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"Nobody can stop us."
Wrong. The world, collectively, can stop them. And have legal authority to do so under Article 51 of the UN Charter,which authorises COLLECTIVE self defense.
Wrong. The world, collectively, can stop them. And have legal authority to do so under Article 51 of the UN Charter,which authorises COLLECTIVE self defense.
I blame every Trump voter for the horror that is coming.
January 4, 2026 at 2:36 AM
"Nobody can stop us."
Wrong. The world, collectively, can stop them. And have legal authority to do so under Article 51 of the UN Charter,which authorises COLLECTIVE self defense.
Wrong. The world, collectively, can stop them. And have legal authority to do so under Article 51 of the UN Charter,which authorises COLLECTIVE self defense.
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The US produces >13 mn barrels of oil per day. Venezuela produces <1 million bpd
There's a global oil glut i.e. lower prices. That's bad for US producers, who need higher prices to break even. Hard to imagine they're eager to make big new investments in an unstable place w/ decrepit infrastructure
There's a global oil glut i.e. lower prices. That's bad for US producers, who need higher prices to break even. Hard to imagine they're eager to make big new investments in an unstable place w/ decrepit infrastructure
January 3, 2026 at 8:08 PM
The US produces >13 mn barrels of oil per day. Venezuela produces <1 million bpd
There's a global oil glut i.e. lower prices. That's bad for US producers, who need higher prices to break even. Hard to imagine they're eager to make big new investments in an unstable place w/ decrepit infrastructure
There's a global oil glut i.e. lower prices. That's bad for US producers, who need higher prices to break even. Hard to imagine they're eager to make big new investments in an unstable place w/ decrepit infrastructure
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Protest today 1/3/25 at 5 pm
Federal Plaza
Federal Plaza
January 3, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Protest today 1/3/25 at 5 pm
Federal Plaza
Federal Plaza
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Primaries 👏 need 👏 ranked 👏 choice 👏 voting!
Under our current voting system, crowded primaries mean vote splitting, spoilers, and unrepresentative outcomes. With RCV, voters could rank candidates in order of preference instead of being forced to choose just one. Solved!
Under our current voting system, crowded primaries mean vote splitting, spoilers, and unrepresentative outcomes. With RCV, voters could rank candidates in order of preference instead of being forced to choose just one. Solved!
January 2, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Primaries 👏 need 👏 ranked 👏 choice 👏 voting!
Under our current voting system, crowded primaries mean vote splitting, spoilers, and unrepresentative outcomes. With RCV, voters could rank candidates in order of preference instead of being forced to choose just one. Solved!
Under our current voting system, crowded primaries mean vote splitting, spoilers, and unrepresentative outcomes. With RCV, voters could rank candidates in order of preference instead of being forced to choose just one. Solved!
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100 Meters is now on Netflix. It’s not your typical sports anime. It’s a good look at how/why we pursue passions, how it gives us meaning & also can completely emotionally wreck. It really hits hard. Definitely work checking out. Watch it with friends, you will have much to talk about afterwards.
December 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
100 Meters is now on Netflix. It’s not your typical sports anime. It’s a good look at how/why we pursue passions, how it gives us meaning & also can completely emotionally wreck. It really hits hard. Definitely work checking out. Watch it with friends, you will have much to talk about afterwards.
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and also, happy hyakuemu netflix release day!!! 💕 weehoo 🥳 if you’re looking for something to watch this new year’s eve and want something to mule over as the new year begins… ⬇️⬇️⬇️
December 31, 2025 at 6:20 AM
and also, happy hyakuemu netflix release day!!! 💕 weehoo 🥳 if you’re looking for something to watch this new year’s eve and want something to mule over as the new year begins… ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Huge momentum across the USA for #RCV in presidential primaries, from @raskin.house.gov, @beyer.house.gov, & @welch.senate.gov. @govpritzker.illinois.gov, @harmonil.bsky.social, & @speakerwelchil.bsky.social, IL could lead the USA. LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN! Email us: www.fairvoteillinois.org/contact
December 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Huge momentum across the USA for #RCV in presidential primaries, from @raskin.house.gov, @beyer.house.gov, & @welch.senate.gov. @govpritzker.illinois.gov, @harmonil.bsky.social, & @speakerwelchil.bsky.social, IL could lead the USA. LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN! Email us: www.fairvoteillinois.org/contact
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UPDATE: New Bluesky signups in Christmas Day are on pace to exceed 100,000 for the first time since the fallout of "Liberation Day"
Japanese users are not done with their mass exodus yet.
