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Manton Reece @manton.org · 23h

Anil Dash making a strong case for video creators to work on independence from TikTok and other big platforms. The algorithm is fragile. It might help you today, but tomorrow you’ve lost everything without a direct connection to your audience.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11m

Almost happened to me too!

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 1h

Not prosecuting every last person involved in January 6th, from Trump to his co-conspirators in Congress, has cost us dearly as a nation.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1h

I rode this yesterday, to get to an event over there and am very used to just going down the bike lane. The “detour” is *insane* — you have to dive off and on the curb in front of car traffic, the road is full of pothole landmines a foot deep, and it’s entirely dependent on human flaggers.

Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 1h

As the East River Greenway is under construction for coastal resiliency work, cyclists on the East Side need a detour that actually gives them safe passage instead of the mess DOT suggests.

Eyes on the Street: DOT's Greenway 'Detour' is Simply Unsafe for Cyclists - Streetsblog New York City

The greenway alongside the FDR Drive is closed for important resiliency work. But the city's detour is unsafe and unacceptable.

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 1h

As the East River Greenway is under construction for coastal resiliency work, cyclists on the East Side need a detour that actually gives them safe passage instead of the mess DOT suggests.

Eyes on the Street: DOT's Greenway 'Detour' is Simply Unsafe for Cyclists - Streetsblog New York City

The greenway alongside the FDR Drive is closed for important resiliency work. But the city's detour is unsafe and unacceptable.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

“Not following the day to day on that.”

Smooth. 🤡

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1h

Free speech is when the government forces you to rename specific roads after someone

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 2h

Florida Republican unveils bill threatening state funding if colleges don't rename roads after Charlie Kirk

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Florida Republican unveils bill threatening state funding if colleges don’t rename roads after Charlie Kirk

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h

Let me emphasize once again that if you’re inclined toward “no deal is possible with these guys” then trying to make a reasonable deal and getting this reaction demonstrates that far better than just asserting it and refusing to try would have.

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 8h

Memes serve as a tool of dark participation and are used purposefully “to disrupt, undermine, attack, resist or reappropriate discursive positions pertaining to public affairs narratives in the news” (Peters & Allan, 2021, pp. 2–3)

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1h

I think I’ve said a version of this to someone every day for the last year.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1h

It is an inexcusable omission, and editorial malpractice, for Reuters to omit mention that the President doing this kind of thing on a media platform he owns & has not divested is unprecedented, likely illegal and an ethical violation. The message itself is unprecedented and illegal. Why not say so?

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 1h

Change is coming.

Andrew Solender @andrewsolender.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: Justin Pearson of the "Tennessee 3" is challenging Rep. Steve Cohen.

There's an age dynamic: Cohen is 76, Pearson is 30.

And an ideological one: Cohen left CPC last year + is pro-Israel. Pearson says war in Gaza is a "genocide."

@axios.com www.axios.com/2025/10/08/j...

"Tennessee Three" member Justin Pearson runs to oust Rep. Steve Cohen

Pearson is one of the most high-profile primary challengers to an older House Democrat.

www.axios.com

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1h

For those of us in higher education this company has snaked its way into our institutions—and this is the kind of care and thought they put into the risks of their products.
Do you imagine our students are safe with these people?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1h

The corrupting influence of the affiliate links is so complete that these “news” sites usually don’t even editorially link to the *manufacturer’s websites*, even if they provide more information (which they almost always do) or a better price for consumers (which they often do).

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2h

Amazon Prime Day hasn't been interesting or novel since 2005 or so, but that's not going to stop anybody from pretending otherwise so they can get their blogspam affiliate kickbacks

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1h

The Plot to Enslave America

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1h

Those influencing Trump education policy aren't shy about wanting to eradicate public schools.

Asked what % of kids she imagines should be in public schools, Tiffany Justice -- Moms for Liberty cofounder, now with Heritage Foundation -- told @propublica.org

“I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 4h

@anildash.com wrote this in 2011: dashes.com/2011/07/20/i...

Each website - each social media system - has to have a view of what sort of content they want and what they don't want.

Or, to put this in terms techbros understand: There is no such thing as viewpoint-neutral moderation.

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 4h

Here’s the thing about social media moderation: you need to have both a provision and a practice of keeping people off your platform even if they don’t break any of your rules but are simply just a fucking asshole. And of course off-platform behavior is a legitimate reason.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 4h

Here’s the thing about social media moderation: you need to have both a provision and a practice of keeping people off your platform even if they don’t break any of your rules but are simply just a fucking asshole. And of course off-platform behavior is a legitimate reason.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 17h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

“.. 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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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11h

Was such a delight to see you pop up on the YouTube recommendations on the TV! And the closest approximation to cool that a dad can be to tell my kid (who is always game to watch vfx breakdowns with me) “yeah, i kinda know him!” So i owe you. :)

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