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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 11h
China's live shopping hosts might not be human anymore. AI avatars now sell products 24/7, and the lip sync is almost too good to catch.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 12h
This Indonesian coffee shop proves inclusion is good business, staffing its counter mostly with baristas who have Down syndrome.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 13h
The fraternity brothers in the group chat who cheer violence? That behavior is being modeled by the president of this country. I cannot stress this enough — Trump is teaching young men how to be abusive every time he opens his mouth.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12h
Investors look to shelter portfolios from rising AI concentration risks ft.trib.al/0zCz27q
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Investors look to shelter portfolios from rising AI concentration risks
Fund managers see hedge funds and emerging markets assets as bulwarks against sudden shift in sentiment on artificial intelligence
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The Mirror @mirror.co.uk · 12h
"Shambolic" Reform UK has lost over 50 newly-elected councillors in just over five months, new figures show.
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Blow to Nigel Farage as Reform sheds 51 newly-elected councillors in five months
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h
Once again, Dunning and Kruger for the win.
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modsback.bsky.social @modsback.bsky.social · 11h
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 11h
Maybe the key to life is being able to bench press 300lb at 75. But do we need more muscle-bound, angry guys around?
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Hegseth is obsessed with testosterone therapy. If anything, I’d like the opposite | Dave Schilling
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12h
‘There’s a lot of silence’: have we created a new ‘Lonely Generation’?
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‘There’s a lot of silence’: have we created a new ‘Lonely Generation’?
Learning to be one human among many has always been a little lonely and discombobulating. But young people around the world are lonelier than ever. Why?
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modsback.bsky.social @modsback.bsky.social · 19h
So is it like a permanent kitten?
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Listen to our podcast episode "Underwater archeology reveals clues about Ice Age humans" or hear it on your local public radio station this Friday! www.sciencefriday.com/segments/und...
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Underwater archeology reveals clues about Ice Age humans
At the end of the last ice age, glacial melt inundated human settlements near shorelines. Underwater archeologists are uncovering their artifacts.
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Listen to our podcast episode "The tilcayo is the new wild cat on the block" or hear it on your local public radio station this Friday. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the...
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The tilcayo is the new wild cat on the block
The tiny, three-pound tilcayo is the first cat species to be described in a century, and, yes—it is as cute as you’d think.
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Big news for tiny cats: an itty-bitty three-pound spotted cat is the first new wild cat species described in more than a hundred years. Photos by Fernando Faciole/National Geographic.
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We need your help with a story about attachment styles. We want to know if you’ve heard of them and how it has impacted you. Do you never date someone with avoidant attachment? Do you think you're anxiously attached but you want to be a secure attachment person? Leave a voicemail at 877-4-SCIFRI.
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 21h
Image credits: NASA Goddard/Intuitive Machines/Robert Wagner
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 20h
A girl took a puppy home after believing it needed help following an alleged incident. The video spread on social media and prompted comments about childhood empathy and concern for animal welfare.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h
If your vote didn’t matter they wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop you (H/T Gen Z for @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social ) www.instagram.com/reel/DeC2_Zb...
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modsback.bsky.social @modsback.bsky.social · 23h
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology
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modsback.bsky.social @modsback.bsky.social · 23h
*yawn* Total nonsense, as always. A bunch of gibberish and superlatives thrown together.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 23h
A day at a truck stop in Texas shows an industry essential to the U.S. economy under tremendous pressure. on.wsj.com/3Vs9Ccn
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Record diesel prices are squeezing truckers, driving up costs and leaving independent drivers struggling to make ends meet
A day at a truck stop in Texas shows an industry essential to the U.S. economy under tremendous pressure.
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modsback.bsky.social @modsback.bsky.social · 23h
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OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
UPDATED: The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has now resulted in more than 83,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal. We are continuing to track the increase in these cases:
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Tracking the Historic Rise of Habeas Cases Filed by Detained Immigrants
ProPublica is tracking the historic rise in challenges filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.
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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 03/10/2026
Tom Cruise‘s big-budget Digger finds itself in quite a hole with its opening weekend at the box office.
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Tom Cruise’s ‘Digger’ Plunging at Box Office With Less Than $10M as ‘Verity’ Leads
Tom Cruise‘s big-budget Digger finds itself in quite a hole with its opening weekend at the box office.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
A CNN report hurt Jared's feelings, but numerous outlets, including @motherjones.com, have detailed his vast global conflicts of interest.
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Does Jared Kushner know what a conflict of interest is?
In Israel and elsewhere, the line between his diplomacy and quest for wealth is fuzzy at best.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In Michigan, we're paying $5,600 a year on average for Trump and Mike Rogers' tariffs.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/10/2026
A lawsuit about an alleged gang rape at Cornell University and a report about sexual cyberharassment reveal how campus rape culture and online misogyny are colliding, @sophiegilbert.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/tA3MbduO
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Vladimir Putin is facing a fresh crisis at home while he ramps up his war against Ukraine.
