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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 13h

Dems *really* need to embrace anti-corruption

Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 13h

Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections.
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...

FBI Ousts Leader as Patel Fumes Over Attention to Agency Jet Use

The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Kash Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician ...

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Mardoch @mardoch.bsky.social · 11h

personally i'll eat it all, but i appreciate this position on the merits all the same

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Ash Parrish @adashtra.bsky.social · 14h

Yes! Its called Relooted made by @nyamakop.co.za and it's about repatriating stolen African artifacts to their home countries.

Adelaide Jewel 🏳️‍🌈 @adelaidejewel.bsky.social · 14h

Is someone out there already making a video game about this?

Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 1d

It took just 8 minutes for thieves to steal the Napoleonic-era crown jewels from the Louvre. There weren't enough cameras and the ones there were there were facing the wrong way.

Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
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www.bbc.com/news/art...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13h

The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

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Taka Hanazawa's Restaurant Masacree 🦃 @takahanazawa.bsky.social · Jul 29

A riff on the famous Mike Primavera (@primawesome) tweet about shelter cats and coyotes, with substitutions in brackets

My neighbor told me [Republicans] keep eating his [vulnerable minority groups] so I asked how many [minorities] he has and he said he just [Votes Blue, No Matter Who] and gets a new [minority] afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding [vulnerable minorities] to Republicans and then his daughter started crying.

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Mardoch @mardoch.bsky.social · 11h

not sure i've ever seen a more relatable youngin

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 11h

Watching as a guy like Nick Fuentes has built himself into a major force for right-wing politics has been wild. I wonder if TIME hadn't interviewed him years ago after the Unite the Right rally, boosting his profile, if he'd still have become famous.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12h

America has no idea what's about to hit them. "Young Republicans" are fully steeped in neo-Nazi edge lord talking points. Fuentes is the present and future of the GOP. After Trump, this is the new form of MAGA. The establishment isn't built for this fight.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling

The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mardoch @mardoch.bsky.social · 11h

that's a sick rendition of it, too

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 11h

I maintain that there has never been another piece of video game music with Vibes like the Tristram theme
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Pe...

Diablo: Tristram Village (Seven/Twelve Strings Guitar)

YouTube video by Guitars & Dragons

www.youtube.com

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 19h

Turns out the sweetheart deal that Trump's former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta gave Epstein back in 2008 was even worse than we thought. Epstein's emails show Acosta tanked an investigation that had Epstein dead to rights on money laundering, and other financial crimes.

Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 sex crimes probe, according to emails obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Jeffrey Epstein Went to War Over Money Laundering Probe in 2007 Sex Case

Federal prosecutors opened a financial-crimes investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 amid their larger sex-trafficking probe. The financier and his legal team waged a war against them, his emails ...

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jess @jess.red · 1d

literally in the last fifteen years we have gone from "yeah you can just copy someone's Facebook cookie from being on the same wifi" to "end to end encryption that's resilient against all but a small number of very determined nation-states is table stakes"

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 1d

Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky: *burns all trust with users*

Also Bluesky: trust us to filter your replies, fr fr

Bluesky @bsky.app · 1d

Threads on Bluesky should feel more like conversations you’d have IRL.

We’re testing new systems to improve reply quality. See what’s coming: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Progress Update: Building Healthier Social Media - Bluesky

Over the next few months, we’ll be iterating on the systems that make Bluesky a better place for healthy conversations. Some experiments will stick, others will evolve, and we’ll share what we learn a...

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

first-mate prance @bocxtop
it's cool how the govt told us raising the minimum wage would make a burger be $20 and now a burger is $20. but min wage is the same

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Myrna @bigbunnymomma.bsky.social · 1d

Only rabbits here!

Flemish Giant rabbit wearing a witch hat.

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Dalassa @dalassa.bsky.social · 1d

Once again

Gimli and Legolas dying together meme. Gimli is labeled “me remembering the GWOT,” Legolas is labeled “Bill Kristol” with a trans pride flag.
Panel 1: I never thought I’d die fighting along side a war criminal
Panel 2: we shall defend trans people and liberal democracy to our last breath
Panel 3: JFC this is weird

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 1d

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bryonato @bryonato.bsky.social · 1d

Dragon did NOT like his Halloween costume

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1d

Naturally the dev team not ONCE thought to consider how this unasked for feature could be weaponized as an attack vector.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

How do I dislike this idea.

Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch

As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

We all need to channel this Chicago man’s utter contempt

🎄Peter Nickeas 🎅🏻 @peternickeas.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago

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Mardoch @mardoch.bsky.social · 1d

is this more or less spicy than forgetting/flubbing the WHERE clause in production sql?

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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 1d

What really makes IaC special is that it makes those bugs easily reproducible

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 1d

Infrastructure as Code is great because it allows you to write infrastructure bugs

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 1d

A reminder that Musk is a mass murderer. It's not hyperbole.

Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Apr 22

“DOGE’s latest efficiency is halting $500 million in food deliveries to the nation's food banks.”
@joshtpm.bsky.social

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J.P. @jpfpw.bsky.social · 1d

The fearmonger-in-chief also had a winge about it. I won’t share her tweet, but this was Glamour’s reply. 💀

British Glamour official account replying to Mouldemort with “Better luck next year Jo x”.

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