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Nomad in the USA, currently in MI. Humanist. Anti-authoritarian. No oligarchy. A corporation is not a person. NO PACS!!! Tired of labels; life is nuanced.

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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 28/09/2026
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 28/09/2026
This week's show is a round-up of stories about bad choices that produced (for some) tragically obvious outcomes. ] sbee.link/fjexd9ungm
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The Darwin Awards
This week's show is a round-up of stories about bad choices that produced (for some) tragically obvious outcomes.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In case you don't know, it's very simple. In an authoritarian cycle the "opposition" liberal party is captured by wealth interests and becomes conservative and defenders of a decaying status quo. Fascists come along, offer the critique of the status quo the "opposition" can't and gain converts.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's disgusting watching people buying into the "Tucker Carlson is making sense?!" bullshit and it's probably time to wrap our heads around the fact that the people susceptible to this are unconsciously fascist curious and just need the ugly delivered to them in an "acceptable" package
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 26/09/2026
FROM THE PODCAST ARCHIVE: Ex-vangelical Kristi Burke has been called a "Jezebel." She joins us to explain why and share her journey. sbee.link/k6njp3hrbx
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Jezebel Vibes: with Kristi Burke
Ex-vangelical https://www.youtube.com/@kristiburke has been called a "Jezebel." She joins us to explain why and share her journey. https://youtu.be/70NvWHB9TEA
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Beachbard @beachbard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Currently, AI mimics all of the amoral traits the developers employed in building it: lying, stealing, cheating, general disregard for culture, discernment, humans, the law, & possible/probable outcomes beyond profit & survival. Prosecute the CEOs for conspiracy & hacking.
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 24/09/2026
WATCH: sbee.link/bya37de6nm
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
My father died six months ago today. I wrote this while he was dying. https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-stage
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 27/09/2026
Avoid Elon Musk's VoteSafe. It's a tool for his America Political Action Committee and shares voter info with third parties. sbee.link/uxpy7nca6d
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Elon Musk's VoteSafe.org shares users' personal information. Here's how we know
Musk's America PAC funds the online voter registration hub.
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 27/09/2026
Dr. Onishi has done a deep dive into MAGA's desire for an all-powerful god king. WATCH sbee.link/fvcthgm89y
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New Meta strategy is clear. They’re going to flood the market with non-perv glasses so you can’t tell who is wearing the perv glasses.
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Meta VR Glasses, Ray-Ban Meta Audio, Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3: Specs, Features, Prices — WIRED
At its Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a handful of new smart glasses, including a slimmed-down VR headset and the company’s first camera-free glasses.
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#NoOnProp39 🧵 Richard Uihlein, Schlitz beer heir, owner of Uline office products, & ultraconservative WI multibillionaire, has given $17M to support Prop 39 in California, a backdoor voter suppression effort introduced by GOP legislators. The proposition, if passed, would require Californians...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence is turbocharging scams in unimaginable ways, as millions of Americans report being targeted and victims of AI scams. Take this AP quiz and test if you know how to spot what's real and what's AI.
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Could you spot an AI-powered scam? See if you can tell what’s real.
Artificial intelligence is turbocharging scams in ways unimaginable just a few years ago. Ninety-eight percent of Americans say they have been targeted by scammers — many on a daily basis — according to a poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/09/2026
Free newsletter: I estimate that ~50% of AI chip sales - $200bn to $300bn+ - are sitting in warehouses, with NVIDIA selling hundreds of billions of GPUs years in advance. Data centers take way longer to build than hyperscalers are leading us to believe. www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
WIRED asked 634 women what they really think about working in tech. They told us about harassment, bias, unequal treatment, and the everyday indignities that still shape life in the industry. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1/ Your water. Your rent. Your pharmacy. Your hospital. Your flight. Your concert ticket. Your local news. Different industries. Same pattern: fewer owners, fewer choices, more leverage over you. Corporate concentration reaches deep into our daily life. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 20/09/2026
Starting now! www.youtube.com/live/hI0MdIo...
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WHY Should WE Be Christian??! Call Matt Dillahunty & Seth Andrews | Sunday Show 09.20.26
YouTube video by The Line
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Don’t use pronouns for AI. It is not a person nor ever will. Sam Altman isn’t making the god computer of his wet dream nightmares. They’ve made a shitty tool built on theft thats destroying the planet & is meant to lower human critical thinking while given military weapons by rich idiots.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A cop in rural Texas pulls over a Latino. He demands papers; doesn’t get any. Arrests the guy, throws him in a local jail cell. Hours later, GardaWorld staff show up to put him on a bus with a dozen others. They drive him to the nearest ICE jail; a bus service for the machine of mass deportation.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple. AI isn’t independent or autonomous. It’s a tool being specifically programmed to commit crimes against humans and against rival businesses. But the fantasy of autonomy is an incredible facade that means total deniability and our political and media classes have already bought in.
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 19/09/2026
Podcast. Exvangelical Kayse Melone describes her journey out of fundamentalism and into humanist activism. sbee.link/bv7fwp968m
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Kayse Melone: Deconstructing
https://www.youtube.com/@kaysemelone is an exvangelical turned secular humanist activist, and she has much to say about her former faith, women in activist spac
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Josh Caress @joshcaress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yes, this. I am not nearly as interested in their bullshit philosophies or pathetic kinks as I am in their material power and goals. How much power do they have? Unparalleled in human history. What are their material goals? They want us dead.
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They Want Us Dead
Acclimation to mass death—and the devaluing of humanity in general—is their primary purpose
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shanley @shanley.com · 18/09/2026
This journalist does an amazing job of reporting on Honduras, Prospera, and political corruption, new article on Juan Orlando Hernandez, Prospera, and Thiel/Andreessen criterio.hn/prospera-ser...
Democrats say the exchange for a pardon for Juan Orlando Hernández would be successful 

