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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 12h

for me, the garbage fire IS the juice

whet moser @whetmoser.com · 12h

don't let yourself get attached to any social network you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner

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Kris Wernowsky @kriswernowsky.com · 15h

Kavanaugh, stop

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 17h

Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by UBI which they will violently oppose

PALO ALTO, CA - A group of Silicon Valley tech CEOs assure North Americans that job losses from artificial intelligence could easily be mitigated by universal basic income, while also adding that they...

www.thebeaverton.com

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carter’s highlight page @30thstate.bsky.social · 2d

An Air Canada flight right now

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 7d

One of the biggest problems in the tech industry right now is that the people running it appear to have lost their fucking minds

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 7d

Bold to respond to one of the most concerning-on-the-technical-details cloud provider outages in years, an outage in which terrible morale and sky-high attrition are credibly implicated, with "let's do more layoffs"

George Pearkes @peark.es · 7d

*AMAZON PLANS TO CUT UP TO 30,000 CORPORATE JOBS: RTRS

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Playleft @playleft.bsky.social · 2d

Haven't watched baseball on TV in a while and jiminy h. crickets, they show an ad during the time when one batter walks to the first and the next one comes to the plate!?

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Proton @proton.me · 3d

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

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Woj @swojack.bsky.social · 3d

If the appeals court won't let the Judge do the non-punitive daily check-ins then that Judge better just go straight to punitive measures. Otherwise why even bother showing up to work at court.

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Playleft @playleft.bsky.social · 2d

The problem with EPD being seemingly impotent in the face of ICE could simultaneously be half ACAB and half "it would be a shitty idea and only escalate things."

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Laurie @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 2d

I hope people understand how *embodied* the fear and stress experiences are when ICE is in your neighborhood

Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 3d

Something unusual, to me, is that normally when I have a heightened emotional response, my brain employs reason to calm and guide me. Today I felt my physical body was the calming, guiding force while my brain was struggling to process what it was witnessing and was sounding all the alarm bells.

🎄Peter Nickeas 🎅🏻 @peternickeas.bsky.social · 3d

I get I don't have in my history exhaustive library of encounters. But doesn't feel even like extension of the worst policing I've seen, and I've seen bad. This feels different effort entire, started from scratch with few rules and better tech and pushing boundaries of what can be gotten away with.

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Playleft @playleft.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know the answer. I was glad to see Mayor Biss on the ground in the minutes after the ICE attack at Oakton and Asbury yesterday. But the current situation is unsustainable.

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Playleft @playleft.bsky.social · 2d

Tom Hayden with some Evanston-specific frustrations to ICE response. www.foiagras.com/p/weekend-op...

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Cait Hakala @caithakala.bsky.social · 3d

I dressed up tonight as Princess Di and someone asked if I was Daniel Biss.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 2d

#NotPlaying

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 4d

Wanna hear a scary story?

The first American vampire was Black.

Seriously.

78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy.

It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States

Text:

"The Black Vampyre; Legend of St. Domingo" by Uriah Derick D'Arcy written in 1819.

The story of an enslaved man in St Domingo (modern day Haiti) who was thrown overboard as his enslaver attempted to kill him.

He not only survives, he lives forever, and marries one of his enslaver's descendants.

Reminds me of "Sinners" in a way

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 3d

From an Evanston resident filming an arrest at Oakton/Asbury ~an hour ago:

"He was being very violent with her, I said ‘You got to stop that,’ and he said, ‘Step back or I’ll fucking shoot you.‘ I step back, and then I continue to record, at which point he turned around and pointed a gun at me.”

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Today in Evanston: helicopters overhead constantly, ICE jumping out across the entire town, people getting snatched outside of schools, a guns-drawn confrontation at an intersection after hitting a car, schools on soft lockdown, and they’re STILL roaming around in full tactical gear.

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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 3d

IDs are mismatched, illegible or still missing 3 weeks after judge’s order to immigration officers
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

IDs are mismatched, illegible or still missing 3 weeks after judge’s order to immigration officers

In dozens of photographs at four locations, Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists documented federal officers failing to wear the “visible identification” needed to hold individuals accountable during th...

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 3d

Not an understatement to say how transformational and solid of a bill this is. All the best parts of the robust reform package the Senate passed in the spring, with none of the negative baggage of the new funding sources since we’re moving existing fuel taxes from highways to transit operations

Dolan's Knicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 3d

WOOHOO: “Illinois lawmakers approve $1.5B legislative package to buoy mass transit”

chicago.suntimes.com/springfield/...

Illinois lawmakers approve $1.5B legislative package to buoy mass transit

Lawmakers agreed on a tax package to stave off a $200 million-plus fiscal cliff next year that would likely result in major cuts to bus and rail service at the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra and Pac...

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Capitol Fax @capitolfax.bsky.social · 3d

Transit reform/funding bill approved in the Senate. This is final passage

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 5d

MORE NEWS: The Justice Department seeks an "immediate administrative stay" to prevent the requirement that U.S. Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino appear daily in the courtroom of Judge Sara Ellis.

The federal government has petitioned this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the district court to vacate its October 28, 2025 order, which in relevant part requires Chief Gregory Bovino, a senior official at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), to “appear in court, in person,” every weekday “at 5:45 PM” “to report on the use of force activities for each day.” See DE146, at 1.1 As reflected in the attached order, the district court has denied the government’s request to stay that extraordinary and extraordinarily disruptive requirement. Id. Accordingly, the government asks this Court to stay that requirement pending this Court’s disposition of the pending mandamus petition and enter an immediate administrative stay. Indeed, without an immediate administrative stay, the daily appearance requirement that the district court imposed less than 24 hours ago will begin today at 5:45pm. Plaintiffs oppose the stay requests.

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Playleft @playleft.bsky.social · 5d

A wee wholesome timeline cleanse: not quite 60 seconds of Weird Al Yankovic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6_v...

Taking a Minute at MSG

YouTube video by alyankovic

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SvenCodes @killroy.bsky.social · 6d

So what does one do when the WSJ slaps your game app on their website without so much as an email or message?

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 7d

i hate to be that bitch, but my sources are telling me this early voting data has gotten Zohran's people rightly spooked and y'all better stop assuming this one's in the bag. GOTV

Voter turnout surges in NYC mayor’s race, with Boomers and Gen X leading the charge

The data so far is good news for independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, a political scientist said.

gothamist.com

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