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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 10h

Alright Kathy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Mia the Calligrapher @tspcalligrapher.bsky.social · 16h

Save me local grocery store big pumpkin save me

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 16h

Beyond that, yeah I’m sure they’re also really ‘mitigating’ mental health issues….

Like flirty AI bots aren’t an avenue to new and different forms of mental health issues and co-dependency.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 17h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

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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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 17h

Like “please sir, I want some more” Gruel?

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 1d

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 21h

Tired: we’re living through a repeat of the 1920’s
Wired: were living through a repeat of the 1620’s

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 22h

i am unfortunately increasingly inclined to say we should look to the invention of the printing press and the centuries of disorder and chaos and dysfunction that followed its introduction until people and the system eventually adjusted to a new reality where ppl could read nonsense & believe it

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22h

I don't see how we can have a democracy when about one-third of our country's population is COMPLETELY psychotic and detached from reality. I mean that literally and in reference to many of my family members: they flat-out reject the real world and the very concept of evidence.

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 21h

This has always been the closest analogy- because it’s a much larger break w continuity than radio/tv/film, which sort of modified what already existed through papers and mags. though you can see how those worked w the rise of fascism in the 20s-30’s as similar to some of what’s happening now.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 22h

i am unfortunately increasingly inclined to say we should look to the invention of the printing press and the centuries of disorder and chaos and dysfunction that followed its introduction until people and the system eventually adjusted to a new reality where ppl could read nonsense & believe it

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22h

I don't see how we can have a democracy when about one-third of our country's population is COMPLETELY psychotic and detached from reality. I mean that literally and in reference to many of my family members: they flat-out reject the real world and the very concept of evidence.

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

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2d

yeah this is on the level of the iraq war casus belli coverage

choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 2d

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2d

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2d

HE MADE A COIN, COOP. IT SAYS "KA$H." WHERE YOU OR I WOULD PUT THE S, THERE STANDS A DOLLAR SIGN.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 3d

pilgrim guy finishes reading a big book, leans way back in his chair and loosens the belt on his hat

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 4d

Glad they put this in the article, but we’re at a point in the evolution of “view from
nowhere” when they can’t state a fact about math without referring to some outside expertise!

Is it not ‘objective journalism’ to just write ‘this is mathematically impossible’?

“Sky is blue today, experts say”

TommyZed34 @tommyz34.bsky.social · 4d

President Donald Trump recently made his boldest claim yet in his
longstanding promise to lower drug prices.
"You know, we've cut drug prices by 1,200, 1,300 and 1,400, 1,500%," he told reporters on Sunday, noting the reductions will start over the next two to three months. "I don't mean 50%. I mean 14- 1,500%."
Trump has unveiled a number of moves aimed at cutting drug prices in recent months, but he has yet to move the needle on reducing costs - much less slashing them by 1,500%, which is mathematically impossible, experts say.

Highlight on obnoxious use of "experts say"

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 4d

“Machado’s politics are steeped in violence. She has called for foreign intervention, even appealing directly to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the architect of Gaza’s annihilation, to help ‘liberate’ Venezuela with bombs under the banner of ‘freedom.’”

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams

As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

www.commondreams.org

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 5d

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 6d

Hologram Charlie Kirk

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 7d

This is perfection

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 8d

He’s talking about the afterlife again….you can’t convince me the man isn’t dying. This is the weirdest and somehow most self reflective train of thought he’s spouted in his decades in the public eye, and he’s said multiple things along these lines the past few months.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "I want to be good because you want to prove to God so you go to that next step, right? So that's very important to me."

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 8d

As they state here, 99% of what this admin is doing could be negated or limited if Congress would assert its own authority. Even with GOP majorities, they should want to use their own power, and are clearly cowed, scared, or too lazy to do it.

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 8d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 8d

Case in point - he is clearly going through *something* bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 8d

Goooood god

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 8d

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions.

He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly.

The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity.

He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings.

Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 9d

Trump is someone uniquely vulnerable to AI cyberpsychpsis because he’s already a machine made out of television equipment

Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 9d

the right accuses us of "Trump Derangement Syndrome" but the thing is that perceiving the Trump administration is like gazing into Yog-Sothoth's eldritch form. The only way not to be deranged by it is to actively refuse to perceive it, which is the right's preferred approach to anything inconvenient

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 9d

There is a Mishima quote I like using -- "the special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail." It seems to be the only way of really conveying the psychic damage of perceiving the administration and the forces behind it

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 10d

It’s annoying that the trend in black and white thinking and lack of nuance extends all the way through to *academics* who should be the antithesis of that kind of thought.

Painting with a broad brush in either direction is a way to completely misread the past and present!

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10d

“You think you’re part of a proud tradition that can draw upon powerful unifying national symbols and myths? No, IDIOT, actually the white nationalists are right about what this country is”

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 10d

You see, this framing is absolutely foolish in my opinion because the people being sprayed by the firehoses were also America. AIM is also America, and I say that as the son of a member of AIM.
Agreeing with the oppressor that they are the only legitimate form of America is a bad take, man.

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 10d

Holy crap- this thread lays out how wild this story actually is.

CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 10d

my flight's been delayed for a while, so I've been spending the past short while trying to piece together all of the different twists & turns in this man's story, and DEAR LORD, how the fuck did all of this happen??

Fact check of former DMPS leader Ian Roberts’ education shows discrepancies

Discrepancies in Ian Roberts’ education background have surfaced after the former Des Moines superintendent was arrested by federal immigration agents last week. Here’s what we found out and what’s st...

www.iowapublicradio.org

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 11d

it’s so clear Ezra has not thought deeply about the experience of black people in this country, the fight for abolition and civil rights and the kinds of resilience and ‘strategy’ it takes to win a fight over decades (or centuries). For all his ‘deep thinking’ he doesn’t appear well read in history

Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 11d

I have been thinking about this for days.

I keep coming back to Ezra Klein's inability to understand Ta-Nehisi Coates' stance that it is worth fighting, even if you don't live to see victory, even if your children never see victory, even if your grandchildren never see victory, it's worth fighting

Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 16d

Damn, this one was truly fantastic.

Part of why I continue to listen to Klein is that I’m wondering if anyone is gonna call him down on his bullshit and… Ta-Nehisi Coates absolutely does that here.

Without question the best political thought I have heard on the current moment.
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