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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did Anthropic's Claude discover something new in biotech? Well, just like with those recent alleged math proofs, it looks like it was given the answers in advance from real humans doing actual research. (gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...)

Dr. Mestre and his colleagues have yet to publish their findings. But for the past three years, they have regularly used Anthropic’s A.I. models as they have written code, drafted manuscripts and performed other tasks.

In doing so, Dr. Mestre said he and colleagues shared key findings about the enzymes with Anthropic.

Anthropic said that Claude’s key contribution was identifying an array of RNA molecules and a protein associated with reverse transcriptase in a system. But Dr. Mestre said that he and his colleagues had made that discovery over a year ago.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Reminder that Lewandowski was a Special Government Employee with a zero dollar contract. Because he saw govt as a graft opportunity for much bigger bucks

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nothing terrifying about this at all

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026

Admirable clarity @science.org

The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The most elegant tense in English, the Law Enforcement Exonerative

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It's amazing how many good stories 404 media reports on. I guess I have to bite the bullet finally and subscribe

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Reports that the White House has dismissed the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission — all of whom were unanimously confirmed by the Senate, including a commissioner appointed by President Trump himself… (1/3)

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Kelly Stuart @skyspider.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Wild roller coaster meeting. With 52 speakers against the data center- the CEO of the company who was sitting in the audience with withdrew his application after around 45 speakers. No data center will be built in place of the Hyatt.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

the Illinois booth has a sandbox filled with corn and there is just corn everywhere, but also virtual Abe Lincoln. They have fans going full blast bc it’s a thousand degrees in here

People watching a video of Abe Lincoln in a weird tent

Sandbox full of corn and small toy trucks

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

News — University of Central Florida (UCF) abruptly shut down two of its three libraries today, plus an important resource desk within the main library. Staff were given no warning. UCF is the 2nd largest public university in the country w/ ~70k students. Library hours page confirming closures:

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is bombshell stuff.

Together, alongside the mundane fare of a typical thought leadership conference, the documents show an extraordinary convergence of power. The registration records list General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe and the head of US European Command, who took the post in July 2025 and is recorded on the leaked list as having attended Dialog gatherings since 2021. The website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country's largest surveillance, data-broker, and advertising-data companies.

Those executives appear side by side with senior US officials overseeing their industries. Auren Hoffman, Dialog’s chairman, founded the location-data broker SafeGraph and the identity-resolution firm LiveRamp, two of the most important suppliers in the consumer data economy. He appears in the directory alongside Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, whose department writes the rules on financial data, and Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its data-privacy authority.

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, whose software runs case management for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and data fusion for the Pentagon and intelligence community, is listed in the same society as Army secretary Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees agencies Palantir contracts with.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

nytimes.com

Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration

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mimi 🩵💛 @knightlyaffair.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

this fucking sucks ( from the creator of the cupcake character, lorynbrantz instagram - www.instagram.com/p/DY2v_qXIoQt )

Lorynbrantz on instagram shares a post about their cupcake character being stolen for these new amazon ai shows. Reads as follows

I am horrified and disgusted by BuzzFeed taking my character, The Good Advice Cupcake, and giving it to an Al platform. My time at BuzzFeed was marked by continually being taken advantage of and lied to. They repeatedly assured me in good faith that they would never do anything with Cuppy without my input, yet offered me no legal options, insisting that I would never need them. The news that this character, who is based on my own personality and whom I created as a microphone to spread love and positivity, has been taken and turned into a soulless Al puppet feels like having my intestines pulled out of my body.

Somebody leaked the news to me early on that there were talks happening, and I pleaded with the CEO Jonah Peretti directly not to do it. Instead, he tried to talk me into signing an NDA. Obviously, I did not.

This is an assault on artists everywhere.

I encourage you to boycott BuzzFeed and any Al-produced or adjacent animation.

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is an absolutely wild correction from The Verge www.theverge.com/features/916...

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

If I could wave a magic wand and destroy any trace of a program, I wouldn't hesitate to send a lightning bolt to erase Adobe Acrobat from existence.

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Of all the programs I use regularly, none do I despise as much as Adobe Acrobat. Buggy, fragile garbage of an app. Want to print a return label? - CRASH! Want to tag this document for accessibility? - CRASH! Share this document? -CRASH! Not even an error message - just closes. Pathetic

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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Here is the John Oliver report on Viktor Orban, in case you haven’t watched it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SkRw...

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Viktor Orbán: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Reading the news on my lunch break was a terrible idea

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The call is coming from inside the house.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Everyone else in the room when a former DOGE employee was deposed.

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This thread is deeply disturbing. The scariest thing about fundies is their complete lack humility. They feel they KNOW their god's wishes and he is on their side, so anything they do is literally endorsed by God. This sense of certainty/ faith is what allows men to fly planes into buildings.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This guy gets it.

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 20/02/2026

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... A great example of high-quality journalism, by Shaun Walker. A must-read for anyone interested in the topic.

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A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them

Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Maybe all articles will just be bulleted lists in the future. Axios will be pissed

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I'm rewatching The Sopranos for the first time since it aired. I'm watching an ep. where Tony is repeatedly asking Melfie to go out with him. The cringe is so astronomically high that I've had to pause it enough times that it took 2 hours to finish it.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 06/02/2026

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

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Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says

State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants. The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...

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Trump's Schedule F Rule Finalized

A bizarro rule formally justifies politicizing public services

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

This is now without question the biggest politico-financial scandal in United States history. Teapot Dome was trivial in comparison.

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Are frogs really popular on Blueskye or does my feed just show a bunch of cool frogs for some reason?

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The Border Patrol agent in Chicago who shot Marimar Martinez five times “was back at work within, I think, three days of the incident in our case,” her lawyer told me. www.huffpost.com/entry/marima...

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Me, a feminist: searching Joanne Freeman hot pics Google:..Therapists in your area

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This is what gives me hope in these terrifying times. This is solidarity

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 21/01/2026

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 21/01/2026

A reminder that Democrats put an 82-year-old in charge of determining whether they should continue funding ICE

Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the House‚Äôs top Democratic
appropriator, acknowledged that the legislation does not
include some of the ‚Äúbroader reforms Democrats proposed,‚Äù
such as preventing DHS from detaining and deporting U.S.
citizens or blocking the department from using other agencies‚Äô

personnel for immigration enforcement.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇

Eagle Ed Martin &
@EagleEdMartin
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A confident America!
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Colonization is one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world and the only reason most don't know this is because they were educated by communists who hate Western civilization. x.com/billnehr/statu...

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Matthew Rhys is such a great actor I will refrain from making any further jokes about Wales.

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The greatest metaphor in print this year, courtesy of @edzitron.com

$Analysts have, on some level, become the fractional marketing team for the stocks they’re investing in. When Oracle announced its $300 billion deal with OpenAI in September — one that Oracle does not have the capacity to fill and OpenAI does not have the money to pay for – analysts heaved and stammered like horny teenagers seeing their first boob:$

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I read that many languages don't have a separate word for toes and instead call them foot fingers. I laughed so hard my eyes shot out of their foreskin

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Purdy is balling out tonight. Unreal playmaking

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