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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 6h

Good news: laws to tackle #AI #deepfakes are coming. Bad news: they are based on #copyright - walledculture.org/good-news-la...

Good news: laws to tackle AI deepfakes are coming. Bad news: they are based on copyright

<p>A key theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is that copyright, born in an analogue age of scarcity, works poorly in today’s digital world of abundance. One manifestatio...

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 6h

Trump threatens vulnerable countries before key shipping emissions vote - www.theguardian.com/environment/... #trump is such scum

Trump threatens vulnerable countries before key shipping emissions vote

American officials have threatened supporters of measure to reduce emissions with tariffs and other retaliatory action

www.theguardian.com

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 1d

[Outrageous] Peru considers stripping protections for Indigenous people and their territories news.mongabay.com/2025/10/peru...

Peru considers stripping protections for Indigenous people and their territories

Peru is on the verge of rolling back several longstanding protections for Indigenous people and their territories, critics warn. Several bills working their way through Congress would loosen restricti...

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🦋 Still Standing 🦋 @imstillstanding.bsky.social · 1d

Market manipulation

Lori (Little Lulu) @lori51051723.bsky.social · 1d

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🏴‍☠️⚠𝓦𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓦𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓻⚠🏴‍☠️ @truthfisher.bsky.social · 1d

100%... Biden's plan!!! Biden got more hostages released than Trump, then Trump pressured Israel to continue killing Gazans for his political gain... 100%

♥️♠️Pam♦️♣️ @pamrichmond1.bsky.social · 1d

Wait. What? trump didn’t have his OWN “peace plan” for Gaza? So now he’ll take credit for Biden’s plan?

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 1d

"An essential condition today for entry into the upper echelons of Conservative party politics is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea. This is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories."

Excellent by @stephenkb.bsky.social #Giftlink

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

on.ft.com

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Daniel Schulman @danielschulman.bsky.social · 1d

18 months

14 newsrooms

70 journalists

1 groundbreaking investigation into a global surveillance empire whose phone-tracking software has targeted world leaders, corporate executes, journalists, activists, celebrities…and maybe even you ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE #surveillancesecrets

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

ow.ly

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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 1d

In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado, the committee recognized her courage in standing up to the brutality and corruption of the regime of Nicolas Maduro.

The Nobel Peace Prize is important for Venezuela. But there’s a long way to go before Maduro is removed

Peace prizes rarely bring about change. But recognizing Maria Corina Machado can return international focus to an intractable regional issue.

www.chathamhouse.org

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed, means immigrants will be more articulate and probably more intelligent than many Brits...

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 1d

This. Very little to celebrate.

Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 1d

Bezos is perfectly happy to publish the Post at a loss if he can use it to keep demonstrate obedience to the regime so his other businesses can keep making money. It’s just an operating cost to him.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

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Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social · 1d

Anything any #Android app can display is vulnerable to #Pixnapping attack—including #2FA codes. “It’s like Rowhammer, but for the screen,” quips one wag.

Google thought it had already fixed the previously undisclosed flaw. But the group’s demo says not. In #SBBlogwatch, we blur the pels:

#Pixnapping: Android Timing Attack Sends Google Back to the Drawing Board

If at first you don’t succeed: Researchers discover a new way to steal secrets from Android apps.

securityboulevard.com

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1d

⚡️ US expects 'big' NATO spending pledges for Ukrainian weapons purchases, envoy says.

The comments come ahead of a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels on Oct. 15, chaired by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

US expects 'big' NATO spending pledges for Ukrainian weapons purchases, envoy says

The comments come ahead of a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels on Oct. 15, chaired by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

kyivindependent.com

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RichM 🏳️‍🌈 📘 🐕 ⛷️🌊 🌊 #BlueCrew 💙 🦋 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 💙 #Liberal #Resist 📎 @rightbrainedleadership.com · 1d

Stupid runs in the family.

Marilyn Munster @heyfren.bsky.social · 1d

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 1d

Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas news.mongabay.com/2025/10/copp...

Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas

The metal needed in electric cars and solar panels comes with a high cost for Amazonian communities.

news.mongabay.com

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 1d

🥳For the first time in history, renewables overtook coal as the world’s biggest source of electricity during the first half of 2025, according to energy think tank @ember-energy.org.

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 1d

French photojournalist Antoni Lallican spent years documenting Russia’s war against Ukraine. On October 3, he was killed by a Russian drone strike. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

See the work of Antoni Lallican, the French photojournalist killed in a Russian drone strike in eastern Ukraine — Meduza

French photojournalist Antoni Lallican was killed in a Russian drone strike in eastern Ukraine on October 3. The attack wounded four others, including Ukrainian photojournalist Georgiy Ivanchenko,…

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 1d

3,700 Nonprofits Sign Open Letter Condemning Trump for Targeting Free Speech truthout.org/articles/370...

3,700 Nonprofits Sign Open Letter Condemning Trump for Targeting Free Speech

“Weaponizing the executive branch” to punish free speech “is illegal and wrong,” an open letter from the groups said.

truthout.org

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning everyone
So thankful the Israeli hostages are released

But today
We also have HOSTAGES right here in America

The Epstein Survivors being held hostage by Trump, Johnson, and Republicans

Swear in Adelita Grijalva
Release the Epstein Files
#EpsteinFiles

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 1d

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14d

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 1d

The government have U-turned on a proposal to re-introduce charges for employment tribunals: we should empower negotiation not litigation

By Tony Burke

Tribunal fees fiasco: how Labour narrowly avoided repeating a Tory blunder

The government have U-turned on a proposal to re-introduce charges for employment tribunals: we should empower negotiation not litigation

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

The AI boom looks a lot like the dot-com bubble, IMF warns qz.com/ai-spending-...

The AI boom echoes the '90s dot-com bubble, IMF says

One estimate projects that AI capital expenditures will reach a staggering 2% of U.S. gross domestic product this year

qz.com

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

Six Degrees of Wikipedia is a site that lets you type in two different topics and then shows how many Wikipedia pages apart they are. boingboing.net/2025/10/14/t...

This Wikipedia game reveals bizarre connections between any topics

Discover unexpected Wikipedia connections with this visual mapping tool that links any topics through article chains.

boingboing.net

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social · 1d

Weird, who would have thought Chuck Schumers close personal friend and all around dem establishment clone would receive the full backing of both Chuck Schumer and the dem establishment. Not me.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

The Dem establishment appears to be putting its thumb hard on the scales against Graham Platner:

The DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) has formed a joint fundraising committee with the campaign of Janet Mills.

It’s called “Maine Senate Victory 2026”:

docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
HOME / CAMPAIGN FINANCE DATA / COMMITTEE DETAILS / HTML VIEWER
FEC FORM 1
STATEMENT OF ORGANIZATION
FILING FEC-1919061
1. Maine Senate Victory 2026
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Email: compliance@dscc.org;anderson@dscc.org
2. Date: 10/14/2025
3. FEC Committee ID #: C00923177
This committee collects contributions, pays fundraising expenses and disburses net proceeds for two or more political
committees/organizations, at least one of which is an authorized committee of a federal candidate.
Committees Participating in Joint Fundraiser
Joint Fund Participant(s)
1. Mills for Maine,
Committee Id: C00923144
Committee Type: Senate
2. DSCC,
Committee Id: C00042366
Committee Type: Unauthorized
Affiliated Committees/Organizations
NONE
Custodian of Records:
Connor Reilly
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Custodian of Records
Treasurer:
Evan Clary
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Phone # (202) 224-2447
Designated Agent(s):
Tristan Anderson
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Assistant Treasurer
Banks or Depositories
Amalgamated Bank
1825 K St NW
Washington, DC 20006
Signed: Evan Clary
Date Signed: 10/14/2025
(End FEC FORM 1)

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrants Make Up More Than 30 Percent of Nobel Science Winners Since 2000 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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