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Just watched sinners. Damn!
January 2, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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katie-drummond.bsky.social
Great piece from a great journalist.
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
vxzyq.bsky.social
Listening to this super long interview with Sam Corcos, who I've just learned got recruited by DOGE??

Anyway Sam seems like an interesting and reasonable guy, to me, so it's pretty interesting to get his take.

pca.st/episode/85a4...
#1004 - Sam Corcos - Inside DOGE, The IRS & How to Scam the US Government
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December 29, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Drop #43. Spotify vs. Anna's Archive
Working Notes
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December 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Kudos to Isaac Ashe, who wrote this story - because basically every line is a banger.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Woman's shock as goose smashes through front door in Countesthorpe
Wildlife rescuers think the Canada goose misjudged its descent before smashing through the door.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
vxzyq.bsky.social
Feel like Matt Bevan has said helpful things here.
December 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
vxzyq.bsky.social
Just for the cover photo!
carceralabolition.bsky.social Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · Nov 30
Presumed Criminal
Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York nyupress.org/978147984762...
November 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
vxzyq.bsky.social
I think this is a brilliant policy. Makes a material difference for everyone. Love it.
November 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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andrewpotts.bsky.social
Queensland's film industry has scored a golden ticket with Netflix choosing the Gold Coast to build its dream-like Willy Wonka reality competition series.
#GoldCoast #Willywonka #TheGoldenticket #Netflix
FULL STORY: ➡️ bit.ly/4hvEZcN
October 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
vxzyq.bsky.social
I love this so much! www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...

Shame she isn't making these comics any more.
The title of the comic is **"Dude Watchin' with the Brontës."** This comic features a conversation between two women and a man in Victorian attire, referencing the Brontë sisters. The women express their opinions about various characters, with one highlighting a man's lack of taste, while also commenting on romance and literature. The dialogue humorously critiques attitudes towards passion and propriety, ending with a focus on an enigmatic character who seems very brooding. The overall tone is witty and satirical. Here's the text from the panels: **Dude Watchin' with the Brontës."** 1.Charlotte: "What about that one?" 2. Gruff man "What the hell are you looking at?" 3. Emily: Nice. Charlotte: I know, right? Anne: That guy was an a**hole!" 4. Charlotte: "What about that one?" Emily: "Honestly, Anne, you have no taste!" Anne: I'm only telling the truth! 5. **Panel 5**: A dangerous looking man with a bottle of gin walks by. 6. Emily: So passionate Charlotte: so mysterious." Anne: "If you like alcoholic dickbags." 7. Emily: Anne you are so inappropriate. Charlotte: No wonder nobody buys your books." 8. Emily: "What about that one? Charlotte: So brooding." Anne looking away, cranky with her sisters.
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
vxzyq.bsky.social
Interesting argument.
valentenya.bsky.social Valentenya 🍉 🐈‍⬛ @valentenya.bsky.social · Aug 25
I’m seeing intelligent climate advocates suggesting we should tax the fossil carbon industry to pay for remediating the damage from climate change eg the toxic marine algal bloom currently plaguing the South Australian coast. Allow me to respectfully explain why this is a terrible idea 🧵
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Sophie Calle at Paula Cooper
September 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
vxzyq.bsky.social
It's good news week!

pca.st/episode/0bc7...
The Giant Fireball That Could Save Us (with Bill McKibben)
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September 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Mastodon will finally add quote posts in the coming weeks, giving users more ways to engage while allowing authors to control quoting settings for safety and privacy. Quote posts will be available starting with Mastodon version 4.5.
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September 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM
vxzyq.bsky.social
Just listening to @monicalewinsky.bsky.social 's podcast, and her TED Talk.

What an incredible, incredible, powerful woman.

pca.st/episode/3fa9...
Monica Lewinsky
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September 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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September 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
vxzyq.bsky.social
Is there a Bluesky feed for people and groups wishing to organize / participate in direct action?
August 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
vxzyq.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you're not reading Bluesky via the quiet posters feed, it's worth trying. Such a different tone when your feed is optimised for the less frequent contributors.
August 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
vxzyq.bsky.social
Do check out this extensive interview with Laura Tingle. Her warmth and humour comes across, and I wish for a hundred more reporters to follow her lead.

pca.st/episode/92b8...

Worth finding and following her here to get her latest foreign correspondent reports, too.
Profile: In Conversation With Laura Tingle
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August 17, 2025 at 6:26 AM
vxzyq.bsky.social
Love this.
August 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Editor: You get those photos of Ed Zitron?
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Editor: what
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jul 31
I got interviewed by KNPR, the local Vegas NPR affiliate, and they put the interview in their Desert Companion magazine. I'll post the web version when it's out
I’LL NEVER FORGIVE THEM’ Vegas-based tech observer Ed Zitron on the empty hype of AI, clueless tech lords, and what he thinks of Las Vegas By Lissa Townsend Rodgers have heard about artificial intelligence and how it’s In 2025, even those who can barely operate a cell phone going to shape the future. But while many are excited about the promise, tech journalist and podcaster Ed Zitron is suspicious of the hype. “All of these companies are claiming that large language models, OpenAI, ChatGPT, and the like, is the next big thing,” he says. “The problem is, the actual efficacy, the actual abilities of these programs, have been the same for about two years now. These companies keep growing, their stock valuations keep going up. But it’s not coming from any AI sales.” Born in England, Zitron attended college in Pennsylvania and settled in Las Vegas, where he founded a public relations company. In 2020, he began the “Where’s Your Ed At” news- letter, a caustic, clever examination of the ways we’re failed by the tech that’s supposed to improve our lives. Last year, he began the award-winning Better Offline podcast, which has featured guests from former FTC chair Lina Khan to MIT economist Daron Acemoglu to comedian Andy Richter. Zitron spoke to Desert Companion about the AI bubble, the business idiot, and the honesty of Las Vegas. Here’s an edited version of that conversation. What were your early experiences with technology? I was the dumbest kid in private school and did not have friends. So tech really was my lifeline. ... I was fascinated by the fact that you could connect with people all over the world, that you could play games with them. I was actually a games journalist at 16, one of the first people to cover online gaming, MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, in England. Yeah, tech was a big part of my childhood. Is that why you’re so vexed by what’s happening to technology? It’s personal? Absolutely. I hate these bastards. I’ll never forgive them for what they’ve done… complete nonsense. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, claimed that 50 percent of white-collar jobs will be gone in the next one to five years. Complete nonsense based on nothing. … The AI bubble is a hysterical event where these com- panies pretend — and straight-up lie — about what their products can do in the hopes that they can keep boosting their stock valuations. So, you’ve got all of these compa- nies, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and the like, spending hundreds of billions of dollars in capital expen- ditures to build these massive data centers and filling them full of these GPUs sold by one company, Nvidia. But no one’s making any money. In fact, these things are extremely unprofitable. OpenAI in 2024 spent $9 billion to lose $5 billion. Imagine if you or I did that. Would we be able to get more money out of the bank? Of course not. So how are they getting away with it? I have this grander theory called the business idiot. I believe our economy and the large structures behind it, the people in power, are completely disconnected from any kind of production or understanding of their customers. Not just MBAs, also the middle managers that you hate — the people that don’t seem to do anything, but always seem busy. They’re like the people inside the cave that Plato talked about. They see the shadows: “Oh, AI’s big now!” And I think you’re seeing a war between the business idiots and those of us who actually do the work. I’ve heard so many stories about bosses telling people to use AI. Why don’t the bosses use it, if AI is so good? Because it doesn’t work. The main paradigm all of this is built on is large language models. They are probabilistic, which means that they generate the next thing based on how likely it’s the right one. So if you ask it for an image of a cat, these things don’t have con- sciousness. It says, “I’ve been asked for a picture of a cat; based on my training data, this is the thing that approximates cat.” And it’s pretty good at guessing, but it d…
July 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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jamellebouie.net
one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules
August 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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brandens.bsky.social
We uncovered the surveillance tech the government uses to track protestors, and shared how to protect your privacy if you find yourself at a protest.
How Governments Spy On Protesters—And How To Avoid It
www.wired.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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How many reasons do you need to ride a #bike?
Perth’s public transport network gives you many and we can all be #inspired!
Check out our work on #integrated #mobility and more themes here-> urbancyclinginstitute.org/publications/
Cycling to Stations
YouTube video by TransperthOnline
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July 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM