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David Lebo @leboism.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For those not following NJ politics, please know that the Lt Gov resigned a few days ago because a report came out saying he did serial harassment, and yesterday he went on TV to say "i put that report through multiple AIs and they told me it wasn't sexual harassment." Former university president

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Eugene Freedman @eugenefreedman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It decimated the federal workforce - not overhauled it. The elimination of expertise. The destruction of capacity. It also did NOT slash government spending. Spending is UP. It has been reallocated to the secret police and military. Stop publishing falsehoods.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hmm 4 white dudes🙄😡

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Indivisible Colorado @indivisible-co.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

youtu.be/LQYnlg4pO9o @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Investigated Starlink - The Corruption They Found Will Shock You The U.S. was supposed to spend $40 billion to build internet in rural America, then Elon Musk got a huge chunk of that money redirected to Starlink. #MuskStealsOurMoney #Scamlink

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We Investigated Starlink. The Corruption We Found Will Shock You.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

America, This is our Germany 1933 moment. Decide who the f*ck you're gonna be, what you stand for, what you want your legacy to be—and how you are going to respond. This is beyond party, beyond country. This is about our collective humanity. #Ukraine

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.

Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ET

As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 03/10/2026

No, Rocket Money, that is not an "unusually large transaction," that's rent.

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Nic 🍉 @nml-dc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We have always had to fight, it's important to know our shared histories and the shoulders we stand on. 🧵

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026

"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Same story with a friend of mine, who is now actually quite famous. She dropped out after my university refused to discipline the two men who raped her, and made her sit in the same class with her in her specialized major. Her planned entire career path ended immediately.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So far Trump has tried to rig the midterms by: 1. Attempted to nationalize voter registration & voting requirements. 2. Mid-decade gerrymanders. 3. Tried to use the USPS to obstruct mail-in balloting. 4. Used taxpayer money for ads. 5. Intimidation of election officials.

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Hope For The Planet @h4tp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews

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Rainforest biodiversity rebounds within a single generation | The Optimist Daily

A major Ecuador study finds cleared rainforests can recover 90 percent of their species diversity in just 30 years, as long as humans leave the land alone.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2026

Yeah, what psychopath would want his name on a building associated with an assassinated President

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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 22/09/2026

I don’t understand this revisionist history happening that says no one was opposing George W. Bush. There were street protests, email chains, songs by Green Day and the Chicks, Jon Stewart became our Walter Cronkite. No one was quiet about hating the president!

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Imagine agreeing with the Dems who say we need to better train ICE officers therefore they will have better aim

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 21/09/2026

et voilà, a portrait of Garrett Langley, CEO of Flock, rendered from leaked Flock license plate camera images. Plates were redacted before rendering.

Bust of a man, outdoors. In the background, sky, telephone pole, Flock safety camera and solar panel. Rendered from a mosaic of smaller images.

Tight zoom of a mosaic of license plate camera images featuring a swath of red vehicles and an empty street in other areas.

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Andrew Sabl @andysabl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This. I’d only add that Black voters have been in this position—gritting their teeth at the compromises, still voting for Democrats, and continuing to push to make Dems better—since forever. It’s been good for civil rights and good for the Democrats.

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the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026

sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too

ad for some AI company called evenfall
copy says "meet derek. ai every day. always hitting a wall. then he found evenfall"
the only graphic is a stick figure holding... a tablet maybe? he's missing an arm

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Mr. Ron @mrrevron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is how stupid our moronic president sounds. What a total Idiot and disgrace.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Don’t forget, this is how the Kennedy center dismantling started. The folks at your institution doing equity work might be the first targeted, but the institutions themselves are always the target. Hope folks have learned this now.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026

Trumpers, famous opponents of border walls

Every communist country eventually builds a wall. It's never to keep people OUT.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sending a message to your current audience that you'd prefer to have a different audience results in losing the former without gaining the latter. www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

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Refurbished ‘60 Minutes’ Debuts to a 19% Ratings Drop

The “60 Minutes” Season 59 premiere drew 7.7 million viewers, down 19% year over year.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

A short thread on "Rogue AI." About 5 yrs ago, just before "gen AI" hit the public didcourse, i wrote "I’m Not Afraid of AI Overlords— I’m Afraid of Whoever’s Training Them To Think That Way." It's mostly about how corporations seek to offload culpability for the harms of systemic prejudicial bias…

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I’m Not Afraid of AI Overlords— I’m Afraid of Whoever’s Training Them To Think That Way

I’m Not Afraid of AI Overlords— I’m Afraid of Whoever’s Training Them To Think That Way by Damien P. Williams I want to let you in on a secret: According to Silicon Valley’s AI’s, I’m n…

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

so they’re also gonna stop with managing uteri, right. they don’t know shit about that

