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Patrick Nesbitt

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5h
I wrote about the feeble attempt by prominent tech punditry mainstays like John Gruber and Casey Newton to rationalize their continued use of Elon Musk's propaganda website.
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Casey Newton And John Gruber Slink Back To Elon Musk’s Right-Wing Propaganda Machine
Tech journalism mainstays are feebly rationalizing their return to a broken, billionaire-run right-wing propaganda website.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 19h
You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
39 years ago today Husker Du (Greg Norton, Grant Hart and Bob Mould) at the Vic Theater in Chicago Illinois, October 10, 1987. Photo by Paul Natkin #punk #punks #punkrock #huskerdu #hüskerdü #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Painting by Lucien Freud. ‘Factory in North London’ Oil on canvas, 1972. Size 71 x 71 cm.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gavin Bazunu statement on withdrawing from Ireland squad

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Statement - Gavin Bazunu

Representing my country means everything to me. I have the utmost respect for every single one of my team mates, the Manager, his staff and the Irish people

However I have reached a decision that I have hot taken lightly. I am a man of strong faith and try my best to be a person of character and principle therefore 1 feel it would be wrong to participate in the upcoming fixtures against Israel.

My decision is based purely upon my personal belief that the killing of innocent people is wrong.

It is important to note that my stance is not in opposition of the Israeli people or the Jewish community but against the atrocities in the region.

There are few times where you get a chance ir ife to stand up for something bigger and strongly believe that this is one of them


