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Kevin Thurman @kmthurman.bsky.social · 5h

Fair, i guess i saw the problem being garbage in garbage out being very serious when it needs to anchor on brands whose mentions are likely high influenced by non-purchase intent memes and spam the companies generated themselves.

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Kevin Thurman @kmthurman.bsky.social · 9h

Why would they be good at this? Training data is likely highly biased in multiple ways. Am I misunderstanding the use case?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20h

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20h

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 20h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Kevin Thurman @kmthurman.bsky.social · 1d

Away from multiple scandals?

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

People think American cultural hegemony looks like McDonald’s drive throughs but it’s also bougie food halls. (Laudatory)

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Kevin Thurman @kmthurman.bsky.social · 2d

It’s civil war or at least the highly illegal federal precursor to it. So Congress should not find anything until the troops are withdrawn. States should take action to mobilize their own guard so they cannot be mobilized against others.

Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 2d

Also: what’s it called when military reserves from one state deploy, unwanted, to another state? A something-or-other between the states?

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2d

Okay. Well, if Trump is going to attempt legal end-arounds like federalizing the NG of GOP states to send them to Dem states over the objections of governors and courts, I think the Democrats should just keep the federal government shut down indefinitely.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Kevin Thurman @kmthurman.bsky.social · 5d

Also this is related to the idea that the us power and wealth is more like three dude in a trench coat pretending to be something rather that the hegemony with the widest distribution of wealth in history.

Kevin Thurman @kmthurman.bsky.social · 5d

Living anywhere except the US and having the concept that variety is a downstream aspect of wealth would disabuse anyone of this notion. Now they have more people without basic needs met than wealth implies but that’s a societal choice — and a bad one.

lil homie gay ass @shituationist.bsky.social · 9d

The reason that the US appears less poor than some third world nations is because state power here won't let you just build a shack. They'll tear it down and make you homeless so that no one has to see shacks. That's going to change as state power erodes.

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Kevin Thurman @kmthurman.bsky.social · 5d

I do think it’s supply demand issue based on a pandemic era social media correction and short-termism by company algorithms.

Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 5d

My big question for this is the extent to which it’s demand vs supply driven. My hunch is that people’s preference for keeping up with their friends is undiminished, but we’ve seen a boom-bust cycle in people’s desire to see the more easily-monetised churn of influencer content and now pure slop

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 5d

Have we passed peak social media? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/a072...

Kevin Thurman @kmthurman.bsky.social · 5d

Horrible on many levels but also typical terrible gift giving, special organic seeds or something is your better bet for Charles as that’s something he likes. A sword given by his second cousins is something Trump wants to give badly wishing he was a royal as well.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official.

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 6d

The Daily Watergate continues apace.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 7d

OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...

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Kevin Thurman @kmthurman.bsky.social · 8d

This speech alone should have him removed from office.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump to top military officials: "I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but our military. Because we're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 8d

What I sought from a Dem presidency, going into in 2020:
- regulators (Warren, E.-coded)

What I seek from a Dem presidency, going into 2028:
- regulators (Warren G.-coded)

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8d

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

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Anne Rasmussen @annerasmussen.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social

Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are?

@simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions

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Kevin Thurman @kmthurman.bsky.social · 9d

Not to mention I am totally fine subsidizing food at the point of production to lower food prices across the board, even globally. But If government is going to focus on the sector we should focus less on land and more on outputs, productivity and industry/employment health.

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Kevin Thurman @kmthurman.bsky.social · 9d

This is an example of a tear down of a system that i hope when we build it back we build it back with subsidies going to balance core day to day needs to ensure no one is hungry and core security needs to make sure every watershed and region can feed itself sustainably.

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Kevin Thurman @kmthurman.bsky.social · 11d

So friggin weird and everyone knew it at the time. But my favorite is when he donated the damned robes to the Smithsonian during the 2000 “restore honor and dignity” election. And we never got to find out whether he took a deduction with $30k. Clearly the lead up to everything we have now.

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Kevin Thurman @kmthurman.bsky.social · 11d

I agree, i would say it began then but the lead up was clear Thomas hearings and Rehnquist’s 3 stripes.

The one unspoken aspect of this is the money. Conservative have bought judges in states and federal for as long.

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Kevin Thurman @kmthurman.bsky.social · 14d

People pass law, law not enforced and but used as excuse to do something vague similar and more corrupt: hahaha its people who wrote the law that doesn’t allow any of this it’s their fault not the guy who did it or the courts.

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Kevin Thurman @kmthurman.bsky.social · 15d

I mean restoring media ownership rules, dealing with broken media market, and ending fiefdoms for beer, cars, and defacto in construction & development are great ideas but without court reform they will be very doa.

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Kevin Thurman @kmthurman.bsky.social · 15d

It doesn’t matter, but this is a deeply inauthentic way to talk — refusing to say his name. All she had to do was say what you say, “it’s an nyc race, it’s a local thing, won’t change national politics but will affect millions that live there so i support the nominee & the voters chose Mamdami.”