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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 3h

It was fun verse to add to the ballard of Ange for a few minutes till thought crept it. But I am guilty of the RT.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3h

Yesterday I wrote about the effort by center-left pundits to police what people are passionate about.
www.pbump.net/o/sincerity-...

Sincerity is not the problem

As is inevitably the case after an election — and is especially the case after an election with an unexpected result — allies of the losing presidential candidate in 2024 looked for people to blame. O...

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 3h

I both hate and want that bowl equally.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 4h

Meant it as a UK your, but yeah, bad phrasing.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4h

There's always a tweet.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7h

Boston. Wow.

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Rachael P @plussone.bsky.social · 7h

Helicopter view of Chicago #NoKings in Grant Park via @cbschicago.bsky.social

View from the sky of tens of thousands gathered in Chicago's Grant Park for the No Kings protest

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 6h

Just found out how utterly fucking cooked A24 movies is. Major investment from a kushner, Adobe's head of product brought on to push AI/algorithm driven movies. That studio is done man.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 8h

Examples of how fascist untruths get regurgitated as fact by LLMs are ubiquitous, but this one is really jarring. The Harvard Kennedy School article Gemini scraped is entirely about how the claim is false. Gemini cannot parse this, instead sharing DHS propaganda as fact when you search her name.

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Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org
Detention of Rümeysa Öztürk
On March 25, 2025, following the revocation of her F-1 student visa, 30-year-old Turkish national and Tufts University student Rümeysa Oztürk was arrested ...
Canary Mission
William K. Sessions III
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People also ask
What did Rumeysa Ozturk do?
DHS and ICE investigations found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. A visa is a privilege not a right.
Mar 27, 2025
https://www.hks.harvard.edu
On the Frightened Voice of Rumeysa

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 8h

Yep. The really fun rumours include a fist fight with the owner.

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I don’t enjoy halloween and find excuses to not be around for it @37h3r.net · 10h

11 set piece goals later, the ship has left again.

Take the Statsbomb set pieces courses or something, please dude

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🔪🎃 Dustin Gore-Killer 🎃🔪 @george-miller.org · 10h

Reppin' the club at the rally! #NoKings (but Ledley)

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"Frightening" Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 9h

Please enjoy this sketch of ZORRO 🗡️

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james king @jamesean.bsky.social · 10h

if true, today gets better.

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John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 12h

Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.

A tweet from Sky News reading 'Aston Villa fan Andrew Fox says he has received online abuse and even death threats following the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the match in Birmingham.' A follow up tweet says 'This is a correction of a previous post that incorrectly identified Mr Fox as Jewish'.

A page from the Henry Jackson Society website for Andrew Fox, Research Fellow, which says he joined HJS in 2014 and that 'Andrew specialises in Defence, the Middle East, and disinformation'.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

This is a very good point about DHS. They direct harassment campaigns on Twitter using quote-tweets.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky.

Block on sight.

Protect your digital space.

Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them.

The detach quote function will come in very handy here…

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Bill @billwashere.bsky.social · 10h

Nuno getting out before that regression hit was a great career move.

Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 10h

wait, what?

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Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · 1d

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

Euronews @euronews.com · 1d

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 12h

The cognitive burden and time investment of reading search engine results... my god this is new levels of softness

Neil @realneilc.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair, it isn't that simple. "Typing the question in a search engine reading the answer" doesn't exist. Search engines give you a ton of links. The cognitive burden and time investment are on you to go through them and figure out which results work best

There are far better AI criticisms

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

Every one of these ChatGPT ads I see is batshit some dude has been suggested a dish to make to impress a girl so he had to type the q into chatgpt, read the answer and then follow it - as opposed to typing the question in a search engine reading the answer and then following it??? it's so stupid

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12h

This is true but actually the number is more like 100,000 and actually you could achieve most of it with <15,000.

With the latter number properly distributed, you could control every selection in every plausibly winnable seat the party could have at its peak.

ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 12h

What we are seeing is that uk politics without a viable center right party is a shit show.

only way to save the British right is for 500,000 broadly normal professionals and homeowners to join the Tory party.

Calling on all utilitarians and consequentialists: your duty is clear.

Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 13h

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 12h

"“I just do it for devilment. I do it just to get away with it.”

Behold, the Avatar of our age.

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 19h

I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman

Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.

www.londoncentric.media

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Councillor Adam Hug @adamhug.bsky.social · 13h

Westminster spends its time fighting off one mad tax scam after another. Really keen to see more from HMRC and others to get to the bottom of this snail farm loonery along with our previous candy and wizard problems.

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 19h

I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman

Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.

www.londoncentric.media

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 20h

I saw some folks thinking that voice acting in games was objectively good, always a positive. "What kind of game doesn't have voice acting in 2025?!" sorta thing

I say that there are positive reasons why one would choose NOT to have VO.

How many design justifications we can come up with?

Join me

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 13h

So far nobody has suggested toothpaste or pineapple juice in their eyes for tear gas. But the day is still young

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