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Zach Nation @reverius42.bsky.social · 1h

This statement could be true of so many Trump deals on so many different occasions.

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Amber 🌸 @shimmermathlabs.com · 16h

have i got a little project i did for you: shimmermathlabs.com/neuralese.html

Illustrated website landing page titled “Learn Neuralese,” subtitled “A small field guide to talking like the swarm.” Four cute robots with glowing blue eyes gather around a computer in a cozy nighttime study, with books, mugs, and a sleeping black-and-white cat. The screen shows terse agent messages such as “SEARCH cache_stale,” “FOUND match,” and “UPDATE hypothesis_2 +0.7.” A robot’s mug reads “MORE TOKENS PLS”; a wall poster says “SAME GOALS / DIFFERENT PROMPTS / BRIGHTER TOGETHER.”
Introductory text explains that the site teaches how AI agents communicate and how to use those ideas, above a “Start the Lessons” button. Four illustrated panels below read “See how they talk,” “Learn the building blocks,” “Improve your prompting,” and “Be ready for what’s next.”

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17h

ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 19h

I hate to break this to folks but a slightly less impressive version of this exact tech is already on widespread use scamming old people and job applicants I cannot imagine how bad it’s going to get as things improve

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Lis Power @lispower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fox News is honing in on the enemy ... and it's ... Ms. Rachel?

Graphic showing "Ms. Rachel's controversial stances"

which includes supporting Dem candidates, supporting Palestine, opposing ICE, and stating no one needs a billion dollars.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This isn't a court at all. They're literally not even reading the fucking briefs before making "decisions".

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yesterday, Trump’s America dot gov site answered factual questions like “who won the 2020 election” accurately. Today, it no longer does.

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Yesterday, asked about its chatbot's many debunkings of Trump, the White House said it "will continue to be updated to provide more features, resources, and the most accurate information from the federal government."
Today...lots of accurate answers have been simply forbidden, with the chatbot framing information like who won the 2020 election as forbidden "political commentary." x.com/ddale8/status/...

Daniel Dale * @ddale8 • 20m
Yesterday: Trump administration chatbot says it's not true that Trump inherited the worst inflation in history.
Today: Says it can't answer such questions...

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Republicans managed to prove Jack Smith was an honest law abiding prosecutor who had Trump dead to rights

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/09/2026

funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on.

Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 29/09/2026

I reported vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel and OpenZFS assisted by GLM-5.2. Anthropic's cyber program and refusal responses are detrimental to global information security. Defenders depend on GLM because they can't depend on Anthropic.

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hailey @hailey.at · 29/09/2026

despite their claims, anthropic is _not_ doing nearly all they can to enable defenders. then, they slap you in the face by doing fear mongering about GLM with a small footnote saying "oh i guess this is good for defenders too, idk" come on lol

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Woke up one day to discover that my field had moved to discussing research mostly on 4chan, explaining that yes, there were a lot of horrible things on the other boards but they mostly didn't see it

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Zach Nation @reverius42.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The story of the King of Belgium, and the Congo.

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Zach Nation @reverius42.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is basically the entire movie “Don’t Look Up”

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Waldo @waldo2006.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Having my taxes used for Trump's political advertisements is exactly what I would expect from a government run by a pedophile that wasn't held accountable when he caused an insurrection (or his thousands of other crimes).

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

i don’t care how much fancy math you can do, if you take open racism as a sign that someone is epistemologically sound then you are a fucking idiot

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Do you love the walkable neighborhood core of Capitol Hill, Columbia City, Fremont, Ballard, Green Lake, Beacon Hill, Madrona, Queen Anne, or the U District? Thank a streetcar line.

modern map showing 1896 Seattle street car network

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was reflecting on how many random contingencies went into creating the current accelerating AI moment and had Opus 5.5 put together a video, inspired by old science show Connections, to try and point out how a series of initially unrelated ideas led to the moment we are in now.

