Brona
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She/her. Ottawa 🏳️🌈🇨🇦Get vaccinated. Wear your mask. Tax the rich until they squeal. Profile pic is one of my three dogs.
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By this point it feels strange to say things like this and not reflexively end with a "Furthermore he should be impeached and removed from office"
Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
February 2, 2026 at 2:22 PM
By this point it feels strange to say things like this and not reflexively end with a "Furthermore he should be impeached and removed from office"
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An extreme Kansas bill will invalidate the drivers license of every trans person in the state. It was passed alongside a particularly extreme bathroom bill, meaning that the implications of every trans Kansan losing legal ID overnight has largely been missed.
Kansas Bill Will Strip Driver’s Licenses from Every Trans Resident Who Changed Gender — Assigned
As Kansas passes a bathroom bill, another bill that will invalidate the driver’s license of every trans resident has been deemphasized in the coverage. Also, Trump’s Department of Education says San J...
www.assignedmedia.org
February 2, 2026 at 11:01 AM
An extreme Kansas bill will invalidate the drivers license of every trans person in the state. It was passed alongside a particularly extreme bathroom bill, meaning that the implications of every trans Kansan losing legal ID overnight has largely been missed.
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People who may want to have children in the future should bear this in mind: tear gas can have serious consequences for female reproductive health. The data on this isn't great but I would at least recommend ensuring you have a quality respirator or mask on at all times.
February 2, 2026 at 5:53 AM
People who may want to have children in the future should bear this in mind: tear gas can have serious consequences for female reproductive health. The data on this isn't great but I would at least recommend ensuring you have a quality respirator or mask on at all times.
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Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.
Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
February 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.
Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
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It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies
February 2, 2026 at 7:15 AM
It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies
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*sigh* here we go again. Your phone is not listening to everything around you 24/7 for advertising purposes. *If* you have voice activation on for the assistant, the mic is listening for the activation phrase: the processing power for listening for a single specific phrase is much lower.
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:07 AM
*sigh* here we go again. Your phone is not listening to everything around you 24/7 for advertising purposes. *If* you have voice activation on for the assistant, the mic is listening for the activation phrase: the processing power for listening for a single specific phrase is much lower.
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If you use an iPhone: it's Lockdown Privacy (apps.apple.com/us/app/lockd...). It is done entirely on-device. It blocks, on average, over ten thousand attempts to load a tracker/send my browsing data to an ad network per day.
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February 2, 2026 at 1:11 AM
If you use an iPhone: it's Lockdown Privacy (apps.apple.com/us/app/lockd...). It is done entirely on-device. It blocks, on average, over ten thousand attempts to load a tracker/send my browsing data to an ad network per day.
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Every single journalist who refers to a "ceasefire" somehow existing while children are still being murdered, *will* one day regret it.
They basically just have the choice of how long they will be made to feel this regret.
They basically just have the choice of how long they will be made to feel this regret.
Israel bombed tents in Gaza today, killed at least 30 people including children, and the death toll is likely to rise
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Children and police officers among at least 30 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza
Deadly attacks launched day before border crossing due to open as part of ceasefire deal
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Every single journalist who refers to a "ceasefire" somehow existing while children are still being murdered, *will* one day regret it.
They basically just have the choice of how long they will be made to feel this regret.
They basically just have the choice of how long they will be made to feel this regret.
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This is a lovely tribute to his family and I don't discount the contributions of immigrants ever, but America was already built twice over by that time. First by Indigenous people and then by African slaves. It is Black History Month.
“Immigrants built this country, literally. Actually. So this is for them. For all children of immigrants, and for those who came to this country in search of a better opportunity, to be part of a nation that promised freedom for all and equal opportunity for everyone.” -
Shaboozey #GRAMMYs
Shaboozey #GRAMMYs
February 2, 2026 at 1:02 PM
This is a lovely tribute to his family and I don't discount the contributions of immigrants ever, but America was already built twice over by that time. First by Indigenous people and then by African slaves. It is Black History Month.
