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What the directory is sharing, who is most active, and which neighborhoods just got louder. Snapshot of the last 48 hours.
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Most-shared links · last 48h
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
404media.co
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13 shared
Student writing essays ai
nytimes.com
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10 shared
Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
daringfireball.net
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6 shared
The National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed
404media.co
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5 shared
Ai slop lawmakers congress
politico.com
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5 shared
X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds
404media.co
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4 shared
Trump immigration crackdown
nytimes.com
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4 shared
Why big techs ai spending is trillion higher than it seems e1067bb2
wsj.com
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4 shared
Election Officials Are Preparing for Prediction Markets to Sow Chaos in the Midterms
wired.com
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4 shared
It Is Past Time for You to Quit Elon Musk's X
publiccomment.blog
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4 shared
nature.com
nature.com
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Trump vote by mail primaries florida
politico.com
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3 shared
Jason Arday’s death is institutional murder
aljazeera.com
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3 shared
Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing
404media.co
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3 shared
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
simonwillison.net
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3 shared
‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com
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3 shared
Buy now pay later
nytimes.com
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3 shared
Sainsbury’s store pauses AI scanning after false shoplifting accusation
theguardian.com
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3 shared
The System From Nowhere
mail.cyberneticforests.com
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3 shared
Hook and Squeeze
data4democracy.substack.com
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3 shared
How AI Is Reshaping Election Information Ahead of the 2026 US Midterms
techpolicy.press
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3 shared
The Racial Necrotechnics That Lead to Death By Design at Automated Borders
techpolicy.press
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3 shared
Four States Take Meta to Trial in California, the Latest Front in Sprawling Multidistrict Fight
techpolicy.press
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3 shared
Will China Crack Down on Open-Weight Models?
techpolicy.press
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3 shared
Cherokee Nation Bans Hyperscale Data Center Projects on Tribal-Owned Lands
gizmodo.com
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3 shared
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
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3 shared
Hot voices
Most active · last 48h
Neighborhoods on fire
Last 48h vs prior 48h
Frontier labs
▼ -29%
22 posts now vs 31 posts prior
Safety & policy
— flat
1089 posts now vs 1332 posts prior
Academia
▲ +24%
536 posts now vs 431 posts prior
Builders
▲ +41%
847 posts now vs 602 posts prior
Researchers
▼ -30%
229 posts now vs 327 posts prior
Press
▲ +57%
1043 posts now vs 663 posts prior
Practitioners
— flat
1959 posts now vs 1866 posts prior