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LINux on MOBile @linmob.linuxmobile.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

And another git tag for mobile-config-firefox, this should definitely help #Debian based distributions like #BengalOS and #Mobian - finally support for ESR 153 :-) gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketO… #mobileConfigFirefox #nuraeco #LinuxMobile […]

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 06/10/2026

The Narcissist in Chief said in a recent speech on the ongoing war with Iran: "They can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay." Anyone else think he might have been saying out loud some discussion around plans the Project2[...]

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 06/10/2026

Yes please! If at all possible, that would be wonderful to have.

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 06/10/2026

The two things I miss in Fedi that some other social media sites have: translations & archiving. Lots of posts in some of the instances I am connected to are in languages I don't read, but it would be really nice to still be able to understand them. And it would be great to be able to download [...]

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

WTF? Don Jr is a partner of 1789 Capital (as is Peter Thiel ally Chris Buskirk), which backs Anduril, which received a government contract worth up to $20 billion earlier this year. 1/

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BREAKING: Donald Trump Jr's venture firm 1789 Capital grew from $200M to $3.5B AUM in one year
The firm bought stakes in Databricks, Ramp, Deel, Groq, Anduril, SpaceX, xAl, and Reflection Al
It is targeting $10B and positioning itself as the new Carlyle Group
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Anduril Joins List Of Key Army Suppliers, Wins $20
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/10/2026

"If there was ever a kid America’s immigration system was for, it was Pierre Damas Bel. America, to him, wasn’t just a safe haven from his broken homeland of Haiti. It was a place where he seemed destined to flourish."

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A Death. A Funeral. And the Trump Rally Down the Block.

On the day Springfield held a funeral for Pierre Damas Bel, the president held a rally 25 miles away. We went to both.

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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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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 05/10/2026

Is that 20million measuring created accounts, active users, or something else? I thought I saw that Fedi was around 1million that are actually active.

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 05/10/2026

I sadly have zero IRL friends on Wafrn, and only a few people I know IRL on the entire Fediverse, BUT the people I regularly "see" on Wafrn have nearly all been welcoming & interesting. And the Fediverse as a whole actually seems kind of big (approx 1 million is nothing to shrug at). Grateful f[...]

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 05/10/2026

The illusion of choice: I try to avoid Amazon for purchases when I can, so for online shoe purchases for stuff I can't find in my local brick&mortar places, I've been using Zappos. Only to find out today, that Zappos was bought up by Amazon all the way back in 2009. Oh well. I still like these [...]

Photo of dark blue suede Sperry Topsider shoes

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 02/10/2026

Super Boiro Band - Samba [Guinea, Afro-latin Funk] (1976), crazy wah-wah guitar, sexy organ sounds, slinky tight latin rhythm section. Incredible groove. redd.it/c1rohl youtu.be/PckyWCCyxJM

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Super Boiro Band - Samba [Guinea, Afro-latin Funk] (1976), crazy wah-wah guitar, sexy organ sounds, slinky tight latin rhythm section. Incredible groove.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026

ICE has expelled people from all over the world to Costa Rica every Thursday or Friday since April. Last week's flight was canceled due to the First Circuit's ruling in DVD vs. DHS. But with SCOTUS's outrageous stay on Tuesday, this week's third-country removal flight appears to be in progress.

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 01/10/2026

This is the only product that I purchase where the supposed purpose of tariffs beyond just another way for government to grab some of our earnings - that is, as an incentive for domestic manufacturing to sprout up in the face of foreign based competitors that have less overhead - has actually o[...]

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/09/2026

They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.

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Shikha Dalmia @shikhadalmia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1/ You should check out my sobering and compelling conversation with @radleybalko.bsky.social about ICE and why it must be abolished before its abusive tactics spread to the rest of American law enforcement at @theunpopulist.net . 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

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Abolish ICE Before Its Abusive Tactics Spread to Other Law Enforcement: A Conversation With Radley Balko

The agency has gone rogue and cannot be reformed

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What's a good way to visualize how the AI boom/bubble is propping up the economy? Ah, thanks.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/09/2026

Joined the Times Tech Report to talk about the $200bn+ NVIDIA GPUs sitting in warehouses, and how Oracle issuing a force majeure notice over expected delays to its data center project in New Mexico is a wrench in basically every AI data center debt deal. youtu.be/1CbvhJO8Nfo?...

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Hyperscalers are hiding a massive secret about uninstalled GPUs | Ed Zitron

YouTube video by The Tech Report

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New story from me begs a pretty big question - why does the world's largest issuer of stablecoins Tether still struggle to open basic bank accounts? Tether's CIO Zachary Lyons enlisted the help of a tiny Caribbean bank to approach Singapore's DBS for an account, but then the FBI stepped in...

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US seizes bank accounts of payments group linked to Tether

Prosecutors allege Capstone illegally moved hundreds of millions of dollars for the crypto companies at the direction of a Caribbean bank

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Spreadsheet enjoyer 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @bluser12.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can’t believe we’re still doing this

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.

