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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

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

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 8h

"We can't uninvent AI."

I dunno. Have we tried? I bet if we tried hard enough, we could.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

The pro-disease admin.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 10h

“The White House’s mass firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease.” www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

‘It’s a massacre’: CDC battered by government shutdown firings

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

www.statnews.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 11h

I've now seen this FB ad three times, though I refrained from mentioning any of this there.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 12h

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 15h

Incidentally, "in 2020, Earth was taken over by a consortium of Bond villains" works PERFECTLY as an explanation for our current situation. Doesn't it?

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 13h

A critical premise of the work of the 14th Amendment Center is that we are all founders & framers of the future of democracy in this country.

Prof. Kate Andrias channels that spirit in this excellent op-ed.
GIFT LINK
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court

www.nytimes.com

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 12h

Crypto is scam.
Crypto is crime.
Crypto is corrupt.
Crypto is theft.
Crypto is harm.
Crypto is fraud.
Crypto is waste.
Crypto is pollution.
Crypto is exploitation.
Crypto is deception.
Crypto is suicide.
www.thestreet.com/crypto/busin...

www.thestreet.com

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 19h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 13h

Destroy what works.
Replace with invented “facts.”
Make all fall apart.
#zentao

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 17h

Or anything, really. Passing your grading off to AI is simply deciding that your students’ work isn’t worth engaging with. And if that’s how you feel, why on Earth are you in a classroom?

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

substack.com

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 17h

We know that LLMs struggle with math. Apparently the people involved in delivering the data centers that power LLMs do too. There's no way that investments will pay off. The bubble of bubbles. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 16h

The generous reading is they believe there is no limit to the money worth dumping into any project that could lead to a future AGI, because the AGI will be essentially invaluable. But this is the equivalent of building the world's largest economy around the expectation that the rapture is imminent

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 17h

We know that LLMs struggle with math. Apparently the people involved in delivering the data centers that power LLMs do too. There's no way that investments will pay off. The bubble of bubbles. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Yes, it's weird that Peter Thiel can't stop talking up the Antichrist.

But look on the bright side—he's also the guy who:

-Gave @jd-vance-1.bsky.social his first VC job
-Funded Vance's firm
-Bought his Senate seat
-Got him the VP slot

Have a nice day!

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Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 1d

“Can you show us a video of Portland in flames?”

Is a question someone needs to ask the frickin’ President of the United States.

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

No fights. People get to drink what they like. But I love me a porter. Also, I can get 27 different pale ales within a few blocks from my home, but good porters are very rare in the Bay Area.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

Deschutes Brew pub for Black Butte porter.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 1d

Definition of "antifa": An organization so extremely secret it doesn't even exist.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 1d

Since our last update, the administration ramped up its quest for voter data, suing six more states that refused to give their voter rolls to the DOJ:
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

DOJ Sues Six States, Escalating Campaign to Seize Private Voter Data