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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 4h

I asked Lt. Tendi how she feels about the Blue Jays being in the World Series and all she said was “Death to the opposition.”

A cute Russian Blue kitty wearing a plastic Blue Jays cap.

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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 4h

Not that old, no. More recent version of the logo.

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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 4h

I asked Lt. Tendi how she feels about the Blue Jays being in the World Series and all she said was “Death to the opposition.”

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 8h

If the Rogers Centre had a parking lot that covered the same surface area as the Dodgers' parking lot, it would stretch from Queen Street on one end to the Lake Ontario waterfront on the other

Map of the Dodgers Stadium parking lot on the left and the same size and shape overlaid over downtown Toronto on the right, showing it covering a wide swath of downtown

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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15h

I am fuckin’ astounded that anyone at all implicitly trusts LLMs. I guess this is one of those “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” thing, but only in that “advanced” means “not knowing how it works” and magic means “must bow in awe”.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23h

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

www.bbc.co.uk

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Stoned Feminist @ladylinds.bsky.social · 23h

When we defeat fascism and we are rebuilding this country into something better, we are going to have to have the police and prison reform conversation. The reason we have ICE and concentration camps is because it's the natural evolution of the police and prison systems in this country.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15h

It's worth noting that they're only able to do this because they gerrymandered the state legislative seats 15 years ago so they have a permanent legislative supermajority (allowing them to overrule the D governor) in a 50/50 state

Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: North Carolina GOP legislature passes new gerrymandered congressional map giving Rs nearly 80% of seats in state where Trump got 51%. Specifically targets Black Democrat Don Davis. NC GOP stooping to new lows to undermine will of voters & appease Trump www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Republicans are making one of the most gerrymandered states in the nation even more rigged

North Carolina Republicans just passed a new Trump-inspired congressional map to oust a Black Democrat.

www.motherjones.com

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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15h

I am fuckin’ astounded that anyone at all implicitly trusts LLMs. I guess this is one of those “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” thing, but only in that “advanced” means “not knowing how it works” and magic means “must bow in awe”.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23h

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

www.bbc.co.uk

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23h

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: Trump says he is terminating trade talks with Canada because of TV ads protesting tariffs.

Trump says he's ending trade talks with Canada over TV ad

President Donald Trump says on social media that he is ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada because of recent television ads protesting U.S. tariffs, which he calles “egregious behavior” aimed at influencing U.S. court decisions.

bit.ly

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

No joke this is a problem IN THE FARM COMMUNITY.

Farmers who grow corn, soy, etc look down on farmers who grow vegetables. Because "It's not real farming, just gardening!"

Then they try "diversifying into veggies" one time & have a breakdown, bc they never imagined farming could be so much work.

lucindacatchlove.bsky.social @lucindacatchlove.bsky.social · 1d

People who say this kind of stuff don't understand that even just growing vegetables for yourself can be challenging and takes skill and monetary and time investment (if you have somewhere to do it in the first place).

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HyveMynd @hyvemynd.bsky.social · 1d

I do not think America is coming back from this.

How do you deal with bad actors in positions of extreme power who blatantly flaunt the rule of law?

Doesn't using force to remove them set the dangerous precedent that anyone can use force to stop things they don't agree with?

I don't know.

A photo of the White House, with excavation and demolition equipment visible in the foreground, showing the mess Trump has made.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s good and important to spread the word about companies that are doing bad things and offer people alternatives to those companies that aren’t evil. I also think shouting “cancel that!” “Stop using that!” “Why are you still on that!” isn’t a great way to help ease people’s transitions.

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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, what is this?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

the ballroom will never be built and he’ll just pocket whatever money he collects because he is a grifter first and foremost

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Trump raises the price of the ballroom to $350 million

(It changed from $200 million, then $300 million, now $350 million within the course of a few days)

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 1d

New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.

October planet imagery showing the east wing demolished

September planet imagery showing the east wing before work took place

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

We're here. We're queer. We oppose the quartering of soldiers in our homes.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been thinking about how hard the founding fathers cooked with the Third Amendment.

Imagine being forced to house ICE. I can’t imagine they wash their hands. They’ve never done laundry in their lives. They’d break your stuff if you didn’t cut the crusts off their sandwiches.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, as SNAP is about to end, the standing rule remains firm:

If you see someone stealing diapers or formula no you didn't.

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🏳️‍🌈 Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 1d

Elon Musk couldn’t figure out how to make a pop tart without hurting himself

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

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the ghost of pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1d

check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby

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As far as the earliest we know of, it's another Babylonian tablet, about 4000 years old and most often known as Little Baby in the Dark House. We don't have the music for it, but again, the BBC article has a good go at describing some commonalities of the music that tends to accompany lullabies, so that might inspire you.
The rough translation for that Babylonian lullaby, by the way, is:
Little Baby in the dark house
You have seen the sun rise
Why are you crying?
Why are you screaming?
You have disturbed the house god.
'Who has disturbed me?' says the house god.
'It is the baby who has disturbed you!
'Who scared me?' says the house god.
'The baby has disturbed you, the baby has scared you, making noises like a drunkard who cannot sit still on his stool.
He has disturbed your sleep!
'Call the baby now, says the house god.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

Universities across the world seeing this:

"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"