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Patrick Fitzgerald @patmfitz.bsky.social · 1d

If Antifa was Steely Dan:

Trump in Minneapolis

YouTube video by Mathias Lundqvist

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

In the country's richest city, more than 140,000 kids don't have stable or permanent housing.

"Every Child and Family Is Known" — a small pilot program that pairs school staff with students and families in shelters — has shown real promise. I will double its funding and scope.

Mamdani education plan would focus on helping NYC homeless students

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayoral race, said Wednesday he wants to double the size of a program for homeless students at public schools in a plan shared exclu…

www.nydailynews.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot see that image of them zip tying that child anymore without just melting into despair

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Kin Lane @kinlane.bsky.social · 4d

My closet.

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Kin Lane @kinlane.bsky.social · 4d

My personal newsletter from this week...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - October 6th, 2025

It was a lovely week all around in NYC. The weather keeps acting like it is going to switch to fall, but the temperature keeps coming back up. It is just...

buttondown.com

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Kin Lane @kinlane.bsky.social · 5d

In an information economy and a computerized society, abstraction is the source of control over your own life, and potentially the source of power over others. - Alan F. Blackwell, Moral Codes, Designing Alternatives to AI

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

www.thetimes.com

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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Kin Lane @kinlane.bsky.social · 8d

Current reading...

Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI

Why the world needs less AI and better programming languages.Decades ago, we believed that robots and computers would take over all the boring jobs and dru

direct.mit.edu

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8d

“If you can beat the oligarchs here…that will send a message to every community in America that real change is possible.”

More of my conversation with Bernie Sanders on democracy, oligarchy and his time as Mayor.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Kin Lane @kinlane.bsky.social · 11d

My personal newsletter for last week - buttondown.com/kin-lane/arc...

A Week of Being Kin Lane - September 29th, 2025

The week started with a heightened level of Squirrel Patrol activity. We issued probably 25 tickets, had a high speed chase with one squirrel down the middle...

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 13d

Driving didn’t “naturally” become inevitable. We designed a society that make driving inevitable in most places. We can design something different

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 15d

I believe this was discovered by Soundgarden in 1994, thank you.

www.livescience.com/space/black-...

The James Webb telescope may have discovered a brand new class of cosmic object: the black hole star

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an extreme version of "little red dots" dubbed "The Cliff." Its light suggests that it could be a never-before-seen class of objects called...

www.livescience.com

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WIRED @wired.com · 15d

Months after the Department of Government Efficiency's attack on the federal government began, WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as DOGE tore through their offices.

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

www.wired.com

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Kin Lane @kinlane.bsky.social · 14d

Lose yourself to dance.

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Kin Lane @kinlane.bsky.social · 14d

Scrollytelling

Kin Lane @kinlane.bsky.social · 15d

Fired back up my @apievangelist.com Slack to use as part of some business coordination and the last set of projects and coordination in there was with Audrey's son Isaiah, as part my last push to try and get him working and paying his bills before he overdosed at the beginning of Covid. OOF! ;-(

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Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social · 16d

Chatbots (*the* interface for LLMs) are more like "chit" -- a voucher, an obligation, an IOU, a bind -- than "chat" 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/chit-chat/

Chit Chat

Chit: an official note, sometimes a voucher or an IOU; a slip of paper that grants permission Chat: an informal conversation; a friendly talk Chit-chat: "A reduplication with vowel variation of chat...

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com

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Kin Lane @kinlane.bsky.social · 16d

Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars

The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...

www.bloomberg.com

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Kin Lane @kinlane.bsky.social · 17d

The Squirrel Patrol was out of control today. We issued probably 25 tickets, had a high speed chase with one squirrel down the middle of the road, and two juveniles were kung foo fighting right before Tavern on the Green.

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