because they were arrested by ICE.”
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Insofar as US swing voters think the Democrats are "out of step" with them on climate change, the vast majority say that is because Democrats are "not fighting hard enough/need to do more." Yes, really. 5/n
What concerns or disagreements do you have with Democrats' approach to the issue of climate change? In
what ways are Democrats out of step with your views on this issue?*
RANKED BY HIGHEST PERCENTAGE
Not fighting hard enough/need to do more....
Like Democrats/do a good jo.............................
Democrats don't focus on real/important issues
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Only interested in themselves/trying to enrich themselves
Disagree with their approach to Republicans/Trump administration.
Approach is too aggressive/they over-regulate issues.
Disagree with the push for electric cars...................
Out of step on everything..
Their approach will lead to higher costs/energy costs..
Disagree with eliminating fossil fuels
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Other miscellaneous comments.
Other initiatives comments..
Don't know
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I'm finally digging into the cross tabs underlying the @searchlightinst.bsky.social memo telling Dems not to talk about climate change. It surprised me, but may not surprise you, that the memo lies about what US swing voters actually said in the polling. Let's have a look, shall we? 🧵
SEARCHLIGHT INSTITUTE
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Research
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The First Rule About Solving Climate Change While battleground voters overwhelmingly agree climate change is a problem, addressing it is not
a priority for them.
September 22, 2025
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A Meta data center was linked to water contamination in the capital city of Wyoming and the public only found out because … a guy running for state house may have had a Deep Throat From my @heatmap.news story today
City officials claim the water was tested before it entered the sewer and was missed, but there's a trust deficit between locals and
the government on what happened. Little of this information was public until a few weeks ago. Cheyenne residents first learned trouble was afoot on June 26, when the board posted a press release "reminding all residential, commercial, and industrial customers that the discharge of hazardous substances into the sanitary sewer system is strictly prohibited." Nothing was included about data centers at all; all the board said was that the bacteria was dumped by "an industrial user within the system."Then Exie Brown, a Cheyenne resident and GOP candidate for state house, blasted a press release out on social media declaring
"a credible source with knowledge of the [board] investigation and sampling" told him the "industrial user" was a data center.
I reached out to Brown asking how he learned about this. His answers were cryptic.
"I was given a piece of paper with that name of a bacteria on it," he told me over the phone, declining to name the "very credible source" who told him about the contamination. "That it was released into our waste water system, that it came from a data center, that it was Meta, that they found out in February, and I needed to check into this." When I asked why the piece of paper, he replied: "Because they [the source] wanted to keep this quiet. Off the phones and stuff."
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