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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 14h

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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simli @simli.bsky.social · 16h

this is some facebook degree of pure evil to the detriment of all of humankind

www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/m...

Microsoft adds Copilot adoption benchmarks to Viva Insights

: Viva Insights turns AI guzzling into a leaderboard

www.theregister.com

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

Good for them

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

variety.com

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Danwatch @danwatch.dk · 1d

Danwatch kan dokumentere, at danske virksomheder fortsat har lov til at hælde spildevand med ulovlige stoffer ud i havet. Stofferne er forbundet med alt fra kræft til nedsat fertilitet og hjerneskader hos børn. Læs artiklen her: https://danwatch.dk/?p=41433

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

Another day, another hit to our democracy as Trump’s corruption of the DOJ continues. AG Bondi is his tool for prosecuting his political targets.

Normalizing this is how democracies die. I refuse to accept it — and the American people shouldn’t either.

New York AG Letitia James indicted for alleged fraud following pressure from Trump

New York Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted on at least one count of alleged fraud following pressure from President Donald Trump.

abcnews.link

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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simli @simli.bsky.social · 1d

the ruby community is something else man

rubycentral.org/news/rubygem...

Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025

As part of standard incident-response practice, Ruby Central is publishing the following post-incident review to the public. This document summarizes the September 2025 AWS root-access event, what oc...

rubycentral.org

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simli @simli.bsky.social · 1d

jesus christ

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 11d

51% of Japanese game makers use generative AI
www.gamesindustry.biz/51-of-japane...

51% of Japanese game makers use generative AI

51% of Japanese developers use generative AI in game development.

www.gamesindustry.biz

simli @simli.bsky.social · 1d

things are so bad that we're talking about debt during a republican administration

www.wsj.com/economy/fede...

Tariffs Are Way Up. Interest on Debt Tops $1 Trillion. And DOGE Didn’t Do Much.

The books have closed on the U.S. government’s fiscal 2025. Here’s what has changed about the federal budget—and what hasn’t.

www.wsj.com

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 1d

welp. that's one I haven't heard before

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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simli @simli.bsky.social · 1d

a few months later, they had to retreat from the introduction of new genai functionality

www.theverge.com/2022/12/2/23...

You know, on account of all the copyright infringement.

www.theverge.com

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simli @simli.bsky.social · 1d

another great adobe alternative, clip studio paint, went and changed their business model from one-time payment to a subscription plan three years(!) ago, and announce they wouldn't release updates for the paid version a year from the announcement

www.theverge.com/2022/8/22/23...

Clip Studio Paint announces subscription plan, angering the online artist community

www.theverge.com

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simli @simli.bsky.social · 1d

affinity, whose company serif was acquired by canva some months ago, is letting users pick up all their paid ipad v2 apps for free while teasing "Creative Freedom Is Coming" for october 30

really hope the best - and arguably only decent - alternative to the adobe ecosystem doesn't pull the rug here

fugurisko @fugurisko.bsky.social · 3d

あら奥さん聞きました？adobeの代替として使われるAffinityシリーズのiPad版が太っ腹の無料キャンペーン中ですってよ！

coliss.com/articles/pro...

これは見逃したら後悔する！ iPad版のAffinity Photo 2, Designer 2, publisher 2がなんと0円の無料！！

な、なんと、iPad版のAffinity Photo 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity publisher 2が、0円の無料キャンペーンが開催されています！期間中に0

coliss.com

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

"A government doesn't announce they have become fascist; they announce anti-fascists are enemies of the state."

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 2d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 2d

This is probably the best time to be in organized crime since before the repeal of prohibition in 1933. I mean if you wanted to commit high level non-immigrant related crime, now is the time to go hog wild.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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simli @simli.bsky.social · 2d

discord have always been one of the worst platforms and companies for security, and this should come as no surprise

this is one of the few times where users actually had to submit personal information for a largely pseudonymous platform where privacy is everything, which is the perfect storm

simli @simli.bsky.social · 2d

discord's response to this is literally "counter to our portrayal as complete donkeys who screwed over users, we actually contracted out our most sensitive features, which is totally different"

www.theverge.com/news/797051/...

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 2d

What strikes me about this is how much more clearly incriminating chats with ChatGPT are going to be than Google searches in criminal investigations

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 2d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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simli @simli.bsky.social · 2d

likes = endorsements
follows = looking into it

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 2d

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

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simli @simli.bsky.social · 2d

someone needs to do a write-up of the insanity that drives the latest hasan piker "shockgate", what an absolutely insane day on social media

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 2d

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 2d

Germany's justice ministry held firm and killed EU chat control (for now):

"Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion."

Admirably concise and direct. German in the best possible way.

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