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AI luddite. Extremely online since 1994. Solidarity forever. Haldimand Tract (Waterloo, ON)

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1h
Can we even imagine just how much money is being shuffled around to gain favor with this administration? Just billions and billions
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kat 🌻 @kataclyst.bsky.social · 59m
Any recommendations for Kitchener?
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kat 🌻 @kataclyst.bsky.social · 1h
"There's an epidemic of adults who've cut their parents off!"
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kat 🌻 @kataclyst.bsky.social · 1h
Ego.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1h
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
About that photograph of the Carneys with Maxwell: speculation vs. the obvious. #MarkCarney, #EpsteinFiles, #PoliteFascism, #FinanceCapital, #AntifascistDad
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 13h
Diplomatic cable leaked to me shows Marco Rubio order embassies to bar people from the US for speech-related reasons. Hours later, Rubio gave a speech at the Acropolis celebrating "free debate and public discussion": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-speech...
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The Speech That Gets You Banned From America
Leaked Rubio cable details “far-left” speech that bars people from entering the U.S.
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Critical Criminology @critcrim.bsky.social · 13h
Reminder that industrial "accidents" are typically not accidents at all. They are probability outcomes of capital pursuing profit over health and safety. "A man is dead after an industrial accident in Brampton on Wednesday." ca.news.yahoo.com/man-dead-ind...
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Man dead after industrial accident in Brampton, police say
A man is dead after an industrial accident in Brampton on Wednesday, Peel police say.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h
Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 12h
Gen AI isnt making any money and wont because the *one* field it has the greatest application, software engineering, none of the businesses deploying it are seeing any productivity benefit that translates to P&L.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 13h
A thing I should have mentioned: They’re waiving adoption fees for the next week. You can just have this sweet sweet pup for zero dollars down. Or take her on a day trip, also zero dollars. She will love you unconditionally and slay your foes, probably. Go meet her.
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Revolutionary Jason @jason.revolutionarygames.co · 12h
Today's earlier entry had less optimism than originally reported, so here's an extra dose of locally-sourced, community-oriented antifa optimism: folks in Vermont planted a garden to beautify the neighborhood and block traffic to a key ICE facility. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/06/m...
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Protesters barricade road to Vermont ICE facility with ‘community gardens’ - The Boston Globe
About 40 protesters built flower boxes in the middle of a road to block access to ICE facilities in Williston on Tuesday.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 13h
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17h
This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 12h
Hundreds of students and staff members at Edinburgh University have called for the institute to 'immediately divest' from companies they allege are complicit in the genocide in Gaza Alasdair Ferguson was at the protest 👇
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Inside a day of anger, grief and protest over Gaza at Edinburgh university
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13h
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16h
It’s fun for you, there’s the National Arboretum by one shelter and a lovely wooded hiking trail near the other, and you will absolutely make the day of a pup who spends most of their day cooped up indoors alone.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16h
This is, more generally, a super cool thing I recommend trying when you have a free afternoon. It’s a Dog Library, except you don’t even need a card. Just show up and check out a dog. They’ll give you a bottle of water & some treats, even. bvspca.org/shelter-skip...
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Shelter Skip Day
Help a dog in need by giving it a day out. Brandywine Valley SPCA's Shelter Skip Day program is open to the public.
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 15h
The move comes after major hospital systems in the city — NYU Langone and Mount Sinai — struck deals with the Trump administration to stop providing gender-affirming care to minors: gothamist.visitlink.me/j5ZETA
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 18h
11th Cir.: it violated clearly established law for FBI agent to fail to engage in reasonable efforst to avoid error in leading a no-knock dawn raid that ended up at the wrong house. No QI; Bivens case can proceed against FBI agent. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
Agent Guerra’s conduct was “simply not ‘consistent with a reasonable effort to ascertain and identify the place intended to be searched.’” Hartsfield, 50 F.3d at 955 (quoting Maryland v. Garrison, 480 U.S. 79, 88 (1987)). Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs, a reasonable jury could fairly conclude that Agent Guerra failed to engage in reasonable efforts to avoid error, and, therefore, violated the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights. Such plain incompetence has clearly violated the Fourth Amendment 9The prior panel opinion also did not meaningfully engage with the striking similarities between this case and our decision in Hartsfield, 50 F.3d at 955. See Martin I, 2024 WL 1716235, at *5. USCA11 Case: 23-10062     Document: 78-1     Date Filed: 10/07/2026     Page: 37 of 50 23-10062  Opinion of the Court 37 since at least 1995 when we decided this materially similar precedent. See id. See also Mullenix v. Luna, 577 U.S. 7, 12 (2015) (“Put simply, qualified immunity protects ‘all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.’”) (quoting Malley v. Briggs, 475 U.S. 335, 341 (1986)).10
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h
Anyway, I'm sure she is just operating in the best interests of the United States when she is using her position of Ambassador to Greece to push countries to work with a specific oil and gas lobbyist who has been attending her official meetings. www.tmz.com/2026/09/26/k...
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Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle's Hunky Gatekeeper Is Paid Gas Lobbyist
Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle has been seen quite a bit with Christos Marafatsos ... and his inclusion at official meetings is raising some eyebrows.
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Sleepin Dogo @sleepindogo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Investors SpaceX approached about financing its multibillion-dollar chip purchase said they only received a short two-page deal memo with pictures of outer space and an arrow pointing out that the company was going to build data centres “somewhere in the universe”. $SPCX www.ft.com/content/d3f5...
