> If the AG wants to enforce AB 1043, we would like to be first in line. We are a clear violation. We are documented. We are findable. We are daring them. If the law is worth enforcing, enforce it against us. If it is not worth enforcing against us, ask why it exists. agelesslinux.org

Decided to write something about a dumb and obnoxious Washington Post column I saw the other day www.readtpa.com/p/imagining-...

Imagining a Guy: Names Edition

The Post found a progressive who doesn’t exist and caught her betraying a belief she doesn’t hold.

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This one helluva story by @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social @adn.com: On This Nearly Deserted Alaska Island, You Pay to Keep Hundreds of Empty Buildings Wired for Internet

On This Nearly Deserted Alaska Island, You Pay to Keep Hundreds of Empty Buildings Wired for Internet

U.S. phone customers pay more than $340,000 a year for an Anchorage company to keep homes and buildings on Alaska’s Adak Island wired for obsolete internet service. All but a few of them sit empty.

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DEVELOPMENTS OVERNIGHT: The Trump administration has subpoenaed several New York Times journalists, apparently in connection with reporting on security concerns about the new Air Force One. In some cases federal agents showed up at reporters' homes. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...

Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media (Gift Article)

The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”

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Imagine things being so bad that your best solution is to cut yourself off from Google Search traffic. I don't think that people realise just how much of a bad actor Google has been, for year. No other company has damaged the web nearly as much. 🧵 www.adweek.com/media/publis...

Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search

The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators

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🧵TODAY is my one-year anniversary on the democracy beat for @statesnewsroom.com I can’t think of a beat I’d rather be on right now, and States Newsroom is a great place to do it. Here are some recent highlights, beginning with a story from yesterday www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

Trump’s sharpened focus on investigating elections raises fears of midterm meddling

President Donald Trump was speaking to supporters at a Pennsylvania rally June 23 when he made an extraordinary admission about an election a continent away.Trump and his allies had spent several days...

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SciAm layoffs announcements are rolling in so many incredibly talented science journalists booted from the once prestigious publication science journalism is on its last legs y'all and it's one of our most IMPORTANT forms of journalism. These are the educators and the myth busters. it's sickening

BUSY WEEK AHEAD IN DC: If you're stopping by Bluesky for a visit we will be posting but you can also keep track of news on our page on the national site for @statesnewsroom.com 👇 w/no icky paywalls, annoying ads (tho u can contribute to help keep it that way!)

Jane Norman@janenorman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

HOW TO KEEP UP WITH COVERAGE FROM THE STATES NEWSROOM DC BUREAU: Never miss a story from our crew. You can bookmark this @statesnewsroom.com page or add it to your home screen on your phone--use the "add to home screen" tool on the "view more" list on iphone www.newsfromthestates.com/category/dc-...

“The widespread deployment of AI/LLMs constitutes an existential threat to labor whether or not it is an adept move by the adoptive industries.” henry.codes/writing/it-d...

It doesn’t matter if it works

Ultimately, whether LLMs "work" as a technology or not doesn't matter. The widespread adoption and deployment should be regarded firstly as a threat to the labor force.

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AI models tend to favor romance vocabulary over words of Saxon origin, reflecting the biases of English speakers and hinting at the myriad of less obvious biases that are also likely baked into all LLMs. wapo.st/4uNAAb9

Opinion | Do these words make you sound smarter? The bias is spreading.

English speakers love the Romance vocabulary. AI noticed.

wapo.st

A federal court last week declined to issue a preliminary injunction against the University of Alabama that would have reinstated two suspended student publications. via @alabamareflector.com

Federal judge denies injunction that would reinstate suspended UA publications

A federal court last week declined to issue a preliminary injunction against the University of Alabama that would have reinstated two suspended student publications.U.S. District Judge Edmund LaCour…

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Once you step back, it’s easy to see the warping effect of the U.S. vs. China race,” Yi-Ling Liu writes. “It’s a story used to justify sprinting ahead without guardrails in the name of beating the other."

Opinion | The Shared Feeling of Being Harvested by the Future

There is a shared sense of precarity that lies beneath the envy and distrust.

nyti.ms

Could you power a house with the radioactivity from bananas? Watch the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! youtu.be/BnGqPxnQh9A

Could you power a house with the radioactivity from bananas?

YouTube video by xkcd's What If?

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First, companies used AI to analyze worker productivity; now it’s supercharging corporate surveillance by monitoring employee emotion, @elcush.bsky.social reports:

The Rise of Emotional Surveillance

Companies are monitoring workers not just for productivity but for agreeability.

bit.ly

this is a fantastic piece by @ky.fyi

Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

ky.fyi

I genuinely love this. Astronauts, like kids, know that you do not leave your stuffies behind.

Artemis 2 commander Reid Wiseman broke NASA protocol to save the mission's moon mascot: 'It's hard not to love this little guy. I can't let Rise out of my sight'

"I stuffed that little guy in a dry bag we had in our survival kit, and hooked the bag onto my pressure suit."

space.com

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“If you’re producing local journalism, we want to bring audiences to your doorstep, and that’s really what Local News Day is all about.” www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/more...

More than 1,300 newsrooms participate in the first “Local News Day”

Nonprofit newsroom Montana Free Press is the managing partner behind the April 9 national day of action.

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Safety first! Even all the way out in space - when looking at an eclipse, you should always wear your protective eyewear. Like the #ArtemisII crew did here - the most distant use of eclipse glasses ever! Original: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

I really appreciated this video by Kihana Wilson (who is not on Bluesky, alas) about the mixed feelings of #Artemis II. Follow her on Instagram (www.instagram.com/the_astro_st...) if you're over there!

I have always been a tech enthusiast, but over 10+ years as a teacher, I found myself increasingly uncomfortable with the way ed tech and laptops, especially, were being pushed in schools. Naturally, I found this critique very interesting. apple.news/ABwts1avMTta...

The Broken Promises of Ed Tech — The Atlantic

Why one early adopter of computers in classrooms has decided to ditch them.

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this is a huge deal and a sign of the changing legal tides for big tech. the plaintiffs attorneys here were early adopters of a novel legal strategy that uses product liability law to sidestep tech companies' go-to defense (section 230) and hold them accountable for defective or negligent design

Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Meta and YouTube were both found liable by a California jury for harming a plaintiff's mental health with the design of their products. A massive ruling in a bellwether case that will open the floodgates for other lawsuits

I think every single day about “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

Tracy O’Connell Novick@tracynovick.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's the birthday of Douglas Adams! Time to share favorite quotes!

What does this announcement from Polymarket even mean???

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime: www.404media.co/leaked-email...

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs

Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

404media.co

Thanks to @sarabethb.bsky.social and @theajp.bsky.social for supporting local news efforts around the country and building public awareness about the progress that is being made. @deepsouthtoday.org is proud to be part of the AJP portfolio of nonprofit newsrooms. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

Opinion | Local Newspapers Are Closing. Local News Is Surviving.

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A recurring “AI” evangelist tactic is using it for tasks that were already solved by tech that is more deterministic, faster, and uses less energy, but has been downgraded or de-emphasised in recent years by software companies Like, we genuinely used to have better search and spellcheck.

To include some numbers here, StackOverflow in Dec 2025 had 3862 new questions. The last time SO had this few questions was in *Aug 2008*, the first full month that SO was in operations! In its peak month (March 2014), SO had 207,493 new questions!

John F Wu@jwuphysics.bsky.social · 7mo ago

the life and death of Stack overflow Data from data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflo...