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Dave Mason @fatsodoctor.bsky.social · 5h

One year into this stupid task force and everyone knows still what they knew in the first place: it exists only to show everyone that our racist government can wreak whatever cruelty it likes. #abolishICE #freethe901 #endtheoccupation #impeachandremove

Color. Day. A downtown plaza. Gov't building in the background. A small group of people, facing to the right, a bit back on the right. In the foreground on the left, two people. On the far left, a person in a dark hoodie, reflective glasses, and a medical mask. Their hands rest on the top of a chrome flagpole, just beneath their chin. Affixed to the pole is a USA flag, upside-down. Just to that person's right is a person in a gray cap and black t-shirt, looking at the viewer. In one hand, this person holds a sign: "FREE MEMPHIS MANE; FREE THE 901"

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Holly Murray @haminator22.bsky.social · 11h

If I could I would like this twice for the alt text

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Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar.bsky.social · 13h

Grand / MacArthur, Oakland

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
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Elon Musk
XAI

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 14h

Flower child of the 60s. The 1360s, that is… - 14th century, BnF Latin 1403, f. 4r

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 20h

Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 22h

Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.

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parseword @parseword.bsky.social · 15h

“You see it reflected in prices at the pump, the grocery story aisle, and online retailers. Diesel prices broke records multiple times this month. That impacts the cost of everything.” This is what happens when people vote for Republicans! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Rising diesel prices impact farmers’ profits and food prices

You see it reflected in prices at the pump, the grocery story aisle, and online retailers. Diesel prices broke records multiple times this month. That impacts the cost of everything that arrives to yo...

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 18h

It's a myth that's more unbelievable than Bigfoot, crazier than CRT and wilder than "wokeness." Its existence can't be supported by scientific, historical or biblical evidence. Yet we believe it. There is no such thing as an "evangelical Christian"

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Media’s Little White Lie: There’s No Such Thing As an ‘Evangelical Christian’

How evangelical Christianity became part of the biggest myth in American media.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18h

Picture of him with me would probably be worse for him tbh

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: SCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness. A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts. Tonight, at Law Dork:

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SCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness

A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts.

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PhD in dad jokes @scottw1975.bsky.social · 18h

Well.....fuck Wilson Air. ICE can gargle my balls.

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parseword @parseword.bsky.social · 18h

A bus full of kidnapped immigrants sits in the parking lot of Wilson Air, the Memphis FBO that supports ICE flights. Later, the bus would drive onto the ramp and its human cargo would be loaded onto Air Wisconsin’s N465AW for a transfer flight to Louisiana. Cruelty, sponsored by #WilsonAir

A prisoner transport bus with high-security windows is visible in the parking lot of Wilson Air in Memphis. The bus came from a nearby ICE CoreCivic facility in Mason, Tennessee. It’s full of kidnapped immigrants about to be sent to a concentration camp in Louisiana.

The sign outside Wilson Air Center, the Memphis FBO collaborating with ICE flights

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: A majority of judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared ready to allow a federal judge to conduct a criminal contempt investigation into whether the Trump admin defied his orders when deporting 100+ men to the CECOT supermax prison in El Salvador. www.huffpost.com/entry/appeal...

huffpost.com

Appeals Court Appears Ready To Let Judge Investigate Trump Officials Who Defied His Order

The Trump administration may not be able to wriggle away from contempt proceedings as quickly as it hoped.

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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 21h

One year since the arrival of Trump’s Memphis unSafe Task Force in our city & families are grieving the loss of their loved ones who died at their hands. We did not need or want federal agents or the National Guard swarming our communities, snatching people off the street. ⬇️

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 20h

Trump had *lots* of other options for making himself colossally unpopular, and repeatedly TACOed right up to the edge of a disaster he couldn't back out of, each time concluding that he was untouchable because nothing too bad happened. He finally did it properly with Iran, and here we are.

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

we should have killed this bastard when we had the chance

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

probably fine that all these new ai agent rollouts are so cutesy and childish. probably a sign of innocuous, normal shit

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Ken MacLennan @historiken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's a standard white-conservative response to being publicly corrected, they regard their assumed status as more important than mere facts

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parseword @parseword.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Airport sunrise, Memphis, Tennessee

Standing on the sidewalk along the westbound lanes of Winchester Road in Memphis, Tennessee, facing east. The sun is rising very bigly in the distance. Utility poles and power lines stretch to the horizon. A copse of trees lines the opposite side of the street.

