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Doxxing as a Service: "In one case, Muse unmasked a person whose name had been kept out of news reports for fear of retaliation and harassment. In another, it tied several pseudonymous accounts to the same person. It also matched a private Instagram account to a real person..."

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says

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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rolled credits on Trails in the Sky: First Chapter. Silent Hill: Townfall is next on the list but, uh, there's probably not going to be as much of a wait to play Second Chapter as I originally figured. Helluva game.

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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was trying to go mostly chronological with this and think that FFX or Kingdom Hearts could probably swap out one of these if I gave it a bit more thought.

From left to right, top to bottom:
Donkey Kong Country 2, Crash Bandicoot 2, Final Fantasy 9, Psychonauts, Silent Hill 2, Dark Souls, Street Fighter 4, Guilty Gear XRD, Disco Elysium.

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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Played some Super Turbo last night for the first time in a while and totally forgot how terrifying throw pressure is in that game.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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_Mostly_Ghostly_ @mostlyghostly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s almost his time of year again ✌️🗡️💀🛡️

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Smokage of the Burning Leaf @pattheflip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Esports hangover era" It's never been a better time to be a fighting game player, and yet... www.patreon.com/pattheflip/p...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

OMG -- under questioning from Hassan, Trump's FDA nominee Heidi Overton refuses to acknowledge that Trump can ever be wrong about anything even after she's confronted with a specific example of something Trump is clearly wrong about

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026

"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

BLUNT ROCHESTER: Trump says vaccines the size of soda bottles are poured into a child's body. Is that true? OVERTON: ... BR: What would you say? OVERTON: The products licensed by the FDA are safe and effective BR: And they're not the size of a soda bottle either

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✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

Oh I see they found a way to make this EXPONENTIALLY HORRID.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

FCC Chair Brendan Carr's history as a member of an AA group of sexual predators is detailed in this Guardian exposé. Midtown Group, led by Michael Quiñones until 2007, coerced young women into sexual relationships with older men while tightly controlling members' lives. Carr participated from around

theguardian.com

Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’

Carr was a member of the group in his teens and 20s. There is no evidence Trump’s powerful FCC chair participated in any inappropriate conduct

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s the 20s and America is ready for an anti-vice campaign to sweep the nation.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

WAPO: The architect quit “after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures .. .. ‘I am the code,” Trump said.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/09/2026

Next they are going to strip car insurance from anyone who hasn’t had an accident recently.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

this is a genuinely crazy story

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Upton Sinclair — 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...

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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go

The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

this whole xbox thing feels like a true emperors no clothes moment. there is so obviously no plan, anything announced yesterday is overruled tomorrow, that even reporting the facts feels laughably insufficient.

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.

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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I really do appreciate that the top level of Tokon's character trials just present you with a weird goal to try and achieve. Big damage cashouts are fun to learn, but I love being thrown impractical curveballs like "whatever, just try and figure out how to land 10 elasti-grabs in a single combo".

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

he just doesn't have the juice none of them do, none of them are going to be able to hold this cult together the way trump did

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

imagine if the WH press corp had banded together 18 fucking months ago

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Aeriqui #FREELUD @aeriqui.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is a nightmare scenario and if this policy was in place earlier this year it would have been impossible to bring Ludovic home. People need to mobilize on this immediately

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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 21/09/2026

they shoulda done this years ago tbh 😒 having a backbone at the last possible minute when IT affects THEIR coverage is so cowardly in my eyes 🙄

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 21/09/2026

The FGC discourse that makes me feel the most like a boomer is people being mad about characters not being released fast enough like bro you're gonna spend like 10 dollars on an mfer, play em for 4 hours and be like 'idk man not my style', why do you care?????

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.

npr.org

Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas

The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

OKAY FINE YOU CAN HAVE A CHURU

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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So this really is just a bog standard chatbot that just happens to have a really good PR campaign behind it. I was thinking that surely there had to at least be some higher level smoke and mirrors to justify the hype, but this looks no different from the deranged ads I sometimes get on YouTube

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The White House Press Corps should've walked out as soon as the Trump regime banned the Associated Press for calling the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of Mexico." That was Feb 15, 2025. The first month of Trump Term II. Not surprising that abandoning principles for weak acquiescence led to more abuse.

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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That feeling when you realize what the 1981 in someone’s gamer tag means and start drive impacting a whole bunch.

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Malibu comics Street Fighter is an all-timer because Sagat murders Ken in issue 2, leaves his scalp for Ryu to find, and then the series abruptly ends with an epilogue page informing the readership that the series is over because Capcom hated it.

Ryu holding a scalp and a tattered bloody shirt while yelling KEN MY OLDEST FRIEND NOOOOO!

As many of you might have heard, due to complications with Capcom and their dislike of our adaptation...Street Fighter the comic book has officially been cancelled.

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Smokage of the Burning Leaf @pattheflip.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Remembering sweetxjam" www.patreon.com/pattheflip/p...

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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Once again: Measles specifically infects your B cells. Trying to set up a “with/from” dichotomy is super gross when you’re talking about a disease that can wipe your previous immunities like an etch-a-sketch.

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result 'rogue AI' does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story" Gift link www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

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Opinion | The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to Be

Forget the ‘hive mind’ of AI agents ‘going rogue.’ They did what humans programmed them to do.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every news outlet shames itself by using the word “skeptic.” Skeptic implies someone waiting for evidence, not someone committed to ignoring it. Vaccine denialism does not deserve to be lent the prestige of critical thinking.

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