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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3h

It is really, really, really stunning to me how the first part in particular has already become so incredibly noticeable.

In the climate space alone I am spending more of my precious remaining life hours convincing ppl that the output of a word generating program is not the default truth......

onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

i’ve been trying to think of the real actual applications of generative ai in it’s current state and the two things i have so far is it makes everyone more dumb and also every more paranoid

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 1d

Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this

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Tom Tanuki @tomtanuki.bsky.social · 7h

THEY'RE MARCHING FOR AUSTRALIA AGAIN. WE'RE COUNTERING AGAIN. [video]

WATCH: youtu.be/jy9JExNo0zE

Looking at 19 October M4As - and our counters.

SHOW THE FUCK UP AND STOP WASTING TIME - GET YOUR MATES, FOLLOWERS, WHATEVER TO DO THE SAME.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17h

Imagine returning home to this after everything they have already been through.

Imagine doing this to other human beings essentially for sport.

Overnight, Israeli troops carried out a large-scale campaign of setting fire to huge amount of civilian homes and infrastructure before families returned to it in northern Gaza.

It appears to have been the most extensive mass arson operation since the genocide began

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Anthony Morgan @admorgan.bsky.social · 5h

Then get it to pick you out some glasses that don’t make you look like an insufferable cunt.

Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 6h

Mad Max and Happy Feet filmmaker George Miller has spoken enthusiastically about generative #AI. It's a "dynamically evolving tool", he says.
filmstories.co.uk/news/george-...

George Miller: "AI is here to stay and change things"

Mad Max and Happy Feet filmmaker George Miller has spoken enthusiastically about generative AI. It's a "dynamically evolving tool", he says.

filmstories.co.uk

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 8h

'There are more than 11,000 Palestinians in Israeli detention, according to data provided by the Israel Prison Service, 87 per cent of whom have never been charged or convicted.'

Sounds legit.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Israel publishes names of 250 Palestinian prisoners to be freed

Israel's Ministry of Justice provides the names of prisoners it will release in exchange for Israeli hostages, but Hamas says no agreement has been reached.

www.abc.net.au

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Caitlin Welsh @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social · 16h

Oh my god they counted the Tele’s botched Cairo Takeaway sting as an “antisemitic attack“

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 1d

www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Revealed: NSW Police ‘significantly’ overstated antisemitic attacks

An internal review of Operation Shelter found a “significant number” of cases had been mischaracterised as motivated by anti-Jewish sentiment.

www.smh.com.au

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d

New:
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 15h

Hahahahaha come on

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 18h

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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Anthony Morgan @admorgan.bsky.social · 16h

I am playing lawn bowls today in the first pennant game of the season, and looking forward to it.
On Tuesday next it’s our tiny rural bowls club committee meeting- whereupon I, as Treasurer, will be advocating we register as a lobby group.
But for now - the game’s afoot.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16h

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway

We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

theconversation.com

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 17h

Thiel summed up in four words:

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Anthony Morgan @admorgan.bsky.social · 16h

“Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this.”

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 17h

Goddammit more AI bubble scare stories from Ed Zitron, this time apparently using sock puppet account “the Bank of England”

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 1d

No... Israel is far more violent, destructive, murderous, it's also got a lot more support and arms. Diplomatic cover has allowed it to continue it's mass murder spree for years.

Israel is objectively way way worse than ISIS.

mountainrangifer.bsky.social @mountainrangifer.bsky.social · 1d

So you are equating Israel with ISIS? T

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 19h

My theory for why the show's been dumbed down so much is that it's now intended as a 2nd screen show.
Which would explain why the characters are constantly laying everything out in the simplest language possible and the "twists" are always the same (someone lies on the stand or refuses to testify).

Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 22h

Why is the reboot of “Law & Order” so bad?

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Why is the reboot of “Law & Order” so bad?

It’s as if everyone forgot how to make the show.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 19h

Please donate to Abo Jameel's fundraiser or share it

Abo jameel @engabojameel37.bsky.social · 1d

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Gibbous @leevangoodgrief.bsky.social · 23h

A very questionable choice. The peace prize apparently means that she wants a “piece” of those boats Trump is blowing up. What the fuck is wrong with this woman?

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 19h

Since midnight, rescue teams have recovered the bodies of 141 Palestinians from beneath the rubble in several locations across the Gaza Strip.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 19h

Excellent interview.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 22h

New interview! On the fiction of antifa and how it's weaponized against innocent people: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtTW...

Sarah Kendzior: The Fiction of Antifa, Plus, Answering the Epstein “Files” Question

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

www.youtube.com

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18h

🎵Please allow me to introduce myself,
🎵I'm a legionnaire of the Antichrist...

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.