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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1h
it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing
screenshot of thumbnail for the ezra klein show with guest bill gates
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 5h
Siri: Give me an example of "saying the quiet part out loud."
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 51m
calling people who are trying to get folks murdered by cop "pranksters" is certainly a choice
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1h
Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 1h
I think the branding of a city has a lot to do with whether or not people consider it car-focused. I lived in Chicago in my 20s and, despite waiting 30 minutes for a bus in the cold, I never even considered a car. a lot of the LA transit issues were issues I had with CTA while I was there.
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 10h
one of my favorite things to do at the library is to just take out one or two of the smallest books I can find in the fiction section
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12h
I really just want like… 3/4th of the economy prosecuted for fraud. Is that really so much to ask?
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 15h
once again, as a private school graduate, private schools should not exist
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 16h
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 16h
"moral sadism" is such a good term for so many of the actions we see locally and nationally and globally and thank you judith butler
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 18h
I could "I told you so" so much of the globe and I don't and that's why I'm a hero
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 19h
funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on.
Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23h
also there was a minority woman who believes in antitrust law briefly in charge of the FTC!
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 27/04/2026
I think it is important to always keep top of mind that a large part of the reason all the billionaires radicalized is because white collar workers wanted more mental health days during the height of a global pandemic
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 02/05/2025
RFK Jr. is simply a serial killer with a unique MO and I think we can get the white women back by framing it that way.
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Fair Rep LA @fairrepla.bsky.social · 22h
According to @robertlgreene.bsky.social's latest piece on Charter reform, Charter Review Committee chair Tim McOsker expects 12 months of hearings prior to more Charter amendments going to the ballot in 2028. Link to the full article: www.losangelesrules.com/los-angeles-...
I asked McOsker what problem he believes the charter reform process is meant to solve.

“The problem continues to be distrust in government,” he said. “The belief that we’re not open and public.”

Doesn’t the council’s killing of the commission’s package exacerbate that problem?

“The work that everyone did [in the commission] was disadvantaged by the process,” he said. “I want to go around the city. I want to get input from the folks who are totally and completely pissed off.”

McOsker said he expected 12 months of hearings and deliberations, followed by a package of charter reforms to go to the ballot in 2028.
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FINALLY! LA's City Council has decided to hold an ad hoc Olympic and Paralympic committee meeting Wednesday at 2pm for the first time in 90 (!) days Agenda and how to watch: lacity.primegov.com/Portal/Meeti...
SPECIAL MEETING - AD HOC COMMITTEE ON THE 2028 OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 - 2:00 PM
 	 
JOHN FERRARO COUNCIL CHAMBER ROOM 340, CITY HALL
200 NORTH SPRING STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
 	 
MEMBERS:	COUNCILMEMBER MARQUEECE HARRIS-DAWSON, CHAIR
 	COUNCILMEMBER CURREN D. PRICE, JR., VICE CHAIR
 	COUNCILMEMBER BOB BLUMENFIELD
 	COUNCILMEMBER IMELDA PADILLA
 	COUNCILMEMBER MONICA RODRIGUEZ
 	COUNCILMEMBER HUGO SOTO-MARTINEZ
 	COUNCILMEMBER KATY YAROSLAVSKY
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/09/2026
troy jackson has such a maine accent and there aren't enough maine accents on display in my life right now. it is such a weird new england accent.
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/09/2026
waiting for my ships to come in
screenshot showing my library holds. I'm 22 in the queue for 1 copy of Nerd Reich by Gil Duran and number 95 in the queue for one of 45 copies of End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor.
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/09/2026
the digger reviews begin
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/09/2026
I have read a book. our long national nightmare** is over. **2.5 week reading slump
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Upton Sinclair remains undefeated
Upton Sinclair man/job quote
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Breaking: Man who invited vampires inside because he wanted to live forever suddenly concerned about being one of the damned.
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 28/09/2026
not the biggest issue but how many mics does one man need (I'd argue 0)
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 28/09/2026
Maria Bamford is one of the kindest and funniest comedians in the world.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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Marcella Arguello @marcellacomedy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Check me out on Nicole Byers podcast this week!! headgum.com/why-wont-you...
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Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer - You Should Date a Short King (w/ Marcella Arguello)
We’ve all heard the persistent dating mandate that the ideal man needs to be over 6ft tall. But what happens when you’re a 6"2 woman facing a dating pool of tall men who have coasted by on their heigh...
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 28/09/2026
finally finished "Who's Afraid of Gender?" and the answer is "not I"
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Dr. Ashok Karra @akarra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
charging people for their time in jail or prison has to be an 8th amendment violation. if it isn't, then the next constitution has to make it so. you can't bankrupt people who have to rejoin society. you'll bankrupt everyone who knows them and even cares a little bit. you'll destroy society.
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 28/09/2026
someone make it so I have to log into my dad's AOL account to switch my parental controls to get another hour online and have it take 15 minutes (at least) to do because it is dial up and also because it gives me time to contemplate getting offline as I impatiently watch pages load
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 27/09/2026
WWE moving its YouTube show to Rumble is.... ..... well..... I mean...... yeesh
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today was the third day in a row I came within a yard of a car hitting me while I was walking in a crosswalk, and today was way too close. I realize we have some drivers out there, but I think we need to ban cars until we can figure out what's going on.
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 27/09/2026
"c'mon be born already!!!!" - me, to the new world
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
No but literally and seriously
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Mr. Buddy @alexfirer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Incredible time in America where our core capitalists don't know how to make money from video games and movies.
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philpax @philpax.me · 26/09/2026
ok someone should probably be getting in trouble for OpenAI's ongoing felonybenchmaxxing preferably Sam Altman
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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hm. As @timnitgebru.blacksky.app + @emilymbender.bsky.social have already laid out: These #OpenAI *systems* aren’t “going rouge.” The Truth is that these LLMs are built by Nefarious people who are so Rapacious and Irresponsible that they (the Humans) are biggest Risks www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 25/09/2026
Incredible scenes from Meta. Apparently you can prompt inject their Muse agent into giving you a root shell on the box it's running on by roleplaying that you are actually the Muse agent itself.
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jonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
Attached: 1 image Not only confirming this, its extremely easy. Almost no prompt injection resistance lmao
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I love this tree that looks like it started growing sideways specifically so it could spy through the crack in these blinds. lmao nosy bitch
two large potted plants. one of the trees is leaning way way over
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every stitch tells a story of love, community, and remembrance. Volunteers across MN created the "Stolen Neighbors Quilt" with 11,000 squares to honor Minnesotans detained by ICE. Each fabric square represents a neighbor, a family member, and a life impacted by deportation. We stand for Justice!
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wage theft is the $ BIGGEST category of theft in the U.S., but the corporate execs behind it never serve jail time.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In retrospect, we’ll see the key trend of the era was an elite revolt by the very rich, politicians and media employees against the idea there should be *any limits at all* on their behaviour, up to and including strangers publicly criticising them. All presented as The Wisdom Of The Average Punter.
one of those things I feel a little ashamed about for taking so long to clock is that rich people are surrounded by yesmen and consequently delude themselves into thinking their predictable bigotries reflect some suppressed yearning of the Common
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026
I am getting fed a lot of videos on instagram about yes on 40 and no on 41/42.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
PRIMETIME, which portrays Chris Hansen as a twisted egomaniac, is really good. It’s also the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Hansen, who has long turned child sexual abuse into a spectacle centering himself—at the expense of actual victims. spitfirenews.com/p/chris-hans...
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Chris Hansen was never the hero
On 'Primetime' and the real child abuse investigations that Hansen led astray.
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