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The usual nonsense. She/they.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 8h
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is also why, as Terence Tao pointed out, genAI mathematics sucks: it removes every bit of unexpected consilience that comes from understanding the mental model and process. "Oh shit, this could be used to think about this totally other thing" is *how all mathematics grows*
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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 7h
1. This has been incredibly obvious and incredibly disheartening to anybody who watches even *close* to as much TV as I do. 2. I sense the regression for directing might be ever worse. 3. That fact that, without a TCA press tour, TV executives have basically NO visible accountability is... bad.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 7h
lol the number of gays is the same it’s just that kids aren’t idiot marks so they’re not going to volunteer that information to the nazis
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 8h
The same company that doesn't pay artists seems to always find the money to pay this jackass. If you're still using Spotify... why? Pretty much every alternative is better in every way.
variety.com
Joe Rogan Renews Nine-Figure Spotify Deal
Spotify and Joe Rogan have entered into a new multiyear licensing agreement, continuing a relationship that began in 2020 for his hugely popular podcast.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7h
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h
If you have ever read a book to a baby, you will realize it's not a linear experience. The baby wants to turn pages backward, wants to ask questions (if they're old enough), wants to examine the pages and get really excited if they can say "bear!" even if the word "bear!" is not on the page.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 22h
Privatisation in a nutshell: 1) Steal from us something we own. 2) Sell us back an inferior service 3) Charge us a higher price. The pattern is the same everywhere: royal mail, water, railways, the NHS, public services, council services…
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19h
You guys fantasize, a lot, about not having to pay for labor or be responsible for treating the labor source with dignity. So much of GenAI discourse is about a desire for ethical enslavement. And that does not exist.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h
Fatphobia is rape culture.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 18h
You probably think this is a touch of hyperbole. If you do, that just tells me not only are you not paying attention, you are actively ignoring all the trans people this has happened to. This is life in the UK as a trans person in 2026.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 18h
I've talked about this before, but it is very hard when you see how moral red lines are drawn, and the complete gutting of trans people's civil rights is entirely within an accepted norm and barely remarked upon even by many progressives.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026
Up until very recently indeed, airlines were the only businesses that I dealt with regularly that practiced "price discrimination," charging different customers different prices for the same seats.
A 1970s Air Canada ad depicting a man in a brown velour pullover with a large collar sitting in a book-lined study, assembling model Air Canada jets on his desk. His head has been replaced with the blue, metallic head of a 1950s pulp robot and his skintones have been shifted blue to match.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
gadgetreview.com
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 07/10/2026
Arizona and Virginia, both of which are governed by Democrats, are ending Medicaid coverage of care for trans youth, Transitics has learned. The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet. Cowards.
transiticsnews.com
Democrat-led Arizona, Virginia Quietly End Medicaid Coverage of Care for Trans Youth, Acquiescing to Trump Demands
The policy changes, which go into effect on October 13th, see Arizona and Virginia join Kansas as states where Democrats have needlessly opted to restrict Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m sure I’m not the only one that saw the video of this man putting himself between French national police and student protestors circulating yesterday.
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Welcome to #TransTuesday! Don't know the trouble with JK Rowling? Think she's just said some insensitive things? Or do you just pretend to not know? Well! Now you'll know. You'll KNOW. Send this to every cis person in your life who doesn't get it Here's all the receipts: JK ROWLING, QUEEN TERF
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TERFs, PART 2: JK ROWLING, QUEEN TERF - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays
Welcome to Trans Tuesday! Let me tell you, the last thing I want to be doing is an entire essay about this, but so many people don’t know, or claim to not know, or pretend it’s not the huge problem th...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
wow -- Fox Business is now treating Trump's completely made up economic boasts as though they are factual. Note the citation here -- "The White House" Reminder that the entire US economy is about $32t. If we really had $21t flowing in, you'd notice it Fox thinks their viewers are really dumb
Fox Biz screencap that says: "$21 TRILLION INVESTMENTS POURING INTO THE US"
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Meanwhile, over on X, the Secretary of Homeland Security is posting about "vandalizing the demographics of America," a phrase which is either a chilling suggestion of white nationalism from Mullin or just straight pablum which means nothing but sounds just fash enough to excite the faithful.
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“Vandalize the demographics of America” is either a chilling phrase suggesting that Mullin is a white nationalist or an absurdly meaningless bit of pablum  which ignores 250 years of the constantly shifting demographics of a nation of immigrants.

Underneath is a picture of Mullin with a quote "How do you turn a country from democracy to socialism? You have to change the demographics."
