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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 13h
let's go further back. smedley butler was right and nearly all of america's business elite back _then_ should've been worm food and then there's the whole civil war thing, where a lot of very shitty people basically experienced no hardship for trying to ruin the union
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17h
Elite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop.
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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a big deal. DC fed judge says that DOJ's pursuit (and use) of the state voter files is unlawful, on a bunch of different grounds. And effectively confirms that for the 18 states that submitted files willingly, whoever collected the files at DOJ Civil Rights committed federal crimes.
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Memorandum & Opinion – #51 in COMMON CAUSE v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01352) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION re the 29 Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and the 32 Motion to Dismiss, or in the Alternative, for Summary Judgment. See the attached document for details. Signed by Judge Spark...
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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 12h
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 23h
It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 23h
I think, if I’m being honest with myself, this is the main reason I refuse to touch these things. More so than being environmentally dilligent, even more so than wanting to avoid being a thief. I am very good at my job. I enjoy being very good at my job. I do not want to become less good at my job
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10h
Imagine if a crib that sometimes collapsed while a baby slept inside was treated as an impossible to predict feature of the emergent complexity of cribs and therefore we decided nothing could be done.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10h
It is a CHOICE to treat gen AI products as something other than what they are: Manufactured by humans and capable of being poorly, incompetently, or recklessly made.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h
I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'
Andrew Curran: Axios is reporting that the top labs are wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event in the next 6 - 12 months, that some executives now see as being inevitable.

Axios: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAl and other Al companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.
Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.

Edouard Harris: This is our view as well. Relatedly, average people will want to increase their level of personal resilience and preparedness as their resources allow. We will be publishing about this soon.

Nick Farina: Best ways to be prepared? Generators, water, books and DVDs?

Edouard Harris: Power, water, food, sanitation for most part. Parts of this depend on your geo latitude - solar vs propane for eg.

But also: set aside a computer that is not (and ideally has never been) connected to the internet. Buy faraday pouches and tape. Print out essential docs on paper.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17h
These guys keep loudly pointing a gun right at everyone else's face and they do not seem to be able to understand why the reaction isn't to shower them with praise and money. Everyone's like "so you're telling me you need to visit Charlie Kirk" and they're like no you lowly cur you need to buy my
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17h
They're like "my company is gonna kill you and you will suffer the entire time" and they seem to legit be shocked that the reaction is "so you're saying someone needs to take you out to dinner"
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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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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 16h
Love to see an article talk about some cool science in an accessible way, *and* center it around Indigenous data sovereignty.
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 21h
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start.
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 19h
no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave
two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."
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The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Democrats will never learn.
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you’re rightfully outraged by this execution livestream, may I introduce you to the US’s history of lynchings as spectacles
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.npr.org/2022/02/07/1...
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How Black activists used lynching souvenirs to expose American violence
NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Christine Turner, the filmmaker behind the short documentary, Lynching Postcards: 'Token of A Great Day,' about her film and its present-day resonance.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 09/10/2026
last night eyewitnesses saw Oscar Belgal — the man shot by ICE with his 5 year old in the car — discharged from the hospital into ICE custody, with feds speeding off as NYPD cleared the roads for them of protesters. his attorneys don't know where he is; he's seemingly been taken out of NY state.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026
Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.
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Bea Eli 🏳️‍⚧️ @msbeaeli.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is an emergency. ‼️ Bex’s surgery wound is gaping and they need $263 to pay the upfront costs of getting medical help. They have stage 4 cancer and I don’t think they should go home like this. Black lives matter. Bex’s life matters. Please don’t make them wait. Their link: bit.ly/HelpBex
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Jess Kali 🏳️‍⚧️ @jessicakali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I've been saying this for a minute. If your candidate might be harmed by trans people not voting for them, then why aren't you calling your candidate?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
If you're in Colorado and need help...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you’re really that sick you should be in the hospital” Please stop saying this to chronically ill people. If we went to the hospital every time we suffered, we would live there. Hospitals can’t help us and they often make us worse. We are on our own, and being subtly gaslit doesn’t help.
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Facts.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/10/2026
Annie Andrews in 2022: "This does nothing to protect or support women or children in SC. I will always support trans youth" Annie Andrews in 2025: It's wrong to "throw this population under the bus to score political points." Annie Andrews today:
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/10/2026
Seriously. What a fucking coward.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We're now at two objective studies for the best use case anyone has for LLMs and both found it useless even for that. It's a scam. It has no use
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The right has been gloating that the #MeToo era ended, but we're due for a reckoning that's going to make that look like nothing by comparison.
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Sleeping Awake @sleepingawake.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US With nearly 3,900 reported cases, the nation is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991, according to the CDC.
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US
With nearly 3,900 reported cases, the nation is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991, according to the CDC.
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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 06/10/2026
fwiw arstechnica.com/apple/2026/1...
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Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The “fastest growing Ebola outbreak in history” has spread to Kenya. This is devastating. Thousands have lost their lives at a time when the regime has just made massive cuts to USAID in Africa. It’s important we keep talking about Ebola and ensure those fighting it have the support they need:
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Kenya confirms first Ebola case imported from Congo after patient dies in Nairobi
Kenya’s Health Ministry has confirmed the country’s first imported Ebola case from Congo. Health Minister Aden Duale said on Tuesday the patient, a Kenyan citizen, arrived in the country Saturday from...
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government.
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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"
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Karissa Barrows @sjbsmama.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is going to be the worst bubble burst in history when it happens. WHEN. If for no other reason than you’ll need the skills you build by doing so post-AI crash, intentionally & vehemently refuse to use LLMs 100% of the time. Make sure employers, schools, etc leave ALL non-AI pathways open.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every last woman in this video matters more than any man who has sexually assaulted someone.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Stop accepting that if they’ve gotten away with it this long it’s too late for there to be consequences Stop acting like admitting to it after they’ve been caught is some sort of atonement
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off
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