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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 8h

OpenAI is publicly announcing this in order to drum up demand.

And then, thanks to their creative accounting scam of using annualized revenue (that no one can actually track since you never know what month they are multiplying by 12), they will juice their “revenue” with December’s numbers…

Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 8h

Tell me you're desperate for revenue without telling me.

Seriously, imagine your elevator pitch is "we offer an AI that revolutionizes the enterprise, answers questions at a PhD level, and also talks dirty to horny young men." It would be like if PornHub was selling a productivity suite.

404 Media @404media.co · 8h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

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zoladudley.bsky.social @zoladudley.bsky.social · 5h

I deigned to watch ABC Nightly News this evening & flipped it off after this report. With zero evidence they just repeated the propaganda. They also repeated the propaganda that we are blowing up cartel boats. ABC news will never be allowed in my house again.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Why would the cartels want to stop ICE and CBP activities that have been diverting resources away from drug interdiction?

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 6h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 11h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 13h

At 14, Ed Roberts was disabled by polio. He later became known as the father of the independent living movement.

At @motherjones.com, I interviewed Scot Danforth about his new book on Ed Roberts' life. @ucpress.bsky.social

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The radical life of the father of independent living

A new book explores disabled activist Ed Roberts' revolutionary career.

www.motherjones.com

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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Beth Hawkins @bethhawkins.bsky.social · 8h

🔥from @ericmgarcia.bsky.social

"Republicans used to understand that special education isn’t just something nice thing to have. It isn’t charity. It is a right. Republican presidents signed the bills that codified the right to a Free Appropriate Public Education for millions of Americans."

Opinion | Trump's mass firings strike a hammer blow against Americans with disabilities

The GOP once supported special education programs. Recent dismissals at the Education Department put an end to that support.

www.msnbc.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Bailing out Bessent’s billionaire friends on Wall Street from their bad investments is much more important.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 9h

Matt Taibbi *crickets*

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 15h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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zoladudley.bsky.social @zoladudley.bsky.social · 11h

So, Special education is a Democrat Program that is never coming back. No answers to as where this $ is going or if it will be getting to these programs via another route.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "The Democrats are getting killed on the shutdown, because we're closing up programs that are Democrat programs that we were opposed to. And they're never gonna come back."

zoladudley.bsky.social @zoladudley.bsky.social · 13h

Now that Cheryl Hines is out there trying to give normalcy to her grifting POS husband & herself, looks like I might need to mute her- I couldn’t careless about her and her eugenics loving husband.

Dancing Happy GIF

Alt: Dancing clown dressed as a doctor

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14h

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14h

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 18h

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 16h

(sigh) ONE MORE TIME FOR THOSE IN THE BACK:

acasignups.net/25/07/11/abo...

About Mike Johnson's attempt to make Gamer Dudebros the new Welfare Queens...

Over the past month or so, as Congressional Republicans have pulled out all the stops in their attempt to ram through their budget bill which would gut Medicaid and ACA exchange enrollment (along with...

acasignups.net

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

Last call! Our "Reproduction Causes Autism" tees campaign ends tonight at midnight ET/9 PM PT. Thanks to all who have supported so far.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 3d

Enough with the RFK Jr. BS. You know what causes autism? People having autistic kids. Whether those people have obvious autistic traits or not. FFS.

Wear our tee, spread the word, support @autisticadvocacy.org:

www.bonfire.com/reproduction...

#autism #autistic #neurodiversity

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Who was president in 2020? There appears to be a concerted effort to get you to forget

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/p...

‘Who was president in 2020?’ Trump and GOP want you to think it was Biden | CNN Politics

If you asked people what the worst one-year period in recent American history was, it’s a good bet that many would choose roughly between January 2020 and January 2021.

www.cnn.com

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 1d

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 1d

“This is absolutely a violation of federal law.”

For @motherjones.com, I reported about how reduction-in-forces in the Office of Special Education Programs will lead to disabled kids' needs not being met, as funding may not be distributed. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump's new layoffs hurt disabled kids

"This is absolutely a violation of federal law."

www.motherjones.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They're saying this because they want to say that you are Antifa, that you are a terrorist. That they are allowed to come after you. Don't let them get away with this."

Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social is a chilling must-read: www.thebulwark.com/p/are-you-an...

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

Proof that public outcry can still be helpful, if temporarily. The money was rerouted to the National Center on Deafblindness, who will then distribute to the other programs. But it is only one year's worth, so keep an eye on it.

Jodi Cohen @jodiscohen.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Department of Education reverses decision and will fund programs for students who are both deaf and blind.

But the money will flow a different way.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign

Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization th...

www.propublica.org

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