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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 10h

but number big, oriana

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 14h

The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.

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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch

The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 13h

‘Limited liability for torts is a subsidy to today’s shareholders paid for by tomorrow’s victims. For AI, that subsidy should end. That means if an AI company faces a mass tort and runs out of money, its controlling shareholders, like Amodei and Zuck, should have to pay.‘ www.wsj.com/opinion/shar...

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Opinion | Shareholders Should Pay for AI Dangers

Companies that say they’re endangering the public shouldn’t get the privilege of limited legal liability.

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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 16h

finally beginning to believe AI is going to create more jobs because how else can AI reporters keep up with all of this

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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 16h

did sam altman write this

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18h

hell yeah

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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 18h

my ears are ringing

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18h

the Autonocast episode with John Harris was so much fun, such a great view of the excesses of EV 1.0 and how it informed the pragmatism of an EV 2.0 startup like Harbinger www.autonocast.com/blog/2025/5/...

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#335: John Harris of Harbinger — Autonocast

Before co-founding the medium duty electric truck startup Harbinger, John Harris lived through some of the wildest highs and lows of the post-Tesla EV startup bubble. On this week's episode, he explai...

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 18h

And this is almost an aside in the story, but also absolutely bonkers. Meta claimed Zuck as a "researcher" to get a $355 million tax break on his $4.1 billion stock-based compensation.

Screenshot from New York Times article: "Meta is already in one sizable dispute with the I.R.S. over this tax break, for using it to subsidize its chief executive’s multibillion-dollar pay package. In 2013, Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense because he helped invent new software, such as Facebook’s News Feed. The I.R.S. is trying to claw back the company’s resulting $355 million in tax savings, court filings show."

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 20h

Meta is using a radical interpretation of a tax credit for “research and experimentation” to get billions of dollars off GPUs for its A.I. data centers. My latest with Jesse Drucker, @elitan.bsky.social and @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)

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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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...

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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.

California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...

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Yankees nearly went a whole season without a grand slam for the first time since 1990 and then had 3 (Rice’s tonight included) in September

Defunctland After Dark: The Capital One Bank Guy

Hate to say it but this is just the natural progression of TV ad campaigns these days. The idea is to play the bit out as much as possible in the hopes of creating a mini MCU of commercials. Defunctland did a great video about this with the “Capital One Guy” youtu.be/256FF1yclB4?...

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YouTube video by Defunctland After Dark

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Seems only fair given how the modern Red Sox lineup is mostly Yankees cast offs

Find yourself someone who loves you as much as Aaron Boone loves trying to steal outs with starting pitchers

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Boone? try to steal outs with a starter? neverrrr

Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 30/09/2026

ludicrous stuff. like Mariano Rivera as a starter. you know what’s coming and it doesn’t matter.

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sometimes writing about bluesky discourse means you're just too deep in the echo chamber but other times bluesky discourse uncovers the unsettling reality that there are minecraft jokes coded into an official government website techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/a...

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America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it's not a glitch | TechCrunch

For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.

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River Ave. Blues @riveraveblues.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

basically, bsky.app/profile/okan...

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Yankees vs. Red Sox, best-of-three, winner plays the Rays. It’s time for Yankees baseball.

Space ghost saying it's time to die ... this isn't so bad.

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those aren't mediocre sentences you dummies those are pretty deeply-buried gags and bits

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

actually it's Counts Dracula

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the past week reminds me of this @lopatto.bsky.social piece about *just how much* of the past several years has been shaped by powerful men dismantling the court of public opinion, because it was the last court they might face any consequences in

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How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo

The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 29/09/2026

this post inspired by me DMing sean about baseball

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bringing back this one for anyone who's feeling stressed or overwhelmed lately

a tweet from sean that reads:

my tip for dealing with… everything, lately, is to just occassionally say “on the bright side…” out loud. no need to follow it up with anything. just throw it out in the middle of a bleak conversation and let the mood lift for even a brief moment

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yes but i'm sure we'll also be able to bet on the agents somehow

"daddy can we have abundance?" "we have abundance at home" abundance at home: you can call your 'dot'

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Exclusive | The Gated Community Where Larry Ellison Bought Eight Homes for His Staff

"But the Boynton Beach properties weren’t for Ellison himself. They were for his family’s staff, including tutors for some of the five children he shares with his sixth wife" www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

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The Oracle billionaire spent almost $10 million on houses for his children’s tutors and others about 30 minutes from his Florida compound.

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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 29/09/2026

Prominent megachurch pastor Craig Groeschel has just cancelled his scheduled appearances at four upcoming Life Surge events, following our investigation with @motherjones.com @kieraevebutler.bsky.social:

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Winchester speedway rules btw, small track with banking so high that from the infield you feel like you’re on mount olympus, and the cars look like they could fly off at any moment.

An asphalt race track, Winchester speedway

Also one of the first real sprint car (and supermodified) drivers to succeed in the top open wheel series. Spent an entire childhood hearing his name practically whispered out of reverence at Oswego Speedway.

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