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Kim Shumway

@kimshum.bsky.social
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TV writer-human. My kingdom for a hallway set. Formerly EP on PARTNER TRACK, THE 100, pilots (rip). Currently developing.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4h
They started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h
WAPO: “.. all the major donors to .. Trump’s White House ballroom project, including previously undisclosed contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h
Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.
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A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew
BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 4h
Technically our rapists are independent contractors
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Cylons were created by Man. They Rebelled. They Evolved. They look and feel Human. Some are programmed to think they are Human. There are many copies. And they have a Plan.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22h
Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 22h
Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff knew in 2024 that a student had reported being gang raped at a fraternity house, but never followed up to learn what had happened to her or whether any of the accused students had been punished. to.pbs.org/4ypJJaO
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Cornell president admits he never followed up on gang rape allegation ahead of no-confidence debate
Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff knew in 2024 that a student had reported being gang raped at a fraternity house, but never followed up to learn what had happened to her or whether any o...
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 14/10/2026
New reprehensible use of AI just dropped
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Anthropic AI model made false tip in unsolved Philly murder: Officials
An Anthropic artificial intelligence model made a false tip in a homicide investigation.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Real wages are shrinking year-over-year for the sixth month in a row. The Iran War brought an end to three years of real wage growth.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/10/2026
And while we're on the subject: there's no ethical use of a product brought to market through unethical means. It doesn't matter whether the product is "AI" or chocolate or diamonds. Most generative "AI" was knowingly developed through massive theft from creatives; we have the emails admitting this.
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
many centrists are as disdainful of science as MAGA these days. virtually every study on the topic, and there have been many, show that youth programs reduce crime. it's a settled question. this is no different from claiming vaccines are a hoax.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
i dont think the tech bros understand a whole generation of us grew up with an icon telling us exactly how to handle technology gone rogue
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Kim Shumway @kimshum.bsky.social · 20h
Hell yeah!
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Once again. Just like the Paramount Merger Gavin Newsom does what he always does. Sells out the working class people for the billionaires again and again. Not only that but endorses a bill that will make it impossible to tax the wealthy at all. www.commondreams.org/news/newsom-...
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Newsom Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Cancel Out Billionaire Tax—and Ban Future Wealth Taxes | Common Dreams
"He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally pay their fair share."
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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.
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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
So DOGE, it turns out, was the road to personal enrichment. Shame on me for being surprised. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/2165...
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Why Did DOGE Exist? Now We Know.
Turns out, Elon Musk’s pimply minions didn’t actually want to cut government spending. They wanted to get a piece of it for themselves.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I don't know that it makes him presidential material but Ossoff's ability to just be honest about how much of a pile of shit these people really are should be a model to the party.
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026
You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/10/2026
“the only place I can have good conversations about AI is the nazi CSAM factory so I’m going back to posting there” should maybe make you think a little bit
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contract—Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to uncover them” www.theverge.com/tech/1009411...
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A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contract and it refused
Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to undo it.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/10/2026
Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 13/10/2026
By default, most companies that make chatbots and other AI software collect and use your data for AI training. But you can opt out of that training. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...
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How to Opt Out of AI Tools or Training Made by Big Tech
It seems like every software or website update brings new AI features. Some people find these features useful and immediately integrate them into their work. Others find them annoying or in the way.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...
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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.
inquirer.com
The SS United States is set to be sunk in mid-November
Okaloose County expects to sink the SS United States the second week in November, depending on weather.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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TrekMovie.com @trekmovie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
OTD: Scotty (James Doohan) is found by the Enterprise after spending 75 years in stasis. Writer Ron D. Moore said that once they were considering which Original Series character to bring back, "Scotty seemed like the one with the most fun quotient."
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.
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Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12/10/2026
Yes, of course McDonald’s posting about National Coming Out Day is “performative.” Nobody thinks Ronald McDonald threw the first brick at Stonewall. Nonetheless, the biggest and most influential institutions in American life performing affirmation of LGBT social and civil equality is a good thing.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).
There's a trap on your ballot in California. Here's how to get past it.
1. Prop 40: 250 billionaires pay with they owe so hospitals, schools, and food assistant survive the federal cuts. Vote yes.
2. Props 41 and 42: paid for by billionaires to cancel prop 40. Vote no.
3. Tell one person, because the confusion is the plan.
Yes I'm 40. No on 41 and 42.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.
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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch
Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's not even the ethics of it. My career, my hobbies, my free time, hell, my whole life took off once I fully left Twitter. It is a place to go if you want to be stuck in a neverending race war feedback loop. Like not using ChatGPT, not using Twitter is a superpower. Remain employable; stay off it.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Can we take just a few seconds to acknowledge the birth of a new classic meme
Vertical split screen of William Shatner appearing as a guest on Brent Spiner's podcast: referring to the 2025 romantic film Pillion, Shatner asks Spigner "The world of homosexuality I'm not familiar with. Are you?" Spiner, with an expression that seems at once weary and astonished, replies "to a degree."
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
D+15 Midterm indicator
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026
The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Again, we don't need chapters about "what DOGE might have been if the people involved had had any decency at all." We need to send these people to jail forever for unprecedented crimes. We really need to <not> spend anytime on "right idea, wrong execution" right now (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).
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The Guy Behind The Big Short and Moneyball Is Back to Take On Elon Musk and DOGE. It’s a Roller Coaster.
Michael Lewis’ Blockers tells the stories of good public servants driven away by the Trump administration.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
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Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear (Gift Article)
A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
When the Auschwitz Memorial has to fact check the new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia for being a nut.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
BARCLAYS DESK: “.. let’s face facts; the combined disclosed lab revenues of circa $150bn .. is not going to cut it when the ecosystem needs well in excess of $1trn .. I’ve yet been presented with a credible framework as to where this money is going to come from ..”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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