bskycheck.com
Japanese users are not done with their mass exodus yet.
bskycheck.com
Bluesky Growth Tracker - Live User Activity Dashboard
Track Bluesky growth as it happens with our real-time dashboard. See live user sign-ups, monitor current growth rate, and explore verified domain handles across government, education, commercial and o...
bskycheck.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
UPDATE: New Bluesky signups in Christmas Day are on pace to exceed 100,000 for the first time since the fallout of "Liberation Day"
Japanese users are not done with their mass exodus yet.
bskycheck.com
Japanese users are not done with their mass exodus yet.
bskycheck.com
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"people can still download your art from bsky and feed it into AI" if gamer behavior has taught me anything, just one extra button press is more than enough to annoy a MASSIVE amount of people into not making the effort
December 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"people can still download your art from bsky and feed it into AI" if gamer behavior has taught me anything, just one extra button press is more than enough to annoy a MASSIVE amount of people into not making the effort
Hell yeah! Always welcome more implementations in functional programming languages. Need to make the ATProto ecosystem more polyglot than just the usual Typescript, Go, and sometimes Rust.
I think this is far enough along to post about now
pegasus, a pds implementation in ocaml, ~feature parity with the bluesky pds (minus app passwords because those are gross)
repo includes various other atproto-relevant libraries in ocaml for interested sickos
tangled.org/futur.blue/p...
pegasus, a pds implementation in ocaml, ~feature parity with the bluesky pds (minus app passwords because those are gross)
repo includes various other atproto-relevant libraries in ocaml for interested sickos
tangled.org/futur.blue/p...
futur.blue/pegasus
objective categorical abstract machine language personal data server
tangled.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Hell yeah! Always welcome more implementations in functional programming languages. Need to make the ATProto ecosystem more polyglot than just the usual Typescript, Go, and sometimes Rust.
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yt-dlp & cobalt devs are heroes no joke
Bless everyone who maintains the tools to download video files from proprietary players.
Multiple social media users noticed on Monday that the 60 Minutes episode was available via the Global TV app. To view the episode, viewers need to connect to the app from a Canadian IP address.
People then uploaded copies of the episode to a variety of file sharing sites and services.
People then uploaded copies of the episode to a variety of file sharing sites and services.
December 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
yt-dlp & cobalt devs are heroes no joke
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The story Bari Weiss tried to kill.
Shame on CBS News for what they’ve become
Shame on CBS News for what they’ve become
December 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The story Bari Weiss tried to kill.
Shame on CBS News for what they’ve become
Shame on CBS News for what they’ve become
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New from 404 Media: Flock exposed some of its AI-powered cameras to the internet. We know because we tracked ourselves with them. These cameras zoom in on passersby, sometimes so close we could read a random person's phone screen. Required no login to view cameras
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
December 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
New from 404 Media: Flock exposed some of its AI-powered cameras to the internet. We know because we tracked ourselves with them. These cameras zoom in on passersby, sometimes so close we could read a random person's phone screen. Required no login to view cameras
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
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Pope Leo has done more to undermine Trump than most Democratic United States Senators and he’s not even in the US
Pope names pro-immigrant pastor bishop of Florida diocese where Trump's Mar-a-Lago is located
Pope names pro-immigrant pastor bishop of Florida diocese where Trump's Mar-a-Lago is located
Pope names pro-immigrant pastor bishop of Florida diocese where Trump's Mar-a-Lago is located
www.independent.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Pope Leo has done more to undermine Trump than most Democratic United States Senators and he’s not even in the US
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It's become completely acceptable to be openly racist towards Arabs/Muslims/Latinx with no repercussions. Tech and VC companies and their partners have amassed so much power that they do not believe there are any consequences to their actions or the systems they provide which bolster this racism.
In the wake of the tragedy at Brown, online conspiracists rushed to pin the horrific mass murder on an innocent Palestinian student. One of them was Shaun Maguire, a partner at leading VC firm Sequoia Capital.
www.fastcompany.com/91463942/seq...
www.fastcompany.com/91463942/seq...
