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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We're a decade into this and still getting fed "raises new questions" about very obvious and blatant corruption, self-dealing, and authoritarian capture. This isn't journalism. It's an institutional denial superstructure.

Headline: U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies - President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump's envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of interest

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...

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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks

A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

you should feel uncomfortable with frontier AI models not because the tools lack uses but because everyone who works in hyperscale AI wants to worship these machines and every algorithm that behaves unexpectedly is an enfant terrible they admire, love, and hope to have care for them in their dotage

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 19/09/2026

My most boomer opinion is that you should be able to connect a printer straight out of the box with a cable to the pc and print. No wifi, no bluetooth, no freaking app.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is a great example of one of the ways AI is actually going to endanger / kill huge numbers of people. Shitty chatbots cause their special sort of brain rot to the people who package intelligence for our shot-callers. They take the bad ideas from there. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.

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Kenna Alexander @kennaalexander.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's frustrating to see wave after wave of literal dog-shit come out of Hollywood - budget and blockbuster - but I keep getting told by media executives that Coyote & Crow isn't viable for film or television because they can't get their head around the concept of Indigenous Futurism.

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Reservation Dogs Ndn Police Officer Double Take

ALT: Reservation Dogs Ndn Police Officer Double Take

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Macklemore can sue Robert Kraft for Tortious Interference for economic harm and I hope he does. Discovery would be fun: "Which other stadium owners did you talk to?" and "We need all related emails, text messages and contracts between you and them and you and Sheeran and Sheeran's team."

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anthropic’s CEO says that the company needs hundreds of billions in revenue or they’re going to go bankrupt. Awww…Maybe he can only drink coffee at home, get a second job, and work a lot harder. Polluting the environment and creating societal nightmares must be so exhausting

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🇹🇭Nene Royal🇹🇭 doing Metallica's Master of Puppets. She's pretty damn good. Only 16 but you'd think she's a seasoned rock goddess with how confident she blasts through it. 🤘🤘🎸

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/09/2026

“When a transaction objectively looks like a sale to a reasonable customer, the customer should get the legal rights that come with purchase, even if the vendor figuratively has their fingers crossed behind their back in the fine print,” EFF’s Corynne McSherry told @dailymail.co.uk.

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The chilling words Sony uttered in court reveal the new age of media

Sony is fighting a class-action lawsuit, but their arguments are stoking fears about what the future of ownership truly means for consumers.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Lake America. So weak. Absolute loser shit. So embarrassing and small and foolish. The sort of idea a drunk asshole has right before he falls off the roof and onto a picket fence.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

if youre a democrat folding on hasan piker bull shit, why should i think you are going to push through on the hard stuff? do you have any idea the propaganda campaign you will be facing when you try to investigate trump corruption? the ice killers and rapists? court expansion?

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vonvalancius.bsky.social @vonvalancius.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

sorry, I think actually the historically appropriate response is to free those kids, their parents, reunite them, close the facility, and Nuremberg 2 everyone responsible for the phrase "new ICE facility for children"

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Many myths debunked in this paper. Paper finds that: -faculty partisanship has no effect on students -students ideologically sort into majors; majors don’t affect partisanship -faculty partisanship is uncorrelated with how left/rightwing course content is micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...

DO FACULTY AFFECT STUDENT PARTISANSHIP?*
Micah Y. Baum*
Joaquín Endara
Annaliese Paulson®
Abstract
We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the humanities and social sciences. We then use student transcripts from one flagship to estimate causal effects. Students become more liberal during college regardless of major and sort toward ideologically similar instructors. Exploiting plausibly random variation in when instructors teach courses, we find no effect of faculty partisanship on student partisanship. Text analysis shows exposure to liberal topics reflects student demand rather than instructor supply, leaving little room for indoctrination.
JEL Codes: 123, D72, H75

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's also pretty interesting that "expose yourself to more intellectual diversity from the right" rarely means "hire more experts credulously studying the intellectual basis for Hindu nationalism, the gender politics of the Black Hebrew Isrealites, or the righteous teachings of al-salaf al-ṣāliḥ"

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

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carmenlynn.bsky.social @carmenlynn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Koch Nazis are back “A shadowy network of conservative activist groups, backed by Koch-linked dark money, is deploying hidden cameras and mass public-records requests to hunt down and destroy the careers of college professors and administrators — and it's working.”

rawstory.com

Red flags fly after conservative harassment network targeting teachers exposed: 'Chilling'

A shadowy network of conservative activist groups, backed by Koch-linked dark money, is deploying hidden cameras and mass public-records requests to hunt down and destroy the careers of college profes...

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Again, what right wing Republicans and Democrats call "socialism" is the sort of regulated capitalism that was consensus for much of the 20th century. They pretend it's anti-market when really it's only anti-oligarchy

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

When some on the right speak of reverence for “civilization,” what they’re doing is trying to anachronistically justify the hierarchy of race they would like to see enacted today by rooting it in antiquity. You cannot cast Black people in The Odyssey, because The Odyssey is a pillar of “Western civilization,” which they consider to be white. This faction of the far right imagines antiquity as a kind of idyllic Jim Crow universe of utterly separate civilizations, one in which the integration they despise could not possibly exist.

