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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Tesla renames 'Full Self-Driving' to 'Assisted Driving' in Europe as it chases clearance for software" — Reuters In other words, admitting what it can and can't do. www.reuters.com/business/aut...
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Tesla renames 'Full Self-Driving' to 'Assisted Driving' in Europe as it chases clearance for software
EV-maker Tesla has started calling ​its "Full Self-Driving" feature "Tesla Assisted Driving" on its European websites, dropping a name ‌regulators have said was misleading, as CEO Elon Musk pushes for...
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
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AstroArxiv @astroarxiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Systematic non-compliance of satellite megaconstellations with IAU brightness limits. Jack Rayworth et. al. arxiv.org/abs/2610.10834
{Survey data and sky coverage.{The Luciole camera system.{Solar phase angle against visual magnitude for observed tracks.{Brightness of the observed satellite population as a function of orbital altitude.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Rocky G @rockygrober.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
An important piece... share.newsbreak.com/jrooes0q
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‘A Republic, if you can keep it’: We served presidents from both parties and have never been so concerned about election security - NewsBreak
In the year of America's 250-year history, we are facing the most serious threat to our system of "we the people" government since 1860.
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blair @blairaf.com · 30/09/2026
"You may not deadname superintelligence but you should deadname trans people" is now 100% real US policy
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 25/09/2026
note that when dealing with computers, "actions we did not intend" is a very different thing from "actions we did not instruct it to do"
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Fun fact"
Since Roe v Wade was overturned, more women have been prosecuted for miscarriages than men for being in the Epstein files.
Over 22 to O.
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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 09/09/2026
@anthropic.com Wait. That's the plan? Build AI that can fix the underlying semiotic instability in itself? Sweet gluten free baby goldfish Jesus Christ that is so powerfully stupid!
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Godspeed You! BOOsky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
ChatGPT, define 'logical fallacy'
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ray Kump 
@RayKump
X.com
We have to build Al that murders us, because if we don't, China will build it first, and I don't want to get murdered by a computer that speaks Chinese.
That would be ridiculous.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026
the 'post-truth' era has grown stupider and more dangerous
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/08/2026
Good morning! The OMB Proposal still hasn't been revoked by Congress. Let's stop the rule before it ends science in America as we know it: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/rev...
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Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is stupid and destructive, and they're even doing it to old, rare books of very limited availability.
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Seconded. Also, if you can give blood, especially if you're O+, need is dire right now.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 03/08/2026
INBOX: @freedom.press has already documented more arrests or detainments of journalists in the United States in the first seven months of this year — 41 — than all of 2025, when they documented 35. pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incident...
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Incident Database
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is a database of press freedom incidents in the United States — everything from arrests of journalists and the seizure of their equipment to interrogations at the U.S. b...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The court’s action was in response to a petition by an animal rights group concerned about the welfare of the crocodiles. It was not based on concern for the welfare of Palestinian prisoners. (Yes, really.)
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I'm not going to mince words: the major AI labs are negligent in protecting the public from their agents. We need government regulation now or at the very least a private cause of action with guaranteed punitive damages for agents damaging others. www.anthropic.com/news/investi...
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Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environmen...
