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Michael Iantorno☔️✊ @michaeliantorno.com · 07/10/2026

"Currently, if an employee makes anything creative in their free time, with their own resources, Hasbro can claim ownership. What we do in our free time should not be dictated by the company, and what we make in our free time should belong to us.“

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The workers at Wizards of the Coast are teaming up

Workers at Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering demand ownership of personal work made off the clock.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 06/10/2026

Dungeons & Dragons, Duel Masters, and Magic: The Gathering teams unionize at Hasbro aftermath.site/magic-the-gath...

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We’ve had multiple constitutional crises dating back at least a decade, and they haven’t caused even a blip. Why wouldn’t we expect more? They’ve worked.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As a huge USMNT fan, I try to watch every game as a minimum. But this awful experiment of combing the game with a live vodcast is absolutely horrible. Was there an alternative? I tried 3 different channels and couldn’t find one. Can they at least offer it as an alternative rather than the main?

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The best argument I've ever heard for universal basic income (UBI). "The reason we don't call that work is because it doesn't make rich people money." 🎤Craig Fay

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🗣️Ex FTC Chair Lina Khan on A.I. Regulation: “The idea that just because we have new technological capabilities there’s some blanket exemption from the laws on the books is totally laughable.”

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Randomly remembering how often I shipped back half or more of the Joyce Carol Oates hardcover and trade paperback new releases to the publisher, and how rarely I had to do that in any quantity with romance novels. ANYway...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just a reminder - here was the news from yesterday re alleged voting fraud committed by non citizens in NV.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bad content drives out good. www.garbageday.email/p/ai-growth-...

In the past week, several content creators have stumbled across accounts feeding their videos to AI programs that replace all the humans in the videos with artificial versions that mimic their movements and words exactly. Essentially, they recreate the video in all other details, but the fake people replacing the original creators is enough to avoid getting flagged as a repost.
This “AI flipping” has been a successful strategy on short-form video apps for months. These videos seem to be most popular on Instagram Reels, where they’re the bread and butter for at least one of the site’s fastest-growing accounts. Recent moves by Instagram seem to be aimed at cutting down on the practice, but we’re still seeing AI flips that are more popular than the original. Let’s walk through everything we know.
Part of why this growth hack works is that the platform doesn’t have any tools to find the original human video from the AI recreation — you need to see them both and remember one when you see the other. That means we’re not certain when or where this began. But the most successful AI flipper we’ve found is called Mr. Stretchy, an Arabic-language Instagram account that takes popular videos from all over the world and replaces the humans in them with this uncanny Wallace & Gromit reject.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

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Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI

Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A part of the “AI” business and hype that isn’t mentioned often enough is that a lot of it is faked using cheap underpaid labor.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/07/2026

…So why go for the "killer robots" frame? Because the "AI overlord" lens lets the humans involved elide their own culpability, and hypes their products. And the peope who want to believe that hype are seemingly eager to fall for it. Every time.

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As usual, it’s this. It’s always this.

Man says to computer: “say ‘I am alive’”

Computer: “>I am alive”

Man: “oh my god”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

There's what DHS said...and then there's reality ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Screenshot of the first three paragraphs of the linked Balls and Strikes article, reading as follows:

On the morning of Sunday, September 20, police officers in the Chicago suburb of Evanston responded to a 911 call about a confrontation in the street. When the officers arrived, they found a man on the ground who reported injuries to his head, neck, and teeth. Soon, the officers learned that the injured man was a U.S. citizen, and his assailants were federal immigration agents.

The Department of Homeland Security put out a statement on Tuesday claiming that the beaten man “resembled the target” of an immigration enforcement operation, and that he was “not cooperative” with agents’ investigation. “Once the individual finally identified himself,” said DHS, immigration officers “left the scene without further incident.”

A video of the incident shows that immigration officers pinned the man to the ground while he repeatedly yelled, “I’m a fucking U.S. citizen,” and while concerned witnesses asked why the agents were “fucking him up.” Eventually, the agents drove off without rendering medical aid. People tried to comfort the man, who remained motionless on the ground.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026

as I noted this week at the newsletter, the media's horniness for unrealistic and anthropomorphized AI doomsday scenarios helps it avoid discussing other issues media ownership doesn't want to discuss like climate change, fascism, rampant corruption, and the disintegration of corporate oversight

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Lazy Journalism At The 'End Of The World'

U.S. corporate media long ago gave up on accurately describing material reality.

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Part of the “reasonable efforts” required of lawyers to protect client information

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The judge in The Crave copyright lawsuit is at the end of their rope.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One thing about being a business law professor with a PhD in political theory during These Times (tm) is that once you realize that Silicon Valley has become a vanguardist (fascist) political project, you see its fingerprints *everywhere.* From dual class shareholding to repealing 14a-8, from

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is what I think every time I hear the AI doomsday BS. More marketing hype to keep the absurd investment dollars pouring in.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

“Once you understand that the broligarchs are eugenicists who care more about hypothetical, future AI-enhanced lives than about today’s population…a lot of things start making sense.”

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What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"A Microsoft exec called the training of artificial intelligence models the 'largest theft of labor in human history,' according to a legal brief filed by the New York Times and unsealed Thursday ... that same executive called it "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.'" wapo.st/4cNqaRV

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Microsoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records show

The quote headlined an unsealed document in the New York Times’s copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI.

