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dave bonner

@rascalking.com
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software developer, currently at the mit media lab. masshole. i hate having emotions about reality; i'd much rather have them about Sanctuary Moon. also @dave@rascalking.com on fedi, was @rascalking on twitter.

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DotNews @dotnews.bsky.social · 4h
Prime Minister Francisco Carvalho of Cabo Verde joined Boston Public Schools officials and Cape Verdean leaders on Monday as they hailed the new Kriolu dual language program at Dorchester’s Lilla Frederick Elementary School. www.dotnews.com/2026/09/30/c...
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Cabo Verde PM on hand as Frederick School celebrates launch of its dual language initiative - Dorchester Reporter
Prime Minister Francisco Carvalho of Cabo Verde joined Boston Public Schools (BPS) officials and Cape Verdean leaders on Monday as they hailed the new Kriolu dual language program at Dorchester’s Lill...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2h
google should be forced, by law, to fully fund wikipedia for a thousand years
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NPR @npr.org · 2h
The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies. n.pr/46UKiy3
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How Trump keeps undercutting his anti-communist message
The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies.
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 3h
I REALLY enjoyed this book! Even if you think you know all the ways being a Black women costs more, read this book BC there are likely ways you know nothing about.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h
it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing
screenshot of thumbnail for the ezra klein show with guest bill gates
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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 17h
Keep your eyes on Ottawa, on old plans to take Indigenous lands are being dresses up in new clothes. See @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social in the Freep: www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Opinion: Opinion: Building Canada Strong Act just another way of sidestepping Indigenous rights
In 1846, Britain faced an emergency influenced by the Irish famine, so leaders repealed the country’s “Corn Laws” and restrictions on imported food and grain, transitioning to a system of free trade.
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WIRED @wired.com · 9h
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it. www.wired.com/story/how-is...
wired.com
How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 14h
taps sign again
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Katra Ariello, Golden Apple Audio 🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 22h
Hey everyone, I'm really in a bind. I was just told earlier today that my job will be terminating me on October 13th, exactly one day before my upcoming requested paid medical leave to recover from bottom surgery. I intend to fight this in court, but I could really use some help in the meantime.
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Donate to Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery, organized by Katra Ariello
Hi, my name is Katra, and I’ve just been notified that I’ll be let go of… Katra Ariello needs your support for Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery
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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 14h
Only 1 out of 57 men in the Cornell rape group chat objected to the sexual assault.
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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 14h
Our creators! @stillwintercraft.bsky.social is a competition-level cosplayer, archer, designer, maker and colour artist of 15 years experience on everything from hard SF to Archie. Another multi-talented force, their colour work makes Murderbot’s world bloom. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...
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Coming soon: Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel | Multi-award-winning SF!
The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 29/09/2026
New way for trillionaires to debase themselves in breathless servitude to another man just dropped
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@finkd • 1d
We believe superintelligence will create significant new opportunities for all people and businesses. Meta already serves billions of people at scale and helps hundreds of millions of businesses reach customers. Today we are starting the next major pillar of our business, Meta Enterprise Platform, to help businesses use Al to grow and transform in new ways as well.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h
Yet another reason to run on oversight and accountability. Those are promises they can actually keep.
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 16h
Seriously just enforce normal liability for AI on the owners and so much of this shit goes away AI companies want to be treated like the hired expert when it comes to pocketing any financial flows, but like a cursory Google Search whenever it comes to liability
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h
seriously: every western regime should deny any and all relief and sabotage this administration as hard as possible
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 16h
really think a big part of a 2027-9 democratic congress should be using the powers of the legislature for gathering evidence explicitly with a mind to state prosecutions of federally pardoned members of the trump administration
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 15h
Looking forward to seeing how the labor lawsuit against Harvard for the compensation of res life staff progresses www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 17h
I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 15h
Still a bit short I know everyone is struggling but
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xX_Doctor_Cucumber_Xx @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 16h
My school didn't refund my tuition either, and in fact took away my merit-based scholarships when my GPA tanked. Schools are actively rubbing salt in the wound when students are sexually abused on campus.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 17h
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 18h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 19h
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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dave bonner @rascalking.com · 18h
There is _no_ way I could have delivered that without laughing.
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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 19h
Regime gets OK to disappear immigrants to holes they can never climb out of www.universalhub.com/2026/regime-... #immigrants #Boston
