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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 9m
school nurses can't even give out Children's Tylenol
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 6h
When people ask "universities sit on a billion dollar endowment, why don't they spend it on scholarships?" The answer is: "because the people who gave the money conditioned it on spending it on building a campus in Miami."
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15h
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 5h
is there a patron saint of deep vein thrombosis
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5h
the "trump tv" live stream that the white house launched last week currently has... 248 viewers.
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Rocko’s Modern Basilisk @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 6h
this is how a cartoon dog would stand if it was about to be lifted in the air by the aroma of a delicious pie
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 5h
Neuroscientist here. I have studied the brain for 40 years. I make serious use of machine learning and AI in my research. Sam Altman is full of shit. These machines are not conscious, any more than a movie of a train coming out of the screen is a train. AI does remarkable things but isn’t real.
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Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 19h
I still prefer my medical advice be provided by an educated, experienced and licensed physician rather than a climate-destroying guessing machine.
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404 Media @404media.co · 5h
The White House has taken steps to ensure local ALPR systems are fed into the “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” (HIDTA) program. For example: cities in Georgia can't operate ALPR systems without signing a “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) in which they promise to send their data to a HIDTA.
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 9h
SCOOP: Valar Atomics is planning a massive nuclear powered data center on public lands in Utah. The 9,600 acre site would include 456 reactors, along with fuel fabrication and waste storage facilities. www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n...
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A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah
Valar Atomics wants to place over 450 reactors on more than 9,500 acres in Utah to power a huge data center project.
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repugfascistrebel.bsky.social @repugfascistrebel.bsky.social · 17h
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations: propub.li/3VjKSmt
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Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 13h
i don't care if people use the word 'genocide' but the degree to which people are chummy with those who don't just reject the word but who are in basic denial of what has happened is a bit disconcerting. and no 'netanyahu is a bad man' doesn't cover it
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 11h
Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Qwen are gaining ground with developers in Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria, not because of geopolitics, but because they are cheaper and more flexible. Information Society Law Center's Melissa Ninsiima on the strategic consequences that follow.
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How China-Africa Relations Are Shaping the Geopolitics of AI
With China's investments, Africa is not simply a spectator of global AI developments but an emerging actor in the geopolitics of AI, writes Ninsiima Melissa.
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 11h
“Disposable E-Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes | UC Davis” www.ucdavis.edu/news/disposable-e-c… > High Levels of Lead, Other Hazardous Metals Found in E-Cigarettes Popular with Teens
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Disposable E-Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes
They may look like travel shampoo bottles and smell like bubblegum, but after a few hundred puffs, some disposable, electronic cigarettes and vape pods release higher amounts of toxic metals than olde...
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The Infinitely Prolonged @wowbaggert.bsky.social · 9h
More AI corruption
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 14h
There are no responsible uses of AI in evaluating research funding applications. Just calling it ‘responsible’ doesn’t make it so. #EthicsWashing #GenAI
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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
turning researchers into glassy eyed automatons who prompt a machine to churn out 150 papers a year for their glassy eyed peers to feed through the same machine for "peer review" so they can be published behind a massive paywall ... it's like Robert Maxwell's wet dream
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The Infinitely Prolonged @wowbaggert.bsky.social · 9h
“What’s good for GM is good for America”
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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 19h
These people have no soul.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 10h
it's cool that you can tell a computer to make a song the way it's cool even a shit artist can use tools to make a decent poster or whatever but i don't expect people to put my computer doodles on their wall. it's so weird
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The Infinitely Prolonged @wowbaggert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’d like to renormalize the idea that it is good to elect politicians to political positions, and not “businessmen” or “outsiders” or other kinds of people who hate government.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone notice how Pete Hegseth spent the first few weeks of the Iran bombing campaign in front of the cameras telling us how awesome it was going and now we haven’t seen him for months?
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨👀 It's Monday so apparently that means there's a list of food recalls. Sigh...I hate that this has become the new norm. Anyhoo...here's a thread because this is exhausting. #StayReadCrew Pork sausage at restaurants recalled for foreign plastic material in it. www.sacbee.com/latest-news/...
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Frozen meat recalled for hard plastic pieces sent to California restaurants
The recalled product was distributed to food-service businesses across California.
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pepperoncinis recalled because a mouse was in the jar😭 Dafuq is even happening right now? #StayReadyCrew www.azfamily.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Popular food brand recalls peperoncini after TikTok video shows dead mouse in jar
Mezzetta is recalling select 32-ounce Golden Greek Peperoncini jars after a dead mouse was reported. See the lot code and what to do.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The TikTok algorithm is starting to recommend local journalism to me, both from local outlets and more importantly from local folks who just grabbed a phone and started talking about their communities. It makes me mad again the dumb Dems tried to kill it.
