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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1h
Breaking News: The U.S. rushed to withdraw its B-1 bombers from an air base in England after commanders received new threats about an Iran-backed plot against the installation, officials said.
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U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats
The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 11h
🇮🇹 card. zuppi: "la guerra non è un destino" 🇬🇧 card. zuppi: "war is not a destiny" www.agensir.it/quotidiano/2...
Frame da un video dell'omelia del cardinale Zuppi, presidente della Cei, ad Assisi in occasione della messa per gli 800 anni dalla morte di san Francesco
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This piece from @soraya.press gave me a lot to think about. (Still sort of processing) sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/33-underst...
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33. A Long Read About Living in a World Where Men Publicly Bond over Women’s Humiliation and Pain
From the Burnerverse to Cornell to Clavicular, our society is all too happy to shift the cost and burden of sexual violence and male onto victims to protect men
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#books "how the US government has bound itself to the hype and hubris of a heavily financed “arsenal of the broligarchy"" lareviewofbooks.org/article/vall...
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War Bros | Los Angeles Review of Books
Sharon Weinberger’s new book exposes the extent to which the US government has bound itself to the ‘arsenal of the broligarchy.’
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😳 On 9/29/26, Argentina’s Supreme cleared the way for President Javier Milei’s administration to scrap historical restrictions on foreign land ownership, opening the door to the likes of Peter Thiel & Sam Altman who have shown great interest in the region … 1/ share.google/t7nTsPAkbpC8...
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Supreme Ct clears way for Milei to scrap limits on foreign land purchases
Opposition parties condemn the ruling, question its scope and warn that it leaves the door open to unrestricted foreign ownership of rural land.
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"what made Network’s plot resonate was that it was about a political movement to nowhere" www.liberalcurrents.com/network-at-5...
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“Network” at 50: Now We’re All Mad as Hell
Paddy Chayefsky’s take on television captured the Long 1970s—and anticipated the rise of social media.
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The toll is on top of the early deaths resulting from temperatures already driven up by the climate crisis." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis
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404 Media @404media.co · 22/09/2026
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Dexerto @dexerto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Earth now has its own video game-style patch notes Earth’s Changelog releases updates covering everything from scientific discoveries to medicine advances and new technology
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Mitchell Plitnick @mjplitnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The idea that the idiot Merz would raise this now because Die Linke won but was thoroughly unconcerned when the AfD did tells you all you need to know about how cynical a performance this is. www.haaretz.com/world-news/2...
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Merz vows to protect German Jews after far-left party wins Berlin election
The election result could make 45-year-old Elif Eralp Berlin's first mayor of Turkish heritage. She has rejected antisemitism allegations against her party, Die Linke, and could form a coalition with ...
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Luciano Violante (2023): "Meloni has no connection to Fascism." The "boys of Salò" (Violante, 1996) would disagree, recognizing her instead as one of their own—with a heart as black as theirs. www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
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Italy to ban veils in schools, limit foreign students per class, Meloni says
Prime Minister Giorgia ​Meloni played up her right-wing ‌credentials at a youth event organized by her party.
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Luciano Violante (2023): "Meloni è estranea al fascismo". I "ragazzi di Salò" (Violante, 1996) non sarebbero d'accordo, riconoscendola invece come una dei loro, il cuore nero come il loro. www.rainews.it/articoli/202...
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Meloni ai giovani di FdI: "Fiera di voi". E annuncia un tetto nelle classi agli studenti stranieri
In Cdm anche il divieto al burqa. "Non esiste che in una classe italiana a sentirsi in un angolo siano bimbi italiani, parità tra uomo e donna non è negoziabile". Attacchi a Schlein e Conte. Chiusa la...
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"(...) carbon shock therapy could emerge as the default stance of states (...). decarbonization would unfold in a disorderly manner, and would lead, like the original shock therapy, to rapid deindustrialization." (photo wolfgang weiser/unsplash) phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aga...
Oil pipeline passing through a wood
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/09/2026
BREAKING: President Trump says he is banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House over their coverage.
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Trump says he is banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House
President Donald Trump says he is banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House due to what he called unfavorable coverage, and threatens that more such prohibitions of media outlets could follow.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
lololololol OpenAI is about to get fucking WASHED storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Exhibit Public Redacted Memorandum of Law – #1977, Att. #1 in In Re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation (S.D.N.Y., 1:25-md-03143) – CourtListener.com
LETTER addressed to Judge Sidney H. Stein from Davida Brook dated September 17, 2026 re: Public, Redacted Version of News' Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Law. Document filed by Daily News LP, The Center fo...
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"anyone can kill whoever they want, as much as they want, and they won't be held accountable for it. (...) you have two million targets in #Gaza" #israel www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
haaretz.com
Confessions of an Israeli army drone operator
A decade of serving in the IDF broke Nir. As soldiers around him succumbed to 'ethical burnout,' he began questioning what he was being asked to do. Returning to duty on October 7, he saw an army out ...
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 09/09/2026
Sources: Anthropic declined to submit Mythos 5.1 to the UK AISI for pre-release testing, prompting UK fears that US AI labs are aligning with US protectionism (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
lol accurate opusfived.dev
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Opusfived
Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"I am in your car. I am in your maps" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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How one woman’s Tesla was remotely controlled – and used to harass her – by an abusive ex-partner
Enrico Pucci was able to control his former partner’s electric car remotely, controlling its speed, temperature settings and lock
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 04/09/2026
NEW: Seven faith leaders were arrested in Vermont this morning while blocking entrances to a building that houses a group ICE uses to target its efforts. Two clergy were physically carried out as they were arrested. religionnews.com/2026/09/04/s...
