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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 1d

They weren’t fired “in error,” they were fired maliciously.

Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 1d

This video needs to be shared far and wide so every American can see and understand the brutality of what is happening. It should be on every TV news segment, every person’s social media feed.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 2d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 3d

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3d

Not even at a year into this and we're at the anxiously watching to see if an academic can successfully escape from America stage.

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Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 5d

“On the verge of…”

C’mon Pete, be real here. That’s just media clickbait and you know it.

How about “It’s not going to happen.” That’s real progress.

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Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 5d

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 5d

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 5d

What could go wrong?

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Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 5d

The obvious racism sits on the surface. But only an American woman who understands the significance of Roe v Wade can feel the disgusting undercurrent of misogyny.

Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 6d

“It depends on who we're talking about,” he said…”We're going to take care of our people," he added. "There are some people that really don't deserve to be taken care of, and we'll take care of them in a different way."

Same shit, different day.
#fascistsayswhat

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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 12d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 6d

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored).

1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues.
2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here...

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

www.nytimes.com

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Meghan Hoyer @meghanhoyer.bsky.social · 6d

When we hatched a crazy plan asking our TikTok audience to send us their app data, we weren't sure anyone would respond. But 1,100 people, who watched 15 million unique videos, did. Now we've published our first (but not last!) analysis of how TikTok's algorithm pulls people in and keeps them there:

How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 9d

Oh yeah, that is definitely no good.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 9d

They're still using Signal and they are still *terrible* at operational security

taber @kvetch.gay · 9d

a White House staffer was just tapping away all kinds of shit talk in the secret secure Signal chat in a place where someone could take *numerous* photographs of his phone screen undetected and walk them over to the Minnesota Star-Tribune

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Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 9d

The malfeasance is mind boggling.

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Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 10d

Sigh.

Jessica Lyons @jessicalyons.bsky.social · 10d

Cybersecurity training, beards, and body fat have something in common, according to the Pentagon. They're not helping the US military fight and win wars.

Pentagon relaxes military cybersecurity training

: Beards, body fat, and cyber refreshers now frowned upon

www.theregister.com

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Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 10d

OOF. techcrunch.com/2025/10/03/h...

Hacking group claims theft of 1 billion records from Salesforce customer databases | TechCrunch

The hacking group claims to have stolen about a billion records from companies, including FedEx, Qantas, and TransUnion, who store their customer and company data in Salesforce.

techcrunch.com

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Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 10d

Bounty hunters backed by a lawless POTUS, backed by a corrupt SCOTUS.

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Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 10d

Actually, it does. Because iykyk. And it hits hard.

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 10d

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Rob Pegoraro @robpegoraro.com · 11d

The Trump administration has holllowed out the nation's lead cybersecurity agency, upended or ended some of its key tasks and punished its previous two directors--while creating a large target in the form of all the data sloppily harvested for DOGE and its migrant crackdown. This seems... not great.

U.S. cybersecurity was bad during the first Trump administration. Somehow, it’s getting worse

Workforce cuts and vindictive treatment of former cyber officials have experts worried.

www.fastcompany.com

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Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 12d

Just learning that Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez passed away. Please take the time to read to the end of the thread I shared yesterday. 💔

Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 14d

Thread - please read to the end

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 15d

This is the secret the Trump regime tried so hard to keep about the Dallas ICE shooting

The names of the dead and wounded

Jose Andres Bordones-Molina

Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez

Norlan Guzman-Fuentes

Fight Trump's dehumanization. Say their names. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...

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Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 13d

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13d

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 14d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

on.wsj.com

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Stacey Holleran @staceyholleran.bsky.social · 14d

Thread - please read to the end

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 15d

This is the secret the Trump regime tried so hard to keep about the Dallas ICE shooting

The names of the dead and wounded

Jose Andres Bordones-Molina

Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez

Norlan Guzman-Fuentes

Fight Trump's dehumanization. Say their names. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...

What the Trump regime doesn’t want you to know about Dallas ICE shooting

The Trump regime's refusal to say the names of the Dallas ICE victims exposes the inhumanity of American fascism.

www.inquirer.com

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