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Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New interview on the site! @aguaspoints.bsky.social and Julie Normann Bjørnskov talk Escape the Baby Alarm.
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How Being a Parent Influenced Escape The Baby Alarm — Gamers with Glasses
Luis Aguasvivas and Julie Normann Bjørnskov discuss her game, Escape The Baby Alarm . Their conversation included a consideration of how raising children influenced the game’s design, her pr...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African. In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.) In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 28/08/2026
katamari.andrew-boylan.com I love this, what a treat
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Katamari Object Library
A desktop-style archive of 1,680 textured GLB object models.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We are not living through "an authoritarian impulse," we are living through actual AUTHORITARIANISM.
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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the social, moral, and political crimes of the LLM companies and their owners are beyond measure and growing every day
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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
we don't need to give the white wizard a Palantir
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
lol
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The actual number of moves that are not utterly stupid in chess is tiny and chess will be fully solved one day
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers.
One day, it will be fully solved like checkers.
Between now and then, or even after, have fun.
People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly betterThere are more possible chess games, by about 40 orders of magnitude, than atoms in the observable universe. To solve chess, you'd have to map them all. Good luck.
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers. One day, it will be fully solved like checkers. 

Between now and then, or even after, have fun. People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly better.
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Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 oom less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend. 

(Here I am arguing with some random intern at a chess website 🤦‍♂️)
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Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 oom less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend.
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Evident @evidentmedia.org · 04/09/2026
We're honored to receive an Online Journalism Award with @bellingcat.com & @calmatters.org for our reporting on Border Patrol & ICE. This award brings more national attention to reporting that revealed individual agents' use of force and questionable detentions awards.journalists.org/2026/09/03/c...
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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2026 Online Journalism Awards - Online Journalism Awards
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In Qusra, “families are barricaded in their homes. They know that if they succumb to the settlers’ threats and leave, their houses will be lost forever.” —David Shulman www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Qusra Under Siege | David Shulman
Another Palestinian village in the West Bank has been attacked by Israeli settlers. The lack of response by the army and police reveals how deeply corrupted they are by the colonialist agenda.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026
It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.
The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.
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Tod Robbins @todrobbins.com · 29/08/2026
Source on cost estimates: blog.robozaps.com/b/boston-dyn...
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Boston Dynamics Robot Dog: Spot Price, Specs & Who Buys It (2026)
The Boston Dynamics robot dog explained: Spot has no public price in 2026 (the $74,500 figure is dead — real units ran $150k-$375k), 90-min battery, 14 kg payload, and 1,500+ deployed. Specs, police u...
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Tod Robbins @todrobbins.com · 29/08/2026
With a $2M budget and an average cost of $150K–$300K per Boston Dynamics Spot, won't that mean they only acquire 7–13 of these things?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Shock gloves and robot dogs. Trump's ICE Gestapo is using our money to terrorize us.
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ICE plans to purchase robot dogs
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking to spend up to $2 million on robot dogs, according to a federal procurement notice.
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Tod Robbins @todrobbins.com · 29/08/2026
🥰 I could stare at this all day long
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Patrick "Dark Satanic" Mills @pkernaghan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Well it looks like my voter registration has been cancelled, cool cool
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
every neurodivergent lesbian on bluesky is in my quotes and mentions rn
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 23/08/2026
there are now almost 600 signatories to the pro-cofnas letter. of the first 100 i examined, _two_ spoke out against campus crackdowns on pro-palestinian speech. 75 said nothing and 23 spoke out _in support of the crackdowns_!
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A key idea in my Modern Middle East class is that Islam and Islamism are mostly overstated in popular discussions of the region and authoritarianism mostly understated.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
@rachelspacek.bsky.social at @investigatewest.bsky.social examined how closely one Idaho county's probation office is working with ICE -- even going so far as to compile a "foreign born list" for ICE. www.investigatewest.org/idaho-county...
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Idaho probation office compiles ‘foreign born list’ for ICE
Emails show how Canyon County probation officers are helping immigration authorities — including making a list of foreign-born individuals
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
DSA member Angie Nixon was outspent 36:1 and did not receive an AOC or Bernie endorsement, and yet she won the Florida Senate primary by more than 12 points
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
NEW from @pewresearch.org: For the first time, a majority of adults under 30 say they're more concerned than excited about AI. And 73% say AI will lead to fewer jobs in the US, up from 61% who expressed that view two years ago.
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Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs
About half of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about AI, and young adults' concern is rising.
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SJW Travis Bickle @uzionmain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
OK. I've had enough of nominative determinism.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026
"with a stroke of a pen, use of biometric analysis went from being limited to serious crimes to being investigated by the Irish police, to being open to cooperation w any 'other law enforcement agency',w no minimum threshold on the criminal investigation grounds cited" www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ire...
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The Gist: Ireland's Biometric Laundromat
Ireland quietly passed a law in July potentially undermining every EU citizen's protections against law enforcement use of biometrics. This is the Gist.
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Tod Robbins @todrobbins.com · 09/08/2026
this is genocide
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Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
the aerial view of destruction, seeing places that i've spent so much precious time in being literally erased by Israeli bombs while i'm far away, feels like a physical assault on memory itself.
