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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 24/09/2026

I feel actually sick from this, the sheer fucking audacity of the grift claiming to be "a tool that will help professional journalists" while not citing a single journalist, stealing the photos from the Guardian article & stripping them of any info re: contents or photographer.

Screenshot from London Daily that shows four images at the top of a headline: three of a ship from different angles and one of Pia Klemp, an activist, holding a pair of binoculars. Beneath that the text reads as follows:
Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

The British street artist Banksy has financed a boat to rescue refugees attempting to reach Europe from north Africa, the Guardian can reveal.

Screenshot of the top part of the 27 August 2020 Guardian article which London Daily scraped. The journalists listed in the byline are Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo and Maurice Stierl in Berlin, and a helpful yellow tag at the top of the page notes "This article is more than 6 years old."

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 24/09/2026

Pals I see you sharing links to London Daily & need you to know it's AI bullshit. The Louise Michel is real, Banksy really funded it, but that started in 2020 & the LD link people are sharing is timestamped to today but written as if it's 2020 & elides all the actual journalism about it.

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Welcome to London Daily, an innovative and unique news experiment driven by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Our AI system conducts extensive research and fact-checking, presenting a non-biased and diverse perspective on each topic. It meticulously filters out biased or manipulated content, offering you factual summaries essential for your knowledge as an informed citizen.

Our aim is not to replace mainstream media but to provide you with succinct summaries of key headlines, encouraging you to explore these stories in greater depth through your favorite mainstream news sources.

As a privately funded, non-profit initiative, our mission is to provide a concise and comprehensive overview of current events as part of a broader project to enhance fact-checking and AI journalism for journalists and publishers worldwide.

We are building a tool that will help professional journalists and traditional mainstream news outlets enhance their news delivery, boost their readership, ease their workload, and lower their costs while increasing their productivity—all aimed at improving content reliability and readability.

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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

that time when black men from greensville sc enlisted for ww1 & their wives wanted to stay home & take care of their kids & other community folk in need but white officials "no, no, no!" & called them "loafers" and said they had to do domestic work for white folks or be fined or jailed.

newspaper headline saying "negro women to be put to work" or face severe punishment.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026

MS NOW: "Breaking as we speak -- MS NOW and CNN have just been blocked from attending yet another White House event ... I was told to reach out to Steven Cheung"

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our flight was during peak vacation season. Loads of families with young kids, so mom or dad had to root through oodles of bags to find IDs while keeping excited kids from running off and/or overtired ones from meltdowns. (Been there...) But, yeah, normalizing "can I check your papers."

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 24/09/2026

a friend’s dad was taken by ICE and they’re looking to raise money for legal representation. share and donate if you’re able to www.gofundme.com/f/our-dad-wa...

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Donate to Our Dad was taken by ICE, organized by Victoria Rudenko

Our dad has called the United States home since 1996. He came here 30 years ago and has s… Victoria Rudenko needs your support for Our Dad was taken by ICE

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

“Since 1973, 27 gangs or subgroups have been identified through lawsuits & reports compiled by the department’s independent oversight bodies. The gangs have operated out of patrol stations & inside the county’s jails, giving themselves names like the “Banditos,” “Regulators,” and “Lynwood Vikings.”

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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Folks, please take note of Covid in the UK it is EXPLODING.

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh, hey, my writing on 5 titles is included! Pre-order it below.

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Picking/packing stock for the Lindbergh High School flea market tomorrow and frankly breaks my heart all the titles I can't bring with me Anyway, come on out tomorrow and I'll sell you some VHS

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trying to coach a new friend on the creative writing job market this fall and found the CW Wiki oddly empty for the new year. Was looking then at Poets & Writers, MLA, but it occurred to me to ask: where are the listings listed now?

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by private equity Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list

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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler

Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The U.S. military swung into action to intercept a Chinese ship after an “entirely false” AI-generated intelligence report inaccurately identified what the vessel was carrying It also “almost started a war,” a source told CNN.

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

MS NOW reporter and WABJ member Akayla Gardner was denied entry into the White House grounds and asked to hand over her badge.

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Nikki Dolson @nikkidolson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I see I need to become the villain. So be it.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 09/09/2026

I should also say that the book is now available for pre-order: jonhendricks.com

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Kill Current: A Jon Hendricks Thriller

Kill Current. An experience from The Arena.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And then there’s this response from the alignment science lead at Anthropic

Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

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DeFlock Redmond @deflock-redmond.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Less than a month after Grass Valley PD publicly ended its contract with #Flock & removed all cameras from the city, the company reinstalled at least two of them without permission – a concept that often seems lost on Flock users." #deflock #surveillance #alpr

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California city canceled Flock, removed its cameras, then found the company had put some of them back

Grass Valley, California, is one of the many cities that have dropped Flock license plate cameras. It comes as the company faces criticism over the extent of...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Toledo Blade, one of the oldest newspapers in the country, will publish its final edition on Dec. 31. if it can’t find a buyer “Founded in 1835, the newspaper is Toledo’s oldest continually operating business”

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Possible final edition of Blade announced; company explores sale

Block Communications has announced its intention to explore a sale of The Blade’s assets, which, if unsuccessful, will result in the final edition of the ...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sharing from Internet Archive: “Much of BET’s digital journalism is no longer available on the web Internet Archive has preserved more than 199,000 BET articles over the years. They can now be accessed through the Wayback Machine & a new pilot explorer: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer/

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BET.com Article Explorer

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.northsky.social · 08/09/2026

Eligibility: -Detained at Brooklyn Central Booking facility from Apr 8, 2017 - Dec 27, 2019 -Detained Feb 3, 2020 - Mar 1, 2023 (all Central Booking locations). Eligible class members may receive up to $475 for each time they were held in a Central Booking facility during these class periods.

