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Soccer, cricket, baseball, basketball, and running Honestly, there'll probably be politics Anarchist, punk-as-possible at my age, and lucky parent Also on Mastodon: @norefsnocoaches@mastodon.social

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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 14h
Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Youth pastor voice
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026
The reason Kanye is allowed to continue to work & Macklemore isn’t is because the people making these decisions don’t care about preventing antisemitism they care about protecting settler colonialism.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"An AI agent went rogue" also feels like a test drive for an era when no one is responsible for the worst things these products do. Seems like a standard that could be really convenient for certain governments.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026
And this is why we need to help people stop focusing on a brand name and start hating the surveillance state as a whole.
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No Refs, No Coaches (they/them) ⚜️🍁 @norefsnocoaches.myatproto.social · 31/08/2026
It’s truly wild that Carnegie’s case for philanthropy is basically this exact argument: the rich can’t control how their tax money is spent as easily as they can control private charity and where they direct their charity. Now apparently even that much control is too much for some
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's not until he says the magic words, that he fears losing control, that it fully clicks. It's not that he believes philanthropy is bad, it's that the risk of someone receiving his money who he doesn't approve of is a bigger problem than the risk that his money helps no one. That speaks volumes.
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Billionaire CEO says charity is a ‘negative’ for the world: ‘I’m not going to do that’
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has a net worth of several billion dollars, but don’t expect him to donate to charity or do any kind of philanthropy anytime soon. During a recent interview, Armstrong exp...
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Literacy is not an individual skill. Literacy is a public infrastructure.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
trump getting involved with world cup stuff is why i initially had the ick about paying attention to the whole thing. i ended up a bit swept up in it anyway and it's been fun to have a unifying event in the states, but then we get smacked in the face with a reminder that he ruins everything.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
once again reminding folks that police commit violence against women at a higher rate than the general population.
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No Refs, No Coaches (they/them) ⚜️🍁 @norefsnocoaches.myatproto.social · 02/07/2026
I have a hard time rooting for the US in most things despite living here my whole life, and IDK if I’d go so far as to say I support this team, but I want this team to do well because their make up really does speak to an alternate vision for the US and what it could be
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🌑 @fell.energy · 30/06/2026
liberal society is tearing itself apart because people want to own their children
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John Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I don't think people understand the degree to which outlets like The Atlantic and The New York Times set back trans rights with second-rate reporting that doesn't stand up now, let alone in the future. They have failed at the most basic journalistic duties.
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Eoghan Sweeney @eoghan.eurosky.social · 28/06/2026
I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that
aljazeera.com
DR Congo superfan denied US visa to support team at World Cup
Michel Kuka Mboladinga is iconic for his motionless tribute at DRC games, but a US World Cup repeat has been denied.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Sherlock Holmes: Moriarty, my one intellectual equal Moriarty: Holmes, my one nemesis, for you alone can match my genius Sherlock Holmes: let us settle this great game, this contest of wills, in the only way it is appropriate *two drunks kick each other in the stomach by a waterfall*
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
People talk about US higher ed like it’s all blue haired gender majors but mostly it’s nursing and business students
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
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✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Go-Man Vs. the Star Dragon OUT NOW! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I hate Ai being used at any point of a production but I cannot understand why people think it sounds better to say that you only used it at the early stages of pre-production. That's the fun bit!! The ideas bit!! The creative bit!! The bit that makes your story YOURS.
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No Refs, No Coaches (they/them) ⚜️🍁 @norefsnocoaches.myatproto.social · 19/06/2026
I’m turning 36 this year and am 2/3 of the way through the series. If you are under 45 and haven’t gotten these shots yet, and don’t have any health reasons you can’t, it’s one of the best things you can do for yourself and the people you love
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Really missing Grant Wahl right now. Need his daily thoughts on all the soccer. Need his integrity and his guts and allyship. We lost so much. 💔
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 18/06/2026
I don’t think there’s enough of an outrage around the fact that the Iranian World Cup team is not allowed to stay in the US so they have to leave after every game and go to Mexico.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The "hydration break" really is a perfect American capitalist innovation: a nakedly commercial play to insert more ad revenue into a game that doesn't have ads anywhere else in the world, all under the guise of some humanitarian interest in the players' wellbeing.
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No Refs, No Coaches (they/them) ⚜️🍁 @norefsnocoaches.myatproto.social · 16/06/2026
The fact that FIFA has just completely rolled over, failed to protect its members, and shown its belly is an embarrassment The US should be barred from hosting any international sporting event until very significant changes and guarantees are made for the safety of players and fans
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Jesus Christ, this is such a national embarrassment.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
If you're hosting an international sporting event, you should be required to actually host all of the competitors. This isn't hard.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
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It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 15/06/2026
Mandatory age verification and the banning modern public towns squares for young people is, and forever will be, governmental and societal abdication of responsibility so that those in charge don't actually have to dare hold big tech accountable for the very real public harm they can foster.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Biden & Obama era officials & lawmakers bellyaching about Musk… Tesla, SpaceX & Twitter workers, investors, customers, researchers took huge risks to tell reporters like me their concerns which we published. what did you do with that hard won info?
