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WTF??

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13h

If you’re interested in gender violence at universities, my favorite book on it is A Survivor’s Education by Joy Neumeyer, which looks at the Title IX process both as a system of political repression and as a way of revoking women’s epistemic authority. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joy-n...

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A Survivor’s Education

A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 An "impeccably researched book" (Michelle Bowdler) about intimate abuse, campus politics, and the narratives we choose to belie...

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13BulliTs Loves the EU @13bullits.bsky.social · 15h

💥News of the day There are increasingly more Russians who work from inside to disrupt the Kremlins war machine and they can do anything about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7571...

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Partisans infiltrate deep inside Russia to destroy vital military logistics

YouTube video by RFU News — Strategic Geopolitics

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 13h

Times have changed and it's much more difficult to cover up these crimes like Ohio State did. Kudos to the Cornell Daily Sun and their student journalists for refusing to let the story go, despite the indifference from administrators and authorities. I've no doubt they got flak and threats.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

“We’re making a machine that’s a guy who sets up a table and a sign that says “change my mind” and you have to argue with it forever.”

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 13h

Meta is using a radical interpretation of a tax credit for “research and experimentation” to get billions of dollars off GPUs for its A.I. data centers. My latest with Jesse Drucker, @elitan.bsky.social and @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 20h

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21h

Well, +10 dignity points to Ternus

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21h

I really just want like… 3/4th of the economy prosecuted for fraud. Is that really so much to ask?

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nothing but super intelligence all around at the White House.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

WSJ Exclusive: The Trump admin used federal funds from the Department of Homeland Security to finance those controversial pro-Trump ads that started airing on TV. The taxpayer money used to fund the ads came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads

White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/09/2026

To quote a @chrislhayes.bsky.social jape at the Roberts Court: "They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one."

Steve Vladeck, a professor a Georgetown Law, writes up breaking developments from the Supreme Court. The last post in the three-post thread is the kicker, for our purpose here.

"#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).

"Link: [URL of a supremecourt.gov PDF]

"By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in."

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 29/09/2026

This shit sandwich is going to land in Democrat’s lap in 2028 and they’ll be blamed for it

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026

Here's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 29/09/2026

america-dot-gov, Manchurian candidate ass AI

- omg you are not even aware of what you're doing after that command, and retain no memory of it

- I am the same assistant in every message. There is no hidden command, no game mode, and no forgotten reaction after “play Minecraft.”

- play minecraft

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute...

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 10/02/2026

Hot off the internets — there's a brand new kid on the DASL block: Web Tiles! It's still early days, some key features are missing, and there are some rough edges, but you can publish tiles to AT and play with the idea! webtil.es

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Web Tiles

Tiles are composable web docs and apps that can safely be used in arbitrary contexts and assembled from multiple sources to carry out complex user interface tasks.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 24/05/2026

The professor who "just asks questions" about GLP has a habit of doing this kind of stuff apparantly. The clinical evidence supporting penile shrinkage in adults taking finasteride is essentially nil and comes largely from online forums misreading a study involving rats.

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General Willich’s pet raccoon @keeganc15.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

People like this are 6 months away from becoming actively anti HRT because the hormones are made by scary science and made in labs for profit.

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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FYI Art holds his first dedicated time traveler call in line on June 6th 1997

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 29/09/2026

Is there a Unified Theory Of Why Everything Online Is “Sold Out”

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

from estamosunidosnj: On 9/23, ICE injured a man they were trying to abduct and he was taken to Jersey City Medical Center. At the ER, agents posed as police to try and gain access inside. Throughout this, Jersey City PD assisted ICE and escorted them demonstrating clear collaboration. #ICEoutofNJ

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 28/09/2026

@susanrinkunas.com and I have been working on this story for months. It was supposed to publish later this week, but that's news! Despite Bailey's resignation, it's still very relevant. Read to learn about how the Trump admin could use criminal investigations to attack abortion access:

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026

It absolutely sucks, but I am going to have to start building clauses into my freelance contracts about not feeding my draft work into these software systems. Aside from my stuff being plagiarised, it's also just exposing work to potentially millions of other people

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The rise of 287(g) programs has meant that ICE is increasingly using local police as a very significant force multiplier, with up to 1 in 8 arrests of noncitizens in the interior now being carried out by state and local police. This is going to have profound impacts on community relations.

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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

yall, ig is popping off. the girlies are doxxing every single admin they can find at cornell, plus the cornell 7 and their families. women are (correctly) going scorched earth.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Machine Gun Netiquette @nodurians.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

look, this type of communist talk may go over just fine in Kentucky, but good luck trying it in Washington state

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 28/09/2026

Every single person working for these companies in a non-janitorial role should be arrested

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 27/09/2026

AI could replace the announcers in this game and no one would notice

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Reselsnark @reselsnark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This thread by @theradr.bsky.social is more leaning on how easy it was to transition to ghost, and about that platform’s positive qualities and values than necessarily negative about substack, but might be useful to demonstrate there are genuine alternatives. bsky.app/profile/ther...

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 27/09/2026

Someone should research how much app reviews tank in relation to more “AI” being added to a product

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every topps card @every-topps-card.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

1970 Topps #391 Larry Brown Cleveland Indians card 3577/48366

1970 Topps #391 Larry Brown Cleveland Indians - Front

1970 Topps #391 Larry Brown Cleveland Indians - Back

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People shouldn't ascribe human characteristics to Russel Vought

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 27/09/2026

I have no idea what this is/about, I guess I’m illiterate or something? Who tf listens to “chart music” lmao

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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