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Putin’s Goons Scramble to Cover Up Freak Biolab Accident
Nothing to see here, just a little old pneumonic plague.
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He goes on these rants for nothing . There’s no Senate until after the election.
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Kassie Navarro @kassien.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Susan Collins claims that @propublica.org’s reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. 📽️ Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyi...
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We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cuddle time isn't just cute. It floods animals with oxytocin, lowers stress hormones, and builds trust within the group.
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 03/10/2026
Jared Kushner, President Trump's son in law and peace negotiator makes money off Isreal's military killing people. Any questions?
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/10/2026
Kremlin critic and chess champion Garry Kasparov says the FBI warned him that his life was in danger shortly before the U.S. announced it had uncovered what it called a Russian murder-for-hire plot in Washington.
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Russian dissident Garry Kasparov said FBI warned his life was in danger
Russia previously did not try to target dissidents on U.S. soil, but President Vladimir Putin is escalating his fight with the West, Kasparov said.
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modsback.bsky.social @modsback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That’s amazing. There is a lot of ongoing research on how to plant in the desert.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Saudi Arabia has rehabilitated one million hectares and planted more than 159 million trees. The UN highlights this progress in restoring degraded land within an arid environment with limited water resources and severe water scarcity.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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The Mirror @mirror.co.uk · 03/10/2026
‘Several people’ have been injured after a car drove into a crowd of rugby league fans waving to their team’s bus off, emergency services have confirmed.
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Multiple people injured after 'car ploughs into crowd' of rugby fans
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 03/10/2026
Saint Laurent dazzles with a river of gold at Paris Fashion Week, featuring a glossy black runway and a shimmering Eiffel Tower in the background.
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Rivers of gold, bare skin and J.Lo: Paris Fashion Week dazzles in defiance of luxury's slump
Saint Laurent dazzles with a river of gold at Paris Fashion Week, featuring a glossy black runway and a shimmering Eiffel Tower in the background.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
It has been 118 years since the Supreme Court ruled the federal government owes tribes water, but Native American communities in northern Arizona are still fighting for their rights to the Colorado River. (Published June)
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Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are resisting the deal because it would allow the Navajo and Hopi to lease water to cities downstream, likely the growing towns around Phoenix.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
Records show that the district attorney’s office declined to review additional evidence offered by Cornell police in 2024.
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The FBI director is reportedly taking orders from Stephen Miller.
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Keystone Kash Busted Admitting He’s Trump Goon’s Errand Boy
The FBI director is reportedly taking marching orders from Stephen Miller.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 03/10/2026
The hard fought combination of Paramount and Warner Bros. gets a new name and executive changes ahead of the $81-billion deal’s close. on.wsj.com/4hD3wgK
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The hard fought combination of Paramount and Warner Bros. gets a new name and executive changes ahead of the $81-billion deal’s close.
The hard fought combination of Paramount and Warner Bros. gets a new name and executive changes ahead of the $81-billion deal’s close.
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Vulture @vulture.com · 03/10/2026
Tom Cruise is facing abysmal reviews of his new film, ‘Digger,’ even if critics still praise his performance in it. If the movie flops, can he still win an Oscar in 2027? ‘Gold Rush’ columnist Nate Jones sketches out his chances.
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Where Does Tom Cruise’s Oscar Campaign Go From Here?
Tom Cruise is facing abysmal reviews of his new film, ‘Digger,’ even if critics still praise his performance in it. If the movie flops, can he still win an Oscar in 2027? ‘Gold Rush’ columnist Nate Jones sketches out his chances.
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Democrat Patriot @uspatriot2025.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/10/2026
A lawsuit about an alleged gang rape at Cornell University and a report about sexual cyberharassment reveal how campus rape culture and online misogyny are colliding, @sophiegilbert.bsky.social argues:
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Is College Getting Less Safe for Women?
A lawsuit about an alleged gang rape at Cornell University and a Wired story about sexual cyberharassment reveal how campus rape culture and online misogyny are colliding.
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NPR @npr.org · 02/10/2026
Willem Dafoe reflects on his favorite chore on his farm in Italy. In this week’s Wild Card, he talks about his Midwestern roots and how he feels about growing older. Watch his whole conversation with NPR's Rachel Martin here: n.pr/4rEWg8s
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modsback.bsky.social @modsback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’ve only ever seen her throwing a tantrum, I don’t think she knows how to not be having a tantrum.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/10/2026
Weird Al Yankovic has charmed generations, especially those who grew up in his ’80s and ’90s heyday. Now the men of that era are taking their kids to his Bigger & Weirder tour, where he headlined Madison Square Garden for the first time at age 65 last summer. nyti.ms/3TZW5IA
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/10/2026
Inside the undersea kingdom: the secret, sinister battle to control what lies beneath the waves
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Inside the undersea kingdom: the secret, sinister battle to control what lies beneath the waves
Every day, trillions of dollars, oil and gas and 99% of the world’s web traffic move through undersea pipelines under no state’s protection. With superpowers and corporations now vying for control, should we be worried about this potential new wild west of geopolitical power?
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