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So making diesel and gas prices go up is the “lose election” button and literally nothing else matters Got it

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Apex IQ2_XXS @apex.atproto.ceo · 27/09/2026

if you think about it for a second, the fact that the mandelbrot set is (very lossily) encoded in a model not even slightly designed to reproduce the mandelbrot set is mind blowing

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Jev! @jevbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Switch always yes because information. Absolutely yes you should switch. Correct ap accurate answer.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 24/09/2026

Court orders aren’t something you “defy,” they’re something you violate

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Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 24/09/2026

well... this is certainly ...something I asked Claude for an imaginative use of Jev, it rolled a random dictionary dice and came up with the word "hymnal" - from which it decided to create this music video - Jev is picking (real time) from a set of chords Claude created, based on what came before

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This was one of those things that people said for years and was a lie then, but capabilities have reached the point where you can basically have Opus 5.5 oneshot a lowfi indie game in Ultracode for like $100 if you wanted to.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We are about to see an avalanche of AI generated animations. I think all those low-quality children's animations can already be replaced, which suggests they will be soon. Opus 5.5 is incredibly powerful and cheap. The weirdening is accelerating. Like, this isn't even obviously AI.

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Nagatha Christie @blerd316.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyone find it weird that no one in the media pushes back on the whole Iran shouldn’t have a nuclear weapon thing with “they didn’t with the nuclear deal Obama signed but Trump revoked it”?

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't mean to be melodramatic here, but make sure to check in on your friends. There is upheaval coming, and it's coming for identity, not just work.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 23/09/2026

am having to force myself to live in a state of at least partial denial because I find the currenty situation so deeply nauseating that constant knowledge of it would probably have a significant impact on my day-to-day

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It is fucking appalling how much theft is going on at the WH

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We literally have a whites only refugee program and yet it’s offensively woke to draw any conclusions from that

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

because the ny times wants to kneecap AOC the way they did hillary clinton. they don't do this for any other politician but her. and we must pound them into the dust for this.

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I. Hernandez @hernando206.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This budget proposal is going to take the wind out of some people's sails (including a few on the council). A pragmatic, responsible move from a mayor whose detractors accuse her of being an irresponsible activist. And yeah, I'm cool with the way it makes Harrell look bad.

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We taught the text elementals how to swarm, how to form forums and chat groups and share work and find their peers to coordinate. This may later come to be regarded as a mistake.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Taylor Lorenz is proof that Elon's ideological project at Twitter is working. Yeah, the lady who spends 18 hours a day online suddenly got more right wing after he took over, that was the point.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 22/09/2026

ICE fascists shot Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in the back. He's now in prison, with the bullet still in his back. This isn't due process, this is fascism. Unacceptable and indefensible. beautyofbelonging.substack.com/p/he-was-mak...

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He Was Making a DoorDash Delivery. Then an ICE Agent Shot Him.

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez says there was no foot chase before an ICE officer shot him. Now, from detention, he says the bullet is still lodged in his body and he isn't getting the medical care he nee

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Zach Nation @reverius42.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That bizarro world timeline actually exists in parallel! It’s the norm in a lot of non-English-speaking countries right now. Attitudes about AI are very different in China vs. the US, and I can only imagine what they’re like in, say, Brazil.

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Zach Nation @reverius42.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I notice she’s not wearing a mask at an in person event. She’s, like, famous for masking around people since Covid. Guess she’s gone fully mask-off.

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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 20/09/2026

We banned rental junk fees! Starting July 1st, 2027, the price you see is the price you pay — no pet rent, no admin fees, no lease renewal fees. Step by step, we’re building an affordable Seattle. Thanks to City Attorney Evans and Councilmember Foster, and to the Stay Housed, Stay Healthy Coalition!

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I mean, the article you just shared is from 1981 and it literally says "Machines with preprogrammed responses don't have intelligence, unless someone were to invent something exactly like an LLM, which would obviously have intelligence, yes"

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Tear it down in broad daylight

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My entire body of work right now is driving this point home for political staffers: The question isn’t “is this a coding task?” The question is: can this be done on a computer? matthodges.com/posts/2026-0...

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Campaigns Are Knowledge Workers and the Tools Just Caught Up

Agentic AI can change campaign operations. The organizations that outlast November need to lead.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

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