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I'm not put out by what James Hetfield said because I have never really looked to Metallica for guidance or moral clarity or good music.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h

This Cornell Chi Phi alum's story of being sexually assaulted as a pledge—and his ensuing mental health struggles—has really stuck with me. (Chi Phi is the fraternity where Jane Doe was gang raped.)

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GUEST ROOM | I Lived at Chi Phi in 2012. Now I Say Tear It Down and Build Something New

Jared Hoffman '15 shared his experience as a member of the Xi chapter of Chi Phi. He calls for the tearing down of the Greek system and of the Chi Phi house.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 19h

This👇 is such a good example of how on top of her game Helen was. While she was keeping us all updated on Ebola, MERS, flu, and so many of all the other infectious diseases out there, she immediately grasped the gravity of the first warning sign of what we now remember as SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 21h

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20h

It does appear the "data center eliminated Nazi and otherwise fuckface bots" narrative is basically wishcasting, it does show you how popular getting rid of this shit would broadly be, and that maybe a smart person should run on it.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/10/2026

And with that we have our first dead AI startup

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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 13/10/2026

And that means them, istockphotos, all going away basically. Slop will replace the. This is bad. Bad bad.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Some of the escalations we're seeing, including the attack on Ilhan Omar's home (I will not pretend this act was "investigatory"), are desperate acts. But we must remember that desperate people can be very dangerous. A domestic abuse victim, for example, is in the most danger when trying to leave.

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There’s a strong contingent (Bannon, Mike Flynn, et al.) who believe political arrests will help bring MAGA back to the fold and out to the polls. Since all the other investigations are sputtering, looks like they’ve decided to make a Somali-American woman the target (color me surprised 🙄)

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For all this talk of Russian bots being defeated by the Yandex strikes I'm still getting the usual Matryoshka emails with the same fake news posts and purchased bot engagement. Seems more like wishful thinking based on misinterpreted data than reality.

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Police unions aren’t unions because they don’t have the same goals as an actual union. Our university has several unions and it would be bizarre and counterintuitive to think we’re in competition with each other. Unlike us, cop unions only aspire to become a dominant in-group. (1/2)

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

Again, what do you think the police are doing to people you can’t name if they’re willing to do that to the mayor?

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question

The article below with a rainbow tab on the side which initiates a chat bot
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Gadget Revieu_

HOME Y

EMERGING TECH / AI

Virginia Data Center Ran
Diesel Generators for 24
Hours. Residents Fled Their

Homes

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Sterling residents had no legal recourse as
189 of Virginia's 197 data-center air permits
allow emergency diesel runs without public

review

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Construction workers in #SanDiego stood up to ICE agents who tried to kidnap their co-workers on the job site...workers stopped their job, helped their co-workers get away and demanded that ICE leave." Source Stop ICE: www.instagram.com/p/DeQGKxtv4Pq/

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Most people in the USA have been very willing to allow a great deal of state violence so long as they do not need to witness or experience it regularly. MAGA has used this to push the limit of how much violence the USA will tolerate. There is no reason to think the escalation will stop.

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"My assailant was found responsible for my sexual assault ... His punishment? He received a 'written reprimand,' was ordered to write a 'reflection paper,' and was placed on behavioral probation until he graduated two months later." Must-read by a Cornell grad: www.thecut.com/article/i-wa...

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I’m Not the Only Cornell Student Title IX Failed

When I was raped in 2023, my attacker, too, only had to write an essay. Now, I see I’m not alone.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It is never just one case gone wrong. There are always so many other survivors who were mistreated before any of these stories make it into the public eye.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer.

"LEAKED: Footage of Abdul El-Sayed fundraising last night in the California home of the far-left Soros family.

Abdul’s education was paid for by the Soros family and NOW they are funding his campaign to make him a U.S. Senator

The Soros family is funding Abdul because he will carry out their agenda of:

➡️ defunding the police
➡️ emptying prisons, and letting violent criminals & sex offenders back onto the streets
➡️ gender transition surgeries for minors
➡️ allowing illegals to vote in American elections

Abdul is too extreme for Michigan."

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Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

"But while political debates around Palestine continue as the U.S. midterm elections approach, Israel never stopped its genocide. Despite an ongoing ceasefire, Israeli airstrikes killed at least eight people, including a journalist, on Sept. 30.

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Three years into Gaza’s genocide, U.S. political rhetoric hasn’t translated into action

While some political candidates rose to prominence through their support for Palestine, the U.S. has not stopped backing Israel

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New: Jewish students announce a boycott Columbia/Barnard Hillel, as it hosts an Israeli group "encouraging Jewish students to move to settlements on land Israel seized from Palestinians." Says the group recently demolished homes, displacing Palestinian families & it intends to demolish dozens more.

