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Leftie. Tolerance for all, except fascists. Mastodon: todon.nl/@nebby pronoun.is/he/him?or=they

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 10h
An initiative on the ballot in Washington State this fall would require families to pay for their daughters to have a genital exam or other sex test if they want to play sports AT ANY LEVEL, and the left is sleeping on it. I talked to KUOW:
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Polling shows ban on trans girls in girls' sports could pass in November
Washington state voters will soon weigh in on a ballot measure to ban transgender girls from playing on girls’ school sports teams. The initiative is controversial, but national and local polling sugg...
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 10h
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
gadgetreview.com
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 9h
My column on the latest building data and the resources devoted to building data centres www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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Australia is building a lot of new homes. But is the datacentre boom holding us back? | Greg Jericho
Housing construction is at its strongest level since 2016, but it’s AI that is sucking up resources for builders
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 8h
'yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time.
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 8h
Also: '“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering,
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 9h
Good job US gov't getting those “foreign information manipulation and interference” discussions quieted down by [checks notes] engaging in information manipulation and interference... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 9h
And there it is #disinfo2026
theguardian.com
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 8h
According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.
Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is huge. Especially just after govt approval of another Hunter Valley coal mine expansion - the biggest ever for NSW. "The case is expected to have national implications for the way fossil fuel project approvals take global emissions into account." Until today, they didn't. #nswpol #auspol
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah ok, sure, ‘The Right To Disconnect’ would be one good thing the Albanese government has achieved, except workforces are increasingly casualised, and sure, you can choose not to answer a work phone call after hours, but you might not have any shifts next fortnight as a result
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I'm very poorly today, very stupid & hate everybody & everything @voxexsinister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah, fuck the clankers. We can talk about "rights for AIs" *AFTER* every human has enforced rights!
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Tony Martin @tonymartin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What better base from which to tackle corruption!
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Spent the day indigo dyeing with friends. I miss the Before Times and how many slow Sunday afternoons I used to have: a good reminder to keep working to build a world where we all get restful Sundays and time for friends and art and good food and good conversation.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Out in the bush, working with low ses communities I see this all the time. Ppl are ready to watch shit burn
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Israeli AI cameras livestreamed a Ballarat Basketball game. Then a female player was allegedly contacted by a man who had a family violence intervention order against him. “No one should have to choose between their safety and participating in sport.” www.deepcutnews.com/p/israeli-ai...
deepcutnews.com
Israeli AI streamed a Ballarat basketball game. Then an alleged family violence breach.
Basketball Australia’s Pixellot rollout is putting women and children at risk – and players are paying for it
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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i'd like to reiterate that if ai necromancy and no teacher is the key to a 5 on an ap exam, the exam is useless
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026
I was trying to explain — this is a person who would have been banned back when the site still had a Trust & Safety team. If you scroll down, they're talking about the mental ability of different racial groups, plainly. An entire generation coming up not realizing we used to be able to stop this.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026
This is a good person, totally decent. Just also totally unaware that their media diet (and thus their brain) has been completely cooked to where they're amplifying media by fucking Nazis and passing it along as if that's normal. Sometimes I despair about how we return from this.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026
Another grim indicator of where things stand — people always send me clips of Prince stuff ("I saw him play this guitar solo from the Rock & Roll hall of fame!") but the latest was a former coworker who's still on Twitter/X, and the video they sent was posted by an unabashed white supremacist.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There are some signals that just the two childhood doses of mumps vaccine are not enough to hit a high enough VE to prevent outbreaks in congregate living. It's smart to get an adult booster before college, and especially if there's an outbreak locally!
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A police search of Flock producing 50 individual records of a woman's whereabouts across the country for an entire month violated her Fourth Amendment rights, Judge Sara E. Hill of Oklahoma's Northern District ruled yesterday. "Why is it the government’s business where everyone goes all the time?"

To be sure, ALPR technology does not provide the same precision in
location information as cell phones. But it could still reveal a lot about a
person’s whereabouts, and it is easy to imagine the kinds of sensitive
information it collects. It could track and log a couple struggling to start a family at the fertility clinic. It could show how often someone visits a liquor store or casino. It could show which doctor someone goes to or what lawyer’s office someone visits. It also collects mundane information about people’s commutes, but it collects a tremendous amount of such information all the time. It is possible that a dedicated team of law enforcement officers could

