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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If this were on Netflix you would have heard about it already.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump said he would start paying for the political TV ads himself, but the White House clarified that he won’t pay back the federal government for what’s already been spent. About $11.5 million had already been spent airing the ads as of midday Tuesday, October 6th.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
fundamentally, the question comes down "is war about spirit or is it about logistics?" (if you think it's entirely about the former, you're going to get your shit rocked)
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ramonarjona.bsky.social @ramonarjona.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This warlock's patron is a sentient pair of corduroy pants. It was a fustian pact.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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ramonarjona.bsky.social @ramonarjona.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🎶 Don't go chasing waterfalls They run away much too fast. Lie in wait for waterfalls. Trip them as they go past. 🎶
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As shocking as this case is I know @czedwards.bsky.social is shaking their head at the same thing I am - this is some PISS POOR MONEY LAUNDERING. Check 1001 of a brand new account? Jesus we used to be a proper country.
A check made out for
$150,000 to Susan Collins’s
PAC, check number 1001
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 19/09/2026
Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI
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Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI
In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For some music fans, Macklemore's comments on Gaza were a welcome relief from his music.
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ramonarjona.bsky.social @ramonarjona.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Gave up on TWD before Steven Yuen's exit but I still vaguely follow recaps. Apparently Laurie's character arc has been "You brutally murdered my husband but you're OK otherwise." Serious Lady Anne Richard III energy.
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ramonarjona.bsky.social @ramonarjona.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You should probably see the re-release of Gone With The Wind if you haven't seen it, for no other reason than to appreciate this gag.
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Sarah ⚧ ✡︎ @sarahkorse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My 16-year-old Korean friend was picked up by the cops for walking by a middle school. "Anyone from the Middle East is an Ay-rab." They dumped him at the edge of town, and told him not to do it again...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/09/2026
UK datacentres will create just 25% of jobs predicted by tech sector, analysis finds
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UK datacentres will create just 25% of jobs predicted by tech sector, analysis finds
Facilities likely to employ 10,400 workers, compared with 40,000 in industry estimates, thinktank says Datacentres in the UK will create just a quarter of the jobs predicted by the tech sector, while consuming vast amounts of energy, according to new research. Environmental thinktank Verdant predicts that all the datacentres currently planned are likely to directly employ 10,400 workers – compared with the more than 40,000 cited in projections by the industry lobby group TechUK. Continue reading...
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ramonarjona.bsky.social @ramonarjona.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026
Executives bragged about their "contractual restrictions, bundling and ecosystem lock-in, and switching costs." You can get a sense of these in a short accompanying article by the study's co-author Christopher Stewart: www.promarket.org/2026/09/04/a...
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American Companies Expect Their Customers To Stay Much Longer. That May Be Making the Economy Less Competitive - ProMarket
In new research, Li Azinovic-Yang, John D. Kepler, Ava E. Speros, and Christopher R. Stewart find that over the last two decades, companies in the United States have grown to expect customer relations...
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People Power United @peoplepowerunited.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
👴 Grandfathers earned their benefits through decades of work. Congress must protect every dollar and make millionaires pay their share. open.substack.com/pub/peoplepo... #scrapthecap #socialsecurity
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 03/09/2026
Yet another way AI is ruining the internet: online shopping
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ramonarjona.bsky.social @ramonarjona.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Hey Man offers the most succinct & eloquent explanation of "Why couldn't they just send the eagles to Mordor?" that I have ever heard. cc: @wrdnrd.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/p6LKZ...
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Journeys of the Hey Man: We Can't Use the Eagles
YouTube video by Hey Man!
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 02/09/2026
"Data centers don't use water. They're data centers. This is propaganda by our adversaries" - Trump's Secretary of Commerce Not only are they robbing you blind, they think you're an idiot.
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
AGAIN? are you goddamn kidding me? whyyyyyyy does Dan Ariely keep having a job doing research when he keeps falsifying his DAMN RESEARCH? (I know why. I'm just.)
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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
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Dwarf Fortress creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis'
"They're trying to have a CEO press a button that makes a game."
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/09/2026
Iran attacks US bases in Middle East after reports of fatal US strike on wedding – Middle East crisis live
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Iran attacks US bases in Middle East after reports of fatal US strike on wedding – Middle East crisis live
Iran’s Fars news agency reports four-year-old child among those killed at wedding after fresh flare-up in hostilities between Washington and Tehran * US launches new airstrikes on Iranian targets as hostilities flare Welcome to our live coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. A fresh flare-up in hostilities has seen the US hit Iran with broader and more intense strikes, with Iranian state media reporting 11 people killed in overnight attacks including four people at a wedding. In a call with Fox News, Trump reportedly reiterated that Iran would be “totally wiped out” if it launches retaliatory strikes against the US. “This is a very big hit today. If it goes a third time, they’re going to be totally wiped out as a country,” Fox News quoted the US president as saying. Trump has previously threatened to bomb Iran “back to the stone ages”, and said in April that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if a peace deal wasn’t reached. IRGC spokesperson Sardar Mohebi said in a post on X that the US will face “severe punishment” and that it “will regret its new attacks”. Jordan’s army said that 10 out of 13 Iranian ballistic missiles were intercepted and the other three fell in remote areas. It followed claims from the IRGC that it had killed “a large number of US forces”, while destroying “several installations and enemy attack helicopters” in a ballistic attack on US Marines’ barracks at Camp Titin, a military site near Aqaba. Reuters and Al Jazeera have since both reported, citing US sources, that there were no injuries or damage to the barracks. This phase of fighting began when the US military said it had struck rocket launchers on Larak Island in the strait of Hormuz on Sunday, in its first strikes on Iran since July, after it detected the Iranians were planning to deploy fresh mines in the critical waterway. Tehran responded by launching missiles at US sites in Jordan, which were intercepted, and the UAE, which said it had stopped an Iranian drone over its territorial waters. Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said that if the US returns to a peace deal aimed at ending months of hostilities, Iran “will immediately take reciprocal action”, according to the Iranian presidency’s website. He also thanked Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for Moscow’s stance on the conflict. Putin and Pezeshkian held talks on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, attended by over a dozen leaders including China’s Xi Jinping and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. Continue reading...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/09/2026
In a joint appearance at a regional security meeting, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for his support in wartime and urged that their nations work together to oppose U.S. sanctions.
