You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Every day, I write the same story: Russian strikes claiming lives. One person here, five there, a child, a grandparent... These tragedies have become so routine that the world is growing numb.

The U.S. takeaway from Hungary is that Democrats need to run a guy named John American.

slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time

AI Liker Georg@avengingfem.me · 6mo ago

probably orthogonal to your view of slop but: bsky.app/profile/aven...

Google AI overviews are absolutely destroying search traffic 9to5google.com/2026/03/18/g...

Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic

New data shows just how impactful AI has been to the web, with Google Search referrals falling off of a...

9to5google.com

Jake Green@jkgreen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I know that it's referencing and linking (though not always), but the AI Overview for guides stuff is what is ultimately going to take down a lot of gaming sites. There cannot be much click through to the original articles. And as the overview gets better, people won't even need to click through.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

#NoKings

The march should start soon I believe #NoKings

The crowd is actually larger than what you see in the pic and more and more people are joining

Blue Texas@turntexasblue.bsky.social · 11mo ago

No Kings-Chicago, IL

No Kings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

nokings.org

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12mo ago

Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio. It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?" WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"

ICE arrested press tonight. They threw a tear gas canister into the press last week. This was not an accident. Release Steve Held.

The TRiiBE@thetriibe.com · 12mo ago

NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening. A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release. thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

“Steve Held, the journalist arrested tonight and taken to a so far undisclosed location, was part of the reporting team that exposed the falsity of ICE’s official narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González. His work speaks for itself.”

The TRiiBE@thetriibe.com · 12mo ago

NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening. A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release. thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

How to wash yr hands

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · last yr.

Kids today are learning that the fastest and easiest way to make money—the key value that has been modeled to them in America society—is to scam others, cheat your way through, and attract negative attention online that can be monetized. My endless sympathy to parents

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

As these political and personal purges continue, important agencies will become unable to perform their basic functions, and at some point will only be able to spread the purges into the larger society. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick). Senate passed it 51-50. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Again: >looking for a new leftist movement >ask the left populist receptionist if their leftist movement is based or tankie >she doesn't understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is based and what is tankie >she laughs and says "It's a good leftist movement, sir" >join >it's tankie

The New Statesman@newstatesman1913.bsky.social · last yr.

Eddie Dempsey on why Britain needs a trade union revival The RMT general secretary is a product of the old left. Can his vision of a popular, resurgent labour movement answer the Reform challenge?

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

The Misleading Panic over Misinformation

People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.

cato.org

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

CHICAGO…