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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 7h

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 15h

Despite all of Susan Collins’s **concerns**, Russ Vought, who she voted to confirm, still went ahead and fired a boatload of hard-working Americans.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

SUSAN COLLINS, Wednesday: "I've made very clear that I do not believe there should be firings of furloughed workers."

RUSS VOUGHT, Friday: "The RIFs have begun."

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 17h

"Why aren't the Free Palestine people cheering about the ceasefire?"

If you saw a man beating a child into a coma, would you cheer after the beating stopped? No, your first reaction would be horror at what happened and your second would be fear that he'll attack the kid again.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 13h

Good time to be watching The Decameron. My timing is impeccable.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 14h

Without the MMWR we’ll be dying & not know why, who, how many, or where to direct resources. A dark age. WTF.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 20h

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 19h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 17h

It’s no wonder people stop scrolling at google’s AI answers. I just went to 5 commercial sites on my phone looking for answers and the ads made scrolling so impossible I gave up. When the internet sucks ass, you look for alternatives.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 1d

How dare you call us fascist! Your family must pay!

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 2d

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 · 2d

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.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 1d

Milkshake Frog > Milkshake Duck

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.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 1d

Reviewing job applications. Way more people applying from TX & FL than in the last 10 years combined.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, possibly, but bunkers & LLM’s seem more like they’re both consistent with escaping consequences.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 1d

Thiel has upped the ante from weird to unhinged. If Trump kicks it before 2028, this man's protege steps into the oval office & we're a giant step closer to an apocalyptic techno-theocracy that I don't think has ever happened before and I don't like it.

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.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 1d

7. Being both creative and accurate. The "temperature" control can *either* generate the most probable (least creative) next word, OR a less probable, and more unexpected but also likely less accurate next word. It can't be both unpredictable and accurate. Only expert humans can do that.

SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 1d

6. Compassion: It will only tell you what is linguistically probable, given your prompts. It has already killed people with probable responses to their most self-destructive impulses. Probability is a dangerous stand-in for compassionate care.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 1d

5. Know by experience: It has no sensory data: no scent of a rose, no being out of breath with laughter, no aching back, no proprioception of a perfect layup, no psychic pain of betrayal. Art is a reaction to all these things AND one's knowledge of (and skill with) past art & technique.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 1d

4. Understand value and significance: Again, because the LLM data is unstructured, there's no difference to GenAI between words by James Baldwin and words by some basement blogger. Humans aren't universally better at distinguishing, but we can learn. GenAI can't, structurally.

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