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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 01/10/2026

Another week, another “we’re vaguely familiar with the basic premise of the story while at the same time wilfully missing the entire point” moment

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Is this a 3D model?
@IsThisA3DModel

80% of the children who accepted Wonka's Golden Ticket died

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@JoshDaws
Rejecting Al is like refusing Wonka's golden ticket.
Anything you want to, do it Wanna change the world?
There's nothing to it

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dave Matthews from the Dave Matthew's Band holds two signs during his concert reading “stop killing children” and “stop the genocide” in solidarity with Palestine

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I cannot tell you what absolute fiction this is. AI is heading for a crash and this cackhanded Terminator narrative is being engineered to save them. The fact that the unsubstantiated testimony of a former employee has been the top story on BBC News all day is absurd and irresponsible.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026

so unfair that you might be attacked for just wanting a white ethnostate anyway after like a decade plus of usage i canceled my @1password.bsky.social subscription and switched to apple passwords. took 15 minutes.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

fuck

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Almost every US city that existed in the 19thC, even the ones that are suburbs now, had an extensive, busy, and much loved local streetcar and/or train system. They all got yanked out when cars took over, and we've suffered for it ever since.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i dunno, man, you could just make time for your kid

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mgiraldo.bsky.social @mgiraldo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

it’s wild that there can be FIFTEEN US military bases in the Persian Gulf alone

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 23/08/2026

There was like this weird 2 week window where all the NFT guys on Twitter became obsessed with trying to explain to authors how this was the future of ebooks because you could sell one copy and no one else would have it so it would be so valuable, and I think about them sometimes. 😂

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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

Amazing

In the week after the June 24 primary election for mayor, I was determined to meet with voters in conservative neighborhoods where
Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D-Astoria), a democratic socialist, had performed surprisingly well. In a Howard Beach precinct where Mamdani won, I met a couple who, despite being conservative, voted for Mamdani because they bizarrely thought he had run "to the right" of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and also believed he was Italian-American, as his name ended in an
"'" and he was from Astoria.
When I dug further into why they thought he was running "to the right" of Cuomo, they noted that it was because he discussed "prices" and
"cost of living," as Donald Trump had in 2024.
They both voted for Trump. They had a hard time believing Mamdani was a socialist because they believed socialists "support making everything more expensive. 1"

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

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mgiraldo.bsky.social @mgiraldo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“When a Wellington bookseller realises that a mysterious and avaricious foreign buyer is AI giant Anthropic: www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/w... ‘Our role is to keep books alive, to keep them in the world.’” via @julian0liver.bsky.social

rnz.co.nz

Wellington second-hand bookstore’s mysterious orders

Book Haven in Wellington's Newtown started to receive more orders than it could possibly handle.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Eight months ago, This American Life sent reporters from Chicago to cover the protests and counter-protests outside the ICE facility in Portland. They chose Karlyn Borsynko to be their local guide to the world of Antifa. What they failed to mention is that KB self-identifies as a fascist.

This American Life
877 | December 19, 2025
The Making Of
How one block in Portland, Oregon became a movie-set war zone that lots of people think is a real war zone.

Karlyn Borysenko, anti-comm... • X.com @DrKarlynB
I'm not actually fucking around when I say I'm a fascist.
Most people are not willing to do what is required to defeat the left.
Karlyn Borysenko, anti-communist cu... • .2h Fascist. By which I mean I would put communists in a concentration camp until I can deport them to a third world country, and ban the publication of their ideas.
1:47 PM • 8/10/26 • 1.4K Views

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A company in Mexico hired a stray orange cat as its Emotional Support Director and named him “Miauricio.” Daily duties include roaming the workplace, delivering smiles & reducing stress levels. He has his own workspace and ID badge. #AGoodPlace

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Katherine the Sixth @luigithirty.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

if your government software looks like this, it will never break, never need replacement, and will work on every computer since we landed on the moon

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It seems like the novelty of the thing you can generate over and over again yourself would wear off...quite quickly. futurism.com/artificial-i...

For Daozhi Xu, a researcher at Macquarie University who published an analysis of the “AI children’s book boom,” this isn’t surprising.

“Children do not love a storybook simply because their name or image appears in the story; they love the book because the story itself is interesting,” Xu told Wired.

“Compared with human-authored books,” Xu adds, the AI-generated versions “often lack humor, memorable characters, and dramatic tension.”

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

People have been talking up the new newsletter Worse on Purpose, which exposes corporate consolidation and enshittification. It's very appealing, but as I write at Cup of Coffee today, the vibes are way off and I think people should be wary. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

This is the sort of thing that's right the hell up my alley. But it's so up my alley that it made me wonder why such a beast is just emerging right now, from a person no one has ever heard of, as opposed to a few years ago from a better-known anti-corporate crusader or institution. And, more to the point, it made me wonder how Sapp was putting out articles that clearly required a lot of research every week or two weeks when such exposés are normally the sort of thing that can take journalists with resources several weeks to research and write.

So I did some searching to figure out Sapp and his whole deal.

The first thing that raised a red flag was his LinkedIn page, which reveals that, until just last month – three months after he began Worse on Purpose – Sapp worked for Palantir, which is Peter Theil's AI company. Before that Sapp was a co-founder of the AI chatbot company Indigo. Which is, to say the least, a curious path for a guy who wants to blow the lid off of corporate and financial excesses and who cares about everyday consumers like you and me.

So I searched some more and found a post on Y Combinator's news page in which people are asserting that Worse on Purpose is an AI-written project that is cynically leveraging anti-corporate topics with big populist appeal as a means of inuring people – especially otherwise skeptical people like me – to AI "journalism."

