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Larry Edwards
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Larry M Edwards is an award-winning investigative journalist, author, editor, and he plays fiddle and bass, as well as enjoying bird photography. His most recent book is Chariot Canyon: A Rent Beacham Mystery. https://www.larryedwards.com
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Larry Edwards @fiddlinfriar.bsky.social · 14h
Big #Football Is Ruining #College #Sports. The #Power #Four schools should go their own way and give other sports a chance to shine. #Harris #NCAA #BigTen #Big12 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...
Opinion | Big Football Is Ruining College Sports
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d
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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1d
i’m just a 40 year old woman, standing in front of the world, asking why *gravel* is so expensive

like, listen. i live in southern california. i am not putting in a lawn, and mulch catches on fire so i cant put it against my house. i’m putting in some DG, but… i should get into the gravel business
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Larry Edwards @fiddlinfriar.bsky.social · 14h
The #Suffix That Tells Us to Ruthlessly Optimize Everything. From #game #theory to #incels, how everything got #-maxxed. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/m...
The Suffix That Tells Us to Ruthlessly Optimize Everything
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2d
Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity
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Larry Edwards @fiddlinfriar.bsky.social · 1d
The #AI Prompt That Could End the World. A destructive AI, like a #nuclear #bomb, is now a concrete possibility; the question is whether anyone will be reckless enough to build one. #pathogen no longer a hypothetical #artificialIntelligence www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
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Larry Edwards @fiddlinfriar.bsky.social · 3d
Laszlo #Krasznahorkai Is Awarded #Nobel #Prize in #Literature. The prize committee said the #Hungarian writer’s work “reaffirms the power of #art.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
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Larry Edwards @fiddlinfriar.bsky.social · 3d
#San_Diego #Mayor_Gloria Inspired by Chula Vista Investments in #AI, #Drones. Is San Diego Next? Critics say #police drones pose concerns about privacy and unlawful spying, #genAI too prone to errors and bias. #artificial_intelligence voiceofsandiego.org/2025/10/08/m...
Mayor Gloria Is Inspired by Chula Vista Police’s Investments in AI, Drones. Is San Diego Next?
The police department has struggled to hire and retain officers for many years now, putting pressure on the city’s ailing budget and hiking up emergency response times.
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Larry Edwards @fiddlinfriar.bsky.social · 3d
#Books: #Wigeon #Publishing, #Operation #Masquerade: A #Rent #Beacham Mystery, second in the series. Fall 2025. A cold-case #homicide leads investigative journalist Rent Beacham into the murky world of #AI #avatars and #deepfakes as #election day looms. www.larryedwards.com/wigeonpublis...
Book release - Operation Masquerade - A Rent Beacham Mystery
Book release - Operation Masquerade - A Rent Beacham Mystery by award-winning author and Pulitzer Prize nominee Larry M. Edwards.
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Larry Edwards @fiddlinfriar.bsky.social · 3d
#Book: #Operation #Masquerade - A #Rent #Beacham #Mystery, second in the series, Chapter 1. A cold-case #homicide leads investigative journalist Rent Beacham into the murky world of #AI #avatars and #deepfakes as #election day looms. www.larryedwards.com/wigeonpublis...
Book release - Operation Masquerade - A Rent Beacham Mystery
Book release - Operation Masquerade - A Rent Beacham Mystery by award-winning author and Pulitzer Prize nominee Larry M. Edwards.
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Larry Edwards @fiddlinfriar.bsky.social · 4d
Opinion: #San_Diego deserves a full-time #public #library system. Budget cuts caused 20 of 37 libraries to close two days a week. Lost opportunities for students, job seekers, families, neighbors who depend on their public library. , #Library_Foundation_SD
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Opinion: San Diego deserves a full-time public library system
As a world-class city that values connection and resilience, San Diego must keep libraries open 37:7 — all 37 locations, seven days a week.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d
I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 5d
Never never never give up
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastword.msnbc.com · 5d
@schiff.senate.gov: Trump AG Bondi wanted to 'please the angry old man down the street' during Senate hearing www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
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Larry Edwards @fiddlinfriar.bsky.social · 4d
More than half of USA’s sandy #beaches to be lost by 2100 due to #climate-driven #sea_level rise: #Surfrider Foundation’s 2025 State of the Beach report.
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More than half of USA's sandy beaches to be lost by 2100: Report
The foundation said erosion of sandy beaches is a normal coastal process, but climate change is intensifying and compounding its effects.
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Larry Edwards @fiddlinfriar.bsky.social · 12d
#California #Governor #Newsom signs first-in-nation #AI law to curb #bioweapon, #cyber #threats. Legislation requires AI companies to implement and disclose publicly #safety #protocols
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Newsom signs first-in-nation AI law to curb bioweapon, cyber threats
Newsom signed a law that aims to prevent people from using powerful artificial intelligence models for potentially catastrophic activities.
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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 12d
Today on #SilverScreenSleuths: we talk about Easy Rawlins's only onscreen portrayal, 1995's DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS. Sign up for the newsletter at the end of the post! msemilyedwards.com/2025/09/30/s...
Silver Screen Sleuths: Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Set five years before LA Confidential and premiering two years before it at the Toronto International Film Festival, Devil in a Blue Dress should be considered a foundational, post-War LA detective…
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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 15d
The accusations about Comey and Wray lying under oath--irony doesn't get anywhere near close enough, and hypocrisy doesn't either.

Because it's all coming from a president whose very oath of office was a lie.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 15d
Trump is threatening to sabotage HIS OWN GOVERNMENT if there is a shutdown.

Ok. Thats dumb but you own that.

Why are we not hearing Dem leaders saying that? “Well that sounds reckless, Americans won’t be happy about that.”
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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 15d
“For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.”

— Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)
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Larry Edwards @fiddlinfriar.bsky.social · 14d
Maureen #Dowd: We’re All Going to Die—Soonish!
Even with big blue eyes or amazing pecs, #AI’s allure can be #deadly.
#Armageddon is coming. AI will turn on us, inadvertently or nonchalantly.
#Soares #Yudkowsky
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Opinion | We’re All Going to Die — Soonish!
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Larry Edwards @fiddlinfriar.bsky.social · 16d
#AI Isn’t #Magic. Lots of People Are Acting Like It Is. Believing #artificialIntelligence is magic is just as baseless as believing photographs can capture spirits. That’s not stopping people. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...
Opinion | A.I. Isn’t Magic. Lots of People Are Acting Like It Is.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23d
Donald is scared of comedians cuz they’re meanie heads
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Larry Edwards @fiddlinfriar.bsky.social · 23d
The #Billionaire #Trump Supporter Who Will Soon Own the #News. Larry #Ellison poised to become the most powerful #media_mogul America has ever seen. Given his affinity for Trump, the last thing our country needs right now. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...
Opinion | The Billionaire Trump Supporter Who Will Soon Own the News
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Peter Kuper @pkuper.bsky.social · Sep 11
Sadly, there's not a day I could post this where it would apply.
Fuck 'Thoughts and Prayers.' How about background checks, banning assault weapons and actual gun laws that protect our children? Oh sorry, I forgot, there's $$$ to be made, so that won't happen.
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