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marcusluther.bsky.social
Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?
hypervisible.blacksky.app
The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.
www.theverge.com
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abdulelsayed.bsky.social
When the bailout for Argentina…is actually a bailout for the Treasury Secretary’s hedge fund billionaires.

They get richer…and it just gets harder for you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout
www.nytimes.com
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blackamazon.bsky.social
Social media absolutely is coming to an end

But it’s being killed and even though I am sick about it

I’m more worried that.. yall we are in multiple disasters , genocides and about to have a couple hard revelations AFTER A penny

No one is coordinating the response
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dbmaggi.bsky.social
Ms Rachel schools Obama on why he really should stop using dehumanizing language.
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chanda.blacksky.app
When large numbers of people who used to have Medicaid coverage become uninsured, those health care providers will still provide health care to those patients.

They are required to, by law.
But these are nonprofit health care practices that have the thinnest of margins to stay open.
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chanda.blacksky.app
And not just because people who lose their health insurance will die. They will, but that’s not the only reason. Rural hospitals, critical access hospitals, and community health centers depend on Medicaid payments to stay open.
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chanda.blacksky.app
🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.
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utopia-defer.red
anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide
larrrrrry.bsky.social
her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character
This is about Miss Rachel? Not wanting children to starve or be burned to death in tents is virtue signaling?
larrrrrry.bsky.social
her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character
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marisakabas.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:
DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property
In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.
www.thehandbasket.co
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davidcorn.bsky.social
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
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kalimurray.bsky.social
What drives me nuts about this dialogue: diversity and inclusion training was a corporate response to the statutory requirements civil rights laws. None of these laws have been repealed by Congress. Congress can pass the laws under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, which has also not been repealed.
itsafronomics.bsky.social
lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.
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willbunch.bsky.social
A paycheck or a lofty title is good. But moral integrity is much, much better

I talked to Penn's climate wizard Michael Mann about his great new book and his decision to drop his high-level university post to keep speaking out against science denial

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/scie...
Science is under siege. How Penn’s top climate scientist is fighting back. | Will Bunch
Michael E. Mann's new book, and the sacrifice this Penn scientist made to fight the war against climate disinformation.
www.inquirer.com
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robertdownen.bsky.social
As a straight young white man who covers Christian nationalism, I would perhaps have asked Doug Wilson some follow ups on this if it were running it in the NYT as part of his 10K-word defense of Christian nationalism.

For example:

“That really happen?”
“You sure about that??”
“But did it tho?????”
Wilson: No, I grant the point in principle. I don't believe that classical liberalism gets everything wrong. I really don't believe that.
And I enjoyed very much the country I grew up in, and I received many benefits from that era. So that point's granted.

But on the dank right, I believe that the liberal treatment of young white males has been one of the causes for this recoil and eruption. What you had was a toxic combination of a bad economy of young men being told repeatedly that they are the cancer of the planet, that their masculinity is toxic, that their skin is the blight of the world, and their heterosexuality is a hate crime.
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A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.
Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks
At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.
nbcnews.to
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jessdkant.bsky.social
Imagine for a moment a world so dependent on data centers that every aspect of municipal infrastructure must be reshaped. Not around human need, but maintaining GPU farms that use exponentially more power and water with each build. Models are only growing, and our resources are only diminishing.
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chanda.blacksky.app
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
premthakker.bsky.social
Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.
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djangowexler.bsky.social
My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
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newrepublic.com
His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”
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nameshiv.bsky.social
It's like if Watchmen was real life
oregonian.com
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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kendrawrites.com
And I like to focus on kitchen stuff because it makes no sense that I have to watch a youtub video to learn how to take apart my dishwasher to clean it and that entire chunks of it havenot been designed to be clean.