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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026
This is the dodgiest and most-desperate thing I’ve seen in the bubble so far. Amazon selling their chips to a group of investors and leasing them back - an off balance sheet arrangement done in plain sight. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. And they’ll probably buy more!
Amazon is seeking to offload about $8bn of advanced Nvidia chips to external investors through a new vehicle aimed at strengthening its balance sheet, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Seattle-based cloud giant has held talks with investors in recent weeks to gauge interest in the deal, which would allow the company to spin off thousands of Grace Blackwell chips it is deploying in data centres across the US into a special-purpose vehicle.
Amazon will then lease the advanced AI chips back from the SPV, which would tap outside investors through debt issuance. By unloading the expensive semiconductors to investors, the company could adopt a more asset-light approach to its balance sheet.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm for keeping our money here and not using it to buy bombs to drop on other people.
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kateincirculation @kateincirculation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
why does he need so much money. he's old as hell and you can't buy your way out of decay
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
😂 there were more people behind JD (for the camera shot) than in front of him
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
With 45 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 18/09/2026
NEW: A nonprofit tied to RFK Jr. solicited payments from companies in exchange for access to top HHS officials, according to Bloomberg. The top tier: $300,000 for a speaking slot and a private dinner with Kennedy and Dr. Oz.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember: Telling lies that everyone knows are lies is a classic tactic of dictators to force their followers to side with them over the truth itself. But the public will not be gaslit. We will continue to spread the truth to our communities. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 17/09/2026
i have had multiple "oh you haven't heard about cumming in the fluffer?" conversations in the past few weeks which is not great for myself or for others
the xkcd average familiarity comic of two people talking, edited to read: "ai doomsday religions are second nature to us very online folk, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows about the harry potter sex cult and one or two aella cognitohazards" "and sankeys, of course" "of course" captioned below "even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field
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kateincirculation @kateincirculation.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is kinda fun. www.reuters.com/business/env...
reuters.com
New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century
A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described ​i...
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17/09/2026
how chill!
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Warriors don't win modern wars. They haven't for quite some time.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 16/09/2026
For my newsletter, I wrote about how we shouldn't ignore that a billionaire trying to build data centers is putting a hundred million into Republican anti-trans ads in these midterms. www.burnsnotice.com/the-data-cen...
burnsnotice.com
The Data Center Guy Wants This Election to be About Trans People
Elon Musk obviously hates trans people, but let's not pretend he has nothing to gain personally from a Republican win this fall
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/09/2026
Police should not be able to bypass the Constitution with a search for "haha." www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As
With no warrant requirements, limited guardrails, and deficient audit processes, ALPR databases have fostered a culture of unrestricted access to everyone’s location information. This culture of
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kateincirculation @kateincirculation.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke
With no warrant requirements, limited guardrails, and deficient audit processes, ALPR databases have fostered a culture of unrestricted access to everyone’s location information. This culture of abuse...
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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 08/09/2026
The documents I obtained include an OpenAI contract with the Pentagon requiring that the military AI it sold to Hegseth would maximally comply with the military's commands. The story behind this doc became very strange (thread) theintercept.com/2026/09/08/p...
theintercept.com
The Pentagon Asked OpenAI for Artificial Intelligence Designed to Rarely Say No
The U.S. military’s desire for an AI tool with “minimal refusal rates” was revealed through a FOIA lawsuit filed by The Intercept.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026
Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...
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https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-already-in-dangerous-hands/
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 16/09/2026
‘The problem that they face is that they made a bet, the bet hasn’t worked, the open source guys are eating their lunch, they’ve just had a disastrous PR cycle with data centers and HuggingFace, and the markets don’t want to give them more money.’ www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0...
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Investors should be thoughtful about risk factors in upcoming AI IPOs: Elevation Partners' McNamee
Roger McNamee, Elevation Partners founder, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss McNamee's thoughts on AI technology, how investors should consider the companies in this space and more.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Iran War has now cost the average U.S. household around $1,760, according to an analysis from Moody’s.
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Incredible headline here (among other things)
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Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/09/2026
ICE is arresting a record number of pregnant women and teenagers, according to government documents obtained by the Guardian. At the same time, the agency appears to have lost count of how many suffered a miscarriage. 🧵
Two charts side by side. The first shows the number of pregnant people in ICE detention, which peaks in November 2025. The second shows the number of miscarriages recorded by ICE, until October 2025, when ICE said it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages.
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kateincirculation @kateincirculation.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
dair-institute.org/projects/lud...
