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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Dave The Artist @coloradofaux.bsky.social · 1d

🧐… Checks out… 👇

Fun fact:
Every government shutdown in the last 30 years occurred when Republicans had control of the House of
Representatives.
—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 1d

A sad skill we all need to acquire. You have to learn to recognize the videos that are too sharp and too blurry at the same time, to see the shifting edges and blurred transitions.

If for no other reason, you'll need it to help protect your aging parents.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Between Posobiec denouncing Weimar-era antifa and this, it's become permissible to admit to seriously horrible beliefs.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 3d

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

The traffic out of DC last night was staggering. I typically remember shutdowns being low traffic, but I wonder if a lot of federal workers were leaving the city to visit family knowing that the shutdown will last at least til mid next week.

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 1d

The confusing and vague nature of South Africa's reformed Cannabis laws is producing increased concern, namely that much of the product being produced is not being properly vetted for safe consumption.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/south-a...

South Africa’s Complex New Marijuana Laws Produce, Hope, Fear and Confusion - UNICORN RIOT

The unclear nature of South Africa's new marijuana laws is creating confusion and operational hazards amongst a fast growing grey market.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 23h

Have they really shut down the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report? What absolute lunacy. They're all eugenicists for sure, but I thought their breed was for targeted mortality, not mass scattershot mortality.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23h

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**

reason.com/2025/10/10/t...

Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme

Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.

reason.com

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 23h

Things I have learned about how to spot AI content:
-Sora slaps a watermark on the video that is sometimes blurred out with a bar--it's pretty noticeable
-Visual noise that wobbles
-The usual sort of funky extra arms, not enough fingers
-Things clip or disappear at random
-Bad renderings of faces

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 23h

For example:

showtoolsai on Instagram: "How to spot AI videos - animals on trampolines #bunnies #dog #bear #bunny #ai Bunnies, bears, raccoons, dogs, cats, and kangaroos a…"

How to spot AI videos - animals on trampolines #bunnies #dog #bear #bunny #ai Bunnies, bears, raccoons, dogs, cats, and kangaroos are having a “security camera” moment in the AI video world. Why is this and how do you spot the AI ones versus the real ones? There are plenty of ways!Smoothness, noise, dynamic range, object permanence, clocks, movement - there are lots of ways and it just depends on what works for you.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 23h

There are a number of accounts on Tiktok and IG that do extremely important work walking viewers through AI-generated slop videos like this and help them think critically about what they are seeing, how to spot it, etc. It’s a new era of critical media literacy instruction and I am happy to see it

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
• Contains: Bad Boys (The...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22h

See below for the incredible way Meta’s AI tool describes this video.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 22h

Everyday we must remind people that these gestapo agents are committing atrocities. This is an ethnic cleansing. These are crimes against humanity. And they will be held responsible.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 22h

Andy Ngos posts and picture combos always sound so deranged. It really is an art.

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h

A trend I’ve noticed after having watched too many of these despicable ICE arrest videos is when bystanders demand they let detainee go, an officer suggests they’re being picked up for a serious crime to try and deter help. But we know that’s not true of a vast majority of people and the jig is up.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 21h

“Six people dead in shootings during two separate Mississippi homecoming gatherings ***
Four people were killed and 16 injured in an attack in Leland, while two were killed in a shooting in Heidelberg” 10/11/25 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Six people dead in shootings during two separate Mississippi homecoming gatherings

Four people were killed and 16 injured in an attack in Leland, while two were killed in a shooting in Heidelberg

www.theguardian.com

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 21h

You know what? Their lives DO depend on it, and that’s the beauty of the classroom, of art and literature and poetry. Been ruminating on this recently: the fascist project wants us to buy into the grey, uniform culture it forces us to regard; to revel in and study art, to *make it*—revolutionary

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 2d

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 21h

I’d invite German newspaper readers to reflect on the number of articles you’re seeing atm about a researcher on anti-fascism having to flee the US (I found 2) compared to the time a student thought the bánh mì was inauthentic.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20h

Manly men brutalize, terrorize a teen girl

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 22h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Link | Subreddit

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 20h

Reliably smart analysis from Forrest.

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 20h

‘Markets are less convinced, both of Milei’s performance and of Bessent’s commitment to the bailout. Some are betting the money takes time; and/or that not all of it arrives; and/or that it gets held up, shut down, or blocked by Congress.’

Forrest Hylton on Argentina: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Forrest Hylton | Across the Rio de la Plata

At sunset on a clear day you can see thirty miles across the Rio de la Plata from Colonia de Sacramento to the...

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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 20h

So nice for President Trump that he can see the doctor on the country’s dime - while keeping the government shut down instead of fixing the health care crisis that will DOUBLE insurance costs for millions of working families.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described the visit earlier this week as a “routine yearly checkup,” although President Trump had his annual physical in April. https://to.pbs.org/4haOuOG

Trump will undergo a 'semiannual physical' by doctors

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described the visit earlier this week as a “routine yearly checkup,” although the Republican president had his annual physical in April.

www.pbs.org

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19h

Join us for ICE watch virtual training, 10/13 at 5pm CT: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Community Defense and ICE Watch 10/13. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

zoom.us

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