A Democratic House report links efforts by Trump allies to pardon Juan Orlando Hernández to the interests of investors in Próspera, the ZEDE that the former president made possible in Honduras. Hernández was extradited to the United States in April 2022 and sentenced in March 2024 to 45 years in prison and five years of supervised release for three drug trafficking-related offenses, including cocaine importation and weapons-related crimes. On December 1, 2025, he was pardoned by President Donald Trump .

The report by the Democratic staff of the House Judiciary Committee states that Hernandez used his office to corruptly collaborate with and protect the Sinaloa Cartel, helping them smuggle hundreds of tons of drugs into the United States. It states that federal prosecutors spent more than 15 years building the case against Hernandez.  

Furthermore, they point out that Hernández also spent years cultivating friendships within President Trump's orbit, including pipeline billionaire Kelcy Warren and technology investors Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, friendships with significant investments in the Prospera ZEDE, who "would benefit from his return to Honduran politics." 

They add that Roger Stone himself, when he took charge of the case of the convicted international drug trafficker, revealed his intentions: pardoning Mr. Hernandez, he said, would save 'the Prospera experiment'. 

In the first eight months of Asfura's government, the company promoting the ZEDE in Roatán, Honduras Próspera Inc., organized forums supported by public and private institutions, despite the declaration of unconstitutionality. 

The Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (Cohep), which in 2021 concluded that the ZEDEs “are an imposition of a new State within the State of Honduras”, went on in 2026 to participate in forums with investors from Honduras Próspera Inc., promoter of the ZEDE in Roatán and La Ceiba. 

Asfura, for his part, participated in the Ibero-American Tourism Forum, where he posed in front of the Prospera stand, and met with Israeli Rami Arad, CEO of MAG Technologies Group, an investor in the Satuyé Technology & Data Center that plans to be installed in the Port of Satuyé, incorporated into the Prospera ZEDE regime.
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Steward Universal @stewniverse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And 99.99% of Americans don’t have a single fucking clue about any of this. And I can’t get anyone to understand what this means or the implications because I have to teach them a hundred other lessons first before they could understand how extremely significant this is.
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shanley @shanley.com · 19/09/2026
Here is another much more ambitious project the Network State is trying to start in African countries, with multiple sites. This one is being led by a very experienced executive in Network State/tech fascism and is covered on vcinfodocs as well. www.alphacity.io
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shanley @shanley.com · 19/09/2026
Itana, the Network State site in Nigeria, was quiet for awhile, but has been building all the while, and now expanding with the backing of the Nigerian government Itana is funded by Andreessen and Thiel through Pronomos Capital punchng.com/tinubu-moves...
President Bola Tinubu has moved Nigeria’s Digital Free Zones initiative to its implementation phase, targeting increased global investment, job creation and the retention of Nigerian technology companies and intellectual property in the country.

The President also directed the Minister of Trade and Investment, Jumoke Oduwole, to work with the Itana Innovation project and the Presidential Steering Committee on Digital Free Zones to develop a roadmap for the full launch of the initiative within 180 days.

According to a statement issued on Thursday by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the initiative is aimed at making it easier for Nigerian technology and service companies to raise global capital, employ Nigerians and build for international markets without relocating their businesses and intellectual property abroad.

