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The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 7h
Democrats will never learn.
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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 6h
Cool finding here is that as NYC's air pollution went down substantially, Mental Development Index scores among very young children went up. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Less air pollution previously related to clean air and climate policies is linked to improved cognitive scores over time in NYC children - Environmental Health
Background Prenatal and postnatal exposure to air pollution has been associated in multiple epidemiological studies with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes in children, including in New York City coh...
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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 10h
This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13h
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Abolish ICE.
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GoOoOoOoOose @phatcussy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
incredible how every major television/media outlet is going to be pro-israel and ultra conservative now and controlled by one family. awesome that Hollywood, countless workers, and the public are going to be fucked and it's in large part the fault of Gavin newsom
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"GenAI is here, so I'm going to teach my students how to use it well." Are educators who choose to do this aware that they're complicit in exploiting and traumatizing data labellers in Global Majority countries? I guess they would have willingly enslaved people 200 years ago.
404media.co
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 03/10/2026
reading Vector Media by Impett and Offert and am very fixated on this paragraph
deeply learned forms of representation, yet offer a mode of vision that seems removed from tangible interaction. Though, in truth, the relationship to touch is far more complex: from digital pictures that lack physicality to heavily textured paintings or bas-reliefs that invite, even simulate, a tactile experience, as in Bernard Berenson's
(1896) "tactile values" or David Freedberg's (2017) account of bodily
empathy.
Computer vision, shaped in Marr's shadow, rests on an unstated assumption of continuity between vision and pictures, overlooking that it is fundamentally modeling a medium (photography), perhaps even a genre (amateur smartphone photography), rather than a sense (vision). Computer vision's latent theory of photography, as Malevé and Sluis (2023) put it, stems from precisely these "ontological conflations between 'real world' and photograph, human eye and camera, snapshot and visual stimulus." Or, we might add, OpenAl's conflation of TikTok-slop video generation and world simulation. Conceptual or even philosophical contradictions that, as Agre suggested, tend to surface precisely in Al's highly material, technical impasses.
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This chapter owes a large debt to the connections between the history of philosophies of vision (especially those of the European Enlightenment) and computer vision first laid out by the art historian Michael Baxandall (1995, 60), who described neural networks as a "plastic, reactive, association machine that would have pleased Condillac more than Locke."
OpenAl's use of that term initially described something close to a technical report, a kind of self-published scientific paper, typeset in LaTex and hosted on arxiv; it now describes something between a blog post and a product launch page.
It is difficult to overstate the genuine surprise felt by the techr
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don’t quite understand why heroin is bad, I better try it to see why everybody thinks it’s so bad 
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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
what the fuck? the right lost *Third Way*?
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#LandBack! The Penobscot Nation regained 11,297 acres of their ancestral homelands near sacred Mt. Katahdin in Maine. Its the first phase of a 30,000-acre land return. tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/rea...
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Penobscot Nation regains 11,297 acres in first phase of major land return
The Penobscot Nation has regained 11,297 acres near Katahdin as partners pursue a $32.5 million effort to return more than 30,000 acres.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament)
A single building is left standing amidst utter carnage. Every single building has been levelled across a few square miles pictures. Google maps identified one pile of rubble as a school.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
had my thesaurus stolen today. made me not only sad, but very sad.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18/08/2025
Y'all, there are three years to pick a better candidate than this. Three years Three. Years. If you're already so all-in on newsom that you're out in these skeets fighting strangers about why we should give him a pass for hurting us and the people we love, i don't even know what to tell you. Bye
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 22/09/2026
hard to really explain the particular exhaustion of, every day, seeing a band who did a song you like or an actor in a film that’s important to you go on the record with some news outlet saying that you deserve to die or be made into a second class citizen because you’re trans
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026
Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...
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The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State
These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
so what this entire thread is saying is, so long as you word it politely, threatening to send trans people to concentration camps is fine, and an angry response to that will get you banned... because in the end bluesky and its neolib moderators only really care about respectability politics. thanks
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026
And by the way, from our scoop, we also discovered that Anthropic is also using human reviewers to read conversations.
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
...Hugging Face apparently leaving the default admin access privileges on across database clusters... This is, frankly, amateur hour kind of stuff for run of the mill cyber and infosec teams.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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i don't think there would be this many charlie kirk memes if the antiwoke crowd and kirk himself didn't make dominating virtually every marginalized group their core identity & then the admin + msm demanded reverence & fealty after the guy who said "school shootings are a price i'm willing to pay to preserve 2a" was killed in the 46th school shooting in 2025. we live in a violent country led by hypocritical monsters.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026
No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center.
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Screenshot showing two sequential posts on X by journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) discussing Texas politics:
 * Top post: Text reads, "Paxton on Talarico: 'He wants to transition your kids!'" accompanied by an embedded video frame of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking at a podium in a dark suit and red tie.
