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bleary.off-the-records.com
Government Shocks Nation With Good Decision
Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent
When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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ka81.bsky.social
In case you missed it this ⬇️ It is still going on. Weirdly in a era where people are asking if a machine can be a person whilst simultaneously treating people like machines. Having to ask questions about both.

It's weird times guys.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models
Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
Hey are you a lawyer who enjoys the fascist politicization of the justice dept, looking the other way, and eventually being disbarred and potentially criminally charged by a truth and reconciliation commission? hit me up in the DMs if so.
kenwhite.bsky.social I Used To Snort Cocaine Off Of Popehats @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d
Utterly pathetic and historically unprecedented.
January 31, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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plh85.bsky.social
Not the dumbest thing I've ever doodled in haste but it Is up there.
January 30, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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mickaelnewton.bsky.social
⚠️ À l’attention des étudiant-es JV.

C’est la période des portes ouvertes des écoles. N’y allez pas si vous (ou votre famille) n’avez pas les sous. Jamais.

Y’a plein de parcours publics, d’ingénieur qui permettront un enseignement complet.

Voici un fichier utile : docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Parcours publics jeux vidéo / Mickaël Newton
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January 28, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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npr.org
The Labor Department has proposed rescinding an Obama-era rule that gave home care workers the right to overtime pay and other wage protections. The administration says the rule made care too costly. n.pr/4a1rrSZ
Caregivers for the elderly could lose wage protections under Trump proposal
The Labor Department has proposed rescinding an Obama-era rule that gave home care workers the right to overtime pay and other wage protections. The administration says the rule made care too costly.
n.pr
January 29, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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fipnowplays.bsky.social
♪ #nowplaying Final Fantasy VII - Costa Del Sol - Kain White (Acoustic VGM Vol 7 - 2019) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
Final Fantasy VII - Costa Del Sol - Kain White (Acoustic VGM Vol 7 - 2019) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
January 28, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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youcaughtscott.com
It is truly disappointing seeing how many people are responding to the current moment by appealing to some fictional version of the Democratic Party that clearly doesn’t exist. Have some self-respect.
January 27, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
m4ttch4.bsky.social
Ouah 🙂
fipnowplays.bsky.social FIP en direct @fipnowplays.bsky.social · 18d
♪ #nowplaying The lush planet - Geoff Knorr (BOF / Sid Meier's civilization : Beyond earth (jeu vidéo) - 2014) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
The lush planet - Geoff Knorr (BOF / Sid Meier's civilization : Beyond earth (jeu vidéo) - 2014) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
January 26, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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jensfoell.de
LinkedIn probably wasn’t the best channel to post this, but I stand by it
A LinkedIn post from my profile, reading: “It's a very simple equation, really: Science communication needs to be accurate, it needs to be authentic, and it needs to be transparent. If you're not doing it that way, you're not doing science communication at all. In addition, *good* science communication is inclusive, it's ethical, it's sustainable. If you're not heeding these things, you're not doing science communication right. Which is why I am profoundly shocked by ostensibly reasonable people promoting the use of chatbots for science communication. Their use decreases factual accuracy. It decreases transparency. It decreases authenticity. Those things are true regardless of *which* chatbot you're using and regardless of *how* you're using it. Plus, the tech is not sustainable, not inclusive, not ethical. The promotion and use of Al chatbots is already damaging science communication and, if taken to the extreme, will be capable of quickly destroying it. Not through the rise of evil Al, but through ignorance on part of the users, rapidly destroying the trust that science communicators have been able to build over decades. Everything I will ever publish will be written by humans, and by humans only. If science communication goes the way of the robots, it will go there without me.”
January 26, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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junlper.beer
rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know
January 25, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
I don't think it matters whether or not Alex Pretti had a gun www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
It doesn’t matter if Alex Pretti had a gun
Nonviolence is a double standard
www.theverge.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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astrokatie.com
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
m4ttch4.bsky.social
Ca sent le retour de flamme du loup vegetarien 🤣
theonion.com The Onion @theonion.com · 21d
Entire French Populace Moved To Tears By Cartoon Of Robot Holding Flower https://theonion.com/entire-french-populace-moved-to-tears-by-cartoon-of-robot-holding-flower/
Entire French Populace Moved To Tears By Cartoon Of Robot Holding Flower
January 23, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
One court decision, two different headlines.

Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, at least for now, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.
January 22, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
"Rules exist for the game, not the game for the rules. If one team playing the game stops following the rules, you aren’t playing that game anymore. You're playing their game, even if you keep following the old game's rules." www.the-reframe.com/the-rules/
The Rules
What is a game without rules? What are rules, if we've stopped playing the game?
www.the-reframe.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
Unless they are stopped, all the worst things that Trump and the Republican Party are going to do are in the future, not the past.

This makes stopping them the highest priority for the future of human life on the planet.
January 21, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
The fact that Trump is even permitted to have a conversation about *whether or not* he will use force shows how degraded the discourse has become. The question should be phrased to ask him why he is seemingly willing to be the aggressor that starts a new world war.
January 21, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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bouletcorp.bsky.social
Vous voyez, à chaque fois que vous postez une merde en IA, même quand c'est un mème anti-Trump, je pense à ce genre d'info.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 24d
The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX
January 21, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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ippr.org
FACT: Migrants provide a net economic benefit to the UK.

📺 @rachaelhenry.bsky.social on TalkTV 👇
January 21, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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saracentury.bsky.social
Our culture has such a reliance on art, mixed with so much disdain for artists' lives. Someone throws soup at a painting in a gallery or whatever and everyone acts like it's a literal murder, but that level of sympathy is for the object, almost never for the living conditions of artists.
January 19, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
If you think this technology isn’t eventually being used on you, you’re kidding yourself. Either we smash it or destroys us.
mariabustillos.com Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 26d
This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING

wat

CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
For example, an Amazon delivery driver, who sits in a cabin surrounded by AI cameras that monitor the driver’s eyes and take points off if the driver looks in a proscribed direction, and monitors the driver’s mouth because singing is not allowed on the job, and rats the driver out to the boss if they do not make quota.
January 19, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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jonathanhoefler.bsky.social
While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM