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Equality 4 All, Education 4 All, Reading Fine Prints, Admiring Fine Prints, Saving our Planet, Musical Dope

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
Sen. Thom Tillis says he expects there will be pressure on Mike Johnson to not seat the new Congress if Democrats win
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h
“This entity appears to be run by James Burnham, a former member of DOGE and the current general counsel of SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence space company founded by Musk. It is not clear who is funding the foundation or how much money it has.” www.wired.com/story/myster...
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A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 3h
Musk advocating for Quebec separatism then following it up by saying Alberta & Saskatchewan should leave too gives away this is just about dissolving Canada for being lib, but I'm glad he's too dumb to realize it undermines separatists' chances by further associating them with right-wing Americanism
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TheGhostOfDebs @mirror4truth.bsky.social · 11h
as to what it is and if supporters want it, it's actually stated there in the opening line of their post. implying people don't know what it is when they do, is insulting
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12h
you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 13h
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
getartcraft.com
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Another excellent read is this quick statistical analysis of the Presidential Election vote by @alexandreafonso.bsky.social Bolsonaro Jr. did particularly well in municipalities that are richer, more Evangelical, "white", and not (too) old.
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Who Voted for Bolsonaro junior?
Some snazzy graphs on the results of yesterday’s Brazilian election
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TheGhostOfDebs @mirror4truth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
to the USSC, bankruptcy doesn't matter if there aren't enough people to buy and use your product
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sánchez calls elections for November 29. Odds strongly against him but history suggests it would be unwise to write off the great survivor of Spanish politics entirely. The timing is typically canny: seizing moment where the national conversation has turned from migration to housing.
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
adding '5 British doggers' to the list of surprising defeats for the US military, alongside the IRGC, Viet Cong, and geography
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 03/10/2026
Russian authorities still haven't confirmed reports that a 28-yr-old woman in Shelekhov died of pneumonic plague. But the local hospital is quarantined, a nearby city briefly warned residents not to travel there, & local pharmacies are running short of key antibiotics. t.me/Baikal_Peopl...
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Люди Байкала
Не ездить в Шелехов из-за чумы попросили власти Байкальска — и через два часа удалили пост. РЕН ТВ стер пять публикаций об инфекции 18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛ...
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 02/10/2026
Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
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US appeals court blocks Minnesota's AI 'nudification' law for now in XAI lawsuit
Elon Musk's xAI on Friday ​persuaded a US ‌federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ​ban on AI-generated ​fake nude images as ⁠the technology and ​social media company pursues ​a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
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TheGhostOfDebs @mirror4truth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"hitler said 15% of poland was once..." "putin said 15% of ukraine was once..." 🤔
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕 Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…” Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?” RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…” Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔
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TheGhostOfDebs @mirror4truth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
some well known university admins have the view of using ai to monitor input/actions/research, to funnel that work to private industry something to keep in mind
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Years of Fear by Matta, 1941 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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TheGhostOfDebs @mirror4truth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The Texas-based Dynamic (managed by a Russian) Frontier Holdings purchased Teghut, one of Armenia’s largest copper mines, this summer."
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 03/10/2026
Behind a $20 million taxpayer-funded ad blitz lies a highly calculated, psychological campaign that mainstream journalists are already ignoring.
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Trump’s new MAGA cult videos are part of a much larger propaganda operation
Behind a $20 million taxpayer-funded ad blitz lies a highly calculated, psychological campaign that mainstream journalists are already ignoring.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026
Fellow FTX executive Caroline Ellison is out of jail, and the Manifund effective altruist grantmaking organization has just let slip they hired her. She “brings specific, useful expertise around finance”, they say, which yeah — much in the same way that Bernie Madoff had very specific expertise.
Meanwhile, his fellow former FTX executive, Caroline Ellison, has been free from prison since January, and has now found gainful employment! She will be working for Manifund, an effective altruist grantmaking organization. In a blog post explaining why he hired her, CEO Austin Chen listed first among his bullet points “I specifically enjoyed Caroline’s Tumblr and other writings, which I found thoughtful and relatable.” (This is the blog where Ellison regularly blogged about “human biodiversity”, a euphemism for scientific racism, and wrote, “how do I signal my genuinely sweet and feminine nature on my dating profile? should it go before or after the section on wire fraud”). He also wrote that “Caroline brings specific, useful expertise around finance and systems management to Manifund.”16 Which, yeah, I guess I can't argue with that, in the same way that Bernie Madoff had very specific expertise.FTX essentially bankrolled Manifund and the associated Manifold Markets (think Polymarket but with fake money) through grants and investments. This may explain why Chen, citing a “keen debt” to FTX, decided to hire Ellison and pay her using funds derived from her fraud — money Manifund is currently fighting the FTX estate over rather than returning to creditors.17
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 02/10/2026
Snow Fantasy Gen Otsuka, 1953
two blurry figures crossing a road in heavy snow
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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 01/10/2026
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, is deleting posts on X
Me: Remember when Brian and the Coinbase c suite accepted money from Jeffrey Epstein?

