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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and those qualities dovetail with the physical and economic contingency you see in industrialized states, creating a sort of 'network man' to replace hitler's "mass man." network man is isolated from his fellows and watches andrew tate videos www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...

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Japan’s Cynical Romantics, Precursors to the Alt-Right

I still remember when I encountered my first far-right netizen in the wild. It happened in 2011 while I was living in Japan. Internet citizens, netizens for short, referred to Japanese who practically...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

To understand the truth about the Hugging Face hack, you could do a lot worse than to listen to Ed Zitron and Cal Newport's recent podcast conversation on Ed's "Better Offline" podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal Newport

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · August 26 · 1h 5m

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 04/09/2026

The Hugging Face incident may turn out to be one of the most important milestones/warnings in technological revolution now underway. History may look back at this moment/point to it. Everyone should be reading ab it and thinking about it. Here are a few good pieces: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...

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Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Gift Article)

The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Besides being deeply cynical, Chomsky’s supposed pragmatism has not stood the test of time...We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy." Very harsh but worthwhile read. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...

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Chomsky After Epstein - Strange Matters

Noam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better?

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Observing The City @observingthecity.ca · 24/08/2026

A few interesting observations about where people want to live in Toronto. First, the most desirable areas map almost perfectly to the areas that have lost the most population since 1971.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

the issue i have with this is that small accounts are, as rao put it here, often operating as feudal vassals of larger ones ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/t...

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The Internet of Beefs

You’ve heard me talk about crash-only programming , right? It's a programming paradigm for critical infrastructure systems, where there is -- by design -- no…

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“The first step is for court reformers to recognize the justices are not real judges. Ending life tenure, imposing a binding ethics code, and legislation making it more difficult for the justices to strike down laws should be the starting points of reform.” www.jurist.org/commentary/2...

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The Supreme Court Is Not a Court — and Reform Must Start There

Whether the issue is redistricting, affirmative action, voting rights, abortion, presidential immunity, or any of the other country-defining questions that the Roberts Court has decided over the last....

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Gentle density reform in Toronto has been a waste of time. After 4.5 years, 1,200 net new homes. That’s 266 homes/year, equal to one highrise apartment building. And that’s not counting multiplexes being “deconverted” to houses. malcolmkennedy.com/to-multiplex...

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Toronto Multiplex Tracker — Map of Gentle Density Permits

An interactive map of every new multiplex in Toronto: duplexes through six-plexes, laneway and garden suites, and secondary suites. Built from City of Toronto building permits and refreshed every day.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

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Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.

Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/08/2026

"The shittiness of X is the point, so to speak. It’s a slag heap, a mental waste dump, a sewer." www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-yo...

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This Is Your Brain on X

Shifting the Vibes Again

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

User of the web, have you ever asked yourself, "where is this coming from?" I have. We all know this, of course, but it is well described here by Siva Vaidhyanathan. "Having organized the web, Google now proposes to replace it." www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Research here suggests question: What would it look like for traditional parties to organize continuously rather than episodically? Not just parachuting in at election time, but building relationships, skills, and trust through year-round work in communities. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...

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Inside the Democratic Socialist uprising - Niskanen Center

Candidates affiliated with (or sympathetic to) the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) have recently won several Democratic primaries.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Like, the answer is not “character is nothing,” the answer is simply a broader conception of character. Politeness is only one part of it.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

News — University of Central Florida (UCF) abruptly shut down two of its three libraries today, plus an important resource desk within the main library. Staff were given no warning. UCF is the 2nd largest public university in the country w/ ~70k students. Library hours page confirming closures:

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Jason Cox @jasoncoxnc.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

From NACTO & the USDOT Volpe Center re: research supporting the downsizing of fire trucks in urban areas. 1/ Smaller, more maneuverable emergency response trucks often have similar, or **better**, capabilities than the most common trucks on U.S. streets.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 15/06/2026

In January 2024, Bologna became the first major Italian city to implement a 30 km/h speed limit. Despite initial pushback, the "Città 30” initiative has delivered measurable improvements in road safety, public health, air/noise quality and travel behaviour—with no measurable impact on travel times.🧵

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, drive, and ride public transportation along the low-traffic streets of Bologna, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/h speed limit signage and road markings.

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 11/06/2026

All the controversies over Mayor Bass' ED 1 obscure the big headline: it's a hugely successful program that has already led to thousands of affordable apartments built at zero taxpayer expense, and it's just getting started. A 🧵:

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Everybody is wrong about ED 1

Ignore the haters. Mayor Bass' signature housing policy is a big success.