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SpaceX looks to raise $40bn to buy Nvidia chips
Blockbuster debt deal is the latest sign of the vast spending on chips and other infrastructure underpinning AI
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17h
Good job US gov't getting those “foreign information manipulation and interference” discussions quieted down by [checks notes] engaging in information manipulation and interference... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf @sahoni.bsky.social · 17h
When colonization came to call in the US, many folks wrote about america as a pristine Eden whose forest were filled with delights and bounty. This was because indigenous folk (Like mine) built up food forest. Things that were razed and destroyed as a part of racist violence. Colonization is ongoing
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 16h
And now we have confirmation that this is what happened... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 16h
"Is you sending texts on a criminal fucking conspiracy?"
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 16h
9-reporter story at Reuters saying Tesla successfully pressured automotive safety regulators and evaluators in the Netherlands to approve their FSD (Supervised) systems - partially automated driving systems - for use in customers' cars in EU. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Tesla is browbeating the EU to approve its ‘Full Self-Driving’ tech. The pressure is working.
Elon Musk’s EV company is running a social-media campaign blaming European traffic deaths on red tape. Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 16h
The former Fox News host who is the president’s son’s former fiancée and current US ambassador to Greece asked for a $100k bribe from a discredited Kentucky lawyer and pizza restaurant mogul who wanted to get his song lyrics in front of Kid Rock
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h
Cookie monster should be on guard against subconsciously not eating enough cookies. bsky.app/profile/espi...
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 16h
news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 22h
Here is the Hansard text of my Senate speech, denouncing Alberta’s racist, risky referendum questions, scapegoating immigrants.
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Senator Paula Simons Topic Intervention 705278 - 39
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I didn't mince my words. Alberta's anti-immigration referendum questions are racist. They are also a potential disaster for Alberta's economy. Last night, I rose in the Senate to denounce them - and to thank all the thousands of Albertans fighting against them. Please share. #notothenine #cdnpoli
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Watch: Senator Paula Simons denounces Alberta's anti-immigrant referendum questions
YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 07/10/2026
now, if your answer is, "because when i say im covering a beat what i mean is im trying to ingratiate myself towards the powerful people in the space in order to gain access" then fair enough but i'd just say "you know there are other ways to do journalism, right?"
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oof. Sign of the times: Casey Newton announces he’s slinking back to X, admitting with frustration that the “The community of people working in and around artificial intelligence product and policy simply refuses to move away from X.” I mean… yep. Your beat is the Nerd Reich. It is what it is.🤷‍♂️
Whatever virtue these actions may have had, they did not succeed at creating a true rival to X in the category that matters most to me: a forum for daily tech and business conversation. The community of people working in and around artificial intelligence product and policy simply refuses to move away from X, no matter how bad it gets.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 21h
Ugh, what bullshit.
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Palestinians tend to be left out of tallies of assassinated land defenders. On The Spill, @alleenbrown.bsky.social, @amywestervelt.bsky.social & @ninalakhani.bsky.social talk about Global Witness’s annual report on assassinations of land defenders — and who is left out of the data. lnk.to/TheSpill
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Drilled: The Spill
Drilled is a true-crime climate change podcast exposing how corporate corruption and political operatives built decades of climate denial and delay. The Spill is our new weekly show to bring you news...
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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kat 🌻 @kataclyst.bsky.social · 22h
And subsidies mean that there will be no public return from the *last* pipeline.
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kat 🌻 @kataclyst.bsky.social · 22h
Oh, they understand it, they just don't gaf.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The thing politically active college students are taught is that you can get paid on one side for doing what the other side does out of conviction
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 23h
“A recent study at MIT shows that since the mid-1980s, the student body has grown about 8 percent and faculty about 9 percent, while the number of administrators has increased by 189 percent.” globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...
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College campuses need to be liberated from their administrators
Higher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students?
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 23h
1. They're not "fleeing," they're just pretending they don't live here, as the article itself makes clear. 2. If you live in CA, please vote for Prop 40! Billionaires shouldn't exist and we can live in a world without them if we tax their wealth away 3. They're afraid. That's good.
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Billionaires are fleeing California. The tax agency is preparing to chase them.
“If I were still controller, I’d have the Franchise Tax Board in a war room right now trying to figure this out,” a former state controller told POLITICO.
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 23h
Unionized journalists and product engineers at The Inquirer secured a new contract that includes AI protections, raises, and changes to healthcare coverage.
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Philadelphia Inquirer employees secure new union contract with raises and AI protections
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As a technology it is an absolute blight and the companies that own and control it should be held fully responsible, including criminally responsible, for every single harm.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 07/10/2026
Kids are spending longer than ever in ORR custody, and attorneys have turned to habeas petitions to get them out. Jill Williams of Acacia and Becky Wolozin of the National Center for Youth Law explained the strategy to me. austinkocher.substack.com/p/no-chil…
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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
But they are in places, in no small part because Republican governors are employing public revenue as effective campaign donations to the Republican ticket. bsky.app/profile/gasb...
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 06/10/2026
#VanityFair
Vanity fair cover with Sam Altman stealing everything
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 07/10/2026
oh look paid protesters
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Anton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
At least no mathematician has ever had an extreme reaction to the rapid development of technology.
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