Sequoia's Shaun Maguire accused an innocent Palestinian of being the Brown shooter. Then he doubled down
Online sleuthing is not, it turns out, among the noted VC's talents.
www.fastcompany.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It's become completely acceptable to be openly racist towards Arabs/Muslims/Latinx with no repercussions. Tech and VC companies and their partners have amassed so much power that they do not believe there are any consequences to their actions or the systems they provide which bolster this racism.
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US Dems including Biden rallying behind the TikTok ban cuz they thought xenophobia and national security hawkishness was "good politics" was arguably the most embarrassing unforced error of any Democratic administration in recent history.
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
www.axios.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
US Dems including Biden rallying behind the TikTok ban cuz they thought xenophobia and national security hawkishness was "good politics" was arguably the most embarrassing unforced error of any Democratic administration in recent history.
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again thinking of when The Free Press ran an article alleging that George Floyd was not killed by the cops, and @radleybalko.bsky.social proved beyond any question that the article was bullshit, and instead of retracting it Weiss asked him to come on her podcast
CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
December 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
again thinking of when The Free Press ran an article alleging that George Floyd was not killed by the cops, and @radleybalko.bsky.social proved beyond any question that the article was bullshit, and instead of retracting it Weiss asked him to come on her podcast
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Don't mistake incompetence for accident. The degradation of your social media feed, the collapse of your news, the defunding of your school—it is all functional.
They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.
They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Don't mistake incompetence for accident. The degradation of your social media feed, the collapse of your news, the defunding of your school—it is all functional.
They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.
They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.
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And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
How Democrats’ Attack On Section 230 Plays Right Into Trump’s Censorial Plans
Like clockwork, lawmakers are once again rallying around the idea of eliminating Section 230. That Republicans are leading this charge is hardly surprising—repealing Section 230 is explicitly laid …
www.techdirt.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
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There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
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It's important that we build more data centers, spiking electricity costs and polluting our communities, because we need rich guys to create bot farms of AI slop to sell us gadgets that don't work. It's simple, really. This is the AI revolution.
Social media companies attempt to detect and remove this type of astroturfing for violating their inauthentic behavior policies, which is why Doublespeed uses a bank of phones to emulate the behavior of real users.
@evystadium.bsky.social explains more here: www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
@evystadium.bsky.social explains more here: www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It's important that we build more data centers, spiking electricity costs and polluting our communities, because we need rich guys to create bot farms of AI slop to sell us gadgets that don't work. It's simple, really. This is the AI revolution.
This line got me:
"A doctor called in a poison control specialist for an expert opinion because they’d never seen such a young person pepper sprayed, Veraza said. They advised bringing the child to a specialist for follow-up visits to gauge potential long term damage to the child’s lungs and eyes."
"A doctor called in a poison control specialist for an expert opinion because they’d never seen such a young person pepper sprayed, Veraza said. They advised bringing the child to a specialist for follow-up visits to gauge potential long term damage to the child’s lungs and eyes."
ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray.
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
December 15, 2025 at 7:13 AM
This line got me:
"A doctor called in a poison control specialist for an expert opinion because they’d never seen such a young person pepper sprayed, Veraza said. They advised bringing the child to a specialist for follow-up visits to gauge potential long term damage to the child’s lungs and eyes."
"A doctor called in a poison control specialist for an expert opinion because they’d never seen such a young person pepper sprayed, Veraza said. They advised bringing the child to a specialist for follow-up visits to gauge potential long term damage to the child’s lungs and eyes."
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As Jews around the world gather to celebrate Chanukah this week, we are horrified to hear of the antisemitic attack on our fellow Jews in Australia. No one should be afraid to light a Chanukiah. No one should be afraid to attend a community gathering or go to school. (1/2)
December 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
As Jews around the world gather to celebrate Chanukah this week, we are horrified to hear of the antisemitic attack on our fellow Jews in Australia. No one should be afraid to light a Chanukiah. No one should be afraid to attend a community gathering or go to school. (1/2)
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This quote is rich and verbatim confirms that Iger and Disney literally don’t see artists as creatives or creators.
December 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This quote is rich and verbatim confirms that Iger and Disney literally don’t see artists as creatives or creators.