Tinubu said the initiative would also create opportunities for young Nigerians to work for global companies from within the country while expanding the domestic ecosystem of engineers, developers, designers, lawyers, accountants and other professionals supporting digital businesses.
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shanley @shanley.com · 16/09/2026
Imagine how I feel having to hear constantly about someone I dated for 4 months 15 years ago, and something people are too dishonest to say, that it was before he went to trial, went to prison, got out, an got a swastika tattoo. Not shit to do with me.
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shanley @shanley.com · 15/09/2026
Please read vcinfodocs to learn important information about venture capital firms, how they work, over 25 Network State sites, a deep analysis of how tech fascism is invading Latin America, Africa, and Europe, and deep-dives into venture capital portfolios. www.vcinfodocs.com
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Venture Capital Status
Verified information detailing the global impacts of Silicon Valley, United States venture capital and their global tech fascist projects: Network States, ZEDEs, military weapons start-ups, medical ex...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Was it worth it CNN, MSNow and Politico? Was it worth it, White House Correspondent's Dinner?
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Axios @axios.com · 18/09/2026
BREAKING: Trump announces ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House
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Trump says CNN, MS NOW and Politico are banned — and more could follow
His post leaves the ban's exact scope unclear.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This reminds me of Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet colonel who disobeyed orders when a technological warning system told him that the US had fired nuclear missiles. He distrusted the machines, waited, and investigated. As a result, he prevented nuclear war. AI makes rash, deadly mistakes more likely.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
⚠️ The US almost went to war with China because of a false report generated with AI
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As gas prices in Michigan hit $5/gallon and diesel hits a record $6.59, it shouldn't be this hard to buy gas, groceries, or afford healthcare. Our economy has been rigged against the very people who make it work. I'm running for Senate to change that.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not great when you recognize the whole AI thing reflects the mentality and worldview of white supremacist slavers looking for free labor to increase their profits while doing nothing and also living in total, all-consuming fear that there will be an uprising that leads to their violent comeuppance.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"I watched time run out until it lay in careless piles, like dirt on a pauper's grave." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-lost-v...
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The Lost Vortex
2022 was the last best chance to turn things around.
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 18/09/2026
RUN! sbee.link/cgudtjkp8q
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Women are running away from church to escape MAGA
Women in the U.S. have been slightly more religious than men for untold decades. And many are recognized as the driving force for organized religion and getting kids and spouses to church on religious days.
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 17/09/2026
Michiganders deserve a champion who has a history of fighting for equal rights for everyone. That’s why we’re proud to endorse abdulelsayed.bsky.social, who has:
On a grey and blue paper texture background with stars and a rainbow line, white and blue text reads, “Let’s get free. Vote Equality ‘26” next to the HRC logo. A light blue stamp texture reads, “HRC Endorsed 2026.” White and yellow text reads, “Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate” next to Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s headshot.
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 18/09/2026
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I wrote for Fangoria when I was in college! Some of my Fango stuff is still online, manually typed out by fans decades ago. I did the American Psycho cover story (interviewed Christian Bale from my dorm!) Did some X-Files stuff; here's an article by me at age 21: www.eatthecorn.com/itw/2000/05/...
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Fangoria: His Darkest X Files
May-??-2000 Fangoria His Darkest X Files Sarah Kendzior Transcribed by pam. All [] are mine; the original article's brackets are denoted by {}. X-FILES veteran Kim Manners has directed some of the ser...
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Disclose the money! Show the receipts! Any "influencer" taking money from a campaign or PAC should have to reveal it. These sleazy shills destroy politics even more. Podcasters etc who fundraiase for candidates or who do their PR should be marked as operatives, not as journalists or creative people.
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A lot of money has been changing hands between online creators and political campaigns and much of it has gone undisclosed, according to a recent New York Times report. @davejorgenson.bsky.social sees the revelation as a teaching opportunity.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In one of the most important convos I’ve had this year, I talked with Sherry Turkle about how our interactions with AI platforms, simulated companions, and artificial personalities can reshape us, diminish our capacities, and alter our very conceptions of ourselves and what it means to be a person.
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Artificial Intimacy Is Changing Who We Are
“We start to judge our human interactions by what the chatbot can deliver,” says author Sherry Turkle.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Lt. Gov. Hashmi's leadership has always been about delivering for the people she serves—from lowering costs and expanding access to healthcare to defending reproductive freedom and voting rights. I’m proud to have her support.
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Lt. Governor Ghazala Hashmi @ltgovhashmi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m proud to endorse Michigan’s Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social for U.S. Senate. Dr. El-Sayed and I come from a shared tradition of education and public service, and we both understand the responsibilities that come with a focus on building resilient and healthy communities.
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 16/09/2026
I'm speaking to Dr. Brad Onishi about his book next week. sbee.link/vangbkhyej
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