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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

amazing he zoomed in on the good bit and posted it saying "see how bad this is"

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d

the thing is that is a gem; sorry you're not able to see how good that extract is

Brett Buttliere @brettbuttliere.bsky.social · 1d

gems

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Max Chafkin @chafkin.bsky.social · 1d

Reviewed @jacobsilverman.com’s Gilded Rage for @bloomberg.com. A smart, thorough look at the radicalization of silicon valley. Gift link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What Really Drove Silicon Valley’s Shift to the Right

In Gilded Rage, journalist Jacob Silverman argues that a decade of free cash turned tech’s utopians into power brokers and made Trump their unlikely ally.

www.bloomberg.com

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jotief.bsky.social @jotief.bsky.social · 1d

"Overheid creëert pinata's voor hackers" is zowat de trend van het jaar.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

any product that depends on the long term stability of its maker is inherently defective

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

They brick you because they can.

Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15

Logitech’s interest in the smart home has appeared to wane in recent years.

arstechnica.com

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3d

CC: @nicollewallace.bsky.social
This Rutgers professor and his wife, also a Rutgers prof, have been forced out of their home and classrooms by TPUSA. The story deserves greater attention.

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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe European businesses need good use cases first.

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

European businesses barely use AI. Brussels wants to fix that.

Commission to warn Europe’s slow embrace of artificial intelligence risks squandering economic growth.

www.politico.eu

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 5d

love to pollute a city and use up its water supply so that people can be horny online

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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 5d

The Broadview Police Department opened a criminal investigation against ICE for its attacks on civilians, including striking people with their cars, according to CBS news.

Village of Broadview opens criminal investigations into ICE actions at suburban facility

YouTube video by CBS Chicago

www.youtube.com

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 5d

Robot personhood/rights is conceptually bogus and legally puts more power/rights in the hands of those that develop and deploy robots/AI systems

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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Jillian Horton @jillianhortonmd.bsky.social · 6d

This is kind of response under the guise of "failure of professionalism" or "lack of collegiality" has deep roots in medicine. Not aligned with protecting the public.

Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 8d

During Covid, when @gorskon.bsky.social & I coauthored a piece for @bmj.com on the links between right-wing climate denialist billionaires, anti-vaxxers, & the Great Barrington Declaration, some physicians felt it was "uncollegial" to be critical of the GBD

Now the GBD are Trump & RFK Jr's lackeys😔

Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 8d

Not being a physician, what I see is a toxic push for collegiality among medical professionals that has people not calling out bad actors, or as here, going out of the way to praise them, hoping they’ll reform and fly straight, when what they needed was to be called out and disempowered.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

i think anyone taught by ilan wurman ought to ask the university of minnesota law school for their money back

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 6d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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wednesday @mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social · 6d

all social media admins are lowtax

Scott Free Link ACAB Black Lives Matter Menor 🍉 PhD @smenor.com · 6d

All I can think is how a couple years ago these people claimed to care so much about the sanctity of「 free speech 」they didn't want to prevent people from using the n- or r- word in usernames and they didn't want to implement blocking or moderation but say something unflattering about 'em and *snap*

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Ada @adamakes.games · 6d

We've gotta start filing these AI doomers as conspiracists, on about the same level as climate deniers and antivax because what is this cope.

"No, we *have* to destroy the planet sooner because it might enslave us"

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 6d

Let’s fucking go we better respect the robots before “they use us“

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 6d

yeah. remember the call for robot rights is coming from turbo race scientists.

Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 6d

When people talk about human rights for computers or chimpanzees, I wish they would work harder at human rights for humans

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jotief.bsky.social @jotief.bsky.social · 6d

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Richard J. Evans · Short Cuts: Rewritten History

www.lrb.co.uk

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 7d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 7d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

www.reuters.com

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 7d

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.independent.co.uk

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7d

they’re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. they’re not super subtle about what this government is

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7d

i love that the average republican is a conspiracy theorist now

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 7d

"just upload a scanned image of your drivers license no big deal"

The Verge @theverge.com · 7d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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