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval
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all night, drug-prowling werewolf @shrike17.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
'This place is unrecognizably bad. It’s a new badness that requires new naming, new maps, new solutions, and new radicalisms. It’s a new badness that requires new relentlessness, born from people brave enough to sit with themselves and attempt to unleash something never seen before.'
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
HAPPY RELEASE DAY TO ASHANTI! YOU DID IT MAN! Go order this book that I had great pleasure of working on as an editor and helping to curate. Get your copy now because they're going to be moving off the shelves, trust and believe!
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Ola Jönsson @madwrist.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Secured my copy through the Friends of AK Press subscription. Delivered together with some other fine newly released books by @akpress.org!
Three books about anarchism and civil rights lie on a wooden floor: Visions and Interventions, The Selected Writings of Ashanti Alston: Anarchist Panther, and Civil Rights and Structural Attacks.
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Tod Robbins @todrobbins.com · 28/07/2026
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Carl from The Simpsons Does a Chef's Kiss
ALT: Carl from The Simpsons Does a Chef's Kiss
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 28/07/2026
Despite displacement, hunger, and the loss of their homes, Gaza's students sat for their national high school exams and still came out on top. mondoweiss.net/2026/07/thes... #Palestine #Israel
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These students survived the Gaza genocide and still earned top scores on Palestine’s national high school exams
Despite displacement, hunger, and the loss of their homes, Gaza’s students sat for their national high school exams and still came out on top.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New photos and words from me at the Ten Four: Law enforcement agencies allegedly misused crowd-control weapons at least 412 times during immigration enforcement protests across the United States between June 2025 and May 2026. latenfour.com/2026/07/22/l...
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Local Law Enforcement in Los Angeles Emerges Epicenter of Crowd-Control Weapon Misuse, New Report Finds
Law enforcement agencies allegedly misused crowd-control weapons at least 412 times during immigration enforcement protests across the United States between June 2025 and May 2026, according to a r…
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Believe it or not congressional hearings with admin officials did not always consist entirely of -straightforward factual question -bald-faced lie -rebuttal with obvious fact
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.
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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Derek Chauvin was a field training officer for Minneapolis PD. More training won't help unaccountable right-wing thugs be decent. If you want a phenomenal dive into a microcosm of this problem, you would do well to read @awinston.bsky.social's book "The Riders Come Out At Night", about Oakland PD.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Latest from our front ⬇️
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A person from the New York Public Library Comms team tried to get me to remove a link from last week's book censorship news roundup. Through my personal email. Through a private phone call.
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Steve Ammidown @stegan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A bit of wisdom I’ve learned as an archivist: Everything is always falling apart. You can’t ever stop it because that’s what matter does. Your job is to slow the process down as much as you can. It’s true with documents, books, and art. And with life too- falling apart is what we do.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/07/2026
The Los Angeles Police Department let its Flock contract expire after an audit revealed that 161 cars were falsely flagged as stolen in a two month span. Mass surveillance doesn't keep us safe. LAPD must permanently cut ties with this tech and other cities must follow suit.
fortune.com
LAPD was one of Flock Safety's biggest government customers. Now it’s renegotiating its partnership over ‘serious concerns around civil liberties’ | Fortune
The department recently announced it would not renew its contract due to how Flock collects and shares data.
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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.news · 14/07/2026
NEW from LCRW: @azrww.bsky.social & our editor went to Provo Utah to cover Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer’s pretrial hearings. We found conspiracy theorists trying to get everyone to stick to the facts, and Poso trying to say LCRW killed Kirk because we’re antifa. Take it take all 11,000 of our words
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WE WENT TO THE CHARLIE KIRK MURDER HEARINGS & ALL WE GOT WAS…BEING ACCUSED OF... | Left Coast Right Watch
At Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearings, conspiracy theorists & TPUSA people who hate the conspiracies had one thing in common
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
President Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator was caught by Kalshi making bets on what he would say in his speeches, something that obviously involves insider information. ABC News reports that he made over $100,000 betting on his speeches and is now in settlement talks with the CFTC.
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White House teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump's speeches: Sources
President Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on the contents of Trump's speeches, sources say.
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Rachael "Trademark Clippy" Dickson @tudorsandtms.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I adore Dr. Pepper as a drink and I also love trademarks, so I have a growing collection of photos of "sodas with a doctorate." Please witness some of my treasures. (Plz share more too if you have anyyyy)
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Brandee @misscherryjones.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“In order to radicalize people, you don’t actually need to have theorists or ideologues that are calling people to violence against AI, because the tech CEOs are doing a pretty good case,” Veilleux-LePage said.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The institutions including media that support the people robbing you blind should not be listened to.
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Libertad Free Askatasun @provocart.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Tod Robbins @todrobbins.com · 14/07/2026
another one bites the dust: earendil.com
earendil.com
Welcome | EARENDIL
Earendil is a public benefit corporation crafting software and open protocols to strengthen human agency, bridge division, and cultivate lasting joy.
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The Omega Mega Man @omegamegaman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why do every one of these “tech startups” read Tolkien, and just be like, yeah… but what if we were there to help Sauron?
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