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is a classic Voughtism: we have not eliminated the program - it still exists. It is just not distributing any resources.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is almost exactly what I say to my students. I don't have any use for your essays! You have use for your essays!
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How nice for them. Next question: which act of Congress authorized this expenditure of federal funds? Quaint it may be, but our constitution forbids drawing funds from the treasury except pursuant to acts of congress.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
Dennis Hastert was a predator who used his positions of power to not only cultivate targets to abuse, but then to bury those allegations via his TAXPAYER FUNDED POSITION; and he admitted his guilt only long after the statute of limitations had expired. And now he's dead.
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isaac @sevier.io · 05/10/2026
Really important point i hadn't seen yet, which is that AI data center proposals are concentrated in gas reservoir basins, bypassing federal permitting altogether by avoiding the need for interstate pipelines. All of the smoke about transmission costs reforms look different in this light.
oilchange.org
Senate permitting bill would be a gift to data centers and their massive gas buildout - Oil Change International
In short:
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ballpoint pen and colored pencil. 

At the top of the piece we see the delicately drawn branches and leaves of an apple tree. Just beneath the tree limbs, a bat is flying with one of the green apples in its mouth. This is when the morphing begins, reader. A sequence of 13 drawings show the bat morphing into a teeny witch (with completion of the morph around drawing #9). The morphing creates a spiral leading us to the center of the page where the little witch is running towards her basket filled with apples. It’s likely she’ll re-morph into a bat again and the morphing pattern will continue.
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh neat, so the U.S. copyright office is feeding submitted books to the slop machine to test their authenticity, and as always it decides "yes, this is my slop" even when it isn't, because the slop machine is an incestuous ouroboros with itself. Glad it was resolved in this case but fuckin yikes
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trades. crafts, apprenticeships all gaining in respect as alternatives to absurdly expensive college ... unless the trade in question is perceived as women's work. Cosmetology doesn't pay as a craft/trade because it is licensed & regulated in a way that ensures it doesn't.
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have been a guest at conventions where, during the pre-con walk through, my handler has pointed out the bar and mentioned how some guests are "more fun" and "get asked back," then names only men. Because a lot of female guests aren't comfortable hanging out around alcohol with strangers.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.
His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's grimly funny that only Hegseth, with the charisma of a drowned plague rat, is desperately trying to instill Third Reich iconography into this regime while everyone else remains fixated on looking like drunk golfers.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is the action of a bunch of people who absolutely need this to pay off or they're toast. This is also why they're getting in good with Trump doing that whole "AI committee" with Dario and Zuck and Musk and Altman. They know plan B is the taxpayer bailout.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 04/10/2026
The amount of gender in these things is off the charts. They’re dude wipes (boy) but pumpkin spice (girl) but it’s actually dumpkin spice (???). They’re XL (boy) but plant-sourced (girl).
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 02/10/2026
Many people don't understand that garments are still made by hand by real people in production shops. And while people talk a lot about how fast fashion is destructive, this applies across the garment industry. Yes, even your nice boutique brands.
newlinesmag.com
The Abuses in Turkish Textile Factories Supplying Major US Brands
An exclusive investigation finds that workers routinely face forced overtime, insults and threats of dismissal
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You know, not only is this nonsense wrong about romance books, it’s wrong about clothes. JCO, there is no such thing as machine-made clothes. There are humans doing that work at every stage of the process, whether it’s custom or ending up in Walmart.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot by ICE 10 days ago. The bullet is still lodged in his back. He’s been forced to sleep on the floor and hasn’t been given medication, according to his attorney. Now DHS is claiming he assaulted an agent. Can we trust anything DHS says given its track record?
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I contend that people would be more afraid of it if long covid symptoms presented uniformly. of the irl people I KNOW OF covid gave 1 cardiac issues, 1 got MCAS, 1 Bell’s palsy, 1 lost sense of smell, 1 has bilateral tremors, & 1 became narcoleptic. no fucking thanks. I’m as disabled as I wish to be
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit. The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
nytimes.com
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 28/09/2026
More than 38,000 residential school survivors testified to the abuse they experienced as children. Next September, Canada plans to destroy their records.
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Canada plans to destroy thousands of residential school testimonies. These women are trying to save them
The 38,000 testimonies are the largest body of evidence about children’s experiences in these institutions. Journalist Connie Walker and lawyer Kimberly Murray say losing it would mean losing history — both painful and illuminating
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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The actress Denise Gough looking at a cell phone with big eyes and a frown
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