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James Croxton @jwcroxton.bsky.social · 10h

Ain't nothing serious about this city

Screenshot of a KEZI post on Facebook. The photo shows the back of an EPD cruisers with the caption: "EUGENE MAN CRASHES INTO MARKET WHILE ALLEGEDLY DRUNK, HANDS COP AN AVOCADO"

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James Croxton @jwcroxton.bsky.social · 20h

So, uh, the #EugeneOR police absurdly wants $2.6 million for two records requests we submitted after already charging us $500+ just to start. VERY NORMAL.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 20h

In a rare Newsom W, today he signs AB 2222, the Community NEWS Act, which would establish some of the best tax incentives/rebates for newsrooms in the country. It would send $40M/year back into California newsrooms to keep journalists employed. Check out the presser happening live right now:

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Governor Newsom Signs Legislation & Speaks with Media

YouTube video by California Governor Gavin Newsom

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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 17h

It's been over one year since Lurie announced a two-hour ban on RVs on S.F. public streets — warning that those who did not comply should leave. Since then, data shows that over a third have left. via @marinanewman.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-...

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S.F. cracked down on RV dwellers. A year later, many have left the city altogether.

Data shows that a year after San Francisco's RV ban, 1/3 of RV dwellers using city aid have moved outside city limits.

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James Croxton @jwcroxton.bsky.social · 20h

So, uh, the #EugeneOR police absurdly wants $2.6 million for two records requests we submitted after already charging us $500+ just to start. VERY NORMAL.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah. That’s exactly what happened.

After the hearing, Schmitt insisted he'd gotten nothing wrong, but he seemed less sure Smith had committed perjury.
"I don't know if Jack Smith's lying or not. It was the only game - Atlanta was the only NBA game or men's college basketball game that night at 7:30,
Schmitt told HuffPost.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A fuckup so dumb even NYT homepage/headline writers have no choice but to describe it accurately

As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falters

A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 29/09/2026

Kylo, the Portland police dog killed during an attempt to arrest a homicide suspect last week, was hit by police gunfire, authorities said Tuesday. Read more: theoregonian.visitlink.me/b8Cf4v Photo courtesy of PPB #PDX #Portland

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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57...

image of 6 pentagrams around the text "A Short History of Nazi-Satanism - see link above"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not much on this yet, but I certainly hope this reporting proves accurate.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What do Nick Shirley, Nick Sortor, Cam Higby, Katie Daviscourt, Savanah Hernandez, and Tyler Oliveira have in common? They make clickbait in service of, and sometimes collaboration with, the Trump Admin. Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/59Tb...

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144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky

Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · September 28 · 1h 12m

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James Croxton @jwcroxton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The #EugeneOR Police Department grossly underestimated CAHOOTS' diversion rate?! Color me shocked.

Screenshot from the article. It reads:

"A 2022 summary report from the EPD put the diversion rate between 3% and 8% based on call data from the previous year.

But the UO research team said they’ve developed three new measurement standards that are more accurate and focus the lens better on CAHOOTS’ impact.

In their study, they said the 'Substitution Diversion Rate' revealed that CAHOOTS diverted 18% of calls that would have otherwise gone to the EPD. That number rose to 23% when using the Prevention-adjusted Diversion Rate, which accounts for calls that may have been diverted from the emergency response system due to CAHOOTS’ early intervention and availability."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Right before he his post mocking Tuberville, he had two posts criticizing Meta, the company that owns the social media platform that then incorrectly featured him a story about masturbation.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal

Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A Walla Walla, WA newspaper editor in 1951 advocated rooting out the Marxists and Communists, claiming that the Democratic president had been too attentive to the rights of minorities and insufficiently respectful of the rights of White Christians. That editor was Syd Pierce, an antisemitic fascist.

given our country over into the hands of MINORITIES, without regard to the rights of the majority White Christian Constitutional Americans. Mr. Truman has con-doned, rather than condemned, racketeering and corruption in high places. He has NEVER made any real attempt to ROOT OUT
Marxist-communists
from govern-
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think this might be what pundits call “polarization”?

Tweet from NH libertarian party supporting assassination of every elected Democrat in the state

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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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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unironically the PNW mindset lol

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve been seeing a lot of new characters on billboards in the SweetJames Multiverse and I don’t like it. I want only the original, somewhat unsettling, Sweet James.

SweetJames billboard featuring the titular James and text Call my lawyer serious injury lawyers SweetJames

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.news · 26/09/2026

We out here at ZineFest habibis

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 26/09/2026

Anyone heard from David Ellison about all of this? Isn't he trying to buy CNN? You'd think he'd want to stand up for the journalists he seeks to employ. Unless he prioritizes his relationship with Trump over both CNN's interests and press freedom. freedom.press/issues/journ...

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James Croxton @jwcroxton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hi, this is a really strange question but does anyone know of a media contact for Twisted Tea? 👀😅

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of multiple occasions where Collins is mad about the perfectly predictable consequences of her votes (see also, Kavanaugh, Brett).

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.news · 26/09/2026

Tomorrow at PHOENIX ZINE FEST You can TOUCH MY ZINEIS

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

this is wrong for several reasons, chief among them the fact that at least one person is on record saying L. Ron Hubbard was good at sex

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you guys broke watergate

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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 25/09/2026

Diet of Worms

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And Judge Kelly orders govt to respond by 12:30pm

MINUTE ORDER: It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants shall respond to Plaintiffs' [25] Notice of Non-Compliance by 12:30 p.m. today, September 24, 2026. Signed by Judge Timothy J. Kelly on

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: Some CNN staff have been unable to gain access to the White House. CNN reporter Betsy Klein and a photojournalist were denied access to the White House grounds in the 6:00 a.m. hour. There was no reason provided for the refusal. www.cnn.com/2026/09/24/p...

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned

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More OpenAl Incidents
The company's A.l. went rogue this year at least four additional times, trying to break into government and university sites.
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James Croxton @jwcroxton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hi, this is a really strange question but does anyone know of a media contact for Twisted Tea? 👀😅

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Eight--EIGHT--sailors on the USS Lincoln tried to commit suicide by jumping overboard among other methods: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...

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8 Sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide, Navy Says

The aircraft carrier with its crew of about 5,000 sailors has spent more than 300 days at sea.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This video comes from filmthepoliceLA. I won’t post his name but he’s been doing great work for a very long time and he’s being ripped off by someone who watermarked this. here’s the post x.com/FilmThePolic...

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Film The Police LA (@FilmThePoliceLA) on X

Karen Bass’s LAPD is openly defying a judge’s order to turn over LAPD moonlighting documents. I believe these records will show LAPD officers are working for ICE contractors.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

can u even imagine how angry trump would be watching this lol

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just morally bankrupt shit from CA Highway Patrol. They say that "a bicyclist collided with a vehicle," and admonish riders to "follow the rules of the road" and "wear a helmet." The photos show a bike with a tacoed rear wheel and a car with a smashed windshield. Who collied with whom now?