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nikola 🦌 @fakinkilljoy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

miluju vikendy stravene u kaficka ctenim textu od @matoushrdina.bsky.social jen tak dal!

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.” -Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

spiritually, this is vertical video

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"Haidt’s claims of inherent harm are not well-founded, and the policy proposals to ban kids entirely from social media are a bad idea. For older teenage boys, having no social media was associated with *worse* outcomes than having too much of it"

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Two Major Studies, 125,000 Kids: The Social Media Panic Doesn’t Hold Up

For years now, we’ve been repeatedly pointing out that the “social media is destroying kids” narrative, popularized by Jonathan Haidt and others, has been built on a foundation of…

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 02/01/2026

I hate this phrasing and how it buys into what is essentially a falsehood about the autonomy of chatbots that is RIGHT NOW deforming our entire law and society. Grok doesn't say anything. That's like saying 'Microsoft Word apologized for losing everyone's files' www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

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Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X

Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements ...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I don't have a good answer for what the alternative looks like, but asking 18 years to bet their future on highly specified training for jobs based on which they think will be in high demand 5-10 years from now turned out to be a very bad way to structure higher education

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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

We are all going to have to get used to immediately checking for watermarks on all videos (like on this one, where you can see the 'Veo' logo in the bottom-right, proving it's not real). Except within a few weeks there will be a tool to remove them. Fucking hell the future is EXHAUSTING

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/06/2025

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

Universal did not permit, authorize, or license Midjourney to copy or use any of Universal's copyrighted works in connection with any version of its Image Service or to otherwise exploit Universal's works at any time. You acknowledged as much in a September 16, 2022 Forbes interview in which you confirmed that Midjourney never sought any copyright holders' consent to use or exploit their works:
Did you seek consent from living artists or work still under copyright?
No. There isn't really a way to get a hundred million images and know where they're coming from. It would be cool if images had metadata embedded in them about the copyright owner or something. But that's not a thing; there's not a registry. There's no way to find a picture on the Internet, and then automatically trace it to an owner and then have any way of doing anything to authenticate it.
See Rob Salkowitz. Midiourney Founder David Holz

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IuRe @iuridicumremedium.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Sněmovnou již prošel návrh ministerstva vnitra, který by umožnil identifikovat pomocí kamerových systémů osoby v reálném čase. Návrh však ignoruje pracně dohodnutá evropská pravidla. Napsali jsme senátorům, aby návrh 4. června zablokovali. digitalnisvobody.cz/blog/2025/05...

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Vnitro chce rozpoznávat tváře bez patřičných pravidel a kontroly. Vyzýváme Senát k zamítnutí návrhu

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...

Copilot consumes Nadella’s life outside the office as well. He likes podcasts, but instead of listening to them, he loads transcripts into the Copilot app on his iPhone so he can chat with the voice assistant about the content of an episode in the car on his commute to Redmond. At the office, he relies on Copilot to deliver summaries of messages he receives in Outlook and Teams and toggles among at least 10 custom agents from Copilot Studio. He views them as his AI chiefs of staff, delegating meeting prep, research and other tasks to the bots. “I’m an email typist,” Nadella jokes of his job, noting that Copilot is thankfully very good at triaging his messages.

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Matouš Hrdina @matoushrdina.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Jen malý teaser, že v zítřejším newsletteru konečně odpovídám na zásadní otázku současné digitální kultury... Pročež pokud ještě neodebíráte, přihlašujte se na seznamzpravy.cz/newslettery

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Evan Hill @evanhill.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Unfortunately few people have ever wanted to pay for hard news and investigations, which have always been subsidized by ads, cartoons, crosswords, Wordle, recipe apps, paid events, etc., and can mostly only be undertaken by newsrooms. Readers of indy Substacks are paying for takes

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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I have become momentarily obsessed with scrolling down the homepage of the MetaAI tool and seeing the infinite feed of what people have been asking of The Machine. The outputs are horribly banal, but the requests are a weird window into THE (NORMIE) HUMAN SOUL AND ITS DESIRES: www.meta.ai

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

the problem with “tech journalism” is that we had 2 decades of mainly white men regurgitating press releases about new cell phones and usb ports on laptops who now are their own publishing platforms while being unable to grasp how the future became automated high frequency feudalism

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

A very succinct summation of why AI isn't going to be the thing they say it is. There's no road to there from where we are.

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Jan Trnka @jantrnka.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

As discussed in the Dawn of Everything.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

this is literally all of it, in every single anti affirmative action movement everywhere on earth

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Jan Trnka @jantrnka.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Not only is predicting what happens in 10 years bullshit but even if we have the technology then doesn’t mean we would live without disease. Even now we have enough knowledge, technology and resources to end hunger or stop climate change yet we don’t do it.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Most prominent mainstream media libs—in my experience—are from backgrounds that have precluded them from interaction with evangelicals in any meaningful way, which means that the people who look to them for information and analysis are at a real disadvantage on this topic

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.