Jewish Students Announce Boycott Of Columbia/Barnard Hillel As It Hosts Israeli Officials Who Demolish Palestinian Homes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, October 8
Media Contact: columbiabarnardivp@gmail.com
NEW YORK, NY - The day after October 7th, Columbia/Barnard (CB) Hillel's Kraft Center is holding an event with the Jerusalem Municipality, encouraging Jewish students to move to settlements on land Israel recently seized from Palestinians. Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) announces a boycott of CB Hillel, as long as the organization continues to support settler Zionism.
The group Hillel is hosting, the Jerusalem Municipality, demolished a residential building in al-Bustan, East Jerusalem, displacing two Palestinian households, according to a United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs report from September 18. The Jerusalem Municipality also intends to demolish dozens of Palestinian housing units in al-Bustan. We condemn these demolitions as part of a sustained campaign of genocide against the Palestinians living in occupied East Jerusalem.
On October 6th, Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gir shared footage of himself sitting in a bulldozer in occupied East Jerusalem and boasting about the demolition of Palestinian homes.
"CB Hillel's collaboration with the Jerusalem Municipality makes clear what many Jewish students on our campus have known for years: Columbia/Barnard Hillel would rather platform and encourage violent Israeli settler-colonialism than create a welcoming religious space for all," said a spokesperson for Columbia JVP. "As a Jewish student, I am disgusted Columbia has allowed Hillel to platform an organization actively displacing Palestinians, and demand that the University not only create a space where anti-Zionist Jewish students feel comfortable and welcome, but drop Columbia/Barnard Hillel once and for all."
While Columbia/Barnard Hillel claims to be a pluralistic space for Jewish life, its support of Zionism and normalization of …

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The obvious counter messaging here is that this culture war shit is the way people are being distracted from their material concerns. ppl in rural Alabama are hurting with the cost of fuel and food right now, and their legislators are wasting their time and the state's money with this nonsense.

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The trans panic is a manifestation of the same logic as the Satanic Panic - shifting culpability for widespread abuse and rape away from cishet men and onto an exotic other who might secretly be somebody you know and must be vigilant against instead of being vigilant against the men in your life

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Men Explain Rape to Me.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is a reason that AI is so attractive to fascists. It allows its users (adherents might be a better word) to hand over their decision-making, their thinking, their autonomy, to something they can convince themselves is bigger, stronger, and smarter than them.

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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NINE YEARS AGO

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 06/10/2026

For those of you who are not old enough the "sex scandal" is he & a male cohost drugged & raped the 21-year-old church secretary & paid her to be quiet about it with money from the church. (They denied it was rape but at the very least it was abuse of power by an employer) THAT IS NOT A SEX SCANDAL

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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martin_fff @martinfff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...

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Rena Netjes @renanetjes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2/ New shops are popping up almost daily here in Damascus. Talked to the owners of this 5-week-old kiosk (an Idlib & Damascus duo). Older shopkeepers tell me business is way better post-Assad, the end of crushing import bans has broken their reliance on the smuggling economy.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

James Watson was only notable as a racist, homophobe, misogynist, fatphobic bigot, and close friend of Jeffrey Epstein well after his incarceration for child sex crimes and registration as a child sex offender www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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kat excellence ✨ @katexcellence.io · 31/08/2026

like - this woman wasn't even present when benjamin song shot an officer; she was down the road ... but she had an anarchist book club sentenced 50 years

screenshot of the article that reads: "Elizabeth Soto: Ran a local anarchist book club with her husband and published radical zines, which prosecutors claimed were part of an antifa recruitment effort. Sentence: 50 years."

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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our built infrastructure robs kids of their freedom of independent mobility. Streets are dominated by oversized vehicles, piloted by aggressive and distracted drivers where one mistake can turn lethal. We sacrificed child development to subsidize the auto industry.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the online conversations are completely DIVORCED from on the ground realities.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The reality in this country is that the VAST majority of people who experience sexual violence will never tell the cops. Ever. This born out by all statistics but if you've survived sexual violence you also know this from your personal experience. There are many reasons for this. But again...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

APOLLO: “.. When rates are high, builders build less, and when fewer homes and apartments get built, rents go up ..” @mikezaccardi.bsky.social #CPI www.apollo.com/insights-new...

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No ulterior motive for the federal government to leak a story to the NYT about gangs of teenagers selling guns to cartels. The main people trafficking guns are cops. www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...

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Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime

These high-powered weapons are only meant for police. How are they ending up in criminals' hands?

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"biden is sooo mad at netanyahu he's going to stop funding the genocide any day now, probably" is a tactic they tried every couple of weeks while he was in office. there's no rescuing his legacy here sorry

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Perennial Astronaut @mkdouma6.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you feel like you need to post something that empathizes with Jacob Gellar, I get it, but close the app and instead practice empathizing with the victim. I do not say this glibly. Just do it and sit with that discomfort.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If one wonders why "restorative/transformative" justice has a bad reputation for letting abusers avoid consequences while further hurting survivors, it's because that's how it often works in practice. You can say that's not the intent, that they've been co-opted, etc. But it still happens.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think it is evidence of how so much we have been made to think that gaining an audience is the goal of life in this attention-seeking economy that saying "a rapist shouldn't seek a public persona that is available for consumption" is taken as equivalent to saying they "can never rejoin society."

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

you should feel uncomfortable with frontier AI models not because the tools lack uses but because everyone who works in hyperscale AI wants to worship these machines and every algorithm that behaves unexpectedly is an enfant terrible they admire, love, and hope to have care for them in their dotage

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