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 18/09/2026

New AI Literacy Program Awards Students Free Pizza If They Don’t Know How to Read Books Anymore: tinyurl.com/sdxp58dm

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 17/09/2026

Whatever you think doctrinally about the market substitution theory, it's a little tough to fault the rightsholders for pushing it when AI company execs are basically making it themselves

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW: Every week, a Philadelphia nun drives to the immigration court i Texas, to sit beside unaccompanied children, some as young as four, who face a judge with no lawyer and no parent. This comes as Catholics across the nation, inspired by Pope Leo XIV, are standing up to the White House.

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A Philadelphia Nun Sits With Unaccompanied Children at Texas Deportation Hearings

Sister Rose Kuhn drives to the Harlingen immigration court every week to pray beside children who face a judge alone, some as young as four.

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There are many ways to extinguish humanity. The one getting the most attention is the least likely. But as @bcmerchant.bsky.social notes, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be worried about the threats to our wellbeing posed by what AI companies are presently doing. We should be concerned—& resisting.

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The politics and possibilities of ‘AI could kill us all’

AI will not exterminate the human race. But what big tech really *is* doing is bad enough that the notion may help fuel the movement against it.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The public does not know this. Largely because, again, our leaders are <totally absent> from the public square & have ceded the entire political narrative around higher education funding & policies to the far right authoritarian party & the pundits. Again, it's maddening. A total leadership failure.

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Matthew Story @mattstorymusic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I didn't come up with this analogy myself, but: asking whether or not a computer program can think is as relevant as asking whether or not a submarine can swim. It has nothing to do with what the machine can do; we know what it can do already. It's an attempt to change the definition of a word.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A quick nerdy law librarian post about how difficult publishers are making our job: In 2024, a certain legal publisher charged us $6,175.86 twice annually to supplement a semi-important legal treatise in print. Guess what the cost is in 2025. 1/5

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Where I’m at most of the time:

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 24/08/2026

"I already boycott The New York Times/don't have a subscription, what can I do?" A lot! You can: * Share our call for boycott. Tell others about the NYT's role in trans genocide * Stop sharing NYT links, even to dunk on them * Pressure the pension/retirement funds invested in the NYT to divest

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“we’ve told them over and over again ‘that’s not what it’s for. You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database. That’s not what it’s for.’”

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Uncle Joe @sydseter.com · 20/08/2026

LLM Data poisoning, besides being extremely easy to do, is extremely difficult to fix. This because of the nature of LLs. Thry were built for language processing, but we use them for everything from coding to image recognition. #llm #ai m.youtube.com/watch?v=2uG8... bsky.app/profile/syds...

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How Brands Use Reddit to Poison AI Search

YouTube video by 404 Media

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This observation, if applied to entertainment media, highlights how Hollywood, for all the right screams about it being left-leaning, ultimately propagates right wing mindset.

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

How will new hackers learn their craft? 😔

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12/08/2026

I wish more people talked about how universities embraced AI and this helped create a perfect storm for supposedly most students now cheating using chatbots. Many ways of undetected cheating have always existed, but were never promoted as ways to study or write. The complicity is flagrant. 1/

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New overnight: Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros’ office says the “Broadview Six” prosecutors have self-reported the events of the tainted prosecution to the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility as it argues against a special counsel. Full filing: cst.brightspotcdn.com/98/58/82c837...

CONCLUSION
This case involved irregularities during a time of immense pressure, upheaval, and emotion
in the District because of Operation Midway Blitz. Former Defendants have had all charges
dismissed and will recover attorneys’ fees under the Hyde Amendment. This Court has already
issued a public rebuke in this case that has garnered widespread attention. Koubriti, 305 F. Supp.
2d at 761 (“lecture from the court” may be enough to respond to a transgression). The AUSAs
involved have been under public and private scrutiny, including being subject to OPR’s
investigation into this matter. Moreover, robust root-cause changes have been implemented at the
United States Attorney’s Office. Those reforms are designed to prevent the very issues that arose
here. In addition, many hundreds, if not more than 1,000 grand jury minutes will be reviewed to determine that similar errors do not exist in other cases. Given all of this, the Government
respectfully requests that this Court reject former Defendants’ request to do more, specifically
opening up criminal contempt proceedings, ordering discovery, holding a hearing, or appointing
another attorney to investigate this matter. As such, the Government respectfully requests that the
Court deny former Defendants’ motions.
Respectfully submitted.
ANDREW S. BOUTROS
United States Attorney
By: s/ Andrew S. Boutros
ANDREW S. BOUTROS
United States Attorney
219 S. Dearborn St., Rm. 500

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Tressie McMillan Cottom: All of the speculation and hype around A.I. is hiding the fact that the technology isn’t just large language models or agents or data centers. It is the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the

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Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here.

A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

1. This is bullsh*t & an epically stupid policy completely detached from any empirical evidence: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 2. We could simply avoid this entire issue by <all together now> Funding. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026

I think "AI" plumpers should be happy I'm focusing mostly on the nonsense it's doing to my field, rather than how it's very clearly designed as a tool for the capture of wealth and capital by a bunch of accelerationist weirdos enthusiastically huffing their own farts from the depth of their K-holes

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Tom Bogert @tombogert.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The most positive takeaway from this FIFA / private investment scandal? WE HAVE A VOICE. We are not powerless to stupid change dictated by — and serving — the power brokers of the global soccer and collective financial bottom lines. Well done to UEFA for being the first to step up.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Annnnnd, this is why Alito’s opinion in Callais was also offensive: we are “also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.” It is the asking us to pretend that racism is still not present that galls.

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