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Mikie Sherrill @mikiesherrill.bsky.social · 19h

It's 2025 and The Jack Campaign opposes same-sex marriage.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

Exclusive: A group of dozens of officials from across the federal government, including US intelligence officers, has been helping to steer President Trump's drive for retribution against his perceived enemies reut.rs/3IXEVG9

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

As a reminder to everyone, a key part of the Bari Weiss origin story is her livetweeting editorial meetings.
In the institutions she critiques she treats leakers (including herself) as principled dissenters. In the institutions she controls, she expects loyal silence.

Bari Weiss tweeting about the civil war in the NY Times

Another NY Times employee says: "I am in the same meeting that Bari appears to be livetweeting"

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/

PROFESSORS RESPONSE @lia #anatomy #ai #fyp #chatgpt #anatomyandphysiology

TikTok video by lia

www.tiktok.com

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Paul Coen @paulrcoen.bsky.social · 2d

DHS needs to be disbanded and the component agencies returned to their previous structures. Including undoing the INS/USCS/BP reorg that resulted in ICE.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Sliwa has been in New York politics for decades and like anyone who has been in New York politics that long he has a deep and abiding hatred of Andrew Cuomo on a personal level

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

Curtis Silwa was asked if he felt okay with losing and contributing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory and he responded by laying into Bill Ackman and Andrew Cuomo.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5d

The NBC Asian America crew regularly covered so many of my films, comics, and books over the years. One of the very few big, mainstream venues to give a damn. This is a kick in the teeth.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Paul Coen @paulrcoen.bsky.social · 5d

In fact, if you go to the Axios page, you get "Exclusive: AI writing hasn't overwhelmed the web yet", not "mostly written by humans". I'd say hitting parity in a year or two, even if much of the content is being ignored by search engines, is a tsunami of low-quality content.

Paul Coen @paulrcoen.bsky.social · 5d

The actual Axios page headline isn't great. If we're at the point where 50% of the articles are AI generated, and the written internet took decades to build (and in some cases reflect posting centuries of content), that AI hit that point so quickly is pretty bad.

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/a...

Exclusive: The web is still mostly written by humans, study finds

New data shows AI-written content is plateauing — and doesn't perform well in search.

www.axios.com

Paul Coen @paulrcoen.bsky.social · 5d

The actual Axios page headline isn't great. If we're at the point where 50% of the articles are AI generated, and the written internet took decades to build (and in some cases reflect posting centuries of content), that AI hit that point so quickly is pretty bad.

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/a...

Exclusive: The web is still mostly written by humans, study finds

New data shows AI-written content is plateauing — and doesn't perform well in search.

www.axios.com

Paul Coen @paulrcoen.bsky.social · 5d

I'd go so far as to say that any technology that would lead to lower profits due to increased demand for care, will be cast aside, even if it's accurate/appropriate. This won't be accurate, but the sad truth is that only tech that maximizes profit will be used. Human suffering is a footnote.

Paul Coen @paulrcoen.bsky.social · 5d

In our current hellscape - this will be used as a way of DENYING care, rather than increasing the number of people getting appropriate care. And it'll be treated as valid/accurate without question by those profiting from that denial.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

Topics Mike Johnson thinks are serious:

- Super Bowl halftime entertainer
- getting a Nobel Prize for Trump
- terrifying naked bike riders

Topics he thinks are not serious:

- Epstein Files
- domestic violence
- being able to keep the govt open
- the neutering of Congress

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 5d

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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BEAT @beatskelton.bsky.social · 6d

IT REALLY IS REQUIRED VIEWING. EYE OPENING STUFF. bsky.app/profile/davi...

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · Jul 23

here is the playlist of all four of our Google Veo 3 failure videos, for your delight and horror

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDkk...

We test Google Veo 3: impressive demo, unusable results

YouTube video by Pivot to AI

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6d

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 6d

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 6d

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 7d

postmodern finance theory

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Super Saiga @supersaiga.bsky.social · 7d

1. Geocities home pages about hobbies and long dead pets
2. Neopets
3. Wikipedia
4. This website: conespiracy.neocities.org
5. the weather so people can see what it was like when they were born

conespiracy

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 8d

Just killed nine acres of trees and it told me to try saying "hi"

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 9d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 10d

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 15

vox populi

Altman: thanks a lot for these! some common requests:

AGI (a little patience please)
GPT-5
better voice mode
higher rate limits
better GPTs
better reasoning
control over degree of wokeness/behavior
video
personalization
better browsing
'sign in with openai
open source

Quoting:
what would you like openai to build/fix in 2024?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10d

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 10d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 10d

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10d

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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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 10d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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