But Greece is not as far from Africa as the North American continent is, and the modern construct of race, a pseudoscientific product of the Atlantic slave trade, would not be invented until thousands of years after Homer. Black people are depicted in Greek art. Egypt, Libya, and “Aethiopia” are frequently referenced in ancient writings. As the Black classics scholar Frank Snowden Jr. wrote in the 1970s, at least one of the characters in The Odyssey, Eurybates, is specifically described as “black-skinned and woolly-haired.” As the Stanford classics professor Sarah Derbew notes in her book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, Black people are referenced in plays by Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus. They also appear in the writings of Hesiod and Herodotus. One of the lost epic poems is The Aethiopis, in which Memnon, the Aethiopian king and an ally to Troy, plays a major role.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 22/07/2026

Politico's owner is giving Peter Thiel an award. Semafor just added more tech billionaires to its Silicon Valley suck-up advisory board. Now comes the Economist's "Insider" interview with Elon Musk, sponsored by Anthropic. The sorry state of business/tech journalism in one stunning image.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It’s the center square.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It's the fraud economy. A bubble made of bubbles. A puff pastry of whipped bullshit with a nothing filling, held up with stilts that are resting on a plummeting grand piano.

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

To Democrats and their eulogies: If you say that democracy is under attack by the Republican Party—and it is—and you say that the Republican Party represents an authoritarian threat—and it does—then civility and comity have already been murdered, and shows of comity are utterly incoherent.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Saddened to hear my good friend the Finger Taker has passed away. I never agreed with him about amputating people's fingers in his dungeon, but I'll always remember the collegial good times, and most of all his great sense of humor. What laughs we had. Condolences to Ginny and his whole family.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

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Danielle @as-per-danielle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

emilypopcast 3h
Al artwork looks the way Christian rock sounds.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

1. Since December, CNN and CNBC have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. The existence of a financial relationship between the networks and Kalshi, however, is disclosed to viewers inconsistently. w/@atrupar.com

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How Kalshi infects the news

After inking financial deals with CNBC and CNN, Kalshi's prediction markets have become ubiquitous on cable news.

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 05/07/2026

If I see Ai food photos on a flyer or online I’m never coming to your restaurant, pop up, food truck, or any other event.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If you got on a plane and there was some guy in 1st class going "I don't understand all these knobs and dials, therefore I don't trust the pilot" you wouldn't give him any credence, but that's the way politics in America works because there exists no way to tell a white dude his opinion is nonsense.

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Jon @jontafkasi.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

4 picture meme:
1. "My genius machine will find solutions to all the world problems".
2. /computer - "Thinking",
3. /computer - "You already have all the solutions. You just refuse to implement them to protect the financial interests of the wealthiest 0.001%"
4. Inventor - /unplugs machine, "It just needs some tweaking"

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Corporations that are capitulating to the Trump administration are complicit in the rise of Christian nationalist extremism. Sponsors of Trump’s Freedom 250/ Rededicate 250 include consumer-facing giants Mastercard and United Airlines.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 24/06/2026

I've made the mistake of listening to a lot of Peter Thiel interviews recently to try to understand his worldview. The guy is an absolute third-rate thinker who contradicts himself every 30 seconds and nobody pushes him on it.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

David Graeber opposed Keir Starmer back in 2020, warning he'll lead to the rise of the Far-Right and the rise of hate/racism. And look where we are now. Labour having abandoned its principles to become just another Neo-liberal party has been a total disaster.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I mean why wouldn't Trump do this? No matter how many lies he tells it's seen as biased to consider him a liar. No matter how many times he fails it's seen as biased to consider him a failure. No matter how much he steals it's biased to consider him a crook. Can't see things as they are; that's bias

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

We’re at the point where the zone is so flooded with shit I can’t tell if a soccer tourist influencer and the journey he’s on is a psy op, a viral marketing campaign, or authentic and the end result of how corporate America parasites onto everything and it’s just…kind of all the same anyway.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I do love that AI inadvertently confirms that our brains work like a muscle, too — use it or lose it. In this way relying on AI is like using a robot to lift weights, like running a marathon in a Honda Civic. You get nothing out of it.

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Prediction markets are the financialization of the Trump culture. A bunch of brainless chuds believing they’re experts on things they know less than nothing about and powerful people using privileged information to make fortunes off destruction that ruins people’s lives.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Just a little piece of advice. The correct response or “messaging,” or whatever the flacks want to call it, to the UFC event is to call it pathetic. Because it is. All this bullshit is performative and reveals a bunch of fatally insecure men. You don’t need to counter it with more performative bs.

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Karen (yes, yes, I know 😈) @karkin64.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Yes, but that was before FIFA became the corrupt paedophile supporting organisation. It is today.😒😒

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Rotty Kato @rottykato.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

These are alternatives to subscription based programs. #free #subscription #save

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It’s fitting that the first trillionaire never built anything, gained his wealth from the ransoming of public good, that what put him over the top was a governmental coup, and that he’s a white supremacist, eugenicist fascist idiot. This is an abomination. An indictment. And we cannot look away.

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