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Steven
@byoda.bsky.social
Developer of the Byoda personal data server
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What if we had no electricity and everything ran on fossil fuels?

This ad keeps making me chuckle.

Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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We spoke to dozens of survivors, read thousands of pages of court and police records, identified 200 alleged church abusers across decades.

Our investigation reveals a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence, complacency & cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.

Read it here:
Assemblies of God churches shielded accused predators — and allowed them to keep abusing children
NBC News uncovered a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence and cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.
www.nbcnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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«[…] the DSA entered a new, likely even more contentious phase, in which researchers can also request data that aren’t public, for example what content is shown to individual people. The platforms are expected to protect such information even more zealously […]»

#EU #DSA #transparency #platforms
"Access to data by researchers is a crucial element of ensuring transparency and democratic accountability,” @lewan.bsky.social says. “The public is entitled to know what platforms and their algorithms are doing to the information landscape.”
I wrote for @science.org about Meta, TikTok and the DSA 🧪
Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers’ access to data, European Commission rules
Data are needed to study how social media spreads misinformation and influences elections, scientists say
www.science.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Article without paywall: archive.ph/2uFdV
October 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Shock in Brussels and outrage across civil society.
This story is not going away.

euobserver.com/digital/ar6c...
Outrage as Ireland picks ex-Meta lobbyist as new data protection chief
Civil society is outraged by Ireland data protection agency — the key one in the EU — picking a former Meta lobbyist as its new commissioner.
euobserver.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Rep. Sara Jacobs wants every Californian to know: this is our moment to defend democracy.

Fill out your mail-in ballot & vote YES on Prop 50 to protect fair elections and stop Trump’s power grab.

Do it, & mail your ballot in today, definitely by Nov 4.

Your voice matters—use it!
#YesOnProp50
October 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

🎁link
October 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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“In court records…Dem and Rep appointed judges are critical of the Trump Justice Department's work. ‘...Highly misleading...’ said one judge. ‘...A serious violation of the court's order…’ wrote another. And a third warned, ‘trust that had been earned over generations has been lost in weeks.’”
Watch this. And then the whole thing. They are destroying the rule of law: www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
October 20, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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There is power in disdain
November 24, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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Enough is enough!

No POTUS has the powers the 47 regime claims & the Republican Congress acquiesces to.

Find a #NoKings event near you on Oct 18 & join the resistance against 47s tyranny!

2700 communities will be hosting events tomorrow!

Find yours here… www.mobilize.us/nokings/
October 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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ICE raided a building in Chicago-using Blackhawk helicopters and flash bang grenades

Destroying people’s homes-including US citizens-before dragging them out

Detaining children in zip ties

Arresting 37 based on Stephen Miller’s lies

All for 1 person who is allegedly connected to Tren de Agua
October 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Note the wording.. Ms. Machado receives the prize for:
- promoting democratic rights
- struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition
- At a time when democracy is under threat
- where democracy is in retreat
- more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norm
www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en
Nobel Peace Center | Museum of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway
The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo is the museum of the Nobel Peace Prize. Experience our exhibitions, events and guided tours inspired by the ideas and work of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
www.nobelpeacecenter.org
October 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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📣 NEW: In which I finally put that absurd 2013 WSJ graphic to good use.

2026 #ACA Window Shopping is LIVE in Georgia, Idaho, Nevada, New York and Virginia.

Here's how much premiums will ACTUALLY spike for 4 households starting January 1st if they don't shop around.

acasignups.net/25/10/05/whi...
In which I finally put that absurd 2013 WSJ graphic to good use
Twelve years ago, the Wall St. Journal ran a story about the impact of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which was a sweeping tax bill signed into law by President Obama which locked in the Bush tax cuts for lower & middle-class households while allowing them to expire on schedule for wealthier Americans: A compromise measure, the Act gives permanence to the lower rate of much of the Bush tax cuts, while retaining the higher tax rate at upper income levels that became effective on January 1 due to the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. It also establishes caps on tax deductions and credits for those at upper income levels. It does not tackle federal spending levels to a great extent, rather leaving that for further negotiations and legislation. The American Taxpayer Relief Act passed by a wide majority in the Senate, with both Democrats and Republicans supporting it, while most of the House Republicans opposed it. The WSJ story, titled "How Much Will Your Taxes Jump?," led to widespread derision at the time for wringing its hands over wealthy people having to go back to (gasp) paying a few percent more of their sky-high incomes in taxes.
acasignups.net
October 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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In Louisiana's ongoing redistricting case, the DOJ argued that SCOTUS should decimate a key part of the Voting Rights Act that protects voters of color. If the high court does so, it could strip communities of the ability to challenge discriminatory maps.
DOJ Urges SCOTUS to End Key VRA Protection for Minority Voters
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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So many echoes from this article for US politics....
September 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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I’m sure “politician secretly working with country that keeps threatening to nuke us” used to be a bigger story
September 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
September 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Great, we can officially end press release journalism ...

Trump is now requiring reporters "to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey"

🎁 @washingtonpost.com
Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
wapo.st
September 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM