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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 11h
Dan Ryan is under a court order not to delete messages from his personal phone, which may contain public records. In court documents, Ryan said he no longer has the phone he's been using, because his spouse traded it in the same day a judge barred him from deleting records. He says nothing was lost.
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Councilor Ryan’s Phone is Traded In On the Same Day a Judge Bars Him from Deleting Messages - Portland Mercury
A Multnomah County judge granted a temporary restraining order October 1, barring District 2 City Councilor Dan Ryan from deleting messages held on his private cell phone and other devices. The restra...
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kat excellence ✨ @katexcellence.io · 31/08/2026
this was difficult to read, but it's important to know people are currently in prison for 50+ years for attending a protest + one wasn't even at the protest, but got sentenced for 30 years for "concealing" anarchist zines
motherjones.com
How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa
“We are not terrorists.”
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Sabot Media @sabot.media · 06/09/2026
1/6 A/I may be ending. The story is nowhere near over. For twenty-five years, #AutisticiInventati showed what it could mean for movements to build and control their own communications infrastructure. Its loss should not send everyone searching for the next single service to replace it.
Alt text: Poster-style graphic on a black background reading, “A/I IS ENDING. SO WHAT DO WE BUILD NOW?” in large cream and red block letters. In the center is a screenshot-like view of the Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub, or BASH, showing its colorful pixel-art logo and simple text-based NomadNet site. Along the left are the phrases “Publish local,” “Mirror everything,” “Learn the tools,” “Support independent media,” and “Build together.” Text on the right says one collective can be shut down, but a thousand projects cannot, and calls for people to control their own communications. Mountain, forest, radio-tower, and DIY zine-style illustrations frame the page. Across the bottom, large text reads, “WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER A/I. WE NEED A THOUSAND SERVERS,” followed by a note that Sabot is building a living guide to autonomous media and infrastructure, especially for small and rural projects.
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Australia's electricity prices fall to free! "Over the past 12 months, wholesale electricity prices dropped nearly in half. And millions of consumers can now sign up for three hours of free power in the middle of the day." How? Solar, batteries, wind www.fastcompany.com/91591220/how... #energysky
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How Australia made electricity cheaper while U.S. prices keep rising
A combination of abundant rooftop solar, subsidized home batteries, and far less red tape is pushing power prices down—and changing when and how Australians use electricity.
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🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
1 Wretched of the Earth 2 Prison of Grass 3 Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties 4 Traces of History 5 Conquest of Bread 6 Dreams of Freedom 7 FromRiotToInsurrection 8 Forced Founders 9 Internal Enemy 10 Black Reconstruction 11 Black Jacobins 12 Killing Hope 13 Haymarket Tragedy 14 Durruti 15 Sabate
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I genuinely believe I deserve a better life. This narcissism leads me to advocate for everyone getting to have a better life. So that I can have one.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin." ~ Oscar Wilde (1892) #Illustration by Władysław Teodor Benda, 1873-1948.
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Milford @milfordo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
THERE IS SOMEONE STUCK INSIDE A CLAW MACHINE AT LLYOD CENTER!!!
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Melissa del Bosque @mdelbosque.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We have a powerful piece out today at @theborderchronicle.bsky.social by Tohono O'odham tribal member Mike Wilson and José Antonio Lucero. Welcome to Indian Country 🦂🔥 www.theborderchronicle.com/welcome-to-i...
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Welcome to Indian Country: 250 Years of Democracy and Authoritarianism in the U.S.
Worried about the future of democracy in the United States? Look to Indigenous histories; they have much to teach us about the struggle between liberty and empire.
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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
One of the nice things about real life is that, unlike fiction, sometimes there are things that are just better than other things
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Community Protection Broadcast @cpb.works · 03/08/2026
So it turns out the owner of the Centennial mills warehouse that caught fire today on NW Naito Parkway is owned by none other than Stuart Lindquist, (the same Stuart Lindquist who owns the ICE building, off of Macadam). Previous owners of the property were Prosper Portland…
Vacant Warehouse Burns in NW Portland on Naito Parkway.The historic Centennial Mills property that caught fire on Northwest Naito
Parkway is owned by Oregon developer Stuart Lindquist through an affiliated entity, following a 2024 sale from the
city's economic development agency, Prosper Portland.
Ownership and Background Details
• Current Owner: Oregon developer Stuart Lindquist (Lindquist Development Co.) @ OregonLive.com +1
• Previous Owner: Prosper Portland (the city economic development agency), which held the property for nearly 25 years before selling it. @ OregonLive.com
• Recent Plans: Approved design reviews included turning the site into mixed-use residential buildings and leasing a portion to developer James Kasper for a proposed nightclub.
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• The Incident: A fast-moving fire struck the vacant 1362 N.W. Naito Parkway structure, causing a partial collapse as Portland Fire & Rescue fought the blaze from the
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Rip City Not Rip Off @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
16/ The message should be simple: Portland is prepared to make a major investment in its publicly owned arena and keep the Blazers here for the long term. But public investment must purchase public value. This is not a threat to the team. It is Portland’s price of yes.
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amb @amb.fyi · 31/07/2026
After enjoying fifty years of devoted fandom and support I find it downright shameful for a pro sports team to send their lobbyist to city hall and just flatly say into the mic that the city sucks, in an effort to shake ‘em down for hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars with zero accountability
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
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Hackaday @hackadayofficial.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Could Reticulum Power a Post-Internet Network?
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Could Reticulum Power a Post-Internet Network?
Hackaday Article
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 19/07/2026
It's legit hilarious that they're selling Trojan Horse popcorn holders for THE ODYSSEY (2026), given how the Trojan Horse ends up being framed in the film as the genocidal nail in the coffin of a rules-based international order
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Dr. Ashok Karra @akarra.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
a lot of people want carceral solutions b/c they don’t want the work of self-government. Just the fantasy that the good guys win. Power means responsibility. you have to know what is done in the name of safety. You have to make sure your neighbors have what they need. the news isn’t entertainment
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The solution to 90% of the personal problems in your life is saying this. Robocop is a real one
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613 Antifascist @613afa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Streamers and cameras don't belong at protests. They are the tools of the enemy. Many comrades have been doxxed due to "friendly" cameras. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anon...
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In Defense of Smashing Streamer’s Cameras
Anonymous In Defense of Smashing Streamer’s Cameras all quotations are from: “In Defense of Smashing Cameras” — Anonymous, 2016
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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Some late Friday news: Portland's city hearings office has upheld the land use violation issued against the owner of Portland’s ICE building. That means the city can begin issuing fines against the owners. More soon.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The Left(s) should get onboard with a massive expansion of public libraries across the country over the next 25 years. This is an affirmative project.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Evergreen. Reading Fanon for the first time felt like the day I got glasses. Everything was suddenly so much sharper
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
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In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
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DFW Support Committee @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: prairielanddefendants.com/defendant…
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/06/2026
Over at @theverge.com, @seangon.bsky.social and I wrote about how billionaires hijacked a generational $42.5 billion program intended to dramatically improve internet access. Republicans stripped away all affordability and equity requirements, and are turning it into a slush fund.
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Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband
“We’re fed up … The BEAD program has failed us.”
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emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
One of my personal favorite Sparling stories. i can only imagine the schadenfreude Zane felt getting to write this expose on how our posh suburb hometown was the epicenter of a 20 million dollar catalytic converter crime ring blamed on homeless people. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2024/0...
oregonlive.com
New details of alleged $20M catalytic converter theft ring disclosed in court records
A sprawling investigation alleges the $20-million stolen catalytic converter ring led to dozens of charges against Brennan Doyle and Tanner Hellbusch.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
this is fucking CRAZY
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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 16/06/2026
Strong property law of any kind inevitably benefits entities who own a lot of property more than anyone else In other news, water is wet
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⚔️ C L O V E ⚔️ @clove.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Unfettered access to one insane friend's media collection is better than any streaming service on the planet
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Nombre Sombre @nombresombre.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
www.portland.gov/council/moda...
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What's Next for the Moda Center? Get More Facts
Learn how the Portland City Council is considering the city's role in a potential renovation of the Moda Center after 30 years. Home to the Trail Blazers and the Fire, the city-owned arena brings $600...
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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 08/06/2026
NEW: A tax loophole costs the US government $48 billion a year. That's more than the budget of NASA and the 2026 health subsidy cuts combined. The loophole allows ETFs to defer or avoid capital gains tax on winning stock picks.
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The Top 1% Reap Most From Tax Loophole Costing $48 Billion
The ETF industry is exploiting the tax break at an unprecedented scale.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 08/06/2026
NYPD just announced no walking between 30th & 35th St / 7th - 8th Ave from 4pm on
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Joy-Con 2 Strap Insights Quiz 1 @towoxiv.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Obviously modern society is better than being a hunter-gatherer but there is a legitimate argument that the adoption of agriculture was neither voluntary nor immediately beneficial for the average human being.
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States - Wikipedia
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Cascadia Journal @cascadiajournal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This story at @columbiainsight.bsky.social is bonkers. DOE has awarded $2 billion to 2 firms (including one connected to Peter Thiel) to start enriching uranium in a derelict building at Hanford, North America's most toxic waste site. columbiainsight.org/the-return-o...
An ominous looking huge concrete building with no windows
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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
PSU Professor Bruce Gilley reportedly sent out a letter INTL majors/minors about starting a "PSU Conservatives" club. In the letter, Gilley mocks preferred pronouns and land acknowledgments, including through a pro-colonialist message at the bottom that falsely depicts indigenous American history.
LETTER TEXT: 

