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Anno Dominaysayer @annodominaysayer.bsky.social · 7h

“If the economics don’t work, doing it at massive scale doesn’t make the economics work any better — it just takes an industry crisis and makes it into a national economic crisis,”

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 12h

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 8h

"Releasing the Lansdowne notice at 6:15 p.m. on Friday shows just how important and concerned the Sutcliffe administration is about the vote which is believed to be very close at present."

Ken Gray (Ottawa's Bulldog Website) @kengray20.bsky.social · 8h

City Puts Out #Lansdowne Trash Late Friday bulldogottawa.com/city-puts-ou... #ottawa #ottawanews #ottpoli #ottawawatch #ottawacity

City Puts Out Lansdowne Trash Late Friday - THE BULLDOG

Announcing all the vital Lansdowne meetings in a press release late Friday afternoon is a classic case of the Sutcliffe city administration putting out the

bulldogottawa.com

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 8h

First Nation Communities across Saskatchewan are mourning the loss of Seth and Rene Constant, members of the band Constant Reminder and citizens of the James Smith Cree Nation. They were among three men killed in a collision on Thursday evening.

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James Smith Cree Nation Mourns the Passing of Beloved Musicians Seth and Rene Constant

First Nation Communities across Saskatchewan are mourning the loss of Seth and Rene Constant, members of the band Constant Reminder and citizens of the James Smith Cree Nation. They were among three m...

redpopnews.com

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Anno Dominaysayer @annodominaysayer.bsky.social · 8h

Quoting @raginpagan.bsky.social with alt text: “Found em”

A Wes Anderson-looking photo of the Von Trapp family from the movie The Sound of Music. They are all lined up in a row on a terrace in front of a lake with beautiful trees and mountains in the background. They wear colourful pink and blue traditional Austrian clothes. Large pale pink block letters at the top say ANTIFA. image credit is Perfect Vision Graphics.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 8h

The president of the United States is getting flu and COVID booster shots but telling YOU that you shouldn’t and that removing access across every state via the pharmacies.

PHYSICIAN TO THE PRESIDENT
THE WHITE HOUSE
MEMORANDUM
October 10, 2025
TO: KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
PHYSICIAN TO THE PRESIDENT
CAPTAIN, U.S. NAVY
SUBJECT: President Donald J. Trump Completes Comprehensive Follow-Up Evaluation at
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
President Donald J. Trump successfully completed a scheduled follow-up evaluation today at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The visit was part of his ongoing health maintenance plan and included advanced imaging, laboratory testing, and preventive health assessments conducted by a multidisciplinary team of specialists. These evaluations were performed in coordination with leading academic and medical consultants to ensure optimal cardiovascular health and continued wellness.
Comprehensive laboratory studies performed in conjunction with the visit were exceptional, including stable metabolic, hematologic, and cardiac parameters.
In preparation for upcoming international travel, President Trump also received preventive health screenings and immunizations, including annual influenza and updated COVID-19 booster vaccinations.
President Trump continues to demonstrate excellent overall health. His cardiac age-a validated measure of cardiovascular vitality via ECG-was found to be approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age. He continues to maintain a demanding daily schedule without restriction.
SUMMARY: President Donald J. Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, and physical performance.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 8h

Now that we’re out of the dreaded Woke Times billionaires are requesting federal troops to occupy cities they dislike for aesthetic reasons after hiring a private police force.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 1d

We can’t convince you that Mamdani is evil but maybe his mysterious and powerful wife is evil 👀

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 1d

Kidnapped in international waters, extraordinary rendition to a genocidal state, and then imprisoned indefinitely.

You'd think this would trigger the immediate expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador for these inexcusable actions against an Australian citizen.

Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 1d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

It is also remarkable how far what is essentially advertising copy has penetrated into ostensibly neutral, scholarly contextualizations even of critical studies — rote invocations of AI’s “power,” “potential,” and ubiquity, untethered to any specific sources or data, are just background noise now.

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Anno Dominaysayer @annodominaysayer.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I grew up only ever eating them at the Toronto relief sale. Dunno if they still have them now that it’s moved to Stouffville.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3d

As a disabled person it’s also a mixed blessing: you really get to witness a particularly ugly breed of ableism accelerated through social media but you also get to talk to so many disabled people around the world and learn from them

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 4d

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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Use Alt Text not A.I. @carebear2717.bsky.social · 3d

It's the new highways through Black neighborhoods: Data centers

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Anno Dominaysayer @annodominaysayer.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been saying item 1 for YEARS. But also I think cars need to be entirely de-soundproofed in general bc sirens also have to be *painfully loud* to pedestrians right now as well.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 5d

All those statements of user centrality, composable moderation, and safety for marginalized users on this platform, that’s all a bunch of bullshit, right?

They could restore Link’s account tomorrow and Jay and company would still be a bunch of transphobic, racist hypocrites.

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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraculous.net · 5d

they use moderation as a weapon against margianalized users, a fact that has been well documented. that we won't shut up and let them pretend this place is a "free speech utopia" is driving them absolutely beyond reason.

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 5d

Shell is so heavily invested in the "LNG or bust" strategy we should not expect anything resembling truth out of them on the topic.

Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 5d

This is the CEO of Shell.

"Sawan described LNG as one of the most effective tools for lowering global emissions"

This is completely detached from science and reality.

Shell positions LNG as key focus for the next decade

CEO Wael Sawan sees surging demand for liquefied natural gas as key to cutting global emissions and boosting performance. | MobilityPlaza

www.mobilityplaza.org

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 6d

This Anthropic settlement case…fellow authors, are any of you feeling rage? I have 12 books listed and money (I don’t CARE how many thousands, even millions) is NOT adequate compensation. What was stolen & used without my permission is priceless! Where is the option to scrub my work from AI?!

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 6d

Again, as I and many people have noted, the pro-"AI" fucklechucks are happy to grant personhood to a chatbot while denying personhood to trans folks and Black folks and Indigenous folks (not to mention Black trans folks etc.).

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 8d

Like "talent agents are considering representing" no they're not. They're just not. This person is just lying and no one is going to call her on it because it's a vague, unfalsifiable statement, but it falls apart if you think about it for ten seconds.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 7d

Hamas agrees to release hostages but rejects foreign governorship of Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-agrees-release-hostages-rejects-foreign-governorship-gaza

Hamas agrees to release hostages but rejects foreign governorship of Gaza

www.middleeasteye.net

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Anno Dominaysayer @annodominaysayer.bsky.social · 8d

Crotch repairs are a great place to start bc no one can see your beginner stitches!

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Chronically Rebel @chronicallyrebel.bsky.social · 8d

Israel’s attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla is piracy in plain sight, violating UNCLOS and the Geneva Convention. Blocking food and medicine is using starvation as weapon, a war crime. Volunteers must be freed and safe corridors enforced. The world must act NOW.

#SaveGaza #FreePalestine

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