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Tabitha Potts

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✍️ UK Writer, host on Story Radio Podcast 🎙️. Longlisted #PMJWritersPrize. 🎬 Nominee #AustinSpotlightFilmFest 📖 👻 Horror novel 2026 with @rowanprosepub.bsky.social 🔗 linktr.ee/tabithapotts

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 4h
‘The toll is huge’: El Niño-driven wildfires overwhelm Indonesia’s orangutan population - www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘The toll is huge’: El Niño-driven wildfires overwhelm Indonesia’s orangutan population
The global climate phenomenon has triggered devastating infernos in the ape’s Indonesian heartlands, with long-term effects on the animals still unknown
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Story Radio Podcast 🎙️ @storyradio.bsky.social · 4h
Halloween special! S.A. Sizemore on Whispers of the Pale Witch, her Salem-set debut inspired by her own witch trial ancestry. 🧙‍♀️🪦🎃 🔗 player.captivate.fm/episode/3db2... #WhispersOfThePaleWitch #StoryRadioPodcast #OccultFiction #SalemWitchTrials
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Interview with S A Sizemore about Whispers of the Pale Witch
Quickly and easily listen to Story Radio Podcast for free!
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Awful. Capital overrides communities once again. Frome's bid for a community-led housing & regeneration project at Saxonvale lies in tatters: the council's agreed a deal with a London-based real estate company instead. Similar story in Totnes with Atmos project www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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‘Devastating’: council rejects Frome residents’ bid for regeneration project
Locals raised £1m for Mayday Saxonvale scheme involving homes and park but Somerset officials agreed deal with London-based real estate company
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...
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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson
A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now
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Tabitha Potts @tabithapotts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Watching Children of the Corn tonight 👦👧🌾
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The trailer. Not surprised Musk is a little exercised by it. 😊 youtu.be/eY_8SyndC10?...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel you, Daniel L
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Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... 'The datacentre revolt spreading across the US has reached the rolling hills of north Devon in an uprising against a planned hyperscale AI data campus......'
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‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre
Plans for one of Europe’s largest AI campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve have sparked a fierce local backlash
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This guy is truly admitting this in public? Wow. 😶 Reminds me of this quote: ‘What is Huxley’s horrific vision? It is a world where there is no need for books to be banned, because no one can be bothered to read one.’ — Marcus Sedgwick, The Monsters We Deserve
In response, Huang agreed that student cognition is getting much worse.

“Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness,” Huang said. “Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?”

“That’s my question for you,” Klein replied.

“Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does,” Huang said in response. “We’re going to discover new [skills],” the CEO continued, “just maybe not those.”

The interview then took a bizarre turn, with Huang admitting that he lacks some surprisingly basic life skills himself.“There are a lot of skills that don’t matter,” he said. “My first confession, I actually don’t know my address… one day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.”

