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Sean Murray
@seanwmurray.bsky.social
· Jun 11
“Whatever happens, stay alive.
Don't die before you're dead.
Don't lose yourself, don't lose hope, don't lose direction. Stay alive, with yourself, with every cell of your body, with every fiber of your skin. Stay alive, learn, study, think, read, build, invent, create, speak, write, dream, design.
Don't die before you're dead.
Don't lose yourself, don't lose hope, don't lose direction. Stay alive, with yourself, with every cell of your body, with every fiber of your skin. Stay alive, learn, study, think, read, build, invent, create, speak, write, dream, design.
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One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
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What would it mean to build a city for kids?
An interview with St. John’s active transportation advocate Ryan Green
A thread 🧵:
An interview with St. John’s active transportation advocate Ryan Green
A thread 🧵:
What would it mean to build a city for kids? – The Independent
An interview with St. John’s active transportation advocate Ryan Green
theindependent.ca
December 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
What would it mean to build a city for kids?
An interview with St. John’s active transportation advocate Ryan Green
A thread 🧵:
An interview with St. John’s active transportation advocate Ryan Green
A thread 🧵:
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With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal. In the end, it resorted to dumping thousands of tons of wood chips in the sea.
How the Next Big Thing in Carbon Removal Sank Without a Trace
With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal. In the end, it resorted to dumping thousands of tons of wood chips in the sea.
wrd.cm
December 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal. In the end, it resorted to dumping thousands of tons of wood chips in the sea.
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"You don't want to be on the other side of Donald Trump" because he's a mob boss who uses violent rhetoric to turn people into targets for terrorists. With the support of fascist politicians like Jim Banks.
Jim Banks on Republicans from his own state of Indiana defying Trump: "I supported the president ... you don't want to be on the other side of Donald Trump."
December 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"You don't want to be on the other side of Donald Trump" because he's a mob boss who uses violent rhetoric to turn people into targets for terrorists. With the support of fascist politicians like Jim Banks.
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"Heng Guan, a Chinese citizen who documented alleged human-rights abuses against Uyghurs, faces deportation from the U.S. after being detained by ICE."
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"Heng Guan, a Chinese citizen who documented alleged human-rights abuses against Uyghurs, faces deportation from the U.S. after being detained by ICE."
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All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed.
“Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”
“Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Video shows the man rushing one of the alleged gunmen who shot dozens of people on Sunday evening in Australia
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Bondi beach shooting live updates
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Bondi terror attack: full report
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What we know so far about the shooting in Australia
A bystander tackled and wrestled a gun from one of the two alleged gunman during the Bondi beach mass shooting in which at least 12 people were killed, footage shows.
Video of the scene shows the alleged gunman standing on a footpath between a grassy area and parking lot holding a shotgun and firing into the distance. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed.
“Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”
“Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”
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A new video from Paige Saunders on Canadian High Speed Rail landing on the day we announce the first phase from Ottawa to Montreal? This is amazing.
www.youtube.com/watch?si=hyy...
www.youtube.com/watch?si=hyy...
What Canada can learn from Spain about high-speed rail | CBC Creator Network
YouTube video by CBC
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A new video from Paige Saunders on Canadian High Speed Rail landing on the day we announce the first phase from Ottawa to Montreal? This is amazing.
www.youtube.com/watch?si=hyy...
www.youtube.com/watch?si=hyy...
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Do you enjoy audiobooks?
Do you like Christmas?
Then check out my Christmas audiobook!
'A Christmas Carol' is great in all its varied presentations!
(I do voiceover professionally in my other life)
#audiobooks #Christmas #Dickens #classicliterature #indie #booksky
Do you like Christmas?
Then check out my Christmas audiobook!
'A Christmas Carol' is great in all its varied presentations!
(I do voiceover professionally in my other life)
#audiobooks #Christmas #Dickens #classicliterature #indie #booksky
A Christmas Carol audiobook
My reading of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Complete and unabridged. You can select to download either a single file, or separate files for each chapter.You can hear a two-minute sample from the...
voiceofi.gumroad.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Do you enjoy audiobooks?
