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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 3h

Another example of why you should subscribe to Wired 👇

Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 3h

The CDC's union estimates that a quarter of the agency been gutted under the Trump administration. Here's our story at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 3h

A very funny thing is that if someone shares a tweet in a group chat now, X's preview now erases your name and just shows you the number of likes it got

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 3h

Shut it down folks, we have a winner

limousine-liberal.bsky.social @limousine-liberal.bsky.social · 3h

FAPGPT

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 3h

And ignorance about their own party!

Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 4h

As I said last week, I had to explain the 14 words and 88 references to staffers in my reps' offices. They had noooo idea.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

a real water is wet scenario here

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 4h

I love that fanfic writers aren't allowed to profit off our work, but LLMs can steal our writing, then make people pay to produce fanfic erotica.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 9h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 8h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 9h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 6h

Apparently, Mark Sanchez has the president's cell number.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 6h

"We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil" is an all-timer. Thank you Mr President, we appreciate your insights.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution. As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don’t need to purchase it from China.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 8h

Every word of this is worth reading. These people are not outliers in young MAGA leadership. The person you are when you think you can get away with saying anything is the real you.

Politico @politico.com · 8h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 7h

While this clearly is a confabulated event that the President may or may not believe actually happened, he clearly believes turning the military into a privately funded mercenary force is not a bad thing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 13h

Are there any experts in Haitian art on BlueSky?

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a relief.

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 1d

So pleased to see two of my favorite stations #WPSU and @whyy.org join forces to keep public media alive in central PA
(and thanks to Penn State Trustees for reversing course in supporting this venture): www.psu.edu/news/adminis...

Penn State Board of Trustees approves new deal for WPSU | Penn State University

The Penn State Board of Trustees today unanimously approved the material terms of a proposed transaction to transfer the operating assets of WPSU public radio and television stations to WHYY, a public...

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 1d

So pleased to see two of my favorite stations #WPSU and @whyy.org join forces to keep public media alive in central PA
(and thanks to Penn State Trustees for reversing course in supporting this venture): www.psu.edu/news/adminis...

Penn State Board of Trustees approves new deal for WPSU | Penn State University

The Penn State Board of Trustees today unanimously approved the material terms of a proposed transaction to transfer the operating assets of WPSU public radio and television stations to WHYY, a public...

www.psu.edu

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 1d

My kid is so happy that season 3 just started!

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Che Cazzo @forzasicilia.bsky.social · 1d

WHO DO THEY BREAK UPON?

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

New apple review is up: one of my favorite apples, and favorite-NAMED apples -- the ASHMEAD'S KERNEL.

Apple Review #13: Ashmead’s Kernel

This apple sounds like some Clive Barker shit. Like it’s a forbidden relic — an infernal device you use to enter the Labyrinth of Hell. (It continues its horror pedigree by tasting just…

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 3d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 3d

excellent explainer

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s a great example. Yes, the Portland frog is real. Yes, there is more than one of them. But this is AI slop. General public sees this and maybe thinks it’s all AI slop? Maybe starts disbelieving real videos from Portland. Fascists happy.

You think you’re helping with AI slop but you’re not.

Resist ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏽✊🏼 #portland #portlandoregon #resist #portlandfrog #antiice

TikTok video by BeniTo

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 3d

No, but last time we spent an overnight at a friend's house, they were a 100% ingredient household and had nothing he ate (I brought cheerios for him). On the way home, he exclaimed how he didn't know how anyone survived without Goldfish in their house.

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 3d

I just caught him trying to pack potatoes.

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 3d

Two ears.

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