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Matt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

If anyone was interested in this (and I have wanted to write about this topic for a while) - I still struggle with the model of most search engines. I think it is wrong (morally, ethically) that we sell our data in response for this functionality; that we are served ads (as a form of punishment […]

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the_blackwell_ninja [EST] @the-blackwell-ninja.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Trump meets widespread discontent with AI and the K-shaped economy by creating an honorary position to funnel taxpayer money to one of his buddies. Nice work if you can get it. www.cnn.com/2026/09/19/politics/tru…

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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

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So, after eighteen months of lying on the supermarket floor screaming at Denmark, Donald Trump has been handed the 1951 defence agreement, which already gave America bases and the run of Greenland for as long as NATO exists, and which it was using so enthusiastically that it closed sixteen of its seventeen installations there. The grown-ups have simply wrapped the toy he already owned in shiny new paper, told him it was the biggest present anyone has ever had, and he is now running round the garden showing it to everyone. He will certainly make the history books, although I fear not in the chapter he was hoping for.

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This historic deal is a huge win for the United States and the American people. Thanks to President Trump’s vision and leadership, this historic agreement permanently guarantees U.S. security interests in the Arctic at zero cos...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026

The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals

A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.

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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

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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Reporters were barred from recording video” — Um What? PSA: The moment you obeyed that command you stopped being “reporters” @punchbowlnews.bsky.social

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

After my comment on "Concerned AI bros" I got a message that basically went: "Congrats, your article got some traction. We both know that you are just saying those things cause you are a contrarian and want to make money." And I hear that not often but sometimes so a quick reality check. - you […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I have another brilliant idea to save money and time. Instead of promoting an LLM to write an email this new system will simply send your target the prompt and the email will be generated on their end with *their* tokens should they choose to open it. We can hide this all in an embedded HTML […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I’m still kind of mad about HTML email tbh. That was the beginning of the end.

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

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Breathing Retro @breathing-retro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Pararena classic retro game ported to Playdate tamvodopad.itch.io/pararena-for... #vintagemac #Macintosh #retrocomputing #retrogaming

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 13/09/2026

Turns out that being born with a basic income of $333/mo and living with it for the first 4 years of life results in slightly slower biological aging. Because slower aging predicts longer, healthier lives in adults, this suggests UBI from birth could mean longer lives and lower healthcare costs.

sciencealert.com

Scientists Gave Cash to Low-Income Moms, And It Altered Their Babies' Aging

We usually think of aging as something that catches up with us later in life.

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

If you see ads pointing you to votesafe.org to check your voter registration, read this first. VoteSafe is run by America PAC, Elon Musk's super PAC. It is not a government site. Its own footer says "Paid for by America PAC." It also doesn't register anyone. The flow ends by telling you to […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

"the robot will do your work for you" and "you can get rich for free" are the same promise and it always means they're going to pick your pocket.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 10/09/2026

Democrats should immediately promise to match or beat this if they win both houses.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 10/09/2026

Call it UBI and see how the legacy media covers this idea. I do wonder if he might have literally thought of this on the spot.

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

P.P.S. All this because a bunch of people couldn't be bothered to get off their asses and vote, and a bunch more couldn't bring themselves to plug their noses and vote for a candidate they disliked who isn't an actual Nazi over one who is. #politics #USPol

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Oxford University Press (OUP) plans to offshore its financial operations department to EXL Services, which will provide the service from the subcontinent." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #academia #Highered #publishing #research #India

bbc.co.uk

Oxford University Press staff strike over offshoring plans

Oxford University Press plans to relocate some of its financial operations to India.

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Ziplok @ziplok-music.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

The pitch of "You know three chords now you're in a band" and "make a zine on a copier and staple it together" was about you being able to do what you want your way. To actually empower you to explore what you can, want to, have to say and change in the world. The "output" is an accidental side […]

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Bodil @bodil.lol · 31/08/2026

If you ever wanted a handy list of which tech companies to stay _well_ clear of: omarchy.org/patrons

omarchy.org

Omacom Foundation

The foundation funding Omarchy.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Say you’re an opponent of the United States and you want to conduct some kind of biological terror attack. You can’t really control how it will spread, so before you release your bioweapon you vaccinate all of your people. Or, if you’re RFK Jr., you simply convince people not to vaccinate.

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/11716837… It's not even that secret. Go onto *any* platform with freelance "jobs" and it's almost all AI training. They're paying you roughtly 1/2 of what you'd make otherwise doing a real job, doing a fake job that only exists to tweak generated […]

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Dave Moskovitz (((❤️))) @davemosk.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

I’m Leaving WhatsApp I’m leaving WhatsApp. It’s an integral part of the Meta / Facebook empire, which is currently being sued by 29 states for the harm that it causes to children. While WhatsApp claims end-to-end encryption, they retain your metadata, which forms part of your social graph which […]

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 21/08/2026

I think even people not completely on the AI abolitionist side of the spectrum can agree this is *a lot* of AI.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/08/2026

Climate change is going to fuck up our infrastructure in ways that we can't even imagine in advance -- ways that are not captured in all the faux-precise climate-damage models. We were really stupid to run this uncontrolled, irreversible experiment.

washingtonpost.com

Why one highway exploded this summer — and why many more are at risk

Hotter summers are wreaking havoc across transportation infrastructure. One solution: Paint everything white.

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Aure Free Press :verified: @free-press.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

WHERE IS MITCH? The Republicans are playing petty politics by hiding McConnell away so the Kentucky Governor, a Democrat, couldn't appoint a replacement. Ten days before his hospitalization, Senator Mitch McConnell appeared deeply confused on the Senate floor—voting incorrectly and looking to […]

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the_blackwell_ninja [EST] @the-blackwell-ninja.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Has anybody followed up with the Orb gazers yet? Did anybody get anything substantial in return for turning their biometrics over to Clammy Sammy, or no? #sam_altman

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Axel Leroy @axel.leroy.sh · 19/08/2026

Why we're so sure our phones are listening www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0-8SrbG0xA It starts debunking the myth that phones literally listen to our conversations to display eerily targeted ads, it ends up pulling the curtain on the frightening sprawl of the online advertising industry […]

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Keen Grasp @keengrasp.layer8.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I'd like the Apple board of directors, the FCC and FTC, and a couple Senate committees to come to the rural library where I work so they can listen to an elderly woman sobbing about how her Mac is now so old it can't connect to the internet anymore, so she can't access the email account that […]

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Bongolian @bongolian.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Write to #Congress: Flock and other automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) are taking over our neighborhoods, tracking our movements, and building detailed databases about where we go, who we're with, and what we do. It doesn't matter which tech company's creepy cameras show up on our streets […]

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Nothing says “strong president” quite like a full-blown meltdown because a woman reporter will not flatter you. Nothing says “leader of the free world” quite like screaming “BE QUIET” when asked whether an American foreign-policy decision was made at the request of a murderous dictator.

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Mark Hurst @markhurst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

So now if a company goes bankrupt, all the emails and internal chats - going back years - all get sucked into an AI engine in Silicon Valley. But don't worry, the data is all "deidentified." Right […]

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

"World changing sums of wealth" should never be in the hands of small groups of people, especially those able to work in secret. The future belongs to everyone. Just saying the "the future is for everyone" is a tautology. It means nothing. Everyone should shape the future rather than be told […]

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Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦 @pabloniusmonk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

"Why does everyone hate us?" "We're just minding our own business." "Which just happens to be minding your business." @dallasnews www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commenta… #Editorial […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Editorial cartoon showing 3 vultures on a pole talking to themselves. Their heads are Flock cameras.

"Why does everyone hate us?"

"We're just minding our own business."

"Which just happens to be minding your business."

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/08/2026

"The president’s recent financial disclosure form shows that he collected $1.4 billion from his crypto businesses last year, the majority of it from anonymous sources" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/u...

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Trump Crypto Took $100 Million From a Businessman With Red Flags

The curious case of Guren “Bobby” Zhou shows the ease with which investors with shady backgrounds and unknown motivations can funnel money to the president.

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Aure Free Press :verified: @free-press.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

BREAKING NEWS Iran's official media source rules out future negotiations with the Trump regime, says it will wait until his term ends in 2029. Iran is tired of trying to work with a convicted felon and habitual liar. #AureFreePress #News #uspol #wariniran #BreakingNews

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Billionaire and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was hit with “unanimous booing” this week for reportedly ignoring a request from the U.S. Coast Guard to rescue a stranded sea vessel from his $300 million yacht, the Alaska Beacon reported Saturday. “I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son,” reads […]

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found Facebook's parent company, Meta, is directly paying several controversial content creators including a white nationalist with Neo-Nazi links and a prominent anti-vaxxer.

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Facebook pays controversial creators to produce rage-bait content

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.

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