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Logan’s Run reboot, but once you hit $1 billion it’s time for Carousel.

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The real solution to "music sucks now" is the same solution to most AI problems: universal basic income, housing, and healthcare, and free education for all who want it. Musicians need to eat and live and be healthy to do what they love, and we need them to be.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 4h

The funny part is every generation goes through the "music sucks now" moment, but only this generation thinks this is a problem to be solved with AI and not just a phase we all go through while culture evolves beyond us.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

Wrote about how Trump’s tantrums over the Supreme Court reveal the not so hidden subtext of what Republicans expect from the justices. Also a mention of how Supreme Court politics resemble the Calciopoli scandal. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

As is nearly always the case with the president’s accusations, this was an illuminating projection. Trump fears that public pressure on the Supreme Court can sway the justices and how they rule. So when they don’t side with him, he assumes that’s what happened, and he trashes the Court in the hope that it will side with him the next time. He views criticism of the Supreme Court much as he views laws in general: When Trump or one of his allies wants to do something, such as use taxpayer dollars for cultish campaign ads, it’s legal. When his opponents want to do something, it’s illegal

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 11h

Most TV is just this now.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 17h

The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

swearing aside, the strategy of just making the right stand by the things they say to each other seems pretty good. that was the secret sauce behind the "weird" messaging way back when (that they abandoned for whatever reason)

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

There is obviously a whole body of scholarship pointing in this direction so forgive me for saying something so obvious but the media needs to treat tech executives like the leaders of hostile governments because that is exactly what they are

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

KBJ is this close 🤏🏾 to referring to Chief Justice John Roberts as Chief Justice Save-A-Ho ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...

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At a public appearance in March 2026, Jackson attributed the spike to a corresponding “uptick” in “the court’s willingness to get involved.” Indeed, the Court has granted more than 70 percent of the administration’s requests. In her speech on Thursday, Jackson talked about what those grants look like in practice. She specifically highlighted the Court’s shadow docket orders allowing Trump to slash the Department of Education’s workforce, cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in government grants, and, as she put it, authorize “roving ICE patrols to conduct race-based searches and seizures of Latino residents in Los Angeles.”

With these grim examples, Jackson illustrated how transforming the emergency docket into a “special avenue that certain privileged litigants can use selectively” puts people in danger, and compromises both the functioning of the judiciary and the Court’s credibility with the public. And in Friday’s dissent, she similarly rejected the idea that the government is injured and requires emergency response services from the Supreme Court “whenever it is prevented from violating the law.”

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 26/09/2026

can't a guy walk down the street anymore without being harassed by artificial intelligence

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 27/09/2026

In hindsight we’re gonna realize these were the opening ads of the Trump 2028 campaign, and also the clearest sign yet that the Constitution is no longer in effect, because no one can or will do anything about this.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 27/09/2026

more trains? NO better roads? NO affordable housing? NO better public transportation? NO more solar+wind infrastructure? NO ^ these things that would provably make people’s lives better are expensive and would take too long data centers? NO PROBLEM, HOW MANY DO YOU WANT?

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Every three weeks it’s like but white supremacists who mostly care about testosterone and killing minorities were supposed to fix the economy

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Looking at social media now is like playing a cd/rom videogame designed by Paul Verhoeven and I am over it

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can your Teddy Ruxpin feel love? He at least behaves as if he does.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 25/09/2026

Trumpism can clearly be understood as the resegregation of the U.S. That’s what “make America great again” has always meant. (“When was America great?” “Oh…you know.”)

nytimes.com

Justice Department Scraps Dozens of School Desegregation Cases (Gift Article)

Critics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department officials said the decrees were outdated.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

how i walk out of a job interview after leaving my empty iced coffee on your desk

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compelling things i have ever seen

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

that 18 percent seems really well represented in the news and on social media bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oligarchs. The word for very rich businesspeople directly connected to the top of the government and playing a role in high-level government functions is “oligarchs.” Way beyond lobbying, donating, and advisory councils. Trump brought them on his trip to China too. America has oligarchs now.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 24/09/2026

Reading and social media How platforms strip all nuance from the debate make it hard to discuss audiobooks, print, and ebooks online See the full video, "Why is social media so humourless?" that talks about the effects of context collapse in social media at youtu.be/dcz8YzRNo5M

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

this is basic product liability. if a company was selling Rat Poison Ice Cream they would be made to stop pretty quickly

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 24/09/2026

Reading these reviews is like watching John Henry race the steam drill, except the steam drill in this case is just another regular hammer that John Henry also has to operate. www.todayintabs.com/p/meta-s-new...

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Meta's New A.I. Agent For Losers

Also: "fast as hell and built for sickos?" That's what they called me in high school.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/09/2026

over at the newsletter I wrote about the comically shitty media coverage of the AI doompocalypse

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Lazy Journalism At The 'End Of The World'

U.S. corporate media long ago gave up on accurately describing abject reality.

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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026

impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Humoring conservatives & acting like they make good points over the last 30 years brought us here. You never have to listen to them for the rest of our lives. It's time to treat career arsonists with the contempt they've earned instead of imagining a fake world where they're reasonable interlocutors

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/09/2026

meta muses aren't sentient, which means you can ethically hunt, roast, and eat them

screenshot of an ad for meta muse that shows the little mascot with weight lifting gear. text says "Meet Muse, your adaptive training coach"

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Scott Orchard @scottorchard.com · 23/09/2026

I had to look into this and I guess I skipped over the “ain’t I a stinker” newsletter when it arrived. I guess when you have no morals, the blood money feels satisfying. I did laugh at people jumping into their mentions to defend themselves, smells like victory.

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Jim Ray @jimray.net · 23/09/2026

Design Twitter decamping to Threads now arguing about one of their own creating a logo for Meta's AI like it's 2012 is a perfect encapsulation of the rot of that industry and also why Threads (and Instagram) are the worst networks because they force you to perform the most obvious self-deception.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Scoop: Meta's Muse AI can make phone calls. Internally, Meta has told employees that many of these calls will be made by human beings in a call center: www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

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404 Media @404media.co · 22/09/2026

NEW: A high profile hacking group claims it has breached multiple FBI-related services and stolen data “on all FBI employees and applicants.” A representative of the hacking group told 404 Media the data includes FBI agents’ names, home addresses, phone number, and information on their spouse.

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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees

A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So much of what we’re living through right now, from Trump to AI, feels like it’s driven by an explicit strategy of “we just do the crimes so quickly that we can’t be stopped and by the time the courts weigh in, they have no choice but to accept our crimes.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...

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It's the accountability, stupid.

Doing crime

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Democrats are well positioned to inherit power thanks to disgust with Trump, but ultimately none of this is about what Dems did in response to Trump. They mostly capitulated and are benefiting from being the other party in a two party system, I don’t have any positive expectations for them.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We’re now at the “finding out” portion of the equation, and I’d be almost excited, except that a lot of good people lost their jobs over this bullshit, more than a few people died using this shit, and there won't be any consequences for the assholes who crammed it down everyone’s throats.

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"Slop Grenades": Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He's Wrought

Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke is getting a first-hand look at the AI-workplace revolution, and it isn't a pretty sight.

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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I made multiplayer Windows 98 Solitaire. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. You can play together, with the whole internet, but you can't chat or talk. solitairealonetogether.com

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