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Luddite Lab Worker Resource Hub
Enabling workers to fight back against AI and automation at work.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I dunno it kind of seems that if Wendy’s genuinely said that they thought there was at least a 10% chance that their square hamburgers would end all human life we’d probably go hey you’ve got to stop selling those square burgers
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It would be nice if someone could explain this community note to him. Having a president with a basic understanding of how trade works doesn’t seem like a ton to ask. Meanwhile our farmers are getting crushed.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
an open restaurant kitchen is a symptom of the surveillance state. let those boys cook in peace. what happens back there is between them & god.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Remember the Epstein Files? So far, only about half the files have been released — and a potential cover-up by the Trump regime continues to generate bipartisan political action. Here's what you should know. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-epst…
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kateincirculation @kateincirculation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Come on, man. "Basically alive?" And even worse, the article's conclusion isn't nearly as insane as its head/tagline. A rewrite might be...useful
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
They’ll keep telling us it’s inevitable but NYC and other large school systems are starting to say no to AI, recognizing it’s not a legitimate tool for k-12 learning. Even some universities are putting their foot down, like U Chicago (and some law schools) www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
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Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation’s Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools
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Dan O'Dowd @realdanodowd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Tesla's defective self-driving software will still illegally blow past a stopped school bus and run down a child crossing the road! We warned Tesla of this danger 4 years ago and the safety defect hasn't been fixed in FSD v14 Lite. Why is this product allowed on public roads?
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 02/09/2026
Tesla's marketing of its not-really-self-driving systems to the elderly, disabled, and DUI-prone would be a major scandal if our society were one in which scandal were still possible
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404 Media @404media.co · 02/09/2026
In a now-deleted webinar hosted for cops on Axon’s official Vimeo page, one asked if Axon would redesign their camera to not look like Flock's. “We are looking at [...] do we change the general shape,” Rick Smith, Axon’s CEO, replied. @josephcox.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/cops-are-ask...
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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian government roles. They include Rob Maness, Kurt Schlicter and Tom Anderson, better known as Cynical Publius. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles
Conservative veterans with large social media followings have been hired by the Defense Department and are amplifying Pete Hegseth’s culture-war fights.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Make no mistake—this is Mike Rogers' position on data centers. He's got up to $2.6 million invested in companies cashing in on the data center boom, all while Michiganders watch their utility bills soar.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This quote is from last February. Good work sir!
"Regulations, basically, should be default gone," Musk said. "Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in."
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 31/08/2026
A group funded by Andreessen, Horowitz, and Brockman plan data center ads to sway midterms
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A group funded by Andreessen, Horowitz, and Brockman plan data center ads to sway midterms
Build American AI plans to lobby voters in select states about the virtues of data centers by spending millions of dollars on ads.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
US media: Why in the world are people voting for democratic socialists? Financial Times: “US corporate profits have hit a record high while workers’ slice of the pie has sunk to historic lows.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. Now, two unvaccinated people have died from measles. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/08/2026
NEW: After U.S. missile strikes killed hundreds of civilians in Iran and Yemen, the Defense Department is poised to reinstate a program meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations. Pete Hegseth gutted it over the objections of top commanders.
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Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.
The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Amazon continues to bully sellers on its platform through exorbitant fees and exploitative practices. A federal lawsuit filed by Biden's FTC, which could hold Amazon accountable, heads to trial soon — unless Trump's FTC decides to settle. Is it any wonder why Bezos has been buttering up Donald?
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
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Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
The federal judge, who cited Dolly Parton in his ruling, found that the state law violated the First Amendment.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/08/2026
"ICE tactics, already sadistic, are looking increasingly like torture," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social. "The slim avenues to legal recourse and the refusal of transparency or accountability by the perpetrators of de jure and de facto torture are driving detainees to desperate measures..."
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ICE’s tactics look increasingly like torture | Judith Levine
Plans for gloves that can deliver electric shocks underline the homeland security department’s sadistic practices
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Pentagon on Friday moved to fire the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes as well as its retiring publisher and a civilian reporter who covers the Middle East for the news organization. Read more: www.stripes.com/theaters/us/... #Flashes
From left: Stars and Stripes Publisher Max D. Lederer Jr., Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin and reporter Lara Korte. (Stars and Stripes)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/08/2026
Trump says Biden gave us "the transgender mutilization of your children," mimics transgender weightlifters, and brags about his theme song being "the gay national anthem" -- all within one minute
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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
also - as I have said before and will say again - the problem with AI isn't that there's zero positive, helpful uses to which it can be put; it's that none of them, whether singly or collectively, comes remotely close to justifying the dystopian shitshow that goes into making and selling the tech
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