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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026

Remember when Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale called for public executions? www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

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Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings

Silicon Valley radicalization escalates

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is getting a lot of quotes, so I feel I should correct this a bit (sorry @anildash.com!) “AI” was 100% born toxic! The first AI workshop was born from the field of “automata studies”, and…1/ (Pictured: the folks who convened for the first workshop. Notice anything notable here?)

A group of white men, sitting on the grass and smiling at the photographer. Black and white photo (1956).

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/10/2026

Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An extra #birddivination not in the deck of 100 (which you can find, along with the process and story behind them, at almanacofbirds.org)

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WongKarWaifu @wongkarwaifu.com · 05/10/2026

Hello English-speaking friends! Did you know the French police is throwing grenades at children? This is a real thing that is happening right now in France, as high school students are protesting against social inequalities, teachers shortage and overall poor learning conditions in school. Grenades!

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« Main arrachée », utilisation d’une grenade… : un adolescent de 15 ans blessé pendant un blocus à Lens, ce que l’on sait

Un adolescent de 15 ans a perdu sa main, à Lens, après avoir été en contact avec ...

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lucindacatchlove.bsky.social @lucindacatchlove.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wish these people would stop trying to claim that their clinical narcissism and psychopathy are autism as a means to rationalize (and cover for) their own lack of physical and cognitive empathy and their grandiose belief in their own superiority.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.

His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.

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NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Scientists have spent over 50 years searching for it, and now it's official: Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way, is blowing a powerful, hot cosmic wind into space! 🌌 1/3

Credit: NASA

This image centers on a bright, pinpoint white glow marking Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, surrounded by a turbulent, cloud-like environment.

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

These plants also harvest dew, which condenses out of moist air. Edges and hairs make especially good foci for condensation as they radiate heat & cool faster. This species is from Namaqualand, in southern Africa. 📷: Dipcadi crispum Karel du Toit CCBYNC4 #Asparagaceae #fog #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of a geophyte with two helically coiled leaves that look like springs. The leaves bear sparse, long hairs.

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Mother Earth @motherearth19309.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

No truer words were ever spoken...

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

‘...making a choice knowing what each lens sees and what it misses, as the dragonfly does, is different from making a choice without seeing the whole picture.’

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 21/05/2026

Tell publishers to keep the news in the Wayback Machine: www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Let this radicalize you

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Jeremiah "Soylent Green is People" Johnson @ecocentroid.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Look at what the Hubble, Chandra and Webb telescopes each "saw" of the Sombrero Galaxy (about 800B stars) 🌍DS

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 28/04/2026

This is both depressing and telling. One of the things that makes Catan a brilliant board game is that if you're playing with friends, even if you're losing, it's still fun. Mark Zuckerberg profoundly doesn't understand why normal people enjoy things or have fun.

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Facebook Employees Would Lose Board Games Against Zuckerberg on Purpose, Former Executive Claims

A former senior Facebook employee is claiming, among other things, that employees used to let Mark Zuckerberg win at Settlers of Catan.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 22/04/2026

Happy #EarthDay! 🌍🌎🌏 Here's an updated graph of how much carbon dioxide (CO₂) has changed since the first Earth Day, which is driving recent climate change.

Line graph time series of March monthly mean carbon dioxide abundance from 1958 through March 2026. There is a long-term increasing trend and seasonal cycle. Current Earth Day 2026 levels are around 431 ppm for this week in April. And the first Earth Day in 1970 was around 328 ppm.

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

‘the defining question of the AI era is not whether Washington or Beijing leads the next generation of models. It is whether the infrastructure shaping the future of work, governance, and opportunity will be built by a narrow set of actors—or by a genuinely global community of innovators.’

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AI Is Recreating a Colonial World Order

The future of AI is increasingly described as a race between Washington and Beijing. Export controls, chip restrictions, and competing infrastructure

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

‘the findings point to a story of how nutmeg was shaped by natural migration & shifts in past climates and human activity. Understanding how its genetic diversity is spread today offers a clearer path for designing more targeted & effective strategies to help the species survive future challenge...’

