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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

When I interviewed KKK leaders in Arkansas, this is what they said too. “We don’t hate anyone. We just love our own people.” Then they burned a cross.

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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The world's richest 1% have captured two-thirds of all new wealth created since 2020 and emit two-thirds of all greenhouse gases. Implementing a global wealth tax would give governments the revenue they need to build carbon free infrastructure while easing emissions and safeguarding democracy.

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Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, study finds

UChicago scholar sheds light on why elected officials threaten democracy more often than military coups in the 21st century

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/05/2025

I’ve said this before and i’ll say it again. Generative AI is not a solution to anything but a nightmare and a problem that society is left to grapple with

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 17/05/2025

Wes Streeting is suppressing the publication of a report that would show that what he's doing to trans kids has increased the suicide rate Scandal upon scandal

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...

Copilot consumes Nadella’s life outside the office as well. He likes podcasts, but instead of listening to them, he loads transcripts into the Copilot app on his iPhone so he can chat with the voice assistant about the content of an episode in the car on his commute to Redmond. At the office, he relies on Copilot to deliver summaries of messages he receives in Outlook and Teams and toggles among at least 10 custom agents from Copilot Studio. He views them as his AI chiefs of staff, delegating meeting prep, research and other tasks to the bots. “I’m an email typist,” Nadella jokes of his job, noting that Copilot is thankfully very good at triaging his messages.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

No just or decent society allows this sort of cruelty, this evil.

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rafa @rafafb.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

And bit by bit things are getting worse and worse.

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Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Grandes questões dos nossos tempos: fotos do traje da Billie Eilish no Met Gala causam escândalo e ela nem sequer compareceu ao evento.

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 13/05/2025

Musk: “We’re going to make tens of billions of humanoid robots.” People with brains: 🙄 $TSLA fanboys:

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

"They happen to be white" is the full, complete, and honest answer to this question! He didn't need to say anything else. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 10/05/2025

(Me, a genius) I see no through line with how George W Bush, who legalized torture through illegal means and illegally invaded a country and killed millions of people, is connected to the current moment

London BYU Fan @jfloyd314.bsky.so...•1m
I mean, no. Bush was a bad president, but he was bad completely within the normal parameters of expected presidential behavior. Trump nuked those parameters from orbit.

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 10/05/2025

The Cass Review gets peer reviewed and absolutely shredded Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight

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Gustavo Mano @mano.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Eu estou barbarizado com essa história. Isso aqui era para prender os policiais envolvidos, indiciar o comando da PM, derrubar governador. Aparentemente TODO MUNDO tentou proteger a mulher MENOS A POLÍCIA. Tem que acabar. Para ontem. g1.globo.com/sp/santos-re...

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Menina se jogou na frente da mãe para salvá-la de tiros disparados pelo pai sargento em SP

Sargento da PM Samir Carvalho foi preso por matar a esposa, Amanda Fernandes Carvalho, dentro de uma clínica médica em Santos (SP). A filha do casal, de 10 anos, tentou salvar a mãe e acabou ferida. E...

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The two pictures are 11 years apart. On 10 May 1933 the Nazi party staged ideological spectacle of burning of 'un-German’ books. 2nd image: Auschwitz II-Birkenau, burning pits outside gas chamber V, 1944. #Auschwitz warns us of where ideologies of hatred can lead to.

Group of prisoners of Auschwitz burning corpses of people murdered in gas chambers in burning pits. Smoke is visible above the pile.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 09/05/2025

If the only legitimate style of governance within a country's democratic system is one that runs consistently counter to the popular will and desires of the people who participate in that democratic system, then it seems quite clear that said system has been captured by anti-democratic forces.

Labour MPs must realise welfare system ‘needs reform’, says Reeves – UK politics live

Chancellor responds to growing rebellion from more than 40 MPs who have written to the prime minister

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 08/05/2025

I love living in the era of the business idiot. Multiple 3 trillion market cap companies forcing software down people's throats that they hate that has grown a near-cultural level of ridicule about its propensity for errors, all because they forgot how to do anything but chase quarterly growth

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/05/2025

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

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Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

É o mesmo motivo pelo qual eles compram jornais. Querem a credibilidade associada à "marca" sem que ela precise estar associada ao trabalho que trouxe essa credibilidade. Esse eles querem substituir por qualquer merda que eles queiram passar como se fosse verdade.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Cabinet officials in charge of two of America's biggest departments - including one dealing with health - don't believe germs are real.

Fox News host Pete Hegseth has said on air that he has not washed his hands for 10 years because "germs are not a real thing".

Speaking on Fox and Friends, Hegseth said the infectious micro-organisms did not exist because they could not be seen with the naked eye.

"I inoculate myself," added the Harvard and Princeton graduate.

RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory
In his 2021 book vilifying Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. lays out support for an alternate theory.

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horse (disambiguation) @horsecrimes.diy · 03/05/2025

full, uncritical support of Disney hacker "NullBulge"

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

who gives a fuck dude she brags about using the money she receives to get laws passed that abuse countless actual people who exist in the real world

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 02/05/2025

Lots of very high profile UK biologists sign a letter saying that biological sex isn't binary or immutable and that the Supreme Court's ruling is scientifically wrong! We really need to hammer home how the anti-trans side is anti-science (you can add your name still if you are in a relevant field)

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The possibility that RFK Jr. is going to undermine herd immunity in the United States grows increasingly likely. This would mean that US will be responsible for starting numerous pandemics and potentially destroying the effectiveness of the entire globe’s vaccine arsenal. This is bioterrorism.