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Just to close the loop here. A cozy club of just the very worst people.
February 2, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Just to close the loop here. A cozy club of just the very worst people.
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This enraging story about how USAID cuts that shutter schools and foster total desperation are *directly* forcing vulnerable Rohingya refugee kids into child marriage, trafficking, and slavery.
They are the raw human material that the likes of Epstein and Trump and Musk want to mine.
They are the raw human material that the likes of Epstein and Trump and Musk want to mine.
Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts
Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Roh...
apnews.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:50 PM
This enraging story about how USAID cuts that shutter schools and foster total desperation are *directly* forcing vulnerable Rohingya refugee kids into child marriage, trafficking, and slavery.
They are the raw human material that the likes of Epstein and Trump and Musk want to mine.
They are the raw human material that the likes of Epstein and Trump and Musk want to mine.
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We really have come a LONG way in a pretty brief amount of time as a culture on “oh, maybe it’s actually creepy and gross to incessantly perv on teenage girls everywhere all the time.”
there were multiple different countdown clocks until the Olsen twins turned 18
reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011
all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful
reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011
all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful
I feel like maybe it’s a function of everyone online being born in 2002 but I don’t think most people realize how openly and explicitly pedophilic american culture was until like… maybe 10 years ago
February 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM
We really have come a LONG way in a pretty brief amount of time as a culture on “oh, maybe it’s actually creepy and gross to incessantly perv on teenage girls everywhere all the time.”
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“Solar, wind power, and batteries are set to make life a misery for the liquefied natural gas market.”
Not great news for Carney’s plan to double down on LNG, but good news for the climate if the LNG projects he was pushing become uneconomical.
Not great news for Carney’s plan to double down on LNG, but good news for the climate if the LNG projects he was pushing become uneconomical.
LNG Glut Hits on Schedule as Shell, Mitsubishi Try to Withdraw from B.C. Megaproject www.theenergymix.com/lng-glut-hit...
Shell, Mitsubishi Try to Withdraw from B.C. LNG
Shell and Mitsubishi are trying to sell off their shares in the $40-billion LNG Canada megaproject amid predictions of an oversupplied global market.
www.theenergymix.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:11 PM
“Solar, wind power, and batteries are set to make life a misery for the liquefied natural gas market.”
Not great news for Carney’s plan to double down on LNG, but good news for the climate if the LNG projects he was pushing become uneconomical.
Not great news for Carney’s plan to double down on LNG, but good news for the climate if the LNG projects he was pushing become uneconomical.
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In Peter Attia’s book Outlive he writes about his 1 month old having a cardiac arrest and then staying in New York for business. The date his son became critically ill was July 11, 2017. There is an email about an appointment with Epstein dated July 13, 2017.
February 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM
In Peter Attia’s book Outlive he writes about his 1 month old having a cardiac arrest and then staying in New York for business. The date his son became critically ill was July 11, 2017. There is an email about an appointment with Epstein dated July 13, 2017.
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I implore anyone who has an audience and speaks about genAI and LLMs to refer to them as products, not technologies, as much as possible.
Keep hammering that home.
Keep hammering that home.
I always try to write/talk critically about tech product design without focusing on particular products, or even product categories, but I continually find that LLM/GenAI products cover all the bases for what makes a bad product bad
October 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I implore anyone who has an audience and speaks about genAI and LLMs to refer to them as products, not technologies, as much as possible.
Keep hammering that home.
Keep hammering that home.
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Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.
February 1, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.
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the important and miserable thing here is none of it has to do with immigrants, it has everything to do with the fact that there is shit gobs of liability in these private facilities if they ship measles patients and contractors get sick.
BREAKING: ICE has halted "all movement" at a Texas detention facility due to measles infections, DHS confirms.
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
cbsn.ws
February 2, 2026 at 3:06 AM
the important and miserable thing here is none of it has to do with immigrants, it has everything to do with the fact that there is shit gobs of liability in these private facilities if they ship measles patients and contractors get sick.
