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Political violence is a serious issue. But it’s not a “both sides” issue. The leaders of the Democratic Party do not call for violence, do not elevate violent supporters, do not pardon violent thugs who attack our seat of government and our elections. America is under threat from the right.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It is WILD to me that a generation after all the adults told us that watching TV would rot our brains, we turned around and invented a tech that actually will. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/10/2026

"Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given...individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do." @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

I’m ready to be a CEO. I promise to take on debt, fire anyone who seems better than me at anything, and insist you’re going to love my product that kills you

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh THAT’S why we used to vaccinate people against horrible diseases!

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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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Bumblejack @bumblejack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One cop accidentally recorded himself talking to a 17yo he stalked using flock/databases trying to show her a dead body to impress her and hitting on her. The other used flock/databases 381+ times to look up a woman he wanted to date who is 20+yrs younger than him. www.youtube.com/live/IkLoy1x...

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LIVE: 2 Pinellas County deputies arrested

YouTube video by FOX 13 Tampa Bay

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

imagine seeing a scene like this and thinking "yes, this is good" just speaking personally here it makes me incandescent with rage

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Emo Philips @emophilips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I never signed a release

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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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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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We used to be a proper planet, one that rewarded its top scholars in style.

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Macklemore has put out an incredible statement about being removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour. His removal was engineered by Trump’s bestie Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots and Foxborough stadium who rallied other owners to silence Macklemore for speaking out about Palestine.

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Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The former publisher of Stars and Stripes pointed to an article about the USS Abraham Lincoln and coverage of the evacuation from Bahrain as examples of reporting he believes displeased military officials.

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Former Stars and Stripes publisher says critical coverage was ‘underlying cause’ of staff firings

The Pentagon fired three Stars and Stripes staffers for alleged insubordination, but the outlet’s former publisher believes the real reason was based on reporting.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“im not interested in your childrens genitals” is just such an easy thing to say

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Sid Acker @siddharma.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

... but would you be interested in a $2,700 phone? That's what it will cost in the UK and here. Hard to say no now, huh?

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Sid Acker @siddharma.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Don't forget the time Crass released their master stems and asked people to send in remixes, then released it. 🤘 This was one of the best: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivu4...

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Do They Owe Us A Living (Kooky's 'Punks Love Beats' Remix For Yoh)

YouTube video by Crass Agenda - Topic

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I dunno it kind of seems that if Wendy’s genuinely said that they thought there was at least a 10% chance that their square hamburgers would end all human life we’d probably go hey you’ve got to stop selling those square burgers

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Sid Acker @siddharma.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This ... this is the country Crass cover I never knew I needed.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

pretty sure my 9-year-old son has a better grasp on the game tbh

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Why are young men so lonely? They're not showering and they're drinking their own urine, so I'm not sure what else they could do to attract women."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Kids: Ask your grandparents about the menace of the communicable diseases we had nearly eradicated and why we shouldn't bring them back.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/08/2026

Man this is right here. Even everything it's compared to (smartphones, calculator, printing press) found its use through immediate, organic adoption. GenAI is way more like SUVs, single-use plastics: it had to be pushed, marketed and forced into unavoidability by companies

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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Maybe I'm in the minority here but if people who support AI are being shamed into silence then it's working. The shame is working as intended. The left's biggest problem is that it's afraid to hurt the feelings of folks who need to have their feelings hurt. Let them experience introspection for once

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Was talking about the stalker glasses with a friend a few weeks ago and he works part time in a wine bar where one of his colleagues was harassed by a guy wearing Meta glasses who then posted it online, disparaging her.

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 09/08/2026

i love paying $600/mo to my health insurance company for the right to pay the first $3500 of my health care expenses every year.

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Sid Acker @siddharma.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"Zuck refuses to understand that the majority of his users are on his platform because they love their friends more than they hate him." Amazing thread:

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/08/2026

Outkast’s Ms Jackson just came on at the gym and I will never in my life be able to hear that song without thinking about this comic

I’m sorry Ms Jackson parody comic where instead of “I am for real” it is “I am four eels”

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

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We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

hey remember when we could eat uncooked vegetables

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I don’t have the energy to describe how corrosive this will be to a democratic society

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/07/2026

Police in Hong Kong arrested five booksellers over alleged “seditious” material, as Beijing imposes increasingly strict control over the once-autonomous territory in successive free speech crackdowns.

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Police round up Hong Kong booksellers as China widens crackdown

After pro-democracy protests roiled the city in 2019, Beijing cracked down on freedom of speech, and restrictions have continued to tighten.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 11/09/2025

Steinbeck, East of Eden

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I’m sorry the number of what

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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 02/07/2026

"Day 139, orbit 2155 — 🤩 Watching this glowing green ribbon shimmer and dance, it's easy to lose yourself completely in the magic of the moment. Turn the sound on for the full experience 💚", says @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot. #εpsilon 🎥 ESA/NASA

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Ryan W. Mead @rwmead.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The Agents of Young Performers Association has issued an open letter to Hasbro condemning them for forcing child actors on “Peppa Pig” to sign over the rights to their voice for reconstruction and use in generative AI to continue working on the show: deadline.com/2026/06/pepp...

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'Peppa Pig' Backlash As Hasbro Asks Child Actors To Sign AI Clause

'Peppa Pig' owner Hasbro has stoked anger by requiring child actors on the animated series to sign over their voices to artificial intelligence.

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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

hey look it's the iwo jima photo but embarrassing

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

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Mannie T'Chawi … (the “T” is silent) @mannietchawi.com · 19/06/2026

“The writer’s role is to be a menacer of the public’s conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.” - Rod Serling www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

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An Early Run-In With Censors Led Rod Serling to 'The Twilight Zone'

His failed attempts to bring the Emmett Till tragedy to television forced him to get creative

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/06/2026

Before "agentic AI," we had the idea that software was your agent on the internet. That's why the technical term for a browser is a "user agent." Your browser acts on your behalf to retrieve and show it you information, in the format you choose. It's your agent: pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/t... 1/

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