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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 3h

Further downthread, Soraya points out that everyone with the power to remove rapists, including the President, from office has been flouting their responsibilities by not doing so. It is right to demand that they do so now.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 3h

I’m sure I’m not the only one that saw the video of this man putting himself between French national police and student protestors circulating yesterday.

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Anand Giridharadas: Cities are very unfairly labeled as these 'problem centers' by Donald Trump. One thing worth remembering is a large chunk of those people who end up in cities were failed in other parts of this country. We are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 06/10/2026

Was just going through some old stuff and happened across this one. Aged pretty well, I think!

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Alex Speidel - Apply for PNW Mole! @alexspeidel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Congratulations to Wizards of the Coast on your rapidly-growing unions! And congratulations to every worker there on a job well done. Welcome to the family!

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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 06/10/2026

ATE @schock.cc "The question is not whether AI will harm ‘our’ children someday. The question is whose children are already being harmed. And will we demand accountability?" calmatters.org/commentary/2...

calmatters.org

Opinion | Children are in the crosshairs of artificial intelligence. Who will we blame?

AI is already endangering children. The US military used it in the bombing of a school in Iran, and Israeli forces have used it to target Palestinians.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/10/2026

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a statewide disaster emergency due to the measles outbreak. This was avoidable.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do not mean to single out LeBron James, but it feels completely bizarre to me that an active player is allowed to promote "prediction markets" but would get banned for life for using that service to bet ten dollars on their own team to win a game.

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Leigh, as in eek! 🦇 @revafisheye.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026

There was an album cover in my parents' collection that terrified me. I don't remember the band, but there was a black and white photo of a dancer being dipped, her upside-down head in the foreground, and she had blood coming out of her mouth.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

V annoyed at this kind of erasure. "I can't be bothered to read their work so I'm just going to assume they've only been saying the one thing I happen to know them for." Even the original paper was documenting a RANGE of issues.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The good thing about 2026 is that it's clear that the white supremacists are at the helm. You don't have to argue with Chait et al. You never did. You don't have to read their work because they do not have the range. You can't learn anything.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

thinking about Shakespeare's sonnets about immortality and realizing how weird it is that the AI cult believes in the idea of preserving human consciousnesses while actively destroying the only technology we currently have to do that: Art

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 02/10/2026

“I’m relieved that the courts came to the sensible and correct conclusion as to what these statutes are intended to prohibit, and that the state of Alaska followed that to the only just resolution of these cases,” says an Alaska public defender.

boltsmag.org

After a Yearslong Nightmare, Relief for American Samoans Punished for Voting - Bolts

Alaska officials for years accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting, but finally dropped those charges this month.

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Interrelated point: ai has been everywhere in visual art world for four years now. Just: around. Being looked at. For a whole high school/undergrad stretch. You know how my art low key looks like Masters of the Universe? Guess what was around while I was learning?

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Leigh, as in eek! 🦇 @revafisheye.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

Always maintain plausible deniability ☠️

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the definition of cruel and unusual punishment. The state of Tennessee botched an execution and tried to hide the gory consequences as witnesses twice watched a woman survival the supposedly “lethal” injection. The death penalty is a crime against humanity.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/09/2026

I'm absolutely fascinated by "journalism" that can't seem to tell readers an obvious truth. Like the fact this is absolutely meaningless bullshit designed to pre-empt real oversight

reuters.com

Trump releases AI accord with tech executives

President Donald Trump released a document on Tuesday that his administration cast as an accord on artificial intelligence and which he said earlier was signed by ‌him and tech executives that he met...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/09/2026

there's just a parade of these stories helping the President pretend he's erecting useful guardrails for AI none of them think it's important to mention Trump has taken a brutal hatchet to U.S. corporate oversight and consumer protection regulators

axios.com

Trump's AI "constitution" crowns day of accelerating ambition

The terms were simple: Press ahead, project optimism and police yourselves.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(Setting aside the fact that next-token prediction will remain a completely ridiculous way to do arthimetic: inefficient and unreliable, where we've had mini-solar-cell powered calculators for literal decades.) >>

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

Seems bad, I dunno.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There seems to be a coordinated talking point among the EA folks that the "standard" approach to "AI" on "the Left" is "AI is just stochastic parrots so no need to worry about it". (Sorry for all the scare quotes, but y'know) >>

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 24/09/2026

Ken Griffin: gives enough money to put his name on a Lincoln Center building as a flex, but throws a shitfit about paying a pied-a-tierre tax on his penthouse which is a *second home* The mayor:

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

DO IT THE MET IS A TREASURE OF THIS CITY You can go in your sweatpants! Everybody does! Nobody cares!! Aging UWS-ers seriously treat the balcony levels like their own living rooms and it's one of the most charming things to me about going.