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey, remember how us radical trans extremists were warning that you have to go on the attack against transphobic Dems immediately because otherwise other politicians will take the lack of consequences as permission and the bigotry will spread? Yeah...
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 19h
Thiis is the first time I've seen the MIT Tetris building in action!
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 19h
Haha, okay, I thought I already told all these people about their cameos years ago when I drew this but maybe I didn't so this is a confusing way to find out. We made a new edition of Banned Book Club with a 20 page bonus story about our book being banned, and included a bunch of our book talks!
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Banned Book Club Color Edition
The color edition includes an EXCLUSIVE 25 page afterward epilogue comic. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincin...
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dave bonner @rascalking.com · 18h
sports sicko mode engaged! finally getting to use youtubetv's multiview mode to watch the bruins and red sox at the same time.
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dave bonner @rascalking.com · 19h
It was _such_ a fun ride, one of those books I couldn't put down.
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Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 20h
There’s been a Storrowing on Route 85, River Street, in Southborough this evening. MBTACR Worcester Line trains may be delayed a few minutes as they are passing the bridge slowly while a crew works to extricate the truck. Rt 85 is detoured. @universalhub.com
An 18-wheeler truck is stuck beneath a steel railroad bridgeAn 18-wheeler truck is stuck beneath a steel railroad bridgeAn MBTA Commuter Rail trail approaches Southborough Station at dusk
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 21h
DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT
I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold
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JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team · 29/09/2026
My new blog post looks at how adult content shows up on Blacksky and the options we're considering to make it a more consensual experience. We'd love for every community member to read it, think it over, and share their perspective. Let's build a bridge between self-expression and consent together.
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Your Body, Your Feed – Creating a bridge between consent and self-expression
Recently, we’ve seen an increase in discussion around how adult content currently shows up on our platform. By adult content, we mean content that is usually labeled as pornography, non-sexual nudity, or sexually suggestive content. Labeling adult content (both text- and image-based) is an example of how we empower community members to share more of themselves with folks, without creating a non-consensual experience for other members that do not wish to engage with adult content.  To solve this, we want to present you with options and invite you, as a member of our community, to decide how adult content shows up on Blacksky.
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RI DaSēr @sotreu.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
150/250 of my rent goal 0/2000 of my moving goal #HelpSky #MutualAid
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 23h
It is shockingly common for child welfare agencies to remove children from parents because they can't afford housing. Billing them for the foster care really is just beyond the pale. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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“Nobody Blames the Landlord. They Just Take Away the Kids.”
All too often, when parents can’t afford safe housing, the solution child welfare services offer is putting their children in foster care.
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everyone knows that staff are the biggest source of prison contraband, but banning books is way easier than pissing off the correctional officer unions.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.
engadget.com
Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget
Sure, seems safe.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I apologize to the author of every literary or movie scumbag I ever called unrealistically shitty.
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dave bonner @rascalking.com · 29/09/2026
I let Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon sit on my TBR list for way too long, I will not be making that mistake again when this comes out.
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
new: A third-party surveillance company is telling cops that it wants to add facial recognition to Flock footage and ALPR reads to help them "close the gap" in what Flock offers. Company offers racial analysis, gender analysis, behavior analysis www.404media.co/surveillance...
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.
A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remind me never to get on the wrong side of Paul Krugman. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-beclow...
A table showing 30-year Treasury Yield, for the last 45 days or so. It bounces around for August, then after Bessent said, "I am the house" on september 8, it has shot up twice.
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At this point, I assume any defense of AI was written by it. I’ve not been wrong.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
With alt text. I yelled
INTRODUCTION

The equities here could not be more one-sided. Defendants admit that they
provide a service without fully knowing how it works. 

This is not just any service. It is one that Defendants themselves concede poses an existential risk to the continued
survival of humankind. 

Defendants claim they cannot stop barreling forward with their potentially civilization-ending endeavors unless they are forced to do so by the
government. They have asked the government to tie them to the mast. 

Plaintiff brings good news to the Defendants: The Florida Attorney General is answering your
cry for help with a motion to enjoin you from harming Floridians with your reckless, unacceptably risky product.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great to see: “Tunnel boring is set to begin on the Hudson Tunnel Project, marking a major milestone in the effort to build a new rail connection between New Jersey and New York and expand capacity along one of the nation's busiest rail corridors.”
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Tunnel boring set to begin on Hudson Tunnel Project, a new NJ-NY rail link
A major milestone has been reached on the long-awaited Hudson Tunnel Project, with tunnel boring set to begin on a new rail connection between New Jersey and New York.
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nope can't have nice things not ever nope:
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