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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC
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factory workshop @telephonebooth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
maybe supremacy, extraction and personal enrichment are inter related
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factory workshop @telephonebooth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
interest as index of risk and markets get tired of being worked over, so this is like a middle finger yield curve
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404 Media @404media.co · 21/09/2026
A Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.
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elihuroberts.bsky.social @elihuroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#NotAI, #FightFascism, #Resist, #GhostInTheMachine #Documentary👇 about the eugenics origins of #AI will be on pbs.org & YouTube Monday September 14th at 7pm PT / 10pm ET. Check out @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social & notaidoc.com for more info.
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GHOST IN THE MACHINE (2026) OFFICIAL TRAILER
YouTube video by Ghost in the Machine
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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Die CDU hat noch nicht verstanden, dass sie den Kampf gegen die AfD nicht gewinnen kann. Sie kommen mit Rentenplänen nicht gegen ethnische Säuberungen an. In Sachsen-Anhalt herrscht keine Wut, sondern Vorfreude: Wesentliche Teile des Volkes freuen sich auf das, was die AfD angekündigt hat."
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"Davor hatte Hitler panische Angst": Philosoph über Aufstieg der Nazis
Radikal, brutal, gnadenlos: Zunächst wurden Adolf Hitler und seine Winzpartei NSDAP gefürchtet und verspottet, dann gelang den Nazis 1930 ein Wahltriumph. Wir müssen dringend herausfinden, wie das mög...
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It may be useful for others to see how this unfolds. Entitlement and weaponized ignorance are designed to waste our time. Don't let it. People can engage in good faith, and ask questions and learn. This is NOT that. It is important to be able to tell the difference.
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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Now remembering the brilliant Saturday Night Live parody ad that tried to scare old people into buying robot attack insurance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Gh...
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Old Glory Insurance - SNL
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/08/2026
The same climate experts whose model overestimated the potential of geological carbon storage have repeatedly underestimated solar power — one of the energy technologies that would allow more oil to remain in the ground. ➡️ Read our full story w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social: propub.li/4gdTCBc
Two line charts are depicted. At the top, the line chart is labeled "Carbon Capture Capacity." The y-axis is "megatons" and the x-axis is years (2010-2040). More than a dozen blue lines show a steady increase from the left edge of the chart to the right edge of the chart. Some of the blue lines exceed 4,000 megatons between years 2030 and 2040. The blue lines are labeled "Projections". A maroon line is at around 0 megatons from 2010 to 2025. The maroon line is labeled "Actual carbon storage". 

The second chart is labeled "Solar Power". The y-axis is "terawatt-hour" and the x-axis is years (2010-2040). Dozens of blue lines increase from around 0 on the left side of the chart, showing moderate growth from 2010 to 2040. The blue lines are labeled "Projections". A maroon line starts at 0 in 2010 and rises sharply to over 2,000 in 2024. The maroon line is obviously increasing much faster than the blue lines. The maroon line is labeled "Actual solar electricity production."
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factory workshop @telephonebooth.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
it's so easy to sell the rosey version of unreality when so many don't want the truth
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Read and share this. “The devastating impacts of #ClimateChange —impacts that major fossil fuel companies foresaw more than 60 years ago—will unfold for untold generations. These very companies have poured millions of dollars into covering up what they knew and when they knew it.” Via @ucs.org
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The Damning Records the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You to See
Fossil fuel companies foresaw the devastating impacts of climate change more than 60 years ago.
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factory workshop @telephonebooth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I would like to know percentage of households who shopping for groceries and school supplies, probably even in red households some ppl not as brainwashed
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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 14/08/2026
Child and art, Child Welfare, Netherlands Stamps, 1964. Designed by Ootje Oxenaar designreviewed.com/artefacts/ch...
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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Too often the framing of the GFC is “these financial engineers really had no idea what they were building” when they knew very well what they were building (a mechanism to transfer risk to not-them) but did not know if it would hold up long enough to make a clean escape.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I went to Paris to speak to Thomas Piketty - one of the world’s leading thinkers on inequality. We talk about why wealth keeps concentrating at the top, the case for public investment, and what it would take to build a fairer economy. A fascinating conversation. youtu.be/d_83pFubGvQ?...
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How We Build An Economic Future For All | Thomas Piketty
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factory workshop @telephonebooth.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
tropes that confuse accurate description distract from quality analysis and effective remedy, confusion benefits status quo, "climate change" is vague and polite "global warming" is a problem
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 05/08/2026
media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/08/2026
‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Scientists are trying to tell us that climate change is happening faster than predicted, and that the public don’t understand the imminent danger, but the media refuses to put them on air. Why? @ProfBillMcGuire is Emeritus Professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The article is about @rahmstorf.bsky.social and Grant Foster's paper published earlier this year: 'Global Warming has accelerated significantly' agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/06/2026
The right has created a false reality – fuelled by toxic images delivered straight to your phone | Jason Okundaye
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The right has created a false reality – fuelled by toxic images delivered straight to your phone | Jason Okundaye
After a week of violence and discord, this is clear: some politicians know images supersede inconvenient facts. And Labour has no good response, says Guardian Opinion assistant editor Jason Okundaye
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Sam Carana @samcarana.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The sea surface temperature was 21.05°C on July 29, 2026, an anomaly of 0.64°C from 1991-2020. arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/double-blu...
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Paxton's Modern Definition Historian Robert Paxton described fascism as selling the illusion of decline and humiliation, cured by militarism. Fascists conspire with elites. Democratic liberties are suppressed. Violence is sold as enthralling — a tool needed for governing. Sound familiar?