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Gavin Cooney @gcooney93.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Big read here on an abject, rancorous, extraordinary day. The potential scale of fallout to come is the stuff of Saipan 2.0 Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
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Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI
Gavin Bazunu has been left brutally isolated as any semblance of squad unity has been utterly sundered
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nice portrait of Steve Reich, who is nearly 90. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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‘Good music is good music, and most music is not!’ As he hits 90, master minimalist Steve Reich looks back
At 14, he heard Stravinsky and resolved to be a composer. As Reich approaches his 10th decade, the man revered by the likes of David Bowie reflects on a life that changed the soundtrack of modern livi...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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はいファイ @internetbiotope.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
来る………… www.bluenote.co.jp/jp/artists/j...
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【BLUE NOTE TOKYO】JEFF PARKER ETA IVtet (2027 1.11 mon., 1.12 tue., 1.13 wed. )
ジェフ・パーカー率いる話題のカルテットが登場 最新作『Happy Today』を携えた待望の来日公演
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/08/2026
Crypto is a weapon of mass corruption wielded by a cult of dangerous billionaires who want to kill American democracy. My interview on NPR's Fresh Air! www.npr.org/2026/08/10/n...
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'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics'
Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/08/2026
‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The best YouTube channel ever made has just dropped another of the best YouTube videos ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGt7...
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Johnny Depp's Bed
YouTube video by Bobby Fingers
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
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The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Our burning of fossil fuels is making the world burn.
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Human-caused climate change made Spanish, French fires much more likely, scientists calculate
Two new studies reveal climate change's fingerprints over extreme fire weather-triggering infernos in Spain and France.
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R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Here’s to 40 years of Lifes Rich Pageant
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Libération @liberation.fr · 24/07/2026
«Une vision d'apocalypse». C'est la une de Libération ce week-end. Deux incendies d'ampleur touchent la Gironde et les Landes. Plus de 110 000 personnes ont été évacuées, avec une presqu'île du Cap Ferret vidée de ses habitants. Reportage, interview et analyse.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
1️⃣ "On this day, 19 July 1984, the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strike began in Dublin, Ireland. Shop worker Mary Manning refused to check out a customer's South African fruit, as members of her union, Idatu, had voted to not handle South African goods. Manning was then suspended, and she and 11 of
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XTC Listening Party @xtclisteningparty.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
🥰 #XTC #XTCmusic
It's only flippin' Terry Chambers and Dave Gregory playing together on stage in Swindon!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It's a collective psychopathy, which treats disabled people, elderly people and people with long-term conditions as disposable. We see it in the Covid-19 pandemic. We see it in the heatwaves. Their deaths are inconvenient reminders that a favoured policy is disastrous. So they must be dismissed.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The famous "Wedges" paper was used repeatedly to shut us up when we argued against the continued use of fossil fuels, and, esp, against carbon capture and storage and the mass use of bioenergy. "But these eminent scientists say ..." Now we learn BP co-authored it. www.propublica.org/article/wedg...
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How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Tomorrow, Ireland takes over as EU Council Presidency for six months, when the EU is renegotiating tech and tax rules. In The Guardian this morning I argue it must recuse itself from these discussions because it is so captured by big tech. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ireland is big tech’s lapdog – and that compromises its EU presidency | Johnny Ryan
The country is dependent on the global giants that call Dublin home. Irish ministers can’t be trusted to chair vital European digital sovereignty talks, says Irish civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ry...
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The tech industry people who suddenly say they care about “taste,” culture, visual arts, fashion, history, etc feels especially strange and grating, I think, because this moment of abundance for them is made possibly only through the displacement of folks who make the things in the first place.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 29/06/2026
When billionaires preach "abundance," remember that the richest man in the world killed the poorest children in the world just for the LOLs. And if these AI fascists get their way, most of us will join the starvation class. www.thenerdreich.com/a-silicon-va...
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Elon Musk's USAID Cuts: A Silicon Valley Genocide
World's First Trillionaire is Killing the World's Poorest Children
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BlogMyWiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Reminder that Radio 4 Long Wave goes off air for ever on Saturday (not sure of the exact time, maybe after the also-doomed midnight news). My very-former employer the Radio Society of Great Britain has a rather nice article on it. rsgb.org/main/radio-s...
Close up of the dial of an old radio showing BBC Home, Hilversum etc
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026
SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands
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Rock's Backpages @rocksbackpages.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
New podcast episode: the great Simon Reynolds discusses his exceptional new book 'Still in a Dream', touching on everyone from Cocteau Twins to the Replacements. Plus we listen to clips from an audio interview with Jay-Z, whose debut album turns 30 this week. www.rocksbackpages.com/Podcast/Epis...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/06/2026
We were the only UNIONIZED employees he’d ever had, too. I am broke as hell now, but I’ll never regret saying this: EAT SHIT, YOU PATHETIC TWERP. No matter how much cash you accrue, you’ll never know the joy of solidarity. Your life is empty, and you’ll be remembered as a warning to children.
Jeff Bezos told Trump the Washington Post was his worst investment before slashing staff: 'People there are terrible'
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
These are the real people of Belfast. Thousands of anti-fascists rally against the far-right at Belfast City Hall today. They sent a clear message that racism is not wanted in their city. Things you love to see ✊❤
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#BBCBreakfast: "... families had to be led to safety through the flames.. it wasn't just homes, cars were also torched by young masked men in these predominantly unionist streets, but the target here was immigrants.." This is what the likes of Reform are inciting.
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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
James Blood Ulmer (8 February 1940–3 June 2026) The US jazz, blues, rock and funk guitarist has died aged 86. As a tribute we have made Steve Holtje’s May 1998 interview and profile from The Wire 171 free to read in our online archive. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...
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James Blood Ulmer (8 February 1940–3 June 2026) - The Wire
The US jazz, blues, rock and funk guitarist has died aged 86. As a tribute we have made Steve Holtje’s May 1998 interview and profile from The Wire 171 free to read in our online archive.
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Patrick Nesbitt @patricknesbitt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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James Blood Ulmer, adventurous US guitarist and vocalist, dies aged 86
Musician who spliced jazz, funk and blues, including in a spell on a major label in the early 1980s, was celebrated as ‘fearless’ by his family
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Milestones: A Miles Davis Archive @milestones-archive.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We were truly saddened today to learn of the passing of the Saxophone Colossus himself, Mr. Sonny Rollins at the age of 95. One of the true legends of jazz, he will be greatly missed but leaves an amazing body of work behind. #jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis #sonnyrollins #miles100
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Patrick Nesbitt @patricknesbitt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Jeff Parker, ETA Ivet “Happy Today” #jazzsky #jeffparker #internationalanthem #nonesuch
Photo of Jeff Parker’s LP “Happy Today”
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
And now they are all gone. RIP Sonny Rollins.
A Great Day in Harlem, 1958 photograph by Art Kane
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Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2
Photo of Sonny Rollins playing saxophone in 2009 by John Abbott
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
New research sheds light on how mediocre employees, “loyal losers,” help would-be authoritarians maintain power. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...
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Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.
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Patrick Nesbitt @patricknesbitt.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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The Guardian view on 100 years after Miles Davis’s birth: why he still shapes modern music | Editorial
Editorial: The trumpeter, composer and band leader still towers over jazz because he treated reinvention not as a betrayal, but as necessary for its survival
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Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
My latest newsletter is about why the fatal flaw at the heart of generative AI isn't just the economics, but the fact that it's deeply uncool and hated. www.whatwelo.st/p/generative...
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Generative AI's Existential Cringe
AI isn't cool, and it never will be.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/05/2026
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
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Nonesuch Records @nonesuch.com · 15/05/2026
Guitarist/bandleader Jeff Parker and his long-running ETA IVtet's 'Happy Today' it out now on @intlanthem.bsky.social / Nonesuch Records. You can find it at jeffparker.lnk.to/happytoday
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International Anthem @intlanthem.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
happy HAPPY TODAY day to the ETA IVtet !!! the fab 4 Jeff Parker, Josh Johnson, Anna Butterss and not pictured Jay Bellerose (because we failed to get him an LP in time, our bad, Jay!)
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... Now up at @knightcolumbia.org - Cosma Shalizi and myself on "AI as Social Technology." It says that AI models are really a technology of social mediation that allow humans to connect with thoughts of other humans. Short-ish thread with major points follows.
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AI as Social Technology
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