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I posted a joke the other day about how my kid wanted a Mickey song that didn't exist, and a bunch of people were like "just AI to make it." I understand needing to please a toddler, but man--that's just not how I want him to think about music at all. It's not a vending machine.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sometimes I need the table and the chair for my own use. Too fucking bad.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Running out of hard drive space & just looked up the price of external hard drives right now & the same one I got several years ago is double the price it was when it got it so yeah man I’m pretty fuckin’ far from OK

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

These people cannot be trusted to vote in their best interests. Ever. They have failed at the most simple task and have driven this country to ruin. They are too stupid to be allowed to have a say in the future of the country. Convince a non-voter to vote. There are LOTS of those.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Best part of this muddled article by one of Bloomberg's money guys is that two of the charts make a compelling case that knee-jerk opposition to AI is wholly justified because technological progress doesn't increase productivity, it just enables greater income extraction by capital. Oops!

Productivity Growth Has Been Stuck Below Its Postwar Pace for 50 Years

Workers’ Slice Shrinks, Profits’ Slice Grows

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

that’s the weird little guys promise 🫡

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s extremely down to the wire here. If you know of a FOIA attorney in Idaho, please connect us. The Boise airport has told me they do not have any video of an ICE detainment that I know for a fact happened.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump has trashed the economy, destroyed America’s international standing, and suffered a humiliation at the hands of Iran. But a woman I’ve never heard of before sent her kid to the wrong school in a city I don’t live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why, despite everything that's happening, am I still hopeful about America? Here's what I told Michael Lewis.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

By the way @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social if you think this is OK behavior and that we should turn the page on this then you are the same as them. This needs to be punished in such a way that they don't feel comfortable just being outright Nazis to cheering audiences. If you can't lead, then quit

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Sarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Don’t even know what to do with this standard Cornell practice

Claire Ting, who graduated last year and served on student government, said she has long worried about the practice of fraternity brothers putting away the phones of inebriated women attending their parties.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

im confused how was propublica able to do journalism without having daily access to donald trump in the oval office where he calls everyone stupid

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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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liz @bookjanitor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

when i read these sorts of reports on the damage to civil service, i’m always torn between “i’m finishing my phd and charging right back in, more powerful and more irritating than you could ever imagine” and “maybe someday i will be able to think and talk about my time in government without crying”

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I thought this might spark some more interest: the provost of the most pro-AI Ivy alleged to have used AI to write his “don’t worry too much about AI” op ed for WaPo, academic work, & even his response to the student paper breaking the story. I teach here. This makes it much harder.

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"We have replaced the outdated 'cable TV' model with our new model: 'cable TV, but worse.'"

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of the reasons I'm so pedantic anthropomorphizing about AI "thinking" and acting independently is that when you do that, you end up with what Ezra Klein is saying in one part of his lengthy essay today on the technology.

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Opinion | This Is What I Fear Most About A.I.

Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Republicans know that too, but they also know this is something they can make Dems flinch and equivocate about, which makes them look overall weak and indecisive. They did it with immigration last cycle, they did it with gay marriage 20 years ago. The only way to win is to tell them to eat shit

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Being anti-government from the right must be so confusing. Of COURSE the state uses toxic vaccines to kill millions of people, even morons know that, but if you think it targets Black people, especially activists, you sadly have a mind virus

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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A few other real, dystopian things people are actually currently doing with flawed AI products: - powering mass surveillance - putting them in charge of screening your job applications - putting them in charge of approving your access to health care - involving them in parole decisions

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Democrats need to be clear that once the orange stain is out of the White House, and pardons his gang of criminals, they will share all the evidence of crimes that the FBI and Justice Department have with state prosecutors and people filing civil suits.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On day one of my administration I will put a ten-pound hammer and safety glasses in the hands of every American to tear down Trump's tacky shit.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My mom had polio when she was five. She was living on a US military base in Japan (1947). Four kids on the base died. She was the only survivor.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026

Could new bus shelter roofs help New Yorkers stay cool in extreme heat? We're testing a few in Brownsville to find out: a green roof covered with native plants, and reflective roofs covered with low-cost, heat-resilient film.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And there it is RFK Jr, arguably the world's most extreme & dangerous anti-science conspiracy theorist, will give the keynote for the anti-vaxx activist group he used to lead, who paid him $500k/year (!!) on top of all the $$$ he made from suing vaccine companies www.statnews.com/2026/09/14/r...

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Kennedy to deliver keynote for anti-vaccine group he once led

RFK Jr. worked to distance himself from Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group he once led. Now, he's delivering a keynote at CHD's conference.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes, this is what I think too, and likely the reason for the abrupt coordinated messaging

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

RFK Jr. has decided to change the way measles deaths are counted at the CDC. As @drdebhoury.bsky.social says in this article by @melodyschreiber.com: “The change doesn’t make any sense”. It only makes sense if you’re RFK Jr. and you desperately need to manipulate data to hide your malfeasance.

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Trump administration changes how it counts measles deaths amid Pennsylvania outbreak

CDC announces changes to how it reports measles deaths as Pennsylvania continues to confirm more cases

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei all tell us they have no idea what they are doing, we should believe them nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t... and stop giving them trillions of dollars for a dangerous clown show. If their AI does damage, they can pay and possibly go to jail.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"I am for the dignity and safety and equal rights of trans people everywhere. Fuck you. The end." "I do not believe you care about this issue. You are lying. In fact you're a straight up weirdo for fixating on kids' genitals so much. That is odd behavior. Let kids run around with their friends."

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I do not believe you care about this

You are lying

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“I still have a shit ton of Trump 2028 merch to move.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The best part of Roger Marshall's story is that this dumb hack spent the past two years going on TV to defend the most indefensible parts of the Trump agenda -- apparently believing he was invulnerable as a Kansas Republican -- and now you can see him actually starting to sweat.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"One more thing Miss Barlow... you were about 14 in 2001, and you grew up in the UK, so why did they dismiss your school at noon on 9/11, when the attacks would have happened around 2 pm your time? I just don't understand how the school knew the attacks would be happening later"

Columbo (Peter Falk) asking one more question

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Greg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

that’s not very right about now of you, funk soul brother

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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

me: should i chronicle history or document current events? funk soul brother: write about now

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/09/2026

Better Offline monologue: I run through the nonsensical, pro-AI lab scare campaign driven by a former researcher, how the media keeps falling for grifts, and how dangerous AI is already in the wrong hands - those of Anthropic and OpenAI. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

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Monologue: Jacob Coxon and the AI Safety Grift

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · September 11 · 16m

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Goblin Goblin @slartibartfast34.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Nothing remained of the colonists, no clues as to how they disappeared, besides this arrangement of letter blocks spelling out "Maggiore" nobody has ever determined what it meant

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Pretty extraordinary moment just now at the 9/11 Memorial. During the reading of the names, the nephew of Lisa Marie Terry used his personal statement to blame the "Deep State" for suppressing files that "implicate Saudi Arabia." He received audible applause.

"For 25 years the Deep State has hidden the truth about what happened that day 25 years ago. President Trump, you are our last hope. Release the unredacted files that implicate Saudi Arabia while what's left of the victim's families are still alive to see it."

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