 * Bottom post: Text reads, "Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors," above a video thumbnail from Fox News Channel featuring a woman anchor in a red blazer, with lower-third banners reading "EXCLUSIVE," "SHIFTING THE REINS?", and "TALARICO STANCE DIFFERS FROM EARLIER COMMENTS."
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Apartments designated as affordable are sitting empty as the poorest of the poor in the U.S. cannot afford them
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The poorest in the U.S. can’t find housing even as low-income units sit empty
“I just keep trying to swim uphill,” says Mathew Davis, 49, of the few hundred dollars he earns a month.
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Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The reflections weren’t that intense on the dry road but I felt like they wanted to be. 8”x8” Oil on cradled wood panel
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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Against the art I love
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Joanna Kobierska @joannakobierska.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It disgusts me that my artwork appeared in OpenAI add
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Homeland Security Investigations used Clearview AI to search for one of the Minnesota 15 defendants. The system produced a false match, linking Facebook photos of another man, his wife and their family to the defendant's HSI dossier. Article in quoted post by @combs0294.bsky.social
Screenshot of the Clearview AI face search results of MN15 defendant Isaac Sant and linking him to an unrelated person that is not Sant. Image from page 8 of 8, document 212-29 of the exhibits from a motion of discovery by Sant’s legal team.

Read full story: https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/dhs-facial-recognition-software-used-against-minnesota-15/
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Katya King @katyavdgk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Doctors’ AI scribes get names of drugs and diagnoses wrong, NHS watchdog warns www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Doctors’ AI scribes get names of drugs and diagnoses wrong, NHS watchdog warns
Exclusive: Patients identify errors in consultation transcripts that are missed by GPs, Healthwatch England finds
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James B. Jones @jamesbjones.com · 21/08/2026
When people say they’re anti-AI, they’re clearly talking about generative AI in the arts and LLM slop that C-Suite jackoffs want to use to replace them. You know this. I know this. Everyone knows this. So the “then don’t use spellcheck if you hate AI” talking point is disingenuous horseshit.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 20/08/2026
Hey quick question, what the FUCK does this mean
The author noted that while no one in the Trump camp suspects a sexual relationship, there is nonetheless a conviction that Harp is hopelessly in love with Trump and determined to be his “higher purpose bride.”
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is one of those arguments that sounds like slopulism but is actually, if anything, understated. 56% of Colorado river water goes to GROWING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK IN THE DESERT.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Futurism @futurism.com · 16/08/2026
They're even more unpopular than data centers.
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Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe
A new survey of 1,000 young adults in the US found that nine of the top tech executives are deeply loathed.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We have been given such a deliberately impoverished memory of the Black Panthers.
A woman smiling and holding a bag of groceries from the black panthers people’s free food program Another woman packing dozens of bags of food for those in need A booth at the Black Community Survival Conference, organized by the Black Panther Party in Oakland in 1972. The booth reads “sickle cell anemia testing” A trailer labeled FRANKLIN LYNCH PEOPLE’S FREE HEALTH CENTER. The People’s Free Medical Clinics were established by the Panthers in 1970.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Democratic Party’s mega-donor class is horrified by the rising tide of progressive populism. Too bad. It's time they recognize the real choice is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works for a small sliver at the top.
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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
NEW STORY DAY “Not Like Other Girls” is now out in ebook and @reactorsff.bsky.social A creature wearing a woman’s body becomes a lonely man’s girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot. Art: A.W. Sommers Design: Jess Kiley Editor: Ann VanderMeer reactormag.com/not-like-oth...
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Not Like Other Girls - Reactor
A creature wearing a woman’s body becomes a lonely man’s girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
chicago.suntimes.com
Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed
Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 04/08/2026
The environmental cost being churned out by AI data centers is getting absurd. It spells out a worldview where tech capital and extreme power moves matter more than people, nature, and democracy. It’s a system operating completely without a moral compass.
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The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible
The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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In Wisconsin, a police officer allegedly used Flock to check whether his ex-girlfriend had gone to an abortion clinic, according to a police affidavit for a case set for trial this month.
In Kansas, a police chief who tracked his ex through Flock sneaked up on her while she was intimate with another man, a state police certification body alleged, leading to his firing.
In Florida, a deputy speeding to stop a young actress he’d added to a watch list for a license-plate tool called Guardian nearly caused a head-on crash, according to a police report and video from his dashboard camera. The deputy was arrested in March, and his attorney declined to comment.
And in California, prosecutors said a former deputy, Alexander Vanny, used Flock as part of a months-long campaign of “stalking” and “humiliating” his former fiancée that also involved following her around town and installing a hidden camera in her roommate’s bathroom, according to a sentencing brief.
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