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Max Burke

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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I guess YANDEX is short for Yet ANother Datacenter EXplosion
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh so now we’re supposed to respect people’s name change request?
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 20/08/2026
So I get that there's (yet again) a big debate going on about AI on Bluesky. I am turning off replies to this post because I don't want to have notifications flooded one way or the other on this one. I just want to share what I've heard multiple times in just the past two weeks.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 20/08/2026
I don't think everyone needs to use AI. I don't think it's good that AI is being shoved everywhere when it's not wanted or asked for. But I don't find the complete hatred of all AI tools productive or helpful to building a better internet. And others appear to be feeling the same thing.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
So that’s the thing to know, if you’re a tabloid that’s going to name-check me in another round of transphobic shit about Bluesky discourse. I don’t stand with you. I stand with my trans friends and family members. ⏹️
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
For the record: NOPE. Honestly, I don’t think there’s an issue today I care about on a personal level more deeply than trans rights. And it’s rough out there right now. Bigots on one side of the political aisle and too many cowards on the other. ⬇️
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My feed is poorer without the sardonic wit of @kenwhite.bsky.social
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Exactly right. In our short time on Earth we have no way of knowing whether we will ever get another chance to do the right thing.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Anna Posbergh @annaposbergh.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Today I had a meeting about funding I received for a November 2025 (!) presentation. Part of the agreement requires me to present the talk at a university-wide event in March 2026. I was told today I could either censor/change my talk’s title and receive the funding, or withdraw. I withdrew.
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9
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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I could not agree more strongly with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Senators call on prime minister to ban advertising for sports betting | CBC News
Two senators are calling on the federal government to ban advertising for sports betting in Canada. A letter to the prime minister from Charlottetown Sen. Percy Downe and Waterloo Sen. Marty Deacon as...
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
GO JAYS
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10/09/2025
It is incredibly simple to acknowledge that violence in any form is awful and erodes society.
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Slightly diminish a band: Pennyback
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Breaking: the team investigating the Kuper Island Residential School in BC has confirmed 171 children deaths at the institution, 50 more than previously known. As a residential school historian and someone fighting residential school denialism, here's a 🧵 www.timescolonist.com/local-news/a...
timescolonist.com
Archival research has found 171 confirmed deaths at Kuper Island residential school, 50 more than previously thought
Archival research conducted on behalf of the Penelakut Tribe has found 50 more deaths at the former residential school than previous estimates
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Wonder if any of the Sharepoint sites hosting the Epstein docs that the FBI is combing through were affected: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... cc: @muellershewrote.com
washingtonpost.com
Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
Unknown attackers exploited a “significant vulnerability” in Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration software, hitting targets around the world.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This is horrifying and heartbreaking. Sending so much love to the Filipino community right now. I can’t imagine how you’re feeling. You deserve to feel safe celebrating your culture. This is devastating. 💔
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 15/04/2025
Some major public institutions in Canada, including a pension management firm and a leading hospital, are advising staff against traveling to the US.
bloomberg.com
Avoid US or Take Burner Devices, Canadian Executives Tell Staff
Some major public institutions in Canada, including a pension management firm and a leading hospital, are advising staff against traveling to the US, marking a greater erosion in the country’s longsta...
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Sure sex is good but have you ever written Strom Thurmond out of the record books?
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I’m devastated, but I’m also angry. I’m angry because this is an attack on press freedom. If opportunities can be stripped from journalists simply because enough people repeat the same bad-faith narrative, how can anyone withstand the career impact of doing work that matters?
youtu.be
"CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure." It was mine.
YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore
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Kurt Phillips (ARC Collective) @arccollective.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
1/What the hell?!?! God damn cowards. @rachelgilmore.bsky.social is very, very, good at what she does. If you are following me and not her yet, you really need to. But this decision by CTV to capitulate conservative crying certainly exposes a few things.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/04/2025
Happy Trans Day of Visibility to all you wonderful lovely people! 🏳️‍⚧️ Thank you for sharing as much of yourselves as you are comfortable sharing; all our lives are richer for it ❤️
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 31/03/2025
There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/03/2025
This should INFURIATE you
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Elbows up, Canada.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I think disappearing people who are here legally because the state disagreed with their speech is Bad but I don’t have a law degree so what do I know
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
By their definition, any notable accomplishment achieved by someone who was not a straight white male -- no matter how or when it happened -- counts as "DEI" and "bias against whites." It's racism, pure and simple. Stop pretending there's anything more complicated at work here. It's racism.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity. Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
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Diamanda Hagan @diamandahagan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
If the Democrats give up on trans people then why should any member of a minority trust them ever again?
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Republicans: [hands giant piece of their constitutional authority and dignity to Trump] Trump: [cackling, starts to walk off] A DOOR SLAMS OPEN. The DEMOCRATS are standing tall in the door, their shadows cast long and defiant. Chuck Schumer: STOP! Trump: ? Schumer: you forgot this piece
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It would be a minimal kindness that every member of DOGE spends the rest of their life looking over their shoulder and peering into shadows, terrified of the people whose lives they have ruined.
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JP Serra 🇨🇦 @jpontherun.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
How it started: We don’t need anything from Canada! How it’s going: • Wait, they’re our main source of aluminum? • Oil too? Seriously? • Potash? So farms need that? • They spend billions in tourism? • They make American cars? • My house is basically Canadian? • WTF, we rely on them for electricity?
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Max Burke @m18e.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
In today’s Exercises In Contrasts, Donald Trump is shilling cars on the White House driveway and Mark Carney put all his assets in a blind trust.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
My *not going to happen but absolutely should hot take* is that we should do this and also increase our foreign aid to at least 1% immediately (from 0.38%) and stop counting internal aid to domestic refugees as foreign aid.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Doug Ford needs to cancel Ontario’s contract with Starlink now. Absolutely solidarity with Ukraine but also to avoid it being used as a bargaining chip by Musk and Trump against Canada. Right now, Premier Ford.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
We kicked holocaust denier Ernst Zündel out of Canada. Why the hell would we let Elon Musk have any claim on Canada? He is a fascist threatening the people of Ukraine. I am proud to be helping drive this asshole from our shores. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
ctvnews.ca
Petition asking PM to revoke Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship garners support
Thousands of people have electronically signed a parliamentary petition calling for revocation of Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship over his role in the Trump administration, which is pointedly threate...
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This alone should be grounds for terminating Ontario’s contract with Starlink immediately.
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