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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Perhaps worth noting, in this context, that Bezos went on Fox News to tell its audience (and AI pushback is bipartisan, by the way): "you're not going to need to have a two-earner income household" if we let AI accelerate, in his vision. www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-a...
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Jeff Bezos says AI could power a return to single-earner households as it turbocharges productivity
Bezos, the world's third wealthiest person, said more families will need only one parent to work and people will work for three days per week.
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Women who resist rape are punished so disproportionately because men understand that rape is the lynchpin of their social power, and they will go to any lengths to defend it. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/u...
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‘Shocking’ swatting incident and death threats against Jane Doe | CNN
Jane Doe’s Attorney Thomas Giuffra tells CNN’s Kaitlan Collins the swatting incident that left Doe’s family at gunpoint was “one of the most shocking things” he’s seen.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i thought he was gonna talk about the phenomenon where cops in the suburbs will literally pick up homeless guys from their suburb and just drop them off on the street downtown, but this is good too.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes. I keep thinking about the phrase "rights stripping," which Judith Butler used in a talk at the New School in May, to capture a key element of the techno-fascist political project.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When you take away the eschatology, I suspect a lot of the "is AI conscious" debate is really about whether AI can be an independent moral agent, in which case its creators bear less legal and moral responsibility for its actions than if it's non-conscious tool.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
as a lifelong caps fan it is very easy for me to say: fuck Alex ovechkin. nothing he does in the rink can ever outweigh his vocal support for a genocidal regime wantonly slaughtering Ukrainian civilians and murdering dissidents
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Aside from the obvious unfairness of people getting rich off of uncompensated stealing of creative works, we should think really hard about what it means that the people who keep winning economic jackboxes to become oligarch-rich are the ones who are willing to cheat and break the law
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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onion person @junlper.beer · 05/10/2026
bleak future ahead for brazil. something must be done with the growing global fascistic movement if we want any future worth anything
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
a competitive texas is like a vicksburg level defeat for the GOP
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/09/2026
it’s even worse than this. Roberts cut a deal *with the liberals* to trade the exchanges for the mandatory Medicaid expansion, and they agreed to it because judges don’t know shit about policy or have any policy staff
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
there is genuinely no point in debating federal policy since we've spent the last 20 years living in a world where we can no longer make it without 9 guys in robes rewriting it behind us
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Even a lot of people on the left are still way too stuck on the idea that wealthy powerful people got that way by being smart and making plans and forming accurate reads on the world and it’s really just not like that, sorry, the truth is so much stupider
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A lot of people speculating that Trump banning certain reporters from the WH is about controlling what comes *out* from the press when I'm pretty sure this action is actually about protecting Trump from what comes *in* — unpleasant reality that intrudes on his Power of Positive Thinking bubble
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yonkssss.bsky.social @yonkssss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
fascinating. there is so little we know about female reproduction and women's health
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this is part of a wider project of unaccountability that dominates American life
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Andy, but scary @ndy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All The President’s Men but it’s 90 minutes of Dustin Hoffman asking beleaguered Committee To Reelect staffers whether they’d wear sneakers to a wedding.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Step 1: Gut the entire newsroom Step 2: Convert the opinion section into MAGA Pravda Step 3: Desperately try to compensate for subscriber losses by plagiarizing circa 2014 Buzzfeed
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nice piece. Fight nihilism about society by joining society. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
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Opinion | Young Democrats Are Putting the Party Back in Politics. It’s Working.
Fun, free events communicate a larger goal: that everyday people should be able to afford a joyful life.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
an extremely important thing to remember about Patriarchy is that it's not just rule by men, it's rule by *fathers*. By necessity, it creates a massive surplus of extraneous "secondary" males that have to be accounted for in some way:
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is fantastic cultural geography. Very strong lede. Even if you don’t read it all (you should; remember we are working on our brains) the first three paras do the work. Thanks to the person who shared it. www.queergeographies.com/stuck-on-the...
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Why We’re Stuck on the Last Ditch
Why does the public delight in watching lesbian bars unravel?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Even hotter take: the fact that ebikes let teens in the suburbs suddenly have freedom to move around the public realm unsupervised is precisely why many older people are trying to ban them (using safety as a pretext)
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/10/2026
it’s become so normal for people to disclose their rapes to appeal to people’s humanity around rape cases that we don’t think about how disgusting the need to do that is put the worst moment of your life out for public consumption, so that half the comments can call you a liar.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI might be a bubble, but is it a tulip bubble or a railroad bubble
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NYT has gained monopoly power in the American liberal economy. With no comparable competition, they can say “fine, good luck elsewhere” to nearly any person, idea, or story they want US liberalism’s ideas became more based in what NYT wants, not which ideas are strongest or best. Monopoly power!
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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Televangelist praying meme: "Jesus I see what you've done for other people and I want that for me."
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
my theory at this point is that "third spaces" is the "kitchen table issues" of this mini-discourse. its a term that evokes diffuse associations without actually saying anything
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The Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
its not simply about boycotting meta. one company has made their products indispensable for communication in the modern world. they blocked lulas electoral ads the week before the election. theyre trying to sway public opinion against the victim of a gangrape. states need to intervene.
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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They live in a false, constructed reality. Cult shit. Just saying things that are literally the opposite of being true.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
leave aside the GOP, it also did not stop the political news media from covering the Hunter story as if it were a corrupt scandal rather than Biden bending over backwards to let a Republican fuck his son over.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing
screenshot of thumbnail for the ezra klein show with guest bill gates
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 30/09/2026
billionaires should fund something useful. there's suffering people in this world with allium allergies we could be curing with a moonshot-sized CRISPR research program
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Again: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know.
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 30/09/2026
@paulbarter.bsky.social has noted that as countries develop, cities shift from being oriented around motorcycles to transit. Unfortunately NYC is backsliding: people are shifting to e-micro-mobility because transit options are poor, and with that sometimes comes death www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 30/09/2026
destroying Greek life would be useful for stemming an entire mode of social reproduction which, as I must remind everyone, was born of the confederate south. Greek life prides itself on keeping the tradition of rape alive in more than one form. Sometimes literal.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If a productivity task is easily automated, chances are good that some invisible labor is managing the work that makes the task easy to automate. bsky.app/profile/tres...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Wabi Sabi For Costco Frankenstein Heads @wabisabi4robots.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here's my hottest take: if Dems actually win both houses their best efforts are spent impeaching and removing every one of these motherfuckers instead of lame duck Trump: Vought, Hegseth, Miller, Kennedy, Duffy, McMahon, just go down the list.
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Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The idea that political messaging needs to incorporate a narrative of community is not unclear or wishy-washy, and the success of the no kings protests are due in no small part to the fact that it taps into centuries of American mythology.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail
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Ahana the Solar Bunny ☀️ 🐰 @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
reading and writing are being relegated as not necessarily useless skills to capitalism but rather threatening skills when not tamed and channeled through relations of production disciplined by Capital, such as the corporatized media industry, neoliberal university, and genAI.
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