Huang’s point, after some pushback from Klein, is that “we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers,” because AI will take care of those mundane details — like remembering your own home address — for you.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When Lucy from Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, was victim to shoplifting people told her to install CCTV. Instead she put this ancient book thief curse on the wall from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona so book stealers would be consumed by "the flames of hell" with "their members blasted".
A Curse Against Stealers Of Books
For him that
stealth a book from
this place, let it
change into a
serpent in his hand
and rend him.
Let him be struck with
palsy,
& all his members 
blasted.
Let him languish in 
pain crying aloud for
mercy, & let there be be no surcease to his 
agony till he sink to
dissolution.
Let bookworms gnaw
his entrails in token of 
the Worm that diets not,
& when at last he
goeth to his final
punishment, let the
flames of
hell consume him
forever & aye.
(Monastery Of San Pedro, Barcelona.)
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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 08/09/2026
I'll be reading a short story as part of the Doors Into The Dark event dedicated to weird & wonderful fiction on 26th September at The Seamus Heaney Centre (Queen's University Belfast). Organised by @theactualemma.bsky.social and Niall McKenna. Tickets: www.seamusheaneycentre.com/Events/Doors...
A green poster with an illustration of a crow which reads "The Seamus Heaney Centre, Doors Onto The Dark: A Day of Weird Fiction, Saturday 26th September 2026".
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Emma Devlin @theactualemma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I am going to take a cue from Ashurbanipal and start writing my CV like this. (From Selena Wisnom's The Library of Ancient Mesopotamia and the Making of History.)
I learned the craft of the sage Adapa, the secret and hidden lore of all the scribal arts. I am able to recognise celestial and terrestrial omens and can discuss them in an assembly of scholars. I am capable of arguing with expert diviners about the series called 'If the liver is a mirror image of the heavens'. I can
resolve complex mathematical divisions and multiplications that do not have an easy solution. I have read cunningly written texts in obscure Sumerian and Akkadian that are difficult to interpret. I have carefully examined inscriptions on stone from before the Deluge that are sealed, stopped up, and confused.
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I DON’T WANT TO DOWNLOAD AN APP TO ACCESS MY TICKETS I JUST WANT MY TICKETS
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Tabitha Potts @tabithapotts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Working on my 1980s novel this morning and listening to the soundtrack I created for it. Lots of nostalgia #bittersweet
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Leonora Carrington The Hearing Trumpet (Dennis Cooper blog) While living in Mexico, Carrington produced her parodic novel The Hearing Trumpet. While addressing the archetypal representations of women within surrealism, her targets strike a more personal chord. denniscooperblog.com/spotlight-on...
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 15/09/2026
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals
God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out.
It was the purge, the catharsis.
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Anneliese Dodds MP @anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oxford's connection with Nepal is strong. So the disastrous flood this August has hit many local people and their families hard. The UK and Nepal must now work together - to highlight the appalling impact of the climate crisis, and call for global action
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The biodiversity crisis is as urgent as the climate crisis.
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GenX Women Are Sick Of This Shit™️ Podcast @genxwomenpod.com · 16/11/2024
In the 80s you could call a 1800 number and order Madonna’s jacket from the movie Desperately Seeking Susan. So we decided, let’s call that old number and see what happens. *ZING* #genx #genxwomen #podcast #podcasting #genxpodcast #women #girlpower #podcasters #genxwomenaresickofthisshit
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Tabitha Potts @tabithapotts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anyone else had weird issues with Zencastr dropouts at regular intervals on one speaker track? Same on local and Internet backups. #podcasting
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hauntological horror sitcom where these people are next door neighbours with the British Pork advert family when?
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The rule of law was once sacrosanct in this country Until we elected Donald Trump
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Tabitha Potts @tabithapotts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A maddening and horrific story of chemical pollution killing wildlife in the UK countryside - @uklabour.bsky.social really need to step up and tackle this issue share.google/oxhRYl6k3esE...
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‘The eels were climbing out of the water to die’: why did every fish in this idyllic lake perish overnight?
Furnace Brook in East Sussex was home to carp, tench, bream, roach and trout – and 15 trailer-loads had to be buried. The mystery led to a neighbouring farm, and a story of waste, pollution and dirty ...
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Think of all the issues people should really have ‘legitimate concerns’ about Biodiversity loss Ecosystem degradation Extreme heat Droughts Intense wildfires Water shortages Dirty water Polluted air Sea level rise Crop failures Floods New pandemics Food shortages Plastics in our bodies & env’t…
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/09/2026
Analysis: Numerous press freedom organizations have said President Trump’s ban of certain journalists from White House grounds is an unconstitutional attack on Americans’ free speech. They predict it would quickly get struck down in court.
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Analysis | Trump’s White House media ban may be on shaky ground
The president is arguing that journalism, protected by the First Amendment, is a threat to national security.
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Tabitha Potts @tabithapotts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
go.bsky.app/5LUKX3V Ahem, have you seen this very cool literary podcasts starter pack I happen to be in?
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Tabitha Potts @tabithapotts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If anyone wants to know what type of reading is getting me through my divorce it isn’t poetry or stream-of-consciousness novels. No. It’s crime, horror and more crime. I think I could write a thesis on how these genres are trauma training for women, in fact.
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Tabitha Potts @tabithapotts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I can vividly imagine the then Prince Charles saying “She’ll be forgotten soon enough” in a self-pitying tone to Diana’s brother, can’t you? He either meant ‘public taste is fickle’ (jealous of the love she received) or ‘the Royal Family will forget her soon enough’ (scapegoating/preferred Camilla)
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026
NEW: OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rebuilding our relationship with the EU “is the cheapest way to boost the economy, the fastest way to unite Europe in the face of security threats and the best way to get leverage on a global system that no longer has an American anchor.” So obvious it hurts. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Brexit has left Britain ‘impotent – a bobbing cork in the sea,’ says David Miliband
Exclusive: Former foreign secretary adds to mounting pressure for a new UK deal with EU to repair Brexit damage
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Danny Tommo has been filmed slashing a dinghy in the channel containing migrants and a rescue worker on board. There is no mention of this on the BBC news website at all as far as I can see. Yet when he and his thugs turn up in masks it's all "Legitimate protestors show ankle in Dover".
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 22/09/2026
YouGov’s latest poll shows that 628 constituencies want to rejoin the EU. Only 4 don't. It’s time to talk about EU membership. bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-mo…
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only 4 constituencies where rejoining the EU wasn’t the preferred option were those of Lee Anderson, Farage, Tice and Lowe. In those 4, the top answer was ‘don’t know’. Confirming that Brexit has no real support at all. Not surprising for a total shitshow. And makes red lines seem very silly.
Independent front page. 