Do you like Christmas?
Then check out my Christmas audiobook!
'A Christmas Carol' is great in all its varied presentations!
(I do voiceover professionally in my other life)
#audiobooks #Christmas #Dickens #classicliterature #indie #booksky
Do you like Christmas?
Then check out my Christmas audiobook!
'A Christmas Carol' is great in all its varied presentations!
(I do voiceover professionally in my other life)
#audiobooks #Christmas #Dickens #classicliterature #indie #booksky
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n late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work—he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US—then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
n late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work—he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US—then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
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Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organizations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.
December 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organizations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.
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Disney has hiked prices and laid off hundreds of workers this year.
Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.
Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.
Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Disney has hiked prices and laid off hundreds of workers this year.
Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.
Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.
Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
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Scientific evidence shows, once again, there is no causal link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines cause adults. - @drtedros.who.int
December 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Scientific evidence shows, once again, there is no causal link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines cause adults. - @drtedros.who.int
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"To attempt to find useful information and instead take part in the solidification of the internet as an ad-delivery business, where you’re given no option but to be the product."
Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google”
1. To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong. 2. To se...
buff.ly
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
"To attempt to find useful information and instead take part in the solidification of the internet as an ad-delivery business, where you’re given no option but to be the product."
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Denmark singled out the U.S. as a security concern because of what it said was 'uncertainty' about its role as a guarantor of European security.
Amid Greenland dust-up, Denmark says US is a national security risk
Denmark singled out the U.S. as a security concern because of what it said was 'uncertainty' about its role as a guarantor of European security.
bit.ly
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Denmark singled out the U.S. as a security concern because of what it said was 'uncertainty' about its role as a guarantor of European security.
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"Soelberg told his son that the chatbot, which he named Bobby and talked to on his smartphone, said he was enlightened and had a divine purpose.... OpenAI has refused to release the full chat logs to Soelberg’s heirs or the lawyers representing his estate."
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"Soelberg told his son that the chatbot, which he named Bobby and talked to on his smartphone, said he was enlightened and had a divine purpose.... OpenAI has refused to release the full chat logs to Soelberg’s heirs or the lawyers representing his estate."
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
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We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).
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Senator Ruben Gallego has introduced Senate legislation to outlaw surveillance pricing.
Surveillance pricing is yet another way for corporations to pull one over on you.
Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain the dangers of this shady practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbtUYshYM8
Surveillance pricing is yet another way for corporations to pull one over on you.
Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain the dangers of this shady practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbtUYshYM8
The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Senator Ruben Gallego has introduced Senate legislation to outlaw surveillance pricing.
Surveillance pricing is yet another way for corporations to pull one over on you.
Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain the dangers of this shady practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbtUYshYM8
Surveillance pricing is yet another way for corporations to pull one over on you.
Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain the dangers of this shady practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbtUYshYM8
This reflects the actual degree of influence Rubio has in the Trump administration. He can demand a change in font and get it, but that's pretty much it.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This reflects the actual degree of influence Rubio has in the Trump administration. He can demand a change in font and get it, but that's pretty much it.
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There’s an AI-powered conspiracy machine selling ‘Truthwear’ merch to Canadians, and my friends at the National Observer unmasked the person profiting from this account.
The story shows what happens when people are given incentives to publish fake information, at scale, all with the help of AI:
The story shows what happens when people are given incentives to publish fake information, at scale, all with the help of AI:
December 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
There’s an AI-powered conspiracy machine selling ‘Truthwear’ merch to Canadians, and my friends at the National Observer unmasked the person profiting from this account.
The story shows what happens when people are given incentives to publish fake information, at scale, all with the help of AI:
The story shows what happens when people are given incentives to publish fake information, at scale, all with the help of AI:
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After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
December 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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How very not surprising 👇
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
How very not surprising 👇