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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 2m

“She later checked a ferry travel website but found no such route exists.”

I asked AI to plan my dream summer holiday. Here's how it turned out — BBC News

Holiday-makers say AI-powered chatbots really help organise where to go - but some things need double-checking.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 6h

Time to hang up the gloves, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Michael Hirschorn in the New York Times:

Voting for Mamdani Taught Me Why Trump Won

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6h

Who do they report to @jbpritzker.bsky.social.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 5h

Hi hello did you know that Elon Musk's third Neuralink patient (previously nonverbal) is "getting help from Grok" to communicate

and I hope -- I REALLY HOPE -- he's not stuck in his own brain listening as a robot talks for him without his input because this, to me, would be worse than death

This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI

A patient who types with his brain thanks to a Neuralink implant is using AI chatbots to speed things up.

www.technologyreview.com

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 5h

Chicagoland is a friendly, safe, vibrant, & fun place. I’m very happy my kids have grown up in the Rogers Park neighborhood of the city, & in Evanston. They’re both wonderful places.

But ICE is attacking us. People are doing everything possible to protect their neighbors. But it’s hard.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 5h

Oh, that is amazing.

Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 8h

That really moving Marseillaise scene in Casablanca is now 400% more moving youtu.be/CbWgOpG1988

Casablanca - Marseillaise Scene (extended edition)

YouTube video by Jeremy Limb

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

And people tell me the libs have no knack for messaging.

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Gary Gehman @glgehman.bsky.social · 8h

All you peacenik liberals wringing hands over what to do: Yes, of course, vote. It's your primary responsibility as a citizen.

But now more than ever, fulfill your second civic responsibility: Serve on juries. Never has it been more imperative to thwart rogue injustice.

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 4h

that lawyer was me.

open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 4h

Cycles cycle, but nobody was talking this way in 2008-12.

Financial illiteracy @sparticuszorro.bsky.social · 5h

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 3h

There was a period in history during which full-plate armour was so impregnable, and ransoming back captured nobles so lucrative, that the knights could treat warfare as a game while their men-at-arms got slaughtered in the mud.

I think about that a lot when I look at modern politics.

Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 4h

If we survive this, and Democrats are able to take back power, I guarantee you we will have to endure think-piece after think-piece that demand the rest of us reach out, stop shaming, and forgive fascists and the crimes they’ve committed. I absolutely guarantee it.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 5h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 7h

Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 11h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 12h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1h

⚡️Pro-Ukrainian partisans sabotage railway infrastructure in Russia's Rostov Oblast, group claims.

The Atesh partisan group sabotaged railway infrastructure in Russia's Rostov Oblast, disrupting Russian logistics, the group claimed in a Telegram post on Oct. 12.

Pro-Ukrainian partisans sabotage railway infrastructure in Russia's Rostov Oblast, group claims

The Atesh partisan group sabotaged railway infrastructure in Russia's Rostov Oblast, disrupting Russian logistics, the group claimed in a Telegram post on Oct. 12.

kyivindependent.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 9h

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 7h

One always instinctively suspected that American conservatives who talked a great deal about republican virtues, and the inheritance of the English and then American revolutions, were basically just full of shit. But their utter submission to Trump's personal rule has now completely proved it.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

in vought's view, the president is a living embodiment of the "will of the people" and congress has no legitimate power to limit him

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Darren Guy @darrenguy.bsky.social · 12h

3 days old but popped up on my feed today

www.spectator.co.uk/article/its-...

Brexiters calling for uk steel industry to be killed off.

You just cannot make this up

Britain's steel industry must die

It already faced tariffs in the United States, and it has been struggling to cope with some of the highest industrial energy prices in the world. Now what remains of the British steel industry faces w...

www.spectator.co.uk

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 12h

‪Weiser urged ICE protesters to remain peaceful to keep from playing into Trump’s narrative that troops are needed. “Do not engage. Do not escalate,” he said. “If we can keep calm, be peaceful and be orderly, we are going to be able to keep the rule of law in our Republic.”‬

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 13h

the shitposters are winning www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 12h

The first Cyclic Liquid Bomb Engine journey involved stopping at a chemist and buying a bottle of benzene to refuel it.

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