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Nathan Freitas

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There are so many essential problems to solve in the world, why limit yourself to smart juicers and photo filters? mastodon @[email protected] Also me: https://nathan.freitas.net https://guardianproject.info https://tibetaction.net

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那智🌸(Nachi) @nachi0707.bsky.social · 6d

Recently, I've been practicing calligraphy to sharpen my mind. Incidentally, this is an idiom that means "everything changes and transforms."

Good night🌌

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 6d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7d

You absolutely should not dismiss the AT Protocol technology that runs this place as boring nerd stuff, because that is the exact technology we are going to need to ensure that usable social media that isn’t controlled by Nazis continues to exist.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10d

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 11d

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

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Nathan Freitas @nathan.freitas.net · 14d

@mediaclusternorway.no #c2pa

Nathan Freitas @nathan.freitas.net · 14d

Verifiable natural beauty here in Bergen at the amazing #FutureWeek25 event with Media Cluster Norway - check yourself at check.proofmode.org#https://base...

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 17d

HUGE HUGE NEWS FROM EGYPT!!

Egyptian President Sisi has issued a presidential pardon for activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah.

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Nathan Freitas @nathan.freitas.net · 17d

Null beer. There is a hacking joke in there somewhere.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 21d

Exactly this

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 22d

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23d

> @cnbc.com 🇬🇧

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23d

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.

You're welcome

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Marilyn Munster @heyfren.bsky.social · 24d

Picture of a flag at half staff. Caption says for Minnesota house speaker emirita Melissa hortman (D) assassinated in her home. Along with her husband and her dog. On June 14th 2025.

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Nathan Freitas @nathan.freitas.net · 24d

I will be speaking and hacking on our efforts to #DefendReality at Future Week in Bergen next week mediacitybergen.no/futureweek/ - #FutureWeek25 @mediacitybergen.no #norway #bergen

a graphic poster showing information about the Future Week 2025 Hackathon in Bergen, Norway on the 25th of September 2025

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 25d

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

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tarasworld.bsky.social @tarasworld.bsky.social · 26d

WE ARE NOT THE SAME!
Stephen Miller said that Kirk's last message to him was a call to dismantle radical left organizations fomenting violence across the US and he will make this happen in Kirk's name. Right extremists were responsible for 75% of all extremist murders in the US from 2013 till now. 🤨

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26d

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 28d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 2

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

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Jordan Maison @jordanmaison.com · Sep 1

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy to be marching in this Labor Day parade with my union brothers and sisters:

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Nathan Freitas @nathan.freitas.net · Sep 1

Remember, sunrises are still free, and beach parking will soon be again, too! #capecod #newengland

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¡AU! @auworks.bsky.social · Aug 29

The launch pad for this issue was the superb discussion at our Content & IP Defense Summit in June. Thanks to our participants, including @nathan.freitas.net @hsvela.bsky.social @felipedana.bsky.social @glovelace.bsky.social, Miruna Herovanu, Manny Ahmed, Sergio Ammirata, Will Kreth & Rob Waugh!

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Nathan Freitas @nathan.freitas.net · Aug 29

The Hunt... Portugal edition! (Be careful to not eat too many pastel de nata while playing)... a multi-day photo and video scavenger hunt using the Proofmode camera app. Learn how to play at: lnkd.in/gZJetK_e #thehunt #c2pa #proofmode #contentcredentials #portugal #lisbon #globalgathering #gg2025