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Lee Ivy

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Retired software developer / manager

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h
“One source told the outlet that officers were “told to go after anybody, they can pick up anybody.” newrepublic.com/post/216405/...
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“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.
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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 23h
This Brewers/Padres NLDS is the second series of at least 3 games in postseason history where neither team led by more than 2 runs at any point, joining: The 1915 World Series h/t @EliasSports
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Marwella Zhang @marwellaspaceart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
😔 news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In the past month, I've started waking once a week at 1am--involuntarily--& being so wired that I can't get back to sleep all night. Couldn't figure out why. Wasn't doing anything different. Just realized: I'm scared by what I'm seeing in my research. Nihilistic billionaires toying with our lives.
Headline of June 2025 article by in the Nation by author Jeet Heer: 
"The Billionaires Are Abandoning Humanity
Peter Thiel and his friends feel they no longer belong to our species."
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"
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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI
The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mehdi Hasan: “Is Elon Musk the most dangerous person on Earth?” Alex Gibney: “Right now, I think he is. Pete Hegseth made him co-director of the new Defense Department plan for war in the future. It’s a little bit like The Joker being handed the keys to The Manhattan Project.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026
This is the dodgiest and most-desperate thing I’ve seen in the bubble so far. Amazon selling their chips to a group of investors and leasing them back - an off balance sheet arrangement done in plain sight. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. And they’ll probably buy more!
Amazon is seeking to offload about $8bn of advanced Nvidia chips to external investors through a new vehicle aimed at strengthening its balance sheet, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Seattle-based cloud giant has held talks with investors in recent weeks to gauge interest in the deal, which would allow the company to spin off thousands of Grace Blackwell chips it is deploying in data centres across the US into a special-purpose vehicle.
Amazon will then lease the advanced AI chips back from the SPV, which would tap outside investors through debt issuance. By unloading the expensive semiconductors to investors, the company could adopt a more asset-light approach to its balance sheet.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sanders: 'TY Trump- Oligarchs who run our country. While working families struggle to survive due to your disastrous policies, they are now worth over $1.7 trillion, including: Elon Musk: $920 billion Jeff Bezos: $368 billion Mark Zuckerberg: $250 billion Jensen Huang: $200 billion Obscene.'
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Julie Bee🐝🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @junebug1925.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
ICE IS ABOUT TO MAKE YOUR GROCERY BILL EVEN WORSE Cattle groups in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas say ICE raids are creating a “massive chilling effect” on legal, documented workers, disrupting meatpacking and delaying the processing of thousands of cattle. They’re reporting millions in losses.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Absolutely extraordinary strategic and military concessions offered by Trump to Xi. Trump offered to sell weapons to China. That was revealed in an interview by David Perdue, the US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14bn arms package to Taiwan already approved by Congress. All of this
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 27/09/2026
The AI hyperscalers will likely spend more than $1 trillion on data centers next year. Can they make enough money to sustain the infrastructure boom?
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What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble
The AI hyperscalers will likely spend more than $1 trillion on data centers next year. Can they make enough money to sustain the infrastructure boom?
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A.I. should save money for companies, but token costs for American models from OpenAI and Anthropic are a growing expense for many firms. That's why two thirds of developers on OpenRouter switched to open-weight Chinese models that are free to use. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart:
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
3/ “Introducing the parallel establishment. Imagine 1,000 startups, each replacing a different legacy institution. They exist alongside the legacy in parallel, gaining in strength, till eventually they pull away all the users. This is the parallel establishment.” - Balaji
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!
Screenshot of a scientific journal paywall
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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
PSA: If you have an older base level Mac DO NOT update to the new Mac OS. It's packed with AI stuff and it might very well just overload your storage. I've been wrestling with it for two days and am going to have to wind back to the previous OS just so I can use my computer.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026
That’s a load-bearing assumption, Dr Strangelove. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
program.
sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the
familiar with the incident said.
The report, according to one of the sources, was "entirely false." But it also
"almost started a war," the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese
nations.
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Assemblymember Dawn Addis @dawnaddis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m frustrated and deeply concerned by the repeat fire at Moss Landing. Early this morning I received initial briefings on the Moss Landing battery energy storage fire. Although initial cleanup and battery removal, under the supervision of the…1/3)
Orange background with text: I’m frustrated and deeply concerned by the repeat fire at Moss Landing. 

Early this morning I received initial briefings on the Moss Landing battery energy storage fire.

Although initial cleanup and battery removal, under the supervision of the federal EPA, were completed two weeks ago, 1,500 hard-to-access batteries remain in the damaged area of the facility.

This incident is ongoing, and we don’t yet know all details.

I strongly ask surrounding communities to follow all safety instructions from emergency services.
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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Another fire at Moss Landing. I think this is #4. Yes, there are bad actors against the energy transition but there are also legitimate concerns, i.e. safety and who pays for it. Flattening that all into "permitting reform," ignores real issues. Just because it's green doesn't make it good. 1/
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Structure fire reported near Moss Landing battery storage facility; shelter-in-place issued
Photos circulating Friday appear to show flames near a battery storage facility in Moss Landing, but it is unclear which facility is involved.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m in Monterey, my favorite escape to nature. So far in four days I’ve seen multiple sea lions dead from Domoic acid poisoning, and today a *second* fire in a year has broken out in a lithium battery storage fire in the middle of the marine sanctuary. Safe to say, climate change is here.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026
I have a new piece all about these insane numbers, which have been bubbling up all summer. prospect.org/2026/09/16/o...
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A Path to a Texas Breakthrough - The American Prospect
James Talarico is deploying his Christian faith in his bid for the Senate. But he’s winning because Texans have been pummeled by inflation and corruption.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16/09/2026
The kids in the Texas Longhorns student section understand what America is better than Bo French ever will. And a political movement that looks at those beaming faces and sees a threat has told you everything you need to know about what’s actually in its heart. (Link below)
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 16/09/2026
“A cloud region losing customer data because of an airstrike—I don’t think that’s ever happened before.” www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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AWS Says It Can’t Restore Some Data From Mideast Facilities Struck by Iran
Amazon’s announcement is the first indication that some data stored exclusively in Bahrain and the U.A.E could be gone forever.
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Kim Holtan Lang @kimesue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Moving beyond their grasp is going to require the same strategic thinking, organizing and patience that these men used so effectively 45 years ago." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Blame Ronald Reagan (Gift Article)
We are suffering the consequences of the conservative revolution that began in the 1980s.
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Mask Bloc Eugene/Springfield @maskbloceug.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s Wastewater Wednesday! How are COVID levels? We’re using two sources to help us keep track of the country and our state of Oregon. Thank you to @michael-hoerger.bsky.social for the map and graph, and OHA for continuing to track data coming from our wastewater treatment centers!
Two screenshots against a photo of grapes. The first is a map of the US showing COVID transmission, with states colored light blue to berry pink depending on severity. Lane County is red which means high rates. There are numerous counties in Oregon in the moderate and high ranges. Text notes that this data was last updated on August 29. The second screenshot is text that reads, “69% of Oregon community wastewater treatment centers were positive for SARS-CoV-2 on the most recent sample.”
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/09/2026
The alarms are all flashing red.
Screenshot of a thread on X by user Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) detailing his resignation from Anthropic.
​The first post reads: "I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below."
​The second post reads: "Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing."
​The third post reads: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger."Screenshot continuing the thread on X by Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess).
​The first post reads: "A common response is 'if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?' At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first - they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk."
​The second post reads: "Accepting this race and entering the 'endgame' is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company's Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available."
​The third post reads: "I am optimistic about the potential for coordination. Warning shots like the Hugging Face attack have made pacing agreements between U.S. labs more viable. I don’t feel like we’re on track to prevent a global race, which may require costly actions such as a temporary ban on improving model capabilities."
​The fourth post reads: "If you are a lab researcher, I urge you to consider what the next few years will actually feel like. Do you want to kick off a superintelligent RL run without a rigorous understanding of its mind? Should you put your head down because 'it’s happening anyway' - or take this moment to call for different conditions?"
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/09/2026
Vulcan oven mitts, spaceship baking dishes, and an out-of-this-world communicator grater—you'll need warp speed to Klingon to this limited edition kitchen kit, ideal for perfecting the broth of Khan. www.wired.com/story/to-bol...
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To Boldly Dough! Le Creuset Sent Its New Star Trek Cooking Collection Into Space
Vulcan oven mitts, spaceship baking dishes, and an out-of-this-world communicator grater—you'll need warp speed to Klingon to this limited edition kitchen kit, ideal for perfecting the broth of Khan.
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
True that! #music #activism
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"To visit Springfield now is to travel to a city being invaded and psychologically tortured by a man who my adoptive home state of Ohio gladly returned to the White House so that he could conduct his sprees of ethnic cleansing and immiseration." -- @swin24.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/trump-spri...
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Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’
The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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AI advice leaves Mount Shasta climbers needing rescue as supplies run out