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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In Shelbyville, a resident told me he hadn't voted in the 26 years he's lived in TN. This year, he is voting for me. That is an absolute honor. These votes are not simply votes for me; they are votes for OUR mission to take Tennessee to the top! votejustinj.com

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Air to Ground Message: THE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS WOULD LIKE ME TO PASS ALONG THAT THE GALLEY CART IS COVERED WITH ANTS. Area: Washington DC, USA Type: Airbus A220-300 A: #a64a1cc29e5 F: #f08f1cc5b3f

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 08/05/2026

"Datacenters provide a physical place and focal point where people can show up and directly confront out-of-control and otherwise impossible-to-reach tech billionaires," write @astra.bsky.social and Saul Levin.

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The fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul Levin

Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions

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Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🚨Update! 🚨 We have a public hearing for the CoreCivic contract with the City of Mason! Join us Saturday 10/10 at 1pm. Make sure the Mayor and Aldermen of Mason know that we DO NOT want a for profit detention center. 📍6391 Finde Naifeh Drive, Mason, TN www.mobilize.us/tn4all/event...

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Mason Public Hearing · Tennessee For All

The Mayor and Aldermen of Mason TN have agreed to have a public hearing about the status of the Core Civic Ice Detention Facility. As most of you know, ICE has been kidnapping our neighbors and detain...

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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ONE WEEK LEFT to register to vote in TN. There is no same-day registration, so everyone must be registered by October 5th. It is also important that you double-check your registration. You can do both on Vote.org! Early voting starts on Oct. 14th.

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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just wait til the cuts from the Big, Ugly bill take place after the midterms. All that tax money going to the billionaires; paid for by you! #momsky#sheshed

The Republican Congress has not worked enough in 2016 to qualify for SNAP, just in case you were curious w/o us actually sponging off our tax dollars.

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Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Immigrant Pantry Memphis, Tn 75 families. Nearly 400 people. One week. That’s what the need looked like at the Immigrant Pantry this week—and it continues to grow. In just the last six weeks, our volunteers have completed 395 deliveries supporting households with more than 2,000 people. 1/

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026

“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think...in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.” (Pub. July)

propublica.org

Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct

ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here’s your periodic reminder that Howard Lutnick is still Commerce secretary despite blatantly lying to the public about his personal and business ties with child molester Jeffrey Epstein.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Alternative hed: A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns. This Time, You Paid For It.

A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government The ad, which experts said could break federal law, shows President Trump vowing to "expel the warmongers" from the government, even as he wages a war with Iran.
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DeFlock Redmond @deflock-redmond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"If somebody is installing #Flock cameras in your neighborhood, take pictures of them. If somebody wants to talk about these cameras behind closed doors and they're a public official, show up with your camera. And if they don't want to be recorded, now you know how we feel." #deflock #surveillance

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Flock camera installer calls 911 on investigatetv reporter, expecting privacy in public 🤣

YouTube video by Louis Rossmann

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

chat is this good?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

Ann Pierce
@itsannpierce
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is a clear difference between my Trump-endorsed opponent, Brent Taylor, and I. This is not about Republican or Democrat. Tennesseans need to see the difference between complacency and commitment to change. That’s why we need a debate. Vote early starting Oct 14th: votejustinj.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am now keeping this on speed-dial

Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This technology will get people killed if not used carefully.

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Stefan Popenici @popenici.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Russian government “issued a decree allowing Russian postal workers to carry weapons and ammunition *to take down drones*”. Russian postal workers with guns and ammo, what can go wrong? 🥴

wsj.com

Overwhelmed by Ukraine’s Drones, Russia Tells Businesses to Defend Themselves

Russia’s private industries are increasingly having to fend for themselves as Ukrainian strikes intensify.

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Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Delighted to hear I can now get cultural cachet from being an old. That seems a fair trade for my knees being fucked.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This kind of take made a Rolling Stone writer so mad they wrote a whole piece about it.

At this point, though, if someone contends they've never even heard of
"Choosin' Texas" or Langley, it may say more about the listener than the song.
Or, for that matter, what they want to project to the world. With incessant news coverage alongside chart and playlist presence, it's pretty difficult to still claim total ignorance on this one.
Perhaps there is a deeper reason why people say they haven't heard the song and feel the need to make it known: cultural cachet.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Denmark is trolling Trump.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 26/09/2026

When Joe Biden took office, America’s allies were willing to treat the first Trump term as an aberration. That ship has sailed. The world is no longer waiting for us to come to our senses, and the trust we squandered may take a generation to rebuild if anyone still believes we are capable of it.

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