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Rocky G @rockygrober.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Okay folks, we gotta get this trending.... Trump can only win against women.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Happy UK paperback release day to our book! www.penguin.co.uk/books/468070... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social
Image of cover of the UK paperback edition of The AI Con. The background is a blue gradient, with the title in black and white letter press font: THE AI CON How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want. Author names Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna. Blurb quotes: 'You need to read this book' -Brian Eno, 'A powerful antidote to the hype' -Grace Blakeley, 'Truly eye-opening ... indispensable' -Ha-Joon Chang, 'A book to inoculate your mind' -Yanis Varoufakis
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/07/2026
X (it's not Twitter any more and hasn't been in years) is the red state diner of the internet: the place lazy journalists go to get a sense of what they think "real" americans believe based on a ridiculously reductive and wrong definition of what it is to be a real american.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Stefano Maffulli @maffulli.net · 05/07/2026
Defenders of the European model argue that GDPR at least prevents our data from being weaponized or sold in the first place, reducing the daily friction of data misuse. www.maffulli.net/2026/07/01/the-gra… #gdpr #policy #privacy
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The grand illusion of European privacy: GDPR fails the citizens
EU data privacy laws claim to shield citizens, but a recent Trenitalia breach proves otherwise: victims get empty apologies while states collect the fines. In the US, class actions and free credit monitoring offer real remedy. GDPR is just a distraction.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
For more on how to talk about tech sold as "AI" in more precise terms: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
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How to talk about
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This photo is of Betty Simmons, who was more than 100 yrs old when she was interviewed in 1937 in Beaumont, TX. She was married during slave times, and widowed, but was very happy that freedom came when it did because her enslavers were preparing to put her 3-yr old child to work in the fields.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I don't want to hear "how are we going to pay for it" ever again in response to a politician proposing actually helping people
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is accurate & not hyperbole from @jfallows.bsky.social With support from USAID, the DRC had built an outbreak preparedness & response system “ready to go,” e.g., surveillance, labs, health workers, & stockpiles of personal protective equipment When Musk killed USAID, that system collapsed 😢
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Rocky G @rockygrober.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Only a bollard is brave enough to stop a burning runway car. WE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN. #WorldBollardAssociation 🇮🇳
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/06/2026
NEW on “Paper Trail”: Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It also cost nearly $1,000 per pill, even though that same pill cost just 25 cents to make. Listen to this episode wherever you get your podcasts:
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How a 25-Cent Cancer Pill Became a Hundred-Billion-Dollar Business
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Edmund Schweppe @edschweppe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Wonderful tale. Bear *starts* with a "murderer's row of librarians" and lifts off from there ...
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It's not isolated to one particular plant. It's shown up in the flagship Fremont factory, in Sparks, Nevada, and in Austin, Texas. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Tesla’s Toxic Culture Has Spread to Its New Plant in Austin
Allegations of sexual harassment, racial discrimination, and dangerous conditions are now surfacing at another Tesla factory.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
They just need a rusting aluminum shed for the meth lab and the transformation will be complete.
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OpenStack @openstack.org · 29/05/2026
Heading to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India next month? 🇮🇳 Come visit the OpenStack and StarlingX booth! We'll be set up right across from the project pavilion. Stop by to talk open source cloud infrastructure, meet the community, and grab some swag!
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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It’s really frightening.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/05/2026
The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.
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Missing in Action: Women Service Members “Delisted” from Arlington National Cemetery Website
When visiting Arlington National Cemetery this Memorial Day you won’t find Purple Heart recipient Nicole Leanne Gee, U.S. Marine Corps (1998-2021) on it’s website despite being interred there and…
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/05/2026
A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Retraction Note: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis
Jin Wang & Wenxiang Fan 
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 13, Article number: 528 (2026) Cite this article

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Retraction Note to: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04787-y, published online 06 May 2025

The Editor has decided to retract this paper owing to concerns regarding discrepancies in the meta-analysis. These issues ultimately undermine the confidence the Editor can place in the validity of the analysis and resulting conclusions. The authors have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
GPS satellites move at 1/100000 the speed of light, causing their clocks to tick slower by 7 microseconds per day, and orbit at a height that makes their clocks tick faster by 45 microseconds per day. Two relativistic effects, both at the 1 part in 10 billion level, both essential for GPS accuracy 🧪
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 24/04/2026
Happy 36th anniversary, Hubble! 🎊 This is Hubble's gift for you: the Trifid Nebula 🎁, sometimes referred to as the Cosmic Sea Lemon. 🔭 🧪
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Enormously looking forward to this event on April 21 at 6:30pm ET (online!) with the amazing @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social talking about their new book, The AI Con. Register here: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The AI Con (with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Prof. Emily M. Bender and Dr. Alex Hanna will discuss their new book, The AI Con.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
the time has come to send elon to the strait of hormuz
elon musk wielding a sword at joe rogan's studio. there's an american flag an a cow skull behind him.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/04/2026
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
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UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers
A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
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Joe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Heads up GitHub users. You have less than a month left to opt out of "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training". "On April 24 we'll start using GitHub Copilot interaction data for AI model training unless you opt out." github.com/settings/cop...
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Phone at the Airport theintercept.com/2026/03/25/i...
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How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Phone at the Airport
If you’re traveling through an airport, follow these digital security practices to keep CBP or ICE from getting into your phone.
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This is precisely how a government sets up the framework to install a backdoor, create a firewall, and switch off the internet when it's convenient for them.
The FCC has banned all new foreign-made routers unless they get an exemption from the Pentagon or DHS
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