Pro-democracy Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah was released from prison late Monday after being granted a presidential pardon.

As the US withdraws from green tech industries & pressures its allies to follow suit,Chinese firms are stepping in to power the whole world’s green transition I interview Mathias Larsen, lead author of our new Hopkins report. A BRI 2.0 www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t... bsky.app/profile/70sb...

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Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

Last year a study of >2.4 million kids born in Sweden looked at Tylenol exposure and autism At first, it seemed like there was a small association. But then they compared siblings where one was exposed in utero and the other wasn’t and found no increased risk jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This piece argues we’re in not one, but three AI bubbles: 1. a financial bubble with inflated valuations, 2. an infrastructure bubble with overbuilt data centers, 3. a hype bubble where AI can’t meet its promises. Honestly, all three seem highly likely to me.

I really need to bang out my “special UNESCO status for Wikipedia” piece. Both because it’s genuinely one of the top wonders of *any* period of human achievement, and because it needs all the protection and support it can get.

Senate went nuclear and it barely made the news: apnews.com/article/sena...

It really is like Nixon live blogging Watergate and the journalism establishment saying eh, what can you do

Light in a dark time.

The current FBI director’s stated position is that FBI recordings from last year by agents probably still working there are fake deep state fabrications

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

What can you even say?

When you see stories about how the northern border is to be militarized like the southern border, see it for what it really is: mass surveillance for millions who live nearby, attempts to geographical curb civil rights, and BILLIONS of dollars in contracts for right-wing surveillance tech CEOs.

It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.

Tada!

I have first hand experience with a project that used fake data built off real data to confirm the conclusions that couldn’t be derived from the underpowered original experiment that provided the data. It perfectly correlated with the medical AI vendor’s marketing.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

The argument for evolutionary democracy, distilled to a sentence.

Now, your clinician will not only need to fight with insurance middlemen and clinicians in other specialties, but also will get to face-off with halucinating, error-ridden technologies that will likely offer no insight whatsoever into their decision-making processes.

I am shocked and surprised by this unexpected finding that in no way aligns with everything we know about the tech industry, the medical profession, or how power works.

By the way, you can in fact run a media business where people give you money for goods and services. 56k+ people give The Onion ~$100 and we give them a year of newspapers. This business didn’t exist last year in this way. People will pay for good shit. Now’s the time to break glass and go for it.

In any case, after our legal battle all the way to Europe's highest court, the online ad industry's consent system will soon be kaput www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

That's ICE assaulting a congressional candidate for peaceful protest.

There’s something in the air here in DC. Energy shift. My body is feeling it. Everyone, stay safe. Watch out for each other.

PSA: A "Major Terrorist Organization" (MTO) is not a thing. The Immigration and Nationality Act *delegates* power to the State Department to designate *FOREIGN* terrorist organizations (FTOs) based on certain criteria. It doesn't apply to domestic orgs. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Chicago Per his statements in other video, a 17 year old riding a scooter on his way to school was hit by an ICE vehicle. He jumped off in time to be OK. The agents didn't check to see if he was hurt. He asked for their badge numbers. They ignored his request telling him to get out of their way.

So, I wrote my MA thesis on soft-censorship and how, essentially, the Soviet- and post-Soviet models for media ownership wasn't about owning the content, it was about owning distribution. Bringing it up for absolutely no reason, whatsoever.

American tech leadership is now just Trump’s literal and figurative traveling court.

a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

Since Antifa isn’t really an “organization”, this is just carte blanche to arbitrarily declare people terrorists.

“Just kill them.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2003/j... One of Putin’s first acts after he solidified power was to silence all media outlets that criticized him.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

This number one tip on this advisory is to set public online profiles to private when facing harassment, which bsky does not allow, and which really should’ve been a feature implemented on day 1.

I'll say this again: In my opinion, when companies and institutions cave to Trump despite the law being on their side, they are not misunderstanding the law; they are making an educated guess that the United States is heading in a direction where, in practice, the law won't matter.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Goddamn. You can’t even have principles and make ice cream because people are too afraid of Trump

Overall, this rapid media consolidation during this political and economic moment scares me easily as much as the administrations political theater other the military.

This is really quite bad on so many levels, it's kind of hard to describe. Countries giving up both responsibility and accountability for targeting how they use lethal, military force is a grotesque approach to both sovereignty and "digital sovereignty."

You should know how rarely courts give up jurisdiction.

It seems bad that the head of our national police does not recognize the authority of the legislative branch

We knew this was coming, but yikes

“In retrospect, the SDGs now look less like a new dawn than the final gasp of a unipolar, end-of-history fantasy… …Development in this sense is not just about ticking boxes and chasing targets; it is inherently and necessarily political and geopolitical.”

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

Wow, first time I've seen him underwater in this poll with white people. He has negative disapproval across every possible cohort.