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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · Feb 26

I have come to accept a simpler and more general argument against billionaires: by their very nature they impose centralized planning over economy they infest, becoming de-facto communist planners, and thus impose upon their habitat all the pathologies that rise from impossibility of planned econ

Boo Jank @billjank.bsky.social · Feb 25

It may be finally sinking in that a world of radical wealth inequality is unstable, actually.

There should be reward for good work, yes. There should not be outsize reward for being born rich.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 10m

Due to the very sensitive nature of the subject and for child safeguarding reasons I cannot name the MP or anyone else in the story.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 1h

"Laura found an NHS Dr in Brighton who helped support her daughter for 6 months.

Laura described it as ‘six months of support bliss’ before NHS ICB Sussex (Integrated Care Board) began investigating them."

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

MP fails to support suicidal constituent

A mother pleaded with her MP to help her suicidal15-year-old daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’

northwestbylines.co.uk

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Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 4h

The Framework forums thread got insanely unwieldy, so I wrote up a (somewhat shorter) summary post of the situation

crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...

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sleepy or on a train 🚄 @urbanist318.bsky.social · 1h

After much consideration, I have joined the Greens! I was skeptical at first, especially with the promise of Your Party but the subsequent chaos before founding and the results Zack Polanski and his team have been delivering have shown me that Green is the way forward! 💚

A message from the green party sent to new members after joining.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 9h

As a straight young white man who covers Christian nationalism, I would perhaps have asked Doug Wilson some follow ups on this if it were running it in the NYT as part of his 10K-word defense of Christian nationalism.

For example:

“That really happen?”
“You sure about that??”
“But did it tho?????”

Wilson: No, I grant the point in principle. I don't believe that classical liberalism gets everything wrong. I really don't believe that.
And I enjoyed very much the country I grew up in, and I received many benefits from that era. So that point's granted.

But on the dank right, I believe that the liberal treatment of young white males has been one of the causes for this recoil and eruption. What you had was a toxic combination of a bad economy of young men being told repeatedly that they are the cancer of the planet, that their masculinity is toxic, that their skin is the blight of the world, and their heterosexuality is a hate crime.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 8h

Says the guy with a mullet; wearing a cowboy hat; and sun, wind, and dust goggles.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 21h

And from a pure privacy perspective, the problem there is that once you’ve demanded every encrypted app add a scanning component, then changing what you scan for is just a software update to be agreed upon quietly in some committee down the line.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 21h

So what worries me come December is that we see a bunch of “moderated” proposals that preserve this central architectural change, but just use it for slightly less. That’s not going to save anyone.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 21h

The problem with this idea is that most “moderated” versions don’t solve the central problem: you’re changing private, encrypted messengers to have a component that scans the plaintext of the message. This is what potential makes your messages vulnerable to theft.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 21h

Germany has agreed to stop ChatControl for now, due to huge amounts of public pressure. Good job! The bad news is that it could come back as soon as December, and the German government has interpreted the feedback as a need to “moderate” the proposal.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 17h

Blown away by how good an idea the costumes are. More shareable and fun than pics of a regular protest, and it’s immediately clear that the protestors are non-violent.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 8h

With strategists like this you don't need enemas

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12h

With Larry Ellison in control of TikTok, we now have right-wingers or looney far-right wingers in control of most of the major social media platforms.

Right-Wing Moguls Dominate Social Media. One Legal Fix Can Help Stem the Tide.

Revising Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act would make outlets more accountable for the content they platform.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 8h

Most people can't imagine police brutalizing them because they have extremely few interactions with the police in their life. But many people have dogs, love their dogs and know that dogs act like dogs when they encounter a stranger.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 8h

It’s wild the agents who have videographers following them never seem to have footage of what they claim those they are arresting did

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 8h

I forgive everything I complained about this show.

Orange @cg-orange-eng.bsky.social · 12h

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　Character Visual Revealed 🌪
　　　Milly Thompson
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VA: #ChikaAyamori

🔸 Watch the special teaser here:
youtu.be/1pr_uEqKJ74

#TRIGUNSTARGAZE
#TRIGUN #トライガン

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 9h

reminder this is not based on annie jacobsen's awful book, that one is still yet to come as the toughest test yet of Villeneuve's turd polishing skills

NPR @npr.org · 15h

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

n.pr

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 18h

Yud was literally Thiel-sponsored for like a decade before Thiel decided he was afraid of him. Made Thiel a bunch of money by connecting him with the right people in AI, too. No gratitude

George Pearkes @peark.es · 18h

I couldn't believe this but it's true, Thiel can't decide whether the antichrist is Greta or Big Yud. Positively reeling.

(Washington Post) -- Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are "legionnaires of the Antichrist" in private lectures on Christianity that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future, according to recordings reviewed by The Washington Post.
In the four, roughly two-hour lectures, which began last month and culminated Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Thiel laid out his religious views to a sold-out audience told to keep the contents "off-the-record," according to an event listing. He argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings.
"In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science," Thiel said in his Sept. 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. "In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It's someone like Greta or Eliezer," he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry's approach to AI.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 20h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 11h

Hot new item. Flying off the shelves.

Silence 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @b-dogood.bsky.social · 13h

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 10h

My kind of establishment.

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 10h

Trump being convinced to nuke Juarez by his loli chatbot named Ivanka

Krieger from the show Archer loving his digital waifu.

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 10h

Lethal

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 10h

gnu cowutils

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 13h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 20d

I need you to understand I have not designed a shitpost character this fast in my life

A large armored, four armed man holding a mace and a halberd, wearing a dome helmet with a terrifying grimace on it.
Titled "The Grimacing fool"

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 10h

SCP Task Force converging on this thing's location

HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 10h

Gonna need an American to explain this.

Black hole of processed sugar on a grill. “This is an all American delicious desert.” Looks like dog shit.

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