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Leigh, as in eek! 🦇 @revafisheye.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026

Melancholy haiku of the day: withered chrysanthemum— my indignation cooling with every day — Hagiwara Sakutarō, 1886–1942 #HaikuOTD

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 23/09/2026

The Vote Blue No Matter Who people really do sound like Nazis, substituting "trans people" for "Jews". Trans people are somehow both a tiny minority who can be sacrificed to suffering and death without making any difference, AND ALSO so powerful they always determine who gets elected or not.

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Leigh, as in eek! 🦇 @revafisheye.myatproto.social · 23/09/2026

Horror haiku of the day: This moth saw brightness In a woman's chamber — Burnt to a crisp. — Kobayashi Issa, 1763–1827 #HaikuOTD

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/09/2026

Incredibly important message from the heroes protesting NYU Langone's denial of health care to trans youth: "WAKE UP, WAKE UP, THIS IS YOUR FIGHT TOO "WHEN THEY'RE DONE WITH US, THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU"

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026

They even made DoorDash apologize.

DoorDash on Instagram: We messed up.
Our mistakes meant some NYC Dashers were underpaid or paid late. That's unacceptable, and we're deeply sorry to the Dashers we let down.
We've reached a settlement with the City of New York, and we will make this right by paying every impacted Dasher the amounts they are owed.

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Leigh, as in eek! 🦇 @revafisheye.myatproto.social · 21/09/2026

Aaaah, it's so pretty I can barely look at it!

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Leigh, as in eek! 🦇 @revafisheye.myatproto.social · 21/09/2026

My zip is one of the toniest in Brooklyn (don't worry, I'm a filthy renter), and my building is on the lead pipe inventory. Until there is an enforcement mechanism in place, we'll always have brain-melting water.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

like all great cities New York is vibrant and alive and made important precisely because people come to it from everywhere! cities without an ever-flowing wave of new people become moribund and stale

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reviving this thread on why the gentry — liberal and conservative — *really* hate trans communities and trans organizing. I think this explains a lot about why more Dem candidates are going openly anti-trans even though it hurts their electoral chances. They regard us as a threat.

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Leigh, as in eek! 🦇 @revafisheye.myatproto.social · 21/09/2026

My spouse and I saw “America, Who Hurt You” over the weekend a Theater for a New Audience. I was skeptical of a solo performance, but I was instantly charmed by the characters Sarah Jones creates. The show is an honest and moving family portrait that syncs with this moment ❤️‍🔥

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 20/09/2026

this is so spectacular.

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

you cannot defeat fascism by ceding anyone’s bodily autonomy.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

MLK said in TWO PLACES that the ultimate logic of racism and segregation was the genocide of the segregated. I feel like folks intentionally forgot this extremely basic fact for the sake of political expediency.

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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 19/09/2026

Grateful for the Black woman on Instagram that flew to Thailand to check on our Princess Moo Deng. She posted it on YouTube: youtu.be/aOEBBfAQFvE?...

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What Happened To Moo Deng The Hippo? Where is she now? Let’s Go Visit Her In Thailand

YouTube video by Zoe Joy Black

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Alt: Pope Leo, eyes krinkling at the corners, lips turned up slightly and FIRMLY pressed together. Every joke we're making about the green orb has occurred to this man simultaneously and he can't make NONE OF EM.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On one hand, AI might cause nuclear annihilation in the dumbest way possible. But on the other hand, it is semi-almost-useful at making lists. Gotta take the bad with the good!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

but again, genuinely hilarious (derogatory) for a guy whose father was a klansman to say "the presence of nazis in the republican party is because black people wouldn't shut up." oh, is that why nazis immediately began organizing in the wake of donald trump's 2016 victory too?

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

arstechnica.com

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/09/2026

the tech industry and their media stooges have done an expert job misleading the public and distracting them from the real threats posed by generative AI. it’s not going to destroy humanity, but it’s sure causing a lot of social and environmental harm right now.

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the kat from HOUSE (1977) @dogunderwater.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

niche subtweet but the kennedy center is actually really cool and had a lot of programs to make it more affordable to attend AND used to have free concerts every day that they also have online with smaller artists and it makes me sad seeing people blow it off ):

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 18/09/2026

When trans people say they’re worried democrats will trade support for us for absolutely nothing and that’s why it’s worrying when politicians don’t stand up to right wing slant about our rights it’s because some (not all) democrats keep doing this!!!

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