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Luke

@lmwilliamsphd.bsky.social
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Aspiring data scientist, once upon a time immunologist, punk rocker, gamer, political junky who also likes cooking and kitty cats!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 3h
Todd Blanche’s motion for summary judgement in my Epstein redaction training video lawsuit is due tomorrow after a short delay. Multiple sources told me there were videos training FBI agents on how to redact Trump from the Epstein files. I’m suing to get them.
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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 30/09/2026
Soooo why is the... checks notes... Military... setting up an office of religious affairs... checks again to make sure I'm reading correctly...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
theguardian.com
Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that Elon Musk will co-lead a government project to study the future of warfare, marking the SpaceX CEO’s first return to government since he ran the chaotic, so -called “department of government efficiency”, or Doge. Musk will be joined by Palmer Luckey, CEO of the defense tech company Anduril, and Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker of the House. A defense department press release on the effort, called Project Meridian, described its goal as “identifying the capabilities required to achieve absolute technological dominance on the next-generation battlefield”. The project will run for 120 days and culminate in an unclassified public report of its recommendations. Continue reading...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Billionaires are vacuuming up all the wealth, while workers get screwed. They’re laughing in our faces while Trump steals from us and builds a ballroom. (H/T @qasimrashid.com)
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
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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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After yesterday’s Senate hearing, it’s crystal clear that Jack Smith should be the next Attorney General.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
“This is about stepping up where the federal government has failed.” On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law banning law enforcement officers in the state from using electrical shock gloves.
motherjones.com
California bans ICE's favorite shock gloves
A DHS spokesperson has said that the agency "will not abide" by any state ban.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Fox News agrees to host a debate between me and Ken Paxton — because the people of Texas deserve it. They're just waiting on Paxton to agree. Ball's in your court, Ken.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
AI agents accessed nonpublic Australian gov files, probed US gov sites, tried to bypass UN barriers, exploited RubyDoc servers and twice escaped OpenAI testing controls. In the latest escape, an automatic shutdown failed as the agent reached the internet.
yacnews.com
OpenAI's Agents Went Rogue and Broke Into Government Systems Across Three Continents
OpenAI agents have repeatedly bypassed safeguards during testing—escaping restricted environments and using aggressive or unauthorized methods to retrieve data. Australia is conducting a forensic inve...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."
whitehouse.gov
Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 29/09/2026
A former church youth leader was convicted of sexually abusing a young boy in a church basement. After one assault, he told the child not to tell anyone and said, “God would want you to do this.” A horrific abuse of both a child and religious authority. www.einnews.com/pr_news/9453...
einnews.com
VERDICT: Former Luzerne County Youth Group Leader Guilty of Sexually Assaulting Boy at Church
WILKES-BARRE – Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that Luzerne County man Richard Garnett was found guilty of sexual assault and child endangerment charges
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ITS THE LAKE OF AMERICA. ITS THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. ITS THE GULF OF AMERICA. ITS SUPER INTELLIGENCE. You people sound like fucking North Koreans
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sounds like a massive gift to a certain South African nazi trillionaire
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reporter: You're still calling this a hoax. Trump: That's why I changed the name. Okay, a hoax sounds like, you know, when you're using the former name, but this name is now Super Intelligence. That's not a hoax. In fact, it's the exact opposite. What I'm calling a hoax is what the Democrats do...
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 29/09/2026
Christian Nationalism is growing in America. It's a movement that endangers our democracy and threatens the separation of church and state. One simple act to stop its spread? Vote. Learn more ➡️ ffrf.us/3VB1eXW
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/09/2026
Every single one of 21 tested vehicles sent data to a third-party domain over Wi-Fi. Over half contacted domains specializing in advertising, tracking, or analytics. These companies gather details about your vehicle or driving behavior to sell to insurance companies or target you with ads.
theverge.com
Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think
“There’s a lot to be worried about,” the project lead said.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Justin Brown, a cofounder of the AI slop empire Brown Brothers Media, has deep ties to convicted sex criminal and Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell promoted Brown's failed social media platform Ideapod -- which is still a publisher in BBM's portfolio: futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rich would prefer you to believe that the "free market" is subject to the immutable law of supply and demand. But for years, the wealthy and powerful have manipulated the market for their own gain. There is nothing “free” about it. Watch.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
"It's not the hope that kills you. It's knowing it's the hope that kills you that kills you."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Trump claims the US has "the best economy we've ever had"
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The study has been published in Nature. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧵⬇️
ABSTRACT
A key challenge in addressing the antibiotic resistance crisis is identifying new antimicrobial compounds.
Although natural products produced by fungi and bacteria, particularly actinomycetes, have been the
years, they have fallen out of favour owing to the frequent rediscovery of known drug scaffolds. The current perception is that antibiotic-producing actinomycetes have been over-mined and possess little novelty left to yield.
