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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

But the real confirmation this video is AI comes from Saad Abedine, a news editor at Al Jazeera English.

Abedine says Al Jazeera has "never had these chairs, this set or this anchor." He says he's been at Al Jazeera for 11 years and never seen a rat.

Saad Abedine: Reality (below) versus Cheesy AI 🤣

#AlJazeera never had these chairs, this set or this anchor

But we've only ever had kittens born under the desk in addition to the dozens born outside the newsroom that can walk across the set

I have been here for 11 years and can confirm that we have never seen a rat 🐀

We have enough cats. Trust me. I know. I am
Hyper allergic to them
feline. I almost died in Baghdad because of a a kitty

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

This video is AI.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h

A rat ran across the table at Al Jazeera during a broadcast 🐀 😬

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h

Someone made a lot of money through insider trading. On the international betting site Polymarket, the eventual winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Maria Corina Machado went from rank outsider to 70% favourite in the early hours of Friday before the award was announced.

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Brett Holman @airminded.org · 2h

But even after pointing out that almost all of the ghost planes/rockets/subs were phantoms, it seems that it's still impossible to even question whether any of today's ghost drones are real or not. At least Bob gets the last word

The drone sightings of 2025 cannot be said to a figment of anyone's imagination but Bartholomew said they were being experienced amid a "perfect storm of geopolitical tensions stoked by Russian aggression and anxieties over the unpredictability of longtime Nato ally the United States under Donald Trump"
"Suddenly, many European countries like Denmark are feeling more vulnerable than they have in recent memory," he said.
"Within this atmosphere, what we are seeing is a collective anxiety attack where the sky has become a social barometer of the times, driven by the fallibility of human perception and fear.

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Brett Holman @airminded.org · 2h

A good article on the psychological aspects of the current European drone scare, which brings in the (Scandinavian) 1930s ghost planes, 1940s ghost rockets, and 1980s ghost subs (thanks to an interview with Robert Bartholomew, who was an inspiration for my own mystery aircraft research)

‘A collective anxiety attack’: the psychology of unexplained drone sightings across Europe

Incursions have so far caused few physical effects but experts say such incidents can leave people feeling more vulnerable

www.theguardian.com

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Nov 15

RFK Jr. isn’t being hired to promote health. Remember Steve Bannon’s pronouncement in February 2017 when he declared his objective was the “deconstruction of the administrative state” and people scratched their heads wondering what he meant? Trump’s entire cabinet is full of Bannon’s wrecking balls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 14

Reminder that Trump campaigned on letting RFK Jr do whatever he wants, including "health for women." We voted for this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 5

Trump on RFK Jr: "He's gonna do pretty much what he wants as far as I'm concerned. He wants health for women."

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 1d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 11h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 11h

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

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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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 9h

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

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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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 8h

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

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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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10h

And Slack

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martin_fff @martinfff.bsky.social · 9h

shade

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 10h

I’m trying to think of the funniest possible thing we can throw at him when he’s in town (which isn’t often as he’s basically a tourist now) — eggs are reserved for Andreessen

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 10h

I’m trying to think of the funniest possible thing we can throw at him when he’s in town (which isn’t often as he’s basically a tourist now) — eggs are reserved for Andreessen

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 11h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 11h

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 12h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 11h

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 11h

Recalibrating the ratio of Sales to Force, apparently

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 13h

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 11h

Waiting to see if people can ditch salesforce as fast as they ditched Disney+.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 11h

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

New England can only dream of California’s bold “eat my ass and hair” approach to rich sociopaths trying to keep people off the state’s 100% public beaches.

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 1d

HAHAHAHAHAHA get fucked you rich asshole

Carlsbad homeowner ordered to remove private gate to public beach, fined $1.4 million

John Levy was penalized by state Coastal Commission for a string of Coastal Act violations stretching back years

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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