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The pure idiocy that blue states signed up for this crap is mind-blowing. OF COURSE this is where it was going. @jbpritzker.bsky.social: you're saying you're for regulating AI now--so how about the AI-using license plate "readers" (which work like crap & are now feeding data to the Trump admin)!?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

I really think a lot of people underestimate the damage done to society by the conviction that, no matter what product we want, it should be delivered to us in a matter of hours.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

Some people are saying. bsky.app/profile/hype...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

“I asked Chatterjee whether images from the smart glasses could be obtained with a warrant; he said he wasn’t sure. A spokesperson later followed up to confirm that yes, they could.” 🤷🏿‍♂️

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

"What? Filing a lawsuit with the Supreme Court?" It's rare. But when states are bitch slapping each other, that's how it gets sorted. Abortion-ban states are really angry that abortion-friendly states won't extradite doctors providing care to patients in the ban states. Shit just got real.

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V. Murr @vmurr.bsky.social · 50m

I'm not remotely religious and I am not a baseball fan ... but even I find the Pope's love for the White Sox adorable. 🤗

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 2h

Maybe firing and driving off all of the smart cybersecurity people was a bad idea? Apparently SI was not super enough to prevent this.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 4h

UPDATE: he told me he's single but he's actually married with a child, so I can never speak to or help him ever again. why can't men be normal?!

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

EARLY VOTING IS NOW OPEN IN: -ILLINOIS -MINNESOTA -VERMONT -VIRGINIA Spreadsheet with dates & a link to more information ⬇️

docs.google.com

Early / In-person Absentee Voting Dates

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5h

I watched that American idol guy get convicted of murder today and I will never ever understand the mind of a man who thinks he can kill his wife because a divorce is too messy.

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 6h

“Things like banning transgender kids from playing sports in schools or from being able to access medical necessary healthcare – those things didn’t even exist in 2020,” Logan Casey, MAP’s director of policy research, told me.

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Sara Hates Hockey @helmerroids.bsky.social · 7h

Eric Schmitt humiliated after confusing Iowa Hawkeyes with the protagonist Hawke of Dragon Age II. In-game footage proves that Jack Smith was not in Kirkwall on February 3 and has never conspired with either the mages and templars.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the DA actually cared, they'd start talking about researching & implementing institutional changes to prevent their own future failures—not list everything they think the victim did wrong. yet another example of why victims don't report!

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SaraPaps @pawspaps.bsky.social · 6h

Artists! Post your sketch vs final!

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 6h

I mean half these guys are paid pitchmen and half are probably bots but man, that third half really gets me

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Chanelle-Lize Marshall @chanelle-lize.bsky.social · 11h

AI is a cognitive bias machine and its main purpose is to automate bigotry.

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cip✨ Sevika's Gap Tooth Fan Club Manager @cipritine.bsky.social · 8h

Me, standing in Denerim during the landsmeet, literally choosing the new ruler of Ferelden: I'm so glad there are no politics here

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rhysknightstudio @rhysknightstudio.bsky.social · 7h

New work coming along smoothly ✍️ #art #drawing #charcoal #darkart

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V. Murr @vmurr.bsky.social · 7h

Oof .... There are an awful lot of following-nobody accounts on here (with 50-ish or so followers) all touting AI. I see them anytime AI is trending & the trend is neutral or positive. No, these aren't real accounts. Yes, it's platform manipulation. :-(

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18h

“But the smart glasses reflect a larger philosophical position, one ubiquitous in Big Tech and fueled by the artificial intelligence gold rush: that the human is not enough, and that we need to be aided — and disciplined — by AI.”

jacobin.com

Amazon Is Perfecting Total Surveillance of Its Workforce

Amazon has long been synonymous with workplace surveillance. With the introduction of “smart delivery glasses,” the logistics giant may soon ensure that not a moment of its drivers’ time on the clock ...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18h

I really just want like… 3/4th of the economy prosecuted for fraud. Is that really so much to ask?

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 17h

I worked on a study about online nonconsensual image sharing. We were shocked by how many women found their images on 8chan forums where men posted challenges to each other like, “Find her workplace and get her fired,” or, “Get a nude photo of one of your girlfriend’s friends.”

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20h

Time for this classic again.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20h

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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V. Murr @vmurr.bsky.social · 18h

Fantastic idea ... but include Meta.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 18h

As a general rule, men who defend rapists are rapists or at least holding space in case they decide to become rapists later.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

thecut.com

What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 21h

this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21h

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21h

Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21h

The DOJ indicted “Bitcoin Jesus” Roger Ver in one of the largest-ever crypto tax fraud cases. Those familiar with the case said the evidence was “rock solid” and that prosecutors were confident of a conviction. Then Donald Trump won a second term. (Published January)

propublica.org

How “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks to One of the “Friends of Trump”

Billionaire fugitive Roger Ver was facing federal criminal charges until he sought the services of a select club of President Donald Trump’s former personal attorneys who have easy access to top Justi...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 21h

I spoke to @usatoday.com about data on sexual violence at Cornell. Victimization rates are increasing and reporting rates are falling. “Together… those two trendlines tell me that all students, including victims and perpetrators, believe that there is impunity for sexual assault at Cornell.”

usatoday.com

Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive

A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.

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V. Murr @vmurr.bsky.social · 23h

I cannot stop laughing about this ... amazing ... 🤣🤣🤣 Yes, please, put forth such a sad, ineffectual ticket for 2028!

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wired just did a story noting that an influencer named Kurt Schlichter is a “civilian government advisor” (?) to Hegseth. This dude has been around forever in internet time and writes the worst novels that are basically Turner Diaries fanfic www.wired.com/story/a-pent...

wired.com

A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization

Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

I believe that Dr. Ellora Derenoncourt is the first Black woman economist EVER to be named a MacArthur Genius. My heart is bursting. I am OVERJOYED.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani

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Brian A @bjaudette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was reminded of this quote from Dune today: "Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." That Frank Herbert knew a thing or two about human nature.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Btw if you read this and immediately thought “well not all men”… pause for a second. The men I trust are the ones who read what I just wrote and choose to listen, to empathize, to ask questions to better understand. They know they are not the men I am angry about and they don’t need say so.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.

engadget.com

Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget

Sure, seems safe.

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V. Murr @vmurr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And, in almost every woman's case -- it's many instances of some or all of those things listed here. I don't know a single woman who's only experienced this stuff just once. Even before hitting adulthood, it was a constant barrage of this stuff in my experience.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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