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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 4h
America, they are trying to desensitize you to violence. They want us to dehumanize one another so we become numb to their attacks on our liberty. They wish to normalize total state control thru visual terror. Attention is currency. Don’t invest it in evil. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 4h
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When it comes to spreading disinformation, dark money buys a lot of repetition, because repetition works. Repetition works. Repetition works. Repetition works. So WE need to be repeating the TRUTH a lot more than we do. (Did we mention that repetition works?) #UrbanTruth
White text on black background. Text reads “the single best predictor of what people believe is how many times they’ve heard it.” – FrameWorks Institute. Via the Urban Truth Collective. 
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 4h
People in California who are facing a terrible ICE surge: remember that if you need whistles, we are still sending them out for free. In fact, we just passed 1.7 million whistles sent out. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
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3D Printed Whistles | Linktree
We ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 3000) & where to send them.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13h
New Merch Alert!! Fish. The ocean's full of 'em. And protecting the ocean is a global job, so we better learn the word for fish in as many languages as we can fit on a tote bag. Support @skypeascientist.bsky.social by getting a *sturdy* tote bag with a zipper (with a zipper!!!) at SquidFacts.net
4 freak-ass fish illustrated on a tote bag. We got a barreleye, a mola mola, a gulper eel, and a viperfish
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 6h
🚨BREAKING: ICE vehicle RAMS through NYC protesters attempting to block it from leaving after ICE agents SHOT a man in NYC—the man’s young son was in the back seat. WE’RE LIVE ON SCENE ⬇️
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 3h
We are watching in slow motion the things that happen before ethnic cleansing happens. People get that, right?
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shanley @shanley.com · 12h
The main reason men cover up the groundbreaking work of women is because they want to be known and regarded as the "first mover" in a given area, because that is HIGHLY lucrative and comes with TONS of clout. This is so extensively documented in research on ethics in publishing and research.
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Rep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov · 12h
📣 Wisconsin: October 14th is the LAST day to register ONLINE to vote. Check to see if you are registered at My Vote WI today and make it as easy as possible to vote! myvote.wi.gov/en-us/regist...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h
Coming on the heels of the reporting about lobbying the pope to say models could be conscious, it’s clear they are determined to impose their cultish worldview on everyone.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20h
JK Rowling has enough money that she can spend vast amounts of it on advocating the genocide of trans people and, like Mackenzie Scott, still end up richer than before. At that level of wealth she can *also* afford to push her shit at a massive loss, flooding the zone with free dogshit.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16h
This reminds me of a recent conversation I had with @alexhanna.bsky.social about AI and workers, in which Hanna noted that bosses tend to think most feminized work can be automated because they imagine the work as reduced to the task itself and forget the necessary relational aspects.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 16h
These are innocent babies-- the last thing they need is RFK Jr. doing his pet project experiments on them in pursuit of "evidence" to support his dangerous anti-vax beliefs. Our previous investigation into this study got it stopped. We explore every option available to get this shelved for good.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 16h
The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
Breaking-news graphic featuring a photo of RFK Jr with headline that reads "RFK JR. TO GIVE 1.6M IN CDC FUNDS TO EXPERIMENT ON AFRICAN BABIES IN UNETHICAL TRIAL"
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 17h
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18h
⚠️ Aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee covered up Israeli killings of nine Americans
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How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel (Gift Article)
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 18h
Every GOP lawmaker believes this, by the way. It's just that most aren't dumb enough to say it where it could get leaked in an election year.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 17h
Exhibit #56987 for the "There is no good nationalism" case file.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Please help me get the word out to people who might be interested in reading Democracy Americana in German: I hope I can build a readership large enough to carry this experiment of offering my work in two languages (it’s a struggle!). If you want to read the essay in English, you find it here:
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What Do Authoritarians Do When They Are About to Lose an Election?
Trump’s schemes to subvert the midterms have so far failed. What happens next? A reflection on the threat as well as the limits of authoritarian escalation
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What Do Authoritarians Do When They Are About to Lose an Election? Trump’s schemes to subvert the midterms have so far failed. What happens next? A reflection on the threat as well as the limits of authoritarian escalation. My new piece:
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What Do Authoritarians Do When They Are About to Lose an Election?
Trump’s schemes to subvert the midterms have so far failed. What happens next? A reflection on the threat as well as the limits of authoritarian escalation
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also, the DoD just put Anduril founder Palmer Luckey on "Project Meridian," its commission to determine the future of warfare, which may just involve buying lots of Anduril products, who knows. Luckey has made over 1,000 contributions to Republicans since 2017, 23 of which were for over $100K each.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
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This clip is worth revisiting:
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SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
According to a recent study, >20% of children and adolescents reported using AI for emotional support, and its use was “significantly associated with higher scores of emotional problems and a greater prevalence of clinically significant symptoms…” (Correlation ≠ causation)
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Affective Generative Artificial Intelligence Use and Youth Mental Health
This cross-sectional study examines whether affective generative artificial intelligence use is associated with emotional problems among youth.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
More and more convinced that the reason AI is being pushed so hard is that it allows tech CEOs to do things that a person would be sent to jail for doing, but with the excuse that it was the robot that did it on its own
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This evil, terrible man — Cornell's Michael Kotlikoff — needs to be indicted as well as fired. This man is obviously violent and shows complete and utter disregard for Cornell students, faculty and staff, integrity and truthfulness and humanity itself.
