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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 3h

Really hard to spot the downside here. Apart from having to look at Clegg’s face.

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

www.theverge.com

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.bsky.social · 1d

‘The amount of debt tied to artificial intelligence has ballooned to $1.2 trillion, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.‘ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

#WarRavagedPortland

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 17h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

Look, we've all had the occasional bad take. But at what point does a pundit with permanent employment in elite media get stripped of his status as a "political expert" who anyone should listen to about what's actually happening in America?

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 11h

God,I’m terrible at properly annotating my photo files, so this is either a recent shot from the Mars rover or the audience assembling at Manchester Central for Kemi Badenoch’s speech

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19h

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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Benny Brycheiniog @cupking11.bsky.social · 10h

Lock up your larders!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder! If you're buying books in support of #BannedBooksWeek buying from Amazon undercuts the broader project of social justice supporting the right to read is a part of. Get your banned books absolutely anywhere else!

Amazon is the invisible backbone of ICE’s immigration crackdown

Lobbying dollars and a cozy relationship with the government have given the tech giant an outsize influence in the Department of Homeland Security.

www.technologyreview.com

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 1d

Cause of Death: Severe burn.

Ben Shapiro @benshapiro 1d If you're at a dinner and somebody introduces himself as "Dr. Smith," you'd be rather upset to learn that he had a doctorate in musicology if you were to suffer a stroke at the table.

Evan Williams @evanwilliams... 36s

If you were at a dinner party and someone introduced themselves as "Ben Shapiro," you'd be rather upset to be at that dinner party.

-Dr. Evan Williams, DMA Music Composition

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 1d

Rob Hell and Emu

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

Way to go, Chicago, more of this! Kristi Noem is upset that ICE agents in Chicago are being “denied entry” to restrooms and lunch spots.

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/ MOSA / @mosaisms.bsky.social · 1d

John Oliver is an exceptional human being, and also a comedian.

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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 2d

Required my juniors to use em-dashes and semicolons, which I taught them how to use last week, in an in-class essay today. They were showing each other their em-dashes and semicolons. Monsters officially created.

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 1d

Overheard in hipster caff: “He’s 45, but he’s still very active.”

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 1d

The Berliner thinks Amitav Ghosh will win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
www.the-berliner.com/books/how-to...

How to figure out who will win the Nobel Prize for Literature - The Berliner

Caring about the Nobel Prize in literature is cool. Betting on the outcome is even cooler.

www.the-berliner.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 2d

In a crowded field of competition, I award Greg Kelly of Newsmax the prize for Most Gibberishy Rant Against The Announced SB Halftime Performer He’d Obviously Never Heard Of Ten Minutes Ago

youtu.be/hnYCbudhn94

'I DO NOT LIKE BAD BUNNY RABBIT': Greg Kelly

YouTube video by Newsmax

youtu.be

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn
) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 1d

Can't believe the uni library's had the nerve to recall a book I had out all summer without cracking it even once but which I was definitely gonna start reading any day now...

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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