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J. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

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Jason Cox @jasoncoxnc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Ever wonder how the International Code Council handles voting for building code changes? You're going to love it, I promise 1st, only governmental members may vote; I.e. code officials. 2nd, the voting structure (see next) heavily weights votes in favor of smaller jurisdictions.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A detail that has really stuck with me about Tony Judt‘s ‘Postwar’ was the section about how hundreds of thousands of ex-Nazis went on to become East German communist apparatchiks Flunkies like Flanagan remind me of these characters—not truly attached to an ideology so much as place in the in-group

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/06/2026

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

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Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet

It’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

publiccomment.blog/p/hyperfascism

I would like to suggest that Trumpism is best understood as a species of what I’m going to call hyperfascism. By “hyperfascism,” I don’t mean “superfascism” or anything like that. Instead, I’m using the hyper- prefix in a way similar to how Baudrillard deploys it in his definition of hyperreality as a sort of representation that is more “real” than whatever it was originally meant to represent. (He uses Disneyland as an example of the paradigmatic hyperreal space.) I’m also influenced by Anton Jäger’s suggestion that “hyperpolitics”—or constant and frenetic political activity in the absence of any structures that might convert this activity into real institutional change—is the dominant political register in 21st-century Western democracies.

So what is hyperfascism? It is hyperreal, hyperpolitical fascism. It’s a dramatic reenactment of totalitarian domination in a time and place where the infrastructure for real totalitarianism is nowhere to be found. It’s the signs and symbols of fascism detached from the machinery of the Nazi war economy or the large-scale, organized street violence of the Italian blackshirts.

Make no mistake: hyperfascism is still fascism. But it is a shallow sort of fascism, obsessed with outward appearances and completely uninterested in everything else. It is as if the architects of the Trump regime had cribbed their entire governing agenda from cheap cyberpunk thrillers about fascist dystopias. They certainly haven’t given much thought to how authoritarian regimes consolidate popular consent; in fact, they’re acting like the 2024 election represented the end of politics, and therefore the end of any need on their part to modulate their behavior in order to ensure regime stability.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

My Go Big or Go Home thoughts for this Saturday: I make the case for why we should consider amending the Constitution to create a fourth branch open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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We Need a Fourth Branch

Why our most vital institutions should be placed in a constitutional vault - beyond the reach of any President.

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

NOW: Hundreds of Solidarity Guard activists in Jerusalem to provide protective presence during the notoriously violent Flag March, when extremist settlers flood the city and Palestinian residents close their businesses and hide inside for fear of being spat on, pushed, and called slurs. (1/2)

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Element @element.io · 22/04/2026

🇪🇺Digitally sovereign communications rely on open standards to enable vendor-neutral federation and prevent lock-in. We’ve mapped European public sector deployments supporting Matrix-based federation. @matrix.org enables: 🔐Sovereignty 🔗Interoperability 🚫No vendor lock-in element.io/blog/digital...

European public sector communications that support Matrix open standard

AOK, BARMER, BEAM (Belgian Secure Communications), BundesMessenger, BwMessenger (BWI), ByCS-Messenger, Delta, ePost (Swiss post), European Commission, Famedly GmbH, FITKO (Föderale IT-Kooperation), grnet, IKK classic, KBS, KKH Kaufmännische Krankenkasse, LaSuite (Direction interministérielle du numérique (DINUM)), Logineo NRW, Luxchat, luxchat4gov, Meedio, Merkury (Ministerstwo obrony narodowej), MijnBureau (NL digital government), NI²CE (NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT)), neoboard (Nordeck), Rocket.Chat, SAFOS (Försäkringskassan), Schulchat RLP, Techniker Krankenkasse, Tchap (Direction interministérielle du numérique (DINUM)), TI-Messenger (gematik), UNICC, openDesk (Zentrum Digitale Souveränität (ZenDiS)).

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Oh hey, I am once again going to talk about lack of distress tolerance, specifically for shame, and how it ties together AI, the “male loneliness epidemic,” Trumpism, and yes, people’s indignation that anyone might think they’re a bad person for continuing to buy Harry Potter merch.

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Love this "hill of hysteria" concept 🎯! During every street redesign in Seattle, NIMBYs say it's going to "ruin the neighborhood"... but it doesn't. "Change is hard and even if a decision maker is convinced it's going to be for the better there is always resistance" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgRT...

graph, things get really hard for a while, then the project is implemented and things quiet down again

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 25/04/2026

56. Administration fires National Science Board, the governing board of the National Science Foundation, presumably as part of an effort to erode the institutional structures that protect the independence of NSF

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

That architecture has now been replaced. Social media platforms curate what most people see. Their logic isn't verification, it's engagement. Whatever holds attention gets amplified, regardless of truth or consequence.

A side-by-side infographic titled "The Great Information Shift: Pyramid vs. Network," with a dark blue banner header and subtitle about the move from 20th-century top-down control to 21st-century decentralised information flow.
Left half — "20th Century: Hierarchical Pyramid": A pyramid made of blue blocks, narrowing to a single block at the top crowned with a microphone and a crown icon, labelled "Top-Down Authority." The middle layer is labelled "Institutional Gatekeepers (Centralized Verification)." At the base, a crowd of grey silhouetted figures represents the "Passive Public (One-Way Flow)." Blue arrows point only downward from the top through the gatekeepers to the public, emphasising the unidirectional nature of information.
Right half — "21st Century: Flat Network": A web of interconnected orange nodes and lines forming a dense mesh. The nodes are all roughly equal in size and represent different actors — icons depict news outlets, social media likes, megaphones, cameras, screens, and people — labelled collectively as "Equal Nodes: Institutions, Influencers, Citizens." At the centre sits a gear-like icon labelled "Algorithmic Amplification." Orange arrows radiate outward in all directions between nodes. The bottom label reads "Multidirectional Exchange (Real-time Feedback)," and a side label identifies participants as "Producer-Consumers."
The overall argument is that information flow has shifted from a hierarchical, one-way broadcast model to a flat, many-to-many networked model where everyone both produces and consumes content, mediated by algorithmic amplification rather than institutional gatekeeping.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

OpenAI's Sora and Meta's metaverse were shuttered the same week. Both were defined by an aesthetic that embodies Silicon Valley's current project: to undermine labor, replace art + lived experience with digital facsimiles, and extract value at any cost. And users recoiled at the mere sight of them.

