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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

Why independent media is so needed, in one post👇🏽 Framing matters

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

It’s not that data brokers and social media companies haven’t been building profiles on people for ages, but it’s worth noting how they are now trying to normalize this by touting it as a benefit rather than the creepy and invasive function that it is.

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Meta's Muse Is Collecting Information on Everyone in Your Life

Meta’s AI agent creates profiles of people in users’ lives even if they don’t use Muse.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 6h

Republicans who spent years promoting a lie about secret biolabs in Ukraine are suddenly quiet about the plague outbreak from a Russian biolab.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 3h

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

Noem demanded personal control over all DHS contracts over $100K and should be held responsible for the waste and (likely) graft that followed, which conservatively ran into the hundreds of millions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

From what we know of Kristi Noem, the head of DHS at the time, she was focused on micromanaging some aspects of government operations. Not workforce planning, but — you guessed it — the flow of grants and contracts. Any contract worth more than $100,000 had to be personally signed by her. And some of that spending was pretty questionable, such as a $200 million ad campaign prominently featuring Noem. There was no competitive bidding process and Noem directed money to Republican firms with long-term personal and professional ties to her. (The fact that Noem had previously led a “Meth: We’re On It” campaign did not seem to stop anyone from questioning her public relations skills).

DHS also bought 11 empty warehouses that it said would serve as detention centers, overpaid for them, and has since sold seven of them. Apparently Noem told officials to buy the warehouses within 30 days, leading to a rushed acquisition process. After the DHS spent nearly $500 million via no-bid contracts on 10 jets, officially for deportations, the planes are mostly unused, or reserved to ferry Trump officials around. So more likely to be incompetence than corruption in this case.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 7h

This is so unsurprising that the NY Times miscounted the number of Trump press secretaries to join Fox News. Leavitt makes 3, not 2: Kayleigh McEnany is a current host, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders was a Fox contributor between the end of her WH tenure in 2019 and her 2021 run for Arkansas gov.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 7h

Altman (n): a portmanteau abbreviation of the phrase “(alt)ernative to a hu(man).”

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 7h

Artificial intelligence (n): the quest to create in computers a quality that has never yet existed in humans.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 22h

there was streaming before the big companies, and they criminalized it when it was free because it was unfair to artists, and now that it's for-profit it's legal and it's still fucking unfair to artists.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 22h

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

More Democrats need to be telling the online casino owners behind Polymarket to shut the fuck up

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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

TENNESSEE VOTERS: There are 3 Amendments to the TN state Constitution on the November ballot. I had already planned to vote against all 3, but here is what State Senator Heidi Campbell shared about them:

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

my best friend worked at University of Mississippi at the time when nearly the entire faculty and student body was demanding the Confederate statue at the entrance be taken down but it wasn’t, because apparently the answer to Mike’s question is “a handful of very rich football families”

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 04/10/2026

Somehow this country went 250 years without needing armed guards at polling places, but suddenly they’re absolutely essential. To protect us from nonexistent voter fraud. Lies all the way down. This is the Republican Party way.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“And then the Senator with brain damage switched parties so that the senile president could keep appointing drunks and rapists to his cabinet…” Explaining this all to future generations will be tough.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

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Rep. Gloria Johnson @votegloriaj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Let’s all remember Gov. Bill Lee hired him just as he left AZ under investigation for botched executions. Yes, Strada is incompetent, but Lee is even more incompetent and corrupt.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis"

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p...

David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, responded to our request for comment on the paper by saying he was not interested in reading it. “I’m sorry, but I’d rather keep my brain cells,” he said.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026

On an individual business level, there's still no signs that AI's driving any real productivity gains, with most CEOs still talking about AI's productivity benefits in the same hopeful terms as they did in 2023. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-...

So, let’s go down the economic supply chain. One interesting bit of research from the St Louis Fed analyzed nearly half a million earning call transcripts from publicly-traded US firms to see how they’re discussing AI and productivity.

The St Louis Fed observed that of all the call transcripts that talked about AI and productivity in 2025, almost all of them (95%) framed it as something they expected to see in the future rather than something they’re realizing now. That figure is roughly unchanged compared to 2023.

These findings line up with a separate study from the National Bureau of Economic Research, published in February of this year, which surveyed nearly 6,000 business executives and found that while 69% of firms represented used AI, nine-in-ten found no discernible impact on productivity.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I read the ending and I wanted to koolaid man through a wall!!

Screenshot of article which reads: To restore a functioning and
pluralistic democracy in the United States, reversing over a decade of
democratic backsliding in the world’s oldest democracy, the thing to
“fix” is not polarization. Polarization is the country’s immune response
to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success,
reputation, and democratic self-government. Tamping down that immune response only allows this minority faction to have greater control.

Screenshot of article which reads: But the fury of the argument shows the importance of the outcome.
When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for ev-
eryone to quiet down and be “civil”—an outcome that benefits those
who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern
for legality or civility. When we see the problem for what it is, the
solution is to defend the most robust social progress in American his-
tory—progress that has already been codified into law and enjoyed
by everyone alike. U.S. democracy needs leaders who are willing to
defend those rights and voters who are willing to hold accountable the
leaders who will not defend them. It does not need everyone simply to calm down.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The primary objective of journalism is supposed to be telling the truth. It is a DECISION on the part of USA Today to know that new details have emerged about this case and to refuse to update an old story that is still circulating and still shaming Jane Doe.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not linking the piece because I'd like for as few people to read it as possible. I'm writing about it here because: - I want to be clear about what happened to anyone who saw that article and felt betrayed to see me associated with it. - These are bad decisions that deserve public shame.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ironically, my original interview with the journalist I spoke with was primarily about how "inconsistencies" can come from gender bias in investigatory processes and then be blamed on survivors. It was the inspiration for this thread--but none of these points made it into any USA Today article:

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The world must stop equating wealth with knowledge, wealth with wisdom, wealth with sainthood, or to any other redeeming quality.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love the idea that you can just temporarily name someone on the Internet and then remove their name with no harm done

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Finally a president who solved our age old problem of being a country where people wanted to be

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!

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kaitlynsunsword.bsky.social @kaitlynsunsword.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not sure making society feel like early 12th century Europe is a good thing.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Men Explain Rape to Me.

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Phil @distillation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Received a phone call this morning letting me know they started moving people from Guantanamo Bay to Somalia late last week. Working on getting in contact with them now.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a pretty stunning thing to admit

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If anyone uses the term Super Intelligence I can only conclude they’re an idiot.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“These cases are always treated in isolation by the media, a shocking incident, like a murder, borne of specific motivations. But they’re not like murders at all and they shouldn’t be seen as individual crimes — they’re symptomatic of a sickness in society that afflicts all countries everywhere.”

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The Man Problem

The Cornell Rape Case is a feature not a bug

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