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It's so fucking crazy that we're doing this. Persecuting hundreds of thousands of people here living and working legally because we're captive to mindless racists
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Employers Fear Labor Shortage as Many Immigrants Lose Protected Status
A recent Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to end a humanitarian program that has allowed about one million immigrants to work legally in the U.S.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Complaints about Nolan’s “Odyssey” are mainly complaints about what counts as Western, manly, and heroic...about maintaining a highly circumscribed and prejudiced boundary of American identity downstream of a facile, vulgar conception of the ancient 'West.'” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-vand...
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The New Vandals
Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" offends right-wingers' notion that only white men make history.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
When some on the right speak of reverence for “civilization,” what they’re doing is trying to anachronistically justify the hierarchy of race they would like to see enacted today by rooting it in antiquity. You cannot cast Black people in The Odyssey, because The Odyssey is a pillar of “Western civilization,” which they consider to be white. This faction of the far right imagines antiquity as a kind of idyllic Jim Crow universe of utterly separate civilizations, one in which the integration they despise could not possibly exist.But Greece is not as far from Africa as the North American continent is, and the modern construct of race, a pseudoscientific product of the Atlantic slave trade, would not be invented until thousands of years after Homer. Black people are depicted in Greek art. Egypt, Libya, and “Aethiopia” are frequently referenced in ancient writings. As the Black classics scholar Frank Snowden Jr. wrote in the 1970s, at least one of the characters in The Odyssey, Eurybates, is specifically described as “black-skinned and woolly-haired.” As the Stanford classics professor Sarah Derbew notes in her book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, Black people are referenced in plays by Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus. They also appear in the writings of Hesiod and Herodotus. One of the lost epic poems is The Aethiopis, in which Memnon, the Aethiopian king and an ally to Troy, plays a major role.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 22/07/2026
It’s Steve Albini’s birthday today. RIP forever, friend.
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factory workshop @telephonebooth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
politely hinting about concern is almost a joke now, saying out loud that dependency is the priority would be too challenging
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Maija Koivula ⌘ @maijakoivula.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Today Finnish MPs are voting on confidence of our Prime Minister, who is swimming backstroke and gargling in the sewage of corruption without any shame; this painting has the kind of energy I'm manifesting for the vote, although it might be a fool's hope.
Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi, picture by Uffizi Galleries
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factory workshop @telephonebooth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
what should be cognitive dissonance is just a weird uncanny vapor
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The leaf has a song in it... • Mary Oliver •
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Amy Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I taught in public high schools for 10 years. We had military recruiters on campus at least 1 time a week for the entire school year. It was like they knew how to spot my most vulerable students. The kids that never had lunch, worked crazy hours, and felt hopeless about the future.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 16/07/2026
This is a very good essay that advances a broadly humanist position on AI. Liberals, conservatives, socialists, and others should all agree that we must not sacrifice our moral agency in search of a mere facsimile of human understanding. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
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The AI Apocalypse Is Already Here
Americans do not care for artificial intelligence. Recent polling shows that their attitudes mostly range from ambivalence to horror.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 16/07/2026
"This uncertainty about the human provenance of text is an incalculable loss"
This uncertainty about the human provenance of text is an incalculable loss. In both classical and Christian philosophy, the human being was distinguished by his unique relationship to the word. Machines that have command of language are therefore nothing like the mere next step after the microwave and the calculator. The idea that for the rest of my life I will never know for sure if a text was written by the human who claims it or by a machine saddens me greatly, and I suspect this reality will cast a pall over all our lives once it sets in more generally. As things stand, we will face, every day, a task presented to us that no previous human ever could have contemplated: the task of sussing out whether the text we are looking at had a human behind it. This is a huge “transaction cost” that our new technology has imposed on us all, an unwelcome introduction of doubt and wariness and suspicion into the fundamentals of our life together that will only reduce trust and increase atomization.
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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026
Mention of Bob Hoskins on the timeline has me watching this on repeat several times again
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Gift link. It’s heartbreaking. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps (Gift Article)
Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.
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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Projections for farming productivity by 2100 under mid to upper level #climate emissions scenarios expressed in terms of numbers of people fed. Detail available down to 10km² cadi.econai.org/ssp370_relat...
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laperry2.bsky.social @laperry2.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose
One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still worth buying.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
accountability won't happen by default—unrelenting, fierce pressure on democrats is necessary, and that work needs to start *today*
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Truth Without Reconciliation
Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?
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factory workshop @telephonebooth.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
health care attached to employment creates dependency and less competitive compensation conditions for the employer, cheap productive labor and higher profit margins are the objective here
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
If lobbyists didn't own this country, we could have nice things like the rest of the modern world, too.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 20/07/2026
The FDA does not yet have a single positive product test result for Cyclospora as the outbreak continues to grow.
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FDA Tests That Found Cyclospora In Taco Bell Supplier’s Lettuce Were A ‘False Positive’
The FDA does not yet have a single positive product test result for Cyclospora as the outbreak continues to grow.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
lol, no, I don't because I have spent time drawing, drafhting, penciling, shading, painting, etc. I wouldn't say I'm *good* at art, but I know what it takes. And typing prompts into the theft machine to generate images based on ripping off other artists isn't it, fellas
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factory workshop @telephonebooth.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
thought machines for lazy people that were never going to do the work reflecting the upper class culture of management by proclamation further entrenching the enshittification and extraction culture already burning everything, great
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factory workshop @telephonebooth.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
yes, in the future all these technologies of insuction, infinite scroll etc, will be regulated or banned outright
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factory workshop @telephonebooth.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
maybe Foucault talked about denial of butt things as the loud silence of eliding the denial that won't go away and maybe this revenge is the natural world in direct conflict with the constructed mythological imaginary world and also loud butt things
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