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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check.
It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 11d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15h

a lot of these stories assume The Free Press is a business success. but is it? they generate a ton of subscription revenue but they spend so much that they needed to raise $15M last year. we can't see the financials, but there's a good chance that the operation is a money pit.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 19h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 17h

I can't get over how many people who want to think of themselves as liberals (especially among politicians and pndits) behave exactly as you would expect them to if they were more afraid of Mamdani than of Trump.

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Nicole Pagowsky @nope4evr.bsky.social · 17h

LMS is 100% AI-driven

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Trump’s presidency has been defined by the decay of public information sources and dismantling of public health institutions.

So firing the people who produce the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Report certainly tracks.

Donald Trump's war on public health enters a new phase

Another bad day at the CDC

www.motherjones.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d

2/ Good lord, people. All those people saying, “But how can we trust him??” Whah!!! Have some self respect. When someone makes a threat and then says never mind a couple days later that’s a fail. Doesn’t matter what else happens. Did Trump issue an EO that ever has to have their head up their ass?

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Nicole Pagowsky @nope4evr.bsky.social · 3d

So bonkers, how is this real

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 3d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

Nicole Pagowsky @nope4evr.bsky.social · 3d

ooh! saving for later!

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3d

We all need to understand a key facet of fascism. There is no end, but also there is no plan. Just an endless string of opportunities to exploit and suppress people when they do not stand up for themselves. Fascists are big dogs that look scary, but run scared when faced with a real fight.

etherkay.bsky.social @etherkay.bsky.social · 3d

What is the end game for these madmen?? World dominance? Hatred and poverty rife everywhere? That doesn't sound like a good world

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Truthout @truthout.org · 4d

Nine former tenants announced their joint refusal to pay back what the Debt Collective calls “immoral sums” of “illegally held” back rent demanded by Equity Residential, the fifth-largest landlord in the United States.

Tenants Launch US’s First Ever Rent Debt Strike Against Corporate Landlord

Nine tenants organized by the Debt Collective are refusing to pay back rent, hoping to inspire others to do the same.

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videotroph @videotroph.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 5d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 6d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 8d

This is outrageous.

For so much of the world, including for many, many American Jews, Israel has completely and forever lost its credibility.

Not only does the genocide need to end, but Netanyahu and others need to face human rights prosecution and the apartheid must be abolished.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 8d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 8d

wild to see a Western president say this after listening to scholars say this for over a decade lol

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 8d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 9d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 8d

17th October.

Talk with Michael Hudson, Steve Keen and Ann Pettifor about Debt, Empire and the Future.

It will be streamed on our Youtube channel.

More info here: davidgraeber.institute/debt-empire-...

Debt, Empire, and the Future: Dialogue with Michael Hudson, Steve Keen and Ann Pettifor

David Graeber Institute On October 17th, 2025 Michael Hudson will be joined by Steve Keen and Ann Pettifor as part of our ongoing dialogues on Debt, Empire and the

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9d

Journalism, the job where when someone powerful lies you describe it as "not strictly true" because describing facts would be bias bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

DOKOUPIL: Republicans says what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true--

ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out lie!

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

Famous words of many Nobel Peace Prize winners.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 TRUMP: IF THIS LAST CHANCE AGREEMENT IS NOT REACHED, ALL HELL, LIKE NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN BEFORE, WILL BREAK OUT AGAINST HAMAS.

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 10d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 10d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

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Nicole Pagowsky @nope4evr.bsky.social · 10d

“No self-respecting university should sign on to this proposed compact,” said state Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance), who chairs the Assembly Education Committee. “Universities will never be able to live down a reputation of selling out…”

Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 10d

The press release is really something www.latimes.com/california/s...

Newsom threatens to cut state funding to universities that sign Trump’s political compact

The White House is asking nine major universities, including USC, to commit to President Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money.

www.latimes.com

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