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sarahemilyduff.bsky.social
‘They are no longer strategizing for voluntary adoption by those who come to recognize the technology’s utility by electively applying it to the problems they face. They are planning how to cross the chasm by forced adoption.’

By @mattseybold.bsky.social
"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos
Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?
theamericanvandal.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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ahawkins.bsky.social
What kind of ghoul do you have be to look at the devastation we’re seeing up north and still think that imposing austerity on local communities is the answer?
January 29, 2026 at 7:37 AM
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faizsays.bsky.social
New: Tesla 4th quarter profit plunges 61% year-over-year; annual profit down 46%

the brand damage:
-1 million lost vehicle sales, per study
-Declining revenue, profits, deliveries in 1st half of '25
-Lower total production/deliveries than '24
-Lost crown as world's leading EV seller
wapo.st/3LYTef1
Tesla bet big on Elon Musk. His politics continue to haunt it.
Tesla struggles to regain its footing in the electric vehicle market, hindered by Elon Musk’s political activity, impacting its stock price and performance.
wapo.st
January 28, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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brucespringsteen.net
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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bookshop.org
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.

Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
January 27, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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olifranklinwallis.bsky.social
I think a lot about Parmy Olson's observation that AI companies actively push everyone to talk about existential risk, because it distracts from more prosaic current day concerns like copyright theft, conditions for data workers, energy & water use, and their financial situation
January 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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lrb.co.uk
‘“Nostalgia is not a strategy,” Mark Carney said. This must all sound extremely odd to the Indigenous people of Canada, America, Australia or Greenland, for whom that old order meant only catastrophe.’

@davidwengrow.bsky.social on the mythos of ‘rules-based order’:

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
January 25, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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writagal.bsky.social
“Over the past ten years New Zealand has averaged 55.9 days annually under a State of Emergency each year, and 66.6 days over the last five. In the 10 years prior to this, New Zealand averaged only 13.4 days per year.”

Quick Q - how does recovery work with a rates cap in place and no govt. support🤔
More frequent states of emergencies a concern for councils
More frequent states of emergencies a concern for councils
www.lgnz.co.nz
January 24, 2026 at 5:53 AM
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gaius.bsky.social
Same people who whinge endlessly about how the removal of confederate monuments “erases history” have no problem erasing actual history
January 23, 2026 at 3:15 AM
otterjm.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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andreagrimes.com
journalists never take the cops at their word 2026 challenge
January 15, 2026 at 4:08 AM
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whodat35.bsky.social
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

ictnews.org/news/north-c...
Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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dallasbarnett.com
Motherf...
January 11, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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inthesetimes.com
Check out the new comics by Emily Flake, Rob Rogers & Kendra Wells curated by @mattbors.bsky.social with 2026 predictions. jensorensen.bsky.social introduces the new startup, MurderKorp, “connecting customers with ordinary people willing to murder someone for them.”

inthesetimes.com/article/kris...
December 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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genderhorizon.com
“The Robins deposited some groceries in a public square at the foot of a Christmas tree on Tuesday evening, adding that the rest would be distributed through community food banks.

“Don’t forget – the hunger justifies the means, Merry Christmas!”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food to the needy’
Group called Robins des Ruelles later said in statement stunt was intended to highlight cost of living crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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niedermeyer.online
please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts

www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
Consumer Reports reliability ranking by brand, with Lexus, Toyota, and Mazda taking the top three spots, and Ram, Jeep, and Tesla taking the bottom three spots. Tesla's bottom-ranked score of 31 is less than half of Lexus's 77.
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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kaiheron.bsky.social
US companies are vying for contracts to rebuild Gaza. This is what a lot of people don't grasp about war and climate change. Their destructive effects always open new avenues of capital accumulation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead
Exclusive: group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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scalzi.com
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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mckenziewark.bsky.social
"This is the way they are. They commit the crime, deny it, and when the victim confronts them they sidestep the question by talking of peace." Mahmoud Darwish (1973)
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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dimsie.bsky.social
This is JAWDROPPINGLY funny
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Nov 21
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”

TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”

ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
Now THIS????

is a white man!

this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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phil-wh.bsky.social
The NZ School Boards Association has launched a petition calling on the Minister of Education Erica Stanford to reverse her ill-informed, hostile decision to remove the obligations of boards to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi in NZ education.

Boost pls

our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/pr...
Protect Te Tiriti in Education
Aotearoa should be a place where everyone, regardless of their background, is respected and part of a vibrant connected community. Where everyone feels a sense of belonging and knows their children wi...
our.actionstation.org.nz
November 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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catespice.bsky.social
To the surprise of literally nobody, it is once again privileged and powerful cis men engaging in prolonged and frequent sexual abuses against women, as well as other cis men helping them by hiding the complaints of sexual abuse from those abused women.
Not drag queens. Not trans women.
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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josie.zone
Hoo boy does this Cheney obit hit hard

defector.com/dick-cheney-...
At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It's a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that a person might have. A world resolutely unworthy of knowing, except as a danger. A world in which you will always need a gun, and to shoot somebody with it, instead of just lusting for both. Because the world isn't actually like that—because, in general, people are just people, and mostly want to live peaceably and get along with each other—most American conservatives must mainline Fox News (or Newsmax, or whatever) directly to their brains at all hours in order to remain within the fantasy that both sustains and degrades them. In this respect, Dick Cheney got luckier than most American right-wingers could ever dream. Fanatics with brown skin crashed commercial jet airliners into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, at a time when, as vice president under the harebrained and banally evil George W. Bush, Cheney for all practical purposes ran the most lethal death-dealing apparatus in the history of the world. He got to spend seven years deciding who the bad guys were and how to kill them. He got to scrawl the simplest possible moral calculus across the world in blood. He lived the dream. This is the Mega Millions jackpot for the American conservative. This is the golden ticket to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. No one has ever welcomed their firstborn child to the world with greater joy than that with which the American reactionary greets a Pearl Harbor, a 9/11, a dead cop, an assassinated YouTube bigot. Dick Cheney's celebration lasted more than 20 years; by the time it ended—to the extent it ever did—a crucial portion of American civil liberties had gone with it. More than half a million Iraqis were dead. Against the sheer scale of that mountain of corpses, it seems almost ghoulish to mention that Cheney, more than any other person, brought us today's political reality. He did, though; the American conservative project, the old dream of making the world into a place awful enough to justify American conservatism, never had a better champion. He was a shamelessly self-dealing con man, for one thing: Chosen as a trusted associate of the elder George H. W. Bush to lead the search for the right running-mate for George W., Cheney picked himself, and then ran the Iraq War as a monumental graft machine for his Halliburton oil company and as many cronies as could be dealt in. The nature of Cheney's con—aided by its contrast against Donald Rumsfeld's burlesque vamping, John Ashcroft's spiral-eyed eschatological lunacy, and the president's plain brainlessness—was a thin performance of steely, flinty-eyed competence laid over arrogance, ignorance, and ineptitude. He wrecked everything he touched, and was wrong in all of his predictions and analyses, and as a result completely discredited America's respectable establishment. Along the way, he played white America's (and mainstream media's) Islamophobia and bloodlust like arcade joysticks, to rearguard each next extension of authoritarianism and paint the administration's critics as traitors. His vileness and cynicism were corrosive, and have by now more or less fully eaten through every surface and instituti…
November 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM