Mack Reed

Mack Reed

@mackreed.bsky.social

Technologist, maker, recovering journalist, citizen: U.S., Seattle, Black Rock City. Opinions shared here are mine, not my clients'. https://mackreed.co https://xylovan.com

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Mack Reed
@mackreed.bsky.social

I just flew outta BUR this afternoon. Fancy! You’ll want to get there early if you’re counting on parking there. They’re still working the kinks out of the shuttle!

dogwelder@ga2so.com

Tomorrow I get two new airport adventures. I've always flown into Oakland when I go to the Bay Area, but tomorrow is my first visit to SFO. But the actually "new" airport adventure is Burbank's new terminal. I've always loved flying out of Burbank. Hope they didn't screw it up!

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Schooley
@schooley.bsky.social

I can't shake the feeling that Elon Musk returning to government service will be as catastrophic as Donald Trump returning. Democrats and the media not spotlighting his ongoing public racism and watching him to just Irish goodbye from all the damage of DOGE is going to haunt this country.

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maura quint
@mauraquint.bsky.social

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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HELL Kennedy
@helenkennedy.com

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We're gonna be signing a document today renaming artificial intelligence, because it's not artificial. We're gonna be naming it Super Intelligence. Officially renaming it."

Mack Reed
@mackreed.bsky.social

Burning Man isn’t bleeding out; default is bleeding in. This is a really thoughtful, well-considered look at commodification of the culture, and a good read. geomagnetic.substack.com?utm_source=n... Crossposted with @openvibe.social

geomagnetic.substack.comGeorge | SubstackA soft disruption for the disoriented. Not quite journalism. Not quite philosophy. Tuning forks for the culturally lost, broadcast from inside the spectacle. Read slowly. Think sharply. Interfere generously. Click to read George, a Substack with hundreds of subscribers.

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The Associated Press
@apnews.com

Public Enemy stars Flavor Flav and Chuck D are known as rap pioneers who helped create a platform for political expression and advocated for social justice. The two say they want to see more "inspirational groups" in modern music. #PublicEnemy #FlavorFlav #ChuckD

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Bart⚓️
@bartgonnissen.bsky.social

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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404 Media
@404media.co

NEW: Yesterday, 404 Media broke news of the FBI breach. Now, we've discovered it has exposed the FBI's own hacking unit. The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.

404media.coFBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking UnitThe FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers
@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

Taxpayers: If you're currently dropping coins in old coffee cans & kitchen drawers to pay for, say, gas or something you hope is actually beef, don't forget to add enough to pay your share of the $6 million Trump is spending on gold leaf for the vulgar ballroom he's thinking about instead of you.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
@qasimrashid.com

EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.

Mack Reed
@mackreed.bsky.social

Standing up to stupid can also look like standing up to fascism. Let’s have this be the consistent response to everything this deeply stupid fascist administration is doing. wapo.st/4xdoacU Crossposted with @openvibe.social

wapo.stAP says it will refer to Lake Ontario by its original name, despite Trump’s order - The Washington PostThe Associated Press’s guidance says President Donald Trump’s executive order affects only how the U.S. government refers to the lake, not Canada or other countries.

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Autumn Warhammer Chick
@celticdragon1.bsky.social

Your reminder that the English Beat icon "Beat Girl" is a transgender woman named Brigitte Bond from a photo of her dancing with ska musician Prince Buster at Heathrow in 1964 and none of us will be as cool as she was.

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The Tiny Angry Witch
@tinyangrywitch.bsky.social

⭐ BOOK ⭐ The Tiny Angry Witch has got a book of magic - but when you’re tiny, turning the pages can be tricky… This is our longest video so far. Stop-motion animation, made with models, props, and patience! Written, built, animated, voiced, and scored by 4 x people (and 1 x Witch)

Mack Reed
@mackreed.bsky.social

This is how a once-respectable republic dies: in lazy and incompetent hands. As a friend of mine often says, “They are just cos-playing diplomats.”

Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻@rvbdrm.com

“A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included ⁠in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools.”

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404 Media
@404media.co

A company offering printed books to AI companies to train on because they’re free of AI slop has stopped after our reporting. Thanks to 404 Media subscribers, we’re able to continue reporting stories that bring real life impact. Read now: www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

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Jeff Yang
@originalsp.in

What if Democrats stopped obsessing over labels and Republican lies and embraced a mission of being the party of “good government that helps people“? Feels like we’d do a lot more winning. And helping people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com‘I’m over the moon’: New York’s small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tapeInitiatives including cutting permits just to serve ice-cream amount to a sweeping program of deregulation
Mack Reed
@mackreed.bsky.social

“Oops, I gutted the safety net, destroyed USAID, and rolled back 60 years of progressive reforms that had bettered life for all Americans.”

The Guardian@theguardian.com

‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit

theguardian.com‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbitBillionaire in interview with the Economist admits he was too consumed by politics and shares predictions about AI Elon Musk has admitted he became too consumed by politics during his volatile alliance with Donald Trump and his brief appointment as the president’s financial axman, running the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge). The world’s richest person, and briefly its first trillionaire after his SpaceX company floated on the US stock exchange in June, made the confession in a wide-ranging interview with the Economist published on Thursday. He shared his positions on subjects from foreign wars to AI, and made a number of eye-opening predictions for the future. Continue reading...
Mack Reed
@mackreed.bsky.social

I walked a picket line with the Phila. chapter of the Newspaper Guild (coughcough)ty years ago and I’d do it again if I were there now. Union forever.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social

I'd be deader than Mitch McConnell if our excellent union health insurance hadn't paid for the operations and the unbelievably costly drug regimen that have kept me alive, with day-to-day good health This contract is a matter of life or death for me. Please support us

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Jeffrey Vagle
@jvagle.me

Remember this when we're inevitably told that food stamps, single payer healthcare, and fully funded public education are unaffordable.

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The Media and Democracy Project
@mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social

NYT with Trump-friendly framing and stenography “compensate” [corruptly reward]

The Media and Democracy Project@mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social

@nytimes.com democracy-washing POTUS’s perverse corruption and theft from taxpayers. Editorial failures: - “compensate” affirms legitimacy to claims - “Biden” DoJ implies partisan wrong-doing Reliance on euphemism: - “unusual plan” [corruption/abuse of power] - “various claims” [lies & propaganda]