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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 22h

Thugs

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Scott Rose @rprose.bsky.social · 1d

Zelda Williams: “And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line”

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Robin Williams’ Daughter Tells Fans to ‘Stop Sending Me AI Videos of Dad’: It’s ‘Gross’ and ‘Not What He’d Want’

Zelda Williams tells fans not to send her AI recreations of father Robin Williams, calling them "gross."

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Jon Green @modestholdings.com · 1d

My experience has been that dying is easy. It's the end of living, that's hard.

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1d

Hospice is not 'giving up,' it is a different kind of medical care suited to a change in your medical needs. You can get it at home, in a standalone facility, or in a hospital. It can come with the degree of intervention you want. Hospice cares for your loved ones too.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

Printing stuff off my phone feels like the future

It’s probably the only technology in my life that feels like the future, the rest is awful

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

"I prompted the AI to devise a lesson plan that explains why students need to become proficient in prompting AI—so they can land writing jobs in the future, where they will spend their days prompting AI."

I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers

I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 1d

Please read this.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 1d

Not to pile on, but www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 1d

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 1d

I'm just going to assume these kinds of videos are all AI now

Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 1d

Baby raccoons are trying to walk through a fence on a very windy day.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here

For more like this:
tiktok.com/@drewharwell
instagram.com/bydrewharwell

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

@schiff.senate.gov It does bro, it has. You gonna do something about it other than go on talk shows and look surprised

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

Sen. Schiff to NBC: "He's described me as the enemy within. He's described other Democratic elected officials as the enemy within. He is using the Justice Dept. to go after his political enemies, and he's using the Justice Dept. to protect his political friends … This should concern every American."

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 2d

There is a massive overinterpretation of the 2024 election results in the media as being some huge pro-Trump swing. 2 out of 100 people net switched from the Democrats to the Republicans.

Just wait. There is going to be a big swing back to the Democrats in the upcoming elections and midterms...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

Narrator: This is fascism.

The image is an X post by Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis
) from 19 hours ago, stating: "So let me get this straight: a Blackhawk helicopter and dozens of masked, armed federal agents roll up on a Chicago apartment building, cuff everyone—including kids—and then run checks for warrants and immigration status? What the hell is going on in this country? How is that not fascism?" The post includes a verified badge.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 2d

“Mastodon actually has a lot of great people and if everyone here wants to pick up and move there that’s fine by me.”

Norman Rockwell man standing up a meeting painting.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 2d

Purdue’s gotta shake it off.

Joe Fray @josephfray.bsky.social · 3d

What the fuck is this stat

ESPN push: The TSwift curse lives on. Purdue is now 0-11 following Taylor Swift album releases after loss to Illinois

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 2d

So many things have to go wrong socially, politically, and personally to create the conditions where a group of young men, armed agents of the state, deliberately and violently suppress a person’s constitutionally protected right to criticize government.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 3d

What do you have to do to a person to make them behave like this? What brings a person to a point in their life where they’re gleefully inflicting lawless, unjust violence like this?

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 3d

I remember my conservative grandparents telling me as a child that what made Saddam Hussein unquestionably an evil man was that he used chemical weapons against his own people.

onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

i just can’t get over ICE going into the streets of the city i live in, throwing gas at citizens, invading people who live here. this is state sponsored terrorism being enacted on americans

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d

overt nazi language in this DHS job listing (which i’m told is for a low-level but important job in adjudicating immigration applications and requires knowledge of the law)

Homeland Defender (Immigration Services
Officer)
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Citizenship and Immigration Services
Field Operations Directorate

Protect your homeland and defend your culture. Join USCIS, America's frontline defense against illegal foreign infiltration and fraud.
This entry-level role requires no college degree and offers up to $50,000 in signing and retention bonuses. If you're driven and ready to serve with pride, join USCIS and become a vital part of homeland security!

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 4d

The dead wife who motivated the Punisher’s lifetime of murderous vigilantism recently came back to life in the comics just long enough to express her horror that he had done such monstrous things in the name of their children and disavow him.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

comic book authors: we invented the punisher as a cautionary tale about vigilante crime fighting
the director of the fbi: at long last, we are implementing the ethos from the classic comic book the punisher

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 4d

reddit occupied government

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 4d

Never forget who we are.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/...

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