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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I will never know if this administration *wants* to delegitimize the US census, but they sure are doing a fantastic job of it. The amazing Gillian Tett offers a portrait of what's happening: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Who counts in Trump’s America?

Gillian Tett on the president’s bid to reform the 10-year census, and the explosive politics behind who gets included and who gets to decide

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 23/08/2026

The unified theory of fanfic evil remains unbeaten.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

As you can tell from this short thread, Korte is a pro, and some national MSM outlet ought to pick her up and get her back in print, pronto. You'd get a lot of great stories, and you'd drive Hegseth bananas.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Both the Economist and others suggest this study demonstrates that AI can help students. So I contacted the lead researcher to figure out how many. Answer: Out of ~26,000 kids, a total of 20. And five months after starting to use AI, only four continued to spend 65 minutes on homework. Four.

Graph of student exam scores correlated to homework completion time for to groups, students using AI and those that did not. There is a slight spike for studens using AI who also maintained extensive homework completion time. As described in post, the number of students falling into this bucket was 20 out of 26,000.

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Ellie Kanning-Dawn @thatwriterellie.ekdawn.com · 21/08/2026

I now post over at mastoart.social/@thatwritere... due to BlueSky leaders' apparent #slop addiction - But regarding slop, the 🇩🇪 #book distributors #Tredition + #epubli (aka #selfpublishing corps), are apparently eager to feed US #AI all manuscripts. No opt out. #noai #llm #books #reading #writing

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 13/08/2026

Rolled your eyes at an out-of-office message? This is the guide for you. You may think that these automated emails show your colleagues as lazy, slacking off while you toil through the long summer, but they are so much more. My FT column translates: www.ft.com/content/46ca...

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What your out-of-office really means

An email translator for the summer holidays

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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Out today: @mjhaugen.bsky.social, our Energy and Planning Manager, appeared on @techwontsave.us to discuss our latest research on AI with @parismarx.com youtu.be/bk6q6qIL7SU

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13/08/2026

Great to have @mjhaugen.bsky.social on the show! We dig into the many ways government enables all the harms we’re seeing from generative AI and hyperscale data centers by crafting policy that helps the companies behind them.

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 06/08/2026

"LLM-generated patches did not resolve the vulnerability, added a new vulnerability, or both, an average 53.9% of the time." 👁️👄👁️ 1password.com/blog/why-ai-...

LLM-generated patches did not resolve the vulnerability, added a new vulnerability, or both, an average 53.9% of the time. You can read further details about our findings, observations, and conclusions in the research paper we’ve published alongside this post.

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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

More than 10,000 excess deaths were recorded across Europe in recent heatwaves. Wildfires are raging across the continent, and here at home. Climate change is here. The govt cannot afford to ignore or roll back from their climate commitments, especially during Ireland's term in the EU Presidency.

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Foxglove Legal @foxglovelegal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Important piece on London and data centres in the FT. Include's Foxglove's call for concrete conditions to ensure local water and energy supplies, or the environment, are not endangered. If not, developers shouldn’t be allowed to build. www.ft.com/content/67db...

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Data centres vs housing: how London became a central battleground

The city has become the largest hub for AI power centres across Europe, competing with homes for energy, space and water. Its priorities are being called into question

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

BREAKING: Google has rolled back its tool less than a day after it launched. Updated story coming soon.

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ceej @ceej.online · 31/07/2026

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

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ceej @ceej.online · 31/07/2026

to a product owner, every single step between having the idea and shipping it is a burdensome waste of time

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/07/2026

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 22/07/2026

As a young journalist, I was taught that it is highly unethical to let a source buy you a cup of coffee. What, then, is this strange business model in which journalism is a big lucrative circle-jerk with billionaires?

