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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am learning the left version of government mandated girlfriends is "you have to work with that guy. he said sorry."

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Workshop alert! We've recently revamped our trainings and are offering workshops again. If you ever wanted to learn how Bellingcat does our investigations & want to do it yourself, this is the best way to learn! You'll learn from the researchers (like me) who do this all day.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/07/2026

they’re calling it the least sympathetic complaint in human history

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13/07/2026

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13/07/2026

Look, I’m an open source maintainer, and if you want people to use that FOSS software as an alternative to that proprietary software it’s good to understand why people wanted to use that proprietary software in the first place and why they might be hesitant to switch It’s not because users are dumb

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Kat Lo @lolkat.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Nonprofits should 1) have their blog/news updates front and center on their landing page and 2) broadcast those posts on ANY social media. You wonder why you don't have more donations or participation?! Lower the barrier for collective action! It's so easily automated and such low hanging fruit.

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Kat Lo @lolkat.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Thinking about tech companies complaining that all digital products like internet search will get worse if we legally kneecap monopolies but I'm like... is that so bad?? Isn't that what we're learning w/ gen AI? If the societal cost is so great then perhaps the tech doesn't NEED to be that good.

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

For years now, public discourse regarding online radicalisation and hate has focused on Twitter, anonymous accounts and young people. Meanwhile, your uncle is out there sharing memes about great replacement theory on Facebook using his legal name.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

👀 look what is spiraling... Musk's "disparaging rhetoric toward the advertising community, combined with his dismantling of Twitter's sales, safety and product teams, made it impossible for X to recover from a brutal ad market in 2022, the way many of its peers have." www.axios.com/newsletters/...

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"5. 🚀 1 big reveal: X ads spiral

A column chart that shows Xâ€™s annual advertising revenue from 2018 to 2025. Revenue rose from $2.617 billion in 2018 to $4.506 billion in 2021, then fell to $2.323 billion in 2023 and $1.728 billion in 2024. It edges up to $1.844 billion in 2025.
Data: Twitter, SpaceX regulatory fillings; Note: Twitter never reported full-year ad revenue figures for 2022, the year Elon Musk took the company private. Chart: Sara Fischer/Axios
X, formerly Twitter, brought in $1.8 billion in ad revenue last year, compared to around $4.5 billion in 2021, the last full year Twitter existed as a public company."

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orpheus was a hungry young gurl @eethatsme.blacksky.app · 20/05/2026

"You've read your last free article"

A hand pointing a gun directly at the camera. The body is out of focus while the gun itself is very clear

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/05/2026

Jesus Christ this is the most chilling thing I've read in ages. The "new understanding of truth" described here is not new in any way, it is basically a return to pre-literate dark ages & the inevitable result is going to be fascism.

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Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth

The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s true...

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Kat Lo @lolkat.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I’m so hyped for some good surreal feminist horror! Help them get this movie funded!!

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 04/05/2026

People don't realize how much boring, unseen infra work goes into building a tool for agency like this. There's a lot of cool stuff you can build for the open social web, but the industry-shaking work takes a lot of patience and "you'll see when we get there".

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

this is the precise sense in which "technology is political"

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

A planned change to Amazon means that if people buy items on your wishlist, it could expose your address. Definitely a threat to people who have public wishlists. www.404media.co/amazon-wishl...

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Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address

Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.

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Kat Lo @lolkat.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Discord wasn’t the uniquely evil one, here. I’m sure Persona seems like a good deal for platforms frantically trying not to get fined by multiple governments for not complying “enough.” But you’d hope they choose an age verification vendor not tied to Peter Thiel and the anti-democracy gang.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/02/2026

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
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(orange wings for Halloween) @eyesofgod.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

it's SOPA and KOSA all over again, but of course they're still weaponizing sensationalist language, in light of everything the DOJ is dropping, to irrelevantly come after LGBTQIA folk and disparage digital communications. They'll still attempt pivots like this.

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Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 08/02/2026

Rudy is out here very much living "we can just do things" with a "for each other" emphasis.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/01/2026

pg seems to have this kind of revelation every few months for... years? And then... does nothing and goes back to doing the same things he was doing before and hyping up the same people he was before. I remember when he quit Twitter for Mastodon. For like a week.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

In a world without Section 230: 😩 Big Tech companies everyone hates would win. Giants like Meta and Google have armies of lawyers to navigate compliance 😩 Alternative platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon would likely shut down, along with Wikipedia, review sites, how-to resources, small forums, etc

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

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404 Media @404media.co · 02/12/2025

One thing we're vvv proud of: 404 Media independent + journalist-owned. Here's a rundown of some of our recent work: After months of 404 Media reporting and pressure from lawmakers, US airlines will shut down a program that sold millions of YOUR flight records to the government.

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Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government

The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/11/2025

This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.

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404 Media @404media.co · 18/11/2025

After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.

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Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government

The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/11/2025

The GUARD Act may look like a child-safety bill, but in practice it’s an age-gating mandate that could impose a mass censorship and surveillance regime on nearly every public-facing AI chatbot. Tell Congress to oppose the GUARD Act today. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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A Surveillance Mandate Disguised As Child Safety: Why the GUARD Act

A new bill sponsored by Sen. Hawley (D-MO), Sen. Blumenthal (D-CT), Sen. Britt (R-AL), Sen. Warner (D-VA), and Sen. Murphy (D-CT) would require AI chatbots to verify all users’ ages, prohibit minors

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/11/2025

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

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Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

First 1 hr 20 minutes of the next video is up on Patreon if you're into that sort of thing

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

This Pope's subtweet game is strong

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Kat Lo @lolkat.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Cool cool cool let's continue to make it a casual endeavor to find all the information you need to radically violate the safety and privacy of anybody whose words or existence makes you personally angry.

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The writers of the most recent Mission: Impossible movie, which I watched on an airplane, seem more capable of understanding the world-rending implications of AI tools like this than the people making it and that makes me sad

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

pretty sure the award for worst Dem response to "the current moment" is Amy Klobuchar saying we need to repeal Section 230 because the man who shot Charlie Kirk used the Internet

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Conspiracy theories follow familiar patterns, repeating the same tropes over and over again, so that when a new event happens, the theorists can interpret that event through the same old corrupted frame… and blaming science for diseases has been an old, worn-out story, since long before Covid.

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Kat Lo @lolkat.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

It’s wild to see how platforms big and small grapple with the new UK requirements for age verification. It looks like a lot of small platforms who can’t afford the expensive verification services end up choosing more ethical, privacy-preserving, and transparent approaches to verifying their users.

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Kat Lo @lolkat.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It’s wild that face scanning for age verification is not only a common practice but it’s basically legally required for platforms to comply. The danger of applying this universally is ☠️, seeing the Tea breach doxxing everybody who verified with ID & face scans further eroding access to anonymity.

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respectful huff @alexqarbuckle.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

ok but imagine Jackie Chan fighting all the members of the polycule in and around this thing

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

'Artificial intelligence tools designed to speed up the research process by helping to extract data have led to a flood of “low-quality” research papers that threaten to damage the “foundations of scientific rigour”, according to a new study.' 1/2

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Flood of AI-assisted research ‘weakening quality of science’

Wave of ‘low-quality’ papers threatening to overwhelm journals and peer reviewers, preventing them from assessing more meaningful research

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Kat Lo @lolkat.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

favorite genre of linkedin bro-posting

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404 Media @404media.co · 30/01/2025

Archivists are working to identify and save thousands of datasets disappearing from Data.gov 🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...

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