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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 9h

there’s something so beautifully American about our democracy’s last line of defense being coronary artery disease

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 6h

“sounds good!” is authentic, “Sounds good!” is ai slop

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 6h

this is like when schools of journalism and public relations and film combine to be “School of New Media”

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 6h

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 13h

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 1d

Once the data is in government hands and systems of surveillance are embedded in systems of labor and beyond, your supposed protections are nothing more than flimsy surmountable barriers. One terrorist attack and “emergency powers” are claimed. We just saw it used for protests.

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 15h

Said on the local weather this morning: “It went from 80 to 55 like it saw a state trooper.”

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 16h

Bluesky is now in the big leagues!

drudgereport.com
WASHPOST opinion editor purges longtime staffers as he hires
conservatives...
BLUESKY civil war shows 'free speech' harder than it looks...
Barron Trump_ Pitched for Top TIKTOK Job...

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 16h

Concerning

@mrcharlesamos
X.com
@miriam_cates has not supported banning incest

Charles Amos
@mrcharlesamos
...
X.com
In Weatherspoon's tonight a man shouted out to me "Nonce, pervert!" Is that worse than being called a "c*nt" there? Anyway - good to know I'm spreading the libertarian message.

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 17h

they did a photo shoot and this was the best take they got

creepy man wearing a fedora and creepy grin

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

I think diverting a flight costs more than $155 in fuel costs and passenger restitution, but I’m not an expert at capitalism

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

Federal regulations mandate that passengers in the exit row must be able to understand and obey flight crew instructions. Is it possible during the course of his argument, he gave indications that he would not listen to the crew?

www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/...

14 CFR § 121.585 - Exit seating.

www.law.cornell.edu

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

I used to think this was tin foil hat stuff from the left, but then I lived in New Orleans for 16 years and learned how many "legal" ways there are to steal people's homes from them.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

this is how i found out truthsocial has DMs

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

the onion

Dispatch
Starbucks To Begin Sinister 'Phase Two' Of Operation

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

was going to say Neverending Story but no, the Starship Troopers direct-to-dvd sequels are much more pathetic

a display of covers for Starship Troopers 1-3

The subtitle for 2 is: Hero of the Federation. 3 is Marauder

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.

Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Back in federal judge Sara Ellis' courtroom in Chicago for a second day of discussion on a proposed restraining order to rein in federal immigration agents' violent behavior.

Debate began on this issue on Monday, and ended without the court entering a formal order.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 3d

@unraveledpress.com & other press have been threatened, shot with less-lethals and arrested while reporting on federal immigration activities in Chicagoland and on the resulting protests at Broadview.

I'm now at a hearing asking the federal court to rein ICE & co in. I'll let you know how it goes.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Well, yeah, we're suing ICE.

This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never.

May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

tbh i fear of incidents where sickos stalk/assault real-life people whose AI avatars they’ve had relationships with, but this sucks too

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 1d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

this place is called “Bluesky” because of the friends we make while posting on airplanes 🥹

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

The thing I liked least about THE DARK KNIGHT is the Joker’s plan getting foiled b/c the ferry full of normal citizens actually agreed not to blow up the ferry full of convicts, but maybe we aren’t so uncivilized after all

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 1d

A guy in front of me lightly clapped but it wasn’t a plane wide thing. We are all morally outraged but it’s surprisingly calm on this plane. Maybe we are all just used to the world being an insane place

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

It’s nice that consumer airline travel is so safe that it genuinely doesn’t occur to some repliers why it’s a hazard to have a non-responsive passenger in the emergency exit row

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 1d

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

Hersh came to speak at my school and I was the one who got to pick him up from the airport during a freezing rain storm. Later he said riding with me was scarier than flying over wartime Vietnam

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

so he switched seats mid-flight i assume?

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