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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"?
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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IU Madrid 🔻🇵🇸 @iumadrid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🏘️La vivienda no puede seguir siendo un negocio para fondos buitre y grandes propietarios. No queremos más anuncios. Queremos un parque de vivienda pública, expropiar viviendas a grandes tenedores y buitres y topar los precios de los alquileres. ✊ Mañana, a la calle. 📱 @carolcordero.bsky.social
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
Good morning @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the pay packet is worth it. 💰 Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇
A throwback to Tom Watson’s days as the MP fighting back against Facebook after the Nerve team published the Cambridge Analytica investigation at the Observer 
(Tom’s standing, with investigative reporter Carole Cadwalladr on right and whistleblower Chris Wyler 2nd from left)🏁
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Scott Ferguson @videotroph.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
But by all means, keep cutting humanities programs, since clearly no one is interested.
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‘The Odyssey’ Becomes Universal’s Highest-Grossing Film of All Time
Christopher Nolan's epic "The Odyssey" is now the top-grossing film in the history of Universal Pictures.
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Gerardo Tecé @gerardotece.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Un saludo a los trabajadores argentinos que votaron a Milei. Viva la Libertad, Carajo(tes)
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026
It’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch! Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism. They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work. Buy the book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Screenshot of email: Your YouTube Account will be disabled in 7 days
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Arron Banks is smack bang in middle of latest Farage scandal, threatening & surveillance journalists & the absence of reporting on his previous form in this area is…well, what? Answers on a postcard, please. It’s not me who’s being gaslit here. It’s anyone with eyes.
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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 03/08/2026
"I just don't want my tax dollars going toward something I'm never going to use." Cool. I'm never going to use a surface to surface unmanned drone to bomb a school, but I can't stop my taxes from paying for that.
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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Here we go, if anyone is wondering why the UK is in a never ending financial crisis and nothing ever gets better, here's the reason why. No government since 2010 has done anything other than austerity. It's like permanent groundhog day at the Treasury. #MMT
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
somewhere in D.C. a room full of consultants are staring at the words "genocide = unpopular???" like it's the Monolith from 2001
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 22/07/2026
Politico's owner is giving Peter Thiel an award. Semafor just added more tech billionaires to its Silicon Valley suck-up advisory board. Now comes the Economist's "Insider" interview with Elon Musk, sponsored by Anthropic. The sorry state of business/tech journalism in one stunning image.
screenshot of Economist "Insider" newsletter, an interview with Elon Musk...sponsored by Anthropic
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is an appalling lack of judgement and the surest sign yet that Britain will continue to be Trump's lackey. The war in Iran has cost countless lives, and breached international law - yet we continue to support it. Very, very concerning. Very, very continuity Starmer.
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 21/07/2026
We once looked at pictures. Now, pictures are looking back at us. Renowned artist and author Trevor Paglen joins me on a new Team Human – premiering at 8 PM ET on YouTube. Join us here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPu8...
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How AI and Computer Vision Are Changing Reality (w/ Trevor Paglen)
YouTube video by Douglas Rushkoff
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I was asked yesterday what neoliberalism is. This is the answer:
An infographic on neoliberalism
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Anti Neoliberalism @antineoliberalism.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
How the Dem party sold it’s soul youtu.be/nULNAe-WccU?...
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How Democrats Embraced Neoliberalism | Robert Kuttner | TMR
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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Fonsi Loaiza @fonsiloaizap.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Quiero dar las gracias a las y los profesionales sanitarios de San Carlos y Puerta del Mar. A los que usan el terror y el odio fascista: no me vais a callar. Frente a la violencia ultraderechista, lo público nos salva la vida. Ni un paso atrás✊🏿
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026
Market theory goes like this: even the best of us can fall prey to selfishness and rationalization, so let's arrange society so people acting on their most selfish impulses end up producing benefit for all of us. That'll be easier and more reliable than convincing everyone to be more generous. 1/
A gigantic king, crowned and naked, sits on a lavishly curtained stage in a 19th century ballroom, before many ranked men and women dressed as gentry.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Politely asking my waiter if I can have a Caesar salad with no feces.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 09/07/2026
“At one stage I even flew to Australia to get him to answer my questions” Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on her loooong decade investigating Nigel Farage* *including first raising questions about George Cottrell in 2018 🤔
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Fonsi Loaiza @fonsiloaizap.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Leonard Cohen sobre el asesinato fascista a Federico García Lorca: "No entiendo cómo España no ha excavado con sus manos todo el campo de Granada para recuperar el cuerpo de su poeta. No entiendo una nación que todavía no haya dado un castigo histórico a sus asesinos".
