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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Disturbing 🧵 I work in DC, but it's part of my job that I don't speak to journalists; I prep people who do. One of the things that I've noticed is a significant deterioration in basic standards of practice, including respecting off the record communication and porting quotes from other contexts.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a fantastic essay using @milhistlee.bsky.social's book on The Cutting Off Way (of war) in Native North America to think about how warfare is changing today. I think you can actually push the analogy even further though, toward overall strategic aims.

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Like this is the shape of the signature you're looking for: something that surges dramatically during the pandemic but then stays pegged since. So many things people put forth as explanations fail a simple time series correlation test: they either start too early or recede post-pandemic.

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is an argument against, like, basically every public utility. "what if someone like trump runs the municipal water system??" I am sorry, the only answer is to make sure that dumb shit doesn't happen

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sz3 @sz3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Journalists are supposed to look at the world and connect the dots but in this case it's like, there's just two dots, man.

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sz3 @sz3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No technical class taught me (forced me) to write like (college) history classes did. And writing is an important skill to have as an engineer, at least if you want to be a good one Notwithstanding the whole “understanding historical context makes you less of a dweeb” thing

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.

ironholds.org

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"We're told some of the attendees were shocked the former Republican governor would host Raman, a democratic socialist. But after hearing her pitch for tackling L.A.'s problems, some who came in skeptical walked away impressed." www.tmz.com/2026/09/25/a...

tmz.com

Arnold Schwarzenegger Introduces L.A. Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman to Power Players

Arnold Schwarzenegger is opening doors for Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman ... bringing her face-to-face with some of the city's biggest power players, TMZ has learned.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

forbiddenstories.org

The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

She was Hayao Miyazaki's "right-hand" collaborator from the '70s onward. Her name was Michiyo Yasuda -- the best color designer in animation. Yasuda's eye for color gave Ghibli's work a totally different look. We explore her methods: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist...

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 23/09/2026

So Gibney's Musk doc and Fielder's Holmes "doc" (?!?) both scheduled to open nationally the same day seems like a bit much. And Sorkin's fantasy-land made up Zuck movie opens a week earlier. I swear, not all of Silicon Valley is this bad, but they sure do give Hollywood a lot of material.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

arstechnica.com

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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sz3 @sz3.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The blueprint is the tariffs (1.0). Illegal, unsuccessful, takes 12-18 months to litigate and everyone has to deal with it in the meantime (No consequences until we stop treating billionaires as above the law. Of course)

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This story of the resilience and courage of a young pelican, who "asked" at a NOAA lab for help, and GOT it, is my feel-good story of the month 🥺 🦑 🌊 🧪 wapo.st/4roaN8r

wapo.st

Scientists heard a knock at the door. It was a pelican in need of help.

“This is kind of just a once-in a-lifetime experience,” said marine researcher Annsli Hilton.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

like, the actual physical White House is not the most important thing the federal government does by a long shot but it really is one of the most visible, it belonged to all of us, and he fucking wrecked it

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

JUST IN: The 1st Circuit rejects the Trump administration's 3rd-country deportation policy, finding blanket assurances from countries who say they won't torture U.S. deportees is not good enough. And the judges raise this point: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know this is alarming people, but it looks to me like someone just restated the terms of NATO membership to him

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chess!! Hhalloween october @videochess.world · 18/09/2026

thinking about YOU KNUCLES from sonic drift 2. this spelling decision had a great impact on me as a young

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sz3 @sz3.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Crucially: Microsoft [execs] admit(s) [as part of court proceedings]

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/09/2026

Dad Races Outside To Witness Delivery Of Neighbor’s Mulch theonion.com/dad-races-outside-to-w…

Dad Races Outside To Witness Delivery Of Neighbor’s Mulch
‘That’s Gotta Be 40 Or 50 Cubic Feet,’ He Estimates

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 17/09/2026

80% of AI news at this point consists of a company announcing “we wrote a computer virus” then there’s something about the apocalypse or regulation, then the next news story is like “we wrote another computer virus.”

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Like, duh. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

The far-right national security minister, Itamar
Ben-Gvir, called the direc prs "a disgrace",
while the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, condemned the film as
"intolerable", saying it portrayed the Israel Defense Forces as war criminals.

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Deborah E ❤️🧸📿 🌈 ❤️ @deborahe4plus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Folks. Covid is HERE and high or very high in wastewater across most of the country.

COVID 19 Heat Map based on CDC wastewater data .... I'll summarize. As of Sept 14, it's high or very high throughout South, Southwest and CA.

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

People keep asking about the mechanism for the AI apocalypse. There is a simple answer: Yud et al think the AI will invent nanobots and use them to disassemble us into molecules it uses to build more GPUs for itself.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is obviously protected speech. Not a close call.

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sz3 @sz3.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One imagines Nero is pleased with his hire

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sz3 @sz3.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They definitely have a superhuman automation machine, and an excuse how whatever harm it causes is definitely not their fault (It definitely is)

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I doubt LLMs will become a digital genie or world-ending demon, but I worry one of these companies is inadvertently going to do a big cyber attack, in a publicity stunt that does more than they expected perhaps.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is a weird way to frame it. More like "Kennedy Center Board Packed with Trump Apparatchicks Votes to Close It Down After Trump Wrecks Its Finances and Has Toddler-Like Meltdown After Courts Rule That He Can't Just Crayon His Name On the Building"

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sz3 @sz3.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Now, presumably these reporters and editors aren't literal babies with no object permanence. So it's performative. Another word for that might be "collaboration"

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sz3 @sz3.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The media's lack of object permanence is insulting. Here's an example: "financial woes" -> Trump won't allocate funding. Board -> Trump appointees. The headline is minutiae. The Center is closing because he is closing it (because he can't rename it)

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sz3 @sz3.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Trump shuts down Kennedy Center” is the headline I’d go with

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fifth Circuit coming in hot on Mr. Shyamalan's movie catalogue

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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In response, this AFL goal umpire puts his arms in the air after the first goal of Fremantle-Geelong playoff game

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“…the push by AI companies to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics, and to the mathematical community. The goals of the AI companies and the goals of the mathematical community are severely misaligned.“

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/09/2026

Genuine question, how did the boomers go from posting "I do NOT give Facebook permission to use my likeness or videos" to just dumping their photos and personal information into ChatGPT

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