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nikola 🦌 @fakinkilljoy.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

nevim jak to @matoushrdina.bsky.social dela, ale vzdycky kdyz mi od nej prijde newsletter, tak je to na neco, co me zajima - odebirejte taky! www.seznamzpravy.cz/tag/pod-caro...

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Pod čarou - Seznam Zprávy

Všechny články k tématu Pod čarou

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows

Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/04/2025

Bring back proper games journalism.

Screengrab from a 2021 Slate article headlined An Interview with the Guy Who Yells Mortal Kombat in the the Theme for Mortal Kombat. The subheading is Nearly three decades later he's still got it. The byline is Matthew Dessem.

The featured text is the form of a Q and A.

I see. Will you do it over the phone?

Would I do it over the phone? Absolutely.

Let's hear it.

Mortal Kombat!

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

After Trump was elected the first time, there was also a lot of talk about making iPhones in the US. At the time, I co-edited the sci-fi outlet Terraform, and asked @timmaughan.bsky.social to imagine what such a future might really look like. With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:

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Flyover Country

What a future where iPhones are made in America would really look like.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I would like to read an essay about how anti Me Too backlash is central to understanding what Democratic elites and journalists mean when they talk about the party becoming “too left.” They will never say it out loud, but it’s 100% there.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

openai’s new ghibli “generator” is explicitly an intentional attempt at humiliation of a prominent objector openai is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist it’s not an accident

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Not the biggest problem that any of us are facing right now but I need the sustainable fashion brands to stop making their clothes look so sustainable

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 19/03/2025

In Canada, Shopify executives are heading up a group of tech executives pushing to bring DOGE to Canada, targeting foreign aid programs they don’t like to stir up anger over wasteful government spending. www.disconnect.blog/p/doge-is-go...

“We need a DOGE right now.” Those words were retweeted by Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke in early February, alongside an image calling out an aid initiative funded by the Canadian government in Ghana. As the extreme right in the United States had begun pouring over government spending to pull out any program they deemed too “woke” or wasteful, that same spirit was being seized by fellow travelers beyond its borders.

By February, serious questions were already emerging about Elon Musk’s role in the US government and the consequences of the cuts being made by his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). President Donald Trump was also escalating rhetoric around annexing Canada and turning it into the 51st state, while threats of tariffs loomed. But that didn’t stop many in Canada’s tech industry from defending Musk’s actions and advocating for a DOGE of their own.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Need more middlebrow fiction goddamnit. Some of us are too cultured for total genre slop, and not cultured enough for some MFA’s exploration of the intersectionality of grief! Give me something written at an adult reading level with emotional depth that also has a murder or a vampire or some shit!

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🧵When I was a librarian, easily half my day was spent helping people—and NOT JUST ELDERS—use the internet. They'd never really be taught, or only ever went online for email & FB, or some dumb update was a stumbling block, or THEY LITERALLY DIDN'T OWN A COMPUTER &/OR COULDN'T AFFORD INTERNET ACCESS.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

now that every writer’s been forced to pivot to a one-man-show newsletter, every post is like ‘i wrote about Anora (2024), the end of the USSR, vladimir putin, child labor laws, Alf, and the postmodernism of fredric jameson ❤️’

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 24/02/2025

NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left. www.ft.com/content/29fd...

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Look this sucks but news outlets need to start realizing there's limited journalistic value in sitting in a room and letting a person behind a podium lie to you. You're not holding anyone to account when you do that.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

i play a lot of games hacked or with cheats and it's really striking how little actual Game there is in most games once you take out the constant slog of busywork they force you to do

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people. Identify those people and block and shun them.

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vansr yo+ @vansryoh.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

naposledy ke konci nádražky, @matoushrdina.bsky.social nailed it. www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/nazor...

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<já>fifi</já> @fifisch.cz · 07/02/2025

Tohle si vytisknu, podlepím a budu tím na potkání fackovat každého novináře, který trvá na tom, že se nemůže přesunout primárně na Bluesky kvůli trafficu...

Key stats:

The Boston Globe reports three times more traffic from Bluesky compared with Threads, along with 4.5 times higher conversions to paid subscriptions.
Multiple major publishers including The Guardian and The New York Times report substantially higher user engagement on Bluesky.
Smaller outlets have benefited as well; EUobserver received 3,800 unique visitors from Bluesky (with 3,300 followers) compared to 1,320 from X (with 203,000 followers) in a recent week, and independent tech outlet Aftermath reports its Twitter-to-Bluesky referral ratio has improved from 9-to-1 to nearly 2-to-1 in just three months.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Human beings cannot afford journalism to be euphemistic or blinkered about what the US is proposing in Gaza, nor about what that proposal will unleash.

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Blowback Like Never Before Will Follow A U.S. Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza

Trump is proposing unambiguous ethnic cleansing. That will mean oceans of blood

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Unfortunately the stuff that most people are consuming online to distract themselves from politics (or because they don’t care about politics at all or think politics are going swimmingly) is also a covert pipeline designed to make them more conservative. Lifestyle, entertainment, pop culture, etc

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