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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 12h

Also important to note: Papa Ellison’s Oracle, which co-owns this, is one step above junk bond status. If the market sneezes wrong this whole house of cards crashes to the ground.

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 13h

"Data from more than 760,000 15-year-olds indicated that 86 per cent of teens globally use AI for school, and teens who use AI for schoolwork every week score one year behind teens who never use AI. Canadian students who use AI every week score two years behind." Brutally bad.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We are basically living this video by @sylvanaquafarms.bsky.social and we keep turning to each other and saying "woven wire beats barbed wire every time" youtube.com/shorts/tHJD2...

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Cow rebellion… this video gave me horrible flashbacks (via Bre Boyette)

YouTube video by Farming While Beige

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18h

The people who closed the Academy of Natural Sciences Public Museum want all of us to get over it and stop talking about it. But we aren't going to do that. Philly kids deserve a world class natural history museum. It’s our job to get it back for them. Take these actions today.

A slide that says take action to save the academy, post about re-opening the academy's public museum and tag drexel university, and the academy of natural sciences, call mayor parker at 215 686 2181, call Josh Shapiro at 717 787 2500, and contact Drexel President Merlo, 215 895 2100

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James @elchopo99.bsky.social · 20h

i want to eventually see the insanely long elon musk documentary, but in the interim, this short 2 paragraph nuclear bomb from @karlbode.com is about the single best description of elon ive ever seen

Quick reminder: Elon Musk is an unremarkable and virulent racist who cosplays as a supergenius engineer. He leveraged the money he lucked into at Paypal to opportunistically glom onto actual innovators and take singular credit for their work while consistently cutting corners in ways that put human lives at risk.

There's bottomless evidence he doesn't know how anything works, yet has found unsurprising financial success in a country being devoured alive by artifice.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 19h

Even the cookies are fed tf up.

All progress occurs because people dare to be different.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h

Just an update here: I tried emailing multiple USA Today editors, reporters and PR people numerous times for more clarity about the use of @nbedera.bsky.social's quotes, and received zero replies. They did, however, give this vague statement to @wamc.org: www.wamc.org/news/2026-10...

Comment from USA Today spokesperson to WAMC Northeast Public Radio:

“As is standard practice in our newsroom, reporters share interviews and other information with colleagues covering the same story and the original reporter is credited as a contributor on each piece. Dr. Bedera’s quotes were not edited or used out of context. We value Dr. Bedera’s expertise and her contributions to our coverage.”

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19h

Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs

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Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back

Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 18h

FYI Southern Ontario friends: at least two of my local pharmacies in K-W have updated covid shots available NOW for all adults. (The "only high-risk groups" availability was slated to extend to later this month, but apparently they opened it up early.)

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 18h

I don't know what to tell you—history IS political. It tells the story of how & why the present & its systems came into being. If you're out here saying history is not political, you're either being duped by those in power or you're one of the bad actors.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This essay by Jordan Sand on how LLM chatbots—including the officially licensed “expert” campus version—produced entirely false versions of a primary source should be required reading for every history student #skystorians 🗃️

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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine

Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A hospital network in Wisconsin has unlawfully fired 6 workers during a union campaign, according to the National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB's complaint against Rogers Behavioral Health also alleges threats involving litigation and criminal accusations. 🧵

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LFV SciRhet @lfv-rhetrx.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Eventually, someone comes out, looks at my meter location and my decades of placement info, agrees with me, and leaves. Today, a machine cuts into the street, but does not match where my line is. 2/2

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LFV SciRhet @lfv-rhetrx.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I call the gas company To tell them their subcontractor has marked my line incorrectly. I have to do this using the emergency line because how else do you get a human to answer the phone? 1/2

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is a new one. Just resubmitted a manuscript & it got kicked back for having an "iThenticate score higher than the acceptable limit". i.e. accusing us of plagiarism. Want to know what it flagged? The fucking bioRxiv preprint. Do humans not review this bullshit before it's sent out? I hate AI

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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

An update on what undergraduate men at the University of Chicago, admitted at twice the rate of women to craft a male-majority class, are doing with that numerical superiority:

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Group Reportedly Cheered Sexual Assault At UChicago Frat House; Person Of Interest IDed: Report

An investigation is ongoing but no one was in custody as of late Tuesday, Chicago police said.

