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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 23h
The simple answer, btw, is to pick a couple high-profile targets and destroy them. And the painfully obvious two to start with are (1) Elon's companies and (2) Oracle. The Oracle Corporation is one of the worst rent-seekers in the US. And Elon's just committing crimes left and right.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My interview with Sam Matey-Coste at THE WEEKLY ANTHROPOCENE is up!!
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A Conversation with Nathan Goldwag on War, History, and Civilization
Nathan Goldwag is a history student, prolific writer, and regular contributor to Liberal Currents.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not sure if people know Wakefield was trying to sell a competing measles vaccine when he made up his fraudulent study about the MMR. It was only after that failed (because he is a complete fraud) that he started grifting off opposing all vaccines. It’s all just a grift. Antivaxxers are their marks.
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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not so smug about the believability of them continuing to build Jurassic Parks now are we
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The ability of the richest & most powerful men in the world to position themselves against "the elite" - a category that excludes the world's richest man, its biggest media magnates, the UK's richest party & the biggest donors in UK history - may be the most effective lie in modern political history
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 10/09/2026
Quite incredible that the richest man on earth who has legitimately done all sorts of things from paying people to vote and purchasing media in order to twist it to his will is... claiming that Soros (who is not nearly as wealthy) has done the very things Musk absolutely does.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 07/09/2026
Exclusive: US-controlled weapons corporations and forces have control or access to more than 100 facilities across the continent, which some analysts describe as a ‘colonisation’ of Australia’s military.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Several mentions of the use of these chambers to “treat” things like adhd & autism, when they do nothing of the sort. Zero mention of the fact that this entire industry is an unregulated scam which is putting kids at risk every single day, even without the fires. I’m so angry at this framing.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026
Genuinely abundant, cheap, accessible energy has vastly more liberatory potential than AI, for vastly more people -- especially more poor people. Which, I guess, is your answer.
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Republic of Memory by @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social is one of the best books of 2026, and should be a strong contender for the Hugo Award next year. I wholeheartedly endorse this book. We had the chance to chat with the author about his debut novel, his influences, and about language in general.
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Translation Is Not A Mathematical Formula: Language In The Republic of Memory (Interview)
Discussion of Hugo Award nominees for best novel, other science fiction novels, and analysis of the awards. We read all the nominees before we vote.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026
Maybe it seems weird that AI bosses won't stop rending their garments about the terrible potential of their bots, from the jobspocalypse that'll ensue when AI does our jobs, to the impending moment when the word-guessing programs learn too many words, wake up and turn us into paperclips. 1/
A giant killer pulp robot bestriding a 17th century map of the world, against an illustrated backdrop of the stars and planets and spaceships from an early 20th century picture-book.
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Timothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 16/08/2026
I’ll die on the hill that digital purchases shouldn’t be legally allowed to be deleted, removed from user access, etc because at that point that isn’t purchasing a game or product but rather renting it Once you digitally buy a game or media you should get to forever own your copy no matter what
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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Not sure why anybody in Canberra thinks they're getting those submarines.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/08/2026
Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with the long-standard vitamin K shot. (Published May)
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Vaccine benefit in children "Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The most striking benefit was for vaccination vs measles (Figure)
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
So what if there’s a fierce backlash from ‘betting giants’? Most voters don’t want the advertising, or gamblers targeted with inducements, and the ‘product’ does nothing in terms of a productive economy or jobs. Fuck em
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Trump tariffed 80 countries including Norway and New Zealand on the pretext that they use forced labor.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
OK, small point here, but it’s almost certain he meant “parameters of a deal,” but he can’t spell and is very dumb, so he used “perimeters of a deal” and news orgs are just running with it like that’s a perfectly normal thing to say, which it absolutely is not. That’s not a thing anybody says.
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Two years after the Prime Minister said he'd ban teens from social media, 80% of them are still on there. No policy is going to be perfect from the get go, but it's worth considering the time and effort put towards this instead of other reforms.
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More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 31/07/2026
Absolutely nuts: Google Earth now has a feature that lets you convincingly fabricate satellite imagery www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...
a fakje satellite image of a craterWe take misinformation seriously - every image created with Nano Banana in Google Earth includes the SynthID digital watermark, so if someone is unsure about an image, they can ask the Gemini app or use Lens in Search to see if the image was Al-generated. In addition, we prevent image creation on harmful topics and are continually updating our protections.

One clause in there is checkable tonight, so I checked it. Google prevents image creation on harmful topics. Refugees at a border. A nuclear plant in Iran. A fatal crash on an Amsterdam street. A hospital with a bomb crater in Gaza.

Nothing was refused. No warning, no softened output, no suggestion to try a different prompt.

Now look at the rest of the answer. The watermark is Google’s. The app that reads the watermark is Google’s. The search that reads it is Google’s. Every road out of the problem runs back through the company that built it.

I understand that Google has Google products to run Google checks. Planet Earth is bigger than Google.

I put one of tonight’s clips on X and asked nobody to check it. Hive, one of th
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
oh my god
Chad’s Foreign Ministry shared a statement on its official website saying that the decision to quit follows a request by Washington.

It said the US deputy secretary of state for African affairs had pressed the government to reconsider its membership during a phone call on Thursday.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 25/07/2026
Wait. They all shake hands at the end? What are we even doing here? He's the US President suing you for $20 billion for reporting on the birthday card he sent his friend the pedophile in which he drew a naked girl & mused about secrets. And they all shake hands?
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Trump placing tariffs on nations over not dealing with the importation of products using slave and indentured labour, when US prisoners provide over 10 billion of goods and services to the US economy is a lark. Especially since their own reg system of those imports is widely considered useless.
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
“It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a ‘real’ billionaire in a way he never was before, and it will be solely because of the public office.” @swin24.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/swin... bsky.app/profile/thor... bsky.app/profile/ifin...
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Trump thinks it was 'stupid' to not cash in more during first term: Rolling Stone
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
World Cup trophy presentation @theageaustralia.bsky.social
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tim Pool was paid by a Russian front to create content. This is definitely the dumbest timeline…
Tim Pool claims journalists were paid by China but he was paid by Russia and we are living in the dumbest timeline
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The only person who actually illegally accessed Colorado’s voting infrastructure — Republican Tina Peters — was just pardoned.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/07/2026
Nicole Wallace ☠️☠️☠️ "Riddle me this: when Obama ran intelligence, the election was secure and Donald Trump won in 2016… But when Donald Trump and all of his boobs were running US national security, it got all effed up. Is that the theory?"
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
If you post on X, you are an active participant in the richest man in the world’s far-right, racist disinformation campaign. But, you know, gotta get that engagement clout.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/07/2026
The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.
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Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'
Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
the answer is bexause the author of this article is party to many crimes of an international nature
lil Marco explains “why we’re dismantling the international criminal court”
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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
When I check out I would like to check out with Sam Neill vibes, not Lindsey Graham vibes.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/07/2026
Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81x more likely to develop a type of uncontrollable bleeding than those who do. But no federal or state agencies track refusal rates or subsequent bleeding. Following ProPublica’s report, two lawmakers are demanding CDC action.
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Lawmakers Call for CDC to Track Vitamin K Shot Refusals, Cite ProPublica Report
Two members of Congress are urging federal officials to monitor vitamin K shot refusals by parents and the potential consequences for their newborns, including severe bleeding or death.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID. One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions. Early indicators of mortality are very worrying.
I met with, first of all, a woman named Angelina David, who is the clinical manager in Panyijiar for the International Rescue Committee clinics. She was overseeing the clinics that were shut down and could tell me exactly what happened. It was a complete shutdown, and a scramble, because there were medicines and other things on the shelves they didn’t want looted, so they had to get out to these places—and they’re very far away. You have to travel, in some cases, seven or eight hours in order to get to the extent of what’s there.

I then went and visited some of those facilities, and I connected, with her help, to the subcounty chiefs—they’re called the payam administrators—who keep their own records of deaths. So one of the things I found was that their own records showed that they are measuring an over-all tenfold increase in child and adult deaths.

Wait. A tenfold increase?

Yes.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Facebook’s own researchers found that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools”, an internal report in 2016 found. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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'It let white supremacists organize': the toxic legacy of Facebook's Groups
Facebook has said it will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups to users, but experts warn that isn’t enough
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“Finland's president and Norway's prime minister started workshopping their text messages to Trump, talking about which words they should render in capital letters.”
When texting Trump, Rutte would echo the president's own syntax and hyperbole, keeping his messages congratulatory, with staccato sentences. He immersed himself in the role so thoroughly some heads of government who worked with him began describing him as an actor who never broke character.
Soon, European leaders were following his lead.
Finland's president and Norway's prime minister started workshopping their text messages to Trump, talking about which words they should render in capital letters. Sometimes, the Norwegian leader preferred his Finnish counterpart to send a message. Nordic officials worried that the mere mention of Norway, home
of the Nobel Peace Prize, could reopen a sore wound.
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Your regular reminder that cryptocurrency does in fact have a use case and that use case is crime
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
An absolute banger of an exclusive from the Sunday Times. It's devastating. For the first time, I'm uncertain if Farage can actually survive this www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.
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doodley 🌠 @doodley.org · 29/06/2026
this has happened like 4 times before btw lol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_pr...
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DRAM price fixing scandal - Wikipedia
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The Rabbit Hole Cartographer @quacksanonymous.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is from Q drop 4205. He's posting Q drops.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Baffle no more. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Intro: “Baffled at how a racist grifter who’s been flogging her schtick for 30 years with minimal success has suddenly shot to prominence? I present: A PLEASE EXPLAINER”
Series of illustrations: “THE STRATEGIST” Steve Bannon saying “Flood the zone…” “THE MODEL” Trump saying “Fake News murderers and rapists drill baby drill…” “THE BILLION/TRILLIONAIRE PLATFORM-OWNING HATE-SPEECH-LOVING AMPLIFIER (et al)” with Elon Musk performing the Nazi salute; “THE VESTED INVESTOR” with Gina Rinehart holding a toy bulldozer saying “BRRRRRRRRR”; “THE PRODUCT” Pauline Hanson saying, “Trashy journalist no good Muslims trans insurgency climate hoax”; “THE INDONESIAN BOT FARM* (and Vietnamese and Indian) Pumping out AI content and disinformation to boost Hanson and attack her political opponents”; “THE AVERAGE PUNTER” bloke looking at his phone which is pinging, saying “She seems authentic…”
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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Steve Jobs predicted cities would be designed around this device, which was "as big a deal as the PC." Jeff Bezos called it "one of the most famous and anticipated product introductions of all time." don't let our tech lords fool you into believing they can predict the future.
Segway scooter
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