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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 6h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 4d

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic lost a bid to dismiss parts of a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by music publishers over Anthropic's alleged misuse of their song lyrics in its AI training @blakebrittain.bsky.social reut.rs/4q2v7va

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Fyre @amuseoffyre.bsky.social · 42m

I feel the same about my glasses. So much money for the simple ability to actually see and function 😩

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It's Me, Mike Olson @devlin1.bsky.social · 49m

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Iridium Wolf @iridiumwolf.bsky.social · 10h

Michigan friends, Michigan citizens, please fight this. For yourselves, and so it doesn't become a model for the rest of the states.

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 10h

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 4h

Oh shit. President Crimes and his crimes friends are committing crimes with the fake money for doing crimes. Have you guys seen this.

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 4h

I love how the big news on Trump’s tariff announcement is how moments before he made it a bunch of people made insanely profitable shorts on crypto, a thing that Bitcoin Bros are all astounded to see happening in a completely unregulated market of a fake currency primarily used by criminals.

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

JUST IN: An anonymous trader opened massive crypto short positions just 30 minutes before Trump’s tariff announcements yesterday.

They made an estimated $192M in profits.

Donald Trump needs to go to jail. He is thief, he is literally robbing people internationally.

He announced 100% Tarrifs on China and sends the US stock market into a death spiral.

At the same time someone put over 1 Billion dollars into crypto with orders for 100 million being placed on Ethereum and Bitcoin and other crypto currencies across the board whilst markets got wiped after what he said. Billions, and I mean fucking billions got wiped out, whilst Bitcoin had it a biggest dip ever in a single candle losing 20k per Bitcoin, Whilst alt coins lost over 60-70% of value, everyone with leverage on the market with even 2 x leverage got murdered and robbed.

This was co ordinated, this was market manipulation with one anonymous wallet making over 200 million dollars in one day with trades showing that they knew Trump was going to announce this and crash the market.

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WIRED @wired.com · 10h

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

wrd.cm

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Fyre @amuseoffyre.bsky.social · 4h

Get bent :)

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umulata @umulata.bsky.social · 5h

((PSSST- I extended the preorder period a bit!))

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#WeeCon #ofmd #ofmdfanart #ourflagmeansdeath

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 14h

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

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Rin Stedecore Pumpkins, Starfleet OSHA guy 🔪 @stedeco.re · 11h

just looking at the thumbnail proves this is AI (if both her hands are behind her back, how is she holding the mic in front of her?). delete this, fake shit only serves the enemy's purposes

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Fyre @amuseoffyre.bsky.social · 11h

Given that data used to be recorded and backed up on floppy disks and now, no one can access them without vintage machines, do not trust things only stored in a digital format. Digital storage comes and goes and can be easily lost if servers/data drives are corrupted or broken.

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 13h

people will be like 'we've digitised these manuscripts, thus preserving them!' sorry mate if you want to preserve the data on your server copy it out onto parchment, the chats on your server won't survive as a paste-down in an old gradual stuffed on a shelf in a damp cellar for 1700 years

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Owltrousers @owltrousers.bsky.social · 11h

Spoiler: S2 ep7 #OurFlagMeansDeath

EPISODE 7: Man on Fire

Small embroidery in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry. The central panel depicts episode 7 of Series 2 of the TV show Our Flag Means Death with smaller panels above and below featuring additional scenes and items from the episode

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Fyre @amuseoffyre.bsky.social · 13h

🥳The Account, the Captain, his Wife and their Daughter is officially finished!
archiveofourown.org/works/606130...
#OFMD #OFMDfic

The Accountant, the Captain, His Wife and Their Daughter
Fyre
Chapter 45: 44 - Co-Captains
Summary:

Stede Bonnet was a fucking lunatic and Ed loved him for it.

The final chapter

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Fyre @amuseoffyre.bsky.social · 13h

A not-excellent thing to wake up to: realising there was an errant courgette hidden behind boxes in the fridge and it has liquified is now no longer at the back of the fridge but making friends with everything around it🤢

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 22h

Sending billions to Argentina while laying off Americans at home.

Letting Qatar build a base on US soil coz they bribed Trump with a plane and are investing billions in his personal business ventures.

Doesn’t seem like “America First”, does it?

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 22h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 23h

Dear MAGA: None of us want Qatari pilot’s carrying JDAMs over our soil. But this has to end with you.

YOU have to call your representatives and relentlessly tell them you’ll replace them if they don’t impeach Trump. He’s out of his mind. He’s grifting. YOU have to act!

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 21h

Pharaoh 🤝 ICE

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 20h

The constant struggle between my anti-carceral beliefs and this country’s need to chase down white collar crime like CBS cops chasing a straggly serial killer who leaves rhyming clues and just offed beloved number 4 on the call sheet.

The Nevada Independent @thenvindy.com · 21h

Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Via ProPublica: thenevadaindependent.com/article/elon...

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Fyre @amuseoffyre.bsky.social · 23h

Last chapter of The Accountant, the Captain, his Wife and their Daughter is coming tomorrow 🥰 I'm so pleased with this fic and how it all came together.

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Fyre @amuseoffyre.bsky.social · 1d

Re. lrs - thinking about it, Stede really does use everything Ed taught him: the initial exchange and ripostes, the spank, the inciting Izzy to stab him (whether consciously or not) and then taking the sword on the left to win.
He is a quick learner. Not necessarily a smart one, but a quick one XD

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