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Ken brosky

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21h
An informal network of hackers and researchers are hunting rogue AI agents online, exposing new and surprising details about the misbehavior of technology that in some cases initially went undetected by the multibillion-dollar companies that created it. wapo.st/4AZOTNo
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The volunteer internet sleuths hunting down rogue AI agents
An informal network of hackers and researchers is exposing new details about misbehaving AI that meddled with corporate and government websites.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I know a lot of us have already clocked the victim blaming—but it’s about to get much worse #cornell
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?
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Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Right-wing "PINK SLIME" driven by AI is flooding news sites. '“People can come across these sites and be tricked into thinking they were real and trustworthy when they are algorithmically generated”' - I warned this would happen decades ago. This is from last year but it's happening now, big-time.
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Study: People Often Trust Fake Local News Sites More Than Real Ones; Yale Political Scientist Warns of Growing Influence of AI-Driven ‘Pink-Slime’ News
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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The Skeptic @skeptic.org.uk · 25/09/2026
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Why it is reasonable to label Nathan Cofnas’s race realism as pseudoscientific - The Skeptic
"Race realist" Nathan Cofnas claims his "hereditarianist" viewpoint is scientifically accurate - by citing pseudoscientific research and misleading rhetoric.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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IGN @ign.com · 21/09/2026
The Fall of 2007 was not only the best season of Xbox games ever, but it's also the best season of games on any platform ever. Our own @dmc-ryan.bsky.social lays out the case for Fall 2007 as the GOAT: bit.ly/4rnaQS2
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wish there were a single sentence that could simultaneously encapsulate and explain every single problem we have in modern society.
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Timber Ghost Press @timberghostpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tomorrow is the release day for this fun, flintlock fantasy horror! That means today is the last day you can get it at the preorder discount. Grab your copy today and see what the Dweller in Darkness is. Cover by Greg Chapman www.timberghostpress.com/dweller-land... @samflynnwrites.bsky.social
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/09/2026
In the middle of the night, a different realm of sport fills the programming void on ESPN. Despite the low pay and weird hours, aspiring sports announcers embrace niche events for the air time. wapo.st/4gKDitd
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
Ms. Rachel post:
"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2026
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
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How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/09/2026
Over and over, 3M scientist Kris Hansen found PFOS, a chemical her company made, in people’s blood. Her bosses doubted her work: How could it be everywhere? Finally, she found one batch of blood samples without PFOS — but with it came a devastating revelation. Full episode: propub.li/4gVmPRQ
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026
Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix this town’s housing crisis. To this day, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. A $590,000 deposit for the printer was forfeited. And the more reporter Molly Parker asked questions, the weirder things got: propub.li/4nlU1VD
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026
We now know harmful “forever chemicals” are likely in the bodies of most people on Earth. Decades ago, 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into the public’s blood, but they kept that a secret. One 3M scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how they kept it quiet for so long:
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How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Dogs’ reactions when you ask them if they want a walk. Original post
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Ken brosky @kenbrosky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Is no one going to ask Jd Vance about this? Really?
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Stephanie Austin @stephanieaustin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you are in or around the Phoenix area, I'm leading a workshop next month at the Piper Center at ASU and I'm *THRILLED* so please sign up and hang out -- we will have a good time! piper.asu.edu/classes
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Classes | Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is horse as a senator territory
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IGN @ign.com · 14/08/2026
Inside is the closest thing to a "perfect" video game we've ever played. bit.ly/4qk3gqS
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Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/08/2026
Leading rights groups determined that Israel committed war crimes when it killed journalist Amal Khalil and injured another journalist in Lebanon in April. A Post investigation found that Israel denied rescuers access to Khalil when she was still alive. wapo.st/3TKKgWi
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This page was updated last year to include the misinfo. www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
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CDC Updates Vaccine Safety Page to Promote Vaccine Misinformation, Cites Kennedy’s Anti-Vax Allies
It is the latest move by Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services to undermine vaccines.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/07/2026
An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon. Here’s how it happened… 🧵
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/07/2026
Jonathan Blitzer reports on deaths, abuse, and “intolerable” conditions in ICE’s largest detention center: Camp East Montana, in El Paso, Texas. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YI-7iE
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Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center
On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design.
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Psst those intellectual diversity centers are just one more rightwing grift TIL Rufo’s speaking fee is $50k
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Ruadán Books @ruadanbooks.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We open in 2 WEEKS to novel manuscript submissions—writers, mark your calendars! Guidelines: links.ruadanbooks.com/Novels26 We're most interested in horror thrillers and crime noir; if you have a complete manuscript that fits, don't hesitate to submit. #AuthorSky #WriterSky #writingcommunity
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
So far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west, a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill
How long has it been since you've seen the original "Jurassic Park"?

