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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3d

“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.”

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The infrastructure of meaninglessness

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine that

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S. Hart @54holmewood.bsky.social · 3d

Courage to resist the threat of power is not ordinary any more.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Yoko Ono @yokoono.bsky.social · 5d

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEAN!

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S. Hart @54holmewood.bsky.social · 4d

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 5d

Funny how resistance to AI in public space is described as "vandalism," but outright theft of the work of writers/artists is treated as an acceptable practice in the name of the technology's dubious claims to instrumentality and value.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/s...

A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls

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S. Hart @54holmewood.bsky.social · 5d

They're working short of nearly 5,000 already and by 28 October, w/o pay.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

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S. Hart @54holmewood.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations!
What happy news!

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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 5d

It’s a girl for Naserian! As has become tradition among our ex-orphans, the proud mum returned ‘home’ this weekend to introduce her brand new daughter to the people who raised her. The special name we have chosen for Naserian's little girl: Nyika, which means bush/wilderness in Swahili.

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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 5d

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 5d

Problems with pharma don't mean that quackery works.

Problems in aircraft design don’t mean that magic carpets can actually fly.

- Ben Goldacre

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S. Hart @54holmewood.bsky.social · 6d

Thunberg was nominated and was the bookmakers' favourite in 2019. The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize went to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali.

S. Hart @54holmewood.bsky.social · 7d

John Searle obituary | Philosophy | The Guardian share.google/d4bc4xiXOE2D...

John Searle obituary

American philosopher whose Chinese Room thought experiment rebuts the idea that computers can think as humans do

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8d

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

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S. Hart @54holmewood.bsky.social · 8d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 9d

"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025
"In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness."
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State Terror

A brief guide for Americans

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S. Hart @54holmewood.bsky.social · 9d

Congress is the branch of government that makes laws. The chief executive wielding a sharpie and an executive order make a photo op, not a law.

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