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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 8h

The Trump administration just suspended Microsoft from sponsoring green cards, claiming it laid off 6,000 Americans while getting 6,300 H-1B approvals. Essentially this is the government saying tech companies will be penalized if they lay off Americans over foreign workers. It’s finally happened.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 7h

these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

A lot of people will believe them because they will be highly propagandized to do so. They are buying every communication platform up with their billions.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14h

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/10/2026

Good job US gov't getting those “foreign information manipulation and interference” discussions quieted down by [checks notes] engaging in information manipulation and interference... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I strongly doubt Adobe is freaking out over this. For many reasons. First, the breathless post notwithstanding, the project probably didn't 'decompile' anything. (At least if the AI followed the instructions it was allegedly given.) It's an attempt to rebuild Adobe from observed functions.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 07/10/2026

walks around with a big coat and no underwear

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/10/2026

The Norwegian Nobel Committee could simply award the Peace Prize to the most deserving candidate and explain that they will not consider Donald Trump due to his human rights violations and alleged war crimes.

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Maarten Schenk @mschenk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good points...

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Maarten Schenk @mschenk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Maarten Schenk @mschenk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An example of FIMI (Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference) in action at the @disinfo.eu conference? Apparently someone in the U.S. did not agree with the topic of a session named "USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back" and applied pressure on the sponsors...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026

I attended a seminar by freshly minted Nobel Laureate Francis Halzen many years ago and something he said stuck with me, but it takes some explaining, so this will be a (short) thread. The talk was about neutrino telescopes, and he started by explaining how rarely neutrinos interact with anything.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As climate scientists, it sucks to be defunded. But it adds insult to injury to be defunded by this moron who has access to the best climate science and data in the world and still says asinine things like this.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 06/10/2026

While VCs and politicians in the US were talking about cryptocurrency🤡, VCs and politicians in China were investing in the green economy. Instead of saying "Thank you for making solar cheaper than coal! That makes the right decision easier!" We complain about so called "dumping" of cheap solar.🤦🏿‍♂️

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 06/10/2026

Yup. 1) The cost of solar cells has dropped by over 80% over the past decade, making solar one of the cheapest forms of electricity. 2) Because China subsidized the building of their solar industry. 97% of all solar wafers in the world are now made in China. 3) China can now end the PV subsidies.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hey just a reminder that Maslow stole the idea of the hierarchy of needs from the Blackfoot people (and his female research partner) and then made it weird and rapey (women can’t be healthy unless we experience a “surrender reflex” when encountering “masculine power”).

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 05/10/2026

yeah but the way out includes taking accountability for committing almost a century of systematic theft, ethnosupremacism, apartheid, illegal occupation, torture, rape, military brainwashing & genocide and given that this fascist faux-mocracy has only existed as such, that would be remarkable

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only the usual human mistakes. What “AI” did to machine learning is as tragic as what it did to artists.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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Stuart Bratton 🇪🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇬🇧 @stuartbratton.emergentdrift.com · 04/10/2026

Just think about how popular Lula must be to be leading despite the full force of the US Admin, CIA, Elon Musk & tech oligarchs, and the majority of the media owned by the far-right... And still he leads the popular vote. It must be so frustrating to the capitalists who seek to put in a fascist.

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Lula ahead in polls for Brazil's first-round vote; runoff likely

A series of polls on Saturday showed Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva slightly ahead of Senator Flavio Bolsonaro ‌before Sunday's first-round vote, and a close race in a likely runoff be...

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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 03/10/2026

At school I was relentlessly bullied by others who told me I wasn't British because I was born in Germany. I was born in Germany. On a British army base. Because my dad was stationed there as a British soldier. That's why these "Englishness" debates are all bullshit.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 03/10/2026

If you want to be friends with Kid Rock? Be friends with Kid Rock. Not me tho. Your heroes are losers. Condolences to anyone that was still listening to Eminem in 2026.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 02/10/2026

wouldn’t have predicted catholicism as one of the big allies in the fight against ai, but i’m here for it

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laggedHero @laggedhero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The existence of FSR 4.1 should allow something similar for Xbox too, I’d guess

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This company makes a cute little tool for silencing AirTags and they absolutely do not care that they are helping people to create perfect stalking devices. sixcolors.com/post/2026/10...

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Silencing AirTags enables stalkers and domestic violence

ElevationLab has released an AirTag product I find appalling, and I strongly urge they immediately withdraw it from sale and recall all inventory. The AirTag Silencer is a simple device: remove the…

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 30/09/2026

My horror at the Cornell story is made worse by the strong suspicion that it’s not exceptional. Anyone looking at the US can see that an existing culture of impunity for male violence towards women is being encouraged. It’s bad everywhere, but the US is intentionally fostering it.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hegseth is aspirational for some white people. He's proof that mediocrity is rewarded if you are a white man. You can always fail up. That's his appeal and make no mistake, the appeal is real.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 30/09/2026

And media making it official policy to treat those attacks as fair game that they would not take seriously, report on, or treat as harmful — even when leveled at their own reporters. Now the White House points GamerGate at its targets daily, through the owners of the social platforms themselves.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meta is on the other end of the spectrum. Their business model is they will give anyone else full access to your data. They don't care what people do with it as long as they get paid. Do some advertising, start a genocide, whatever. They have proven over and over that they have no boundaries.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can understand why the features of a supposed AI assistant are compelling. I kinda wanna try it too. But I know too much about how these things work. Do not give a cloud-based agent access to your shit. Especially one from the big tech companies.

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rob pike @robpike.io · 29/09/2026

Invest in our company so you can profit from your own destruction! While we lose money hand over fist! What the actual F is going on here? (Rhetorical question. Don't answer.)

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what the fuck, italy?

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love the optimism about Dems winning in November - I share it! And: I'm a tiny bit nervous that winning will free folks of the urgency to fix deeper structural problems in our party that will fuck us in the long-haul if we don't grapple with them.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saturday Night Live skit of an interview with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

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Can’t Stop Twinkling 💕💚 @proftolson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ve watched this more times than I am comfortable admitting

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The US has successfully negotiated away a requirement that humans review any decisions that AI makes about who to kill in military strikes as part of a UN treaty. The real existential risk from AI is putting a fundamentally unreliable technology at the heart of critical decisions or infrastructure.

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 26/09/2026

A lot of new stuff incoming! I decided to make it all free because I love you all. 💞

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