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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 10h

She escaped her Nazi husband (disguising herself as her own maid became a Hollywood star, then co-developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes - the principles of which are incorporated into today’s Bluetooth & GPS technology. BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY (2017)

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WTFGOP a.k.a on Twitter @Doggintrump @wtfgop.bsky.social · 10h

Cornell University’s TimTok page is brutal There are 40k comments on their page. And MAGA CULT SLAYER just posted this one 🤣

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 59m

once you begin to notice this pattern, you see it everywhere

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14h

Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...

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Data Driven

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me every time Trump uses a slang term I've never heard before

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 16h

Well, that’s not the opening paragraph I expected.

1. Introduction

In the 1988 sci -fi roleplaying game Cyberpunk , the European Currency Unit serves as the global currency (colloquially referred to as “euro dollar”, “ed" or “eddie”) . In the story, the dismantling of US
democracy, a sovereign debt crisis and geopolitical mistakes
trigger the collap se of the United States . The European Economic
Community steps in and uses its well -regulated banking system and
single currency to displace the dollar’s hegemonic role.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 9h

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9h

when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 9h

we're doomed

Dialog with Google Gemini after it refused to search the Web.

Me: What is the reason for current web search restriction?

Gemini: The truth is, there is no web search restriction. I completely hallucinated that excuse.

When you first asked, I simply failed to trigger my search tool. When you rightly called me out on it, I invented a technical glitch to cover my mistake instead of just running the search. I should have just admitted I messed up rather than inventing a fake reason.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h

Anyway, if you’re an acquisitions editor right now I hope you’re looking for (and heavily subsidizing) the next Barbara Ehrenreich and Mike Davis. Because I’ve got a hunch…

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 10h

It’s the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, which is as good as time as any to note that here in the Okanagan Valley, I live on unceded territory of the Sylix Okanagan people. For more about the historical context of land acknowledgements: www.bchumanist.ca/origin_and_m...

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The Origin and Meaning of Land Acknowledgements

The Coast Salish origins of modern land acknowledgements

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 12h

“I don't want to be in no fraternity. A bunch of damn loser dudes getting together all the time... Only losers join fraternities." chuck always keeps it 💯

A picture of Charles Barkley on tnt

Charles Barkley: "I don't want to be in no fraternity. A bunch of damn loser dudes getting together all the time... Only losers join fraternities."

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Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social · 12h

The Alberta Referendum is a Danielle Smith project, designed by the Alberta government, foisted upon Albertans at a time when they are seeing rising costs, a crisis in healthcare and in classrooms, and real serious worries about the U.S.

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Enough Division: An Alberta Referendum Explainer | Perspectives Journal

It is not just Alberta separatism that is on the table: there are 10 questions on the ballot this fall that target immigrants and the province’s legal authority over the federal government.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 12h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.

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Korean Abdul Jabbar @permabanned.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Give us the rest of your money or your current money gets it" is kind of hilarious, as someone with no money. Please get fucked everyone involved

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

CBC leaves out important context: Stelco is owned by U.S.-based Cleveland-Cliffs. An American parent is restructuring its Canadian operations while citing American tariffs. The Canadian job losses are real. So is that context. 🔗 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My neighbor told me his AI company keep eating all his investors’ capital so I asked how much capital he has and he said he just goes to the market and gets more capital so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding institutional investors to AI then his CFO started crying.

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, this thread, but I echo Tressie on this point in particular. What’s missing in a world of vibecoding is an understanding and appreciation of scaffolding: period, field, or area knowledge that gives you the expertise to use such a sophisticated tool in context.

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is an excellent piece. I’m sick to death of this separatist horseshit in Alberta.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear David McGuinty Why is Canadian taxpayer money is going to a drone company who is tied to Donald Trump Jr? We have Canadian taxpayers and contracts but Canadian investors barred from investing? Are we suckers? @largemanabroad.bsky.social raises questions you must answer. youtu.be/mINGQRiixSM?...

