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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*So the AI lab of the world is suddenly owned by a chip company *What a weird business enterprise this is. Why not sell the whole shebang to an energy company, those chips need voltage www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/a...
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AMD acquiring Fei-Fei Li's World Labs AI firm in deal worth $8.2 billion
AMD previously invested in World Labs before the acquisition, which is the chipmaker's second biggest on record.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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A Beautiful View @xtimu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sounds about right. "Trump says GOP will win and 'we're going to shove it up their ass'" www.cincinnati.com/story/news/p...
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Trump speaks at Ohio rally ahead of midterm elections
President Donald Trump will lead a rally in a Dayton suburb Saturday in hopes of energizing GOP voters. He'll be joined by Sen. Jon Husted and others.
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bonkers: Sea levels are running 1.2ft above the late-20th century baseline in San Diego as sea surface temperatures are about 7°F warmer than normal. These highly anomalous ocean temperatures and heights will continue through winter along the California coast amid El Niño. #CAwx
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This paragraph builds and builds the insane comedy but you're not ready for the kicker.
Atelier Missor, active since 2021, describes itself on X as a “classical foundry in Paris, on its way to building a new Rome.” Its founder, Missor Movahed Ghaleh Nouri, has claimed he was drawn to pursue classical sculpture after receiving a vision of Napoleon I while wandering the Place Vendôme in Paris. His staff wear identical tan suspenders, billowy shirts, and unkempt facial hair, and—per previous versions of their website—spent much of the first half of the 2020s producing bronze and clay busts of such figures as (of course) Napoleon, Nietzsche, and Jordan Peterson.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
They are becoming more and more explicit that creating dossiers on you and graphing your relationships is the whole point. “Agents” indeed. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/m...
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is taking a try-before-you-buy approach with her new photo-centric AI agent startup Dazzle, a tactic she said is important “for those occasional users or those users who are just trying to see what the service can do at the very beginning.”

Dazzle analyzes users’ personal photos to understand aspects of their lives, such as their family members or interests, and then can take actions like reminding someone that a pair of shoes they recently looked up is on sale online.

It’s a strategy she learned from her early tenure at Google
, before the company built its market-leading online ad platform.
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🏃‍♂️The Runner🏃‍♂️ @therunnner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hegseth removed Colin Powell’s name from a list of notable Americans buried at Arlington Cemetery. Hegseth also removed the names of every person of color and every woman on the same list Only white men were left in place.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hahaha the Hatch Act is meaningless (if you’re a Republican just like every other rule, norm, and law). Good times. For some.
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Julianne Dalcanton @dalcantonjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Like many scientists, I’ve been mulling over the impact of LLMs on our fields. I’ve not yet seen it articulated, but I think there is a largely unspoken “invisible labor underclass” framework at play.
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404 Media @404media.co · 07/10/2026
Someone used a research paper to set up a "Saw"-inspired AI "torture" chamber. Then, users on X started the dumbest debate about "model welfare" and feared for the LLMs wellbeing. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social breaks it down in this week's pod. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpzC...
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 06/10/2026
SCOOP: Nearly $9 million in federal family planning funds will go to organizations with anti-abortion ties. One org, which received almost $4.3 million, has never taken in more than $50k in a single year. Read more @autonomynews.co:
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Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties
Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"If social media has made us more stupid, the movie treats us accordingly"
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Indeed. This has nothing to do with AI, this has to do with every nickel of wealth in SV being tied to a bad bet on a bunch of guys we know can't and won't deliver. You can't go wrong being against the hucksters.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Right now society at large is paying most of the bill for people who drive giant pick-up trucks and SUVs, my humble proposal is that we should stop doing that and ask them to pay it themselves.
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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
City Council is trying to enshrine free parking at Mission Bay and other beach areas. This is a mistake, not only does it cut off an important source of much needed funds for the park which is struggling just to keep bathrooms open, the free parking is misused making it unavailable to park goers.
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Ben Ross @benrosstransit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's more than a little contradictory to say that you're worried about the safety of kids if a building for 80- and 90-year-olds is built across from a school, and then demand that the building must have parking for the residents.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/10/2026
Makes it real clear what they mean by "liberty."
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Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book
A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.
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Eliya Abu Hadr (إيليا أبو حاضر) @shadawar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/s...
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OpenAI Releases Findings on 377 Math Problems, Further Roiling Field
After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
After "AI solved a problem when a guy put his almost solving it paper up on the arXiv (open math universe) bc they pac-manned the paper + sent their machines to work on it for a bajillion hours" thing they just released solutions to almost 400 big math problems today, too bad work in progress etc
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sending love and solidarity to all the mathematicians and math grad students whose days were ruined today.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
The ICE Air Operations official handbook allows minors as young as 13 to be shackled on ICE flights. We don’t know this girl/young woman’s age, but if she is over 18, it probably isn’t by much. I don’t know how those flight “guards” sleep at night.
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SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra.org · 06/10/2026
We celebrate Eva Marie Saint, who died today at 102. A #SagAftraMember since 1947, Saint won an Oscar for her film debut in 'On the Waterfront' and starred in 'North by Northwest.' An advocate for organized labor, she leaves an enduring example for generations of union members.
Eva Marie Saint looking into the camera. 
Photo credit: PhotofestMarlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint in 'On the Waterfront.' 
Photo credit: Columbia Pictures/Photofest © Columbia PicturesCary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in 'North by Northwest.' Photo credit: Photofest
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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 07/10/2026
just think: boycotting the Harry Potter show means hurting JK Rowling AND the Ellisons now
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cory Booker — who is being floated as a 2028 contender, and who just the other day did not deny the possibility of wanting to become leader of the Senate Democrats — promotes the book of Brett McGurk, a chief architect of the US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestine:
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@brett_mcgurk
 is one of our nation’s great experts on the Middle East and has spent decades working at the highest levels of diplomacy through some of the region’s most consequential moments.

