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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 5h

I’m teaching abt Red Summer today, when white vigilantes & National Guardsmen across the country harassed, detained, assaulted, & murdered Black Americans as part of a backlash against Black military service in WWI.

Red Summer of 1919

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3h

peter thiel (clutching chrome plated human skull) tell me oracle... does the world end in fire, or ice? the passionate flames of the activist thunberg, or the frozen doom yudkowski demands?

chatGPT: ✨ What a great question, Peter! ✨

Let's break that tough Q down 🕺, in your favorite epic style:

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 3h

The thing about this that's worth recalling is that it *wouldn't* even offend most Americans: just the group of reactionary grifters who make money by being professionally offended online.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 7h

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20h

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3h

He may not have ethics but ain’t nothing wrong with his eyesight

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 2h

"The flip of Silicon Valley tycoons into fetid, frothing pro-Trump voices was sudden enough to cause whiplash. And it raised a host of questions: Why? What happened? And how had Americans missed this stunning shift?"
www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...

Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn

A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.

www.thebulwark.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

“Another former OpenAI employee who also was not authorized to speak publicly argued that releasing a deepfake AI social media platform was the right business decision, even if it contributes to the collapse of everyone's shared sense of reality.” 💀

Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet

OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?

www.npr.org

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Peter H @henderburn.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, this is it. People want to catch him in some sort of hypocrisy but we need to understand the police as an independent power center that is always on the side of fascist crackdowns.

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illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 4h

It’s easy to call out Pritzker on this but something darker may be happening here. I’m not sure if he is secretly helping Trump behind the scenes. I think he’s terrified to test whether state police would obey him at all if he used them against the feds

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

Several Illinois state troopers out here now with pepper ball launchers of their own.

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 4h

slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Cars are still bad @jondoesnotexist.bsky.social · 4h

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 7h

I dunno, man... I dunno. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 3h

We continue to be hostages to the most illiterate men on the planet

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

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No Mods, No Masters @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 4h

This is basically like if they gave the Nobel to Ahmed Chalabi

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4h

And @microsoft.com's MSN bows to religious fascism, whitewashing content from outlets like Christian Post that portray LGBTQ+ people as violent, controlling and focused on converting children.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 4h

lolll Michael Lombardi is an idiot www.nytimes.com/athletic/670...

Bill Belichick pledged an NFL approach at North Carolina. Program insiders call it flawed

Inside the decisions that have led to North Carolina's on-field dysfunction.

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

The "somebody showed me a TikTok" era of American government is going pretty much exactly how you'd expect.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

Why aren’t more women using the deepfake site? 🤔

Sora 2 is drawing a huge crowd of teenage boys. This doesn't bode well — trust me.

Sora 2 seems to encourage people to make fun of each other. It's also attracting a lot of teenage boys. This could be a nightmare for Sam Altman.

www.businessinsider.com

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 1d

I uttered “what the actual fuck” after nearly every paragraph of this insanity www.dailynews.com/2024/09/28/l...

LAPD officer lost rifle to MRI device during bungled raid, lawsuit alleges

Van Nuys medical imaging company alleges its constitutional rights were violated by officers who mistargeted the business for an illegal pot operation.

www.dailynews.com

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 21h

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 21h

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 6h

There is a style of management which does this, almost entirely defined by its lack of sufficient theory of mind to understand how other people would react to this.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 6h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23h

Why is this front-page news? The Washington Post doesn't say. It's a turning point in US history but our pathetic journalist class hides the relevance behind suggestion and implication, afraid to say things that everyone knows. Useless

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