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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "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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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is very wonky and utterly infuriating. Logging companies (w/help from IKEA!) say *literally cutting down trees* should count as carbon negative and be credited as good for the planet. And they might get away with it. newrepublic.com/article/2157...

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Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?

Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

WATCH — @chefjoseandres : “The IDF knows there was no excuse. Enough with the odious smears, excuses, shifting blame… we want an independent investigation.” The Israeli commander who ordered the bombing of 7 @wckitchen workers says he is “not sorry”

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Tina Webb @laundryprncss.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We all owe President Biden so much. Thank you, sir.

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 18/07/2026

Today I made an unannounced visit to ICE’s facility in Scarborough, Maine. What I heard was unacceptable: no body cameras, no training, and no accountability. Johan Guerrero should be alive. Congress must act. Abolish ICE. End qualified immunity.

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Albert Poindexter @empiricalguy.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Every so-called “proof” offered by the White House and others pushing the lab leak theory has been thoroughly debunked. Don’t just take my word for it - watch this episode of This Week in Virology where a panel of Virology PhDs dismantle the misinformation point by point. youtu.be/rZ1FGCPenns?...

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TWiV Special: How the pandemic began in Nature, in 5 key points

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Stable housing reduces crime.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

MAHA doctors claimed this man was the "only way" to save vaccines....

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RFK lies about HPV vaccine

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

FYI: @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social account has been restored. 👏

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

For all the discussion of doxxing federal agents, there’s essentially no discussion of how those agents are taking steps that attach severe punitive measures that stretch across wide swaths of the federal bureaucracy against people acting lawfully.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The bloodlust we are seeing from MAGA world over the murder of Renee Good must be a wake up call for anyone who still didn't grasp how dangerous MAGA is as a movement. If you ever wondered how Germans became Nazis you are seeing it play out in real time.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

When historians discover that the Alaska summit was to negotiate a secret clause dividing the world into 3 spheres, this will all make sense.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

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“President Donald Trump’s administration plans to make the program even more generous — pushing to open even more of the 240 million acres of Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service grazing land to livestock while reducing oversight of the environmental damage.”

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Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.

A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supe...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

PBS: “A poll from the journal "Nature" found 75% of researchers are considering leaving 🇺🇸— including a man dubbed the Mozart of Math… a scientific brain drain.” The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 16/09/2025

An excerpt from Randi Weingarten’s new book, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers,” reveals why Trump and the far right are demeaning teachers, slashing school funding, and rewriting history. 📕 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2025

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

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The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.

ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The Democratic Party’s capitulation to the Crypto lobby is one of the most nakedly corrupt things I’ve seen in my life. Crypto is a blatant scam with zero value that is designed to end popular control of our currency. Dems just co-signed the next global financial crisis. It’s unforgivable.

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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 26/06/2025

Not a lawyer but my reading of today's SCOTUS Medicaid ruling is a double edged sword: if states can refuse to cover Planned Parenthood providers then states can also refuse cover those shady grifters who run crisis pregnancy "clinics"

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

These people are liars, and their goal with this “leak” bullshit is to discredit real science. The want to do this to privatize US science, so oligarchs can steal the US science budget. We should reject it straight up. Trump is lying about COVID to take away your cancer cures, for profit. 1/

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/04/2025

Palestinian photog Fatima Hassouna killed in an Israeli air strike with nine family members 24 hours after the announcement that a documentary about her work in Gaza would premiere at Cannes. deadline.com/2025/04/gaza...

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Palestinian Photojournalist & Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In Israeli Gaza Strike

Palestinian Photojournalist And Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In Israeli Gaza Strike

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

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OneSaltyBeach 🇺🇸 🚫👑 @onesaltybeach.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Republicans just passed their budget bill which will slash Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion today to pay for massive tax cuts for the ultra rich, while Trump is BRAGGING ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY HIS BILLIONAIRE FRIENDS MADE from his manipulation of the stock market yesterday! substack.com/@lincolnsqua...

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Lincoln Square Media on Substack

Republicans just passed their budget bill which will slash Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion today to pay for massive tax giveaways for the ultra rich, while Trump is in the Oval Office BRAGGING ABOUT HO...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A lot of people who got the measles as children died or suffered lifelong disabilities as a result. The measles vaccine was a godsend to worldwide public health, and it’s an absolute scandal that this lethally ignorant dolt has any power over public health.

Logarithmic chart showing the case and death rates for measles in the USA per 100,000 population. The chart maps dramatic near total declines in both over the last century.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

RFK HHS body count: 2 NYT calls these “fringe theories.” They are really lies: -MMR vaccines are safe, effective, & prevent measles -MMR vaccine injuries are very rare -Measles does not provide immunity against cancer -Cod liver oil, steroids, & antibiotics do not treat measles

He issued a muffled call for vaccinations in the affected community, but said the choice was a personal one. He suggested that measles vaccine injuries were more common than known, contrary to extensive research.

He asserted that natural immunity to measles, gained through infection, somehow also protected against cancer and heart disease, a claim not supported by research.

He cheered on questionable treatments like cod liver oil, and said that local doctors had achieved “almost miraculous and instantaneous” recoveries with steroids or antibiotics.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This. Share this.

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This is it. The next earthquake. The next Dobbs. Fully funded public religious schools. Is it possible the magnitude of what was coming was suppressed prior to the election? Yep. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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Supreme Court to hear church-state fight over bid to launch first publicly funded religious charter school

An attempt to authorize the Catholic school was challenged as a violation of the First Amendment, which limits government involvement in religion.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

OPM employees can contact me securely on Signal at marisakabas.04 www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM.

I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.

Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen.

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