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Better link here ICYMI---this is huge. Making state and federal campaign finance data accessible from the same portal has been a project years in the making. Congrats, @opensecrets.org! What a service! www.opensecrets.org/state-profiles
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State Profiles: Money in Politics by State - OpenSecrets
Pick a state to follow the money in its state elections and its U.S. House and Senate races: who raises it, who gives it, and from where.
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Chaos Torgo @chaostorgo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nothing else like the incredible TIME HAS COME TODAY 🎸🎶💙
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The Chambers Brothers • “Time Has Come Today” (Psychedelic Freakout!) • 1969 [RITY Archive]
YouTube video by ReelinInTheYears66
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Stables by Franz Marc, 1913 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At the same time, the AGs sued 30 individual abortion providers in Louisiana's federal district court, including Massachusetts abortion medication provider Angel Foster.
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: Amid ongoing lawsuits seeking to revoke nationwide access to abortion drug mifepristone, AGs in Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama have filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to strike down shield laws in states with abortion access.
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Republican AGs sue abortion ‘shield law’ states in U.S. Supreme Court • Stateline
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and the attorneys general in Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court, suing California, Massachusetts and New Y...
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 30/09/2026
“Patel is apparently planning a trip to Russia, a country that (a) is no friend of the United States nor the FBI specifically and yet (b) is quite friendly with Patel, including via a ‘Russia-linked production company’ that evidently previously paid Patel $25,000 to appear in an anti-FBI TV series.”
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt’s conspiracy theory, slander and b-ball ignorance yesterday was humiliating. But also remember who he is: a natcon with a blood-and-soil belief that the only real Americans are descended from white Christians who immigrated before the mid-1800s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....
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Surveillance Watch
This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026
Here's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
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70B06C26F00001137
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(11 months remain)
Unlinked Award
Awarding Agency
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Recipient
LMD AGENCY, INC.
5950 SYMPHONY WOODS RD STE 500
COLUMBIA, MD 21044-3592
UNITED STATES
Congressional District: MD-03
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CONT_IDV_70Z02323ACGRC0001_7008
Dates
Today
Start Date
Sep 20, 2026
Current End Date
Sep 19, 2027
Potential End Date
Sep 19, 2027
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$20.0 Million
Current Award Amount
$20.0 Million
Obligated Amount
$20.0 Million
Potential Award Amount
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$0.00
Obligated Amount
$20,000,000.00
Current Award Amount
$20,000,000.00
Potential Award Amount
$20,000,000.00
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54 : Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
5418: Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services
541810: Advertising Agencies
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R: SUPPORT SVCS (PROF, ADMIN, MGMT)
R7: MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES
R701: SUPPORT- MANAGEMENT: ADVERTISING
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The US today pulled out of Erbil Air Base in Iraq, ending Operation Inherent Resolve in the country after 12 years.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...
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TheGhostOfDebs @mirror4truth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
mayors and city councils have near-unlimited power to make life miserable for anyone within their sphere of influence. university, corporation, federal government. doesn’t matter. if the mayor wants to fuck up your day, he will. i wish more municipalities were willing to exert that power for good
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TheGhostOfDebs @mirror4truth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
how bad do you have to f*** up to be shown up by amy klobuchar?
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hegseth freezes hiring of civilian tenured faculty at US military academies thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Hegseth freezes hiring of civilian tenured faculty at US military academies
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed departments on Tuesday to halt appointments of civilian staff to tenured positions at U.S. military service academies and develop hiring plans that prioritiz…
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 29/09/2026
thehill.com/policy/defen...
thehill.com
Hegseth to cut 20 percent of admirals, generals in major Pentagon overhaul
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce a 20 percent cut to slots slated for admirals and generals at the Pentagon as part of his push to overhaul the outlook of the department, a Pentago…
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Justice Department charges Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent with assaulting an officer
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Justice Department charges Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent with assaulting an officer
Federal prosecutors in Texas have charged a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot by an ICE agent earlier this month with assaulting a federal officer.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wind and solar supplied 33% of EU electricity in the 12 months to August 2026, against 29% from fossil. In 2016 it was 13% and 43%.
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Enchanted Forest by Jackson Pollock, 1947 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1976

© 2016 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 29/09/2026
Meta pulled down Brazilian President Lula's Facebook page and blocked his campaign from running political ads but allows paid ads calling for a military coup It also didn't take down any of the right-wing disinformation campaigns reported in August novaramedia.com/2026/09/28/f...
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Facebook Blocks Lula’s Campaign Ads Just Days Before Brazil Election
Meta briefly disabled ads on the Facebook page of Brazil’s leftwing president on Friday – just days before he faces a far-right challenger in national elections.
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
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Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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