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 24/06/2026
It's been a long time coming, but here is FINALLY The Story of Money's interview with @bhgreeley.bsky.social and the fascinating genesis story of the US dollar, which actually predates the US by a couple of centuries... www.ft.com/content/2350...
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The US dollar’s ‘immigrant’ origins
The story of the hapless count and the Bohemian silver mine that created the dollar.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026
"Third Way" liberal politics involves *saying* things that working people love, but *doing* things that sociopathic plutocrats love. It works ...right up until voters notice that you're not *doing* the things. That realisation breeds cynicism and fury and paves the way for fascist strongmen. 2/
A turn-of-the-century Main Street, USA. Over the horizon looms a giant Canadian flag, made out of circuitry. In the foreground is a pixelboard sign reading 'U.S. BORDER CLOSED.' In the foreground looms a giant lumberjack, about to swing his axe into the sign.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
People write often about how companies like Intuit lobby Congress bc their business model relies on the tax system being artificially bad. I feel like the less obvious problem is that the system being so painful and annoying is also stealth propaganda for the anti-tax, anti-social programs side
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Simon Lepp @simonlepp.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
@vladvexler.bsky.social @essentialsalts.bsky.social Have you two ever thought of doing a collab?
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Billy Saas and Rob Hawkes speak with Sheridan Kates, ecological economist, activist and, at present, Green Party candidate for Islington Council in North London in the May 2026 local election.
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Green Politics and Public Money with Sheridan Kates
Billy Saas and Rob Hawkes speak with Sheridan Kates, ecological economist, activist and, at present, Green Party candidate for Islington Council in North London in the May 2026 local election. In h…
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 24/04/2026
Alan Moore on Team Human. Coming this May. Subscribe on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts to be the first to see it. Premiere information coming soon. www.youtube.com/@douglasrush...
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Have I been wrong on the economy the whole time? youtu.be/TSs18iYE20w
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Have I been wrong on the economy the whole time?
YouTube video by Garys Economics
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 16/04/2026
In the new TMK, we do a deep dive into OpenAI’s new report “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age." Some of it is insidiously clever, much of it is a repackaged ideas, all of it is setting an agenda for quelling actually progressive demands against corporate AI power.
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453. Super “Intelligent” Industrial Policy
We do a deep dive into OpenAI’s new report “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First” and pick apart their extensive set of proposals for building an “Open Economy” and
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck
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HCR HQ @hcrhq.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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American Conversations: Timothy Snyder
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/02/2026
a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
this is what they said it would be like under socialism
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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
New Behind the Bastards 🚨 Finally, an episode about the life and times and possibly crimes of Border Patrol sin eater Greg Bovino. @iwriteok.bsky.social @jackob1.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
New Behind the Bastards 🚨

Finally, an episode about the life and times and possibly crimes of Border Patrol sin eater Greg Bovino.

@iwriteok.bsky.social ‪@jackob1.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/the-greg-bovino-episode-extravaganza-322439544
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The term “law enforcement” should not be used by media, except perhaps in quotations. It has sadly become an Orwellian term that is used to magically sanctify violence. Language matters. Be specific. Describe individuals with names and ranks. Say exactly what they did. Don’t repeat fascist hocum.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
NEW: this is how the US press would report on this if it was happening in a ‘shithole country’. It’s an execution. But it also reveals how weak Trump really is open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Death Squads Execute Second Dissident
Or what the US press would say if this was happening on the streets of a "shithole" country overseas
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Today on the podcast, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Quinn Slobodian on his latest book, “Hayek's Bastards." From Murray Rothbard to Javier Milei, Slobodian looks to "Hayek's bastards" to show the ties between neoliberalism and today's Far Right. @quinnslobodian.com web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2026...
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Hayek’s Bastards: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Quinn Slobodian
by Disha Karnad Jani  On this episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Quinn Slobodian about his latest book, Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right (Zone Bo...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
NEW: The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster. Peter Thiel is now the third wheel in the US-UK ‘special relationship’. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Vlad Vexler @vladvexler.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
A calm and philosophical reflection on the ICE killing in Minneapolis Epistemic disorientation: It was Hannah Arendt’s view, drawing on Heidegger’s critique of technological modernity, that totalitarianism mobilises drama and terror to de-centre a citizen’s sense of reality. 1/7
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