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Daniel Gwozdz

@dan.gwozdz.xyz

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''Reality has a liberal bias.'' Firefighter, Systems Infrastructure Architect, Roovian, & Technogeek extraordinaire. Anti-racism. Anti-fascism. Lazy absentee webmaster of: https://www.wcvw.org https://www.loosecars.net https://gwozdz.xyz

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Daniel Gwozdz @dan.gwozdz.xyz · 26d

This is feeling very Timely today...

Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · 26d

Daniel Gwozdz @dan.gwozdz.xyz · 12h

Can't wait for the followup on this: "Oh god, my phone has in a 1 month timeout before the next try"

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 20h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Daniel Gwozdz @dan.gwozdz.xyz · 12h

Great choice of photos by Variety. Oliver looks fully stunned by whatever nonsense she's spouting beside him...

Daniel Gwozdz @dan.gwozdz.xyz · 12h

When does she think the war actually started...???

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h

His jokey opinion commentary show easily does more thorough research and fact-checking than Weiss has ever even contemplated doing.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 16h

Which is pretty telling, since Oliver's comments about Reingold's "reporting" shows how bad she is at reporting, in part by ignoring facts that contradict the false narrative she's trying to sell.

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Daniel Gwozdz @dan.gwozdz.xyz · 12h

I'm choosing to interpret this as her calling herself a clown.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 16h

Was waiting to see how Olivia Reingold (who Oliver's piece destroyed almost as much as Bari Weiss) would respond, and you can see the tweet below which also shows she either did not watch his piece, or just didn't understand it, since he actually addresses this point directly.

Olivia Reingold quote tweeting Variety.

The Variety tweet is about John Oliver's piece on Bari Weiss leading CBS News, saying:

John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News:

"I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading."

Reingold then quotes it saying:

Why does this sound like John Oliver commenting on……John Oliver

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Daniel Gwozdz @dan.gwozdz.xyz · 12h

If it was so important for everyone to vote for a different candidate, maybe they should've made sure they had a candidate everyone would vote for...

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Diogenes @diogenes-original.bsky.social · 19h

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 21h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15h

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future

Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

www.foxnews.com

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Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social · 18h

Matt Levine did a great bit on this this morning. Everyone's realized "investors reward us handsomely for making a giant loan to OpenAI to 'buy our products,' and that club is free to join" and OpenAI intends to make a failure to become profitable EVERYONE'S problem.

share.google/bu1LJrws1i00...

OpenAI Keeps Doing Deals

Also crypto liquidations, inverse levered ETFs, stock buybacks and trade secrets.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18h

the more I read about the promises OpenAI has made, the more disgusted I am. They've promised to deploy 10GW of Broadcom chips *by the end of 2029*, a chip that has yet to tape out, in data centers yet to be planned or funded or the power acquired. We are in a black hole of ethics and good sense.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Daniel Gwozdz @dan.gwozdz.xyz · 16h

We were right, but I'm seeing early signs that we'll have to move yet again. :/

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 11d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Daniel Gwozdz @dan.gwozdz.xyz · 17h

Maybe if they didn't turn their backs on their humanity they'd be a lot less stressed

Daniel Gwozdz @dan.gwozdz.xyz · 17h

It'd be an interesting standoff, since neither side has the guts to engage someone equipped to fight back.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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marjtroyer.bsky.social @marjtroyer.bsky.social · 1d

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Some of the Illinois Department of Corrections SORT team we saw at the Broadview ICE protests Friday and Saturday.

five cops with large seven point stars and SORT patches, militarized gear

SORT officer sullivan in olive gear with arm patch he is eating a snack and looking at his phone

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21h

If you see these men doing any policing of/interacting with protesters at Broadview, please send us a message

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Some of the Illinois Department of Corrections SORT team we saw at the Broadview ICE protests Friday and Saturday.

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Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Daniel Gwozdz @dan.gwozdz.xyz · 21h

As usual the press can't help but make him sound cool.