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Reuben Baron
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He/They. Writer. Treasurer of @dorianawards.bsky.social. Formerly "AndalusianDoge" before the world's cringest billionaire ruined the meme. Posts don't express views of employers. #AbolishICE #BlackLivesMatter
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mtsw.bsky.social
"support the troops" was always a joke to all these guys who run the media. a big laugh. they never cared about dead troops except as a way to punish anti-war or left politicians. trump shits all over the troops and they cheer him on bsky.app/profile/mons...
monsterbeard.bsky.social Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 1h
They made a whole fucking movie about Benghazi. Jesus Christ
September 18, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
oh, that's bad.
September 18, 2026 at 6:52 PM
rubigb.bsky.social
My rankings of everything I watched at #TIFF26: letterboxd.com/rubi/list/my...
letterboxd.com
September 18, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
September 18, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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aloner.bsky.social
The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify
Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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ursiday.bsky.social
I'm so excited about the newly described Leopardus tilcayo #cats
Digital illustration of a Leopardus tilcayo with two images of the cat in profile and in a crouched pose
September 18, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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refrag.bsky.social
This Gyges person gets treated as small-r rational (complementary), and caught a genuinely ridiculous suspension recently, but this is pure AI brain-poisoning
sven.blacksky.app ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 16d
« First they came for the data centers »

Breathtaking conversations are happening on this website. 😵‍💫
SE Gyges: this is the mindset of a medieval peasant taking a piss on a random shop because he is too spineless to come for a noble or a king Asawin Suebsaeng• QT @swin24.bsky.social I am perfectly open to the idea that some of the data center panic is overblown, what I am telling u is I don't care 13 caverylittle.bsky.social @caverylittle.bsky.social • 5h Is it your understanding that peasants did not try to assassinate enough monarchs out of a lack of courage? SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social •.. 199 4 $ 18 + Follow The direct historical analogue is actually when they used to pogrom the local jews because the king blamed them for everything so yes I think guillotining monarchs was a substantial improvement 12:25 PM • Sep 2, 2026
September 17, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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hazelmonforton.com
The "they don't know I'm" party meme except it's the pope when he was young, at an actual party, actually holding a drink. Tweeted by user @hardflics with the caption "They don't know I'm the future Pope."
September 17, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
You really shouldn't be in politics if you can't take advantage of your opponent being sponsored by The Job Destroying Factory That Raises Your Water And Power Bills And Whose Creators Say It Might Kill Us All.
September 17, 2026 at 10:03 PM
rubigb.bsky.social
Martin Scorsese just attached himself to a movie with a lot of bad AI effects (Ash Koosha, the guy who made the AI Odyssey, is credited) deadline.com/2026/09/mart...
Martin Scorsese Joins Bahman Ghobadi's Horror 'Trees Are Watching'
Martin Scorsese Joins Bahman Ghobadi's Eva Green Horror Film 'Trees Are Watching' Ahead Of Toronto Bow.
deadline.com
September 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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jonchristian.net
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms

What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News

futurism.com/artificial-i...
How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
futurism.com
September 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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juliaserano.bsky.social
If you're one of these Democrats and you don't turn these attack ads into tying Musk and all his atrocities and billionaire out of state money to your Republican opponent, I don't know what the hell you're doing
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d
A new wave of anti-trans attack ads targeting millions of voters appears to have launched on Sep. 14.

Dems targeted include Brown, Peltola, Turek, El-Sayed, and Talarico.

It is driven by Elon Musk's America Pac with a $100M ad spend planned for this election.

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New Round Of Anti-Trans Attack Ads Blankets The Airwaves This Week
New ad spends have gone up targeting Talarico, Peltola, El-Sayed, Turek, and Brown, among other Democrats.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 17, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Incredible quote to start with “millions of Americans like me” and then to end with “on our normal vacation to Greece or the Vineyard”
September 17, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
The ultimate you had one job
September 17, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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esqueer.net
Every day, the stories from the UK read like a dystopian novel.
​Screenshot of a Reddit post from r/transgenderUK titled "Excluded from school for supporting a trans girl." A parent describes their daughter, who has Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS), choosing to use the boys' restrooms in solidarity with a trans classmate who was forced to do so, resulting in her being excluded from school.
September 17, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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missingthept.bsky.social
Lucille Bluth: "It's a $1 Trump coin Michael, what could it cost, $10?"
September 17, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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joshchafetz.bsky.social
This is an R+6 district that @fiftyplusone.news currently has at an 88% chance of a GOP hold.

Possible that GOP internal polling is even worse than the public polling.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Florida Republican tries to save her seat by ... running ads against Trump
September 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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aapur.bsky.social
They fired so many artists over this too. People who helped make the game iconic were tossed out on the street because the Slop Faucet could do it "decent enough".
If you still play Fortnite, you're funding the hyper-acceleration of AI replacing Artists in Gaming
September 16, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
“a person experiencing frenchness”
benrs.uk ben @benrs.uk · 1d
good morning
APStylebook • @APStylebook • 16h We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing "the" labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant. AP The Associated Press Replying to @APStylebook The use of "the French" in this tweet by @AP was inappropriate and has caused unintended offense. An updated tweet is upcoming.
September 17, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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tedmccormick.bsky.social
these people axed their writing center
jedbrown.org Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 2d
Oh. That's a heck of a subsidy.
September 17, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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samadams.bsky.social
Important note (which is in the piece): Unlike Universal, Bleecker Street is holding steady on releasing Musk in the US, and actually moved up the opening to Oct 9. Independent media!
September 17, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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jacoboller.bsky.social
people think it's SO easy to be a film critic but so few seem to know that it's an extremely complicated process that often involves watching at least one movie
tylerhuckabee.bsky.social huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality. I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
September 17, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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spavel.bsky.social
"Hid mistakes and made up data" used to be called by the cozy term "hallucination" up until it became vitally important for the IPO that AI is now evil
stevemullis.net Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d
OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission, amid an ongoing industrywide debate about A.I. safety.
OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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lillywachowski.bsky.social
Hi!
This is out today and it’s awesome!
And I am proud to be connected to it!
SUPPORT TRANS PEOPLE!!!
WE ARE FUCKING MAGICAL!!!!
What Happened at Aleister Crowley’s Boleskine House? | #WITCHYAF
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September 17, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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rincewind.run
"why does the left distrust AI" certainly has plenty to do with the technology itself but at its core I think it is about the fact that everyone building it is a wannabe fascist oligarch and nobody trusts them on a god damn thing
ryanlcooper.com ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d
way to go, you fucking morons. I hope you're happy with how things are going
Going beyond the necessary cost cutting, tech’s newly radicalized billionaires used this moment to wage class war and enforce discipline on what they saw as an unruly workforce. Gone were the days of coddling tech workers and viewing them as the industry’s most valuable assets. Instead, the progressivism and idealism that had come, in part, from the techno-utopianism of the 2000s and 2010s was now seen by Silicon Valley’s executives and investors as an explicit threat. And so, these billionaires set their sights on winning the culture war and dismantling the left-liberal foundations they believed had turned their own workers against them. To do so, and to avoid another bout of Biden-esque regulation, they threw in their support with Trump, laying the foundations of what would soon be known as the tech oligarchy—a power bloc uniting capital and politics under a shared project of restoring control.
September 16, 2026 at 6:22 PM