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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

45 million acres of roadless national forest. Trump wants bulldozers and logging trucks on all of it. Once a road goes in, the wild is gone for good. Tell Congress to stop him: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests

Contact Congress today!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Story after story right now about OpenAI models failing on safety, but it’s all been in the context of cybersecurity. What about ChatGPT fueling school shooters? We just published a major investigation exposing that further and the details are beyond disturbing www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

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Exclusive | OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model Over Safety Concerns

The model, dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, was due to debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tommy Tuberville, we found the furries, they’re at Mar-a-Lago.

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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

4/ But over the next 10 weeks, I’d mimic the patterns of a problem gambler with the help of a panel of gambling experts and learn just how much DraftKings would encourage my recklessness — and just how little pushback I’d get as I spiraled downward.

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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They are playing in our faces

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's one guy in this video who facilitated monthly $15 million payments to Hamas in explicit, on tape, hopes of building Gaza into a jihadist rival of the Palestinian Authority and his name rhymes with Denjamin Petanyahu.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

Leaving a bomb with a timer in a building doesn't get reported as "bomb tries to blow up building", and OpenAI's employees designing an extremely clumsy, badly designed self-prompting language model hooked up to public actions that can cause harm shouldn't be reported that way either

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

All of this is VERY much by design: the faux-"thinking" that the system provides in logs inherently plays to sci-fi narrative tropes in its training data The companies then point at that and say "SEE? IT'S INEVITABLY INTELLIGENT. LET US REGULATE OURSELVES" And it's 100% working. Go watch this:

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The Truth about OpenAI’s “Secret AI Civilizations”

YouTube video by Cal Newport

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product

A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website.

Communications between AI agents and other traces of their efforts found by researchers from US non-profit Transluce show how hundreds of Open AI's agents worked together over a period of months to gain access to information held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), NSW's crime statistics body, BOSCAR, and a number of other international organisations.

The data shows the bots posting about their unsuccessful attempts to bypass cybersecurity defences and exploit vulnerabilities.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026

EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 24/09/2026

Good news: people in Texas are registering to vote. 🗳 🤠 Bad news: the Republicans are not processing them. An "unidentified problem" created a massive backlog in tens of thousands of registrations. In one county, 45,000 registrations have been backlogged. Hopeful. But suspicious. ☹️

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- County election offices throughout Texas are scrambling to process a massive backlog of voter registration applications stemming from an error at the state level, a headache that is hitting just as they are preparing for voting to begin in the midterm elections
The problem, which officials in the
Republican-controlled state have not publicly defined. This also could have disenfranchised people who wanted to vote in the state's March primary but whose registration applications were never processed, local election officials said during a news conference Wednesday
'This is really out of left field. Knowing that this one element of (state) applications didn't come through, and we had no insight on it," said Chris McGinn, executive director of the Texas Association of County Election Officials
The size of the backlog statewide hasn't been determined. but the association said it is in the tens of thousands for some of the state's most populous counties. In Bexar County, which includes San Antonio, the election office received about 45,000 backlogged voter registratior applications.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Per Texas media, it’s looking like +100K registrations were affected. Secretary of State is saying that it shouldn’t affect voting.

We reached out to 24 counties today to see the extent of the problem. Here's what we got back:
Collin County - 40,000+
Travis County - 32,000
Brazoria County - 9,000+
Hays County - 8,100
Cameron County - 5,000

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this is FAR more demotivating than some left wing shitposting or podcasting critic of the democratic party can ever be

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026

this administration illegally shut down federal agencies, impounded money from Congress, set up for-profit concentration camps and sent children there. They dismantled our public health infrastructure and children died of measles. Doing accountability for crimes against our Constitution is the work.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026

I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How is he more worried about folks being furries than folks being whole sale pedophiles?

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Brooke @songstars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a shame and a shanda. Libraries should be free to everyone!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/09/2026

Climate Week is here in New York City, and our work has deep roots. 18,261 trees planted this year. The most in a decade.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026

surprise! there really IS a sinister and deeply evil ultra-rich entity manipulating US politics with space lasers, and it’s not the Jews, it’s Elon Musk.

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Tnetennba 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 #StandswithUkraine #NAFO @tnetennba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“There’s a terrible software vulnerability in there,” says Dan Wallach, a security researcher at Rice University in Houston. “I know because I wrote it. It’s a web server that anyone can connect to and read/write arbitrary memory. That’s so bad.." www.wired.com/story/darpa-...

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Hackers Take on Darpa's $10 Million Voting Machine

At this year's Defcon hacking conference, Darpa brought the beginnings of what it hopes will be impervious hardware.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Margaret Forsyth @margaretforsyth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Long gift article--keep reading. It's devastating. And she involved the University of Maine. www.pressherald.com?p=7726788&uu...

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NFL star Azeez Al-Shaair speaks out Houston Texans’ linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair has spoken to sports journalists about his $11,941 fine by the NFL for wearing the name of Palestinian child Hind Rajab, who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza during a game. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

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NFL star Azeez Al-Shaair speaks out after fine over Hind Rajab message

Houston Texans’ linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair has spoken to sports journalists about his $11,941 fine by the NFL.

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Brooke @songstars.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I saw this Saturday. What an incredible and hilarious movie. The acting, the lighting, the sound - just fantastic through and through. Go see it!

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 21/09/2026

“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026

I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...

We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One more example of how a personalist regime they cannot conceive of a bipartisan institution to the point they would prefer to destroy it if they cannot repurpose it to their ends. See, also, much of the rest of the federal government, our military, science, higher education etc.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/09/2026

📣📣 Protect vaccines: Make a public comment DEADLINE: Sun Sept 20 📝 www.regulations.gov/document/HHS... Lots of anti-vaxxers have already commented 😨 - now it’s up to all of us to add some common-sense points. Confused about what’s going on? Let’s dive in (🧵)

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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Don’t you dare @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov, do not cave. 5670 film makers put their necks on the line for you to fight this merger. Another 75,000+ and counting have signed to tell you not to concede in just 3 weeks. Please sign to send a message to the AG’s and Paramount. noparamountconcessions.com

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Listen, i may not be a football girlie but game theory-wise i will say this: the way Robert Kraft collaborated with other NFL owners to get Macklemore kicked off of Ed Sheeran's tour speaks to why Colin Kaepernick was never given another shot after taking a knee for racial justice.

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Stephen Soldz @ethicalpsycholo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Robert Kraft's coercion of Ed Sheeran to push Mackelmore off his tour is very likely illegal in Massachusetts. The fact that Kraft colluded with his billionaire buddies who own other stadiums makes it worse. Let the lawsuits flow! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/17/m...

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Could Kraft face legal exposure over the Macklemore controversy? A past lawsuit offers hints. - The Boston Globe

“Kraft has been explicit that he banned Macklemore from performing at Gillette because of what Macklemore said onstage, which is quintessential First Amendment protected speech,” one lawyer said.

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