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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press

@vertvoltapress.bsky.social

Imprints: Extra:Solar, Hinton Publishing. Run by Vlad Verano, Designer/Publisher; part-time bookseller. Moonlights as artist/illustrator/astromech. Latest book; THREE ALARM FIRE (Hinton) https://vertvolta-design-press.square.site/product/Three_Alarm_Fire/3

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Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 18h ago

Elon just blasted his home address to his 240 million followers along with his order number and last 4 of his Amex charge card while shilling grok bot. Someone else canceled his order.

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Jooooohhhh No!@josefoshea.bsky.social · 19h ago

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 21h ago

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 2d ago

People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.

Russell Stover has begun using prison labor to make candy in Kansas A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison
Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 24h ago

Trying to build bridges across puget sound like a weirdo (as a thought experiment ) & hahaha …. *runs into state park* (On both sides) *runs into neighborhoods with tiny roads* (On both sides) … …. Team Mosquito Fleet— throw all the money into this!

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 24h ago

As best as I can tell, RFK Jr.'s latest antivax stunt runs counter to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki. Withholding HepB vaccination clearly does not meet any definition of clinical equipoise. Doing it anyway, overseas, is straight up colonialist medicine.

Use of Placebo The benefits, risks, burdens, and effectiveness of a new intervention must be tested against those of the best proven intervention(s), except in the following circumstances: If no proven intervention exists, the use of placebo, or no intervention, is acceptable; or If for compelling and scientifically sound methodological reasons the use of any intervention other than the best proven one(s), the use of placebo, or no intervention is necessary to determine the efficacy or safety of an intervention; and the participants who receive any intervention other than the best proven one(s), placebo, or no intervention will not be subject to additional risks of serious or irreversible harm as a result of not receiving the best proven intervention. Extreme care must be taken to avoid abuse of this option.
Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2d ago

BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau is moving forward -- and here are the details on how it will take place: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

rondezvousWA@ronpdavis.bsky.social · yesterday

Brilliant! “Imagine a downtown where retail is managed by a PDA more interested in a great mix of businesses than in maximizing profit. Using public funds, the PDA could sign very lengthy leases with landlords and then sublease those spaces to retail tenants.” www.boardandvellum.com/blog/seattle...

Seattle Ground Floor Retail is a Public Benefit – Board & Vellum

Seattle ground floor retail is struggling. Here's why great neighborhood storefronts are a public benefit, and two ideas to help them thrive again.

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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d ago

I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'

Andrew Curran: Axios is reporting that the top labs are wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event in the next 6 - 12 months, that some executives now see as being inevitable. Axios: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAl and other Al companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event. Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water. Edouard Harris: This is our view as well. Relatedly, average people will want to increase their level of personal resilience and preparedness as their resources allow. We will be publishing about this soon. Nick Farina: Best ways to be prepared? Generators, water, books and DVDs? Edouard Harris: Power, water, food, sanitation for most part. Parts of this depend on your geo latitude - solar vs propane for eg. But also: set aside a computer that is not (and ideally has never been) connected to the internet. Buy faraday pouches and tape. Print out essential docs on paper.
jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social · 2d ago

holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

screenshot of PinLite, a skin of pinterest that's just taken away all the bs and only shows the images, on a grey web 1.0 background