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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 6h

it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA

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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

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Taking Action 4 US🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇨🇦🇩🇪📚📗 @takingaction4us.bsky.social · 6h

“Sabotage, assassinations, hacker attacks, disinformation…are already part of an undeclared war... Jäger’s words are of particular public interest. That's a good thing, because the German public needs a more informed debate about the increasingly endangered security.”

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Russia Feb 2022: We need to invade Ukraine as they have biolabs producing Russophobic weaponised bats that make people gay. Russia Oct 2026: Someone died at one of our biolabs that makes the bubonic plague.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 6h

Who could have imagined that the exact same sort of trumped up anti-science attacks on gender affirming care could be used against doctors and parents for vaccinating kids? Oh right, me.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h

They’re framed as a contagion ruining otherwise virtuous suburban lives, luring their innocent children into lurid and seedy relationships with racial minorities who may have sex with them.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11h

“The Trump administration is pursuing deals with allied nations to extend its offensive to land across multiple Latin American countries.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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U.S. military says latest strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean kills 4

The military didn’t provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 7h

#Kharkiv 💔 A Russian strike on Kharkiv with at least three guided aerial bombs killed 6 people and injured 59 others. The bombs struck civilian businesses and an area near a residential high-rise. A warehouse and a production building caught fire.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 9h

The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 7h

Raiding the treasury to bribe people for support is exactly what congress is meant to not allow

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 9h

Yeah, this is a big time impeachment abuse of power.

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 7h

Republicans are basically toxic people in a toxic relationship having a moment of clarity before going back to the toxic situation they helped create. I do at least enjoy them going through it.

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 7h

I think this materially misses the dynamics in both the US and Brazil electorates.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10h

This is a very good story. Yet it's amazing to see the New York Times continually miss the forest for the trees.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 9h

The NYT is ok with extremist ideology as an anecdote in a profile—but highly allergic to any deeper examination of the ideology itself. No one gets to write an op-ed explaining any of this. That’s not allowed. But a billionaire can drop it in a quote as a passing comment.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 9h

It’s not just one billionaire. It’s a full-blown cult of billionaires who believe dictatorship should replace democracy—and that technology (crypto and AI) will make this inevitable. They say it loud. Some guy just wrote a book about it (That guy is me!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

simonandschuster.com

The Nerd Reich

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires ...

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10h

“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)

Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 7h

This piece highlights something that doesn't get talked enough: Progressives should put forward a proposed set of rules for a new congress to facilitate defeating the far right and actually legislate.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h

I think that @aselrod.bsky.social is right that the attention economy does bad things to our brains, whether or not those things qualify as addiction www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...

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Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater

Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.

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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 10h

to be perfectly honest i think assad and his allies probably have more to do with the half a million dead on account of them being the people physically dropping the bombs and shooting the bullets

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 9h

Every Kremlin accusation is a confession.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Evidently, Trump himself has repeatedly asked former Nixon aides why he resigned instead of staying in office ... Meanwhile, the Trump administration has undermined protections put in after Watergate in order to allow an even wider breadth of corrupt activity, with less oversight[.]"

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 9h

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 8h

Russia has been blocking Signal/WhatsApp/Telegram and it has made VK's Max increasingly mandatory to reach govt services. We assumed it was a privacy nightmare, but InterSecLab brings the goods: interseclab.org/research/max/

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The Max Messenger: An Analysis of Russia’s State-Mandated Messaging Application

VK can change what the Russian Max messenger does to you, one user at a time. Its surveillance features can be switched on without you noticing. Read our full analysis.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 11h

I'm old enough to remember when Altman's branding was that OpenAI was a non-profit because its mission was to benefit society. Now we must all accept the damage and risk so that he can get rich.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, patron saint of Republicans raping children. Are they going to have him lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 11h

This is a great way to light your reputation on fire

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 11h

A man’s body lies in the courtyard of a building struck by a Russian glide bomb in Kharkiv... At least 3 people have now been confirmed killed by russian attack and 39 others injured. Russian terrorism is constant and staggeringly cruel. It must be stopped.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 12h

But, just let me say the same thing about taxes, and everyone in Silicon Valley loses their fucking minds. You know what, Sam? Fuck you, that's what. And MOST ESPECIALLY, no bailouts ever, at any time, for any entity touching this space.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I bet they experimented with bioweapons in those *ahem* biolabs of theirs.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 11h

🚨 BREAKING: Three people were killed and 39 injured following a Russian airstrike on Kharkiv.

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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 11h

It’s a complete disgrace that the U.S. government isn’t doing more to help Ukraine! 🇺🇦 Individuals can help a little, but it’s going to take much more than that. (*gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/w...

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Trapped in a Kill Zone, a Ukrainian City Is Beginning to Starve (Gift Article)

Evacuation is almost impossible and food is running out in Russian-occupied Oleshky, a city menaced by mines and drones.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11h

I love when White House reporters assure us that Karoline Leavitt was an entirely different person off the record as if that's not key to the whole Trump regime's press manipulation strategy.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11h

Of course when Russia said Ukraine had bioweapons labs what they really meant was that they did. There's a lot we don't know about the current situation. Russia should be bringing in experts from the WHO to clarify and advise. Will they? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

washingtonpost.com

U.S. officials seeking details of reported Russian plague death, quarantines

Officials said they need to learn more about the evolving situation before determining the potential threat to the United States.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 11h

fist-pumped at this, this is one of the things I was hoping to hear like, the oil companies are the ones asking for something unprecedented and ridiculous, not the state and local governments who have been harmed by their conduct and want them to pay for it

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 11h

“Charged political climate” is quite a euphemism for a military occupation

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 13h

It’s all stable at Russian petrol stations: there’s no petrol, but there are queues.

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Gary Swergold MD, PhD @gs314.bsky.social · 11h

The American political Wright has created a job sector in which lying is a requirement for employment

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

They aren’t just stealing everything that is left they are making sure only men can hoard it. I don’t know what else to tell you.

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

we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.

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

He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it.

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 11h

Rahm Emanuel's whole purpose is to keep Netanyahu unaccountable for his zionist ethnic cleansing to continue, so setting aside plans to impeach Trump sets the stage for more fascist enabling. bsky.app/profile/nbcn...

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Alexander @ajdajuiceman.bsky.social · 11h

Any elected Dems taking advice from fossils like Rahm or Carville need to go. These people are the epitome of out of touch establishment Dems that lead to Trump’s rise in the first place.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11h

What the Laquan McDonald cover-up guy advocating against holding people accountable for doing things like wantonly killing people under the auspices of public safety?!

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11h

fierce and nimble speaker! the very successful Republican gambit to replace real news with propaganda doesn't exist as a concept in establishment brunchlord journalism

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 11h

Our politics have become completely amoral. Obviously, having Trump dominate everything is a huge part of that, but we've also accepted crypto, gambling, AI, prediction markets etc. with no regard for the moral consequences. There is market for *moral* politics that is wildly underserved.

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