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/06/2026
Broken record here, but so many of these uses start with “how can we get people to use a chatbot” rather than “how do we solve a problem” or “how do we fill a need.” The “problem” according to the companies is that people aren’t using chatbots enough.
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DoorDash's new AI chatbot lets you order with prompts and photos | TechCrunch
The new chatbot, called Ask DoorDash, allows users to search the app for what they're looking for in their own words instead of having to scroll through restaurants and stores to build a cart.
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad
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No Refs, No Coaches (they/them) ⚜️🍁 @norefsnocoaches.myatproto.social · 11/06/2026
There is nothing right’s wrong Americans of Irish descent love more than just absolutely not understanding the history or current politics of the island Absolute disgrace that this is how people with power in this country are talking about pogroms overseas
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No Refs, No Coaches (they/them) ⚜️🍁 @norefsnocoaches.myatproto.social · 11/06/2026
Because of my commute, I don’t get a lot of time at home when the kiddo’s awake during the week Being able to read, tell stories, and sing to them as they’re going down is regularly the highlight of my day I just can’t imagine the thought process of these tech folks who think this is a good idea
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
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Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...
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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/06/2026
1. In a move that is likely to be seen as capitulation to Trump, EITM can confirm that Mamdani's first ever trans direct care clinic will deny care to those under 19 years of age, the age from Trump's anti-trans EOs. It is a far cry from his pledge to "use every tool" to fight capitulation.
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Mamdani's New Trans Direct Clinic Will Deny Care To Those Under 19
The NYC Health Spokesperson confirmed with Erin In The Morning that trans youth will not be offered care.
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No Refs, No Coaches (they/them) ⚜️🍁 @norefsnocoaches.myatproto.social · 09/06/2026
This is a prime example of what I’ve been worried about since last year re: the World Cup & Olympics This govt is not just a bad govt that should be boycotted, it’s also a bad govt who’s main focus is anti-non-white border crossing If they do this to a referee from FIFA, what will they do to fans?
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/06/2026
I'm working on a story on this as well, but the takeaway out of this is that Mamdani's direct-care clinic will apparently ban trans youth from getting care, will only provide it to adults. This is because of fear of loss of federal funding. This is DIRECTLY the capitulation reason NYU/Sinai gave.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 08/06/2026
How useful are all those vibe-coded apps at the end of the day? “The marked increase in mobile app releases over the past year has not been accompanied by any increase in downloads — most of the new apps fail to capture even a modest audience.” www.ft.com/content/8e9a...
Agentic AI spurred a boom in mobile app releases, but there is no sign of these apps gaining traction
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The biohackers subreddit banned all posts about peptides and HRT because peptide companies were spamming + manipulating the sub in order to manipulate Google AI and ChatGPT answers. Very insidious industry that is drastically changing the internet www.404media.co/companies-ar...
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Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 01/06/2026
My op-ed piece would be that the idea of a "perfect time" is misleading, especially for coming out. There's never a perfect time. That's not a real thing. You might fuck your life up a little or a lot. Waiting for a perfect time is wasted hours of incredibly meaningful, potentially ruinous beauty
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The Picture of Doriane Gros @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."
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No Refs, No Coaches (they/them) ⚜️🍁 @norefsnocoaches.myatproto.social · 29/05/2026
The motto was always a farce, but it still amazes me that they actually ditched it Yeah, Google was actively abandoning some of its last safeguards at this time, but “Don’t be evil” is one of those mottos that you’ve just gotta go down with once you hitch your wagon to it
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
“The reason AI-generated content isn’t as good, Chieng argued, is that the journey of making and learning something matters —‘it’s the point of all of this.’” www.harvardmagazine.com/commencement...
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Ronny Chieng Tells Harvard to ‘Destroy AI’ as Graduates Cheer | Harvard Magazine
The comedian and The Daily Show host gave the keynote address for Class Day 2026.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
90% of those held at Delaney Hall have no criminal history. People detained at Delaney Hall were being paid $1/day to work — then the facility suspended that pay while keeping up demand for the work. Trump’s mass deportation machine is not about crime reduction. It is about prison labor camps.
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
We really need to fully bed in the idea that the default position of someone wearing the Meta camera glasses is that they are a pervert
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/05/2026
i was such an avid reader of stuff i did not even get CLOSE to understanding as a kid and all it did was make me read more, and ask more questions about the world. there's a concerted effort from almost every consolidated power on this planet to make people less curious!!!!
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
there's a reason LLM heads try to keep you arguing about whether data centers use more water than agriculture: they're belching air pollution like we're back in the gilded age
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As data centers boom, Virginians breathe the exhaust of 10,000 diesel generators
Pollution from Virginia's many data centers could cause respiratory symptoms and deaths in the region, analysis of state permits and corporate disclosures shows.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 27/05/2026
AI is inevitable. That's why we're sneaking it into everything, hiding it in hard to find and turn off places, forcing it into products that don't need it, suddenly claiming old things we've always done is now done with AI. Because it's inevitable. You don't need to do all that when things aren't.
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