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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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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5h
When the Trump administration started dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system earlier this year, scientists, fishermen and Congress fought back. On Saturday, a 238-foot ship set sail to reinstall the first batch of monitors in the waters of the Pacific.
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After Outcry, Monitors the Trump Administration Tried to Scrap Return to Sea
Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.
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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 17h
Noon should MEAN something. (I could also see shifting timezones a bit; instead of the edges running as-close to N/S as possible, make them more NNE/SSW. Up north a bit of extra light in the winter means a lot.)
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19h
If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
constitutionally collect this information about one car-and its driver-by
following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the
question of why is it the government's business where everyone goes all the
time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and
business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court
has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year,
nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate
mass surveillance.
No doubt, ALPR technology comes with remarkable benefits that the
Court cannot ignore. But the Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz's search in just the ALPR system
provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle's whereabouts
across the country for an entire month. The Court finds that because the
ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle's historical location information
intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical
movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the
information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was
because he saw her license plate was from California. That search was not
supported by probable cause, and it was done without a warrant in violation
of Kyle's Fourth Amendment rights. That search also has a nexus to the
remainder of the traffic stop because Alaniz began following Kyle's car while
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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 20h
I remember the day: standing over a trash bag with my old gps, my old digital camera, my old dumbphone; and a new iPhone in my pocket.
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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 20h
Got a new car recently, first one for me that works with your phone to display maps and directions. I really hate that directions replace the compass display :( it really helps to learn an area and _eventually_ not need the map. (Almost like they’re deliberately keeping us dependent on them…)
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026
my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house
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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 21h
Your refrigerator does not need to be on the Internet. Or you dishwasher or your stove or your washing machine or your TV or your car or your lights or your security camera or your doorbell or your litter box or your printer or…
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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 23h
We don’t have constructive definitions for intelligence, consciousness, or even self-awareness. Any discussion of it for AI is going to be the dumbest kind of semantic argument.
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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Same. It’s happening with all Democracy Docket pages.
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CNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026
A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4AIwBQs
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 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." www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...
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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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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2026
We need just one more member of Congress to call for a vote on the Dream and Promise Act — 217 of them have already done so. If passed, this legislation would provide a pathway to citizenship that Dreamers have been fighting for since 2012. Demand action to protect our communities from ICE.
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Pathway to Citizenship Now
ICE has shot and killed people in our streets. Dozens have died in ICE custody. These aren’t isolated events. We need solutions today and the Dream and Promise Act is a critical piece of that. Take action now
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
adding this for context's sake: "We demonstrate that reallocating subsidy savings through existing national social assistance programs can effectively resolve the tension between fossil fuel subsidy reform and social equity." bsky.app/profile/rons...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
According to the International Energy Agency, total global investment in solar energy (including both rooftop solar and utility-scale projects) was less than half of this figure, despite our dire ecological situation
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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As a reminder: Chris Rufo was hired by the Southern Baptist Church to generate an ernative news crisis to keep their aiding and abetting of pedophilia. Remember when Critical Race Theory was the Thin Edge of the Wedge of Socialism? That was his first successful op. To protect pedophiles.
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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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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dark thread. Since we watched Musk literally push a "protect the Boers" button in real time with Grok, we now know people or companies could theoretically pay their way into putting a thumb on the scale for Grok/Claude/ChatGPT. This is why the AI stans want you to believe it's thinking
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The reason they want more people to adopt chatbots is because that could theoretically create a new revenue stream by eliminating the need for marketing or advertising and just taking cash from brands/parties/etc to change what the chatbot tells the user.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI companies made an imaginary friend who you talk to all day and are addicted to and now they can pitch big clients on "hey we got all these people on the hook and can push them to buy your product or vote for your guy and they'll trust the message because it's coming from their friend"
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Love it, would repost if it had alt-text.
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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🤨 No, that’s not how any of this works.