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Deliberately crashing the American economy—costing American families well over $5,000 each—and then promising to pay those families back $5,000 but *only if* they keep letting him abuse them and the country for two more years... ...is some *seriously* dark, domestic-abuser shit.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anthropic’s CEO says that the company needs hundreds of billions in revenue or they’re going to go bankrupt. Awww…Maybe he can only drink coffee at home, get a second job, and work a lot harder. Polluting the environment and creating societal nightmares must be so exhausting

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026

We believe we are actively creating an extinction event for humanity. We will not be asking your county planning board for zoning variances because fuck you. Why are you being so hostile

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The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Over four weeks this summer, at least three men murdered their families. Together, the three men killed 17 people, 12 of them children. And within a day or two, each story had vanished from the national news. 1/2

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Over four weeks this summer, at least three men murdered their families, killing 12 children among them.

On July 24, in Michigan, Kristopher Karolkiewicz shot his wife and their six children and set the house on fire.

On July 31, in Wisconsin, Jeffrey Manke killed his two daughters, 11 and 16.

On August 23, in Montana, Alan Smith gunned down eight of his relatives -- his parents, his grandmother, his sister, and four children -- at a Sunday dinner.

Together, the three men killed 17 people, 12 of them children. And within a day or two, each story had vanished from the national news.

Compare this to the coverage of the Lindsay Clancy case. For weeks, the trial of the Massachusetts mother, who killed her three children in 2023, has been a media fixation.

Cable networks have carried it live. CNN, NBC, the Boston Globe, and others have run day-by-day live blogs. Reporters have packed the courthouse by the dozen, some sitting on the floor for lack of room. And the trial is only the latest chapter: the case has been dissected in the national press and on true-crime podcasts for years.

A mother killing her children becomes a national obsession; a father doing the same quickly becomes yesterday's news.

The obvious explanation for the discrepancy is timing: Clancy is on trial, while these three men killed themselves and left no one to prosecute.

But it doesn't hold up. Men who murder their families do stand trial -- and their cases almost never command this kind of sustained, wall-to-wall attention.

The true-crime sagas that grip the nation for years overwhelmingly feature women who kill. The gender of the killer, it turns out, matters more than the crime.

The numbers tell a different story than the headlines. Family annihilation in America is neither rare nor evenly distributed.

According to a 2023 investigation by the Indianapolis Star, drawing on data from the Gun Violence Archive, someone in this country murders their own family roughly once every five days.

And the people who do it are almost always men -- by expert estimates, some 91 percent of the time. A gun is used in about nine of ten cases. The victims, disproportionately, are children.

The silence has a dangerous cost. Violence by men has become so normalized that even its most extreme form -- a man murdering his own family -- barely registers. And that silence compounds itself: because these killings rarely break through the noise, most people have no idea how common they are, or how overwhelmingly they are committed by men. The pattern disappears into the background, one fleeting headline at a time.

None of this diminishes the horror of a mother who kills. It only raises the question: why does that horror seize our full attention, while the far more common version -- committed by fathers, husbands, sons -- slips past us in a day?

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John Br👻OoOOOoOoo👻ks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

L'Arc de Participationne

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 03/09/2026

I hereby declare the "learn to code" era officially dead: Big declines in the number of people studying computer science in the last year or two 📉 Chart from this week’s edition of our newsletter on AI and the labour market www.ft.com/content/9183...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

there is no rhyme or reason to an entire “AI” department, much less an AI school. There is no curriculum, as such, because AI is not a school of thought. It has no theory, no method. It’s just a tool. Two or three courses, max, if someone is obsessed with it should suffice.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So, the 1801 Congress cancelled the Supreme Court for a year. Really. If the Dems again control the two real branches of government, they should threaten closing the Court, because originalism, and then let’s talk “reform.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“No, we stole that term from you Black folk. And now it’s ours, because we use it. We use it to mean that the concerns and perspectives of you Black folk are annoying or wrong or dangerous, as a way of ignoring and dismissing those concerns and perspectives. Like I’m doing now—does that make sense?”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/03/2024

"Stay Woke" in its original formulation is advice among members of a minoritized and oppressed communities to be alert and aware of the acute dangers hidden in the structures and systems undergirding seemingly innocuous situations

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"we should rename Mar-a-Lago something funny, make Google display that" My brother in Christ, the Ontario legislature can declare Google's workers in Ontario to be unionized and assign their collective labour rights to whichever union will be most militant, think bigger

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.

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Spirit Takes No Prisoners @namaste-day.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Venmo “upgraded” its user interface and made it 10x harder to use at least for some of us neurodivergent humans 😭 I swear AI is doing everybody’s user testing now. We’re in hell. I have not had enough coffee for that kind of visual assault.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 30/08/2026

Google changing the names of things on maps? They love doing that.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My suggestion is to cancel your subscription to any media company that refers to Lake Ontario as Lake America.

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