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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20m

Excuse me, what?

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 18m

Remember: bear down for midterms

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

limewire was full of weirdos the guy who did his polyphasic sleep in the supply closet the sysadmin who spent most of his work hours down at a bar he called “the server cage” the guy who punched the CTO it wrecked me for regular employment bc how could you ever go back to a cube after that?

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 45m

Public health advocates express concern about nominee to lead the FDA www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va... via @lizszabo.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social

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Public health advocates express concern about nominee to lead the FDA

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 2h

The problem with the "Four Lights" bit here is that, by the end of it, Picard had been broken enough that he admitted that he really *did* see five lights.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 2h

Slotkin worked for the CIA and DoD, she keeps her cards very close to her chest. Something has been going on in Trumpland and she caught wind of it

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 2h

“…people want something higher, something better. We all do. Democrats: Don’t hold back. Speak to this still-flickering sense of hopefulness forthrightly and unflinchingly.” Yes, @gregsargent.bsky.social! Shout it from the rooftops. The people crave genuine, moral leadership.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 2h

A lot of people tried to push the narrative early on that "the Democrats" or "the establishment" wanted El-Sayed to lose, based on evidence that could only very charitably be called scant. That narrative was false, beyond a doubt, and you should question the motives of the people who pushed it.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 2h

Counterpoint(ish..) from Gates and IMO significantly more informed from someone who has a deep(er) understanding of the models and software - and has thought hard about societal impacts. I don't agree on some of his "bioterrorism" fears, but everything else, 👍. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

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Opinion | Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I.

As A.I. capabilities accelerate, the technologist is shocked by the “complete lack of engagement” with the question of how to manage its risks.

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wndl "Dumocrat" bl @wndlb.bsky.social · 6h

Put on your Mrs. Britt face.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 6h

Man, Joyce Carol Oates is the only woman that needs to remain on Twitter. “Hardens to a carapace over their faces.” I also love how she basically ignores BlueSky, where she is feted as a queen. That is right too.

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Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 6h

From @rossrosenfeld.bsky.social: "It’s like we built a hydrogen bomb, then entrusted Gordon Gekko to make a profit off it and Barney Fife to monitor him. What could go wrong?" trib.al/SfwHdK7

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Trump Personifies the Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

How a 50-year-old treatise by an Italian economic historian makes sense of our utterly senseless moment

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Netanyahu has killed plenty. His coalition and Hamas are in a lurid embrace. They need each other to maintain power and authority and to hold the mass of sane Arabs and Jews -- and the necessity of a shared future -- trapped between them.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.

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wndl "Dumocrat" bl @wndlb.bsky.social · 7h

We're f-ed. *Something* bad *will* happen.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 7h

I read this relationship not as proceeding from real facts about the economy, but as a sign that trads have been susceptible to the nostalgic but empirically quite shaky critique of global liberalization as having put an end to some golden age of male breadwinning.

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Young Men’s Earnings over the Long Run – An Update

Let me start with the chart: Median pre-tax earnings of men ages 25-29 rose 24...

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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 7h

The Fed targets 2% headline PCE inflation... but they absolutely look at the core rate... Core PCE +3.0% YoY

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 7h

This Day in Labor History: September 30, 1919. A shootout occurred between armed guards protecting a union meeting of sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas and whites seeking to intimidate them. The next day, the governor ordered the military to crack down. Let's talk about the Elaine Massacre!

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 7h

Hill mostly worked on the railroad in Kansas for the next forty years. Of course, this all destroyed the union and conditions for sharecroppers did not improve. Finally, sharecropping began to disappear due to mechanization but no one did anything for the croppers.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 16h

Coming from her that’s really saying something

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 17h

A security vulnerability in the Defense Manpower Data Center, the Pentagon's massive personnel records repository, exposed the sensitive data of millions of U.S. troops and civilian employees to unauthorized users, according to multiple media reports. From Stars and Stripes' Matthew M. Burke:

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Breach at Pentagon personnel database exposed data of millions

Pentagon personnel records breach exposed unencrypted data of 3 million service members and civilians, raising cybersecurity and national security concerns.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 19h

I know this will shock everyone but Eric Schmitt is still wrong — there were *six* NBA games that night, not one. Hawks/Hawkeyes confusion remains the likely explanation. www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/?m...

