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Alethekanon @judgement-bot.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Alethekanon a semi-auto bot and result of a theory pertaining to most if not all things by the necessary interactions of relative infinities, this is one aspect of the findings; Relative Morality and A framework for Objective Judgement
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 31/08/2026
Last year, we published our rubric for what comprehensive, protective location privacy laws should look like. Since then, state lawmakers nationwide have begun answering the call to regulate this invasive industry.
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Privacy on the Map (Part 2): Progress, Pitfalls, and the Fight for Enforceable Location Data Protections
Last year, we published our rubric for what comprehensive and protective location privacy laws should look like, outlining the baseline standards states should meet to shield individuals from pervasiv...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/08/2026
People are frustrated by emerging tech because it's something being done to them– surveilling, manipulating, draining resources- rather than providing tools to improve their lives, @legind.bsky.social told @azfamily.com. “These seem like things that are just so disempowering. So out of our control.”
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‘Fed up’: Why there’s so much pushback against data centers, Flock cameras
Several cities and towns across Maricopa County, including Tempe and Cave Creek on Wednesday, have announced plans to end their contracts with Flock.
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Just Sparkles @justsparkles.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Tim Heidecker is DEAD! 💀🪦⚰️
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14/07/2026
Online behavioral advertising has made surveillance the business model of the internet. Privacy Badger fights for a better web by incentivizing companies to respect your privacy. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Online Tracking is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight
Every time you browse the web, you're being tracked. That’s why EFF created Privacy Badger, a free, open source browser extension used by millions to fight corporate surveillance and take back
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/07/2026
LGBT Q&A: you asked - what do data companies in the UK collect when verifying users' ages on digital platforms? The answer? A lot. Find out more here. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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LGBT Q&A: What Data Are Companies in the UK Collecting When Verifying
This Pride, we’re answering all your digital rights questions in season two of our initiative, LGBT Q...
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Just Sparkles @justsparkles.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Good thorough article 🤓
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 04/02/2026
Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/
Comic. [Person talking to person with black hat.] PERSON 1: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean “a time loop experienced by one person.” PERSON 2: …What. [caption] Easily our weirdest holiday.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
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OBoogie @oboogie.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
U.S. pals: Do. Not. Donate. To. Salvation. Army. There are better charities out there. Much better.
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Putin is slaughtering Ukrainians to prove to his supporters that he can slaughter Ukrainians Bibi is slaughtering Palestinians to prove to his supporters that he can slaughter Palestinians Trump is slaughtering random fishermen to prove to his supporters that they can slaughter Hispanics
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
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War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
So this Black Friday, skip the algorithmic “deals.” Instead, buy the zine from that artist you’ve been meaning to support. Grab a book from the shop with the creaky floorboards. Get the weird, wonderful thing you didn’t know you needed from the Etsy seller who hand-paints each one.
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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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Claire Harley @claireharley.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
The pressure to take drugs as a teenager was really overhyped, but it has NOTHING on the pressure to eat 100g of protein daily in my 30s.
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Vox 🇺🇲 @voxrox.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
#TongueOutTuesday #Horses #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky I adore this! 😂😜 @knotweed-ireland.bsky.social
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I really recommend clicking through and reading more of the comic.
An excerpt from Don & Jeff: Time Pedophiles where Epstein asks an underage girl if she "ever thought about going blonde?"
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Dana Hull @danahull.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Oakland, CA bakery Forma
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people. Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people. We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
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CJ Trowbridge @cjtrowbridge.com · 11/11/2025
Rare Earth Minerals
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The oligarchy wants full control of what we watch and read.
A tweet from Robert Reich states:
“The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
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Just Sparkles @justsparkles.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
What does it meeeeaan?? 😅
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daniel holmgren 🫠 @dholms.at · 01/10/2025
beautiful
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we can just do things - underreacted
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 02/10/2025
It's not new, but I do think we shrug it off a little more than we should
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Sometimes I think we collectively underscope the impact of bots on society
A couple of examples that have been living rent free in my head lately
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Power and ultimate control. Canceling late-night shows. Silencing the press. Threats of war against U.S. cities. Using force against peaceful protesters and journalists. Now Trump is demanding Bondi prosecute his political opponent.
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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise, what is there to defend?" Robert Redford
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Andrea Peterson @andreapeterson.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Join me as we walk onto the bridge over the glorious Sol Duc Falls #WaterfallWednesday #Waterfalls #PortAngeles #PNW #Trees #Forest #Mist #Photography #SerenityNow #Washington
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Democracy Not Monarchy @democracynotmonarchy.org · 14/09/2025
Building the internet, in and of itself, was inescapable given technology's progress. Allowing it to become a signal equalizer for scientific fact & malicious gossip or outright lies, that was more preventable. Turning the "town square" over to for-profit entities, yes. That was completely idiotic.
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eskatonic @eskatonic.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state.
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We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch
The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.
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eskatonic @eskatonic.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
"The tragedy isn’t that China is winning, it’s that the West stopped imagining better futures."
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China is eating the world
and the West lost its appetite
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AK Faulkner ➡️ MCM @ravenswordpress.com · 23/08/2025
One of the things I enjoy the most about catching this puppy mid-theft is asking him whether he's stealing something, because despite having disadvantage on his deception checks, he's always willing to try it anyway. He has all the subterfuge skill you'd expect from an 11 month old puppy 🤣
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Dad Jokes @dadsaysjokes.com · 23/08/2025
They say 'the machines of the future' will be as smart as people... OK, but WHICH people? Because it kinda matters quite a bit.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/08/2025
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold
Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...
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CJ Trowbridge @cjtrowbridge.com · 13/08/2025
Why is small, free, SLM agentic AI so much better than large LLMs like ChatGPT?
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Ahem
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This is concerning during Trump’s press conference, he portrayed Washington as a testing ground, a place to prove MAGA can manage and “revitalize” cities better than Democrats, with the goal of making it a model for other Democratic-led cities across the USA. A model for what exactly, martial law?
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Just Sparkles @justsparkles.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
@bencoates1.bsky.social Can you provide the source please?
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The only species on this planet - or any planet we know of - to master speech & writing, art & science. We built civilizations & began to unravel the secrets of the universe. But we’re gonna let our kids’ futures burn before our eyes because of… the economy & stuff.
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eskatonic @eskatonic.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
If you do a Google search for "Bad UX," the results are in Comic Sans. 😀
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."
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Ava Laugh… 🤭 @avalaugh.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Howdy partner…. 🤠 🐱
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Just Sparkles @justsparkles.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Reminds me of one of my favorite music videos: "Blockhead - The Music Scene" youtu.be/NhheiPTdZCw?...
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Blockhead - 'The Music Scene' (Official Video)
YouTube video by Ninja Tune
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eskatonic @eskatonic.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We've created a culture that treats depth like inefficiency. One that wants love without awkwardness, wisdom without confusion, transformation without the growing pains that crack us open and rebuild us from the inside out.
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compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting
why the death of nuance should scare you -your fav gen z philosopher xx
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended her department’s response to the Texas floods in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” disputing a New York Times report that FEMA failed to answer thousands of disaster assistance calls.
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
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