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Truthout @truthout.org · 10/10/2026
Ten years after the Standing Rock protests captured national attention, the tribe is still fighting the project.
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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Files New Lawsuit to Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline
Ten years after the Standing Rock protests captured national attention, the tribe is still fighting the project.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
Also, TIL that the name for their weird homunculus is “Jolly.”
To keep up the momentum, Meta is spending millions on a Muse marketing blitz, plastering its fuzzy avatar — a character called Jolly — across billboards and in television ads.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
There are a lot of details in here about Zuck releasing a half-baked product, but one thing that really stands out is just how weird these folks are. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
Meta’s A.I. leaders also incorporated OpenClaw into their own lives. Mr. Friedman hooked his agent up to cameras in his house, where it would instruct him to do things like drink water to stay hydrated.
“It sent me a snapshot frame of me drinking a bottle of water and said, ‘Good job,’” Mr. Friedman said at a recent tech conference.
In another instance, while talking to his agent about ways to get better sleep, OpenClaw took over Mr. Friedman’s self-driving Tesla and redirected him to a grocery store to pick up magnesium pills. At Meta’s annual developer conference last month, Mr. Zuckerberg said he had connected his agent to cameras in his martial arts gym so that it could critique his fighting form.
Yet there were safety concerns. Agents could sometimes go rogue or take over software apps. In February, one agent took over the work computer of a Meta safety researcher, deleting her emails uncontrollably.
“I couldn’t stop it from my phone,” Summer Yue, the researcher, wrote on social media. “I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.”
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
"What are we, a bunch of BROWN people?" This is white people doing white people shit. Y'all had picnics under our hanging bodies but sure ok. It's like the Taliban.
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🐨☕ posting @bluegreen118.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"The HRC? The HRC figured it out?" meme.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Umm, *I was the “somebody”! www.c-span.org/clip/house-c...
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 08/10/2026
COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?
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EJ @palehepatica.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mine was basically just “she’s buying increasingly more fountain pens and office supplies and she never cancels her subscriptions” 😭
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you’ve ever read The Deportation Machine by Adam Goodman, you know how this went last time we did this
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NC Newsline @ncnewsline.com · 08/10/2026
Black students in North Carolina were 3.7 times as likely as their white peers to receive a short-term suspension during the 2024-25 school year, according to an analysis of state education data by the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.
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Racial disparities persist in North Carolina schools, new report finds • NC Newsline
A new report finds Black students in North Carolina face substantial disparities in academic readiness, suspensions and school-based juvenile complaints.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Orcas: We owe you an apology, sperm whales, we were not really familiar with your game
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026
The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.
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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026
The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you love stationary and based on sales, I think a lot of people do. Here's a gentle nudge to move past "collecting" and to actually USE the stationary. Write letters to friends and family. Send thank you notes. Write actual cards and MAIL THEM.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“This is not a dark chapter in Cornell’s history, it’s a morbid pattern” Editorial Board at The Cornell Sun absolutely fucking your shit UP www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
We refuse for this victim to be reduced to just another story.
Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.

To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar: We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University's concealment.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ok I’m through — talked to TSA agent she said it’s this week and they’re “randomly” choosing flights. I asked if it’s just to New York and she said it’s to everywhere. Then I was randomly selected for the baggage check (lol) and my guy went through every zipper, including my wallet 🤷‍♀️
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Again, this is what Tucker says to normal audiences. To his own audience, literally today, he went on a deranged rant about, among other things, how Oswald Mosley wasn’t a Nazi.
I know, buddy, you did that during World War II. When the very first thing the British government did was imprison the opposition party, called them Nazis, which they weren't, run by one of the great war heroes of the First World War, Oswald Mosley. Oh, he was a Nazi.
No, he wasn't. If he was a Nazi, he'd be living in Britain, in Germany. He didn't want the war.
And he has been slandered ever since. It's like scary even to defend him. I'm not even defending the guy.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
People really need to go back to the original Jurassic Park and look at the rather disturbing ways in which InGen's management of it now looks prescient
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why. theintercept.com/2026/09/23/d...
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani.
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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 23/09/2026
The Telegraph recently published an article about "sickfluencers" titled “How having a disability became cool." We've republished a piece by Julia Doubleday at The Gauntlet pushing back against the article, which she calls "absurd on its face." thesicktimes.org/2026/09/21/c...