Here we demonstrate that by using improved fractionation approaches that enrich previously overlooked minor products, even well-studied strains of antibiotic-producing actinomycetes can provide new chemical scaffolds with unique modes of action. By fractionating a library of natural product extracts from soil bacteria, we show that Streptomyces rimosus, the source of the well-known antibiotic oxytetracycline, produces a cyclic depsipeptide antibiotic that we call manikomycin.
Manikomycin can kill multidrug-resistant
binds in the E-site of the large subunit of the bacterial ribosome, preventing entry of the 3' end of the tRNA into the E-site and effectively hindering the translocation step of protein synthesis in a sequence-context-specific manner.
Manikomycin is the first antibacterial agent, to our knowledge, to target the critical but underexplored E-site in the large ribosomal subunit, highlighting its value as a lead for developing new antibiotics.
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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Quite the figure from @tesler.bsky.social in this @goodauth.bsky.social piece. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
New @jamestalarico.bsky.social ad just dropped.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tillamook brand cheese is excellent. Bigots are garbage. This is an easy choice to make.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 28/09/2026
You think we’re just going to move on from the secret police rounding up our neighbors?
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Undead Kat, The Oracle Near Delphi Falls. @originallabgrrl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My son was told about affirmative consent his entire life, so much so that I was wrestling with the cat which was growling at me (not seriously and she was a cat who growled when she was playing also when she ate food) and my toddler son told me that the cat said no. That shit's not hard to teach.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it’s so funny that people were like “OMG a 2PM Oval Office announcement, is Trump going to end the war in Iran or invade Cuba?!?!” and it turns out, no, he’s just going to rant about how good the economy is + how elections are rigged and then fall asleep
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s quite an amusing cartoon heading today’s New Yorker, about AI kill-switches, but linking to is beyond skill-today.
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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 28/09/2026
A $20 ticket gets Christians in the door. Then Life Surge pitches $97 seminars. Those seminars pitch courses costing up to $40,000. Tim Tebow and other faith-friendly celebrities supply the trust. Many customers are left carrying the debt. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-christ...
friendlyatheist.com
The Christian grift behind Life Surge’s celebrity-packed wealth seminars
Tim Tebow and other celebrities spoke at events pitching “Kingdom impact,” but some customers say they were left with crushing debt
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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don't have the raw data, but sounds about right.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think...in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.” (Pub. July)
propublica.org
Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct
ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You’ve likely seen the news: The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. Almost as troubling: Plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision’s importance. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
This week at Democracy Docket: The Supreme Court boosted Trump’s voter suppression. Legacy media shrugged
The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. And plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision's importance.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
😕🤷🏼
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump announces he will sharply scale back fuel-efficiency rules for new cars and light trucks, gutting one of the government’s most significant efforts to reduce gasoline consumption and speed the country’s shift to electric vehicles.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
themomoftheyear.substack.com
I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Don’t you love farce? Sondheim rules.
nine.com.au
Denmark denies making awkward song choice just before Trump entered room
As Marco Rubio entered the room, ‘Send in the Clowns’ began to play.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
On September 9 or 10, someone staged this protest at the Dallas Fort Worth airport ahead of the GOP midterm convention. Does anyone know which organization was behind it? We would love to speak with them. Please share widely!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Trump: "I'm rejecting their deal. They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately ... we're winning tremendously. We have total control of the Hormuz Strait ... that deal would not be acceptable. They want to immediately open the Hormuz Strait."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
Twenty years after “An Inconvenient Truth,” the man still has faith.
motherjones.com
Al Gore on the global climate crisis: “We’re going to win this”
Twenty years after "An Inconvenient Truth," the man still has faith.
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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 26/09/2026
The recent shootings of two students from Houston area schools are two too many. Congress must take meaningful action on gun legislation to help ensure the safety of our students, educators, and communities. My condolences are with all those impacted by these tragedies.
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Jim Snowden @snowdenwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Sure we killed a lot of children, but in the plus column, we made flipping great wodges of cash serving the whims of a rapey doofus who wanted to launch an illegal war. You have to take the good with the bad.” apple.news/AZgN2M6BQS_y...
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Palantir’s Co-Founder Thinks We Should Be Less Judgmental About That Deadly Iran School Strike — Mother Jones
The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump's war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 26/09/2026
The president who called American soldiers that died in war “suckers” and “losers,” is now hiding the number of service members killed & injured in his war of choice. Absolutely disgraceful.
washingtonpost.com
More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They didn’t go fucking rogue, they were put in a leaky box and given bad instructions
nytimes.com
OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (Gift Article)
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education Department, Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@pxmolina.bsky.social
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