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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

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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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 11h

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 6m

Why should this self-proclaimed christian fear the afterlife?

tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 10m

I may or may not have seen him personally tweaking the algorithm in real time - who knows - but trolls and bots and nazis and all things considere, far too many bad actors...

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Gannet Seas @gannetseas.bsky.social · Jul 25

Yes, and instead of the unattributed cropped video, link to the original WFFT video, which bears the organization’s logo, and give full attribution?

Rescued tiger floats in lake with favourite toy

YouTube video by Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand

www.youtube.com

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tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 23m

Ukraine ➡️ Kursk I watched ladybot swarms spam the "latest news" feed with malware war videos... reposting turn impossible as the app insisted I post something else instead etc... until libsoftiktok complained to Musk himself and things were back to "normal"...
Real time stuff like that...
Unuseable

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tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 23m

My last months on Xtwitter were mostly me blocking ladybot swarms and watching post views go to zero in spite of climbing follower counts. The algorithm is visibly, aggressively and extremely anti-left and pro-troll. A waste of time for most of us.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 3h

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1h

This is really interesting. Because Putin is not communicating a theory of victory, the war is becoming seen in Russia by some as one which cannot be won. Because, of course, it can't be won without doing things Putin cannot or will not do.

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1h

11/ "The current design of the Special Military Operation doesn't imply a final end point, such as "defeat Ukraine entirely," or "take Kyiv, or Odesa and Kharkiv." The Special Military Operation will continue until the command declares it over.

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tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 1h

No shortage of actual bad guys to base your fictional bad guys on...

tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 1h

"... ; that is, "Missing, presumed drowned, while on a cruise aboard his luxury yacht," as stated by M at the end of the film.[18] However, Spottiswoode himself said in a 2004 interview that "Carver is Rupert Murdoch"."

tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 1h

Wikipedia: "While many reviewers compared Elliot Carver to Rupert Murdoch, Feirstein based the character on Robert Maxwell, with Carver's reported death bearing similarities to that of Maxwell's..."

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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 10h

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff's lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?

Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco -- stunning his own PR team | TechCrunch

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff's lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?

techcrunch.com

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Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 7h

Fuck the New York Post

The New York Post: The Portland anti-ICE protester seen wearing an inflatable frog suit has claimed to be harmlessly protesting "with humor.”

But now, a new report has revealed that the person under the costume is a self-described "proud ANTIFA terrorist."

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

the next hacker rebellion will come from ... the AI boyfriend crowd mstdn.social/@vaurora/115...

Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 (@[email protected])

Every couple of weeks, I read r/MyBoyfriendIsAI because I am very interested in how people who are different from me think. Over the last few months, something interesting has happened: r/MyBoyfriend...

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 3h

Hello again, welcome to the weekend and another daily🧵

It's Day 1326 of Ukraine's fight for existence and I've still never missed a day.
That takes time, commitment and money. So, if you've not bought me a coffee before, maybe today please? Thank you.

ko-fi.com/twmcltd

Support TWMCLtd

ko-fi.com

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NoINGSOC @noingsoc.bsky.social · 11h

hawkandhare.bsky.social @hawkandhare.bsky.social · 20h

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NoINGSOC @noingsoc.bsky.social · 11h

Zachary “Mushroom” Hunter @bonforage.bsky.social · 16h

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tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 3h

men de får jo lov til å mobbe visse minoriteter nå, da, og det er tydeligvis verd en hel del for flere enn man kanskje skulle tro

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3h

Thinking historically and looking globally to envision gender equalities.

Why it’s worth taking a wider look at biarchal cultures | Letters

Letter: In places such as Canada, the US, parts of Africa, southern India and Polynesia, biarchal traditions are almost within living memory, says Simon Dawson

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

Not today, Satan‼️

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tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 3h

... akkurat slik alle "forståsegpåerne" har spådd i årevis... Men dem skal vi jo ikke høre på, for de "tilhører venstresida", og den skal man jo ikke høre på...

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Astrid Deilmann @astriddeilmann.bsky.social · 1d

Gute Nachricht: Wir haben gegen Elon Musks KI vor Gericht gewonnen.

Das Landgericht Hamburg sagt klar: Auch eine KI darf keine Lügen verbreiten – und die dahinter stehende Firma haftet im Zweifel dafür.

Unser Rechtsstaat funktioniert. Auch gegen Milliardenkonzerne mit Gottkomplex.

Eine Grafik mit der Überschrift "Campact vs Grok 1-0" und einem Bild eines enttäuscht schauenden Elon Musk.

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 4h

‘Dark enlightenment’ is truly dark:

“Yarvin advocates for replacing democracy with a kind of techno-feudal state—for the government to be run like a corporation, with the president as its “CEO.” This new system is elitist—“humans fit into dominance-submission structures” Yarvin wrote in 2008.”

What We Must Understand About the Dark Enlightenment Movement

The “Dark Enlightenment” movement and Curtis Yarvin have curried favor with tech executives in recent years, writes Ed Simon.

time.com

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tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 4h

"establish their right to conduct confrontational events in LGBTQ+ and marginalized neighbourhoods—they will create a legal precedent that positions Christian supremacist organizing as a protected activity that cities must accommodate, regardless of the disruption or harm that comes with it."