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’ve resisted calling ICE arrests/detention “disappearances.” But now ICE’s apparent policy is that in some cases, you might not even know if your loved one is still in the US. IDK what else to call that. documentedny.com/2026/10/02/i...
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The Throughline: Is ICE “Disappearing” Detainees?
ICE is deliberately withholding the locations of some detainees from lawyers and loved ones. At what point does that amount to “disappearing” them?
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#earlyvote morning update 10/2: at least 1 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳🎉 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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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When job growth was 5-10x this per month under Joe Biden, we were having a nonstop National Conversation™️ about the imminent recession & being told that only the unemployed cared about jobs, but everyone cared about inflation.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2026
Abolish the death penalty.
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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We need a party that starts out with a sense of its own convictions: Good government, an equitable and just society, zero tolerance for dictators, capitalist vultures, and foreign genociders. This is basic human morality and people are showing right now that this is what they thirst for.
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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh. So the vote just counts, regardless of if their registration ultimately goes through or not? That’s kinda wild! And still, only 0.0000001%. An amazing argument against the existence of voter fraud.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's not even funny what kind of loss I will absorb if I have to create an account to do business with you. I will walk away from a winning lottery ticket, I promise you.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An investigation reveals 3 other cases in which Ken Paxton covertly interfered with criminal investigations and prosecutions to protect Republican men who were facing sexual abuse or rape charges or order to get charges dropped or downgraded. It's not just Hoffman in Waco, but a consistent pattern.
sacurrent.com
Ken Paxton's office struck plea deals in three other sex abuse cases beyond one facing scrutiny
The revelation comes as the Texas Attorney General struggles to gain ground with voters in his U.S. Senate race.
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David Zoltan (he/they) @wonkicorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Workers as property" Everything in America comes back to colonization and slavery. Everything.
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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We’re gonna get cybermech armor with mounted railguns and VR controls. And by “get” I mean “pay a lot for but not get”.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To name some of the worst... ✖️Medicaid and SNAP have been cut to deliver $4.5 trillion in tax cuts primarily for billionaires and corporations. ✖️Michigan is set to lose $2-3 billion annually in federal Medicaid and SNAP funding.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
abolish the death penalty
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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That’s what they want. Looking forward to the existential debate of “if the provisional ballot was immediately discarded, did the defendant even vote?”
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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All their ID requirement plans are a cure LITERALLY 10,000x worse than the disease.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
The Department of Homeland Security has already promised that it will flout any law attempting to ban the gloves.
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California bans ICE’s favorite shock gloves
A DHS spokesperson has said the agency “will not abide” by any state ban.
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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My brain hurts.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 01/10/2026
Georgia School Blocks Trans Homecoming Queen, Citing Title IX www.erininthemorning... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Georgia School Blocks Trans Homecoming Queen, Citing Title IX
A Georgia school district is saying Trump’s Title IX crackdowns means only cisgender women can run for Homecoming Queen.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 01/10/2026
Looks like Trump's charm offensive & lavish state dinner didn't persuade Xi to help. The Chinese government ordered its refiners to suspend October fuel exports. This will further drive up diesel prices worldwide and will put a wrench in Trump's midterm plan. uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/chinese...
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Chinese refiners suspend October fuel exports, one cancels cargoes, sources say
By Trixie Yap, Siyi Liu and Chen Aizhu SINGAPORE, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Chinese refiners have suspended exports of oil products to regions beyond Hong Kong and Macau until further notice from Beijing,
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Raven Song Farm @ravensongfarm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is something deeply wrong with trying to kill a person twice, then sending her to a hospital for life saving measures so that they can try to kill her again.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity 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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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is it AI? It’s probably AI.
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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What is up with Apple’s “spam call” detection? Two (legitimate!) businesses I’ve worked with in the last 4 months had their calls all marked as (potential) spam, and then memory-holed the voicemail. I’ve been angry with the auto shop, and they’ve been frustrated with me.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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