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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This feels like what life was like before modern medicine. Four young kids, born to "Followers of Christ" family died of treatable illnesses. This is willful ignorance enabled by religious exemptions. Parents were not touched due Idaho's child abuse laws. www.propublica.org/article/idah...
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When Trump posted a video of the Obamas as apes the NYT claimed "it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware" that he posted it
NYT: "It was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware that the clip had been included in the video before he shared it."
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.
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The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence
The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
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Steve Sando and the Rancho Gordo staff @ranchogordo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Meet the Mississippi Vegan, Timothy Pakron (@mississippivegan) at Rancho Gordo, 10/20 from 4-6pm. We'll have his new book, Garden Variety, to sign and wine tasting from St. Supéry Winery (@stsupery). www.eventbrite.com/e/rancho-gor...
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026
It’s not just one billionaire. It’s a full-blown cult of billionaires who believe dictatorship should replace democracy—and that technology (crypto and AI) will make this inevitable. They say it loud. Some guy just wrote a book about it (That guy is me!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
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The Nerd Reich
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires ...
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Roger @arbejdsmyren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In Denmark a scientist plotted data and research findings into Claude, only to see Anthropic publish the findings as something the LLM had conjured up on its own. The theft of one scientist’s data and work translates into false claims about the model’s ability to generate research #ai #eupol
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is for whom the Republican party stands: thieves, pedophiles, human traffickers, and murderers. Ghouls. "Police arrested Caruso on August 18 on five felony charges of kidnapping, molestation, and child abuse connected to his alleged sexual abuse of a male relative under the age of five;...
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GOP endorses man who allegedly molested a 5-year-old boy & 4-year-old girl - LGBTQ Nation
He reportedly told the boy's parents he was taking him to get ice cream, and then put his penis in the kid's mouth.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not many people know there’s a “b” in Dumbkirk.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don't (just) get mad. Get mad and write to Sirus, who pay this lich. Particularly if you're a subscriber.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 06/10/2026
Let’s be clear: The President is advocating for an attack on 10+ million U.S. residents in two of America’s largest cities. This is not normal. None of this is. And we will continue to remind folks of that every day.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New York Magazine has a cover story on staff from AI companies who have left due to concerns about AI safety. That would be fine, except they’ve partnered with Asterisk Magazine for the piece, which is an Effective Altruist publication.
New York Magazine cover with photos of former AI staff

What Would You Do If Your Employer Could
Destroy the World?
Exit interviews with defectors from OpenAl, Anthropic, and DeepMind.
PLUS:
Luca Guadagnino
Takes on Sam Altman
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on the cover of Vanity Fair The feature includes photos by Annie Liebowitz. There’s clearly a big PR push happening.
A moody atmospheric photo of a man standing with his hands on his hips atop a beachside cliff and staring out at the horizon
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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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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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons" A small Canadian study of 24 people with Long COVID found signs that dopamine-releasing neurons may be damaged. Those with bigger changes had worse memory, slower movement and less motivation.
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Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons
Scientists have discovered a distinct change in the brains of people with long COVID that might explain some of the illness's most debilitating symptoms.
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh, no, this is an alarming mentality
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
More evidence of the alliance between Tech Bros & Theo Bros. Joshua Abbottoy — Founder of Ridge Runner, which is building Christian communities in Appalachia—will attend Balaji’s “network state” conference. (Abbottoy is also Managing Director of New Founding—backed by Thiel ally Marc Andreeessen) 1/
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Excited to be traveling to Singapore for @balajis's Network School conference next week.
If friends on here will be in the area, let me know!
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See you there, @curtis_yarvin
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I'll be debating Balaji Srinivasan at the Network State conference in Singapore on October 9
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
People like Elon Musk who view human beings as a “biological boot loader for digital superintelligence” should not be in decision-making positions that affect the future of humanity.
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Hope we're not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence.
Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable
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Propagating super intelligence to the stars is a great success condition for a biological bootloader
@ ALX (x/acc) 
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Elon was calling it SI in 2014
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Hope we're not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence. U...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 04/10/2026
#OtD 4 Oct 1893 Jewish anarchist immigrant Emma Goldman began her trial in NYC. Found guilty of incitement to riot, she was sent to the Manhattan's city prison and later sentenced to a year in Blackwell's Island Penitentiary shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There are some news articles going around about sexual violence reporting rates at different universities. Let’s talk about why some schools have higher reporting rates than others:
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shanley @shanley.com · 04/10/2026
Every single system and institution is up for grabs. In any place where there is highly concentrated power, money and influence that can be commandeered. That means vatican, heads of countries, heads of corporations and financial institutions, governments, elite schools all over the world.
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