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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

BREAKING WSJ: The Trump admin's investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe.

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Ilhan Omar Investigation Aims to Build Case for Stripping Her Citizenship

Authorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman’s family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork.

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Jesi🃏♠️🔥 @luciferjesit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 13/10/2026

Let's celebrate, today is Ada Lovelace Day! Known for creating the first machine algorithm for Babbage's Analytical Engine, Ada Lovelace is widely celebrated as the first programmer. Ada Lovelace at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #womeninstem

Watercolour portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, c. 1840, possibly by Alfred Edward Chalon.

Watercolor portrait of a young woman glancing over her shoulder, in a purple satin gown draped with black lace. Her hair is in side coils with a yellow flower, and she holds a gold fan in a white glove.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

School boards are way under the radar in a big year like this, but the same battles you've heard about (book bans, Moms for Liberty, trans kids) are happening this year too. I identified 19 school boards where there battles like this — and what's up: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 09/10/2026

the mage's guild banned necromancy for a reason...

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 07/10/2026

look, i'm not even going to dignify this AI slop with a link but can we just stop and acknowledge this is not "math"? no human mathematician would simultaneously publish hundreds of results like this. they'd identify a single concept that connects them and write a book that explains it effectively.

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 07/10/2026

that's a very big "if" when this has all the tell-tale signs of a Gish gallop

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 04/10/2026

it's #caturday! i'm totally allowed to repost this with a link to the blog post in question. suburbanlion.com/blog/2026/09...

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

…Because, the story goes, we need the votes of people who *don’t* want full trans rights. Because THEY have that purity test, and must be catered to. So trans people and the people who love them should just suck it up and watch their rights taken away. For some mythical voter’s (yep) purity test.

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 29/09/2026

so i'm working on a blogpost about my custom 2x PS Access controller setup and was looking through going camera roll for pictures. i couldn't help but share these adorable cameos. #fgc #cats represent!

a selfie of a gaming session interrupted by a furry protest. a large brown tabby asserts himself between the photographer and custom controller, while an orange tabby in the background contemplates how to further escalate the situation if they are not feed immediately.

an orange tabby stares down the camera after having taking full control over the photographer's streaming setup. a lone cat toy sits on the ground next to him, surrounded by a messy collection of electronic peripherals.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The point Allison Keats made in @powermapmag.com with fuller context:

Text from the article reading: "This reminds me of a critical mistake made in previous generations of socialists; the idea that before any political action happens, before it’s worth contesting power, the people need to be educated. Even now, I encounter people who claim it was a disqualifying error that Bernie Sanders spoke in terms of a 99% and 1% instead of workers and capitalists. DSA has built a socialist movement because we have never excluded people who wanted to build with us for having the wrong reasoning. In doing so, we’ve also recognized that political education is something that is best built in the practice of organizing; someone can come to an issue with the wrong framing and become aligned from our framing of the solutions. People come to DSA concerned about their cost of living, become exposed to the interconnectedness of all the issues we care about, and become socialists in the process."

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 25/09/2026

favorite bassist is trending, so if you're following me you deserve to listen to some Victor Wooten youtu.be/gfErjPvJrwQ?...

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 20/09/2026

must admit that i read this in Tim Curry's voice

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 20/09/2026

let's be clear here: "OpenAI committed a pretty major felony". the bullshit engine can't do crimes because it's not a person. there are real people responsible for this and they need to be held accountable.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is my preferred kind of racism: blatant and unmistakable.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Fuck SAKE. 17% more cases of rabies, 33% more people needing rabies vaccinations, 76% more needing immunoglobulins vs. July/August last year. AND multiple cases of rabies in animals where it’s “less commonly reported”.

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Nationwide Increase in Reported Human Rabies Exposures: Rabies Post-exposure Prophylaxis Administration

Nationwide Increase in Reported Human Rabies Exposures: Rabies Post-exposure Prophylaxis Administrat

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center.

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Screenshot showing two sequential posts on X by journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) discussing Texas politics:
* Top post: Text reads, "Paxton on Talarico: 'He wants to transition your kids!'" accompanied by an embedded video frame of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking at a podium in a dark suit and red tie.
* Bottom post: Text reads, "Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors," above a video thumbnail from Fox News Channel featuring a woman anchor in a red blazer, with lower-third banners reading "EXCLUSIVE," "SHIFTING THE REINS?", and "TALARICO STANCE DIFFERS FROM EARLIER COMMENTS."