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Seven Vermont clergy arrested while protesting ICE targeting center
(RNS) — 'I think it is imperative on me, as a faith leader, to proclaim that human beings are not targets and that God is a God of justice and of love,’ said the Rev. Rebecca Girrell, a United Methodi...
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
rest in power ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿
Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes stand at a podium in 1970, a year before they co-founded Ms. magazine.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, TNS/ GETTY
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#Furious is great tv. Writing, cast, directing. 7 among the - many - reasons why. 1) a taste of power
Frame from 'Furious' tv series- Lola Petticrew's character, Catherine, is watching a man die of an overdose she just injected
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🇮🇹 L'accordo miliardario per l'accusa di dipendenza da social: perché in realtà non è una sconfitta per #Meta come sembra www.valigiablu.it/accordo-meta...
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L'accordo miliardario per l'accusa di dipendenza da social: perché in realtà non è una sconfitta per Meta come sembra - Valigia Blu
L’accordo miliardario tra Meta e 47 Stati USA non accerta la «dipendenza da social media», ma rischia di trasformare la sorveglianza e l'age verification in un obbligo normativo.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/08/2026
Pre-tax earnings in the US have hit the highest level since the aftermath of the second world war, while workers’ slice of the pie has sunk to historic lows, fuelling discontent and a widening political backlash. ft.trib.al/ThPVQhN
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
rest in lust ❤️
A frame from the movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" with Tim Curry as doctor Frank-N-Furter
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"Sumaya was not shot at the border, nor did she drown (...) she died (...) pushed by infrared cameras, drones, and sensor networks into dangerous terrains where the environment itself does the killing, (...) an accident of geography [not an] outcome of policy." www.techpolicy.press/the-racial-n...
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The Racial Necrotechnics That Lead to Death By Design at Automated Borders
Modern borders preserve a racial distribution of wealth and mobility that was built through centuries of imperialism and colonialism, writes Petra Molnar.
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🎵 🌀 addictive www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
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Doodle generative compositions in your browser with Musical Spirograph
It’s soothing, hypnotic, and fun to play with.
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Who ends up paying the more than $50 billion a year spent on these ads? It’s not the sellers. Sellers can’t make heartfelt donations for long. It’s you." #Amazon seths.blog/2026/08/the-...
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Meta’s business model worked especially well for kids” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta’s alleged strategy laid out in first week of landmark trial
In trial that opened on Tuesday, California and 28 other states accused the company of designing addictive sites and violating laws protecting children’s privacy
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
this, like several others, is a gendered crisis www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
An image depicting the collision that occurred on the M9 in County Kildare on Sunday, resulting in the deaths of five individuals and leaving four others with serious injuries. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA
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Dave Fortin @davidwfortin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
From Dan Willingham, cognitive psychologist at UVA. @lutzfernandez.bsky.social Students should only use AI for things they already know how to do well. dtwuva.substack.com/p/students-s...
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Students should only use AI for things they already know how to do well.
AI guardrails should protect important mental work
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottomA nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#Grokipedia A mass rewrite of the encyclopedia seems to have happened on March 14. Grokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grok...
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Grokipedia Stopped Reviewing Edits in April. It Didn’t Tell Anyone.
A halt in Grokipedia’s edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Israeli Defense Minister Katz says Erdogan is dragging Turkey into “dangerous adventures” in Syria, warning that Israel will not allow any threat to its security and telling the Turkish president not to test its resolve.
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Quoted tweet on X
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Dan Wang and I have written the Weekend Essay at @financialtimes.com and if I can say so myself it's a banger as.ft.com/r/c1054499-a...
An illustration from classic Golden Age era science fiction.
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"it's another place where sources of trusted information are being eroded by the constant doubt that #AI might be involved," www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Google withdraws Earth AI tool after misinformation warnings
Experts told BBC Verify Google's new feature which let people generate fake satellite images could be misused.
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404 Media @404media.co · 31/07/2026
UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...
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Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
#AI "it’s possible that humans were already hitting the point of diminishing returns with regards to individual cognitive capacity, and that superintelligent machines will never be as far beyond us as we are beyond dogs." www.noahpinion.blog/p/what-will-...
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What will more intelligence actually do for us?
A lot, actually. But it won't look quite like what humans do with our intelligence.
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Film you’ve watched more than six times Hard Mode : No Star Trek, Star wars, LOTR, any Marvel, Disney or Ghibli
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“AI has become a blunt instrument in the enterprise to impose precisely this form of sanctioned ignorance about America’s past...Taken together, [Trump’s & Musk’s] plans amount to a one-two punch, history in the hands of the corporate state.” My latest on AI & history: www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...
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Trump and Musk both want to control America's history
The frenemies' strange obsession with historical "accuracy" has disturbing connections to big AI
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
enjoying 'furious' #nowwatching youtu.be/UBSqPDxmNZs?...
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Furious | Official Trailer | Hulu
YouTube video by Hulu
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kusanagi @kusanagi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Nate Silver discovers the educated poor" took his time crookedtimber.org/2026/07/25/n...
A march featuring a prominent red banner for the Democratic Socialists of America during a protest in New York City in 2017
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Greedling @greedling1729.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Really great convo with Lina Khan and @doctorow.pluralistic.net about law and economy www.youtube.com/live/7Ak5LZl...
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Law and Economy Student Network: A Conversation with Lina Khan and Cory Doctorow
YouTube video by Center for Law and the Economy
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