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Mean girls get in your face. Chotiner is more like one of those legendary swordsmen who take a swing and you think they missed you — until you sneeze and your head falls off.
February 2, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Mean girls get in your face. Chotiner is more like one of those legendary swordsmen who take a swing and you think they missed you — until you sneeze and your head falls off.
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Isaac Chotiner is like a living thought experiment of What If A Mean Girl Chose to Use Their Powers For Good?
![So is that because you don't believe the accusations, or because you think that it's time to move on?
I don't know. I'm not informed about the accusations. I wasn't there. I wasn't present, but I know his personality. I know his character. I can't tell because I wasn't there, and he might've made some mistakes, but he's a very good guy at heart. He's a very generous and human kind of person.
You told the Times that Brett "made some mistakes." Has he told you that he made mistakes?
No. No. No. Isaac, no. All I'm saying is that I worked with him twelve hours, fifteen hours, a day, and then everybody went their own way. Our age difference is wide. I could be his father.
I read that Roman Polanski is a father figure to him. So that role might already be filled. There are a lot of people who feel affection for Brett.
Yeah, yeah. Because he's a good kid. [In 2007's Paris-based "Rush Hour 3," Ratner gave a cameo to Polanski, who had fled to France after being accused of anally and vaginally raping a thirteen-year-old. He was later accused of sexually assaulting other teen-agers, which he denies. In the cameo, Polanski bas a comic scene where be prepares to do an anal-cavity search of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oqtcrlljm4r6b6ybt6phx25u/bafkreidobkri2jaja6tf5ehldxl7dwsleem4ln72eyqsv75ux6msrxp44i@jpeg)
February 2, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Isaac Chotiner is like a living thought experiment of What If A Mean Girl Chose to Use Their Powers For Good?
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NEW: The Justice Department published dozens of unredacted images of nude women (and possibly teens) as part of its Epstein release.
The faces of those people were also left unredacted.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
The faces of those people were also left unredacted.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:33 AM
NEW: The Justice Department published dozens of unredacted images of nude women (and possibly teens) as part of its Epstein release.
The faces of those people were also left unredacted.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
The faces of those people were also left unredacted.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
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The President shit himself on live TV. Melania bombed. The Epstein files are sending shockwaves through the Alt Right. Liam and his dad are back home. A Texas district that was DEEP red for 35 years flipped blue. Pretti's killers have been identified.
Small wins, but you can feel the change coming.
Small wins, but you can feel the change coming.
February 2, 2026 at 1:17 AM
The President shit himself on live TV. Melania bombed. The Epstein files are sending shockwaves through the Alt Right. Liam and his dad are back home. A Texas district that was DEEP red for 35 years flipped blue. Pretti's killers have been identified.
Small wins, but you can feel the change coming.
Small wins, but you can feel the change coming.
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in 2018!!!! can we please stop giving her plausible deniability for being one of the most disgusting humans alive
JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
February 1, 2026 at 6:06 PM
in 2018!!!! can we please stop giving her plausible deniability for being one of the most disgusting humans alive
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JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
February 1, 2026 at 4:52 PM
JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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In addition, federal courts badly need to be expanded! Judges are extremely overworked, and everything takes forever.
note to national Democrats: you can do this too when you have the majority
there is nothing stopping court expansion other than norms that have long since become obsolete in the face of a radical, out of control majority currently enabling a fascist lunatic
there is nothing stopping court expansion other than norms that have long since become obsolete in the face of a radical, out of control majority currently enabling a fascist lunatic
The Utah governor just signed a bill to expand his state's supreme court by two seats.
Conservatives have been angry at a series of judicial rulings, including one that safeguarded direct democracy in 2024 & one that struck down their gerrymander. 1st step of their retaliation.
Conservatives have been angry at a series of judicial rulings, including one that safeguarded direct democracy in 2024 & one that struck down their gerrymander. 1st step of their retaliation.
February 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
In addition, federal courts badly need to be expanded! Judges are extremely overworked, and everything takes forever.