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Jakob Gasser
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bryce.lol
This post got some attention for its first line but I was much happier with the last one, which I think current events have borne out. on.ft.com/442ac1E
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
jackoty.bsky.social
@gruenwald.bsky.social gibt es heute ein liveskeeting vom Liebesgeschichten Finale?
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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brittanytrang.com
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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emilyhughes.bsky.social
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
brittanytrang.com Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 2d
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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jamellebouie.net
initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface
keptsimple.bsky.social m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 2d
incredible new trump photo
November 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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kappachers.bsky.social
Wer sich anhören will wie es Harald Mahrer trotz seiner erzwungenen „Huch es war ein Fehler“ Strategie immer noch nicht verstehen will: Sehr gutes Interview von Michael Fröschl im #Mittagsjournal sound.orf.at/radio/oe1/be...
WKÖ-Präsident Mahrer im Journal zu Gast
sound.orf.at
November 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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roofjoke.netzpolitik.org
Gestern habe ich noch über Gerüchte geschrieben, heute veröffentlichen wir die Dokumente, die belegen: Die EU-Kommission plant einen Frontalangriff auf den Datenschutz.

Mit @daniel.netzpolitik.org

netzpolitik.org/2025/digital...
„Digitaler Omnibus“: EU-Kommission will Datenschutzgrundverordnung und KI-Regulierung schleifen
In weniger als zwei Wochen will die EU-Kommission einen umfassenden Gesetzesvorschlag präsentieren. Der
netzpolitik.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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oliveras.bsky.social
Und in den großen Zeitungen des Landes ist es natürlich nicht anders, wie @kobuk.at belegt:

kobuk.at/2023/02/in-o...
In Österreichs Zeitungen erklären noch immer Männer die Welt
68 Prozent aller Kommentare, Glossen und Kolumnen werden von Männern geschrieben; bei Leitartikeln sind es noch mehr.
kobuk.at
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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oliveras.bsky.social
Und ich bin auch wieder zurück. Keine News, aber vielleicht unterhaltsam

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Männer haben Meinungen und keine Hemmungen
Ob Make-up, Migration oder Atomphysik, Männer beteiligen sich am öffentlichen Diskurs häufiger und intensiver, unabhängig von ihrer Expertise. Frauen hingegen benötigen dafür viel Mut
www.derstandard.at
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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aselrod.bsky.social
Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women.

I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
Women Should Make Babies, Not Vote: Why Some on the Far Right Want to Repeal the 19th Amendment
The far right takes losses at the ballot box as evidence that women do not deserve their rights.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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briancschmidt.bsky.social
Wichtiger Hinweis. Ihr könntet gute (böse) Witze verpassen.
evilbatwitch.cryptoanarchy.network Evil Bat Witch @evilbatwitch.cryptoanarchy.network · 5d
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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kendrawrites.com
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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shakespeare.lol
[Exit Clown.]
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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attackerman.bsky.social
The Cheney obituary pairs well with this piece I just published about the final attempts to stop @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Read them together and subscribe to @foreverwars.bsky.social:
The Ground Zero Mosqueification of Zohran Mamdani
The politics of 9/11 may not be strong enough to take down the New York mayoral frontrunner. But they'll burn the social fabric of the city they claim to save
www.forever-wars.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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attackerman.bsky.social
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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attackerman.bsky.social
Perfect @mollycrabapple.bsky.social piece:
We Heart New York
On Zohran Mamdani and loving our city - VOTE
mollycrabapple.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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nickkapur.bsky.social
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
I wrote a piece on the work of writer and director James Gunn, who is engaged in a pretty incredible ongoing enterprise that despises bigotry and authoritarianism and reaffirms patriotism for progressives. www.vulture.com/article/jame...
James Gunn’s American Project
He is few critics’ idea of a respectable auteur, but his work is more consistently progressive than any other comic-book material today.
www.vulture.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥

There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️

They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬

Thread:🧵Plz RT
November 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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pbump.com
The Washington Post with a story about how remaking an institution to appeal to the pro-Trump right doesn't help the bottom line.
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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mariozechner.at
Cory Doctorow talked to the Verge and called me "the kid in Austria who scraped all the web prices of the two major grocers".

I'm 41 years old. 🫠

www.theverge.com/podcast/8090...
So as to AI, I think you’re right that without the limitations on liability, we wouldn’t have AI, particularly the fair use stuff. But if you think about what you get from the lawfulness of the things that are involved in AI training, so indexing and making transient copies of work for the purposes of analysis. If you ever want to go look up what CBS’s DEI policy used to be before they caved into Trump, you want people to be scraping and retaining copies of works without permission. If you want to have computational linguistics, if you want to have that kid in Austria who scraped all the web prices of the two major grocers and showed that they were moving in lockstep and that they were colluding to rig prices, we need scraping, right?
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
jackoty.bsky.social
@badlogictest.bsky.social dein Preisvergleich Tool bekommt im Gespräch einen shout-out/wird als Beispiel genannt, dass das Recht auf scraping wichtig ist
October 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
🫡 www.theverge.com/podcast/8090...
How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
Author Cory Doctorow on platform decay and why everything on the internet feels like it’s getting worse.
www.theverge.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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armscontrolwonk.bsky.social
The @statedeptus.bsky.social 2021 "compliance report" is the most detailed unclassified statement on Russian, Chinese nuclear testing. DIA said something similar in 2019. Russia is directly accused of low-yield testing, while there are only concerns about Chinese transparency.
October 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM