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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 15m

Nothing’s as good as the original, but this “Electric Dreams” cover isn’t half bad

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Together In Electric Dreams

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 20m

I’m still confused as to what an “American cookie” *is*, exactly (This is about Bake Off)

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6h

(This is also why I’m less hot on the “send the powerful people to prison where they’ll be miserable” wave; they’d definitely be more miserable than they would be free, but they’d still be rich and powerful.)

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h

*BIGGEST US GRID SUSPENDS PLAN FOR NEW DATA CENTER POWER AUCTION

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 6h

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula… 🦇 (if you feel like it)

A photo of Peter Thiel, technofascist extraordinaire. A vampire in the metaphorical sense (like how Marx referenced vampirism in Capital) and possibly the literal sense because of the rumors he has a blood boy (which tbf he denies)

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National Homelessness Law Center @homelesslaw.bsky.social · 7h

“When you’re living outside and you get moved, it can temporarily stop some progress towards housing because now maybe you don’t know where you’re going to sleep tonight, so your focus shifts back to figuring out how you’re going to meet your basic needs." buff.ly/NFLqQNT

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‘It doesn’t help us’: Homeless Wichitans on what is lost after a camp sweep

The city is required to keep certain property and provide a way for its retrieval. Yet over the course of over 900 encampment removals since January 2025, officials have only 10 instances of saving…

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

Some people are saying. bsky.app/profile/hype...

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 9h

“We don’t think enough people are talking about the potential volatility if AI growth slows. This is multiples on trillions of dollars of market value. The knock-on effects across the broader markets could be very meaningful.” www.ft.com/content/3344...

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KKR warns of growing credit market risks from AI borrowing spree

Investment firm wary of risks of ‘overexposure’ and ‘concentration’ and predicts broader volatility if there is a downturn in booming sector

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 9h

Born sinner/ the opposite of a winner

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11h

As seen on Bernie Sanders's FB page.

A group of tech leaders sit and stand around a table with name tags, titles, and their net worth highlighted, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Lisa Su, and others.

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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 9h

Amazon and Google are building hyper-scale data centers up water from St. Louis, and now the state's monopoly power company says it needs to build more gas power plants to meet demand www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 10h

😳 On 9/29/26, Argentina’s Supreme cleared the way for President Javier Milei’s administration to scrap historical restrictions on foreign land ownership, opening the door to the likes of Peter Thiel & Sam Altman who have shown great interest in the region … 1/ share.google/t7nTsPAkbpC8...

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Supreme Ct clears way for Milei to scrap limits on foreign land purchases

Opposition parties condemn the ruling, question its scope and warn that it leaves the door open to unrestricted foreign ownership of rural land.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14h

On the arithmetic side, we get boosters on bsky latching on to systems that can be made to do calculations to at least some degree of accuracy as examples of those systems "understanding" their input. >>

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 10h

It’s one of those “what’s even the point?” kind of days

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 10h

honestly lost so much respect for so much left media over the past few weeks seeing how eagerly they’ve jumped on sensationalist bullshit claims from tech industry cultists. not calling out the nation specifically; they’re basically all at it.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10h

Trump and the tech oligarch's new "AI accord" is a meaningless and toothless performance -- designed to pre-empt real oversight and propped up by a pathetic U.S. press:

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Trump's New 'AI Guardrails' Are Worthless Gibberish Propped Up By A Shitty Press

Tech and media giants are desperate to convince the electorate that meaningful corporate oversight isn't necessary.

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WIRED @wired.com · 16h

From outrage over Nolan Wells’ death to analysis of HBO Max’s “Lanterns,” Threads has transformed into a vital artery of the Black social media ecosystem. www.wired.com/story/thread...

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Black Twitter Is Thriving—on Threads

From outrage over Nolan Wells’ death to analysis of HBO Max’s “Lanterns,” Threads has transformed into a vital artery of the Black social media ecosystem.

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WIRED @wired.com · 14h

Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Checkpoints are suffocating Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank. Over 18 months, WIRED and our reporting partners investigated the full scope of the system that has carved the West Bank up. www.wired.com/story/how-is...

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How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank

Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.

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404 Media @404media.co · 12h

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 12h

Richard Hanania today: new evidence that Thomas Jefferson “had children” with Sally Hemmings proves he “wasn’t as racist as those who would’ve refused to have such a relationship.” Just outrageous levels of disgusting

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 14h

a document that is "morally binding" signed by an amoral pack of corporate mercenaries is the definition of not worth the paper it was printed on

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 23h

The nativist-tech coalition, 2025-2026

A group of people at Trump's second inauguration (1/20/25) including Mark Zuckerberg, RFK Jr., Lauren and Jeff Bezos, Kash Patel, Howard Lutnick, Pete Hegseth, Sundar Pichai, Doug Burgum, Elon Musk, and Pam Bondi

A group of tech leaders and admin officials seated at a table with Trump in the center (9/29/26), including Susie Wiles, Chamath Palihapitiya, Mark Zuckerberg, Howard Lutnick, Satya Nadella, Greg Brockman, Jensen Huang, Mike Johnson, Lisa Su, Elon Musk, David Sacks, and Sundar Pichai

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 23h

Heads up, Nick Shirley hanging around in Tucson earlier today.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”

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Dox for Me, O Muse

Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the appropriate way to convey this is that trump, musk, huang, amodei, zuck, altman, bezos & pichai agree to maintain a system of impunity for AI harms.

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Donald Trump says US tech bosses agreed to ‘self-regulation’ of AI risks

President says chief executives have signed a ‘morally binding’ accord following White House lunch

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Morally binding documents: famously unproblematic, universally respected

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Okay, I’ll bite: wtf is Zip (on LinkedIn)?

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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57...

image of 6 pentagrams around the text "A Short History of Nazi-Satanism - see link above"

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today’s kind of quality discourse you can’t get on Bluesky, only on Twitter: is Candace Owens bi and closeted?

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let me give you the actual solution to this problem. Universities and colleges have to hire football players as union employees (AFL-CIO, same as the NFL), with no requirement to attend school. They get health and retirement benefits, and are limited to a five year employment contract.

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He’s at it again. Not content with just defending Epstein, Tracey has taken it upon himself to defend the Cornell 7. Gross gross gross

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I will say, I also include bills that are pro-AI due to how connected AI leaders are to Trump and that AI has become the aesthetic of Trumpist fascism. I also include all Trump nominees due to them having a decided interest in advancing the goals of Trump.

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The ‘Fascinating Fascism’ of AI

The US government’s anniversary AI project tells us nothing about American history and everything about today’s America

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amazon is eager to open the single biggest climate wrecking facility in the country. billmckibben.substack.com/p/amazon-cri...

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Amazon Crime

And Other Tales of Billionaire Lying from the Data Center Wars

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.

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White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers

The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ll be the first to admit I’m no expert on the tax revenue/“community benefits” questions here, but I recommend @ainowinstitute.bsky.social’s Community Guide, which breaks down the industry players and their motivations:

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[PUBLIC] Community Guides to Data Center Industry Players

Community Guide to Data Center Industry Players: How to Use This Resource These community guides profile the main types of data center industry players and their tactics, summarizing key informatio...

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FYI this bill does nothing. It contains no new mandatory rules restricting data centers. It's just fakery to try to fool voters into forgetting that Republicans spent the entire term trying to stop states from regulating AI (as requested by the AI companies). www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Exclusive: Some Republicans push to prioritize Husted data center bill

Republican senators have discussed the idea but made no final decision.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There remains an active campaign to reply-harass Black people off this platform and it is not on us to solve this problem. It’s on y’all.

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