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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 04/10/2026
Am I missing something or is this far more existentially threatening than AI?
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/10/2026
Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket…
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/09/2026
If we apply a consent regime (not a property regime) to privacy rights, then the entire commercial surveillance industry would cease to exist.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 28/09/2026
And made up on the two issues that many Democrats could have done much more about (reproductive and trans rights). Some blue legislatures have indeed codified reproductive rights, but much it has been by voters, including Republicans. Trump himself admits the Republican view here is unpopular.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/09/2026
This belongs in the Smithsonian.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
@johnquiggin.bsky.social on how the EU can thrive in the absence of, and despite, the US. Not easy, but a better future than the US has, even in its best case scenario. open.substack.com/pub/johnquig...
Europeans and their allies are in an unenviable position. But still better than that of Americans for whom precarious and unequally distributed material prosperity has come at the price of freedom.

John Quiggin, Substack
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/07/2026
Here's a sentence that stopped me in my tracks last week: "The statement that 'the cemeteries are full of indispensable people' is just as true of nations, and in particular the US": crookedtimber.org/2026/07/16/5... 1/
A vintage world map. The US has been obscured by a roiling black cloud from which squirm many questing tentacles. A large area around the US has been discolored.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
If you’re a Democrat and plan to vote this fall, please acquaint yourself now with what looks to me to be a highly skilled extrapolation of where that’s headed. Which is by definition not merely a best guess.
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Roookii @roookii.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A deputy in Spain said something like: How fortunate for the USA that when it looks for Democracy in other countries, it finds oil.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17/03/2026
well that went way deeper than I was expecting
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
meme from The Simpsons.

Top: Moe (labelled "USA") throws Barney (labelled "Ayatollah Khameni) out of Moe's Tavern.

Middle: Moe, labelled USA, wipes his hands after a job well done.

