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Asinus Pervicax

@knownagitator.lol
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Still fighting to cleanse the world of ancient evils, ancient ills.

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 1h
Ding ding ding. What if the railroad tracks laid in Maryland were uncompetitive by the time they got to California?
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 3h
"Health is a social problem, not a technical one. Our problems will be resolved socially and politically, or not at all."
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3h
How is this not the Onion headline
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 5h
Okay, this is a pretty good one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...
nytimes.com
A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported. (Gift Article)
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.
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Matthew Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 7h
Providing chairs when job duties don’t really require standing is a textbook example of a reasonable accommodation. Taking away chairs, thereby forcing disabled workers to put in formal requests to aggressively hostile employer, can be a pretty effective way of pushing people out of their jobs.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 7h
I'm glad we're finally outsourcing the horrible bits of life like making plans with friends so we can have more time to consume ads.
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arthaus @arthouse06.myatproto.social · 11h
invaluable website for those of us affected by AI/tech surveillance in r/t (+realizing how metastasizing VC funding is within surveillance~globally)
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 8h
Kudos to @tyleropeiu.bsky.social for questioning the decision by other union leaders to assist Big Tech in its campaign to override rather than address community concerns about data centers.
theguardian.com
Labor unions must unite against AI datacenters | Tyler Turner
Workers should start with a moratorium against building until our livelihoods and communities are protected
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 8h
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Jeremiah Johnson's Iconic Yes Nod
ALT: Jeremiah Johnson's Iconic Yes Nod
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 9h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Mere Smith @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FATALITY
A tweet from Joyce Carol Oates: overall takeaway from the Curtis Yarvin profile is that there must be millions of smart-aleck show-offy kids who annoy their teachers and go on to annoy other adults through their lives with their “contrarian” pose that hardens to a carapace over their faces; until, as adults, they still harbor a delusion that, if there is a king, or a fuhrer, he’d be impressed with the guys motor mouth and appoint him to his cabinet rather than deleting him with a negligent swipe of his wrist as Stalin did routinely.
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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 9h
Finding out this was because of unpatched oracle software is just *chefs kiss*
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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol · 9h
dumbbell pullovers as an opener for a chest/back/shoulders day was a great call.
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 9h
Again: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12h
these are deliberate aesthetic choices. they are intended to overwhelm your senses, to unsettle you, to make you question the nature of God and the goodness of man.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 22h
NEW: H-2A worker Carlos Vargas Moreno experienced a catastrophic heat stroke when his employer, Florida Orange Gold, subjected him to unsafe working conditions. The same company was cited two years prior for the heat-related death of H-2A worker Carmen Sebastian Hernandez Mosqueda.
prismreports.org
Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina
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Jennifer P. Mushrooms @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 22h
some useful context here is that all the tariffs trump has declared are collected by CBP, who then just keep them and don't turn them over to the irs or any agency where congress might assert the power of the purse. that's all trump's money now, to do with as he pleases.
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Loomin' Onion™ @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chat is it bad if every single working person in the country just feels like they're surviving from one day to the next
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23h
GoFundMe, the largest crowdfunding site, has seen an over 20 percent increase in fundraisers for tuition and related expenses over the past year
insidehighered.com
GoFundMes for College Tuition Are Up This Year
Students facing acute challenges affording their tuition are increasingly turning to crowdfunding. Experts warn it’s a temporary fix to systemic affordability issues.
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Seth Emerson @sethemerson.bsky.social · 23h
Eric Schmitt, one of the architects of the Protect College Sports Act. Truly the best and the brightest coming to save college sports.
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Academician Prokhor Zakharov @shake1n1bake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My very limited grasp of Hungarian politics is that this is basically like Mitt Romney was given a full license and mandate to unload his anger, distain and frustration with MAGA. Not woke 2, but back to 2010, at gunpoint.
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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol · 29/09/2026
it's some grim fucking times right now.
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Len @len.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This might be the funniest achievement Paradox has ever added.
Papal Bull
Make your Puppet Pope sleep with your spouse
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Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ms. @timnitgebru.blacksky.app calls the doomtrolling bluff and practically sends an "OK doomer".
wired.com
Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI
One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.
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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol · 29/09/2026
I am genuinely flabbergasted at this.
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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol · 29/09/2026
Oh good, we now have a new vector for scams. I just had someone from Publishers' Clearing House call me on a Google video call and now I'm trying to figure out how to block the dickhead.