I’m really looking forward to reading Brink and learning from his firsthand account of the extraordinary efforts to free the hostages, and confront the extraordinary challenges of the region.
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A Beautiful View @xtimu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You can take my knobs from my cold, dead hands. All of my vehicles are legal adults. I hate screens in cars with a violence that would paint the sky blue.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 06/10/2026
Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Calls for the resignation or legal removal of Donald Trump increasing across the US.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvalt: “Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and…hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There was a book I used to have (which I wish I hadn’t gotten rid of after Obergefell) called Why You Should Give a Damn About Gay Marriage. It laid out all the ways that federal marriage recognition helps you, and taxes is THE big one.
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
La Noria and the ranch on the north side used to be the same ranch until the physical manifestation of the border divided them.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This, too, cannot be undone. It is just wanton death and destruction.
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A Beautiful View @xtimu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just in case, you're like, 'Who's that?" www.propublica.org/article/russ...
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Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump historically wore Brioni, an Italian luxury company that makes suits in Italy. Here he flashes a Jos. A Bank label, a US company that long offshored its production to China and Bangladesh. They carry an associated label called Joseph Abboud, which is made in US. Curious he didn't choose that.
Donald Trump in a navy suit. He's opening the jacket, so you can see the label. A close up of the suit label says Jos. A. Bank.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."
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A Beautiful View @xtimu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is a continuation of absolutely foolish and craven declarations by this regime and the vast majority of republicans stay quiet. Every safeguard is collapsing but as long as the stock market is strong, they think everything is fine.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Look, this is bad. Yes. But the Trump admin sent six (6) people to Maricopa and Pima. Where, by my count, there are 404 polling places, spread across 18,000 square miles (each county is ~9k sq mi). What they want is the FEAR to discourage the voting they can't actually prevent.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the Internet today:
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Reuters @reuters.com · 06/10/2026
South Korea's Lee says AI appears to have been used in bank hacks reut.rs/47APsiZ
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South Korea's Lee says AI appears to have been used in bank hacks
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Tuesday that AI models ​are believed to have been used in some recent hacking ‌incidents against banks and called for the country to develop cybersecurity methods suited to the AI era.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Donald, if you're reading this.... Come to Michigan.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Openly bragging about ethnic cleansing. That's how you know they're the Good Guys.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“The coin in question was listed for sale on eBay and is branded “U.S. ERO Yuma ICE.” Along with a snarling wolf-like creature, the coin, which is in the shape of a police badge, features two twisted mottoes. “There is no hunting like the hunting of man,” it says.”
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fun fact: New York City is rolling out pilots to product test AI on high school students, and NO STUDENT WE TALK TO knows anything about it - it's almost like the model also depends on students not finding out. If this is so great, why the cloak of secrecy??
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's been such a long few years, I'd forgotten this particular rape accusation against Hegseth. The woman told police she may have been drugged. Hegseth, who was married to one woman and had just had a baby with another, said it was consensual but paid her $50k to settle. He was confirmed anyway.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Read @enbrown.bsky.social :)
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The Economist @economist.com · 05/10/2026
America’s boat-bombing began haphazardly, run by a small team hastily assembled by the secretary of war, Pete Hegseth. Now a regional coalition is going all-in on Donald Trump’s drug war
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The pointless war on “narco-terrorists” is growing more collaborative
America is working with Latin American governments to target gangs on land and at sea
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
credit to the AP for staying on this and the Reservists who went on the record like I've said before, it's absurd ARCENT had anyone left in Kuwait besides ride out/base defense folks, much less a log unit that could've done their job from South Carolina
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