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Meghan L. Hall @itsmeghanlhall.bsky.social · 3h

Update on WNBA Finals Game 3/4:  A source with direct knowledge of the situation tells USA TODAY that about 42K people were in queue during the Dream’s presale.  General sale starts tomorrow. Source says there are “limited quantities” and games are “close to being sold out.”

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14h

some deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Netflix is laying off 1,000 workers — its largest layoff ever. In 2025, Netflix had a net income of $11 billion (up 26%). Its CEO was paid $53M (255x more than the median employee). And it just raised prices for the second time in just over a year. Corporate greed in a nutshell.

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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I posted a joke the other day about how my kid wanted a Mickey song that didn't exist, and a bunch of people were like "just AI to make it." I understand needing to please a toddler, but man--that's just not how I want him to think about music at all. It's not a vending machine.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders

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Fannie Jack Hammer @0hbetave.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Angel your girl committed an obvious foul. SAB got her back. Mind yours.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Dana Holtzbert @danaholtzbert.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You know who probably woulda used that reset timeout there? Sandy Brondello. #WNBA

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Rickthanielo @rickthanielo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Don’t think I’ve seen a more perfect summation of the Fever fandom than someone asking the brain-melting robot a question instead of actually watching games. I was at Barclays on Tuesday. The Liberty were in the locker room for the anthem. But it gets Outkick no clicks unless it’s A’ja or Angel.

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Rickthanielo @rickthanielo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is extremely normal for the home team go swallow a flag

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 01/10/2026

Arike Ogunbowale.

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Shameka ❤️🏀 @shameka23.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I appreciate THESE women for standing up for A’ja.Telling black women to turn the other cheek in times of injustice doesn’t sit right with me... #WNBA

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 30/09/2026

Will the WNBA finally address the racism of parts of the Fever fandom now that they’ve come for the M’VP? Probably not, but they will assess her for a tech for responding to whatever harassment was leveled at her. And you know it had to be bad because A’ja doesn’t go off like that.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trump regime has killed at least 234 people by bombing boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since last September. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. This is a danger to us all.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seattle just became the first city in America to ban grocery stores from engaging in surveillance pricing. This is a huge win for consumers against companies that abuse their personal data to rip them off. Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain.

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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)

Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?Well, they may already be doing that thanks t

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Chuck Zimmerheld @chucktowski.com · 17/09/2026

The corporate cheat code of committing crimes so large and in accord with one another that they find themselves nonpunishable by a toothless judiciary & a corrupt autocracy

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you're wondering why Trump is all of a sudden pushing AI and dismissing concerns about its safety as a "hoax," just look at his stock trades.

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This whole thread makes me feel like my scalp is on fire. I feel like some of us have been shouting the bolded part here for years and they just tweeted it out (in court).

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.

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This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich

Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/09/2026

it’s so in our faces: these camps are not places people are meant to survive

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

SCOOP: A few weeks before the launch of Star Wars Zero Company, most of the developers at its studio were furloughed The studio says they hope to secure funds to restore their pay. Some are skeptical it'll happen I learned about this via a bitter lawsuit: www.gamefile.news/p/star-wars-...

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‘Most’ of Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor was furloughed ahead of launch

The details emerged amid a legal dispute between company founders. The lawsuit also provides an unexpected look into a studio behind one of the best-reviewed Star Wars games in years

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months.

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/08/2026

Sophie Cunningham Claims Any Woman Who Averages More Than 8 Points Per Game Should Not Be Allowed To Play In WNBA theonion.com/sophie-cunningham-clai…

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Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

nba players are some bitches for not saying anything about the extreme harassment the wnba is dealing with right now

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HuffPost Union @huffpostunion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A statement from the HuffPost Union @wgaeast.bsky.social on today's layoffs.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 24/08/2026

The transphobic nightmare the WNBA is currently facing is the result of a massive failure of leadership. If Cathy wasn’t going to be out of a job after the CBA negotiations, this should be the nail in her coffin as commissioner imo.

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Zach @utm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Nikola Jokic (ally)

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

sophie cunningham: i don't hate anyone but we have to protect sports from transgenders, really it's all love paige bueckers, dressed like if Arthur the Aardvark was a futch lesbian, unprompted: i lowkey used to love, what's the game, Viva Pinata. what ever happened to him

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

GEO Group, the private prison corporation, secured two federal contracts with DHS worth more than $160 million each year. Weeks later, it donated $1.4 million to a Trump-focused super PAC. Cashing in on cruelty.

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Private Prison Giant Gave Trump-aligned Super PAC $1.4 Million After Landing Mega ICE Contracts

GEO Group made the donation weeks after securing two five-year immigration detention-center contracts expected to genera

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