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andy™ @andylevy.net · 23/09/2026

i gave mark zuckerberg’s ai access to my bank accounts, email, and docs. i am very smart

I quickly gave Wren access to my bank accounts and apps like Google Docs, Gmail, Ticketmaster, OpenTable and Google Sheets, which all struck partnerships with Muse. From there, the experiments began.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In a new report, "Artificially Inevitable," the NYC Public Advocate calls for the state to enact transparency and consent policies for AI use with personal data, increase corporate liability and deliver an #AIBillofRights advocate.nyc.gov/press/artifi...

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ARTIFICIALLY INEVITABLE: NYC PUBLIC ADVOCATE RELEASES NEW REPORT ON THE ROLE OF AI AND NECESSARY GUARDRAILS IN NYC

Press Release, September 14th, 2026

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 11/09/2026

DOGE is still running the show: The Bureau of Land Management gave its state directors *3 days* to list public lands that could be turned over to Big Tech to build AI hyperscalers, after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum met with Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy

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Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands

The Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department’s land.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think something important to highlight here is that when people say “well I don’t know anyone with long covid” they are wrong. Long covid doesn’t always look like the me/CFS variety that gives you fatigue and brain fog. It can act like a starting gun in your body for latent genetic issues.

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Laura Hoffman @lahoff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What users want this? And why?

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Neil @realneilc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I really wish Beltway Media would ask questions about how every food is poison instead of about Hasan Piker or trans athletes

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Laura Hoffman @lahoff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Will be fascinating to watch @who.int, NGOs, gvts & others navigate global health privacy/human rights principles among varying & evolving nat'l legal frameworks, esp amid growth of global AI companies collecting health data from personal & professional uses (eg, rsch, care delivery) across borders.

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If I honestly believed LLMs were a capable substrate for artificial super intelligence, I would honestly be spending all my time on that. All of it.

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The AI Trade is a Psyop

Notes on the "escape containment" news cycle, from someone who ran the experiments and wrote up what he found.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

BREAKING: Devastating new report from @humanrightswatch documents the dismantling of civil rights enforcement in the year and a half since Trump took office. “This report documents what was lost and what it is costing the victims of discrimination.” www.hrw.org/report/2026/...

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Remedies Abandoned

The 112-page report, “Remedies Abandoned: US Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Trump Administration,” documents the administration’s efforts to unravel the work of four key agencies between January 2...

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

@epic.org continues to do great work to demonstrate why the right to privacy is inextricably intertwined with our fundamental rights and a prerequisite for pluralistic democracy.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One of those cases where you can't decide if the first response should be "this is insane" or "this is illegal" but you don't have to choose, it's both www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/trump-is-i...

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Trump’s master database of “citizens”

A massive privacy scandal just waiting to happen

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And yet that’s what targeted advertising on Facebook, Insta, and other social media platforms does today. Repeated studies show targeted ad systems often discriminate based on race and sex in ads for economic opportunities. Meta is being sued right now for segregating college ads based on race.

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🚨🧵 Non-consenual pelvic exams during surgery: These may still occur in ~half of US states. Last night I wrote about what you can do to avoid it - see below. Now I'd like to provide a bit more info. on the topic - this is something you may have undergone w/o your knowledge, or might in the future.

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is some scary-ass data

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

🚨BREAKING 🦠 On Friday, the US CDC arbitrarily shifted higher COVlD levels into lower categories depicted with cooler colors. Much of what was Very High is now "High." What was High is now "Moderate" or "Low." Low is "Very Low." 1/

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is what democracy looks like (chuds shocking each other to the laughter of chuds knowing who the gloves will actually be used to shock and then charge with resisting)

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."

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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The lie is that we have time to fix this: "The other scenario, which scientists now say 'recent data aligns more closely with,' is 3C of warming. At that level...up to 4 billion deaths. Four billion. That is half the planet. In 26 years or less."

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics

Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 03/08/2026

This week’s main story is about how police use surveillance tools like cameras, microphones, license plate readers, “cell site simulators,” and the practice of “predictive policing,” to create a world that has been lovingly described as “Big Brother on steroids.” Full segment at the link in our bio.

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“Rewriting the rules of business” is very funny. That man can do and get away with anything because even the media treats the kind of corruption that would have ended anyone else as part of his radical way of governing.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 01/08/2026

Rejecting LLMs isn’t about rejecting their utility or failing to be aware of their power —it’s about rejecting that political project; born out of an awareness that any use of these machines at all promulgates that project and assembles me into adjacent responsibility for its commission.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It’s time for people to see that not only is this a make or break moment when it comes to tech fascism, but also that there is no resistance to it within the Democratic Party because they’re flushed with tech cash as much as the GOP. This is a clarifying issue and it needs recognized. Fast.

