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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 6h

Finding out that the people in charge are often petulant hypocrites is one of the most valuable things you can learn in college and will undoubtedly make these student journalists even better at their jobs.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 7h

And here's a link to a letter from the IDS editors about the firing of the student newspaper director.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 6h

“Like King, many ostensibly ‘nonviolent’ civil rights activists embraced their constitutional right to self-protection—yet this crucial dimension of the Afro-American freedom struggle has been long ignored by history.”

libcom.org/article/nonv...

read for free: files.libcom.org/files/2022-0...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

the most unsurprising thing in the world is now every rightwinger, all yhe way up to JD vance, have explicitely defended this and the statements made by those in this group. and that’s by design, every single rightwinger is now an extremist nazi

onion person @junlper.beer · 12h

these people know how extreme they are

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No-"Ahhh, A Werewolf!"-man @waldville.bsky.social · 6h

And if I do have an idea for a story or a joke or something that I think is superlative, I can work to make it myself.

Why would I want a machine to get in the way and adulterate something I already think is brilliant?

If I really want to make something exactly as I envision it, AI can't help me.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

This is a great factcheck on the DHS sizzle videos of them rounding up immigrants: they are leaving a lot of context out.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 7h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 9h

I’m only thinking about this article in the content of SCOTUS rehearing the Voting Rights Act case. This is what Republicans say in private. Republicans who are elected. Republicans who serve within their party apparatus. Republicans who work for the Trump administration & work in state government.

Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 13h

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 11h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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No-"Ahhh, A Werewolf!"-man @waldville.bsky.social · 7h

Even just for entertainment; I expect that a comedian will tell a funnier joke than I could write, that action filmmakers can stage set-pieces that I couldn't imagine, that game-makers can design and program interactions I could not articulate.

They can just do it better! That's why I watch/play!

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No-"Ahhh, A Werewolf!"-man @waldville.bsky.social · 7h

As an audience member, I don't gain anything from typing a prompt into a plagiarism machine and getting an approximation of what I want.

The point of consuming art is that it lets you experience other people's lives and experiences, and opens up new ways of interpreting our shared human condition.

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No-"Ahhh, A Werewolf!"-man @waldville.bsky.social · 7h

Regardless of whether or not AI can do this (it can't), what I find disturbing is how many people want this. Calling it masturbatory is an insult to masturbation.

I don't want art on demand. I want TV and movies that are the result of writers', directors', actors', etc. perspective and effort.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 8h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 13h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 15h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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No-"Ahhh, A Werewolf!"-man @waldville.bsky.social · 15h

Hey @meng.house.gov @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social,

While the government's shut down, what are you doing about all the fascism? And how do you plan to fortify the country against Trump's authoritarianism if the government re-opens and Democrats get back into power?

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Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social · 1d

Nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted you as the soyjak doomscroller Bob and myself as the chad organizer Sensei Sergio.

Bob Ferguson from One Battle After Another

Sensei Sergio from One Battle After Another

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No-"Ahhh, A Werewolf!"-man @waldville.bsky.social · 15h

One thing AI boosters love to say is that we need it to solve problems like climate change. This just isn't true.

We already know how to solve climate change. We already have the technology.

Unless AI is gonna get rid of a few specific people, it can't come up with solutions we don't already have.

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 1d

the degree to which i feel like i am living in the pre-title montage of a post-apocalyptic movie cannot be overstated.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

www.cnn.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21h

People who think they are good at using LLM's are little different than people who think they are good at driving while drunk, except that in the former case almost half the US economy is tied up in a cargo cult of telling them they are right.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 1d

All of the Israelis held by Hamas are called “hostages,” including the IDF soliders.

All the Palestinians released, though, are “prisoners,” including the many victims of Israel’s widespread arbitrary detention - meaning they are legally innocent, detained without charge or conviction.

Disgusting.

CBC headline reads: All living Israeli hostages freed, nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners released

Trump in Egypt for world leaders' meeting following an address to Israel's parliament

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 1d

one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social · 1d

"The MTA could save as much as $160 million a year if it could run the LIRR as efficiently as Metro-North, a Streetsblog review of federal data shows."

nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/08/m...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Updated this piece to reflect that this guy now says he has $5 million from venture capital funds to start the “The Anti-Fraud Company” which will allow Shieh to scale up his model of AI-aided harassment and apply it to the federal government.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...

How to become a right-wing star? Harass people

A Brown student used crummy AI to label university staff as worthless; now he has a Times profile and is testifying to Congress

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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No-"Ahhh, A Werewolf!"-man @waldville.bsky.social · 1d

Hey @meng.house.gov @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social,

While the government's shut down, what are you doing about all the fascism? And how do you plan to fortify the country against Trump's authoritarianism if the government re-opens and Democrats get back into power?

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

without the possibility of meaningful consequences journalism is robbed of any meaning, and descends into an exchange of empty, outdated signifiers

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

Two preventable causes of death that we have chosen to do nothing about. Two preventable causes of death with evidence-based solutions that we have chosen to ignore.

OPB @opb.org · 2d

Researchers discovered that since 2017, firearms have surpassed motor vehicle collisions as the leading cause of mortality for youth ages 11-18, spiking from 1,945 deaths in 2001 to 3,224 in 2022.

Gun deaths among high schoolers on the rise, WSU study finds

The researchers found that, nationwide, high schoolers ages 14 to 18 are at an exceptionally elevated risk for gun-inflicted injury and death compared to children in other age groups in both rural and urban settings.

www.opb.org

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