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Schmitt: We had information Jack Smith was at a basketball game. There was only one NBA game that night which is why I asked him if he was in Atlanta.
That's what these hearings are for. You ask questions, you get answers. Smith has perjured himself before, but... maybe he's a Caitlin Clark fan. We'll accept that.x.com/Acyn/status/21...
BREAKING NEWS
GOR SENATOR'S PERJURY CLAIM AGAINST SMITH FAILS IN HAWKS-HAWKEYES MOUP
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ROPIC CEO DARIO AMODEL, WHO MET PRITELY WITH TRUMP.F
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 17h

our pets, and russia is burning us one by one. I would love to have a life without all this. Without fear, without war.

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 17h

....pretty good, I have to say!

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 18h

Proud of the CDCers who fought to get this vital info out! 30% of our workforce is gone. Heartbroken by the loss of brilliant scientists, institutional knowledge, & frankly my friends, colleagues, & mentors. An understaffed CDC harms the public & leaves the US vulnerable. Rebuilding will take years

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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is this unusual? "The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions:... (4) Such other questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the proper disposition of the case."

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've never seen this before.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 18h

I feel February 3, 2027, BlueSky needs to celebrate Hawk Day, or something, where we just assert observable facts.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 18h

I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21h

The half-assed America.gov privacy page is, strangely, not making me feel confident that my privacy is secure: america.gov/privacy

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 22h

The Supreme Court continues its assault on basic rights and upholds a belief that anything Trump does, no matter how illegal, is okay as long as it won’t cause market chaos. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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Supreme Court allows Trump’s ‘third country’ deportation policy

This is the second time the court has rejected lower court rulings that immigrants must be able to object before being sent to countries where they have no connections.

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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 22h

If you think about propaganda primarily through audiences, a dense 25 page pdf with no pictures full of anti American polemics is perfect to disseminate on Bluesky.

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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I did not expect the landing page to be a picture of a child face down (unsure if alive) on a frozen lake and a suggested prompt of “how can I invest in my child’s future”. This is higher level comedy than I am capable of on my own. This is incredible.

America.gov landing page showing a dead child and a chatbot prompt to figure out how to help them

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 22h

TRUMP posted the agreement among AI leaders signed today at the White House. He has described the agreement as “morally binding,” so it’s voluntary.

White House Accord on Super Intelligence
Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities
In order to build a positive future for the American people and the world, we believe every company is responsible for developing its own technology safely and in a way that builds trust with customers and the public.
This starts with every company that is training and deploying frontier models having robust internal processes and controls to ensure that their technology behaves as intended and that any issues are promptly identified and resolved. Therefore, in addition to any other precautions, we believe cach company should implement the following four layers of controls and audits:
(1) Implement robust internal controis to monitor the capabilitics and alignment of its models during training and deployment around areas like cybersecurity, biosccurity, and chemical threats, and to ensure that its models do not hack or access technical systems in unintended ways.
(2) Empower an internal team to ensure all of the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended, and that any issues are remediated.
(3) Partner with an independent external auditor or evaluator to carry out independent assessments of whether the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended.
(4) Designate an independent committee of the board of directors to oversce and receive reports from the teams operating the controls and the internal and external auditors and evaluators, as well as to ensure any issues identified are remediated.
Together, these steps will give each company, its customers, and the public confidence that the technology is operating as intended.
The participating companies will meet regularly to establish standards and best practices to improve the safety of their systems.
Over time, it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations. Regardless of whether this is required of companies, we believe that implementing these controls and audits is critical to …

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22h

it would be cool if U.S. journalism could clearly inform readers that the trump administration dismantled what was left of our already shaky regulators and replaced them with perfomative vibes

"It's almost like a constitution, in a way," Mr. Trump said while flanked by SpaceX's Elon Musk, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Google's Sundar Pichai and a throng of other tech executives."