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Roy Dickinson @rjohndickinson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I think most economists wouldn’t find it that amazing. Most of the late 19th and 20th century saw a massive redistribution of wealth. But Kristian’s chart tells us little about wealth inequality: it’s looking at wealth *concentration*. You need to look at the less wealthy majority too.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 16/07/2026

"This uncertainty about the human provenance of text is an incalculable loss"

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'm pleased to share this new paper, "The myth of 'catch-up' development". The paper assesses trends in core-periphery inequality since 1960, and draws several main conclusions: 🧵https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2026.2659076

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The myth of catch-up development: trends in core–periphery inequality from 1960 to 2023

The conventional narrative in international development holds that poorer countries are “catching up” with richer countries through the process of capitalist growth. This paper assesses this claim ...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Good morning. This is fascism. This is the US Govt creating thought crimes. It’s not about who they are arresting today, it’s about how this vague and threatening pursuit will be used against dissenters. ✨EVERY✨ fascist govt to date, has taken this step. www.state.gov/releases/off...

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Remarks at the Opening of the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism - United States Department of State

DEPUTY SECRETARY LANDAU: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the State Department. It’s an honor and a privilege to have you here. For those of us who grew up in the 1970s, the topic that ...

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Under which conditions do AI tools save researchers’ time and effort? And at what cost? Alex Mussgnug and I just published a philosophical analysis of #Convenience in #AI #philsci Paywalled: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Preprint: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29890/

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Convenience AI - Erkenntnis

This paper considers cases where AI is used to automate tasks perceived to be “mere routine” and inconvenient to researchers. We term such uses “Convenience AI” and characterise the set of assumptions...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 14/07/2026

"French control of Algerian territory launched a period of unparalleled misery… The one million or so Muslim Algerians who died in the mid-1860s perished precisely because the new land policies imposed by the French government destroyed the ability of locals to lead self-sustaining lives."

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The Blood Circle

Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill were part of a small but blood-soaked circle of liberal thinkers who embraced the murderous logic of empire.

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It's all fun and games until we gather at the Capitol

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 13/07/2026

Shoutout to China

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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/07/2026

Marco Rubio announced a “campaign to dismantle” the International Criminal Court, the Hague-based tribunal tasked with investigating war crimes and more. Rubio accused the court of “waging a war against our country — not with bullets or missiles, but with the force of so-called international law.”

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Marco Rubio Threatens to “Teach” the ICC the “Full Meaning of American Resolve”

The secretary of state announced what he characterized as a “campaign to dismantle” the International Criminal Court.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:

Cecelia Humiston, 22, lives on Chapel Street. She was asleep with her two-year-old son when she woke up to the sounds of a commotion on surrounding streets.

When she went to investigate, she saw what appeared to be a person lying on the ground on Pool Street.

She remembers hearing an older woman with a distressed family, yelling, “You took her dad, you took her dad!”

“They were with a little girl, she couldn't have been older than three,” Humiston said. “She was still in her Bluey pajamas.”

Humiston described law enforcement as “rude,” and said they barricaded family’s car from leaving. Another yelled at the little girl, who was trying to smell flowers.

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Michel Lind @michel-slm.name · 13/07/2026

Given Tesla’s safety record and passenger-hostile emergency door mechanisms and that there will not be a driver, this seems like a horrible idea

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mu @mu.social · 15/06/2026

It’s Monday and we’re brining you two little improvements to start the week. - a copy username button in a user’s profile menu, and - a companion cat to keep you company on mu 🐈🐈‍⬛😺

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Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

wrote for the magazine about the open source software that underpins our digital lives, how it is being upended by AI code tools, and about maintainers as.ft.com/r/b7f62212-9...

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Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

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Michel Lind @michel-slm.name · 11/07/2026

Great writing by @samlearner.bsky.social ! As an free / libre / open source maintainer myself I'm so glad someone can write up the concerns in a way that a layperson can understand

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Israeli human rights groups say leading Palestinian doctor, held in harsh conditions for purely political reasons, is now near death. "He struggled to breathe and speak and seemed close to losing consciousness several times, during a Thurs visit. He fears he will be killed in Israeli custody"

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Gaza hospital director jailed in Israel in life-threatening danger, lawyer says

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya's lawyer said he struggled to breathe and speak and seemed close to losing consciousness several times, during a Thursday visit, and said the doctor told him he fears he would be...