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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

SEIU stands with Wilber, his family, and immigrant workers across this country who deserve to live and work with dignity and a path to citizenship.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/09/2026

Free newsletter: I estimate that ~50% of AI chip sales - $200bn to $300bn+ - are sitting in warehouses, with NVIDIA selling hundreds of billions of GPUs years in advance. Data centers take way longer to build than hyperscalers are leading us to believe. www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 21/09/2026

We are so fucking back. 🪶

A juvenile vermilion flycatcher in flight catching a little gnat, their beak is right around the gnat, the background is edited to increase contrast and help the bird pop more

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

This was a ROUGH shot, F40, 500ISO, 1/8th second shutter speed, about 10 minutes after sunset, on a monopod, even harder to edit, but I'm gonna stick with: We are so fucking back. 🪶

a vermilion flycatcher on a tree perched in front of the moon

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@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It continues to amaze me how hummingbirds can just fly in place! This Ruby-throated Hummingbird seemed to be sizing up its approach to the purple salvia in Central Park's Conservatory Garden. 🥰🥰🥰 #Hummingbirds #CentralPark #birdsseenin2026

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 21/09/2026

you are in central TX like me? If so, air quality hasn't been great of late, and could be causing irritation of your throat & vocal cords. But I'm only guessing - I've never heard of hormonal treatments effecting the voice like you say, but maybe that's what it is. I am not a medical doctor n[...]

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 21/09/2026

Thanks for being a pioneer at Subvert! Agreed that we need to support these kinds of efforts :)

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 21/09/2026

Are you sure that's not just due to all the Saharan dust that has been in the air recently?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you believe that gas and diesel prices are high in late September 2026 because of Biden and Zelenskyy, then you might be a Trump supporter. And a moron. Which is pretty much the same thing.

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 21/09/2026

Zoe - have you checked out some other coops like Mirlo, Ampwall, Bandwagon, & Jam.Coop? I keep a list of links to these at totalsonic.net/direct.html

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TSM - Direct from Artist Streaming

from totalsonic.net

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 21/09/2026

An ICE agent shot another person today, just 14 miles from my home - at 1:00pm on a Sunday in a busy area. Details are still coming out as to what happened, but from my understanding the man shot, Wilber Perez, was at time working doing DoorDash deliveries, and had come here two years ago from [...]

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 21/09/2026

What are some good open to the public Matrix instances that use the secure implementation? I'm not ready to self host a Matrix instance right now

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“So the bottom line is Trump doesn’t do the show anymore.” “Yeah.” That time Dave Letterman said Trump stopped doing the show unless he apologized for calling Trump “racist” — and Dave wouldn’t do it.

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 20/09/2026

I'm coming a little late to this, as I missed it when it first came to the theaters, but both myself & my kiddo loved loved loved "Project Hail Mary". A refreshing & rare story of a human & an amiable alien using their intelligence & cooperation to save the day, we both had real laughs & tear[...]

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 20/09/2026

Just a point of info, that in the case of NYC, a good bit of the funding towards fixing the deficit came from the State gov redirecting some revenues back to the City. But as far as fiscal managenent Mamdani certainly jas done better to date than Adams did.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The Ultimate “Christian Right” Hypocrisy: “Paul Pressler helped ordain the marriage between white evangelicals & the Republican Party, all while accusations of sexual abuse piled up. Right-wing groups are still using his political playbook.” By Robert Downen, May 2026…1/

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How an Alleged Child Predator Remade the Nation’s Second-Largest Faith Group in His Image

Paul Pressler helped ordain the marriage between white evangelicals and the GOP, all while accusations of sexual abuse piled up. Right-wing groups are still using his political playbook

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 18/09/2026

Behind all the "we can't let China beat us out in the race for AI" chatter from the tech-bros & mega-corporations is them trying to prep US taxpayers for ending up on the hook - for yet another bailout when the bubble inevitably pops on all of their poor business decisions. IF we do allow a b[...]

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 17/09/2026

New: Trump called crypto "thin air." Last year, he reported $1.4 billion in income from it. Buyers of his crypto? They're an estimated $4.7 billion underwater. I made an 8-bit game out of it— 📈 Play as Trump: you cannot lose money. 📉 Play as an investor: you cannot win.

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‘THIN AIR,’ REAL MONEY — The Trump Crypto Game

An 8-bit game about real money. Play as Trump: you only make money. Play as an investor: you only lose. Every figure is drawn from Public Citizen's report and the sources it cites.

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 17/09/2026

For 21 years I held the distinction of being the last mastering engineer in North America to cut music on a commercial basis using Direct Metal Mastering - but I am happy to say that this distinction has now ended, with not just one, but two studios now offering DMM to the general public - Ster[...]

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 17/09/2026

My unpopular take is that American taxpayers should never be on the hook to pay for lethal weapons that are given to other nations' governments. IF a US citizen wants to help fund the military of other nations, the way I think it should be handled is that all barriers should be ended that would[...]

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Jon Matthews @jonmatthews.com · 17/09/2026

I don't even know what we're doing anymore as a country.

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Steven Berson @sberson.at.app.wafrn.net · 16/09/2026

That is exactly how I ended up feeling too

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

WATCH: Republican Rep. Rep Thomas Massie moves to impeach Hegseth for "High Crimes & Misdemeanors"

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