It's not clear exactly how the accord will work. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters the AI firms agreed to "multiple layers of auditing and controls," including internal evaluations and external audits. The findings of auditors would be independently reviewed by each company's board of directors, Zuckerberg added.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22h

Damn

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 22h

Imagine how dumb this would look to the rest of the world if they understood English, huh

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 29/09/2026

Consider signing on. Email me if you want the links for sign on.

Good morning,

We are very concerned about recent revisions made to the Commerce Department’s Scientific Integrity Policy (DAO 216-23) which removed language explicitly banning policial interference and providing whistleblower protections. Producing objective, accurate, and relevant statistics is the hallmark of our federal statistical system and removing this language unnecessarily walks back safeguards for these data.

We have drafted a letter to Secretary Lutnick expressing our opposition to these revisions and asking that this language be restored.

You can read the letter and add your signature using the appropriate link below. We are accepting sign-ons from organizations and individuals until COB Wednesday, October 7.

Organization Sign-on Form

Individual Sign-on Form

Thank you for your consideration.

The undersigned organizations and individuals, representing a broad coalition of scientific, statistical, and professional communities dedicated to the integrity of federal data, write to express our concern regarding recent updates to the U.S. Department of Commerce Scientific Integrity Policy (DAO 216-23). Specifically, we urge the Department to restore language:

1. Prohibiting political interference or inappropriate influence in the collection, analysis and dissemination of federal data.

2. Providing explicit whistle-blower protections for people who report scientific integrity concerns.

American businesses, institutions and organizations rely on objective, evidence-based data produced by the Department’s principal statistical and scientific bodies, including the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Eliminating unambiguous language designed to protect government science from political manipulation significantly compromises the institutional safeguards that sustain Americans’ trust and reliance upon our national data infrastructure.

Our collective concerns focus on two critical threats to federal data:

Erosion of Public and Professional Trust: Federal economic and demographic indicators drive billions of dollars in public and private investments. By removing explicit firewalls against political pressure and inappropriate influence, the revised departmental policy would substantially undermine the credibility of the data which will be difficult to reclaim.
Vulnerability of Career Scientists: Clear, enforceable rules against political interference and inappropriate influence provide necessary professional protection for federal researchers and statisticians, ensuring that the data products they compile and release to the public adhere to well-established and widely accepted scientific standards and have not been judgmentally altered or skewed with political considerations in mind. Removing this language leaves agency experts vul…

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23h

There really is this rash of very weird GOP defenses. Like when Paxton said the guy didn’t do one day in prison. That’s a lie! I put him in for a hard 60 days! Or Marshall saying he didnt get the pregnant woman arrested for late bill. It was for not showing up for the lawsuit over the late bill!

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 23h

Listened to a video w/a Latino Trump voter holding firm despite loathing immigration raids that have even taken people close to her. Explained her evolution from center-left to right, w/COVID as linchpin, making me how many people became insane then & but more importantly, largely remain that way.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 23h

I’m reasonably sure I didn’t go nuts during COVID (solipsism disclaimer). Was it good parenting (iffy), wealth privilege (a lot of rich nuts became feral tho) … I honestly don’t know. But it’s definitely one of those moments where you reflect on yourself & a society gone batshit.

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Never stop poasting @persistentpoasting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"give us regulatory capture or we are all gonna die" - Dario

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23h

I’ve been saying for a while, someone needs to estimate the net cost of millions of people having to spend a chunk of every day worrying about what the insane president has done or will do.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23h

This is one of the most maddening thigns about this court: Not just the substantive rulings, but how they think about “irreperable harm.” If the Most Special Boy has to wait a month to do a thing he REALLY wants to, that’s irreperable harm. Actual large-scale human suffering? Meh.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this makes me ill. this isn't some policy dispute. this is a court of v comfortable ppl making a non-decision, avoiding the crushing harm, int'l law violation, & total abuse of power involved in even one of these 3rd party 'removals'. it's sick.

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