Dear Friends, Following discussion with many PGA students, I will be convening a new informal student group in the Fall called "PSU Conservatives." The group will meet regularly to offer a place for conservative and conservative-curious students to find connections, deprogram, and discuss conservative values. If you would like to be
added to the list, please email me directly from your pdx.edu account.
Please share this email with those you believe might be interested.
Best Regards, Professor Bruce Gilley, Professor of Politics and Global Affairs
Mark O. Hatfield School of Government
Portland State University
gilleyb@pdx.edu
503.725.3056
https://web.pdx.edu/~gilleyb/
Pronouns: Bio/lo/gy Portland State University is located on the sovereign land of the State of Oregon, which was for the first time permanently settled and intensively farmed by European migrants from Canada and the American east in the early 1800s. The arrival of Thomas Burnett's wagon train and the so-called "Cow Column" of 1843 are events of fundamental significance in Oregon history. The establishment of Indian residential schools in Oregon such as the Forest Grove Indian School provided life and culture-saving interventions for native communities. We acknowledge the contributions of European settlement and founders to
the thriving city and state in which we are now privileged to live.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/06/2026
But a key point in all of this: if everyone just passively accepts what's given to us, we don't reach that better, more decentralized, more democratic world (hey look where things stand today). It requires making some key choices.
Decentralization, like democracy itself, is something we have to fight for. Absent deliberate effort, the default trajectory runs toward centralization, because centralization is convenient, and convenience wins in the short term.

