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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 3h

Members Of Congress must push for his humane and lawful treatment under detention. Watson, by the way, is a Republican, who, by his own admissions knows little about politics. This isn’t partisanship. It’s what moral courage looks like […]

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 8h

So, to me, the people talking about why they need to go back to X, even if I understand their reasoning, come across as scabs. And I have no respect for scabs crossing the picket line. Have some self respect and stand for something.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 8h

You can't build a better internet if no one participates. And, so the people loudly announcing they're going back to X, strike me the same way that scabs crossing the picket line do: the rest of us our out here holding the line to create a better world. And you're just deciding "fuck it, too hard."

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14h

A thing conservatives used to understand is that “virtue signalling” is in fact an essential social function. It CAN be frivolous & self-indulgent, but you do actually need people to conspicuously perform adherence to good social norms.

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SamUpstate (he/him) @samupstate.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13h

I was browsing sport coats from Jos A Bank last night, and now today they're all $50 more. I can't tell it it's some kind of surveillance pricing, or if it's some holiday weekend sale that ended.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15h

Also, kinda think that in times like this, signalling "virtue" should, in fact, be seen as a good thing, as opposed to those who are proactively signalling corruption, bigotry, hatred, and nihilism.

Criticism of continued journalistic use of Twitter gets dismissed as "virtue signaling," but I really don't think it's a huge ask for folks employed in the factual information business to lead by example and maintain some fleeting semblance of integrity and ethical self awareness in the authoritarian era.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Really unpopular things: -data centers -overt bigotry -CSAM -billionaires trying to buy elections -Hitler salutes -stealing people’s personal data -South African Apartheid -causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of children Fighting against Elon Musk is a political winner

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rickf - a cynical professor @rickf.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Interesting how the media keeps referring to the AI companies as "labs" as in "a model escaped the lab.." or "research at the labs shows that..." 'Lab' implies a place where experimentation and 'accidents' understandably might happen. Y'know, like Ebola or Covid. A 'company', on the other hand […]

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

It's pretty telling when universities crack down on peaceful Palestine protests and do nothing about rape.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you long for a machine to live your life so you don't have to maybe you should forget about AI and make some changes.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Genocide and large-scale human rights infringements unfold at the end of a chain intellectual judgments and political interventions. The act must first become conceivable. Conceivable must be made reasonable. Reasonable must be coded as justifiable. Justifiable is then made lawful. Not […]

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SamUpstate (he/him) @samupstate.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

It looks like they have an actual human being working as the DJ for the bar seating area. He's doing a great job. None of it is music I would ever have chosen to listen to on other contexts, but it works really well here, and he's transitioning seamlessly from one song to the next, which is […]

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SamUpstate (he/him) @samupstate.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I'm now at my favorite part of my work trip*: a martini at The Irish Exit in Penn Station on my way home. I love the energy, and the fact that since everyone is traveling, there's a constant churn of new people. Plus, the bartenders have been invariably […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A martini in a glass with a twist of lemon on a bar. Various bottles and cups and paraphernalia are visible out of focus in the background.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

If you’re like “ouch, your off-hand cursive is better than my dominant-hand cursive”and you wish that weren’t true: you can just start grinding your handwriting skill, at any age. No one can stop you (A bad pen that’s painful to use might stop you. Look for wider barrels and smooth flowing tips)

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

-- and this is off the top of my head, one of you might have something on this -- how much of the MAHA garbage has some coded antisemitism at the root. Obviously there's the faked autism study, but also some "we don't trust those fancy elites" "those urban doctors sure seem sneaky and suspicious" +

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And once again, "not real Christians," crowd, my dead pogrommed ancestors and everyone who participated in the Crusades, the Inquisition, pointed at the Bible to justify the slave trade and colonialism, for starters, have some questions about why you get to decide world history for the rest of us

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

It’s funny to think that a taco truck outside your office, if it takes in revenue greater than its costs—you know: profit?—has more profit than OpenAI and Anthropic combined.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Who could have imagined that the exact same sort of trumped up anti-science attacks on gender affirming care could be used against doctors and parents for vaccinating kids? Oh right, me.

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SamUpstate (he/him) @samupstate.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

The morning sun lights up the new Tappan Zee Bridge, as seen from #Amtrak Yes, I know that's not the official name of the bridge, but I refuse to use the name given by our nepo-baby disgraced ex-governor. #HudsonRiver #TappanZeeBridge

A bridge over grayish blue water. Its white concrete pillars are lit up by the morning sun. Blue sky is behind with a few small fuzzy clouds.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thank you once again Politico for providing a canonical example of when not to grant anonymity.

