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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 1h

If this were Cohere (🇨🇦) or Mistral (🇫🇷) we would still have to contend with issues of privacy and resources (water & electricity scarcity/cost).

Recall that Microsoft has already shown they will shut off services to ICC judges/lawyers at Trump's request - what horrible things would OpenAI do here?

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

www.cbc.ca

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 21h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 15h

US government continues to gut scientific institutions...

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

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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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20h

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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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 17h

They want to keep raping kids and they're annoyed that Americans don't like that

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 17h

Why does this dementia patient have the nuclear codes, again?

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19h

OH. MY. GOD. 🫠

Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 17h

This should not be as credible a theory as it, in fact, is

Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 17h

There is a non-zero chance that Trump's decision-making information is coming from TV channels, controlled and fabricated by his staff. Would actually explain a lot. 😳

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 19h

pixelated boat
@pixelatedboat
Wow, this extract from Wolff's book is a shocking insight into Trump's mind:

On his first night in the White House, President Trump complained that the TV in his bedroom was broken, because it didn't have "the gorilla channel.” Trump seemed to be under the
impression that a TV channel existed that screened nothing but
gorilla-based content, 24 hours a day.
To appease Trump, White House staff compiled a number of gorilla documentaries into a makeshift gorilla channel, broadcast into Trump's bedroom from a hastily-constructed transmission tower on the South Lawn. However, Trump was unhappy with the channel they had created, moaning that it was "boring"
because "the gorillas aren't fighting".
Staff edited out all the parts of the documentaries where gorillas weren't hitting each other, and at last the president was satisfied. "On some days he'll watch the gorilla channel for 17 hours straight," an insider told me. "He kneels in front of the TV, with his face about four inches from the screen, and says encouraging things to the gorillas, like 'the way you hit that other gorilla was good'. I think he thinks the gorillas can hear him."
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 17h

"KAKISTOCRACY"

Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 17h

Is this a good time to remind ourselves that ~40% of Americans (~90%+ of GOP) think this is all fine?

Donald Trump’s approval rating

Follow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump

www.economist.com

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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 17h

Fuck that is heartbreaking. America is in a real dark place.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 19h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 22h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23h

"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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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 21h

Do it, Trump. See how that goes. MAGA will cheer him on as they lose their jobs and healthcare, and they'll give him their prayers and their last dollar.

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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 21h

Pedantic? Charts?! Don't threaten me with a good time!

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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 21h

The sick part is that 40% of the country believes him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 21h

"19 missing after blast at Tennessee military explosives plant"

Cause of the blast currently unknown; could be straightforward unsafe operations. As "soft targets" for sabotage go, though, this looks pretty for a Russian saboteur...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 23h

100% guaranteed this was a scenario Hegseth and Trump discussed today

The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 23h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Mr. Secretary, the president is on the phone. He sounds very angry and he keeps calling you Lil Marco.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Funny how hunting and trapping young women to coerce them into "dating," through pre-meditated sabotage like letting their air out of their cars' tires or canceling their hotel rooms, is such a common tactic among Trump's most prominent allies.

people.com/tv/fox-news-...

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🦇🧛‍♂️Bram Stoker’s GuitarMoogula🧛‍♂️🦇 @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 1d

Worth noting that these are precisely the type of measures that have been used against pro-democracy NGOs in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan etc.

A DOJ official declined to elaborate on task force plans but said the FBI's role includes analyzing financial networks for funding of activities involving violent crime.
Potential tools to defund or shut down these groups include IRS investigations to strip them of tax-exempt status; criminal probes by the Justice Department and FBI; surveillance by federal law enforcement agencies; the use of RICO statutes typically used for organized crime and financial investigations under anti-terror laws to identify donors and funders, according to people familiar with investigations and public statements by officials.

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