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Ryan Lange

@langeryan.bsky.social
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Media researcher interested in automated behaviors. I lift heavy things and put them down again. Sometimes I help someone learn something.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 4h
good morning mr president we have that executive order youve been demanding for weeks renaming every living dog “america,” but once again sir we need to reiterate that the lifeblood of civilization is drying up so if you could just take a look at this iran stuff? please sir. we are begging you sir
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
Spencer i think it's great you want a more compassionate Republican party could you tell them to stop being Nazis, I know it's a big ask but literally you would be the only Republican alive to say "hey maybe we shouldnt openly be Nazis" and i feel like that would both help AND end your career.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nancy 10/1/26 … “Sluggo’s Terrible Hat” Part 4
Nancy vents to Aunt Fritzi, telling her she may have to break up with Sluggo because of his new hat. Fritzi thinks she’s being dramatic, until she sees the hat….
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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/09/2026
A recent disclosure of Amazon’s internal “employee relations” documents reveals just how extreme Amazon’s methods of warehouse surveillance and control have become.
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Amazon Is Deploying AI to Spy on Its Workers and Bust Unions Before They Form
Internal company documents obtained by a Canadian labor board show how Amazon is tracking workers’ every move.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026
NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...
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People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
*Here I am, ten long years ago, jetlagged in Australia, publicly grumbling about just a few of my many, critically important, historically significant, aesthetic issues, and people are like: "Why doesn't his tie match his shirt" youtu.be/jkHtSBzYGWQ?...
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Alien Aesthetics | Bruce Sterling | TEDxDeakinUniversity
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 30/09/2026
"Even in the darkest days of the dictatorship, Chileans saw themselves as citizens of a republic." www.liberalcurrents.com/how-chile-re...
How Chile Recovered Its Democracy

A leader operating beyond the margins of the law can yet eventually be defeated in a free and fair election.
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Daniel Greenberg @winterion.com · 30/09/2026
hot new trend out of central europe right now kids are calling it C O N S E Q U E N C E S
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One way tech oligarchs retain power is through dual-class shares, allowing them to cash in on public stock markets without giving up power over their companies. @ryanlcooper.com thinks this needs to end: Dual-class shares should be banned, or taxed in proportion to founder control over the company.
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Here’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania - The American Prospect
‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"And don't get me started on what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did to cause today's high gas prices."
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/09/2026
funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on.
Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the brand safety panopticon has come to twitch
Streamers, wary of both AI and YouTube’s infuriatingly un-transparent hall of mirrors, are not enthused about this new development.

“Ohhh so that’s why ad revenue dropped,” longtime streamer JP "itmeJP" McDaniel said on Twitter.  

“I’m genuinely worried that the sheer fact that I’m a lesbian will cause the AI to remove ads,” said Vtuber LuminusRed. “In the past I’ve tested it and confirmed that I get less ad money if I had queer-related tags on my stream like ‘lesbian,’ so I am worried this dumb AI monitoring will mean I no longer get money from ads on Twitch.”
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Rob McCallum @robmccallum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
It turns out you can’t actually base an entire economy on skull measuring
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!
Tintin cartoon
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We all complain about the media’s failures but organizations like @propublica.org and @texastribune.org are doing the work and deserve our financial support
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
theyre doxing sexual assault survivors on my banking app
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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kiribell.bsky.social @kiribell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have never worked in nor heard of a library that didn’t have a story like this…I kept a folder on my computer called Leak Documentation of all the ceiling leaks and shared it routinely with the dean of the library and no one ever seemed to be able to fix them
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Update your measles vaccine if you need it and make sure to vaccinate your children.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Every three weeks it’s like but white supremacists who mostly care about testosterone and killing minorities were supposed to fix the economy
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I will vote, make calls, knock doors, take up arms for whoever destroys the online gambling industry
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Doing this but for radio playlists and music charts.
https://xkcd.com/2501/
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 27/09/2026
[1963] Snow – Hypnotic British Transport Film showing the efforts of railway workmen to keep trains running in hazardous snowy conditions.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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blueminder @ohnoim.online · 27/09/2026
did you know that large language models can spit out whatever text they want and agents don't have to uncritically run them without safeguards? it's a whole lot like the relationship between ai ceos and the press
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Instead of respecting the law, those in power invoke it when it serves their interests and disregard it when it restrains them, treating even justice itself as though it were a commodity to be bought and sold.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 27/09/2026
I am 45 years old, I do not need to know what’s popular with the kids and frankly I prefer they get to have their own pop culture
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Mare Pan @paarsec.com · 27/09/2026
"Everyone thinks smoking is bad for children, but if you color the cigarette packaging with bright colors and add cartoons to them suddenly they're not dangerous. They're just a fashion statement"
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Your Sunday morning is probably lacking in meta animation about a time traveling clown being chased into the future, with an ending that leads to some staggering questions about the nature of reality.
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Out of the Inkwell | Koko in 1999 | 1927 | 16mm | Koko The Clown | A Max Fleischer cartoon
YouTube video by Fleischer Cartoons!
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There's yet another thing floating around about estrangement, good time to bring back this essay, the Missing Missing Reasons, on how estranged parents *always* talk about their kids going no contact, versus how their kids describe it.
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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A major structural hazard with extreme media ownership concentration is that oligarchs impose their ideological agendas--which almost always skew to the far right--on everyone. This capture of core info and communication infrastructures must be dismantled if we're to have any semblance of democracy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
BLANCHE: AI has a lot of benefits. The fact that AI is able to understand what you want, where you want to shop -- you don't know it, but you actually benefit from that CAMPOS DUFFY: I don't want that! BLANCHE: I know you think you don't, but it's not all bad CD: I don't want my govt spying on me
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...
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Sept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring Published
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.
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Ryan Lange @langeryan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As they say, "choose Texas?" Is THIS what the song is about?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elites that surrended to Trump in 2025 miscalculated, letting his imagined cultural dominance spook them into inflating the price of getting on his bad side. But now the logic of collective resistance has been confirmed as sound. Should have realized this earlier! newrepublic.com/article/2158...
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Ryan Lange @langeryan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's pretty easy not to know about songs if you mostly hear music from a curated algo playlist that features a narrow range of music. This is not a moral failing. Please try harder with your ragebait.
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They sent my client a cease-and-desist letter for this ad in PA's hotly contested 6th Senate District. As I wrote back, "We will neither cease nor desist from engaging in this truthful, accurate speech." Here's the "Data Senator" ad which Republicans don't want Lower Bucks residents to see.
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Data Senator
YouTube video by Eileen Albillar
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Learning to analyze, to question, to pursue knowledge, to build arguments based on evidence, and to discard sophistry: these are values that the sciences, social sciences, and humanities share. And we share the battle to protect this style of inquiry from barbarians who would destroy it.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Raise your boys to be the ones who yell absofuckingloutely not when they see a man spike a woman’s drink. Tell them about what happened at Cornell and their job is to disrupt the group chat and call the police. Teach them that this is what being a man looks like.
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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The ACLU and Amnesty International have published an exhaustive, 322 page repoter about student (and faculty) speech being under attack around the world. www.aclu.org/publications...
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