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels. The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people

Marc Andreessen says when AI does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans.

It's more art than science. There's no formula. Just taste, psychology, and chaos tolerance.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 28/04/2025

the funniest thing about the current crop of techno-oligarchs is that they all want to think of themselves as uniquely bold thinkers and serious operators, but their big ideas are all just like "some corruption would be nice"

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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

In order to counter the disproportionate prominance of rational, reality-based opinions among scientists and scholars, we need to make special rules so that delusional and insane opinions based on prejudice and ignorance can have a seat at the table. It's only fair.

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Fabian Nicieza @fabiannicieza.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I made this ad nearly 40 years ago for Marvel. It was intended to make you think about a fictional world where such horror could exist, not make you realize you were actually living in that world.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This is the type of thing that poorly run private companies are doing on a smaller scale constantly and a great example of why “we gotta run government like a business” is a grade-A dumb guy’s idea of what a smart guy thinks

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Rafael Moro Martins @rafaelmmartins.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Quer dizer que o sujeito que sabotou a ciência durante a pandemia mais grave em 100 anos, levou o Brasil a ter muito mais mortes que a média mundial e fez piada com quem morria agora esperneia por ser intimado na UTI de um hospital? Ora, ora…

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

When you’re definitely not doing fascism www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

Trump's team also has questioned the legality of civic groups providing immigrants with "know your rights" trainings on how to respond to federal agents. Border czar Tom Homan suggested that such seminars help people evade law enforcement.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2025

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?"
"Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy:

The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History
By Gillian Brockell
When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."

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Petty Lobster 🦂🏳️‍⚧️ @pettylobster.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

Twitter post/pohoto from JK Rowling who sits on what looks like yacht, taking a puff of what looks like a cigar. She holds a cocktail close to her face and looks smug as fuck. Text on tweet: I love it when a plan comes together. #SupremeCourt #WomensRights.

Text on screen: our.moral.imperative British billionaire JK Rowling has posted several gloating tweets today after the UK
Supreme Court ruled that only 'biological women' legally count as women, excluding trans women from legal protections and safeguards.
Rowling's vicious smear campaign against trans people in Britain has been going on for several years now and has played a major role in cultivating the extremely hostile and toxic environment that exists in the country towards trans people, particularly in the name of liberal 'feminism'.
@fight_for_a_future @rowllingofficial

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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I knew the U.S. higher education system was a massive draw for foreigners, but I did not know the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it did natural gas and coal combined. Great piece by @crampell.bsky.social

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Jeff Nascimento @jnascim.info · 17/04/2025

Contra imigrantes e Mulheres e Trans e Negros e Latinos e Palestinos e Estudantes e Crianças autistas e Críticos e Cientistas e Imprensa e Firmas de advogados e Universidades Tem rabo de porco Pé de porco Focinho de porco Pele de porco Mas, se chamar de porco, Dá problema 😒

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Ing Lee @inglee.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

pra quem ainda não entendeu. boicote essa velha

A imagem é um meme do “efeito dominó”, no qual um homem está prestes a empurrar a menor peça de uma sequência crescente de dominós, simbolizando como uma ação pequena pode levar a consequências muito maiores. Cada peça tem uma legenda que representa uma etapa dessa cadeia de eventos.

Na menor peça, lê-se: “escrever livrinho de bruxinho”.
As peças seguintes, cada vez maiores, dizem:
“lucrar bilhões”,
“reforçar o softpower britânico Cool Britannia nos anos 2000–2010”,
“sair do armário como rad”
e por fim, na maior peça:
“literalmente financiar organizações políticas pra boicotar direitos de pessoas trans e influenciar diretamente o neofascismo global”.

Ao lado do homem que empurra o primeiro dominó, há um texto com o nome: “JK Rowling”.

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Atabeg Nur al-Michi 🌙 @messsergato.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Os voy a contar una historia de las mías 🌳🪷 Cuando vamos a la Alhambra nos fascinan sus jardines, y a menudo se nos venden como unos jardines "árabes" o "musulmanes" llenos de fantasía y exotismo.

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Making a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 16/04/2025

It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service Just incredible grift

"Tesla Inc. employs an odometer system that utilizes predictive algorithms, energy consumption metrics, and driver behavior multipliers that manipulate and misrepresent the actual mileage travelled by Tesla vehicles," reads the lawsuit. "In so doing, Defendants can, and do, accelerate the rate of depreciation of the value of Tesla vehicles and also the
expiration of Tesla vehicle warranties to reduce or avoid responsibility for contractually required repairs as well as increase the purchase of its extended warranty policy."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

Palantir @PalantirTech • 26m
Dropping at select colleges today.

[Embedded image of a billboard ad:]

A moment of reckoning has
arrived for the West.
Our culture has fallen into shallow consumerism while abandoning national purpose. Too few in Silicon Valley have asked what ought to be built - and why.
We did.
We built Palantir to ensure America's future, not to tinker at the margins. On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield - we build to dominate.
Join us.
[signed by the Palantir founder]

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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

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rafa @rafafb.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

USA people, have you considered that you can talk to people all over the world for actual diversity? Most of us speak English, you know, and come from completely different backgrounds than you do.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

How it started // How it’s going

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