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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 5h

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Jake, Subject Matter Expert @thewoodlandman.bsky.social · 4h

youtube going out of their way to ruin their UI and break the extensions that make their awful website usable

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outsidewolves @outsidewolves.bsky.social · 5h

A four panel comic strip. An anthropomorphic wolf man runs into an office where three others are working at their desks. He says, "The fire marshal is coming for annual inspections!" In the next panel, a seated wolf is playing with a remote control airplane, and a smoke detector with an open battery compartment is mounted on the wall above him. The first wolf says "Put that 9 volt back in the smoke detector!" In the third panel, an anthropomorphic dog holds a power strip while standing next to a sculpture comprised of multiple power strips. The first wolf says "Hide your..."Daisy Chain Power Strip" sculpture!?" In the fourth panel, a bear proudly displays his t-shirt which reads "I love storing combustibles around radiators." The first wolf, in exasperation, yells "CHANGE YOUR SHIRT!"

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5h

i think one very clear lesson of 2024 is necessity of having media infrastructure to reach public. right now legacy media is either passively or actively complicit and social media increasingly owned by allies of administration

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 10h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

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Cathy Reisenwitz @cathyreisenwitz.com · 14h

Guys, I'm starting to suspect conservatives weren't worried about ideological indoctrination in public schools, so much as the kind they don't like

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dferrer.bsky.social @dferrer.bsky.social · 9h

We had an outage because Qwen 2.5 refused to do anything for a prompt that was modified to add a table of markets with Taiwan and China as separate countries. Wouldn’t do the SA task without a disclaimer that Taiwan is an integral part of China added. Not a sex thing but censorship is insidious

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Trev @videomonger.bsky.social · 5h

Reviewbrah, exhausted, stares at the camera. In his hand, a taco. "Everything Keeps Getting Worse" the title says.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 8h

Had an affair with her source and all she got was a book deal, a cushy Vanity Fair editing gig and a year off. Real tough to be “exiled” these days

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 8h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 8h

@grayathena.bsky.social said it better

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Jake, Subject Matter Expert @thewoodlandman.bsky.social · 8h

normalizing fascist interference now for posting

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Jake, Subject Matter Expert @thewoodlandman.bsky.social · 8h

based based based

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Shawn Robare @shawnrobare.com · 9h

I mean, I have the whole team, and even a signed Mark Linn-Baker All Star card!

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Shawn Robare @shawnrobare.com · 9h

But do you have a gem mint Bronson Pinchot rookie card?

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 15h

Actual safety notice from my alma mater:

Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses being used exactly as everyone expected

The techbros are not okay (it’s a completely open campus…not all the buildings, obviously)

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Office of Public Safety

Crime Safety Advisory:
Suspicious Occurrence Reported

Dear USF Community,

We want to make you aware of recent reports of a suspicious occurrence on and around campus. Multiple community members have reported contact from an individual, described as male and wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses, who has approached women with unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions. Reports indicate that this individual may be attempting to post these interactions online under the account name "pickuplines.pov" on TikTok, Instagram, and possibly other social media platforms.

While no threats or acts of violence have been reported, we want our community to stay informed and take steps to support one another.
If you encounter this individual or any suspicious activity:

Take immediate action to report the incident at the time it occurs by calling Public Safety Dispatch.
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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 10h

"can you tell the difference between a meaningful and serendipitous moment in the real world and the howl of 1000s of gpus trying to optimize for you lingering on your phone for 0.5s longer?"

"can you?"

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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 10h

After waiting for an hour and a half for her son to be released to her, the boy’s mother was told he was instead transferred to an ICE facility in another state.

13-year-old boy arrested by ICE in Massachusetts and transferred over 500 miles from family

After waiting for an hour and a half for her son to be released to her, the boy’s mother was told he was instead transferred to an ICE facility in another state.

reason.pub

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Candy Corn Woman 🌽 @womancorn.bsky.social · 11h

I think it's good that they're setting their sights on something they are likely to actually achieve

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12h

recurring gripe of mine: stop talking about these people like they’re fucking supervillains, Palmer Luckey is grifter bullshit artist who is going to steal a lot of public money in exchange for buggy vaporware, he’s not Lex Luthor. they get off when breathlessl hyperventilating about them like this.

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Merchant of Death, billionaire Palmer Luckey, rebranded the DOD the Department of War.

Peter Thiel/Palantir gave his company, Andruil, a billion dollars in January.

This is Palmer “I love killer robots” Luckey.

Origin story on rename below, as well as him hanging out with the worst people.

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Jake, Subject Matter Expert @thewoodlandman.bsky.social · 11h

Patton def not "anti fascist" in many ways

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

ICE IS DISAPPEARING PEOPLE TO WORK CAMPS

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Jake, Subject Matter Expert @thewoodlandman.bsky.social · 12h

Swiftoids are basically the modern KISS Army

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 14h

Frying brains online

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

if newsmax can refuse to sign a loyalty pledge to pete hegseth then the nations colleges and universities can refuse to sign a binding settlement requiring them to do DEI for nazis and hasbarists

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

Solidarity is the only way

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