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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t ever want to find out what it’s like to live in a world where Larry Ellison can see if citizens are in their best behavior.

Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 14h

Another example of misuse: mass surveillance, "with language models you have the potential to watch everyone"

Quotes Larry Ellison on how "citizens will be on their best behavior" and notes that Oracle recently invested billions in OpenAI

#COLM2025

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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah of course not. That’s partly what makes it funny to think about.

Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 2d

Alternative: he plans the speech but it’s not just a speech. It’s a loud religious revival style sermon, and all the ‘amen’ beats are replaced with “release the Epstein files” peppered in so frequently it’s impossible to get a clip or a sound bite without hearing it.

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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 2d

But everyone will just accept in their midst without pointing and laughing because no one is going to state the obvious, not even the news media.

Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 2d

This guy is going to walk around the halls of government like he has a real job and HE DOESN’T! The president has as much authority to create this position as I do to appointment myself High Chancellor for the federal ministry of silly walks and demand everyone gangsta lean their way to their desks.

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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 2d

The IRS was created by Congress which set out the leadership positions and the manner of their appointment in the statute. His confirmation process is unclear BECAUSE IT ISN’T A REAL POSITION! By referring to his appointment in the past tense you help him solidify the lie that he has this power.

Screenshot from the article:

“It is unclear whether Bisignano's newly created role at the IRS will require Senate confirmation.”

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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 3d

In fact he was not free. As long as ICE exists none of us are.

Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social · 3d

George Retes is a US citizen & Army veteran who served in Iraq. He was jailed by ICE & held for three days without an explanation.

Read this 👇

newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-ci...

Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 3d

Does anyone know if there’s a way to listen to a recording of this hearing?

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 3d

So Hulk Hogan, why are you a great candidate for the Administrative Assistant position?

Hulk Hogan:

An app icon of a printer/scanner combo and the app name "brother iPrint&Scan"

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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 3d

“across the nation”

Let’s not forget that he’s also on an international murder spree in the Caribbean and publicly muses plans for the removal and final genocide of the people of Gaza which Netanyahu then adopts as policy.

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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 4d

People can criticize comic book movies all they want, and a lot of it is valid, but this scene is an all timer.

Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 4d

My main takeaway from reading the judges order is that the protests aren’t big enough. Portland should be in a general strike and the streets should be choked with people. They should have to airlift those assholes out of there like it’s fucking Saigon.

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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 4d

Some of us are old enough to remember protests in Ukraine so big that Viktor Yanukovych fled for his life to Russia. If we had any sense we would do that same and Trump would be living in the apartment next door.

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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 5d

First time minting a coin that’s double tails since there’s an asshole on both sides.

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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 6d

Bernoulli had no idea he was helping to invent passenger air travel.

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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 6d

Nazis stand outside a building while women and children file out with their hands up.

Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 7d

The excuse for entering this building was that there were a lot of Venezuelans in it. Replace Jew with Venezuelan or even just brown and the instinctive template followed by the dictator becomes impossible to miss.

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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 7d

Picture in your mind what happened in that article and then consider this image and think about just how close we are. I don’t want to minimize that some of the people in this image were likely shot mere minutes after this photo, but genuinely how far away are we? How quickly could we be there?

Nazis stand outside a doorway as women and children file out of a building with their hands up.

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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 7d

giftgirl2025. As usual only the strictest adherence to electronic communications procedures from the “but her emails” crowd.

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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 7d

The president is sending combat troops into cities he doesn’t like and talking about using them as training grounds in his continued campaign to erode our rights and our way of life. But is he doing it in a smart way?

I love NPR but sometimes I wonder if you even hear yourself with some of these.

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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 7d

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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 7d

Nazis stand outside a building while women and children file out with their hands up.

This is a description of this image and of the article. There is no difference.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 7d

Memorizing this

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Well Crafted Error Message Enjoyer @randomnoun7.bsky.social · 7d

“I don’t control him”

Wrong. You’re the speaker of the house. It is absolutely your job to control him. It is explicitly within your power, set out in writing in the Constitution, to control the president.

What sniveling, contemptible, liar.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 8d

smart sex toy developer who's extremely irritated at having to explain what they mean by "vibe coding"

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