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AI's aesthetics of failure

On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop

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Garrett Epps @garrettepps.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

If American-born children are not U.S. citizens, where would we deport them? Do Stephen Miller et. al. actually want to deport them? I suspect not. The Trump project has never been about deportation but about keeping noncitizens working for "real Americans." washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/30/b...

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Birthright Citizenship: Supreme Court Could Create an Exploitable Noncitizen Class

Trump’s bid to strip birthright citizenship from millions is a moral, administrative, and legal catastrophe.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 20/03/2026

ALSO, instead of consulting Adrian Vermeule and Montesquieu to understand the right way to think about a constitutional membership rule in a republic formed on the ashes of slavery, we should consult Frederick Douglass, who fought for that rule. FFS. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The industrial policy that helped spawn the world's biggest semiconductor manufacturer traces directly back to the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority asteriskmag.com/issues/13/th...

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 18/03/2026

A doorfietsroute (high-quality cycling route) is designed to enable fast, safe, and comfortable cycling over longer distances. Per CROW, five essential characteristics define such routes. Together, these elements ensure cycling becomes a competitive alternative to the car, especially for commuting.🧵

People in casual spring attire ride bicycles and mobility scooters along a continuous regional cycling highway in natural and built-up areas between Waalwijk and Tilburg in the Netherlands.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 07/03/2026

“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender.” 💯 - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

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Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 01/03/2026

Waymo blocks first responders at scene of mass shooting in Austin

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I can't believe it's been 7 1/2 years since @atherton.bsky.social scared the shit out of me with this great primer on the thorny issues around AI-driven autonomous weapons, and things have only gotten scarier www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/m...

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Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons (Published 2018)

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This is still one of my favourite videos ever, perfectly explaining the staggering amount of public money that’s going into NOT solving traffic congestion. “It means you spend a lot of money now for a very short-term benefit." Jevon’s Paradox via Australia’s great show “Utopia.” Please share!

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How to Fix Traffic Congestion In Australia | Utopia

YouTube video by Working Dog Productions

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 31/01/2026

On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville. On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”. In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.

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address of where to meet. ? it is not a ease, it is the condo purchase, in a corporate name. w=ll explain all tomrmorw
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Tomorrow at 1pm wor=s. We have a commitment around 4pm.
|= will be great to see you. And please give us some advices. We=found out that the lease of the condo in Cambridge seems to have been put =nder one of the trusts without Noam's authorization or even his knowle=ge (there were lots of papers to sign when we closed the deal). Not =ure yet because the answers are too slow -- something that seems unreasona=le to me.
Best,
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Probably can't get there before Thursday... Ho= long are you in NYC? I may be there later this week...
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leave santa fe wed morning, see chomsky and fly to new yok. you should see santa fe, you will I=ke it. tues ?
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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

My theory for North America is that this is the consequence of the fact that every urban profession shifted to work in the wrong field: road engineers design public spaces (it should be planners), planners meddle with architecture via design reqs/codes. Architects became façadists.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16/01/2026

Trump shares some interesting company as the last person to be gifted a Nobel Prize medal they did not earn was Joseph Goebbels.

Not all stories around Nobel Prize medals are positive, however, and some of the choices made by laureates were quite controversial.

Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920, reportedly gave his medal to Nazi Germany's Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels during World War II.

Hamsun, who met with Adolf Hitler and Goebbels in 1943, was a Nazi sympathiser who supported the German occupation of Norway. Historical accounts indicate he gave his Nobel medal to Goebbels as a symbolic gesture of support.

Hamsun's reputation was destroyed after the war, although his literary works continue to be studied.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Increasingly it's clearer to a lot of people what i have been saying for a while: people use "inflation" and "prices" to talk about their own difficulty making ends meet or affording big ticket items once "inflation" became a big media news story. It's not actually about CPI or even increases.

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Sightline Institute @sightline.org · 11/01/2026

The United States has the fewest elevators in the rich world, with Canada only a bit ahead. We teamed up with @uytaelee.bsky.social of About Here Videos to investigate why, exactly, North America sucks at elevators.

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North America's Elevator Problem

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

1. Term limits make legislators less experienced and capable. This means fewer & worse laws pass. It also empowers governors (neutral change), bureaucrats (a little bad) and lobbyists (very bad). 2. Term limits reduce legislators’ incentives to listen to or care about voters.

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