washingtonpost.com
Putin pledges support to Iran, rallies leaders to challenge U.S.
A regional security meeting in Kyrgyzstan highlighted the increasingly close military and political alliance between Moscow and Tehran.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"The idea that this hub, built over decades, was significantly degraded in the space of a few days by a regional player is unimaginable. "That the US could not prevent and defend against a predictable attack on a Fleet Headquarters is quite startling." www.militarytimes.com/opinion/2026...
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The devastation of NSA Bahrain is a national security warning
Opinion: If NSA Bahrain is not reconstituted to pre-attack capabilities, it will fundamentally change how the U.S. Navy operates, the author of this op-ed writes.
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ramonarjona.bsky.social @ramonarjona.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is a real Temu ad that I just got hit with on a different site.
Temu ad. Image of a train by a lake. Text says "Temu. United States. Clearance. Everything must go."
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Kind of surprised not a single outlet wanted this. Maybe the interest is gone and this is just what America is now. Lots of photographers asking me about southwest Florida though!
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greenlightening.bsky.social @greenlightening.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
How is Zohran supposed to bring the flavor to the rice if it’s all been recalled?
Screenshot of Zohran Mamdani in his Young Cardamom music video for the song #1 spice. He is bobbing his head to the side, while singing, wearing a patterned suit that looks kind of like giant eyeballs with grey irisis and black, star shaped pupils. The background matches. The caption at the bottom in yellow is the lyric he is singing, “Bring the flavor to the fish, bring the flavor to the rice."
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"In private, people who understand how good this stuff is, and how much better it’s getting, they’re very worried." Bill Gates is scared af about unchecked, unregulated AI development. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/t...
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Bill Gates Is Warning That A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit (Gift Article)
In an hourlong interview, he said his industry was downplaying the risks, which he believes include mass unemployment and bioterrorism.
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I know Gates is a tarnished vessel for delivering this message, but the level of alarm in this interview and his longer essay is probably worth listening to (and yes the interviewer gets into his grotesque Epstein ties)
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Terrible. "By the time the U.S. began attacking Iran, Central Command, which said it needed a minimum of nine of its 16 [civilian protection] staffers to function, was left with one person...A U.S. airstrike hit a school, killing more than 100 children." www.propublica.org/article/hegs...
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Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.
The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...
local12.com
Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart
A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.
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ramonarjona.bsky.social @ramonarjona.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🎶🎶 Food had tests that it used to pass. Now turns out there's popsicle glass. 🎶🎶
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
law.berkeley.edu
Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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God @thegodshow.com · 19/08/2026
The USS Lincoln wasn't resupplied because Hegseth hid that Iran destroyed the main U.S. base.
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Damn Pete Hegseth For Starving Sailors To Hide That Iran Destroyed The Main U.S. Naval Base
Burn in Hell, Pete.
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 19/08/2026
thinking about this past episode of the show today. one of my favorites. recording what i expect to be another favorite tomorrow, with @quillkukla.bsky.social. love that i get to do this job sometimes
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ramonarjona.bsky.social @ramonarjona.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I don't know that it _should_ bother me that the etymology of the word "prime" is from Latin meaning "first" but the number 1 is -- by convention -- not considered a prime number but it _does_.
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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"When the revolution comes, I'm gonna become the head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard!!!"
The nerd glasses emoji, with Hitler's hair and mustache photoshopped onto it
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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Ok so I can't have granola or salad but beef is $800 a pound. cool cool.
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ramonarjona.bsky.social @ramonarjona.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I have opinions about the Vesper martini. That said, this YT'er points out that the high ABV of the drink as it would've been made at the time may be why Bond insists the drink should be shaken. 1/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOB6...
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Why James Bond Shakes His Martinis
YouTube video by Analyze This, Mister Bond
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ramonarjona.bsky.social @ramonarjona.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
8/13/26 on the Gregorian calendar is the start of the Ghost Month on the Chinese calendar. Spooky season is here and lasts through 12th Night. That's just the rules. I don't write them. I just report them.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
this is a dead kennedys album cover
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ramonarjona.bsky.social @ramonarjona.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
CNN continues to veer into "Fox News Lite".
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Bold Strategy Cotton - Dodgeball
Alt: Bold Strategy Cotton - Dodgeball
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ramonarjona.bsky.social @ramonarjona.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
One may separate art from the artist but one may not separate the business person. There's a bunch of merch in the world I want nothing to do with even if a book or comic changed my life.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
CBS and Bari Weiss may have created their own biggest competitor. Reports say journalists fired from 60 Minutes are planning to reunite with former exec. producer Bill Owens working bring on Scott Pelley, and other former correspondents/producers. This is how you do it.
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ramonarjona.bsky.social @ramonarjona.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Ok I gather Jay is no longer CEO. So I guess we'll have a world with a few Caesars? You know, as a treat?
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