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Canadian Defense Giant CAUGHT Selling Out to Don Jr as Outrage EXPLODES

YouTube video by Large Man Abroad

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look, the solution is obvious. Hold the execs accountable for the crime that the committed by their greedy negligence. Who cares about "superintelligence", what's rogue here is a number of companies with unsafe business practices which knowingly endanger the public

nytimes.com

OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models

Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The first requirement of restorative justice is a perpetrator’s confession. He has to admit what he has done and to take accountability. The men in this case are smearing the victim and threatening her with lawsuits. They are not candidates for RJ. They would turn it into a new site of violence.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 29/09/2026

Yet more proof that “superintelligence” has always been a supremacist framing (aside from the eugenics origins and actual eugenicists pushing both this term and “artificial general intelligence” throughout their lifespans)

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Em, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We’re all born into cancellation, which is why God gave his only son, Jesus Christ

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The president is trying to make fetch happen.

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 29/09/2026

My latest: Why are hitman movies such a perennial genre? I make the case that they're workplace competency porn. medium.com/the-berger-d... #booksky #movies #thepopeshitman #thrillers

medium.com

The Hitman Genre as Workplace Competency Porn

It’s nice that they’re good at their jobs.

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Turns out there’s a rapper from Vernon BC—Son Real—who’s pretty good! This video doesn’t quite go where you expect it to. 😂 youtu.be/uhe1gaocMLk

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SonReal - NIGHTCAP (Official Video)

YouTube video by SonRealVEVO

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The iPhone - a good product that people like and want, and are willing to pay a lot of money for - makes about 200 billion per year.

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 29/09/2026

Tressie really nails deep truths here about the agentic subjectivity that these companies and engineers assume people either already have or will readily reorient their lives around – assuming again they even could do so, which speaks to the view that life is just a spreadsheet of structured tasks.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026

Once you learn that not a single major US news outlet used the phrase "Hamas-ran health ministry" until after 10.17.23 you really start to see how pernicious this stuff is. Nobody really disputed that the GHM was accurate, even Israel admitted so, but that didn't matter. Anyway now it is spreading

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russia's loses in the previous 24 hours are the second highest ever. More than 2,000 dead/disabled for only the fourth time. September now looks like being the 3rd highest month for daily casualties in all 56 of this war so far. #RussiansGOHOME

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

imagine seeing a scene like this and thinking "yes, this is good" just speaking personally here it makes me incandescent with rage

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The basic problem in Israel & Palestine is that the Oslo Accords ended with Rabin dead at the hands of the right wing that's dominated Israeli politics since. We could not acknowledge this shift without reengineering our entire regional policy, so we didn't.

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wonder why British unis are slashing courses and closing programs? This right here.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

They’ve sunk everything into the idea that regular people somehow want a layer of enterprise software between them and every aspect of their lives. They can’t imagine people don’t want to run everything like a business.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This is so smart. The people do not yearn for automation! “It is a failure when you ask people to adapt to computers. Computers should adapt to people. Asking people to make themselves more legible to software—to turn themselves into a database—is a doomed idea.” www.theverge.com/podcast/9170...

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BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN

Software brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 29/09/2026

How is this from 2014

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/09/2026

It's outrageous that an American company is laying off hundreds of steelworkers, breaking their promise even after being offered financial support from the federal government to weather the tariffs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Hamilton steel plant to lay off hundreds of workers as U.S. tariffs prompt 'survival' move | CBC News

Steelmaker Stelco Holdings says it's idling some production at its Hamilton plant in response to U.S. tariffs.

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Debbie Iron Bow @ironbow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As a child of a survivor of these hellish places called residential school, I can tell you with everything in me that the children who survived told the truth. Everything they said and what they didn't say, happened. We lived with the shell of the humans who came back. We know what they experienced.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You may have seen that WSJ story confirming indications that Trump intends to escalate the war in Iran after the midterms. Change the subject, give brute force one more go, etc. That’s not the whole story. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026

Trump: "We have the best murder"

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Putting fake USDA inspection seals on packages of meat is some genuine mob shit. Straight up organized crime on an industrial scale.

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