Voters across Britain back rejoining EU
Reversing Brexit is most popular option in 646 of 650 constituencies, finds new electoral survey of 12,000Bar chart showing
Which EU relationship respondents most wanted the Uk government to propose

EU membership 35%
Single market 6%
Customs Union 5%
Uk govt position  18/19%
Starts quo 8/9%
Don’t know 16%
Loosen ties 11%
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
BREAKING: Politico now says it has ALSO been denied White House access.
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Exactly! #FDT #Pinks
Spoiler alert for anyone who doesn't have a passing familiarity with literature, history, or religion, but any leader who erects a gold statue of himself is never the good guy
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Strong email from @aoc.bsky.social putting down a marker on how to deal with both the proximate economic risks from AI and the longer term ones.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🎉 YES! This is a huge opportunity! Please use this link to write to your MP - and then share, share everywhere! —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a... #Rejoin #UK #Europe #EU
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Freedom of the Press Foundation releases the following statement on Trump's press ban: “It’s difficult to imagine a more blatant violation of the First Amendment than Trump banning news outlets from the People’s House for criticizing the government. It’s also hard to imagine a dumber move."
The following can be attributed to Seth Stern, chief of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):

“It’s difficult to imagine a more blatant violation of the First Amendment than Trump banning news outlets from the People’s House for criticizing the government. It’s also hard to imagine a dumber move. The historically unpopular president has been retaliating against the press for years, but it hasn’t helped him. The press keeps exposing his corruption and his failures. These outrageous attacks only demonstrate how scared he is of an informed public. 

“The press must continue to fight back to protect their rights, not only to access the White House but to access the public records and whistleblowers this administration so desperately wants to keep from them. In the meantime, though, they can take a break from getting lied to and insulted at the White House. There are plenty of places to find news, and reporters will continue to do just that no matter how many tantrums Trump throws on Truth Social. Just like he can’t keep his name on the Kennedy Center, he can’t keep it out of the headlines.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/09/2026
NEW: Hegseth and Trump are lying about how many troops have been killed in their war. The DoD website says 14. The actual number is 23 or 24 according to multiple DOD officials 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised"
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Tabitha Potts @tabithapotts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What is happening in Malta? More prosecutions needed! #birds
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Leaked industry documents reveal who’s trying to kill California’s landmark single-use plastics law: www.latimes.com/science/stor... via @susrust.bsky.social
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Leaked emails reveal industry plan to kill California's plastic and recycling laws
Leaked internal memos reveal how a packaging alliance drove a widespread lobbying and marketing campaign to dismantle California’s landmark plastic and recycling laws.
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
McCluskey says, as low volume fracking uses less fluid, it's "not associated with the same safety issues.” Critics say some 'low volume' fracking uses more fluid than was used at a site in Lancashire where drilling was stopped after earth tremors across the region. drillordrop.com/2026/09/15/g...
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Government refuses to block lower-volume fracking
The Burnham government has confirmed it will not ban lower-volume fracking.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
DOGE DID NOT SAVE ANY MONEY Trump administration spent $9.5B last year on employee leave, driven by DOGE-era cuts www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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Trump administration spent $9.5 billion last year on employee leave, driven by DOGE-era cuts
A Government Accountability Office report found that use of such leave jumped 435% between 2023 and 2025.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026
NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.
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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I've been banging this drum for a long time. This doesn't require a degree to understand; it's proof that they are intentionally keeping you poor and struggling. To top it off, they try to convince you that it's your fault because you bought a coffee or avocado toast, etc.
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Amanda Jeyaretnam (she/her) @liberalisms.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’ve signed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data
We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...
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