SAM NEILL The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening.
On the other side of me was my son Tim - he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, "Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy's fart, but she's going to think it's me. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son's crimes, and I don't think she'll talk to me afterwards." But she was well brought up and never mentioned it.
JEFF GOLDBLUM I love that story, Sam.
I've heard him tell that a couple of times, and it's just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The anti-vax group formerly led by Robert Kennedy Jr. has been promoting the story of a woman who says vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins. She’s the lead plaintiff in the group’s lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics. Well, now she’s been charged with suffocating the toddlers.
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Plaintiff in Children’s Health Defense Lawsuit Charged With Murder
A mother who blamed vaccines for the deaths of her toddler twins and joined the anti-vax group’s lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics has been charged with murdering her children.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/07/2026
NEW: I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unreliable answers on users. By @justinelliott.bsky.social
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How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral
I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unrel...
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
There is a pernicious and sustained effort to distort the historical record and do violence to the public’s memory.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Yeah, that’s the America I grew up in. When I say the anti-trans playbook now is the same playbook as they ran in the 90s against gay people, I mean the SAME
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futuredadOfTwo🙋🏻‍♂️ @lacroixboi.dadguy.pro · 20/06/2026
werner herzog with a speech bubble over the quoted post
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2026
COME THE FUCK ON
​A screenshot of a news article in dark mode. At the top, small text reads "TIMES EXCLUSIVE". The main headline is "Firm Tied to Trump Donor Got No-Bid Contract to Clean Reflecting Pool". Below this, a subheadline reads, "A White House spokeswoman said the president was not involved in selecting Greenwater Services, the business owned by a trust led by John J. Cafaro." The words "Greenwater Services," are highlighted in a translucent yellow marker. At the bottom is a circular play button next to the text "Listen · 6:40 min".
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The Verge @theverge.com · 16/06/2026
The Trump phone was announced one year ago today, but it's still unclear if it will ever ship, so here's the closest thing to a review we have. www.theverge.com/policy/94909...
Mock review scorecard of the Trump phone

Trump Mobile's T1 Phone 8002

Verge Score: ???

THE GOOD
- Some people have held it, so it technically exists in some form, somewhere on this planet

THE BAD
- Isn't widely available even a year after it was announced
- Requires $100 deposit for a preorder but still has no release date
- Initially marketed as "designed and built the United States" despite failing to meet FTC requirements for making that claim
- Seemingly just a reskin of an HTC phone
- Kind of ugly
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Oliver is so good at this. Absolutely devastating account of how Rufo and DeSantis destroyed a college and fucked up its students’ education. youtu.be/jFMc07F1UUU?...
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New College of Florida: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Ken brosky @kenbrosky.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Protect this woman at all costs
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
In the business we call this a “College Client,” not because they’re smart, but because they let you afford to send your kids to college. Alternatively “Beach House Client.”
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Keeping this open through tonight cuz I love watching folks take a shot on some of our older and lesser known titles🖤☠️ 10% off everything! Code: 10ebrous store.tenebrouspress.com
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13/04/2026
Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Return of Family Detention
Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
To all who celebrate
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Again, he's addressing children gathered for an Easter Egg roll on the White House lawn, standing next to someone in an Easter Bunny costume, talking about all the people he's killed
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We don’t have any April Fool’s pranks for you—you’re welcome:) But we DO have a bunch of preorders & new releases—& a Weird AF back catalogue!—& it’s a great day to support independent artists, & that ain’t no joke🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com
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Tenebrous Press - The Home of New Weird Horror
Independent, award-winning publisher of Horror/Sci-Fi/speculative books, magazines and merchandise. Hail the Tenebrous Cult.
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comtechdiagnostics.bsky.social @comtechdiagnostics.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
. Just so everyone remembers . . . . .
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