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👻🦇Booja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 12m

contemporary search/filters be like "this is white"

a pair of leggings with bright, multicolored marbled swirls

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2h

the dumbest media brand name since quibi dropped

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 4h

Same mission. New name.
MSNBC becomes MS NOW on
November 15th.

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 2d

Someone on the other site posted wallace shawn canvassing for Zohran Mamdami and I will never miss a moment to post one of the most moving pieces of writing ever written by an American Socialist...

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Why I Call Myself a Socialist

Is the world really a stage?

www.thenation.com

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Nichole Hiltz @nicholehiltz.bsky.social · 2h

At least there are no holidays coming up 😮‍💨

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h

The US Department of Transportation might be forced to close the airspace in certain parts of the country if the government shutdown continues into next week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.

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it’s ya baster boy Nix🦃 @nixostorme.bsky.social · 3h

This reminds me: While not as nationally reported on, there are two other progressives running for mayor in major US cities. I have seen them compared as the Zohran of their races. We have Omar Fateh for Minneapolis & Katie Wilson for Seattle. If you can vote in those cities, I’d recommend them!

Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4h

good, smart, and long overdue look at Common Crawl:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The Nonprofit Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work

Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.

www.theatlantic.com

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2h

The definitive account of the Watergate-style coverup Dick Cheney orchestrated after shooting that one guy in the face.

www.salon.com/2006/02/15/c...

Shoot first, avoid questions later - Salon.com

The White House's secretive response to Cheney's misfire cannot be understood apart from the society of Texas royalty.

www.salon.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2h

Dick Cheney led America into a disastrous war based on false evidence. But he did so with civility, and for that I am eternally grateful.

by David Brooks

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

All chatbots are right wing chatbots. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars

www.nytimes.com

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 2h

Perhaps part of the story is the utter contempt in which Vought et al. hold social welfare programs. They're into punishing SNAP recipients as a matter of principle and may have been the last ones to speak to Trump, which would explain the administration's flip flop.

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Xiaoyi @cleefouti.bsky.social · 4h

Captain Torture

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2h

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.

How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 1d

Censorship is now coming for your dnd and your warhammer and your farming sim, they don't care if it's not adult content. They wanted everything

Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (4/5) @acvalens.net · 1d

MasterCard is marketing its new MasterCard Threat Intelligence platform to issuers & acquirers. A source familiar w/ MasterCard’s internal operations told me MTI is flagging anime, VTubing, adult content, tabletop, video games as potentially “high fraud risk”

fintechmagazine.com/news/how-is-...

How is Mastercard Preventing Payment Fraud at Scale?

Announcing Threat Intelligence at Money 20/20 US, Mastercard showcases its latest technology in preventing fraud, combining insights from Recorded Future

fintechmagazine.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1h

it seems that ICE is targeting delivery app drivers (like instacart/Grubhub/Uber eats) at grocery stores across NW Chicago today—this grocer, Costco on Clybourn and the Jewel at Riverpoint Center. If you are shopping in the Bucktown/Logan area today, please be alert.

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 4h

earlier today, ICE took someone from the parking lot of our neighborhood independent grocer, the kind of place where the manager special orders things just for you and knows your kid by name, and I am very fucked up by it. There's video and it's just like, this is our neighborhood and our lives.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 1h

I like cake.

But also you can donate to Human Appeal's program to rebuild agriculture in Iraq
humanappealusa.org/our-work-by-...

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3h

Sep 30: USDA issues guidance saying they can use contingency fund
Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse
Oct 23: USDA deletes Sep 30 guidance
Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund
Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds
Nov 1: no funds go out
Nov 4: Trump says he’ll defy courts

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3h

The president says he will defy court orders and illegally withhold SNAP benefits despite there being money in the SNAP contingency fund that the Trump is required to use.

Donald J. Trump © ©
@realDonald Trump
SNAP BENEFITS, which increased by Billions and Billions of Dollars (MANY FOLD!) during Crooked Joe Biden's disastrous term in office (Due to the fact that they were haphazardly "handed" to anyone for the asking, as opposed to just those in need, which is the purpose of SNAP!), will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT

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Rob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social · 1h

seems like one of the main use cases for genAI is to eliminate the joy that other people take in thinking and actually doing things www.thecut.com/article/woul...

he’s watched the group spiral into the depths of AI paranoia as images of phony crochet projects and impossible-to-execute patterns flooded the feed

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 2h

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies

As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

www.thenation.com

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 1h

In honor of this absurd farce of a trial, I present to you my newly acquired t-shirt:

A white t-shirt with three red five point stars above two horizontal Italian sub sandwiches (also in red). This mimics the DC state flag of three red stars above two red bars.

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 7h

“We can’t police that whole thing,” Common Crawl said. “It’s not our job. We’re just a bunch of dusty bookshelves.”

Meanwhile, CC has accepted hundreds of thousands in donations from AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. And it expressed open antagonism toward the media:

In our conversation, Skrenta downplayed the importance of any particular newspaper or magazine. He told me that The Atlantic is not a crucial part of the internet. “Whatever you’re saying, other people are saying too, on other sites,” he said. Throughout our conversation, Skrenta gave the impression of having little respect for (or understanding of) how original reporting works.

Skrenta did, however, express tremendous reverence for Common Crawl’s archive. He sees it as a record of our civilization’s achievements. He told me he wants to “put it on a crystal cube and stick it on the moon,” so that “if the Earth blows up,” aliens might be able to reconstruct our history. “The Economist and The Atlantic will not be on that cube,” he told me. “Your article will not be on that cube. This article.”

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 7h

Common Crawl says it complies with removal requests—while telling us they are “a pain in the ass”—but also is not actually removing the data in question.

In July 2023, The New York Times sent a notice to Common Crawl asking for the removal of previously scraped Times content. (In their lawsuit against OpenAI, the Times noted that Common Crawl includes “at least 16 million unique records of content” from Times websites.) The nonprofit seemed amenable to the request. In November of that year, a Times spokesperson, Charlie Stadtlander, told Business Insider: “We simply asked that our content be removed, and were pleased that Common Crawl complied.”

But as I explored Common Crawl’s archives, I found that many Times articles appear to still be present. When I mentioned this to the Times, Stadtlander told me: “Our understanding from them is that they have deleted the majority of the Times’s content, and continue to work on full removal.”

The Danish Rights Alliance (DRA), an organization that represents publishers and other rights-holders in Denmark, told me about a similar interaction with Common Crawl. Thomas Heldrup, the organization’s head of content protection and enforcement, showed me a redacted email exchange with the nonprofit that began in July 2024, in which the DRA requested that its members’ content be removed from the archive. In December 2024, more than six months after the DRA had initially requested removal, Common Crawl’s attorney wrote: “I confirm that Common Crawl has initiated work to remove your members’ content from the data archive. Presently, approximately 50% of this content has been removed.” I spoke with other publishers who’d received similar messages from Common Crawl. One was told, after multiple follow-up emails, that removal was 50 percent, 70 percent, and then 80 percent complete.

By writing code to browse the petabytes of data, I was able to see that large quantities of articles from the Times, the DRA, and these other publishers are still present in Common Crawl’s archives. Furthermore, the files are stored in a system that logs the modification times of every file. The foundation adds a new “crawl” to its archive every few weeks, each containing 1 billion to 4 billion webpages, and it has been publishing these regular installments since 2013. None of the content files in Common Crawl’s archives appears to have been modified since 2016, suggesting that no content has been removed in at least nine years.

In our first conversation, Skrenta told me that removal requests are “a pain in the ass” but insisted that the foundation complies with them. In our second conversation, Skrenta was more forthcoming. He said that Common Crawl is “making an earnest effort” to remove content but that the file format in which Common Crawl stores its archives is meant “to be immutable. You can’t delete anything from it.” (He did not answer my question about where the 50, 70, and 80 percent removal figures come from.)

Yet the nonprofit appears to be concealing this from visitors to its website, where a search function, the only nontechnical tool for seeing what’s in Common Crawl’s archives, returns misleading results for certain domains. A search for nytimes.com in any crawl from 2013 through 2022 shows a “no captures” result, when in fact there are articles from NYTimes.com in most of these crawls. I also discovered more than 1,000 other domains that produce this incorrect “no captures” result for at least several of the crawls, and most of these domains belong to publishers, including the BBC, Reuters, The New Yorker, Wired, the Financial Times, The Washington Post, and, yes, The Atlantic. According to my research and Common Crawl’s own disclosures, the companies behind each of these publications have sent legal requests to the nonprofit. At least one publisher I spoke with told me that it had used this search tool and concluded that its content had been removed from Common Crawl’s archives.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3h

If someone blocks you, directly or via blocklist, it is because they don't want to interact with you! You are not owed an audience, you are not owed the ability to interact with someone, and social affinity sorting and group boundary-setting is a fundamental human action.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3h

People are annoyed at you both because this is a fundamentally creepy, self-centered, and antisocial attitude that treats your (imaginary) right to an audience and to access others' posts as more important than anyone's boundaries or consent. That is gross as fuck to do! Stop doing it!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3h

Both you and Margaret are acting like you have some sort of fundamental right to impose yourself on other people, and that people should be forced to justify their not wanting to deal with you and there should be a Higher Authority to enforce "no, you have to unblock this person!"

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Coconino @coconinoite.bsky.social · 2h

This.

Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 3h

"we never recovered from things Dick Cheney did to United States. and now the precedents he established have empowered a madman" @emptywheel.bsky.social

www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/04/d...

Dick Cheney, Gone But Not Forgotten - emptywheel

The precedents Dick Cheney established as Vice President have empowered the madness and authoritarianism of Donald Trump.

www.emptywheel.net

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