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onesillyfag @onesillyfag.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Here’s a feed cleanser. Dogs catching treats.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

So, to sum up, a couple of days ago Christina Koch became the first woman to see Earth in its entirety, and today – right now, in fact – she is the first woman to see the Moon up close, and the first woman to see the far side. 🥹

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c...

Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The EU is pushing ahead with AI Act changes that weaken protections for high-risk systems and leave no meaningful path to redress, even as evidence of harm mounts, write CDT Europe’s Laura Lazaro Cabrera and Magdalena Maier.

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Europe Is Looking To Water Down AI Protections. It Should Reinforce Them.

As the omnibus proposal moves toward trilogue negotiations, decision-makers must not lose sight of the AI Act’s goals and effectiveness.

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

20 years ago today, Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet. A lot has happened since then, and Twitter isn't really Twitter anymore, literally and figuratively. The Verge created an archive to preserve the funniest, weirdest, and most memorable tweets in the site's tumultuous history.

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The greatest tweets of all time

Twitter’s best hits, preserved before it all goes down in flames.

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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

A painting by Leon Huber 1858-1928. He was born in Montmartre, a bohemian neighborhood in Paris, France. He often helped the poor by offering food and other services.🙂

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Jessý Potato @markdownhandsup.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

G2 geomagnetic strom conditions reached! Lots of clouds here in Reykjavik, and I was in bed reading, but I was able to catch this amazing shot of the diffuse aurora towering out of the clouds and above the rooftops. Happy hunting tonight, all! #iceland #northernlights #aurora

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

‘I have suggested in the past that our information ecosystem is broken. But I now suspect that’s wrong: This is how it is meant to work. These online products sustain themselves by making us dependent on the content that makes us feel powerless and miserable. Where does this all lead?...’

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

‘If one theme emerges, it is that the bulk of governments have hedged in their early responses – calling for an end to the war and the protection of their citizens and assets but shying away from public reproval of the U.S. and Israel.’

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Dee Chan @deechan17.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This is a marvelous change not only for the Humpback whale 🐋 population but for all of us. We need to keep our gentle giants from going extinct. Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery | RNZ News share.google/X1HB3JFgaePK...

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Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery

Breeding is getting more competitive, suggesting the population is growing, a new study shows.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Reminder that the US military budget is larger than the military spending of the next nine largest countries combined. Over half goes to private defense contractors. This is the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned of — on steroids.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

"These attacks are causing much suffering for Iranian people, and it’s destroying the space in which Iranians were struggling for social justice and civil liberties” - Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, once imprisoned on death row in Iran. www.democracynow.org/2026/3/2/ira...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Always the first to flee while everyone else suffers the consequences.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The UK's permission for the US to use its bases in attacking Iran amounts to complicity in the crime of aggression. It drags us into what could be an endless war, without democratic or even parliamentary consent.

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Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

In case if USA will win this war: - the loss of statehood. Not only neutralizing a military threat, but losing control over natural resources. 80% of Iran’s oil has been going to China. In case of victory it could be rerouted somewhere else — through the hands of American corporations. 1/

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Tankers are already holding up on either side of the Strait of Hormuz.

Map showing positions of tankers, courtesy Sal Mercogliano

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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 28/02/2026

It's too easy to look at Epstein's world and say, "Those people are a different species." They're not, and that's what we need to reckon with. In one of my most urgent Team Human monologues, I discuss Epstein, Dawkins, and the banality of evil. Stream & subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGvo...

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Peter Head @peterheadcbe.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles (EVs) and wind turbines exported from China in 2024 are set to cut annual CO2 emissions in the rest of the world by 1%, some 220m tonnes (MtCO2). www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

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Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1% - Carbon Brief

China’s clean-energy technologies such as solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles are helping to cut emissions in other countries.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Big substorm happening now in Fairbanks! Here’s the current view on my iPhone with the 0.5x lens—usually doesn’t capture much unless there’s some bright aurora!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

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Cedar Attanasio @viacedar.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Have you ever wondered what "off the record" actually means? I'm a reporter at the Associated Press, and today I'm re-reading our 17-page ethics document which covers 99% of journalist ethics and the high standards here at the AP.

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Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Frosted forest

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