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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 17m

The only comforting thing about this is that it seems like there’s no way to do nuanced propaganda with an AI chatbot so if they tick up the racism dial even a little bit you get a heil hitler that’s more immediately repulsive. But I still worry about lies of omission and blame.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 38m

The message must be "No bailouts for billionaires." AI is not too big to fail. And should it fail, the richest men in the world should be held accountable and take responsibility for their failures.

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 10h

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h

Fans of every team besides the Ms and Tigers: Hell of a game

Tigers and Ms fans:

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Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · Nov 10

JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 12h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 12h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

This is AI.

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 11h

You mean reshoe

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 11h

I feel bad tho I didn’t know they were ringing.

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 11h

Kid started freaking out in the car, yelling what sounded like “shoe phone” and when I got her out she was yanking on her shoes so I took ‘em off and she immediately grabbed them put one to each ear and said, “Hello?”

Shoe phone.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17h

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 15h

Tried to get my husband one this morning. Was $25. By this afternoon it was $50.

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 19h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 1d

The thing about AI is that although it looks like a bubble and is obviously a bubble and anyone who thinks about it for a moment knows it’s a bubble, unlike all other bubbles in the past I’m sure it will just be fine. I’m investing in tulips.

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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 18h

“This is not a debate between "you should face consequences for your abuse of power" and "you would rather not," and nobody has to acknowledge that both sides kind of have their points.”

Every time Republicans condemn this program as a political harrowing of conservatives from government, Democrats should say with one voice: You don't get immunity from the consequences of collaboration because you put collaboration in the party platform. Malfeasance isn't effaced because it displays the label of ideology, as evidenced by the zero times a judge has ever dismissed a case after a defendant listened to the charges and told the court, "You know, I don't see it that way." Legitimacy is not in the eye of the offender, no matter what the conservative attitude toward rape tells you. This is not a debate between "you should face consequences for your abuse of power" and "you would rather not," and nobody has to acknowledge that both sides kind of have their points.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 18h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

churchleaders.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18h

Network news could put this guy on the air during like Lester Holt or the Sunday shows but they don't because they know stories like this would help stop the administration and then the big bet they made on fascism would be for nothing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 18h

I watched the Lilith Fair documentary and now want to do a Lilith Fair karaoke for my birthday. Too many bangers.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 19h

It feels more and more like a mass looting before the guy dies.

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 19h

I for real feel like advertising this and gloating over it is one of the most insane missteps of the administration. If they wanted to successfully blame the Dems for the woes of the government shut down, they would not be doing this.

Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 20h

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 21h

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.

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 20h

If they’re not gonna do an investigation into why Bannon’s hot tub was filled with acid then I don’t think they’re gonna investigate that either.

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