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Office of the Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams @advocate.nyc.gov · 13/10/2026

ICE used a Target parking lot as a staging ground to target immigrant New Yorkers and shoot a man in the Bronx. In the past, Target ended DEI, hid LGBTQ Pride items, and banned the SALVATION ARMY. Now they say there’s nothing they can do? Well there’s plenty we consumers can.

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 14/10/2026

Layoffs and a tuition hike prompted a "Rally for Temple's future" ahead of a trustees meeting Wednesday.

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Classes are too big, and students don’t have enough resources, staff say at a “rally for Temple’s future”

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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I can't even quote song lyrics in my books without fear of lawsuits, but tech companies can devour every book and every song and every movie with impunity? It's insane.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"How NCTE Effectively Shut Down AI Resistance Before Shutting Down CCCC" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view... @rcmeg.bsky.social @nobugsnous.bsky.social @writesantonio.bsky.social @voleuseck.bsky.social @biblioracle.bsky.social @insidehighered.com

Screenshot of IHE opinion essay, "How NCTE Effectively Shut Down AI Resistance, Before Shutting Down CCCC"

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LFV SciRhet @lfv-rhetrx.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It reminds me of a country song about a breakup, and one of the items that needed to be handed over to the guy was a parrot, leading to the line “And the last thing that she gave me/ Was the bird”. Might have been George Strait?

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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Harris County District Attorney also said ICE removed critical evidence after hitting Miguel Parra-Hernandez. “… we were drafting a search warrant on the scene, and during that time, the ICE agent jumped into the vehicle and drove it off of the scene.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

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DA: ICE allegedly removed critical evidence after vehicle hit Miguel Parra-Hernandez in northwest Harris County

Harris County DA Sean Teare has launched a criminal investigation into an ICE officer’s collision with a man, raising questions about whether the man was intentionally struck and whether critical evid...

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Matt Anniss @sellbydave.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Most authors are not earning a lot of money and there are many other issues with the publishing industry. The least we can ask for is our union to aggressively act in our interests. Compensation for all these appalling copyright breaches is essential and would make a difference to many authors

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Matt Anniss @sellbydave.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The agreement negotiated in the US (for a breach by one AI company) provided a set amount of compensation per book for authors whose rights have been breached, but only for books copyrighted in the US. Where is the compensation package for the breaches of our copyrights here in the UK?

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Matt Anniss @sellbydave.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Meta, for example, nicked 10 of my books to train their LLM, including one that is *the only book on the subject*. That has a direct impact on my earnings (as it has on many other UK authors) and as my union you should be fighting for compensation, consent agreements etc. Get your fingers out FFS

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Matt Anniss @sellbydave.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

As a member, this really winds me up. What you should be doing, and what authors like me have called for, is more actively and aggressively standing up for our rights via things like class action suits and xomensation agreements. Your American counterparts have managed this (in a limited way) FFS

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Fucking “mindfully” GTFOH it’s burning the planet & the human soul. And “follow evolving best practice recommendations” FROM WHO? Oh, that just means “do what we’re told like good little puppies and maybe we’ll get a treat.” Writers live & die on BOOKS & CONTRACTS. We don’t sign sloppy shit.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 14/10/2026

Disabled people face higher costs, barriers to basic banking and expensive borrowing. For people on SSI, saving can put benefits and healthcare at risk. Artichoke, a national disability credit union, expects to open in spring 2027. I wrote about what’s planned and why we need it.

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Artichoke CU: A Trailblazing Disability Credit Union | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

BLUF: A first of its kind disability credit union called Artichoke, expects to start taking members early in the second quarter of 2027, an

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yale researchers say terminated, delayed and paused grants have made it difficult to plan or finish studies of vector-borne and poverty-related diseases. One described the effect of the uncertainty as “paralyzing.” yaledailynews.com/articles/fed...

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."

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LFV SciRhet @lfv-rhetrx.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Huh. Do those people also like drinking to black out? Is this some Eros/Thanatos thing?

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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics was deported to Sierra Leone (a place she has no connection to) on October 12, despite having legal immigration status in the U.S. and no criminal record labornotes.org/blogs/2026/1...

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Iowa Hospital Workers Demand Return of Deported Co-Worker

Fatou Traore was on her way to work as a custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) on the morning of Thursday, September 24, when ICE agents detained her. Despite having legal i...

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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A Texas man whose leg was broken in multiple places after being struck by an ICE vehicle has never met the person the federal agents were allegedly pursuing. "Miguel Parra-Hernandez, 48, suffered serious injuries including a shattered ankle and hip when he was run over in Houston, Texas . . ."

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Texas man run over by ICE has never met the person agents were allegedly chasing

Miguel Parra-Hernandez suffers from serious hip and leg injuries in Houston and remains in ICE custody, according to his representatives

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Maine Beacon @mainebeacon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Three months after ICE killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Sen. Susan Collins continues to defend her votes to expand ICE funding. Guest contributor Andy O’Brien follows the money connecting Collins to more than $130,000 from people tied to major ICE contractors.

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ICE contractors reward Susan Collins’ loyalty with campaign donations - Maine Beacon

Tuesday, Oct. 13 marks the three-month anniversary of the ICE killing of 25-year old delivery driver Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, and his murderer still has not been brought to justice...

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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

He wants 45 million acres opened to logging. Public forest is not a king’s to give away. Tell your members to stop it. One minute, then vote. #VoteEarlyForNoKings

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Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests

Contact Congress today!

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Shane Gillis apologism has begun and yet none of the apologists seem to be able to explain where the joke is in “women wear non-restrictive clothing to work out and you’re not allowed to rape them.”

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When I was in college 30+ years ago, the same things were happening and universities were putting forward the same solutions. What was that quote about insanity = doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 09/10/2026

This is also a reminder that several SFF mags *with* author-and-artist-friendly contracts are Kickstarting RIGHT NOW and backing/supporting THEM is a great way to show MRM that they will lose this argument.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

NOW: Minnesotans are rallying to protest today's outrageous, racist, politically motivated Homeland Security raid on congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Stop Trump's attacks on the Somali community!

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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And even if they take huge losses during the midterms, we've still got a very ugly road ahead. These people will thrash about and cause tremendous harm. They will keep killing, jailing, kidnapping, and bombing. This is a long fight.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And remember, all of this is happening amid the AI buildout. AI, which is not a coherent set of products and services, but rather a commercial and political project, can be understood as a full-spectrum class-war offensive. An offensive waged by one industry, which put their guy Vance in the WH.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

People talk about AI not turning a profit and how it's a massive bubble—they're not wrong. But remember when Uber was willing to take tremendous losses FOR YEARS to engineer dependence and bleed out the competition?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

somehow it feels like there is still an impulse in mainstream media to downplay or minimize the MAGA movement's hunger to genuinely, actually, non-hyperbolically do physical violence to women Democrats (especially women of color, but not exclusively, as Melissa Hortman's death proves)

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 13/10/2026

can we just shut down the atlantic at this point

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).

There's a trap on your ballot in California. Here's how to get past it.
1. Prop 40: 250 billionaires pay with they owe so hospitals, schools, and food assistant survive the federal cuts. Vote yes.
2. Props 41 and 42: paid for by billionaires to cancel prop 40. Vote no.
3. Tell one person, because the confusion is the plan.
Yes I'm 40. No on 41 and 42.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Wall Street Journal reported on a 2024 New Year’s Eve celebration where Ken Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives and a woman who wasn’t his wife www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"As fireworks exploded over the Burj Khalifa skyscraper to welcome 2025, Paxton and his girlfriend Tracy Duhon watched from a luxury high-rise balcony full of people, according to a video of the gathering reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, details of which were contained in court filings and confirmed by people familiar with the matter.

Among those at the event with Texas’ top law-enforcement official were two Americans who had been indicted months before on federal healthcare-fraud charges but failed to return to the U.S., Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail, according to the court records and people familiar with the matter. Ahmed, a healthcare executive, had donated $190,000 to Paxton, campaign finance records show, including $25,000 days after he was indicted."

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