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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.
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Absolutely not. But capitalism profits from loneliness. Work and money (or the lack of it) consume the time and energy we need for relationships. Places to gather require money, and connection becomes commodity. Capitalism didn’t have to invent a human vulnerability to deepen and exploit it.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 30/09/2026
After 10-year probe, police recommend charging 54 people, 20 organisations over Grenfell Tower blaze
abc.net.au
Met recommends charging 54 people, 20 organisations over Grenfell blaze
Almost a decade since London's Grenfell Tower fire disaster, police have asked prosecutors to consider charging 54 people and 20 organisations over the blaze, which killed 72 people.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 30/09/2026
Why isn’t this illegal?
nytimes.com
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Jim Pembroke @jimpembroke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interesting story. Suggests One Nation isn't the future of Australian politics. Maybe it's just a generational mistake. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
How young Australians are navigating their parents' support for One Nation
As One Nation's popularity remains strong in the polls, gen Z is the least likely demographic to vote for the party, with support coming from older generations. But how is this political divide playin...
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Morabeets 🍉 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🌏♀️ @morabeets.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Familiar issues #auspol
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isaac @sevier.io · 28/09/2026
Folks are in motion and people are making invitations for others to get involved everywhere
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
exactly this. if we can no longer broadly agree, as a social unit of social creatures, that human endeavor and human dignity have worth and are in fact likely the point, why bother? what is this world we are constructing. why is anyone even walking around and going anywhere
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and publications, letters, music, art if we can't get in those rooms for a while. make things. material things. make them with others. then send them to others. make a room of attention across distance
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Utah wanted websites to verify the actual, physical location of visitors and force them to identify VPN users. The controversial addition to the state's age-verification law was suppose to go into effect next week, but a District Court judge struck it down at least temporarily.
techradar.com
Federal judge strikes down Utah's controversial VPN age verification rules
A major win for digital privacy as courts rule that state-level age verification laws cannot mandate the tracking of encrypted web traffic
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Spyware maker Paragon is reportedly going public. "Paragon and REDLattice generated combined revenue of $267 million in the 12 months ended June 2026, representing a 29% increase from the same period a year earlier." www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/ar...
calcalistech.com
Israeli cyber company Paragon to go public through Nasdaq SPAC merger at $1.25 billion valuation | CTech
The company and U.S. partner REDLattice generated $267 million in combined revenue over the past year, up 29%.
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I. B. Loud IVXX @ibloud.xyz · 28/09/2026
Includification is an award-winning guide by the AbleGamers Foundation that helps developers make video games accessible for players with disabilities It organizes features into four pillars mobility vision hearing, and cognitive helping inclusive game design accessible.games/wp-content/u...
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Home
AbleGamers - Combating social isolation through play and improving quality of life through recreation and rehabilitation.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
Somehow "the guy who buys struggling publications and fills them with fake journalists that publish thousands of articles of AI slop to overwhelm google? turns out he goes way back with Ghislaine Maxwell, the collaborator of Jeffrey Epstein" feels like the ultimate and most exhausting 2026 sentence
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 28/09/2026
By my wonderful colleague Katy Gero: A 4-month artist residency, Feb to May 2027, at the School of Computer Science at #USyd, "to support artists working on projects that involve serious consideration of computation and its related subjects." Share broadly, and apply! www.writefutureslab.com/air/
writefutureslab.com
Artist in Residence
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Victoria will work to develop a profile for every homeless person…” Nobody stopped to think about how uneven distribution of surveillance focused on homeless people will lead to criminalisation? www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
theage.com.au
Melbourne Assembly homelessness discussion: Assertive action plan aimed at ending rough sleeping on Victoria’s streets
Victoria will work to develop a profile for every homeless person and an active plan to get them off the streets and into housing.
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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 (Part of a longer thread; essay version available in a link further up thread)
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
VPN bans are a direct response to age-verification. Legislators are frustrated that people are getting around their surveillance, but rather than rethink their strategy, they're doubling down and banning VPNs. Fight the Flock-ing of the internet.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity by tech freaks
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵
evitable
adjective
uk  /ˈev.ɪ.tə.bəl/ us  /ˈev.ə.t̬ə.bəl/

able to be avoided or prevented:
He believes that world war is evitable.
Inevitable suffering due to persecution is to be distinguished from evitable sickness.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
I wonder if I maybe don't say this enough: the gas-fired data centre boom is *planned* but not *inevitable*. In fact, the plans are fragile, and this petrotech dream only works if everything lands with perfect timing and poise. stand.earth/insights/wes...
Article header from Stand.earth showing a large headline that Microsoft is quietly backing away from a major West Virginia data‑center project, with the site logo and date above and a cropped photo of a Microsoft building and logo.
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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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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Whenever AI CEOs say anything this is all I can think about
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Corporate Dems care about corporate donors and not the will and best interest of their constituents and democracy. This is CATASTROPHICALLY STUPID advice. Dem establishment determined to claw defeat from the jaws of victory.
politico.com
Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI
Democratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them.
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