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Paul Konstant

@progpk.bsky.social

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Retired scientist/ technologist. Diverse interests, few of them mainstream, fewer overlap. I like to follow specialists. Rational, romantic, mystic, cynical, idealist. He/him. 📍València, España

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Paul Konstant @progpk.bsky.social · Nov 10

New folks on Bluesky, I *beg* you to fill out your profiles with enough info we can tell you're a real person.

I get dozens of new followers a day. At least half are scams and bots.

If your avatar isn't personalized, you never post, but follow thousands, you're getting blocked.

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 4d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 4d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 5d

Well THAT's disturbing.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 5d

an ai video of Sam Altman shoplifting but much more interesting what's in the training data. there's no way these models can reimagine camera viewpoints unless a nearest neighbour exists in the training dataset. looks like target video feed must have entered the dataset

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 17h

1/2 A reminder to anyone who was RIFed.

💯 you do NOT deserve this.

Quick tips if you do get a RIF notice:
❌ Do not send a read receipt
❌ Do not respond right away - the union will probably provide language for response
✅ Forward notice to your personal email

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 15h

It’s been…. a night.

#CDCFridayNightMassacre

I’m exhausted - physically, emotionally.
To those divisions and branches that were RIFed and that we didn’t yet highlight here, apologies. We need to take a break for the night.

All of your - all of our - work matters.
We are in this together.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 15h

There is: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14h

Bari Weiss’s “DOGE-ness” is to be expected. Thread. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 4d

Bari Weiss launched The Free Press with funding from Peter Thiel allies Marc Andreessen and David Sacks. She’s the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. 1/

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 14h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13h

It’s hard to know what purpose journalism serves anymore if it can’t consistently communicate to the public 1) whether something is actually happening/is a complete lie; & 2) whether something is obviously illegal or unconstitutional. And yet, here we are, in late 2025, &

<all together now>

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 15h

Typos aside, there is simply no such thing.

ECGs are not an indicator of age.

They literally do not contain that information, either directly or indirectly.

This is just made up gobbledygook.

So, my question is: why?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

SEN. @gallego.senate.gov on the terrible Milei rock concert: “Millions of Americans are about to lose their health care and have their insurance premiums double, but Trump & Republicans are giving this idiot $20 BILLION. Good job. Way to make America First, guys.”

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16h

We need something like a “Fascistpedia” to keep track of those who collaborated with the regime.

Later, they'll be scurrying to hide their cowardice and moral rot.

A permanent record will guarantee enduring shame.

Let’s give them their own museum.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 9h

But this is not a threat. It’s a bloodbath.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 12h

Nope.

Nazi Germany never gutted their own medical capacity.

This is far closer to Mao's Cultural Revolution or the Khmer Rouge.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

Prosecutors Sucking Lemons in Their Vindictive Prosecution of Jim Comey

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/11/p...

Prosecutors Sucking Lemons in Their Vindictive Prosecution of Jim Comey - emptywheel

Unless prosecutors find a way to make the Jim Comey prosecution go away, in nine days, we'll get details (in the Vindictive and Selective Prosecution motion) of the efforts Trump has already made to p...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“Another former OpenAI employee who also was not authorized to speak publicly argued that releasing a deepfake AI social media platform was the right business decision, even if it contributes to the collapse of everyone's shared sense of reality.” 💀

Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet

OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Con @elperiodico.com

Mark Bray: 'Esta Administración Trump es más fascista y autoritaria. Necesitamos resistencia de masas'

El historiador, profesor en la Universidad de Rutgers y autor de ‘Antifa’, se exilia con su familia en España tras ser víctima de ‘doxing’ y presiones del grupo de Charlie Kirk y recibir amenazas de m...

www.elperiodico.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Paul Konstant @progpk.bsky.social · 1d

@unroll.skywriter.blue unroll please

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Peter Thiel says Antichrist ‘Wants a Nobel Peace Prize.‘

Leaked Highlights from Tech Billionaire's Secret Antichrist Lectures...
www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

Peter Thiel says Antichrist ‘Wants a Nobel Peace Prize.‘

Leaked Highlights from Tech Billionaire's Secret Antichrist Lectures

www.thenerdreich.com

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: White House budget office says "substantial" firings of federal workers have started as the Trump administration exerts shutdown leverage.

Budget office says 'substantial' firings of federal workers have started in government shutdown

The White House budget office says that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

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