A young woman stands by a staircase with a backdrop of tree canopy.  She wears a white, high quality mask and has long dark hair. She wears a teal sweatshirt and black pants. The text reads, “The Gauntlet x The Sick Times. COVID-19 — not TikTok — is disabling young women “Sickfluencers” are symptoms of a mass disabling event. By Julia Doubleday.” “The country is sicker than it’s ever been before” — now why would that be? Six years after COVID-19 hit, four years after the virus has been allowed to run totally rampant without mitigation, the country is sicker than it’s ever been before, but we can’t come up with any reason why that would be other than “women be faking?”
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Pennsylvania Capital-Star @penncapital-star.com · 23/09/2026
More than half of women of reproductive age have seen or heard the false claim that hormones in contraceptives are harmful, and about 4 in 10 have been exposed to the false idea that hormones in contraceptives limit your ability to get pregnant in the future. From @stateline.org
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False birth control claims are proliferating, survey says • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
More than half of women of reproductive age have seen or heard the false claim that hormones in contraceptives are harmful.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026
Doordash have always been our enemies.
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 22/09/2026
My department and college are searching for FOUR new tenure-track assistant professor colleagues! Please share, and application reviews begin October 15.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i literally can't even imagine
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
something readers often ask is "how can we help resist this?" well, here's an idea: www.404media.co/is-your-city...
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Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help
404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.
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Laurel Powell @laurelpowell.net · 14/06/2026
my favorite bit in this episode is Riker is about to beam down to bust Soren out of conversion therapy and Worf shows up and is just like "please let me assist you in breaking your trans girlfriend out of prison where they are forcing society's rigid (lack of) gender roles on her"
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EJ @palehepatica.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Soren and Riker 😭
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is wild because I’m at NC Folk Fest watching, among others, The Roots for free. I have run into several people who know me. One is from junior high school and we truly do look so much better now. 😂
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
sometimes I get bored and cancel myself on Threads by saying whatever the fuck
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you ever need your faith in the sciences restored after having it so violently compromised by techbros masquerading as technologists, I encourage you to check out the breakthrough after breakthrough ongoing in oncology. 
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed gave Democrats the template for dodging bad faith questions about sports. Call them unserious. Refocus the conversation on things people are actually struggling to survive right now. There is an energy crisis unfolding, this should not be hard.
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NO WARRIOR CAN FIGHT ALONE. ASK FOR HELP IF YOU NEED IT.
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Mannie T'Chawi … (the “T” is silent) @mannietchawi.com · 15/09/2026
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 15/09/2026
not many places are publishing the perspective that being old is cool and normal and maybe even good. but we are!
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 14/09/2026
The president has taken a hostage
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026
So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."
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Parchmentscrollinensinainciusol @parchmentscroll.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I lived in Texas for a quarter of a century and it infuriates me that I had to flee due to transphobia and these people think that's fine actually.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 12/09/2026
They know this, they are just hoping to scare you. Remember every "ex-OpenAI/Anthropic" employee has hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars of equity value at stake based on the success of their companies' IPO, so quitting does not mean they still aren't serving their interests.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Let's talk about an excuse I'm seeing, that politicians are just using transphobic rhetoric to temporarily win conservatives and will revert to more pro-trans positions in office. So we should vote for them anyway. I've investigated governments for over 20 years. That ain't ever how it works.🧵...
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
we tracked months of rent payments to an estimated 13,000 families. the expected cost of rehousing those families, had they entered eviction, would be north of $218 million dollars. keeping them housed cost around $38-40 million
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
during OMS we formed a group of rent funds called Keep Minnesota Housed and tracked, between Feb and May, exactly how much rent was being paid and where, and what/where the unmet needs were the documentation allowed us to move money from foundations who had sworn they couldn’t pay rent
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026
I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.
Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.
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carmenlynn.bsky.social @carmenlynn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“The state confirmed it won’t disclose specific information identifying tech firms that seek the tax breaks, and it’s unclear if the public will have any indication when a company does so.”
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Michigan will OK data center tax breaks while keeping companies that benefit secret
After repeatedly saying no companies had applied for a controversial set of 2024 tax breaks on data center equipment, officials won’t answer the question, citing secrecy required by the law.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 10/09/2026
Unfortunately, very crappy news today from me, on the McClatchy hedge fund gutting Kentucky's second-largest paper 👇
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