That ultimate conclusion skews a bit conspiracy theorist for my tastes, but (a) Sapp does not state his own AI credentials on his site nor are there any disclaimers such as "article partially composed by AI" that you are increasingly seeing (he does have a button connecting his LinkedIn page); (b) there are a lot of unsourced anecdotes and pieces of information in his articles for which you'd normally expect to find at least some sort of sourcing; and (c) most notably, I ran a couple of articles through multiple AI-detection apps and they all light up as highly probable for AI composition.

To be sure, those detectors are, themselves, often unreliable, so I spent a little time early this morning doublechecking facts on one of the articles – the mattress one – to see if Sapp, or his AI bot, were playing super fast and loose with either his facts or characterizations. I obviously did not have the time to be super exhaustive or anything, but most of the broad claims (i.e. who bought which company and when, etc.) check out. Which I think they'd have to because if they didn't he'd be sued into oblivion by the deep-pocketed companies his bots are writing about. That said, the lack of sourcing gives me pause and I am highly, highly skeptical of this whole project.

Maybe Sapp is someone who simply got disillusioned with the world of hypercapitalism, cashed out, and created Worse on Purpose as a soul-cleansing passion project. But if that were the case I doubt he'd start it while still employed by Palantir. And I doubt he'd farm it out to AI to write, which I strongly suspect he did. And even if he did, I'd hope he'd say so. I'll leave the allegations that the site is just some grand psyop aimed at suckering the populace into trusting AI slop to people who are better able to figure such things out, but for now I'll leave it at "this gives me really bad vibes" and suggest that people either steer away from it or treat it with extreme caution.

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.

heated.world

Another stolen summer day

What are we still waiting to learn?

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/06/2026

It might be hot outside but the rent is freezing.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/06/2026

Serving up a rent freeze.

Mayor Mamdani cuts and serves an ice cream cake that says “Happy Rent Freeze” to New Yorkers.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is Calarts. Arguably the best animation school in the US, its alumni include industry legends. The graduating class is booing school president Ravi Ranjan, he's been gutting creative programs and pushing Ai initiatives, corporatizing the school. His secretary is treating graduates like babies.

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Nora Verlaine @noraverlaine.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

American science right now is basically 10,000 of these stories, all with their own heartbreaking specificity Lost careers, lost progress, lost discoveries I feel so sad every day for all we’ve lost and continue to lose 💔

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Dear god it’s good to see someone demonstrate how to come for Reagan. It’s not hard! But there’s been no will.

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Andy Baio @andy.baio.net · 29/04/2026

This is incredibly charming. I highly recommend using it on desktop, where you have a real cursor.

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 03/03/2026

Good demo here from Clara about why editorial framing decisions in chart design matters so much. Both chart date ranges are legitimate choices to make, both truthful, each show different story.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 20/02/2026

So: Painting finished circa 1500 CE. The reel fragment lies dormant and seemingly ignored(?) until in 2014 a Tumblr user named Amelia Hamrick transcribed it and a YouTube user named James Spalink arranged and recorded it. A 515-year collaboration. What Hell left unfinished the Internet has completed

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

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Sean Hollister @seanhollister.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

He just wanted to control his DJI Romo robot vacuum with a PS5 gamepad. But it wasn't just one robot that answered his call. Thousands of them, all around the world, reported for duty. When he showed me, I couldn't believe my eyes. www.theverge.com/tech/879088/...

theverge.com

The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor, this man remotely accessed thousands of them

DJI may have fixed it now.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 21/01/2026

Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

things are going great, apple edition i mean. this is catastrophically bad. the industry's (such as it is) #1 publisher is giving advice on how to roll back. yesterday thomas told me the adoption rate for ios 26 is 15%. FIFTEEN.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/01/2026

Watch this. Watch again. "This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/01/2026

look at some point you gotta face the fact that not everything is a distraction from everything else and there’s just a lot of bad stuff going on all the time

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Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

VP Delcy Rodriguez, whom Trump indicated earlier today was collaborating with the US government, is live on television right now. Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet. Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"

Venezuelan VP Delcy Rodriguez speaking on Telesur.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

forever-wars.com

A Criminal Empire

The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

with llms, there is no there there, not even a wizard behind the curtain and nothing reveals it like telling an llm to take 2 contradictory positions and watching it slavishly “yes and” you that was one of the first things i ever tried, years ago

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Reagan, 1981: “In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Clinton, 1996: “I say again, the era of big government is over. But we cannot go back to the era of fending for yourself.” Mamdani, 2026:

Begin g today we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.
To those who insist that the era of big government is over, hear me when I say this: No longer will City Hall hesitate to use its power to improve New Yorkers’ lives.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

if you still use Twitter please understand that you are enabling and supporting this. It’s only going to get worse, so you may as well leave now and start rebuilding your “following” anywhere else.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 30/12/2025

My twelve-year-old daughter's Christmas haul included a cassette Walkman and a Discman, and music to play on both. Yes, part of it is STRANGER THINGS. But part of it is the seemingly inevitable swing towards throwback tech, coupled with the current longing to be LEFT ALONE TO LISTEN TO SHIT

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Here’s to 2026

David Lynch in the filming set speaking in the megaphone. He says “Okay, let's try that again, but this time good.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

New Forbidden Course at Bari Weiss’s University of Austin: watching bootleg copies of 60 Minutes smuggled in from Canada

Website: university of Austin - forbidden courses

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