Bottom: Moe (labelled USA) stares out, hands on hips. Behind him, appears Barney (labelled "Ayatollah Khameni").
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026
Wow, I had been running out of patience with Yegge’s uncritical #GenAI boosterism, but this is epic: “The AI Vampire.” As usual with Yegge, it could have been edited down to half its size, but go read it anyhow. I’m going to adopt that “AI Vampire” phrase and start using it, a lot […]
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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 07/02/2026
Carlos Lozada writing in the NYT about the norms of democratic society remarks that "Guardrails are particularly valuable when something is slamming into them." Ain't that the truth. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...
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Opinion | An Elegy for My Washington Post
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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 24/01/2026
Obviously generative AI makes copyright violation extremely easy, but I couldn't agree more that AI training is fair use. People want to blame the tool for abuse and not the wielder.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 18/01/2026
This is literally what I've been writing and podcasting about for years. I was planning to do an essay on this, but here's a 🧵. The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.
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Nirodha Weeraratne @nirodhaweeraratne.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Share and tell CBS to air this! Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported a segment about migrants sent to the El Salvadoran torture prison CECOT, just sent a blistering letter to colleagues, sounding the alarm that Bari Weiss spiked the story for political reasons.
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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14/12/2025
The optimum outcome is for neither of these takeovers to happen. There are already too few players in Hollywood. It does nothing for the health of the industry to allow either merger. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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The Best Big Media Merger Is No Merger at All
The state of streaming is... bad. It’s very bad. The first step in wanting to watch anything is a web search: “Where can I stream X?” Then you have to scroll past an AI summary with no answers, and
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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 03/12/2025
I love this so much. To anyone who says what's the point of the arts (or public funding): art digests thought and feeling, feeding it back and allowing us to see from new angles, enriching our own experience of the world and every now and then that fresh perspective will trigger a precious insight.
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Miles O'Reilly @milesoreilly.com · 04/09/2025
Margaret Atwood acerbically on target as ever www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canadian author Margaret Atwood takes another shot at Alberta's book ban with satirical story | CBC News
Margaret Atwood has again taken to social media to take aim at Alberta's controversial ban on school library books containing sexual content with a new, satirical short story after the famed author's ...
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
"The.. complicity of major media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post & Reuters in repeating the Israeli narrative w/out verification made them partners in covering up crimes, justifying genocide & creating conditions for the targeting of journalists" www.thecanary.co/global/world...
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Reuters journalist sensationally quits - exposing Western MSM collusion with Israel
Valérie Zink said MSM were partners in "covering up crimes, justifying genocide, and creating conditions for the targeting of journalists"
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Read, and perhaps sign, this open letter against fascism. I was an early signer and support the message. stopreturnfascism.org
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Home - Open Letter Against the rise of Fascism in 2025
The 2025 letter has been signed by over 400 academics, including 31 Nobel Prize winners. Join them in defending democracy. Our goal The letter is a collective denunciation of the mounting threats to a...
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Would we need such strong nudging for diet shifts, if we got the key conditions right? New survey from the US, where the meat and dairy culture reigns supreme: www.pcrm.org/news/news-re...
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Nearly Half of Americans Would Consider Eating a Plant-Based Diet to Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Finds New Survey
WASHINGTON, D.C.—As Earth Day approaches on April 22, a new Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine/Morning Consult survey shows that 46% of Americans would consider eating a plant-based diet to...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The cottagecore, romantic path to starvation and environmental breakdown. This week's column is on the latest delusions about how we might produce our food. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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New reports tell us cattle and sheep farming can be sustainable – don’t believe them, it’s all bull | George Monbiot
Feeding the world sustainably is an incredibly complex challenge, yet some people are trying to sell us a bucolic fairytale, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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DrLJ @drlaurajane.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
It’s day 4 of #NoMeatMay & we’re focusing on chickens, the most abused animal on the planet. The mega farms where they are bred, never seeing the sun, are sources of air & water pollution. Read the Animal Sentience Act here: www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/22 @nomeatmay.bsky.social
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The thing is, frugality is also crucial to address climate change, and important for health too!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
1. This is a thread about why Food Waste is so often, and wrongly, identified as the major problem with the food system. Yes, it's an issue, but in the rich world, it's far smaller than many others. It’s massively over-emphasised, while other, far more important problems, are ignored and avoided. 🧵
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 12/04/2025
“If you abuse millions of animals in a systematic, industrial process, you’re hailed for your business acumen. That’s an uncomfortable contradiction at the heart of modern dining,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.
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Opinion | What Some Animals Endure Before We Eat Them
An insider offers a grim picture of life inside a cattle slaughterhouse.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Hilarious account of a fight against a disaster: "For more than 150 years... the grazing regime in the West has been a slow-moving environmental catastrophe, & there’s no sign of let-up. Conservation biologists have called it the 'most insidious & pervasive threat' to biodiversity on rangelands..."
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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
"if we all stopped consuming animals and permanently swapped to plant-based food, we could return 3.1 billion hectares of farmland to forests and natural grasslands." That's the size of the US, China, the EU & Australia combined. 8Gt of CO2 would be removed each year. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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From nuts to kelp: The 'carbon-negative' foods that help reverse climate change
Eating low-carbon foods helps reduce emissions, but some foods actually suck up carbon from the atmosphere for good, leaving the climate in a better place. Could we eat more of them?
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Sitting on a corn flake @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Consuming More Plant Protein May Aid Healthier Aging In Women by @GrrlScientist via Substack #health⚕️ #PlantBased🌱 #women #aging #SciComm🧪 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/consuming-...
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Nature Neon @natureneon.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A team of marine biologists from the NGO Condrik Tenerife have documented the first ever recorded sighting of a deep-sea black devil anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) in daylight near the surface, just two kilometers off the coast of Tenerife. #Nature #Animals #Science
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/02/2025
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Searle's paper, titled "Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2," found that Google's widely-used CAPTCHA system is primarily a mechanism for tracking user behavior and collecting data while providing little actual security against bots. The study revealed that reCAPTCHA extensively monitors users' cookies, browsing history, and browser environment (including canvas rendering, screen resolution, mouse movements, and user-agent data) — all of which can be used for advertising and tracking purposes. Through analyzing over 3,600 users, the researchers found that solving image-based challenges takes 557% longer than checkbox challenges and concluded that reCAPTCHA has cost society an estimated 819 million hours of human time valued at $6.1 billion in wages while generating massive profits for Google through its tracking capabilities and data collection, with the value of tracking cookies alone estimated at $888 billion.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
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Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
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