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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 8d

"AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help."

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 16h

We are seeing dozens of these videos every day. It's happening all over the ocuntry. I know many people are outraged but it's just continuing unabated.

This feeling of impotence is devastating. How does it end? With the country emptied of brown people and dissidents in jail?

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 16h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 16h

Every Republican in Congress owns this because every Republican in Congress has enabled Trump.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16h

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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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 21h

The message must be "No bailouts for billionaires." AI is not too big to fail. And should it fail, the richest men in the world should be held accountable and take responsibility for their failures.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18h

Ironically, about 75% of The Art of War is just stuff like “I cannot overemphasize that your army needs to eat”

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 19h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 20h

That really is the only reasonable reaction. You’re not going to miraculously change his mind and there’s no point standing there, letting him feel like he’s getting his message across.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 20h

Lots of people have terrible fathers and manage to not make their upbringing the world’s problem.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Important content.

Cynthia 🐈 @cynthia.dev · 16d

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 1d

And lots of them destroy good things that will be very expensive and slow to rebuild once they're lost. We're already settling for so much lower quality in so many aspects of our lives.

But at least those emails write themselves.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 1d

So maybe destroying career paths because you can and not thinking about the long-term repercussions might not be good after all. Imagine that.

But anyhoo, won't people who like to code just do it in their spare time?

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 1d

Not one enabler stops to think about whether any of the possible uses are good uses, and no one wants to do anything actually useful when they're making money tearing good things down.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 1d

That's a telling detail. Do senior coders arise from the sea or do you need junior coders to move into senior positions? The techbros don't care about destroying our ability to produce anything because they're stockpiling their billions. But the idiots who happily help them are something else.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 1d

And thereby create a fuckton of unnecessary and unread emails that say nothing of value. You'd thing that they'd figure out that they can automate those systems and omit the your job entirely.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 1d

And somehow the tech bro jobs are not ones that can be replaced despite being the kind of thing a reasonably well-trained golden retriever would good at.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 1d

At least you are open about how the goal is just to make everyone poorer and the world a shittier place to live in.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like he and H.P. might have a lot of similar views.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

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 · 1d

"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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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhere, someone has a portrait in their attic that is looking younger by the day.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 1d

Not the important thing, but why does Thiel look like he has had some procedure that replaced all his human skin with new skin of unknown origin that he has to keep well-basted with olive oil?

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 1d

peter thiel has gotta be the wettest of the oligarchs

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 1d

Please go through this thread if you are having a bad day. I promise you, it’s the loveliest thing I’ve seen on Bluesky for a while 🥹

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

I don't like to brag but I do think our cat Jim is probably better at stretching than virtually any other cat in Britain.

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