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Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
AI makes people worse at the things they’re good at.
nature.com
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/03/2026
Free newsletter: Why're we still doing this? Despite $1tr+ in investment, every AI company is unprofitable, LLMs have yet to provide tangible productivity benefits, and private credit-backed data center debt may be the next great financial crisis. www.wheresyoured.at/why-are-we-still-doing-this/
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Why Are We Still Doing This?
Hi! If you like this piece and want to support my work, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere fro...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
miamiherald.com
‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat
The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 28/02/2026
Remember: Donald Trump created this crisis. He walked away from the Iran nuclear deal that was working, promising a "better deal." He didn't deliver. He escalated, abandoned real diplomacy, and has now led us into a conflict that puts us all at risk.
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Jen Rodriguez @jenrodriguezga.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
“The flag that flies when an American athlete wins a gold medal isn’t Donald Trump’s flag. It’s ours. The anthem that plays isn’t Donald Trump’s song. It’s ours. If we refuse to celebrate what’s great about our country because of the people trying to ruin it, they’ve already succeeded.” Amen.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
✨ It’s a yes or no question ✨
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Trump clears the way for power plants to dump more mercury into the atmosphere.
reuters.com
US EPA plans to loosen mercury rules for coal plants this week, NYT reports
The Trump administration plans to loosen restrictions on coal-burning power plants this week, allowing them to emit more hazardous pollutants including mercury, the New York Times reported on Wednesda...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/02/2026
from the perspective of someone who might want to be president, the best time to run for the white house is now, not later. so if AOC is thinking about it — if the white house is her ambition — then her best bet is to throw her hat in the ring
newrepublic.com
You Know What? Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid
She’s only 36, and there’s a good argument that she should run for Senate and bide her time. But she also could be a formidable White House candidate.
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Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
irishtimes.com
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/02/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We must be willing to say that the hedge fund managers have no clothes and their parading about is an unpleasant sight for us all,” Oren Cass writes. “Your daughter has taken a job at Blackstone? My condolences.”
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Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.
Regulating the industry is useful. Shaming it is crucial.
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Crazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas. Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member. We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.
slate.com
My Daughter Lived the Liam Ramos Nightmare. It Turned Out Worse for Us.
The constant threats took a toll on my health. My daughter’s health deteriorated even faster.
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Max Read @maxread.info · 30/01/2026
on the right's new pantheon of heroes: "sky king," killdozer, and that penguin maxread.substack.com/p/suicide-ri...
I wouldn’t personally endorse it, but “The Flight 93 Election” has been useful over the years for understanding a rational core of MAGA. For people like Anton, voting for Trump is a logical, justifiable, even sane choice: the high-risk unknown outcome over the guaranteed bad one. I’ll admit, as an argument, it’s overwrought and hysterical, and in real life Flight 93 did crash and kill everyone on board. But it’s a metaphor, right? The point is that Trump offers a high-risk alternative to a deadly flight path, not that it would be cool and heroic to crash a plane in the middle of a field and die…

… Right?Between Flight 93 and Sky King, the Republican Party now enjoys in circulation two prominent and horrible plane-crash tragedies as allegories for its politics, which seems like too many deaths by plane crash for a political party? And where “The Flight 93 Election” is legibly rational and defensibly logical, offering up “likely suicide” only as an alternative to “certain death,” the Sky King mythos reduces to no such rationality: It takes spectacular suicide as a heroic act in and of itself.

The “Nietzschean penguin” wants 🫵 you to kill yourself
Online, among the tech right and groyper true believers, Trumpism in its late stages has devolved into what X.com user @VivianKesandre calls “suicide rightism”: An ideology whose cultural touchstones and heroic myths reflect values not of calculated risk or noble self-sacrifice of literal suicide--pointless, sensational acts of total self-destruction.One of the striking things about Suicide Rightism is how soy it is, how mewling, wounded, and self-pitying. For all that Russell and Heemeyer are celebrated by their apologists for their (warped expressions of) agency, they are ultimately regarded as victims, men thwarted by an uncaring and corrupt society.

The idea of many tweets about the heroic suicides is that you should be able to identify with them, and not as crazy dreamers but as depressed and resentful losers. The aspirational figures of Suicide Rightism are a guy so anhedonic that he felt compelled to leave behind his family for the sake of an hourlong plane ride and a guy so antisocial he built a tank to visit ruin on the local General Store.

Fascism is a literally suicidal ideology, one obsessed with purging the body politic to the point of total self-negation. What’s funny about Suicide Rightism is how direct it is about all this. You don’t need some big theoretical analysis; there’s no level of abstraction to move through. It’s just pretty straightforwardly pro-suicide. I don’t think you have to be a professional psychologist to understand why dramatic, attention-grabbing suicide might be appealing to semi-employed guys who spend 14 hours a day watching Asmongold or whatever. Its promise is that all the pain and frustration you feel can be visited on the people you believe authored it--and then ended. Not to put too fine a point on this, but this is school-shooter ideology.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”
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Fat Apollo, baby! @fatapollo.myatproto.social · 13/01/2026
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I do understand: you want permission. There's a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don't look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn't notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don't need me to believe it's useful, you just want me to be polite about it.
But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
I became a hater by doing precisely those things Al cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context; loving people, making art, living in my body with its flaws and feelings and life. Al cannot be a hater, because Al does not feel, or know, or care. Only humans can be haters. I celebrate my humanity.
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mattarrojas.bsky.social @mattarrojas.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Poignant note to leave on: "MAGA’s constant infighting is as hilarious as it is pointless —and yet, unlike their friendships, the true and lasting damage this exhausting group of people have wrought shows no signs of ending."
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 17/12/2025
Hundreds of underage girls married off and hundreds more children kidnapped as U.S. foreign aid cuts contribute to surge in violations against persecuted Rohingya children.
bit.ly
Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts
Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
theatlantic.com
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/10/2025
The Register is reporting that OpenAI lost $11 billion in the last quarter. This company is a shambling monstrosity, financial insanity as a direct result with the markets’ obsession with growth. www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...
theregister.com
Microsoft earnings suggest $11.5B OpenAI quarterly loss
: Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The fact that these are the numbers the company will put on the record … www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
wired.com
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago



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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 09/10/2025
Ah yes, carving through the wilderness so someone can make an AI video of Darth Vader doing a TikTok dance. interc.pt/478DpZU
A photo of a serpentine river near Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska on Sept. 11, 2022, overlaid with the headline, "Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies," and the DEK, "Trump’s approval of the 211-mile Ambler Road Project through Gates of the Arctic National Park hinges on winning an “AI arms race.”"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2025
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
apnews.com
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Trump is exercising more power for a fake emergency than Lincoln did for a real one.
theunpopulist.net
Trump Is Destroying the U.S. Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American Cities
Lincoln faced a real insurrection and still did not go as far as this president
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
SCOOP: PA prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parent's address in Pennsylvania for years. Me with @marisakabas.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com
MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.
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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Brilliance from @mcsweeneys.net: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ign...
mcsweeneys.net
Ignorance Isn’t the Absence of Knowledge; It Is the Presence of Maximum Comfort
“We are going to have to live here with one another, believing what we believe, disagreeing in the ways we disagree… To recognize that does not mea...
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mattarrojas.bsky.social @mattarrojas.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Discovered both Ed and What Next TBD this year, both quickly became must-read/listens, and now they're together at last 💪
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mattarrojas.bsky.social @mattarrojas.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"Typically, people familiar with CP3 say, a candidate that green wouldn’t have gotten an interview for a junior position, much less be hired to run operations."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2025
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
“.. DOGE increasingly looks like a giant joke as the initiative winds up saving essentially zero dollars for US taxpayers .” - Vital Knowledge @politico.com 🇺🇸 www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Wrote about AI, and the way we talk about it all having the quality of a ghost story. open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
open.substack.com
The Spectral Evidence for AI
AI is bad enough on its own without giving it god-like powers
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 30/07/2025
NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —
wired.com
Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work
A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.
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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
While you're here please read my article at this paywall free link!! Is AI killing graduate jobs? - on.ft.com/3TWSU0I via @FT
on.ft.com
Is AI killing graduate jobs?
[FREE TO READ] Factors including economic uncertainty and offshoring may be more responsible for a decline in entry-level roles
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/07/2025
Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...
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mattarrojas.bsky.social @mattarrojas.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"It’s a call to recognize how technology and power are intimately linked, and how the United States uses its technological dominance to maintain its power and ensure it can push around countries and people that are technologically inferior."
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mattarrojas.bsky.social @mattarrojas.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Oh cool, more man-made horrors beyond comprehension
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mattarrojas.bsky.social @mattarrojas.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
“'We are living off the fumes of what was delivered in late 2024 or early 2025,' Landis said. On a recent visit to a facility treating malnourished children younger than 5, she said she saw kids who were 'walking skeletons like I haven’t seen in a decade.'”
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mattarrojas.bsky.social @mattarrojas.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
"Libya operates numerous detention facilities for refugees and migrants. Amnesty International branded those sites 'horrific' and 'a hellscape' in a 2021 report."
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mattarrojas.bsky.social @mattarrojas.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
"As is often is the case with Mr. Trump’s declarations on social media, it was not entirely clear what he was talking about."
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 01/05/2025
This is an athlete Trump doesn't want you to know about. He's a pro soccer goalie with no criminal record. He legally immigrated to the US, fleeing persecution from Venezuela's dictator. But the White House disappeared him to El Salvador — because of a tattoo: www.youtube.com/watch?si=zNc...
youtube.com
Trump Deported This Goalkeeper to a Terrorist Prison — for a Real Madrid Tattoo | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/05/2025
“Never before in American history have foreign governments, as well as people and corporations under investigation, so overtly and directly funneled vast sums to the president of the United States and his family. This is far more than is captured by the term ‘conflict of interest.’"
wired.com
As Trump’s Family Crypto Business Gains Steam, Ethical Concerns Mount
A crypto company part-owned by the Trump family stands to earn millions of dollars from a business deal involving a state-backed investment fund from the UAE. The arrangement amounts to “foreign polic...
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mattarrojas.bsky.social @mattarrojas.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"But when an administration is making such a concerted effort to stifle assessments of government and society at large, it is hard not to conclude that it lacks confidence in the efficacy of its current national overhaul."
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mattarrojas.bsky.social @mattarrojas.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Such a cool story, insanely bummer ending 😕 "The Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut NASA’s science budget in half, eliminating future space telescope and other astrobiology projects. If that happens, Dr. Krissansen-Totton said, “the search for life elsewhere would basically stop.”
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