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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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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
very similar to what my brother went through when our dad was killed by ICE
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tennessee plans to execute a woman tomorrow. She was 18 when she committed the crime. She's now 50. Like most on death row, she's also a victim. And like most on death row, she's a far different person now than she was then. No one humanizes the condemned better than @lilianasegura.bsky.social.
theintercept.com
The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.
After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.
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Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this story is nuts — UNC Health briefly adopted BidShift, a platform that has nurses bid against eachother for hard-to-fill shifts, so that the hourly premium rate (already substantially lower than it was pre-pandemic) keeps dropping. It pivoted after backlash.
indyweek.com
The Gig Is Up: UNC Health Does an About-Face on BidShift
UNC Health dropped the software Bidshift after a plan to make nurses bid against each other for extra shifts caused a social media firestorm.
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Shining a spotlight on this never ending crime: Three deaths, three states, 24 hours www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge
These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign
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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the elite schools keep a lockdown on the most evil university rankings but Arizona State is a real contender, out there innovating in the space where many bluebloods coast on prestige
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
52 cents out of every dollar in income gains for American households is going toward debt tcf.org/content/repo...
tcf.org
Half of Every Dollar: How Household Debt Eats Into Workers’ Income Gains
Executive Summary For years, the headline economic data describing workers’ well-being have been weak: over the year ending in August, the most recent
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Ravioli Ripple 🌹 @ravioliripple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm sure this is normal and fine wtop.com/maryland/202...
wtop.com
5 suicides in 5 weeks. What’s going on at Cyber Command at Fort Meade? – WTOP News
Five people whose work supported missions at U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency at Fort George G. Meade died by suicide within a month of each other this summer.
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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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Michael Tracey seems to operate on the belief that there’s still someone out there who does not think he’s a total piece of shit and by God he’s going to convince them he is
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 29/09/2026
every time i think i get how brain-cooked british elites are im wrong
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026
"Thiel’s destruction of Gawker, a publication that attacked virtually everyone, was the first shot fired in this era’s remarkably successful war against the free press. The war itself is not new. It’s just that today’s iteration of it is so very on the nose." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...
hamiltonnolan.com
The Free and Unfree Press
Journalism, and its adversaries.
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Beefcake Dad @jeffsreturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Googling Tony Blair Arms Deal to find out what the deal is with those arms
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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol · 29/09/2026
zercher squatted 265 pounds for five reps this morning and boy howdy are my legs and glutes telling me about it.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
no one should use this thing but I just cannot stress enough that you have to stay away from it if you’re a practicing attorney
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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
dude singlehandedly keeping skinny jeans from making a comeback
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026
The Trump administration's illegal kidnapping and detention of Mahmoud Khalil will perhaps be seen as one of the more pivotal moments which accelerated the change in elite, and especially elite youth opinion on Palestine.
nytimes.com
A Quietly Shattering Memoir by a Man Detained by ICE for His Beliefs (Gift Article)
Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and former Columbia graduate student, offers an account of his ordeal and explains why his work continues.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"So many people are coming to us who have never come to the food bank before. It used to be people who were working hourly-wage jobs. Now we see salary employees." Maybe we should measure the "strength" of the economy not by the stock market but by the length of the line at our local food bank?
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Congratulations, we have created a world where teenagers cannot exist with each other in space, where we use “safety” to destroy sociality, youth, and development.
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New Under-18 Policy Begins Today at Westfield Montgomery and Westfield Wheaton

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themocoshow A new Parental Guidance Policy begins today, Monday, September 28, at Westfield Wheaton and Westfield Montgomery malls, requiring visitors under 18 to be accompanied by a parent, legal guardian or chaperone age 21 or older after 3pm daily.
The policy will be in effect from 3pm until closing, seven days a week, and applies to interior and exterior common areas at both malls. According to signage now posted at the malls, one supervising adult age 21 or older may accompany no more than
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In the US, the UK, Canada, everywhere, the political and class elites have decided that only the very very rich get to do this any more. Those of us who are not very very rich or very very elite are shit out of luck. And the sad thing is that academia has largely gone along with this notion.
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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And once again I have to ask, why has Reuters seen the prospectus and do we even have an SEC anymore? www.reuters.com/business/fin...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs
Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy ​more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It goes by a lot of domain specific names but yep. Breaking down tasks takes some training and intent. Most people aren’t doing this in their routine lives.
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