Which means the decentralized alternatives have to be genuinely better, not just philosophically purer. The centralized platforms won the last round because they removed friction. They didn’t ask users to manage config files or understand network topology—they said “click here and it works,” and most people took that deal. Any decentralized successor that requires users to become their own sysadmins will lose the same way the last generation of open protocols lost.

What’s different now is that we’re closer than we’ve ever been to having decentralized systems that are actually more convenient and more empowering, where the user experience is competitive with the centralized incumbents, and the democratic benefits come built in rather than bolted on. The goal is to build systems where those two things point in the same direction.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 01/06/2026
it's certainly interesting to watch every single person in the oil industry repeat in a monotone “we are 3 to 6 weeks away from the worst energy crisis in history”, supply chain people with thousand yard stares, every single macroeconomist I know is benchmarking against 2008, etc and then meanwhile
chart showing the S&P 500 near record highs
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 29/05/2026
A large stretch of forest that has been owned by the state of Minnesota for more than 100 years will soon be returned to the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
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Minnesota is returning thousands of acres of forest to the Fond du Lac Band
The land, managed for decades by the University of Minnesota, sits entirely within the reservation and was taken after treaty-era land seizures.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/05/2026
TIL heat is really killing a lot of people in Europe. hannahritchie.substack.com/p/heat-guns-...
Heat versus gun deaths in the European Union and the United States. Average annual deaths per 100,000 population, as close to the year 2024 as possible. Heat deaths are based on excess death methodology, not the number recorded on death certificates.

US, heat: 1.94
European Union, guns: 1.24
US, guns: 13.27
European union, heat: 12.57
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Nombre Sombre @nombresombre.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
humans move approximately 10x more earth annually than all natural surface processes combined. www.bioedonline.org/news/nature-...
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Ah yes, Lou Engle, whom I met in Uganda, in the company of the author of a bill to execute queer people and imprison straights who’d befriend them, a law for which Engle stumped.
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Bernhard Schaefer @bernhardschaefer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Messengers from #space: Invisible particles become visible in this bubble chamber which turns cosmic radiation into tracks you can watch in real time. Thin zigzags are electrons, long straight paths are muons, and thick short trails come from alpha particles losing their energy rapidly. 🔭 #physics
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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
So I know that @schmidtocean.bsky.social has suggested the collective noun for ctenophores should be “a disco” which I think is fantastic but can we specifically call a bloom of lobates “an applause”, based on that lobe clapping behavior they swim with especially when little? 🧪🦑🐙
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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Here’s a GoFundMe to help out the family: www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring...
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Donate to Help Bring Poni Home, organized by Ben Skiba
(La descripción en español está abajo) Early Friday morning, May 8th, José “Poni” Góngora Poot was … Ben Skiba needs your support for Help Bring Poni Home
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butterfly. ☭ 🇵🇸🔻🇮🇪 @gothgf.rip · 12/05/2026
"Anna did not respond to any of the three complaints. Anna has never responded to any complaint. Anna is a name on a blog and a public key on a server and a person, or maybe several people, in a jurisdiction nobody has identified after four years of searching." The GOAT 🔥
The largest open library in human history, Anna's Archive, has been ordered to pay Spotify and the three largest record labels on the world $322 million.

