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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine that

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Rayne Grimm ➡️Furpocalypse @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 1d

The only explicit purpose of all Gen ai is to steal labor/deny wages

Thats it in its entirety. They don't want to pay for someone to write, draw, voice act etc

(worse still in the cases of falsification of a person they also want a puppet that can't say no)

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 17h

Finnish #intelligence #history keeps having wild plot twists.

A retired Finnish spy-catcher with probably a world record in catching Soviet “illegals” (“at least” 25) got the largest lottery jackpot in Europe - and used the millions to do and help counterintelligence.

www.hs.fi/tutkiva/art-...

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 14h

“The absurdity of adults dancing in inflatable costumes during anti-ICE demonstrations is meant to display community joy, protesters say, and helps to dispel the Trump administration’s narrative that Portland is a crime-ridden “war zone,” a characterization local and state leaders say is false.”

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 15h

"risks trapping them in fossil dependence just as renewables become cheaper and more reliable.

Exporters know this. That is why US developers are racing to tie (largely Asian) buyers into 20-plus-year contracts."

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17h

V good @matsmarquardt.bsky.social @newclimate.bsky.social piece here - detailing exactly how American fossil fuel suppliers are fighting like mad demons to fabricate demand for their deadly products

newclimate.org/news/the-gas...

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 16h

Why should this self-proclaimed christian fear the afterlife?

tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 16h

I may or may not have seen him personally tweaking the algorithm in real time - who knows - but trolls and bots and nazis and all things considere, far too many bad actors...

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Gannet Seas @gannetseas.bsky.social · Jul 25

Yes, and instead of the unattributed cropped video, link to the original WFFT video, which bears the organization’s logo, and give full attribution?

Rescued tiger floats in lake with favourite toy

YouTube video by Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand

www.youtube.com

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tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 16h

Ukraine ➡️ Kursk I watched ladybot swarms spam the "latest news" feed with malware war videos... reposting turn impossible as the app insisted I post something else instead etc... until libsoftiktok complained to Musk himself and things were back to "normal"...
Real time stuff like that...
Unuseable

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tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 16h

My last months on Xtwitter were mostly me blocking ladybot swarms and watching post views go to zero in spite of climbing follower counts. The algorithm is visibly, aggressively and extremely anti-left and pro-troll. A waste of time for most of us.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 19h

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 17h

This is really interesting. Because Putin is not communicating a theory of victory, the war is becoming seen in Russia by some as one which cannot be won. Because, of course, it can't be won without doing things Putin cannot or will not do.

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 17h

11/ "The current design of the Special Military Operation doesn't imply a final end point, such as "defeat Ukraine entirely," or "take Kyiv, or Odesa and Kharkiv." The Special Military Operation will continue until the command declares it over.

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tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 17h

No shortage of actual bad guys to base your fictional bad guys on...

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tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 17h

"... ; that is, "Missing, presumed drowned, while on a cruise aboard his luxury yacht," as stated by M at the end of the film.[18] However, Spottiswoode himself said in a 2004 interview that "Carver is Rupert Murdoch"."

tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 17h

Wikipedia: "While many reviewers compared Elliot Carver to Rupert Murdoch, Feirstein based the character on Robert Maxwell, with Carver's reported death bearing similarities to that of Maxwell's..."

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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 1d

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff's lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?

Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco -- stunning his own PR team | TechCrunch

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff's lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?

techcrunch.com

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Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 1d

Fuck the New York Post

The New York Post: The Portland anti-ICE protester seen wearing an inflatable frog suit has claimed to be harmlessly protesting "with humor.”

But now, a new report has revealed that the person under the costume is a self-described "proud ANTIFA terrorist."

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 19h

the next hacker rebellion will come from ... the AI boyfriend crowd mstdn.social/@vaurora/115...

Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 (@[email protected])

Every couple of weeks, I read r/MyBoyfriendIsAI because I am very interested in how people who are different from me think. Over the last few months, something interesting has happened: r/MyBoyfriend...

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 20h

Hello again, welcome to the weekend and another daily🧵

It's Day 1326 of Ukraine's fight for existence and I've still never missed a day.
That takes time, commitment and money. So, if you've not bought me a coffee before, maybe today please? Thank you.

ko-fi.com/twmcltd

Support TWMCLtd

ko-fi.com

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NoINGSOC @noingsoc.bsky.social · 1d

hawkandhare.bsky.social @hawkandhare.bsky.social · 1d

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