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.northsky.social · 08/09/2026

The settlement concerns the conditions of confinement at The City of New York's Central Booking facilities. Up to $21,500,000 is being placed in a fund to resolve three consolidated lawsuits (all v. The City of New York): Capobianco Brennan Aboubakar

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Arthur Brand @artdetective.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Another big art theft: Two thieves stole "four artworks" from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer early Tuesday morning. www.bfmtv.com/cote-d-azur/...

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Le musée Renoir de Cagnes-sur-Mer cambriolé, quatre tableaux dérobés

Dans la nuit de lundi à mardi, un cambriolage a eu lieu au musée Renoir de Cagnes-sur-Mer. Quatre tableaux ont été dérobés.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The return to physical media is a radical act. A book in your hand or a record on the turntable belong to a world beyond subscriptions, licenses, and corporate permission, and they can be lent, inherited, annotated, repaired, and loved. They remain when the platform fails and the servers die.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So, uh, I haven't talked about this much here, but my wife has been bedridden and unable to walk or work for like two months now because of combinations of viruses, vertigo, and as of last week Sciatica. That plus four emergency room visits means things are getting real tight here.

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hi. Sorry. Hey. So publishing is overburdened and writers are overburdened and I have a weird book coming out in January (synesthesia, being too girly for the theory bros and too theory for the girlies, France and Flanders, making new universities in the spare room, stars, migration, etc.)

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Nikki Dolson @nikkidolson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Guess I need to hunt down all of Emily Tesh’s books because I am desperately sad I finished reading this book and its the sequel today 😭

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 03/09/2026

WAIT! I didn't realize we compiled it!!

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I've only been a Kickstarter backer 4 times in my life. Besides the Veronica Mars Movie, 2 were Nancy Drew-related, lol, so I love smart teen detectives! If you're a more regular project backer, what kinds of rewards have you received that you especially loved? Do you have any requests/ideas?

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Veronica Mars: Private Investigator

ALT: Veronica Mars: Private Investigator

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The shooting at a Tucson gay bar last night that left 3 men dead has been confirmed as a hate crime by Mayor Romero. The killer was found with addresses of “multiple LGBTQ+ friendly venues”. To the friends and families of the victims and to the LGBTQ+ community, I send my deepest sympathy.

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jeffreyford8 @jeffreyford8.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sept. 8th, I'll be joining Livia LLewellyn, Clay McLeod Chapman, Theresa DeLucci, and Ellen Datlow at The Twisted Spine in Brooklyn to discuss all things Halloween and Ellen's new anthology, All Hallows Eve. Starts at 7 pm. On September 9th, I'll be reading at the KGB Bar with John C. Foster. 7pm

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A Florida grand jury found that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ admin “misappropriated” $10M in taxpayer money it diverted to a charity connected to his wife However, criminal charges weren't filed due to a lack of evidence on who specifically was responsible

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Florida Grand Jury Finds DeSantis Administration Misused $10 Million, But No Charges Filed

A Florida grand jury found that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration “misappropriated” $10 million in taxpayer money.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The city of Tempe, Arizona, says it is ending its Flock program

Tempe, AZ - The City of Tempe has turned off its Flock automated license plate reader (ALPR) system and will end its contract with the company. The cameras are no longer collecting license plate data and will be removed by Flock. The City will not seek another company to replace the system.
While the cameras have been a useful tool for Tempe Police, helping officers solve crimes, recent cases involving the misuse of automated license plate reader systems in Arizona and nationwide have raised concerns about the risks that come with the technology.

Tempe Police has found no misuse of its own Flock system. The department audits its searches each month, and no improper use has been identified.
"These cameras have helped our police officers do their jobs, and we don't discount that," said Tempe Mayor Corey Woods. "But the risk of misuse is too great. We have to be able to provide public safety in a way that maintains the trust of our community. For Tempe, that means taking these cameras down."
"Any law enforcement tool used by the City must not pose a risk of infringing on residents' civil liberties," said Tempe Councilmember Bobby Nichols. "We have a responsibility to ensure that these technolo- gies are only employed if they present a narrowly tailored solution to a compelling government interest. I'm grateful to the City staff for this quick action and responsiveness to constituents' concerns."

Residents may continue to see Flock cameras in Tempe until the company removes its equipment. Data previously collected by the system is stored for 30 days and then automatically deleted unless it is connected to an ongoing case or investigation. In those cases, the data may be retained as needed for the investigation. No new license plate data is being collected now that the system has been turned off.
Ending the use of the Flock system will change how Tempe Police approaches some investigations. Officers will continue to use other investigative tools and law enforcement partnerships to prevent crime, solve cases and respond when the community needs
them.

The decision follows steps Tempe took earlier this month in response to community concerns. On Aug. 10, the City stopped sharing its Flock data with other law enforcement agencies. Tempe Police also launched a public Transparency Portal so residents could see how the system was being used. The portal will be discontinued now that the Flock system has been turned off.
The City of Tempe remains fully committed to both community safety and transparency. Residents can continue to track Tempe's public safety performance through the City's Strategic Management Performance Measures.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said. Both were unvaccinated. These the first deaths related to measles within the state in 35 years, it reports

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2 people die from measles in Pennsylvania

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday.

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