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I spent the day with Curtis Yarvin and the "dissident right" at a garden party in Surrey and wrote quite a few words about it. My cover story for today’s FT Magazine on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]

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Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right

[FREE TO READ] What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Oxford University has signed a new charter committing it to at least 52 weeks of maternity leave for female DPhil researchers, including 2 weeks paid leave for partners. There is currently no paid maternity leave for PhD researchers. Men are 3 times more likely to have R&D careers.

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Improved family leave and flexible working to signal step change in support for women researchers

More than 50 UK organisations back charter to deliver paid family leave and flexible working support for women in research.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 02/07/2026

Increasingly sure that one of the great hassles of modern life is blockbuster exhibitions: impossible to get tickets for*; absolutely packed if you do so that you don't get to see the exhibits anyway *yes, I'm a V&A member so can bypass the tickets issue there. Which makes me part of the crowd prob

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Freexian @freexian.com · 24/06/2026

#Debian LTS contributors released 56 DLAs fixing 877 CVEs in May, a larger number than usual. The Kernel team deserves a special mention for handling the disclosed vulnerabilities on #linux regarding Local Privilege Escalation with public proof-of-concept exploits. #debianlts #freexian

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Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, May 2026

The Debian LTS Team, funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering, is pleased to report its activities for May. Activity summary During the month of May, 21 contributors have been paid to work on Debian L...

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Enjoyed going on Prof G Markets to explain, once again, why bitcoin is worth - and is ultimately going to - $0,000,000 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lat2... (from 12:53)

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OpenAI Hits Pause On Its IPO

YouTube video by Prof G Markets

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Seems the real problem centrist democrats are facing right now is the people are being very clear that they want leaders who will solve their biggest problems, and centrist democrats really don't want to solve their biggest problems and hate the people for wanting that. It's a real pickle for them.

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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

FF and FG have placed too much emphasis on individuals making changes to improve emissions, while dawdling on large scale projects. We now have less offshore wind energy production than we did 20 years ago. It's time we stop going backwards, and fast track the country's reduction in emissions.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Here come four months of centrists attacking the left with far greater existential fury than they ever aimed at Trump (because they prefer Trump and helped him win):

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Climate.us is a new website created by former NOAA employees who worked on Climate.gov until they were laid off last year as part of the heinous DOGE cutbacks. www.climate.us/news-feature...

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Climate.us Home

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

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Michel Lind @michel-slm.name · 26/06/2026

So this occurred to me to try a couple of days ago ... I'm trying out #NoAIFriday - and likely extending it to the weekend too. You might be forced or feel pressured to use #AI - specifically #LLMs - at work. Your community projects might be #AIpilled as well.

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When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

As firms increasingly incentivize employees to build and oversee complex teams of agents—for example, by measuring and rewarding token consumption as a proxy for performance—people are finding themsel...

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If you asked me, off the top of my head, to name a non-Oxbridge university in England synonymous with excellence in the Humanities - I would probably think of Exeter first. This feels like a very deliberate, targeted and ideological Bonfire of the Humanities

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Michel Lind @michel-slm.name · 24/06/2026

If you live in #Ireland and follow the political scene, you might wonder like me how different parties vote on particular issues - and the coverage can be light on this detail, even in an excellent outlet like the #IrishTimes! michel-slm.name/posts/2026-0... #Parliament #Politics #Rust #Voting

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Introducing Oireachtas Votes: find out how Irish political parties vote

Aggregate Dáil and Seanad votes by party affiliation — something the official Oireachtas votes page maddeningly does not provide

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Kaveh Madani @kavehmadani.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Critical Minerals Are The New Oil, With A Hidden Water Cost How much do you know about the impacts of your EV, AI tools, and solar panels on local communities in Africa and South America? My latest in Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/kavehm...

Forbes article about featuring a kid working in a cobalt mine in the DRC

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 17/06/2026

UTOPIA Leftist: clean environment, housing food medicine education safety provided, equality, no bigotry Rightwing: white men work 100 hours a week, everyone else is some form of slave, if you get sick you're shot, views of remaining nature cost money Billionaire: everyone else dead, robot servants

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