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@mudlock.bsky.social
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Programmer; election reform and social justice advocate; board- video- and role-playing-gamer; science fan. New York state, USA. he/him

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h
A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” (Published Oct. 2025)
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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 59m
The city of Dallas is currently experimenting with AI-powered cameras on garbage trucks. If we don't stop this, cameras will be *everywhere.*
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AI-powered trash truck cameras in Dallas capture 20,000 images, yield low citations
New AI cameras on garbage trucks took over 20,000 photographs in four months. Less than 1% ended up with citations.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1h
Nope nope nope
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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 41m
If you’re more than a few months younger than me… half your life.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 16h
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 6h
Your regular reminder that this is Eric Schmitt (from a year ago)
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A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist
America, he says, isn’t an idea—and isn’t for everyone.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 5h
This looks pretty good now. The card image updates within a minute of my updating the national data file so the numbers will be dynamic with updates election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...
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UF Election Lab: 2026 General Election Early Vote Statistics
Live national and state-by-state early voting statistics for the 2026 general election.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h
These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 9h
This is a pretty stunning thing to admit
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"
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Harlot🔞 @harlotprincess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
just so everyone knows, the title IX changes also made it even harder to report sexual assult as well as making it legal to descriminate against trans people. anti-trans means pro-rape. every time.
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Wonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We Found The Voter Fraud — It Was In The Moms For Liberty All Along www.wonkette.com/p/we-found-t... By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social
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We Found The Voter Fraud — It Was In The Moms For Liberty All Along
Former Republican mayoral candidate Gaea Powell found guilty on eight counts related to voter fraud.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is no hell hot enough for what must be done to the people that did these evils in our name. Prosecution of ICE is the moderate, even conservative solution. We either answer this without mercy, or we are damned to history.
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Josh Vaughn @joshuapvaughn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And a reminder, the vast vast majority of incarcerated people don’t have access to 988 because jails and prison simply choose to not allow it.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Before the NCAA capitulated to this nonsense and banned trans women from competing on women's sports teams, the head of the NCAA told a Senate panel that he knew of less than 10 athletes competing in sports in the NCAA. What are we fucking doing here, people. It's a non-issue.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.
washingtonsun.com
White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers
The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026
All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 28/09/2026
Just in case it wasn’t clear, when they say the U.S. Government’s paying for this, that’s YOUR taxpayer dollars they’re using. I’ll say this as many times as I need to: it is ILLEGAL to use American taxpayer dollars from the government to pay for candidates’ or parties’ political ads.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/09/2026
⚠️ Tens of thousands of Texas voters are missing from the voter rolls after the state failed to process their voter registration applications properly. But it doesn’t mean they won’t be able to vote in the midterms: demdock.com/46PkXFM
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 27/09/2026
the news here is also that several countries that elected conservatives are hardening against women's rights
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Patrick McCann @pjmccann3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I AM OUTRAGED! #MedSky #M4A #HealthcareSky 🧪
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How do you get to write for Rolling Stone without knowing that music is the most-segregated, most-fractured, sliced-and-diced micro genre-fied it’s ever been? It’s not a conspiracy if someone doesn’t know your favorite new tune, and they’re not out to get you.
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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 27/09/2026
well of course, the weird lesbians feuding in a rural massachusetts town is of far greater national significance than a group of men at one of the ivy league schools drugging and raping a woman and the school reducing the punishments for most of the men
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 27/09/2026
"America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth. Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The word of the day: Zombified www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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tante @tante.cc · 27/09/2026
What we do see is that you can use these models as "adapter" to the fuzzy real world (computer vision, language, etc) and potentially turn real world inputs into machine readable symbols that real software then can work on. But that's more like OCR than "intelligence"
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tante @tante.cc · 27/09/2026
Slapping an LLM In front of specialized machine learning systems that actually can solve specific tasks does not mean that the "stochastic parrot" metaphor has failed.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s always projection. Always.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Along with explaining why the GOP is so obsessed with voter fraud (bsky.app/profile/mcop...), this also makes a mockery of single-member districts & federalism & is yet one more reason why we should have proportional representation & an upper house of state delegations like the Bundesrat
2020 tweet about why the Senate should be a Bundesrat
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Covid is surging in Portland. I've got it, it's breaking out in Reynolds, PPS, I'm sure other schools. Multiple friends and neighbors have it, all contracted from different sources. Covid never went away. It's just that we all pretend that it is no longer a horrible illness and no one masks.
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The propaganda war for AI feels a lot like the push to sell the Iraq War.
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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The only animated show on that "Best 100 Shows of The Century" being the (very good!) Netflix series that's specifically about an actor living in L.A. that's, yes, about universal themes but also SPECIFICALLY about inside-baseball TV business anxieties kinda gives away why the list sucks.
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We simply cannot survive with governments that are for sale.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Guy whose business model is giving loaded handguns to monkeys, announces that he is worried about all the rogue monkeys that keep shooting people
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 26/09/2026
The US deported LGBTQ migrants to countries where homosexuality makes them a target edition.cnn.com/2026/09/26/w...
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The US deported LGBTQ migrants to countries where homosexuality makes them a target | CNN
Aylin says she fled her home country after her life was threatened. She sought refuge in the US but was deported to a country where her sexuality puts her at risk.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026
“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”
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Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.
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