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Doll @dollspace.gay · 30/09/2026
If openssh which basically the entire internet relies on doesnt warrant mythos access then what does? Whats the criteria? Why isnt that criteria transparent?
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Israeli settlers divert occupied West Bank spring water devastating Palestinian farmers. apnews.com/article/isra...
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Far-right settlers divert West Bank spring water as Israel backs heritage site takeovers
Israeli settlers have intensified efforts to seize natural springs and heritage sites in the occupied West Bank.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥
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Must See Full Trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Doc About a Fraudster | FirstShowing.net
"Do we even know this man at all?" Bleecker Street has launched their main official trailer for the must see new documentary film titled simply Musk, about the uber-wealthy tech giant megalomaniac Elo...
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Mahmoud @mahmoud-khalil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Disappointed but not surprised
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Doll @dollspace.gay · 09/09/2026
This is bad! These people are insane cultists lmao. prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Kragdar @kragdar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Language was more of a minefield than the border between Syria and the occupied Golan Heights, and we, children at the time, were expected to hop around them, hoping we don’t accidentally step on an explosive trope that would discredit us.”
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Jewish settlers stole my house. It’s not my fault they’re Jewish.
Palestinians are told the words we use dwarf the decades of violence enacted against us by the self-proclaimed Jewish State. A drone is one thing, but a trope—a trope is unacceptable. No more.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2026
Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud
New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...
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Mahmoud @mahmoud-khalil.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Why the fuck is Banque Misr playing games like that, this will spell ruin for a country whose budget is supported by remittances from Egyptians living in the UAE
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Mahmoud @mahmoud-khalil.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is not the main point, but one of the reasons LLMs are not very good at science is that they take everything at face value. Actual scientists are aware of these issues and take them into account when judging the results of a paper. LLMs lack such discernment
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Mahmoud @mahmoud-khalil.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Collapse of the rule of law
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
NEW: DHS' top number-cruncher just left the department -- and blasted the administration's "war on immigrants" on the way out. He's one of the very few DHS officials to step down and speak out publicly against this White House. Me in @wired.com ... www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...
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DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’
The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 27/07/2026
Omg. Omg omg omg. Emily Wilson (as in, the famed translator of Homer) just published her take on Nolan's Odyssey in @lrb.co.uk... and it is SWEET, JUICY HATERADE: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of The Odyssey into iambic pentameter. In at least one interview, he cited my version of the first line of the poem: ‘Tell me about a complicated man.’ But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/07/2026
‘They want to break our will’: Gaza flotilla activist tells of rape in Israeli detention
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‘They want to break our will’: Gaza flotilla activist tells of rape in Israeli detention
Anna Liedtke files criminal complaint in Israel over alleged attack by female guards and says abuse was intended to silence campaigners The third time Anna Liedtke was subjected to an illegal strip-search in Israeli detention, female prison guards forced her on to her knees, covered her mouth to stop her screaming and raped her, according to interviews and a criminal complaint filed in Israel. She described hearing male guards laughing during the attack, which she believes they watched and may have filmed. It took place in an area separated from the prison hallway by a partially drawn curtain that her attackers had left open. Continue reading...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/07/2026
Meta has launched a new AI image generator that allows anyone to create AI images with your Instagram photos. And if you have a public Instagram account, Meta automatically opted you in. Here’s how to opt out: wapo.st/4pjtc5w
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 10/07/2026
Vince McMahon laser eyes meme: 

