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pdusaint.bsky.social @pdusaint.bsky.social · 2h

Of course it didn't regulate Fox. You missed my point. "Read" what happened the very day FD ended. It was an unleashing that opened the way to the culture we now find ourselves in. There's a huge difference between the bullshit before and what we have now. I was active in media when it happened.

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pdusaint.bsky.social @pdusaint.bsky.social · 3h

But once it was eliminated, Rush Limbaugh reflected (as close to possible as I remember), "We no longer have to rely on facts." Again, there were problems but rather than addressing and correcting them, it was eliminated paving the pathway to Fox.

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pdusaint.bsky.social @pdusaint.bsky.social · 3h

FD was not perfect and you right to point out concerns. But FD attempted to assure that contrasting views were fairly presented. Yes, there were problems and various administrations sought to take advantage of it.

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pdusaint.bsky.social @pdusaint.bsky.social · 8h

So the mentor for Project 2025 is experiencing problems in his "soft fascist" country beyond the reality that their economy is a mess.

European News @eunews.social · 1d

Viktor Orban’s ‘Propaganda State’ Is Starting to Show Cracks

The Hungarian leader has secured power by keeping control over the news media. Now, a political opponent is starting to show the limits of his tactics.

Viktor Orban’s ‘Propaganda State’ Is Starting to Show Cracks

www.nytimes.com

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 21h

Someone created a searchable database of Epstein files www.404media.co/data-hoarder...

Data Hoarder Uses AI to Create Searchable Database of Epstein Files

The open source project has been mirrored as a torrent file and represents one of the easiest ways to navigate a messy data dump.

www.404media.co

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23h

“Trump haunted by visions of hell” is my favorite Trump, although I’m not totally sure what’s going on with the dude

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 22h

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Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s entire “club fed” prison camp was placed on lockdown so she could meet with an unidentified visitor. 🧵 ⬇️

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

No Kings Day is almost here.

The Trump regime believes that if it can overwhelm us with atrocities and threats, we'll surrender our rights without fighting for them.

But the people won’t bow down. We will rise. Join us at a peaceful protest on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Rebecca O’Donnell @rebeccaodonnell.bsky.social · 1d

I made this true story comic to show protesters how sneaky agitators are. Don’t let them rile you, and Hold the Line.

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 2d

Powerful weapons against fascism:
Joy
Love
Self-care
Humor
Solidarity
Empathy
Words
Ideas
Advocacy
Truth
Information
Friendship
Listening
Resting
Unity
Art

Use all your weapons.

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Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social · 1d

Must watch on #Portland! Footage speaks louder than the Trump admin propaganda! youtube.com/shorts/BSkDJ...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised. #dailyshow

YouTube video by The Daily Show

youtube.com

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pdusaint.bsky.social @pdusaint.bsky.social · 1d

Thiel is infatuated with the antichrist story. Very strange. He might do better reading Vladmir Soloviev's "The Story of the Antichrist". This Russian mystic is a better story teller and actually has some deep moral convictions.

pdusaint.bsky.social @pdusaint.bsky.social · 1d

Humor is important in peaceful protest movements. commonslibrary.org/defending-de...

Defending Democracy with Humor and Dilemma Actions Tactics

The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.

commonslibrary.org

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 3d

"After a few moments of laughter..."

The No Kings organizers with a fun, tidy response to Mike Johnson's shenanigans.

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pdusaint.bsky.social @pdusaint.bsky.social · 1d

This is a sarcasm alert.

Rep. Steven Woodrow @woodrowforco.bsky.social · 2d

I only voted for him because he said immigrants were eating pets and poisoning the blood of our country…how was I supposed to know he’d act like a dictator?

pdusaint.bsky.social @pdusaint.bsky.social · 1d

Some of you are missing his style of humor. It's called sarcasm. I know things are dire but sometimes it's good to lighten up!

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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 2d

Led by Gen Z, Delete Day encouraged attendees to get rid of social media apps on their smartphones.

Gen Z held an anti-social media event. Here's how they heard about it.

Led by Gen Z, Delete Day encouraged attendees to get rid of social media apps on their smartphones.

www.businessinsider.com

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

Talk about town is billionaire Palantir founder Peter Thiel.

Not saying he’s the Antichrist—
but calling a 20-something autistic activist the Antichrist?
Sounds like the kinda thing the Antichrist would do. More ⬇️

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a rule of thumb: If "AI" seems like a good solution, you are probably both misjudging what the "AI" can do and misframing the problem.

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Comment by Tom Diettrich on a linkedin post reading:

"You can't "test-in quality" in engineering; you can't "review-in quality" in research. We need incentives for people to do better research. Our system today assumes that 75% of submitted papers are low quality, and it is probably right (I'll bet it is higher). If this were a manufacturing organization, an 75% defect rate would result in bankruptcy.

Imagine a world in which you could have an AI system check the correctness/quality of your paper. If your paper passed that bar, then it could be published (say, on arXiv). Subsequent human review could assess its importance to the field.

In such a system, authors would be incentivized to satisfy the AI system. This will lead to searching for exploits in the AI system. A possible solution is to select the AI evaluator at random from a large pool and limit the number of permitted submissions. I imagine our colleagues in mechanism design can improve on this idea."

Original:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7381685800549257216/?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A(activity%3A7381685800549257216%2C7382628060044599296)&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A(7382628060044599296%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7381685800549257216)

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pdusaint.bsky.social @pdusaint.bsky.social · 2d

I hope someone's forwarding this to him. That way he could have AI analyze all the comments for accuracy and summarize them.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 2d

I recently sat down with three leaders who are part of the @obamafoundation.bsky.social's alumni network to hear more about their work to strengthen democracy in Hungary and Poland. They’re an example for us all. Take a look:

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 2d

from Jesse Duquette

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 2d

between this and the reports of proposed data centers that will consume more energy than the entire population of nyc, i just want to revisit this bit by james landay from a million years ago, back in .... ah, march 2025

What’s more, the idea that AI’s power demands will keep growing at the rates they have been recently is unrealistic, says James Landay, codirector of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. AI companies have an economic incentive to use power more efficiently. The recently released DeepSeek model indicated that robust models can be built with less power and therefore at a lower cost, he says. Many companies in the industry are already following DeepSeek’s lead, working on ways to make their models more efficient, he says.

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pdusaint.bsky.social @pdusaint.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is a great model for advertising the " big, beautiful" USA. A few more tariffs and (what remains of) the government can produce these even more perfect tourist ads.

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Julie H. Hotard Ph.D., Disinfo expert @upine.bsky.social · 2d

@editorialboard.bsky.social As you have been saying

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

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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