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Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 @earhart.bsky.social · 1h

Rows of solar panels 9.2 feet tall fold 70 degrees apart to let the combine drive through an Austrian wheat field, and in a drought year the wheat between them came in 14 percent ahead of the open field next door, because a moving band of shade keeps the soil damp share.google/625agUYnfXpa...

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Every time a dry summer wrecks a harvest somewhere in Europe, the aftermath follows a similar script: farm groups ask for relief money and governments

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 6h

As far back as the 1950s, we were able to run conventional chess programs on computers built from vacuum tubes and electromechanical switches and these programs could play a valid game of chess without ever moving a chess piece to a square that one of its pieces already occupied.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4h

one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 4h

This is now the largest civil unrest in France since the emeutes of 2021/22 Young people are fed up of being forced out of jobs, affordable accommodation, and training by AI-obsessed CEOs, fossil fuels, and bought politicans. They should rise up globally www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Schools blockaded as tens of thousands of protesters take to streets in France

Students, staff and parents march in cities including Marseille and Lyon, while up to 40,000 expected in Paris

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 05/10/2026

Fuckface hit Brazil with a 50 percent tariff for prosecuting his coup buddy, planned to fund groups attacking its courts, and froze US consular services two days before the vote. He screams that our elections are rigged while Brazil's police investigate him for meddling in theirs.

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Suspected Trump election interference sparks police raids in Brazil: report

Computer equipment and communications were seized in Brazil’s largest city as part of a new Brazilian investigation announced Sunday into “possible external interference by the United States” in the n...

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is really good, unsurprisingly. I will only add that "state vs. state" warfare being the norm is itself only really true in Europe for a few centuries; for most of history states spent more time fighting non-state actors and policing unstable frontiers in perpetual low-level conflicts.

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The Return of the Cutting-Off Way

Structural changes are driving us towards a more chaotic world, defined by "neither peace nor war, but conflict."

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Secessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A one state solution, but for the entire Levant.

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Secessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's crazy that for half my life the Republican party has been led by a pedophile and this has never been a part of the public discourse.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've seen a lot of small businesses move away from setting up their own websites because they can save money by just using Facebook instead and well it's probably not great we gave Zuck all that power.

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Secessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This feels like a law of the universe or something.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises

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The Verge @theverge.com · 05/10/2026

‘RemoveMacAI’ switches off Apple’s AI features, deletes its AI models, and blocks them from being downloaded again. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS

Delete Apple’s AI with a single command.

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Dr Abolish ICE @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Minority Report

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026

NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.

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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours

The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.

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Secessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The AI industry is really putting on the full court press right now

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Secessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is a lot of money being pumped into The Groups right now to force them to comply on AI

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The NY Times framing every fascist as tough strong & brilliant, and not a dumb racist liar, is one of many ways the NY Times tells Democrats that they are Not On Our Side, and Dems mostly choose not to listen

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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News

A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.

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Mike Schnier @mikeschnier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here's the thing, young men *are* being victimized by toxic influencers who exploit their insecurities to sell protein powder.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The real damage that social media did to the dumbs was connect them to other dumbs who validate their beliefs. Dumb ideas used to get bounced against random people in some community who would ridicule that person. Now they get called genius by thousands of other dummies.

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 03/10/2026

Bohl at the Bohl Bowl. Craig Bohl leans against a goal post as he watches the two teams he coached, NDSU & Wyoming, square-off for the first time as conference mates.

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Mitchell Israel ❌👑 @mitchelli513.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

AP RANK NDSU YOU COWARDS

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 03/10/2026

How many local models do you run?

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Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You're not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?

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Secessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Damn I wrote a ~20 post thread on my fraternity experience at my school and the extensive and effective anti sex crime work both my school and fraternity did, and my thoughts on Chi Phi and Cornell and University police. But I switch screens for a second and bluesky refreshed.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I feel like the debate about what parts of AI are good and what parts are bad should wait until we solve the worldwide crisis caused by the fact that almost of all of its evangelists in both tech and govt are morally, intellectually, and ethically unequipped to oversee it, when not downright evil.

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Zeroisanumber @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Even if it fulfilled every promise it's creators have made you're still allowing a system designed to be weighted to the views and interests of billionaires to interpret reality for you.

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know there's some amount of groupthink in anti AI circles but this is a very funny argument to make when the most public proponents of AI are all in a millenarian sex cult together

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Jorge Rivera Marín @jlrmarin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Whether or not you use AI, if you exist in this world, you will have experienced AI's most common use: to feign work by using it to produce slop. GenAI is absolutely dreg-tier trash. Its use should be tightly regulated and it should be buried like Napster if it can't abide by copyright laws.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified

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Secessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You know which undersized, roofed stadium doesn't have obstructed seats?

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Secessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ignoring all the other class stuff, etc, 33% of American wanting to work in factories is more than the current fraction doing so.

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Secessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I realized I'm possibly the resident bluesky expert on another topic

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Secessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've been inundated with this on facebook

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Secessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't use LLM-AI, and I typically don't respect people who do, but my criticisms of it are firmly grounded in thermodynamics (in the conventional sense), economics, engineering and data science. That it does geometry and things like geometry well is not particularly insightful or surprising.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 02/10/2026

This is a purposeful conflation, imo, done as marketing & to ride the pop culture idea of AI. In doing so they've basically wrecked the public conception of AI so completely Trump just had to sign an order saying NO NOW IT HAS A DIFFERENT NAME and pre-existing AI research is left in the wreckage

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Secessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Weird I saw and continue to see lots of people talking about that, but some bot didn't put it in a 3 item trending list so I guess it's fake

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Secessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

During the "vibesession" the share of income going to wages fell from a brief peak of 45% to 41%

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was told by a Hill staffer that this Permitting Reform bill allows fossil fuel companies to enlarge (that is, expand) their natural gas pipelines without any environmental review so long as there's an existing pipeline in place. This is very bad.

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Amandine Gay @orpheonegra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high-stakes scenarios.“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/10/2026

The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you need to send a fundraising email with the header “We know you’re not an ATM” maybe it’s a sign you ought to reign in the grifter consulting firms that are alienating supporters with a constant stream of panhandling spam to raise money that mostly gets poured back into their own coffers?

Dem fundraising email headed “We know you’re not an ATM”

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