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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 2d

The Guardian is hiring for a graphics reporter and data reporter to cover how the US government is deleting and altering important datasets.

If you like the work we do, come join us!

Data: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
Graphics: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

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Laura “y’all’d’ve is grammatically correct” Stone @stoneyboboney.bsky.social · 2d

Loaded up my car tonight for future errands/encounters with the unhoused on corners.

Snacks, juice boxes, hand warmers, wet wipes and pads in snap top bags. If you have a cheap home goods place, you can grab umbrellas for $5 each.

Make eye contact, give, connect. See your neighbor.

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 4d

Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol chief in charge of operations in Chicago, told a judge today the government needs more time to submit use-of-force reports to the court because of the "sheer volume" of reports

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d

Ellis orders Border Patrol to submit, under seal, all of the use of force incidents in Chicago by the end of the day.

She also wants all of the body-worn camera footage.

Bovino says the "sheer volume" of the reports makes that impossible.

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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 5d

The New York City Subway is 121 years old today -- the IRT first opened on this day in 1904.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

Good morning everyone. It's me again here to ask NYC residents to please send a letter to your City Council person in support of allocating 0.5% of the city expense budget to our local public libraries. Thank you. It will only take you 90 seconds. This time with the correct link:

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!

In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

actionnetwork.org

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 7d

Censorship Alert: I published a book about Ghislaine Maxwell trial, and another on Kevin Spacey's trial- this evening I got an email from Amazon's KDP saying they are inappropriate and there all of my books are being taken down, including on Sudan, SBF, Eric Adams

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Dan Phiffer @phiffer.org · 7d

“Mr. Sanborn acknowledged that keeping the secret could be a strain: His computer has been hacked repeatedly over the years, he said, and obsessive fans of the work have threatened him. ‘I sleep with a shotgun,’ he said.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...
#GiftLink #Cryptography #Art

A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault

www.nytimes.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7d

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7d

If you think you know what is to be done, you should do it. No one has patience for you saying that other people must do what you won't do first.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you, Chicago.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 8d

I'm excited to finally have a preprint of this paper up, a few years in the making.

In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence.

arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894

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erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 9d

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

atlantic article screenshot
headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get
sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight
by yasmin tayag

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10d

the extraction class desperately wants to turn the internet into a badly automated ouroboros of engagement slop that shits ad money with no pesky labor

but researchers across three universities found that the more LLMs are trained on clickbait slop, the worse and more "hostile" the models become

Clickbait Gives AI Models 'Brain Rot,' Researchers Find

Brain rot doesn't require a brain, just this one simple trick.

gizmodo.com

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Logan Jaffe @loganjaffe.bsky.social · 10d

This morning’s Big Story newsletter from @propublica.org:

📌 Oklahoma’s shift toward conservatism and Christianity in public schools has come amid abysmal test scores and high dropout rates.

www.propublica.org/article/trum... by @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 11d

“In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit”

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 10d

So the guy shot today by an ICE and then *charged* is a TikTok journalist.

He's actually the second TikTok journo shot and charged this month. And oh, the govt's claims in that case have not held up.

1st case: chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

2nd: www.latimes.com/california/s...

ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal and TikTok streamer, who is charged with assault

Carlitos Ricardo Parias was charged Tuesday night with assault on a federal officer after the immigration operation in L.A. in which the suspect and a U.S. marshal were injured.

www.latimes.com

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 11d

Six percent of *all children* in America are US citizens who have at least one undocumented parent.

(Not a typo, source in thread)

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11d

“CNN identified more than 100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenagers, who have been left stranded without parents because of immigration actions this year …” americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/the-americ... #FamiliesBelongTogether

The American Children of Mass Deportation: ‘The New Family Separation Crisis’

One report has identified more than 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents due to mass deportation—and there are likely more out there.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 11d

First pass at the chaotic scene that just happened in Lower Manhattan.

Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors

Spontaneous protestors were met with an armored military vehicle and assault rifles in a crackdown that escalated the Trump administration’s focus on NYC.

www.thecity.nyc

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Brian Dusablon | Duce | Drifter Life @drifterlife.com · 11d

“When Microsoft opened a data center in central Mexico last year, nearby residents said power cuts became more frequent. Water outages, which once lasted days, stretched for weeks. The shortages led to school cancellations and the spread of stomach bugs…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 11d

They're… demolishing some of the East Wing of the White House, where the Presidential Emergency Operations Center nuclear bunker is, to then build a monstrously gaudy ballroom… damn near on *Top* of where the Presidential Emergency Operations Center nuclear bunker is.

Is that… do i have that right?