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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19h

In the presidential immunity case, the court considered a hypothetical of a president ordering Navy Seals to assassinate an American political rival. Trump's lawyer argued unambiguously yes, since it'd be an "official act." The Roberts Court ruled in his favor, 6-3. Why wouldn't Trump believe this?

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

They wont. Zaslav walked off even richer after destroying the company even further than it already had been. Get ready for a deluge if AI slop, media with a blatantly fascistic bent, and a metric ton of tax writeoffs for things that will never be seen again.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 05/10/2026

Begging news media to stop making themselves unwitting NPCs in a weird cult's alternate reality game You do not need to breathlessly repeat claims that LLMs will end the world or create utopia with handwavy details or abstract philosophical arguments Ask follow-up questions or hire people who can

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Your children are much safer in the company of drag queens than: 1. Pastors or priests; 2. Republican men; 3. Billionares; and 3. Frat boys.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

"He's gonna fix it. Believe in him ... all the abortion, it's evil ... I want to see 2 people -- Trump & Jesus...we do not want Muslims taking over...I have horrible thoughts. I don't think they should be here. This isn't their country...they need to pack up & go back where they came from."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Brady Haran @bradyharan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Buckmaster Interview (Navier-Stokes) - Numberphile youtu.be/Mzbtj5nkMXI

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The Buckmaster Interview (Navier-Stokes) - Numberphile

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026

The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)

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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump

Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every single news story about generative AI discovering something ends up being "someone foolishly fed their work into the machine that plagiarizes people's work and then got shocked when it regurgitated exactly what they were working on"

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For decades Americans in Republican counties have died sooner than those living in Democratic ones Now they’re dying faster than they’re being born These are policy choices

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

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.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Washington Post Data Team @wpdatateam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW: Megadonors have now pumped more than $1.7 billion into the midterms. The figure includes a newly disclosed $10M from the crypto billionaire Winklevoss twins, who gave MAGA Inc while crypto regulation was on the Hill. Meet all 50 of the top donors here: www.washingtonpost.com/elections/in...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026

The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)

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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration

Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."

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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle

It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.

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Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yesterday we launched a kickstarter to print Oglaf Book 5. It's going pretty good! www.kickstarter.com/projects/top...

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larger text below says 'hell maybe'
the devil is in front of a kickstarter campaign page but you can't see the amount, which is annoying.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026

interesting how the more desperate the GOP's mid term chances become the louder establishment Democrats are signalling there should be no accountability or reprisals for their crimes

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tinwhisker @tinwhisker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I go through periods where it's hard to be motivated for the work I do; it goes in cycles and I know why. It's because in consulting I have to sell everything I do - constant, endless job interviews. I spend what I feel is too much time convincing people to let me to work for them.

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MyBubble 🇨🇦 @my-bubble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It tracks and sends your location every 4.5 minutes to a third party server. It will : Modify or delete the contents of your shared storage Have full network access Receive data from the internet View network connections View Wi-Fi connections mashable.com/article/trum...

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Trump's new White House app is a security and privacy nightmare

The White House released a mobile app. It logs users' exact location every 4.5 minutes.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

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tinwhisker @tinwhisker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's said that artists try to speak through their art. If generated art is real art, what is the artist trying to say? I know what I hear, "I want the results and recognition without having to contribute any of myself. I contribute none of myself because there is only vanity within me."

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The USG crusade to destroy the ICC seems primarily motivated by a desire to shield Israeli officials like Netanyahu and Gallant from accountability. Worth recalling that those two face charges related to using starvation as a method of warfare in Gaza.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s amazing how the media cooperates to make some issues salient and completely ignores others. We went from North Carolina being protested against for an anti-trans bathroom bill in 2016 to now every politician being asked their position on a dozen or so athletes in ALL of K-16.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🔥 MUST-READ — A WARNING ⚠️ from @AOC: “Heads they win, tails we lose… should the A.I. bubble congress must not bail them out… the biggest threat to humanity isn’t A.I. — it’s the tech oligarchs themselves… @RepAOC points out A.I. companies are demanding massive investments from 🇺🇸 while LOSING money

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 20/09/2026

So Netflix is using "AI" to upscale old movies and shows, with obvious results. Using an algorithm to upscale old video isn't a terrible thing, but to do it right you need to have someone willing to go over every frame. Trouble is, dipshits think it's magic.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 18/09/2026

“If you’re a US citizen you have no reason to fear” – Markwayne Mullin, responding to a video of a teenage US citizen being repeatedly punched in the face by ICE.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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tinwhisker @tinwhisker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thank you @dillydoodle.bsky.social for taking on this commission for me. He's makes wonderful art and I encourage you all to check him out.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The thing about trying not to pick a side is that the nazis *instantly recognize* which side you picked. They immediately identify you as an ally. They know exactly what side you're on. It doesn't fool the victims, it doesn't fool the Nazis, the only people it could possibly fool is centrists.

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Gordon Skramzy @gordonskramzy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It rocks that every news article anymore is like "this deranged Marxist leftist anarchist wants your kids to be Palestinian terrorists" and then it's accompanied by this picture.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In case facts still matter

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tinwhisker @tinwhisker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I post replies but very rarely do I post out of the blue. I generally can't conceive that someone would want to know what happens to be floating through my brain on any particular day. Maybe I should do that more and see what happens? ... Maybe that's what everyone else was thinking 15 years ago.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 13/09/2026

Please do this, please let the chatbot run wild with your credit card ordering parts for imaginary gear that will probably burn your house down when you try to turn it on

Screenshot of an OpenAI post on Instagram, showing a screenshot of a Twitter post:

nim @eminimnim

Vibe hardware is here.
I gave Astra my credit card and asked for a Teenage Engineering-style mini DJ controller.
It generated a concept image, sourced parts, read Chinese datasheets, built a CAD model, ordered everything, then made a Blender animation showing how to assemble it.
62 / BAR
A motor with a brain.
032 mm
3-phase
I'm building my first DJ machine.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Fair Q Answer: laws don’t apply to the rich/Trump’s donors — for them he has literally abolished prisons

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 17/03/2025

9/11 has got to be the number 1 single most successful attack in all of human history. totally destroyed the psyche of the worlds most powerful empire and 2 decades later it throws away its own hegemony desperately clawing to regain the confidence it lost

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Fun fact: the 2002 Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act, which mandated tracking all foreign students and putting them in a biometric database called Chimera, passed the senate 97-0 It was *overwhelmingly* bipartisan, to do this Schumer voted for it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhance...

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Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002 - Wikipedia

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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tinwhisker @tinwhisker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every single time, no exceptions.

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