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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 6h

thank god we had that serious conversation about biden’s age

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 6h

( we typically do 5lb of Yukon gold )

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 6h

RAW

AS GOD INTENDED

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 6h

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 6h

we’ve done it for the last few years and we’ve run out of potatoes before candy

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 6h

i fully endorse this message

also consider offering potatoes (serious)

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 7h

how can you afford full size candy in this economy

best i can do is acorns

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 11h

Judge Sara Ellis' opinion in IL v. Trump is an absolute banger:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

The Court therefore must make a credibility assessment as to which version of the facts
should be believed. While the Court does not doubt that there have been acts of vandalism, civil
disobedience, and even assaults on federal agents, the Court cannot conclude that Defendants’
declarations are reliable. Two of Defendants’ declarations refer to arrests made on September 27,
2025 of individuals who were carrying weapons and assaulting federal agents. See Doc. 62-2 at
19; Doc. 62-4 at 5. But neither declaration discloses that federal grand juries have refused to
return an indictment against at least three of those individuals, which equates to a finding of a
lack of probable cause that any crime occurred. See United States v. Ray Collins and Jocelyne
Robledo, 25-cr-608, Doc. 26 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 7, 2025); United States v. Paul Ivery, 25-cr-609
(N.D. Ill.). In addition to demonstrating a potential lack of candor by these affiants, it also calls
into question their ability to accurately assess the facts. Similar declarations were provided by
these same individuals in Chicago Headline Club et. al. v. Noem, 25-cv-12173, Doc. 35-1, Doc.
35-9 (N.D. Ill.), a case which challenged the Constitutionality of ICE’s response to protestors at
the Broadview ICE Processing Center. In issuing its TRO against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem,
the court in that case found that the plaintiffs would likely be able to show that ICE’s actions
have violated protestors’ First Amendment right to be free from retaliation while engaged in
newsgathering, religious exercise, and protest, and Fourth Amendment rights to be free from
excessive force. Id. at Doc. 43. Although this Court was not asked to make any such finding, it
does note a troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of
appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning,

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 13h

reporting from the front lines of war-torn Portland

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 18h

This is awesome.

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, the GOP deal: Get played.

- vote for our deal, and we'll get to your stuff later (pinkie swear)
- vote for our deal with your stuff, and we'll rescission your stuff later
- And we'll blame you for the cuts that kick in in 2027.
That's hard for even the most spineless Dem to get behind.

Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

the odds of "Republicans have to nuke the filibuster for CRs" are rising by the day, simply because they are making it functionally impossible for even most of the Dems who want to fold to actually do so

not counting it out, because Democrats, but they're not offering the slightest of fig leafs

One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 17h

"We're calling it the Nobel Participation Prize."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 17h

I SAY IT AGAIN: GET IN LOSER WERE URBANIZING CALIFORNIA

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 17h

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I will say is I think that Wharton paper is mostly handwavium, and this article fundamentally mis-states what it actually says (which is also crap). But the market is definitely in a speculative bubble and a correction could be pretty bad.

Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1d

A friend sent me this article and genuinely it’s f***ing insane and I can strongly recommend reading it. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 1d

would be ironic if it turns out skynet doesn’t launch nukes it just crashes the markets

Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1d

A friend sent me this article and genuinely it’s f***ing insane and I can strongly recommend reading it. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 1d

sir is the cleveland in the room with you now?

blink twice if you need help

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 1d

and the trench coat fancies you

i think that’s the 8th thing?

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Catieosaurus @catieosaurus.bsky.social · 1d

I leave a proud legacy behind me

The Stockroom @stockroom.bsky.social · 1d

We learned the term "praise kink" from @catieosaurus.bsky.social , and it's not restricted to any one gender; no matter your partner's gender, the occasional "good job" will do wonders in bed or the dungeon.

https://f.mtr.cool/rfxzjsffkh

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 1d

obviously limiting himself to talking only about the free market and personal liberties in line with WaPo’s strict new principles

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

A columnist still at WaPo.

Headline: "Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize."

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 1d

From The New Yorker

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 1d

It's pronounced "PRY-mer" if referring to a number that is more Prime-like than another number (or object).

It's pronounced "PRIMM-er" if the number is just more formal than most.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of those 'no, duh' papers. It's no real surprise that if you ask an LLM to predict tokens after a rarely-occurring sequence, and you spike the training data with bad tokens after that rare sequence, the LLM will preferentially return the bad tokens.

The Register @theregister.com · 1d

It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic

Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. …

dlvr.it

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 1d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 1d

this is normal

normal people say these things

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rollins: "We had an amazing cabinet meeting. President Trump walked in before the cameras were there. We all stood up & gave him a two minute standing ovation. There's so much love in that room & respect & just appreciation for him. No one could do what that man is doing today. So I was so grateful"