"Looks like a pussy move to send a text instead of actually saying it to someone's face. Shows what kind of character he is," a senior White House official told Playbook's Megan Messerly.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

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SamUpstate (he/him) @samupstate.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

We try to leave windows open whenever we can, especially at night. I can tell it's finally fall here—our living room was 52°F (~11°C) when I woke up this morning. #UpstateNY

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SamUpstate (he/him) @samupstate.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

My rest and relaxation for this afternoon (while the pizza dough is rising). It's a gorgeous early autumn afternoon in upstate New York. I'm just starting the book today. I'm not Jewish, but it was recommended by a rabbi on Bluesky in response to a theological […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A small table outdoors with a martini glass and a book. It's surrounded by green grass, a weathered wooden Adirondack chair behind it.

The book is Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity by Abraham Joshua Heschel.

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SamUpstate (he/him) @samupstate.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@belehaa 💔 I have no other words really. Just know your words aren't disappearing into an empty void.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The more you use their apps, the more they expect everyone to use their apps. The more you use their website, the more friction it causes for them when they try to get everyone onto the app .

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Economically, kids cost so much money and are so much work. The majority of that work benefits society, not the parents. The emotional rewards all exist outside of capitalism, and parallel the emotional rewards of other pro-social behaviors, like mutual aid, that capitalism can't quantify (and […]

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Consider: My trans journalism was well within the mainstream consensus 10 years ago. I covered niche science and medical questions, sometimes a bit of culture or workplace stuff. The politics came for me. I stayed with my community and the truth rather than moving with the crowd.

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SamUpstate (he/him) @samupstate.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

It's very difficult getting people to care about privacy when the consequences of not caring are so scattered. But the user experience is considerably better than a group text (in most ways).

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SamUpstate (he/him) @samupstate.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@eff/11736107196588… I've been trying to get family and friends on Signal for a decade or so, with varying degrees of success. It's the primary means of communication for my family's "group texts," which is something. Getting more friends over there has been […]

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SamUpstate (he/him) @samupstate.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Both my younger kids are at an after school activity this afternoon. My teenagers are elsewhere (less common than you'd think), and while I usually welcome the peace of an empty house, it's hitting me in an unexpected way today. I think it's because the weather is gorgeous, and I don't hear any […]

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I feel like I just live in a continuous AI nonsense headache. Bill Gates recently called AI the most dangerous thing humans have ever gone near. He said this on planet Earth in the year of our Lord 2026. It's been a year of fires, floods, famine, really endless disaster. He said this against a […]

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Owlor 🦋 @owlor.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Whenever I say that I think kink should be part of the queer umbrella, I'm likely to get at least someone who's like "but you can't seriously think straight kinksters are queer?" and like, if you show up to a job interview wearing a collar, you're still gonna get rejected by a man wearing a […]

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Is it elitism if I want adults to read at adult levels? That's what MAGA likes to say on behalf of "Joe six pack." But that kind of "pseudo-populism" shouldn't fool anyone. Advocates for education (and higher education) are not elitists. They want ordinary people to be fully equipped for […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/11… 100%. The whole "terrorists can use an LLM to build a bomb" is a dumb movie plot threat. If you want to hurt people, lack of knowledge is not your problem. And nobody needs to develop a new chemical to do terrorism. All you need is […]

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026

Beshear really has been a light in the darkness on trans issues. He's not perfect, but he's been remarkably consistent on telling other Dems that they need to continue standing up for us. It makes me wonder if he has a trans person in his life.

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@evacide/1173503736136… Trying to seperate people into the groups "deserves to be exploited by big tech" and "does not deserve to be exploited by big tech" will not in fact prevent anyone in the latter group from being exploited by big tech

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I'm getting strong Obama-style "we must go forwards not backwards" around this, and we can see how that worked out at the federal level.

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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Wow, LinkedIn's algorithm really doesn't want people to read @sarahgilbert's article about keeping the Internet human in the era of AI Out of the 10,200 impressions the feed gave my posts last week, it only gave 65 to Sarah's *important* article in @techpolicypress As Sarah writes, "If AI […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

“In order to be useful, my AI robots need unlimited capabilities, and have to be equipped to murder people.” What? Huh? That’s just silly. Maybe find another line of work.

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

People keep saying "If we do a wealth tax, rich people will leave the country" And I'm like "Naybe, if we get lucky. But let's try it first and see how we go." #NZPol #TaxTheSuperRich

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SamUpstate (he/him) @samupstate.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

RE: journa.host/@samlitzinger/117340676… I don't really follow baseball, but this would move me from apathy to enmity. I would start looking at baseball fans the way I do Harry Potter fans for people who drive Teslas. At this point, it's just plain evil.

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Fun fact: the U.S. Constitution does not require citizenship to vote. I'll repeat that: the U.S. Constitution does not say that only citizens can vote. It does not ban non-citizens from voting. A federal *statute* contains this requirement, as do many states' laws. But if the law was changed […]

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SamUpstate (he/him) @samupstate.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Not as much rise as I'd hoped, but it still tastes good. #Baking #Bread

Two loaves of bread on a wire cooling rack. They have dusted flour tops but are relatively flat loaves.

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