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Boston based software engineer. Likes video games, travel and reading sci-fi/fantasy.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Menace to democracy Elon Musk has slowed Starlink to sabotage Ukraine and help Putin. So what country will be stupid enough to pay millions to any of Elon Musk's companies when they now know that he may unilaterally breach contracts for personal reasons on a petulant whim? Oh, I know! The US.
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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 14/10/2026
I honestly think the way to grab the left edge of the Overton window and pull it to a more reasonable place is for politicians to not only take positions like this and then insist that they are a moderate and these are moderate positions. Say it over and over until the media parrots it.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
There’s also this piece from last year which points to similar cognitive effects. Asbestos of the mind is an excellent way to put it.
404media.co
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Again, we don't need chapters about "what DOGE might have been if the people involved had had any decency at all." We need to send these people to jail forever for unprecedented crimes. We really need to <not> spend anytime on "right idea, wrong execution" right now (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).
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The Guy Behind The Big Short and Moneyball Is Back to Take On Elon Musk and DOGE. It’s a Roller Coaster.
Michael Lewis’ Blockers tells the stories of good public servants driven away by the Trump administration.
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Uplifting News @upliftingnews.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Solar canopies above crops produced clean energy while reducing heat stress, boosting summer yields by 20% and improving barley quality in field trials.
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Solar canopies sitting 5 meters above a corn field produced clean energy while shielding the plants from the worst effects of the extreme heat and helping to reduce evapotranspiration, boosting crop yields by 20% during summer heatwaves. 🌽 Another s…
Solar canopies sitting 5 meters above a corn field produced clean energy while shielding the plants from the worst effects of the extreme heat and helping to reduce evapotranspiration, boosting crop yields by 20% during summer heatwaves. 🌽 Another site produced a better quality barley yield. 🌞
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”
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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Marvelous Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He already had his face used by someone else, he’s not about to do that all over again.
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So, the reason we mock horrible fascists is not to make fascists change their minds. It is to show they are mockable. It breaks the veneer of respectability and power. It gives others social permission to mock them. Satire is poisonous to power because it makes opposition both fun and collaborative.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
this is literally why you have uniforms and badges every member of the media pretending that any of this is due to anything else should be frogmarched out of public life
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
For almost 2 years now, DHS has repeatedly told me they're not detaining U.S. citizens It's simply not true So @propublica.org published the receipts: a searchable database of the 500+ citizens detained by immigration agents during this Trump administration projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People always ask “where are you going to get the money to pay for stuff like housing and healthcare and public transit” and the answer is the same as it’s always been Make the rich pay their fair share
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026
Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying
Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.
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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Is the company that makes "Claude" going to pay for all these rescue missions? How does one establish culpability in these cases?
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a note: if you'd like to read this story without repeatedly watching footage of violent arrests, you can click to disable the videos at the beginning
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/10/2026
While I was struggling with protecting my mom's site from the bot swarm I kept asking everyone who is still in the industry how small sites who don't have a kid with a computer science degree survive and the answer was pretty much "they don't" and that's so grim
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Look, I’m not saying the Pope should bring back the Spanish Inquisition for everyone, but maybe in some special cases? As a little treat for the rest of us?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i don’t know how to make it any plainer that the vast majority of dem voters believe holding people accountable IS part of “getting back to work”
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
everyone was waiting for an Andrew Jackson style defying the Supreme Court moment — which the admin walked up to the line of doing with Abrego Garcia — but that is masking how much the trump Vance administration is doing these moments basically every day at lower courts everywhere
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026
Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:
realtimetechpocalypse.com
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The GOP has collapsed so far into far right authoritarianism that it has lost <checks notes> Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, George Will, & Bill Kristol, & yet somehow our National Conversation™️ remains focused disproportionately on whether Democrats are veering too far left into socialism 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 14/09/2026
Without serious technical efforts, banana crops face collapse worldwide. James Woodford enjoys a passionate plea from leading researcher James Dale in his new book, The Future of Bananas
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The quest to save the bananas we love so much makes scary reading | New Scientist
Without serious technical efforts, banana crops face collapse worldwide. James Woodford enjoys a passionate plea from leading researcher James Dale in his new book, The Future of Bananas
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ed Sheeran wanting to remain neutral is sending me lol. Dudes worth £200m+. My brother in Christ if you cannot speak freely who the fuck can lol
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/09/2026
Memphis has spent a year under federal occupation. ICE would rather you didn't notice. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Memphis has spent a year under federal occupation. ICE would rather you didn't notice.
Watch as these officers arrest an activist for documenting from a reasonable distance.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"What are they hiding?" is always a stupid line, but it's rich coming from the guy who got caught taking a $50,000 bribe in a Cava bag.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Things that were taken as a given for the last 80 years but apparently some people thought they knew best
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026
“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
President Trump wants to soften one of the strongest legal protections American workers have: the right to hold an employer accountable when retirement savings are mishandled. Here's what you need to know:
propublica.org
Wall Street Wants to Change the Rules for Your 401(k). It Could Put Your Retirement at Risk.
Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage  less-regulated — and often riskier — inv...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“State elections officials are moving forward with plans to mail out ballots as if nothing has changed. But they’re also developing contingency plans — the way they do to prepare for bomb threats, power outages and natural disasters.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to Donald Trump Jr. said it received at least $100 million from Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration. (Published June)
propublica.org
An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If only the media had as much interest in the world's richest person, the primary funder of the Republican Party, who spoke at Trump's Inauguration and gave a Sieg Heil, once again declaring his belief "white solidarity is the only way to survive" as they do some Twitch streamer.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A sentiment I keep seeing, with which I’m wholly sympathetic, is “this should be a scandal.” Yes, it should. But it’s not. We’re 10 yrs in. Let us contend with this ugly reality.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The animating principle of representational democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of deranged rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”
He is the richest man on earth. An explosive new film from the Oscar-winning director suggests he also may be among the most dangerous.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Supreme Court blocked the student loan forgiveness despite there being explicit statutory authority for Biden to do it and allowed the Iran War despite an explicit Constitutional prohibition on anyone besides Congress declaring a war.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Bombing civilian targets in retaliation for attacking valid military targets is a blatant war crime and it's a reflection of how far we've fallen that him boasting about doing so won't even be a news story.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Fear is the Project Killer.
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It is so goddamn perfect out in Cambridge today. Here's your plan: 1. Wander to your local bookstore 2. Buy a book on a whim. (Don't overthink it, don't make it hard) 3. Get a tasty beverage 4. Set up somewhere outside & read for a bunch 5. Remember you deserve joy
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/09/2026
"Iran has imposed a strategic defeat on America without a single Iranian soldier firing a rifle. Hegseth obsessing over soldiers’ physical fitness in 2026 is like a European general fixating on his troops’ horsemanship in 1940."
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Pete Hegseth 💩 the Bed Again
The secretary of WAR is obsessed with doing pushups in the age of drone warfare. America will pay for his stupidity.
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Zaquelle LaBelle @zaquelle-labelle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They spent all that time screaming and hollering that there was no institutional racism. Meanwhile, they are literally trying to bake the racism back into the system! Reinforcing it. STAY WOKE! 
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 01/09/2026
The quotable Tarn Adams: "It just reminds me of like a fucking Dead Kennedys song or something."
pcgamer.com
Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis'
"They're trying to have a CEO press a button that makes a game."
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Speaker Mike Johnson is literally #2 in the line of succession to the presidency. And he says he's "literally not qualified" to discuss major issues at the Pentagon?
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I think a really important thing to emphasize about Dolly’s generosity is that she was still rich. I’m not saying that as a criticism. I’m saying she’s proof that she gave so much money towards so much, and it didn’t impact her ability to live a glamorous, glitzy life most people only dream of.
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 30/08/2026
Private equity destroys everything it touches. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/n...
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How a Private Equity Group Drove an Apartment Complex Into the Ground (Gift Article)
After decades as a coveted address in Syracuse, N.Y., the sprawling Nob Hill complex descended into neglect, squalor and death. One family paid a terrible price.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/08/2026
Fresh produce sales fell in the U.S. after a major outbreak of cyclosporiasis. Greens from California’s Salinas Valley haven’t been implicated, but demand for lettuce has still plummeted, forcing growers there to plow it back into the soil and lay off workers.
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With Shoppers Wary of Illness, Farmers Destroy Millions of Heads of Lettuce
After a drop in demand driven by a nationwide outbreak of cyclosporiasis, California growers are plowing lettuce back into the soil and laying off workers.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/08/2026
beyond the bigotry i find this to be a completely bizarre worldview. what do you mean that the actual material forces of history are immaterial to your ideas of national development? are you fucking stupid? (the answer is yes)
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phil @philjamesson.com · 28/08/2026
probably not good that i looked up "officer flock cameras stalking" and couldn't find this story amidst the deluge of other cops also stalking their ex girlfriends
google search results with the "top stories" showing four different articles about police stalking cases using flock cameras. these four stories are about three different cops (jason rogers, asad zahir, and sergio rodriguez)
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