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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New report from the Norwegian Board of Technology: 90 percent of AI & data center capacity in Norway is foreign-owned Data centers consume vast amounts of electricity – yet generate limited value Data centers create heavy demands on Norwegian power capacity but leave little value behind locally:
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Ny rapport: Datasentre sluker strøm – gir begrenset verdiskapning
Datasentre forsyner seg grovt av norsk strømkapasitet, men legger igjen lite verdier lokalt, viser en fersk rapport fra Teknologirådet. Nå frykter tradisjonell industri for fremtiden og krever rask in...
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Havelock Vetinari @havelockvetinari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Absolutely shockingly surprising. And they use up all reasonably level terrain. Soon Norwegians will all be clinging to fjord edges at a 40 degree angle.
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Three Fordham Law students carefully map out the legal questions raised by ICE's use of Palantir's Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement targeting tool, from Fourth Amendment search issues to due process and standing hurdles. via Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)
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At the UN and in Washington, Leaders Clash on Approach to AI
Catch up on the latest articles from Tech Policy Press from the past week.
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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's hard to give this serious attention because he'd be unfit for the job even if he were physically healthy and the moments when he's alseep are the rare moments when he's not doing active harm to America.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
no one should use this thing but I just cannot stress enough that you have to stay away from it if you’re a practicing attorney
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The Infinitely Prolonged @wowbaggert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Desperately trying to keep the bubble inflated
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New @nberpubs: "Here, There, and Everywhere: Remote Work’s Impact on Employment in the UK" www.nber.org/papers/w3579... "We find significant evidence that rising WFH increases employment of disabled and older workers in the UK"
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SCOOP A Pentagon influencer called liberal women a "pestilence" who will end western civilization. He's also: • Praised dictators like Franco and Pinochet • Said people without kids should not be allowed vote • Called immigrants "semihuman savages" www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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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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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve walked the fields at dawn for years. The air used to hum with bees. Now it’s quieter every season. What most people never see is the scale: over 3.7 million tonnes of pesticide active ingredients poured onto the planet every year — more than double what we used in 1990.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
Ethnic cleansing.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 29/09/2026
OpenAI reopens sign-ups for its $200/month Pro tier while halving the API credits provided per dollar to encourage pay-per-use, and removes the five-hour cap (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Zuckerberg uses Trump term for AI as his company Meta remains renamed for a massive business failure.
Facebook update
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Guy Incognito @tramplezone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Honest question: doesn’t it get stopped by people deciding not to invest in the company? Theoretically it’s built into the price that these fuckballs are in charge til they die.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Other fun facts from the story: 1. nearly a quarter of Anthropic's 2025 revenues came from two customers 2. These numbers *include* the revenue share from Amazon/Google selling their models.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
lotta engineers convinced that executing formal business processes is all other people do be/c they themselves just sling tickets all day and work through structured architecture and they're the smartest people in the world!
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
remarkably quick journey from "do I need WhatsApp so I can communicate safely" to "do I need to take WhatsApp off my phone and factory reset it so I can communicate safely"
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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 28/09/2026
Most of the dunking on this focuses on his political ineptitude but can we just talk for a second about how little he apparently cares about the victim here? Who he was supposed to be advocating for? You're the fucking prosecutor, asshole!
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Somebody good at Internet should do a “Trump 30 days ago” account and re-up this stuff unedited and without comment to underscore how little of it has even a shrunken social media “news cycle” worth of relevance and staying power.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Once you start noticing how often this guy Announces something that becomes discourse for 12 hours and then is literally never heard of again you will not un-notice it. bsky.app/profile/edbu...
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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 28/09/2026
Like lots of things are shitty for the planet and delightfully fun for us (hamburgers, cruise ships) but this is shitty for the planet and it kicks you in the dick every third time you turn it on.
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Yastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's really the primal Murc's Law case--only Democrats have this mysterious ability. nomoremister.blogspot.com/2026/09/why-...
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WHY AREN'T PUNDITS ENCOURAGING REPUBLICANS TO MOVE TO THE CENTER?
Democrats appear poised to win Senate seats in a number of states Donald Trump won in 2024 -- according to Real Clear Polling , they're lead...
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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 28/09/2026
Like part of the reason everyone is mad at everything right now is that all we hear about is busted shit that cost us a billion dollars to not work or actively hurt us. And you have to use it to make a doctor's appointment.
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