The defendant has not appeared in court and is not going to. The site is still up with two backup domains standing by and there's nothing the censors can do.

Anna's Archive currently holds 63 million books, 95 million academic papers, and 1.1 petabytes of mirrored torrents. It is free. It is searchable. It is run by a pseudonymous person nobody has identified after four long years of searching.

In the four months since the music industry filed the first of three coordinated lawsuits, the library has lost six domain names and added two million books to the catalogue. The cartel is suing it faster every month, and it is growing faster every month.

In December, Spotify and the major labels filed. In January, OCLC, the company that runs WorldCat, won a default judgment of its own. On March 6th, thirteen of the largest book publishers in the United States, including HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette, Elsevier, Wiley, and McGraw Hill, filed a third lawsuit in the same federal court.

The publishers' complaint runs to seventy-four pages. They call Anna's Archive a "brazen pirate operation." They call it "an illegal supplier of stolen content to the AI industry."The same publishers are simultaneously suing Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, and NVIDIA for training their models on the same corpus the publishers want Anna to destroy. The cartel argues, in two parallel federal courts, that the corpus cannot be used by anyone. Not the pirate who built it. Not the AI company that downloaded from it. Not the graduate student who pulls a paywalled paper from it at two in the morning.

Anna did not respond to any of the three complaints. Anna has never responded to any complaint. Anna is a name on a blog and a public key on a server and a person, or maybe several people, in a jurisdiction nobody has identified after four years of searching.

The judgment is uncollectable. The permanent injunction binds Cloudflare, Public Interest Registry, Njalla, the Switch Foundation, Tucows, and nine other named intermediaries. The Greenland registry is not on the list. The Greenland registry has not complied.

The site currently lives at .gl, with .pk and .gd standing by. The corpus has always moved faster than the censor. The censor has always called the corpus piracy. The corpus has always survived the censor by becoming the readers themselves.

The publishers' lawsuit cannot reach the torrents. The torrents are already seeded across continents and IPFS nodes and personal NAS drives owned by people the publishers will never find. The default judgment is paper. The corpus is everywhere.

The cartel will win every lawsuit but they will lose the war. The publisher who walks into court next month with a fresh filing will be filing against a defendant who has, in the time since the last filing was sealed, mirrored another half million books to another seven hundred volunteers in another forty countries.

There is no defendant to find. There is only the next upload. It is already seeding.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Inside your brain is a PINECONE, rapidly filling with BRAIN SAND, and it's evolutionary evidence of your FOUR-EYED FREAK ancestors. Let's talk about the tiny eye inside your brain, the pineal gland. We start with Galen, 2nd century AD, who called it, in Greek 'konario' (κωνάριο), "pine cone".
I put a red arrow on a panel from Grey's Anatomy that indicates a tiny avocado-shaped structure at the center of the brain.
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Jiggety Jatters. The worst name. @jessefuchs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
this absolute king has been goofing off on the Internet for longer than most of you have been alive 🫡🫡🫡
HERBIE HANCOCK
green letters on a black screen, and Fritz asked me what I did for a liv-ing. I typed that I was a piano player. "Do you have any records?" he asked. I typed, "Yes, about twenty of them. What do you do?"
He wrote, "I make beer. Kind of like you with your records-l make a lot of beer." And then he typed, "Actually, I'm the owner of the Anchor Brewing Company."
Wow! This blew my mind, that the owner of Anchor Steam beer and I could randomly meet over the computer. The idea that he was up in San Francisco, typing away, and I was sitting in my studio in L.A., and we were getting to know each other—it was like science fiction. I was laughing at how amazing it was, but pretty soon Bryan got a serious look on his face. He said, "Oh, my god, Herbie—if recording is going to be all digital, and we can communicate digitally by comput-ers, you know what that means? It means one day we'll be able to sell music over our computers." This was in 1979! But Bryan saw it as clear as day, even then.
That was a long way in the future, of course-because as advanced as these new computers were, they were still pretty primitive. Floppy discs were available only as an external accessory, if at all, so some of the first personal computers had no storage device save for the small internal memory. If you wanted to buy a program, you had to order it by mail, and digital data was usually stored on cassette tapes. You had to hook up a cassette player to your computer and play tapes to transfer information. And you'd better have a pretty high-quality player, because otherwise the data might be compromised.
After Bryan and I had fiddled around on The Source for a while, we turned to the big question: How could we use this new machine to make music?
At first I thought I would use it mainly to write music. The computer had audio, so I thought I could develop different sounds and then play them back. Beyond that, I wasn't really sure what to do with it. We knew the Apple Il+ had lots of…
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phoenix @phoenix-rights.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
it's been five months since the United States has admitted a refugee that is not a white South African
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