Teaching you how to be a leader 



By having AI write it for me 




By paying someone else to tell AI to write it for me 



By offshoring the job of telling AI to write my leadership lessons
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Mahmoud @mahmoud-khalil.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
End google monopoly now! Once publishers opt out of google, people will eventually wisen up to which search engine they can use to find useful websites
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
😳 “Pax Romana. Pax Britannica. Pax Americana. Each marked an era in which a dominant power underwrote order thru control of the systems on which prosperity depended.” This is the context for “Pax Silica,” a new global initiative launched by Trump official Jacob Helberg, a *Palantir* alum. 3/30/26 1/
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From Pax Americana to Pax Silica – GIS Reports
The U.S. is advancing Pax Silica and redefining geopolitical order around compute, technological choke points and dependence.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/07/2026
From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Egypt’s goal against Argentina should never have been ruled out, a former referee writes. "Argentina’s collective failure to defend their goal because they allowed Ziko to run past them is not part of the decision-making process." nyti.ms/3T8pcIO
“Standing on an opponent’s foot is not a foul in itself. In this case, there is no doubt that Attia treads on the right boot of Martinez, but that does not make it an offense.” - Graham Scott, who refereed in the Premier League for a decade and is now a journalist
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/07/2026
absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers
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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
In front of fans and kids taking photos, a Dallas police officer starts shoving staff members of the Egyptian national team here for the World Cup. At one point, he even reaches for his handcuffs. The video is already being shared internationally by news outlets.
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Mahmoud @mahmoud-khalil.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A whole lot of nothing. The only other country producing frontier AI models is China. Why on earth would they sign up to a framework cooked up by AI executives openly hostile to China and led by a nation actively stifling Chinese AI progress?
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Mahmoud @mahmoud-khalil.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
When you use the research function in frontier LLM, the models do not have the judgement to discern the wheat from the chaff. A paper that you instantly flag as low quality/suspicious by skimming the figures, will be treated as ground truth by the models.
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Mahmoud @mahmoud-khalil.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The problem is that AI lacks “judgement”. It treats all findings reported in the literature as equal without critically evaluating the methodology and quality of the papers reporting those judgments. It jumps straight to certain conclusions and experimental plans without “thinking” them through.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Sunday killed at least four Palestinians, including a 13-year-old girl apnews.com/article/gaza...
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Israeli strikes and shelling in Gaza kill at least 4 Palestinians, health workers say
Local health officials say the latest Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least four Palestinians, including a 13-year-old girl.
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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...
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Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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Timothy E. Kaldas @tekaldas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Egypt plans to stop subsidizing food and switch to cash transfers through Takaful & Karama. It's another shell game masquerading as reform that actually harms Egyptians and the economy. Same as when military sold a company to a company partly owned by the military. It's a clear trend 🧵
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Shell Game Toki
ALT: Shell Game Toki
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick
MARINE ECOLOGIST MONA
KHALIL HAS PASSED AWAY
AFTER SUSTAINING INJURIES IN AN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKEMona and a turtle in Lebanon
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“If you want to get rid of a people, then you get rid of their culture.” In "Fearing Cultural Erasure, a Palestinian Literary Movement Takes Root," by @oliviasnaije in Publishing Perspectives: publishingperspectives.com/2026/06/fear...
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Fearing Cultural Erasure, a Palestinian Literary Movement Takes Root - Publishing Perspectives
Alongside calls to stop the immeasurable human suffering in Gaza, a global effort has mobilized to save Palestinian literature, identity, and culture.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Israel halts humanitarian aid to Gaza until further notice www.ynetnews.com/article/s13m...
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Israel halts humanitarian aid to Gaza until further notice
COGAT said all Gaza crossings were closed due to the security situation and Iranian missile fire, saying large food deliveries since the ceasefire should prevent a humanitarian impact
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Mahmoud @mahmoud-khalil.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The LLM technology is rapidly approaching maturity and the markets will soon stabilize. Now it is clear that: 1-LLMs are not the machine gods that will take everyone’s jobs 2-LLMs are a useful but expensive tool. Individuals and businesses can now do a proper cost/benefit analysis on spending.
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Mahmoud @mahmoud-khalil.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Trying to finesse the dump
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Mahmoud @mahmoud-khalil.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Yeah let us give three corporations complete monopoly over LLMs for the sake of “safety”
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
12 Palestinian Herding Communities Here Have Been Erased. One Remains. For Settlers, That's Still Too Many www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Just one Palestinian herding community remains here. Settlers want it erased too
Seven Settler Outposts Now Surround the Dar Abu Faza'a Ka'abna Shephereding Community, Threatening to Choke It. Residents Vow Not to Give in to Settler Terror – but Others Once Said the Same Before Be...
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"Violations consisted of rape, including with objects, gang rape, attempted rape, physical violence to genitals, instances of targeted shooting of genitals, touching of breasts and genitals, strip and cavity searches without apparent security justification, forced nudity and threats of rape"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
letsaddresstexas.substack.com
Ken Paxton’s office offered a child molester ONE day in jail and NO sex offender registration. Donald Trump endorsed Paxton yesterday.
Paxton let a child abuser have ONE day in jail, skip the sex offender registry and allowed him to get his law license back by 2031.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Israeli defence minister insists there are 'voluntary emigration' plans for Gaza - www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-…
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Israeli defence minister insists there are 'voluntary emigration' plans for Gaza
Israel Katz says the removal of Palestinians from the enclave would take place 'in the proper manner'
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Israel's Defense Minister declares Gaza 'voluntary emigration plan', a euphemism for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, to be implemented. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Israel's defense minister: Gaza 'voluntary emigration' plan to be implemented
Report: Board of Peace's Official World Bank Fund Received 'Zero Dollars' to Date . Iranian Hackers Responsible for Los Angeles Transit System Breach, Israeli Researchers Say. Pakistan Is 'Problematic...
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Mahmoud @mahmoud-khalil.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Apocalyptic scenes
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
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Mahmoud @mahmoud-khalil.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
SpaceX IPO will be a watershed moment. How long can the phony valuations last?
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
If this is what Israel does to international, including Western protesters, imagine what it does to defenseless Palestinians under its control. www.cnn.com/2026/05/22/m...
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Freed Gaza flotilla activists accuse Israeli forces of sexual violence and abuse while in custody | CNN
Activists on board a humanitarian flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces on their way to Gaza say they were subjected to beatings, torture and sexual violence while in detention.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 22/05/2026
The US Administration proceeds daily with a policy program to eliminate as much legal immigration as possible. Yesterday comes this order: Adjusting status from a work visa to a green card will now become almost impossible, a rare and “extraordinary” act of “grace” —> www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services
PM-602-0199
May 21, 2026
Policy Memorandum
SUBJECT: Adjustment of Status is a Matter of Discretion and Administrative Grace, and an Extraordinary Relief that Permits Applicants to Dispense with the Ordinary Consular Visa Process
Purpose
This memorandum reminds officers and the public that adjustment of status under section 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is a matter of discretion and administrative grace not designed to supersede the regular consular processing of immigrant visas. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reaffirms this consistent and longstanding approach and declares as a matter of general policy its intention to faithfully apply the statutes consistently with this understanding.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Science textbooks narrow-mindedly coalesce around a very narrow range of theories, while new age bookshops are refreshingly diverse.
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Mahmoud @mahmoud-khalil.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Bezos pumping steroids and hgh
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