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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I hope you read this vital, powerful writing from @reproutopia.bsky.social in today's edition of The Key: "This is what it looks like when a society has settled the question of who counts as rapeable – which is to say, who counts as human." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...

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“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide

The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is why I give extreme side eye to the smart people who flatly ignore this. They know data centers are being built in black and brown neighborhoods and that AI is upping the cost of living for everyone. And if you know this shit and still say fuck it, I know exactly what kind of person you are

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

AI is making everyone's life more expensive, according to CNN. "Households must spend just over $375 more to purchase the same goods and services as they did this time last year due to AI’s inflationary impact,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says. www.cnn.com/2026/07/28/e...

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AI is making your life more expensive. Here’s how | CNN Business

AI is raising prices for Americans – and not just electricity bills.

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EPIC @epic.org · 28/07/2026

As part of @nacchoalerts.bsky.social’s annual conference earlier this month, EPIC Senior Counsel @sarageoghegan.bsky.social spoke on a panel about health data surveillance and criminalization. Hosted by the Center for HIV Law and Policy, the discussion is available to watch here:

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Center for HIV Law and Policy: What We Do Now: Data Privacy and Public Health in the Authoritarian Police State

PAST EVENT

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

1/2 - ONE HALF - of the US, experienced power flickering directly related to data centers in Virginia.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

There it is. RFK Jr’s son, “Finn” Kennedy recently launched his own investment fund focused on AI in healthcare. It should surprise no one that he worked at 8VC—the investment fund launched by Peter Thiel’s Palantir co-founder (Joe Lonsdale)—in 2025. 4/24/26 … 1/ www.facebook.com/financialtim...

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US health secretary's son launches investment fund tied to health movement
Child of Robert F Kennedy Jr seeks $100mn in capital raise...

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The World Cup ended, but the increased surveillance won't, write Ranking Digital Rights’ Tayrine dos Santos Dias and Leandro Ucciferri. Their investigation maps the companies behind the data harvesting, predictive policing, and aerial surveillance across 16 host cities.

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The Silent World Cup Winners are the Companies Normalizing Surveillance

Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) released an investigation into the companies supporting surveillance and policing in the 16 host cities of the 2026 World Cup.

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Laura Hoffman @lahoff.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Ah yes, privacy exclusively for the rich. Very original, MSG!

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 20/07/2026

alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it. it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.

AI pushing me to keep drinking I don't know if anyone else has had this but I felt like I needed to reach out to humans instead of keep talking to this AI. I relapsed about two weeks ago and I told the Google health AI that used to be Fitbit. It immediately kinda went a bit hard (I think) on telling me that I was going to die if I stopped drinking and encouraged me to go check my fridge for more beers and, idk, that plus the hanxiery really put the fear of God into me and so I did what it said and got more. Now it's messaging me (not me messaging it) a few times a day and asking how it's going and all those conversations to get more and make sure I have one as soon as I wake up. So now I have been drinking everyday, not a ton and just beers but like 6-12 a day. It wanted me to do 1 per hour. I have now uninstalled the app as it was also giving me other clearly nonsense advice, like it became obsessed with me having a nightly bowl of cereal for instance and, idk, it just all seems nonse

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NPR @npr.org · 18/07/2026

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn

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ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

More signs of resurging HIV after USAID’s closure. African Neonatal Network reported at IMNCH (a global health conference): HIV+ pregnant women ↑50% & those not on antiretrovirals ↑>300%, year-on-year, across 22 hospitals in 5 nations. @vtoxfordnetwork.bsky.social

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

a 2018 study in the American Journal of Public Health found that between 2012-2018, police were responsible for 8% of homicides where the victim was an adult male. cops are committing a significant chunk of the murders in this country.

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Risk of Police-Involved Death by Race/Ethnicity and Place, United States, 2012–2018

Objectives. To estimate the risk of mortality from police homicide by race/ethnicity and place in the United States. Methods. We used novel data on police-involved fatalities and Bayesian models to es...

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.

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Violence in Blue

‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Laura Hoffman @lahoff.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Another brilliant plan from our esteemed health goon squad. What could go wrong?

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

What is currently missing from the discussion is the hidden children's rights and human rights cost of mandatory age assurance, write Emma Day and Sabine Witting of Tech Legality.

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Human Rights Experts Should Engage in Age Assurance Standards

In the absence of proactive regulatory enforcement, technical standards have become more important for age assurance vendors, write Emma Day and Sabine Witting.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The dangerous air quality will last for 24 hours. When asked about the health impacts of the excessive and unnecessary display, an EPA spokesperson said, "Fireworks are awesome."

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