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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

This strikes me as curious: the pets.coms and webvans of the dotcom crash were just the froth. The real crash was among the cable companies – that's where *serious* money was lost. Surely the chair of the federal reserve knows that?
www.transformernews.ai/p/what-happe...

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 1d

It's Halloween, All Saints' Day, and All Souls' Day!
Time for a #SocialMediaSabbath. See you on Sunday night.

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Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social · 2d

Miller left his north Arlington home bc of chalk on the sidewalk

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"Stephen Miller soon joined a growing list of senior Trump-administration political appointees—at least six by our count—living in Washington-area military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest." Others include Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth.

Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases

Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 2d

It's been more than seven years. I hope this group of moral, patriotic Americans will write a new letter to highlight why the behavior of Trump, Hegseth, and Gabbard is NOT normal--and is incredibly dangerous. time.com/5370207/admi...

time.com

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Eos @eos.org · 3d

You’ve heard of ecosystem engineers. Earth system engineers have even larger, longer impacts on the planet. 🌏 🧪 #ExtremeEarthMakeover eos.org/articles/ear...

Earth System Engineers Take Planetary Alterations to Extreme Scales - Eos

A new framework argues Earth scientists should employ the concept of ecosystem engineering across geologic time and space.

eos.org

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

I'd like you to show me ANY U.S. journalism coverage of this report that mentions the electorate's beliefs (especially what dems stand for) are primarily being shaped by a massive and hugely effective right wing propaganda campaign across AM radio, local broadcast TV, cable, and the internet

The far left have taken control of the Democratic party platform, and it’s turning voters off

Research reveals a disconnect between Democratic elites and voters, and recommends that the party shift away from far-left issues and focus on affordability and public safety.

www.foxnews.com

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 3d

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship

Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

www.404media.co

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 3d

"Meta and TikTok to obey Australia under-16 social media ban" www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Meta and TikTok to obey Australia under-16 social media ban

Tech giants Meta and TikTok said Tuesday they will obey Australia's under-16 social media ban but warned the landmark laws could prove difficult to enforce.

www.france24.com

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 4d

sisisemail.up.edu.pe/sisisemail/_... This will be fascinating. How Chinese money and influence really work. Zoom in. @CarnegieEndow

Universidad del Pacífico

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 4d

This will be fascinating. How Chinese money and influence really work. Zoom in. @CarnegieEndow lnkd.in/eGf5qUUg

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop

Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 4d

Who wrote this script? #SurrealityTV. The Dodgers and the Blue Jays have now played TWO full games!! Sometimes I am glad I wake up in the darkest part of the morning. Baseball history is being made. www.mlb.com/scores/2025-...

MLB Scores: Scoreboard, Results and Highlights

Get up-to-date MLB scores from today’s games, as well as scores from all the 2025 MLB season games.

www.mlb.com

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 6d

Tim Kaine on Trump's military operations against Venezuela: "This is about regime change, which is not something that the president should be deciding on his own—especially since America has often gotten regime change very wrong...It leads to more instability and more migration."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5d

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 5d

@komadori.bsky.social Robin, what good is Germ of I have an Android phone? How can I best arrange a phone call about barriers to digital ID and verified credentials? +1 703.598.5187

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 5d

October 26, 2025

Economist Paul Krugman probably didn’t have the Erie Canal in mind today when he wrote about the rise of renewable energy, but he could have.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 5d

Live NOW at the @BrookingsInst: www.brookings.edu/events/whats...
#GENIUSact #StableCoins

What’s up with stablecoins after the GENIUS Act? | Brookings

On October 27, Brookings will examine what financial companies are planning and how regulators are preparing to implement the act.

www.brookings.edu

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5d

dumb tech is smart tech and vice versa, episode 7,000

Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

One man's robot vacuum was constantly communicating with its manufacturer, sending a detailed 3D map of his house halfway across the world.

futurism.com

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Alex Noyes @alexhnoyes.bsky.social · 23d

Excited to share my latest @newsweek.com piece, this time with the great ⁦‪Jesse Humpal‬⁩. We outline the threat to America’s telecoms and suggest ways to harden our infrastructure | The War for America’s Networks ⁦
www.newsweek.com/the-war-for-...

The War for America’s Networks | Opinion

The next war may not begin with tanks on American shores. It has already begun with silent servers, jammed hotlines, and frozen logistics.

www.newsweek.com

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Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 22d

The latest @brookings.edu @financialtimes.com's Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery shows an economic landscape that seems benign in some ways, but unsettled in others, Eswar Prasad and Caroline Smiltneks write.
bit.ly/4qa9ycc

Is the Global Economy as Resilient as It Seems?

Eswar Prasad & Caroline Smiltneks share findings from a compilation of indices tracking macroeconomic conditions around the world.

bit.ly

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Personal details of more than 450 people with “top secret” security clearance were left exposed on an unsecured database run by Democrats in the House of Representatives. @lhn.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/hundre...

Hundreds of People With ‘Top Secret’ Clearance Exposed by House Democrats’ Website

A database containing information on people who applied for jobs with Democrats in the US House of Representatives was left accessible on the open web.

www.wired.com

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 5d

👉 www.theguardian.com/technology/2....

‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?

In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon M...

www.theguardian.com

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5d

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 12d

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 6d

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 6d

Possible. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_d...

Texas divisionism - Wikipedia

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