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"That protected bike lane…see the cyclists want to be free just riding all over, running people down. Well, we're going to confine them to this. Just a massive barrier preventing them from interfering with the front of your car. Yeah, a whole network of these lanes will show them who's boss."

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 1h

no surprise: Gitlin has been on the Tesla beat for long enough to know how to actually cover an event like this

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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 4h

Forgiving infrastructure assumes people make mistakes. A person on a bike who loses their balance and falls shouldn't pay for it with their life just because there was no buffer between them and a vehicle 100 times their weight.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1h

Easiest bet in history is always assuming the tech press is full of easily duped dopes

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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 21h

"AI IS THE FUTURE OF WORK... unless it cost more than one lunch in a major US city per month, then the present of work is good enough for us"

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 15/10/2026

pwease unbwock ads uwu

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shypixels! @shypixels.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I'm sorry, an AI guy telling you "The wool is being pulled over your eyes" while simultaneously owning a huge ass yarn factory will never not be funny. You're literally part of the problem my guy.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 15/10/2026

And yet gas-only cars constituted 77% of the new vehicle market in the US over that period. Has the US ever been this far behind the world average in new tech adoption for a major product type?

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

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404 Media @404media.co · 14/10/2026

Men find yet another way to film and harass women without consent, this time, using a remote controlled robot to push against a "16-year-old girl's buttocks", and this is how the most well-resourced news agencies cover it: Read *our* piece here: www.404media.co/theres-nothi...

The English coverage by even well-resourced outlets like CNN, CBC, and the BBC have almost no information beyond the police press release, which is lazy and stupid, because it is possible to figure out everything that happened here with three seconds of clicking around the internet. The Associated Press wrote that the entire phenomenon is "new territory" for the police, which, I'm sorry to say, men using tech to harass women on livestreams in 2026 is not "unusual" or "new territory" and hasn't been for many years.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Did you know that if inflation goes up but your salary doesn't get a cost of living adjustment... you just took a pay cut?

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 14/10/2026

i'm SO off-kilter today so i'm late sharing this on socials but it IS in fact pip and gunko day! P.S. last page of this story, new one starts next week!

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Pip and Gunko

Goofball comics about a pair of sweet idiots

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

So for instance, whether or not you consider something like FaceId “private” or not, one of its functions has been to acclimate people to face scans as a normal part of everyday life. It is very literally selling surveillance.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 14/10/2026

This was very long but very good, worth the time. If your main critique of all this AI hype is "this is not sustainable financially" it certainly makes you feel like you're right (which is actually bad)

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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 14/10/2026

I finally had a chance to sit down and read this article (from 1968) and it's hard not to see the parallels between that period of ID and our current era of "UX" of whatever the hell we're calling it these days. (Credit to Industrial Designers though, they aren't changing their name every 5 seconds)

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Caleb Sexton @calebsexton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Some men would rather go back to Twitter than go to therapy

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 14/10/2026

I'm so honored to be in this ICE OUT zine put together by @crucialcomix.bsky.social. All proceeds go to Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Center (MIRAC). www.crucialcomix.com/product/preo...

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PREORDER: Cartoonists Against ICE

These comics by 25 cartoonists across the country are both urgent and reflective as they document the human impact of ICE’s cruel 2026 raids.

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SirFox @sirfox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I am personally looking forward to the biggest goddamn "WE FUCKING TOLD YOU SO!!!" ever. C-suites drank the Kool-Aid marked "you never have to pay an employee or care what they think ever again." Before they looked under the hood to see it was a car without an engine. Like we goddamn told you...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The ruling class isn't even hiding it. They sometimes just say this shit in public.

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CNBC Accidentally Admits Why Employers Love AI

It's all about suppressing wages.

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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 13/10/2026

I just checked in on LinkedIn and the top of my feed is a YC dude talking about how Photoshop and Microsoft Word are "losers" of the last decade of software and... sure dude. They're losing all the way to the bank.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I am so so tired of speculative investment driving the tech/business agenda. This is about the 4th major round in my professional lifetime of unsustainable nonsense taking up all the oxygen and leaving a trail of wreckage.

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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A reminder for those at the back.

A redraw of the i nice panel from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, where Batman snaps a rifle in two over his knee.

He says "THIS is the weaponnof the enemy. We do not NEED it. We will not USE it."

I've replace the rifle with a plank of wood labelled "AI Slop"

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

bsky.app/profile/aida...

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 13/10/2026

Trump Sticks It to Vancouver, Changes Mount Rainier’s Name Back to Tacoma: tinyurl.com/e75cvx2w

Volcano formerly known as Mount Rainier towering over city of Tacoma

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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 12/10/2026

“noise noise noise. Smokin weed. Doing hacks. Killing supers. smokin blunts. who smokes the blunts? We smoke the blunts!”

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Just because it's trending: if your reaction to ICE targeting Ilhan Omar is to call for Elon Musk and/or Melania Trump to be denaturalized and deported, YOU ARE NOT HELPING.

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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 12/10/2026

On behalf of my generation we would like to formally disclaim any of these dudes as “the greatest minds of my generation…“ Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 12/10/2026

This is the only take on this that feels reasonable (and also, we’ve known this is who Gruber is for so long, he’s right up there with all the other access ‘journalists’ that make up most tech coverage, who all seem to be singing this song lately)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Republicans are openly cheating across the country in this election cycle because they believe if they win, they won't face any consequences for the cheating and also know from experience that if they lose they also won't face any consequences for the cheating.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17/07/2025

The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and are using their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Some people continue to be on X and feel a need to justify it publicly just like how some people like working at companies and organizations that are well known to treat women and people of color terribly. It is sad but predictable, because of capitalism.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/10/2026

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-pe…

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They’re both carrying the same number of people - and probably the same amount of cargo.

Woman wearing black riding, green lime bike. In the background is a blue pickup truck.

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🎃 The Conqueror Woim 👻 @jbirken.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Also, philosophy in general? There's been discourse on why ppl get emotional about fiction *despite knowing* that it's fiction for more than two millenia, and now ppl are like oh this text is about pain so the text itself must, like, really hurt ergo it's ackshually not fiction but A Real Boy

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Christopher Julian @chrisajulian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

Six small line charts showing the percent of U.S. high school students choosing each sexual identity response option by grade (9th to 12th), 2015 to 2025, with 95% confidence intervals. Heterosexual falls from about 85 to 90 percent before 2021 to about 73 percent in 2021 and 2023, then rises to about 78 to 80 percent in 2025. Gay or lesbian stays between about 2 and 5 percent throughout. Bisexual rises to about 12 percent in 2021 in every grade, then among 9th graders falls to about 7 percent in 2025, its 2019 level, while other grades stay near 10 percent. “Some other way,” added in 2021, falls from about 4 percent to about 2.5 percent. “Not sure” stays near 3 to 5 percent. A dotted line marks 2021, when CDC changed the response options.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A real welfare state and universal health care require broad taxation, including the middle class. But high end wealth taxation is the kind of tax that protects democracy and the rule of law, and prevents aristocratic dynasties. It keeps us human.

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Tony Santos @tony.webeasties.com · 10/10/2026

It is a crime that "color change" is not an animation option in Keynote when you can do a whole bunch of absurd bullshit

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

yeah. i certainly won’t say chatbot use doesn’t create learned helplessness (i’ve seen it happen) but i will say, this study definitely doesn’t prove that

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
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Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Eric J Morey @ericjmorey.com · 10/10/2026

The people responsible for this are: Dario Amodei (CEO) Daniela Amodei (President) Ami Vora (CPO) Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (Chief Global Affairs Officer) They directed their computers to do this. They are responsible for these crimes.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 10/10/2026

“AI” stands for the age of impunity

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 10/10/2026

The Anthropic and OpenAI joint criminal conspiracy to commit computer fraud and interfere with the operations of other businesses and national and international governments now also includes actively interfering with criminal investigations.

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