40shillingsonthedrum
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40shillingsonthedrum
@llarrian.bsky.social
World Of Warcraft, occasional politics, here for synchronies, heads ups and punchlines.
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termine.di.day #DIDitf="/hashtag/DIDit" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#DIDit #DUTgemachtashtag/DUTgemacht" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#DUTgemacht

Ohne Unabhängigkeit keine Freiheit!
Heute ist der erste Digital Independence Day (DID)! An jedem ersten Sonntag im Monat wollen wir ab jetzt aus einem Big-Tech-Gefängnis ausbrechen – und natürlich auch anderen dabei helfen. #DIDit #DUTgemacht
January 4, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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finally, we're living through precedented times
January 4, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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I don’t love you and I’m not holding your hand: call your Senator and tell them that the must shut down the government on January 30th until this ends, a thing that Democrats have the hard power to do at this very moment.
I love you all and am holding your hand as I say this:

Dems wield zero hard power levers
it's kind of crazy that there's even any question that democrats are going to do anything about this
January 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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At some point (*soon*), we have to release ourselves of our need to refer to these actions as illegal. Legality has never curtailed authoritarianism.

Unethical. Inhumane. Death dealing. We have so many more words to help with this.
January 3, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world.

This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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We owe our unshakable solidarity to the people of Venezuela against the shameless, nakedly criminal actions of US imperialists in kidnapping a sovereign nation’s elected leader on fraudulent charges for transparently ideological reasons. The lawless terror of US hegemony threatens the whole world. 🇻🇪
January 3, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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If you are watching what is happening in Venezuela from Greenland, you know that Donald Trump may one day draw up spurious charges against your leader and then simply arrive one day, arrest him and then never leave.
January 3, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Merz sagt noch nichts, weil er weder Trump, seinen Koalitionspartner noch die deutsche Bevölkerung verärgern will, die einem US-Angriffskrieg wohl eher kritisch gegenübersteht. Der außenpolitische Sprecher der CDU zeigt jedoch schon klar, auf wessen Seite sich seine Partei stellen will.
January 3, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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Guys, I'm sure the oil had nothing to do with it. Zero. Nada. www.wsj.com/business/ene...
How Chevron Secured Its Place as Venezuela’s Largest Foreign Investor
The U.S. oil company and President Trump agree that opportunity abounds in the Latin American country.
www.wsj.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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It is 1991. I am watching a Republican initiate military action against an oil-producing country.

It is 2003. I am watching a Republican initiate military action against an oil-producing country.

It is 2026. I am watching a Republican initiate military action against an oil-producing country.
January 3, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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it's a massive failure of our society that we have allowed companies to distance themselves from the horrible things said by their AI, which has been created to represent them. if your AI says it, it should be equivalent to a live human person making the same statement, and treated accordingly
January 2, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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Bereitet Euch schon mal mental drauf vor, dass wir an dem Zeitpunkt, in dem die frz. Justiz Maßnahmen gegen X aufgrund des pornographischen Materials ergreifen wird, einen Diskurs haben werden, in denen uns Springer- & andere Medien-Kreaturen erklären, Kinderpornographie sei Meinungsfreiheit.
January 2, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."

This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.

Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
January 3, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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A lot of people are noticing the spread of AI sexual abuse material on X now, but it has been happening for years. Young actresses like Jenna Ortega and Xochitl Gomez fled the platform. Even celebrities say there’s nothing they can do to stop it. Misogynistic violence is the main reason I left X.
January 2, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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My understanding of what the AI industry is doing right now is hoping they can fund enough compute to hopefully will an actual Machine God into existence before everyone realizes they can't do anything approaching that. It may be best to view it, at this point, as a religion.
January 2, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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And considering the owner of twitter is cheering this specific use of his product & men are eagerly defending it, the message is clear. Especially to boys. Violating women gets you male approval. It's a tool for status. It will be celebrated & protected. That's rape culture.
January 2, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story

www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.
www.readtpa.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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Parker's piece nails why this matters. "Tech companies... would rather not answer for their products’ failures. Every headline that says “Grok apologizes” or “Grok admits” or “Grok says” creates a world where the chatbot takes the fall while Musk and his executives face no scrutiny whatsoever."
January 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point
Nonconsensual deepfakes on X are nothing new, but now it's built into the platform.
spitfirenews.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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Leave, delete the app, salt the earth behind you, do not look back.
January 2, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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Eine #Studie der @ruhr-uni-bochum.de zeigt, dass ein Tempolimit auf Autobahnen nicht nur Menschenleben retten, sondern auch hunderte Millionen Euro einsparen könnte. Mehr über die aufwendige Analyse von Verkehrsdaten erfährst du von @lohmann.bsky.social. #verkehr #mobilität
Allgemeines Tempolimit auf Autobahnen würde Leben retten
Eien außergewöhnliche Analyse zeigt: Ein Tempolimit von 120 km/h auf deutschen Autobahnen reduziert tödliche Unfälle um 35 % und schwere Unfälle um 26 %.
www.riffreporter.de
January 2, 2026 at 6:01 AM