3 climbers ran short of food and water after trusting AI advice for Mount Shasta, prompting a ranger rescue. Read what went wrong
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1934: Tens of thousands of textile workers go on strike in the Deep South. By the end of the first week, up to 500,000 workers walked out across 15 states. Just 50 years later, working-class voters in that region became the most reliable anti-labor, Repub base. /1
Workers form a picket line during the Textile Strike of 1934, also known as the “Uprising of ‘34.” Organized by the United Textile Workers, the walkout began in the South and grew to encompass as many as half a million workers from 3,000 mills in the South, Mid-Atlantic and New England. Then the largest strike in U.S. history, it lasted 22 days until violent backlash and a personal appeal from FDR prompted the UTW to end it. The workers won no concessions. The low wages and grueling labor continued. Because thousands of workers were permanently blacklisted, no one ever spoke about the strike. We can draw a straight line from this outcome to the cynicism, disillusionment, anti-union culture and low voter turnout that have made the South a Repub stronghold.
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KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🎙️ON AIR: The Trump administration is reportedly considering giving a private developer control of land in Yosemite. We’ll discuss what’s at stake and efforts to stop it with @annackramer.bsky.social. ❓What does Yosemite mean to you? 📻Listen:
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Trump Administration Allow Private Development in Yosemite? | KQED
We’ll talk about the consequences of privatizing a cherished landmark and the efforts to stop it.
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SURFER @surfermagazine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In a video caught by Surfline cams, a large portion of the cliff at the iconic Santa Cruz spot fell dangerously close to surfers in the lineup.
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(Watch) Another Section of Steamer Lane Cliff Collapses
In a video caught by Surfline cams, a large portion of the cliff at the iconic Santa Cruz spot fell dangerously close to surfers in the lineup.
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American Community Media @amcommmedia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ACoM News Briefing Recap | A Special Conversation w/ Climate Scientist Daniel Swain on the Super El Niño A strong El Niño could reshape winter weather across CA and the U.S., raising flood and coastal risks. See More: buff.ly/vQ4ktdR #ElNino #CAwx
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Super El Niño and its Impact on Our Weather – In California and Across the U.S.
Climate scientist Daniel Swain explains what is shaping up to be an historic El Nino that he predicts will change weather patterns across California and the U.S.
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FWD.us @fwd.us · 28/08/2026
Claudia Romo Bueno submitted her DACA renewal 3 months before her work authorization expired. She waited nearly seven months for it to be processed. That delay cost her a biotechnology internship and ultimately her career. In a new op-ed for @sacbee.com, she explains what this delay meant for her.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Trump administration looks to give a swath of Yosemite Park to a developer. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
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Trump Administration Looks to Give a Swath of Yosemite Park to Developer
The proposed land swap would allow easy access to the crown jewel of the national park system. Democrats and former Park Service officials are incensed.
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 11/03/2026
This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.
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Floodlight @floodlightnews.org · 27/08/2026
NEW: Thermal drone footage shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne AI data center in Vineland, NJ is running dozens of gas generators. None of them have permits. A Floodlight visual investigation with @us.theguardian.com:
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One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law’
Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026
Actually let me rephrase: Getting to pay ~1% of their yearly revenue *And Then getting To Use The Invasive Data They've Collected From The Predatory Architectures They've Implemented* to set the terms and paradigm for every other social media company that follows after them is Pretty Fucking Bad.
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Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform
By now you've almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Meta's platforms. The headlines are all covering the basics: the years-long case these states filed against Meta ends, and Meta pays somewhere...
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
NEW: I recapped all the times AI agents went “rogue”—so to speak—and hacked third parties. There have been 17 cases already, with OpenAI and Anthropic leading the race, per a website keeping tally. And those are the ones we know about. I apologize for all the whoopses that appear in this article.
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Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies | TechCrunch
A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Corrupt AF www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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StuFalk @stufalk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
(GIFT ARTICLE) DANGER: The plan complies with Trump's executive order to restrict mail voting, which was blocked by federal courts and is under review at the Supreme Court. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...
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Postal Service Publishes Finalized Plan to Restrict Mail Ballots (Gift Article)
The plan complies with President Trump’s executive order to restrict mail voting, which was blocked by federal courts and is under review at the Supreme Court.
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Pam Kan-Rice @ucanrpam.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
TODAY 11:30 AM Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social will discuss potential impact of the strong El Niño with @amcommmedia.bsky.social Simultaneous interpreting in Korean, Mandarin and Spanish
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