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Nate Goldman

@ungoldman.com
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Internet person. Civil & human rights enthusiast. Geo, politics, journalism, nature, games. Past lives: FOSS, community organizing, philosophy, linguistics, pizza delivery. ungoldman.com he/him pdx

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19h
oh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”
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America.gov
Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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Nate Goldman @ungoldman.com · 29/09/2026
eventually the amount of layoffs will approach infinity, at which point we will be forced to confront the horror of never again working for rich guys running pyramid schemes
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s a saving grace that the Trump admin is *incredibly* incompetent.
The source in Politico's story was not speaking against the White House's wishes, but spoke in an authorized call during which reporters were instructed to attribute information to a
"senior administration official."
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)
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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I made multiplayer Windows 98 Solitaire. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. You can play together, with the whole internet, but you can't chat or talk. solitairealonetogether.com
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 20/09/2026
We speak with moral philosopher Susan Neiman, author of the new book, "Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era." Neiman argues that evil — far from being an outdated religious concept — is a vital way to understand how injustice works in the world.
democracynow.org
“Call It Evil”: Philosopher Susan Neiman on Why Moral Clarity Matters in the Trump Era
We speak with moral philosopher Susan Neiman, author of the new book Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era. Neiman argues that evil — far from being an outdated religious concept — is a vital way ...
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Return of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a very good point and the thing to understand is that’s not what’s happening on either side. The republicans are identifying all the people they want to target for degradation and a repeal of their civil rights. The democrats are giving a list of who they’re okay to do that to.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i'm traveling and can't sit down to write out the portland police's history of using town halls, press conferences, and leaks to campaign against elected officials but they are repeat offenders and we should call it what it is: election interference by a cartel of armed washington state residents
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Nate Goldman @ungoldman.com · 19/09/2026
Can’t recall a more aggressive smear campaign in Portland since… well not that long ago
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I assume anyone who points out how small the trans population is doesn’t know any trans people & I guess that’s what it takes to care? Because if you know even ONE trans person, like a person in your life, how can you think about that person and conclude it’s okay if they get thrown under the bus?
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...
reason.com
Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 18/09/2026
A TREATISE ON WEIRDOS (DEROGATORY): people really try to avoid thinking about how weird everyone at the top of society is. it isn't nice, to think about how we all let weirdos get to the heights of our so-called civilization.
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 18/09/2026
EDITORIAL OPINION: In 2020, Portland protesters exercising their First Amendment rights faced rubber bullets, batons, and tear gas from the Portland Police Bureau.
portlandmercury.com
Knee-Jerk Reactions to Councilor Green’s Tweets Are Hypocritical and Dangerous - Portland Mercury
The police are supposed to keep protesters safe as they exercise their rights to free speech—not retaliate by shooting them with rubber bullets, striking them with batons, or spraying tear gas at more...
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Nate Goldman @ungoldman.com · 18/09/2026
unreal
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Nate Goldman @ungoldman.com · 17/09/2026
nap time for some, icc trials for others
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Panic @panic.com · 17/09/2026
me when I finally reply to your email
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/09/2026
The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.
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New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Nate Goldman @ungoldman.com · 17/09/2026
terminator 2 timeline is already here, skynet is just run by people
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 15/09/2026
also as more "AI/delivery robots/Waymos is powered by low-paid foreign workers" inevitably comes to light, remember content moderation is done by people who are having their souls rended apart for low wages AND Zuckerberg backed away from moderating hate speech once Kenyan moderators unionized.
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Nate Goldman @ungoldman.com · 15/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Robert Redford Nodding Meme
Alt: Jeremiah Johnson slowly nods approvingly
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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Scoop: The EPA is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. Tag team with @bloomberg.com’s Ari Natter and Jen Dlouhy. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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EPA Poised to Repeal Carbon Standards for Coal, Gas Power Plants
The US Environmental Protection Agency is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Israel’s culture minister has called for the Oscar-winning Israeli directors of NAZA, a documentary about the country’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza, to be stripped of their citizenship, accusing them of “treason against the state”. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
theguardian.com
Israeli minister threatens to strip Israeli film-makers of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZA
Miki Zohar accuses Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of ‘treason against the state’
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11/09/2026
we don’t teach young people short-term history, so it was weird when i realized that gen z had no idea that so many gen x and millennials spent our high school years protesting george w bush and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.
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Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/09/2026
Overnight this ICE flight landed in Tel Aviv. This will have been a removal of Palestinians. On most ICE flights, passengers are unshackled shortly before landing, but previous groups here were transferred into Israeli custody still shackled, driven to the West Bank, and dumped.
An FR24 map showing N62FF landing in Tel Aviv
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
404media.co
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 09/09/2026
“In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a ‘pre-crime’ approach… In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs.” @drboguslaw.bsky.social:
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Mark X @markmx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
To describe what LLM’s do as reasoning is a trap that plays to the difficulty of building intuition around probabilistic outcomes.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Nate Goldman @ungoldman.com · 07/09/2026
It’s never a bad idea to log off
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Nate Goldman @ungoldman.com · 07/09/2026
one must imagine sysiphus and the boulder happy together
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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026
throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I found where they’re conserving you
Google Maps image of “Chuckle Head Conservation Area” in Tasmania
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Nate Goldman @ungoldman.com · 30/08/2026
big portion of contributions go to @directrelief.org supporting earthquake recovery in venezuela
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Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
SCOOP: Pig-butchering scammers have used enterprise apps like Teams & Webex to defraud Chinese victims and erase evidence afterwards. Desperate victims then resolve to leave angry app store reviews: in the past 18 months, 30% of Teams' reviews and 71%❗of Webex's reviews are explicitly about fraud.
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Microsoft Teams Has Become a Haven for Scammers in China
Fraudsters are exploiting enterprise chat apps like Teams and Webex to trick Chinese victims into transferring large sums of money, fueling a wave of complaints.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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isaac @sevier.io · 21/08/2026
Bad for climate in a way that's difficult to overstate. Folks brushing off anti-AI activism as naive aren't serious about the crisis we are in.
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 11/08/2026
I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

AXIOS

Al has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.
• Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books - a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane - makes it easy to lose the thread. Al can help you pick it back up without starting over.
Ш I really got into using Al while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:
• "T'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
• The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/08/2026
It’s cool how seemingly no one is hiring for policy and research jobs EXCEPT for this kind of blatantly twisted thing:
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 11/08/2026
Adults are evil.
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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Cc: @doctorow.pluralistic.net
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“It’s called…….....…enshittification.”
YouTube video by Man Carrying Thing
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Nate Goldman @ungoldman.com · 11/08/2026
Guess I'm a sewer socialist
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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 10/08/2026
NOW
THAT'S WHERE I PUT MY
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 10/08/2026
Aggressive campaign finance regimes are necessary to ensure the stability and even the viability of nations.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 09/08/2026
What a bonkers statistic as.ft.com/r/3b0a9bd3-a...
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