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Greg Linden
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Reposted by Juan Cole, Samantha Brennan, Greg Linden

aclu.org
ACLU @aclu.org · 13h
BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump from deploying federalized National Guard troops into Chicago.

This ruling reinforces what we already knew: It is illegal for the president to use manufactured emergencies to send soldiers into our cities.
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Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, David R. Miller, Michael J. Hicks , and 2 more

gregsargent.bsky.social
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h
This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."
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Reposted by Greg Linden

mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 15h
Letitia James was not the President’s “opponent” or his “foe,”certainly not in any political/electoral sense. She is an officer of the court who was doing her sworn duty. This framing is irresponsible.
Screenshot of a photograph of Letitia James on CNN.com with subhead: “She is the second Trump foe to be indicted in two weeks as the president continues to pursue charges against his opponents”
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Reposted by Greg Linden

emilybell.bsky.social
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 16h
New Reuters Institute report on how people are increasingly using LLMs for search. no surprises (in many markets the figure will be higher) . It’s not really so much *replacing* what publishers do as ‘aggregating’ publisher material and failing to credit www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...
People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news.
"For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine."
www.niemanlab.org
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Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Samantha Brennan, Greg Linden , and 1 more

404media.co
404 Media @404media.co · 21h
BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
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Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Greg Linden

josephcox.bsky.social
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21h
New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
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Reposted by Claire L. Adida, Greg Linden, Manisha Sinha

nytpitchbot.bsky.social
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22h
Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.
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Reposted by Will Jennings, David Murakami Wood, Greg Linden

patrickdunleavy.bsky.social
Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 1d
Peter Atwater
“With each passing day, the AI space looks more and more like the USA’s home mortgage securitization at the peak of the 2007-8 housing bubble with its overlapping series of capital conveyor belts.”
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Reposted by Greg Linden

katestarbird.bsky.social
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 1d
Words to live by.
qjurecic.bsky.social
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d
he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
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Reposted by Megan L. Ranney

glinden.bsky.social
Greg Linden @glinden.bsky.social · 1d
Yep: "Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst"
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst
Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee
www.theguardian.com
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Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 9 more

qjurecic.bsky.social
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d
he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Greg Linden, David Darmofal

bcfinucane.bsky.social
Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d
Is it good when the commander in chief is untethered to reality?
atrupar.com
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
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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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Norbert Schwarz, Will Jennings , and 16 more

atrupar.com
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
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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Reposted by Greg Linden

gregsargent.bsky.social
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
Once again @nytimes.com heds and subheds are failing to convey to readers what is actually happening. The casual reader will come away with the impression that this is a genuinely held rationale on Trump's part, rather than a corrupt pretext for lawless, authoritarian threats.
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 1d
Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/why-8
#smbc
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Reposted by Greg Linden

karlbode.com
Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d
and more often than not when you track down the origins of the "backlash" to this sort of thing it's a few incels on a forum propped up by overseas agitation bots
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Reposted by Philip Nel, Greg Linden

jsweetli.bsky.social
Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America
Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.
www.rollingstone.com
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Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, James Q. Wilson, Patrick A. Jansen , and 25 more

govpritzker.illinois.gov
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d
I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.
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Reposted by Woodrow Hartzog, Greg Linden

shiraovide.bsky.social
Shira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social · 2d
Sigh. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Amazon Caught Peddling AI Slop Version of Cory Doctorow That's So Ironic That We Have to Go Outside and Stare at the Sky for a Bit
The renowned tech critic's book "Enshittification" hasn't even been out for a full day, and Amazon is already selling AI-generated knockoffs.
futurism.com
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Reposted by Greg Linden

carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d
“..’The risk of a sharp market correction has increased,’ the BoE's Financial Policy Committee said in a quarterly update, in its sharpest warning to date of the dangers of an AI-triggered market slump ..”

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Reposted by Greg Linden

waldo.net
Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 2d
To the extent to which big consulting firms don't feel threatened by AI, it's because they understand that a big part of their job is merely decision-laundering. A big organization wants to do a thing, and they need somebody to blame in case that thing goes wrong? Time to bring on a big consultant!
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Reposted by Greg Linden

carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d
“.. With Democrats having shown no signs of budging .. and a growing number of Republican lawmakers warning about potential blowback, the White House is now planning to hold off at least a little longer on sending out notices of Reductions in Force ..”

@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/p...
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Reposted by Greg Linden

carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d
“.. Never before has so much money been spent so rapidly on a technology that, for all its potential, remains largely unproven ..”

@bloomberg.com $NVDA
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Reposted by Victor Galaz, Michael D. McDonald, Julia M. Wright , and 4 more

carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Reposted by Greg Linden, Simon Lester

rincewind.run
Micah @rincewind.run · 2d
I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended
peark.es
George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d
Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
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Reposted by Will Jennings, Greg Linden

galvinalmanza.bsky.social
Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 2d
It's not, like, some minor paperwork mistake. If this is correct, ICE rammed a woman's car, threatened her derisively, shot her, and then wrote up a report claiming she drove at them.

Someone prosecute someone for perjury someday please.

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...
Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...
chicago.suntimes.com
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Reposted by Jon Green, Robert Black, David R. Miller , and 1 more

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d
“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”
peark.es
George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d
Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
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Reposted by Greg Linden

xkcd.com
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 2d
Window Screen

xkcd.com/3151/
4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground] ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...
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Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Tom Clark, David Rothschild , and 9 more

peark.es
George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d
Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
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glinden.bsky.social
Greg Linden @glinden.bsky.social · 2d
It's a publicly traded company, so I'd think maximizing shareholder value, not some political agenda, would be required for the stock price not to tank eventually. They're arguing this does maximize value, but if being a bad imitation of Fox News craters their viewership, there will be pressure?
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