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theHigherGeometer @highergeometer.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: mathstodon.xyz/@emilyriehl/11724024… So the machine wasn't even properly citing people whose work on the problem was recent and even the basis for the entire line of attack on the problem. Unlike @tristanbuckmaster 's statement: "Concretely, what Levent and I did was to […]

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 09/09/2026

teddy ruxpin taught me that putting scotch tape over the gaps on the edge of a cassette allowed me to record over it with.... actually i should just stop talking there.

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 09/09/2026

it's so frustrating to see people believe that brute forcing a proof in Lean does anything to further advance "math". anyone that's ever "mathed" knows that a brute force search should be your last resort. the whole point of math is to communicate to each other when there's a simpler solution.

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 09/09/2026

Mathematicians of the world, let us finally unite to provide our unpaid labor in a global effort to swiftly validate these results from OpenAI! /jk lol fuck these guys and their bullshit generator

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 05/12/2024

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI

No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis)

Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%)

Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis)

New mothers extend their maternity leaves

Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition

Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve

Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%)

Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%)

Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%)

Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people)

Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%)

Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables

Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%)

Savings go up, debts go down

Source: scottsantens

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It matters because of the narrative spun round the mathematical results. But some folks are so deep in that narrative I think they can't even see it. Thankfully, mathematicians (not all, but many) aren't: bsky.app/profile/emil...

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026

Guys, this is Bernie Sanders' guy for all things AI. Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute, funded to the tune of $665m by crypto billionaires, that's of course, after all the Muskrat + friends' money. Their "seed funding" was from Musk. 🧵 www.politico.com/news/2024/03...

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The little-known AI group that got $660 million

Powered by a massive cash infusion from a cryptocurrency mogul, the Future of Life Institute is building a network to fixate governments on the AI apocalypse.

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 03/09/2026

i think we're both ultimately on the same page; we just want people to be honest about both "what algorithm" and "what data" is being used. kind of how scientific journals used to be when it was still "hey we trained a RNN on Project Gutenberg and made some cool poetry".

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 02/09/2026

woah 🤯 i'm having a hard enough time understanding the 'reality of "AI"' as is-- what do you mean by the 'unreality of "AI"'? double negatives are tricky

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 02/09/2026

i'm not so sure you can disambiguate it? imo, the term "artificial intelligence" necessarily implies the use of deception. if people were actually talking about real processes (not just trying to con people), the term they'd use would be "machine learning". it's like no one read Alan Turing's work.

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

my Alphonse Elric #cosplay, yes I made it myself, and no I'm not tall. I wear his head like a hat. I used 8mm Eva foam, sealed it with a diy mix of acrylic sealant, black paint and water and rubbed silver rub n buff to make it shine #fma #FullmetalAlchemist

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nailz 🌹 @xnailzx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

happy ginger cat appreciation day from my goober!

closeup of a ginger cat with his tongue barely peeking out of his mouth in a cute little blep.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist.

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 24/08/2026

if they knew, they'd have died from dysentery by now

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 18/08/2026

counter hypothetical: let's say i have a really smart cat -- to the point of personhood. i design a system that will aim a laser around a room with paints to make pawprint recreations of works. i start selling said works and consequently get sued. is it fair to argue my cat is legally liable?

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

@julesh i'm not qualified in either of those things, but empathize as I share a similar stance. i've have started referring to my ethical position as "Satanic" after finally reading LaVey. Even if i don't necessarily agree with his broader philosophy, his definition of a "symbolic negation of […]

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julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Just realised that my "small-scale ethics" are anti-protestant (I do not believe that frugality or hard work are inherently good) and my "large-scale ethics" are anti-catholic (I do not believe that what is natural is inherently good) An ethicist or theologian could probably tell me the proper […]

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Ryan Ruff @suburbanlion.com · 01/08/2026

Some of my earliest blog posts were about Mesmer theory-crafting in #GuildWars2. Seeing as how I'm both playing again and blogging again, I figured it might be a fun time to write a Mesmer guide. Here's my "Flex Support Rifle Virtuoso": suburbanlion.com/blog/2026/07...

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Flash-bang! A Rifle Virtuoso Guide to sPvP in Guild Wars 2

Some of my earliest blog posts were about Mesmer theory-crafting in Guild Wars 2. Seeing as how I’m both playing again and blogging again, I figured it might be a fun time to write a guide. T…

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We (faculty at USC) took on an institutional behemoth with all the money and clout on earth, and we WON. We won our union. We're the biggest private-university faculty union in US history. Trying to make people care about this, challenge level IMPOSSIBLE

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