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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 12h

speaking the truth

Darrell Owens @idothethinking.bsky.social · 12h

BART transfers are dumb
- Why is Balboa Park, an outdoor and grimy station, the transfer for airport trains instead of Embarcadero?
- Why is Bayfair, an outdoor station, the B transfer instead of sheltered Lake Merritt.
- Why is 19th St the O/Y transfer instead of 12th screwing over 12st riders?

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 13h

modernity is anxiety about policing gender

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 15h

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 16h

what is a minimum amount of words you can write and think to yourself "I wrote today"

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 16h

truly nonsensical, embarrassing

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 4d

reddit occupied government

Ken Dilanian
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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 16h

there is no way to put something on the internet without it being scraped

daniel @justdaniel.bsky.social · 17h

This is a thing I think most people really don't get. High-end scraping tools can login to all of the major social media and are scraping the fuck out of all of it. There are orgs building private equivalents of the Wayback Machine for purposes much less civic-minded.

We're already in a panopticon

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 17h

Absolutely nothing about this site’s architecture stops AI companies from scraping and training on it right now. The company everyone is freaking out about has clear license terms that say they aren’t doing that, but anything you post here is absolutely being used by someone for training

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 19h

the 2nd Klan really is what these folks want -- this is the Klan that marched with their faces shown to the public, who were a fascist organization in all but name

Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 22h

We really need to be thinking abt the current regime through the lens of the Second Klan, which helped to nationalize systems of Jim Crow state & vigilante violence & exploitation while creating an explicitly white nationalist immigration system. They even paraded down Pennsylvania Ave.

A 1926 klan parade marching down Pennsylvania Ave. The front of the column holds banners that read Connecticut & Rhode Island. Original available via the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001706338/

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 20h

"no way to stop this" says only civilization that's made this

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 20h

Good job Sora 2 has watermarks on its videos (people have already made tools that instantly remove the watermark)

www.404media.co/sora-2-water...

Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web

Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.

www.404media.co

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 22h

plusgood doublethink

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 22h

plusgood doublethink

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

n.pr

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 22h

if i were in the room with these guys this is one of those times when i'd say "ok so, is your plan to have the military stage a coup to oust you from government? like, is that the goal? cause you're doing a very good job if so"

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 23h

US House Speaker Johnson: Some legal analysts don't believe in shutdown backpay.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 23h

really weird reading all these posts abbreviating The Free Press as TFP, when for me that's the Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property -- a very different organization

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, who wants to be a camera for their boss every waking moment

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I think it should be socially and legally acceptable to smack these clean off somebody's face if they're filming you against your will

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming https://gizmodo.com/buckle-up-the-smart-glasses-backlash-is-coming-2000668213

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 1d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 1d

they call it "education" and are hoping it'll catch on

Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 1d

An academic program in Fairhaven is sending students back in time by encouraging them to read classic works of literature, learn Ancient Greek, and leave screens at the door.

In Bellingham classroom, no screens allowed, but Ancient Greek required | Cascadia Daily News

Founder wants to challenge students intellectually, teach respectful conversations

www.cascadiadaily.com

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 1d

The first amendment is famously only active during business hours in designated locations

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

New: Broadview, IL Mayor Katrina Thompson issued an executive order today - her first this year - limiting protest outside the Broadview ICE facility to between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The order cites "recent escalation of violence by ICE" at the facility as reason to restrict protest there.

An executive order restricting protest at the Broadview ICE facility. Full order can be found here:

https://broadview-il.gov/reference/latest-news/village-of-broadview-executive-order-no-2025-01/

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI’s planned data centers will use more power than New York City & San Diego use at their peak consumption, combined. More power than the entire nations of Switzerland & Portugal combined. And San Altman’s buddies in this administration have been cutting all of our energy infrastructure upgrades

Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune

Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

fortune.com

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 1d

haha lol

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 1d

people do not want to believe that conservatives actually mean what they say

Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of people on the liberal/leftist side of things underestimate this. They like to dismiss Republicans talking about dems and others being "satanists" and "in league with the devil" as red meat rhetoric to the base and it is that but it's also more. It's the Schmittian dichotomy distilled.

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

i do not respect this belief but it is enlightening to wrap your head around the fact that a significant number of your political rivals believe you are literally in league with satan, and act with concomitant zeal and brutality

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 1d

and the fringe groups in the GOP learned those traffic from the left in the sixties and seventies

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 1d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 2d

Trump advocates for genocidal tactics

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller is a psychopath.

nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 6d

The year is 2003.

17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."

Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 4d

and like Thatcher, she's extremely right wing

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 4d

Japan and Mexico have now both have female leaders before the US

Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Sanae Takaichi has been elected leader of the LDP, and is set to become Japan’s first female prime minister.

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