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@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 1h

Wait till this happens to LLMs

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People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

“I’m about to just toss the whole thing…”…

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@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 1h

Waiting for one of these clowns to leave the car unattended and the someone to steal the ICE car. It’s gonna happen.

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@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 1h

Welp, I guess the Pope is DEI Antifa woke now. Wonder if the Trump admin will revoke his US passport now - seems like the kind of useless petty gesture they would make.

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Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 1h

I’m very worried about my son, who lives in war-torn Chicago.

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 7h

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 2h

I wish America had some journalists with honor and integrity instead of the spineless quislings we actually have.

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Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...

Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero

The IPI said Roshchyna's death on Sept. 19, 2024 "exposed the brutal treatment suffered by the dozens of Ukrainian journalists unjustly held by Russian authorities, and brought new urgency to the need...

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@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 2h

“Five nose rings and blue hair makes you look stupid” says this man:

@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 4h

It’s not a lie.

Not many know this, but Portland is an Antifa Valhalla. It gets burned down by Antifa every night. Then it gets rebuilt every morning, only to burn down again that night.

@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 4h

Molecular switch discovery could open door to male birth control phys.org/news/2025-10...

Molecular switch discovery could open door to male birth control

Michigan State University scientists have pinpointed the molecular "switch" that supercharges sperm for their final sprint to an egg—a breakthrough that could reshape infertility treatments and pave t...

phys.org

@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 4h

By removing common biases, study debunks U-shaped happiness curve with age phys.org/news/2025-10...

By removing common biases, study debunks U-shaped happiness curve with age

Many survey-based studies have been conducted to try to understand how happiness changes over a person's lifetime. While there have been a few different outcomes, the most common has been the U-shaped...

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@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 4h

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New England Unions Lead the Way on Offshore Wind

Building trades unions in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are successfully fighting for offshore wind projects that create good union jobs and revitalize the economy. In the process, they’re showing ho...

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@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 4h

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The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

The prosecution of Tish James is the product of a broken system that allows lawless billionaires to rule alongside corrupt politicians.

It’s as much a story of New York City as Washington, D.C.

But it's here in New York where a new era of politics will be born.

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@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 4h

Governments never make official declarations that they are now a fascist government.

Instead, they make opposing fascism a crime.

@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 8h

Well, because he took the money

@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 8h

Isn’t it “knock-on” effects? I think knock-off effects would be no effects.

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@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 8h

There’s always the classics. You could even spray paint ICE across the front.

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@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 8h

Portland frogs getting organized

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 23h

*cough* Tom Honan *cough*

@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 23h

The second cousin of the best friend of the Antifa founder told me to release the Epstein files

@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 23h

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Who is Adelita Grijalva and why hasn't she been sworn in to Congress yet?

Democrats are ramping up the pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat who won a special election last month to succeed her late father.

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@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 23h

It’s one of those I keep going back to.

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@[email protected] @dogzilla66.bsky.social · 1d

If I were an editor, I’d be so tired of constantly having to write the phrase “MAGA Fury Erupts” that I’d prob just start prepending the acronym MFE to everything. Like “MFE as Instagram boss 'exploring' a separate TV app for video content”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Page One in Chicago.

@chicago.suntimes.com

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