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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 20h

😂

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Mazarin221b @mazarin221b.bsky.social · 20h

Well this is fucking concerning. Not the blackmail part as much as the "fabricating legal documentation" and"writing self propogating worms" part.

www.axios.com/2025/05/23/a...

Anthropic's new AI model shows ability to deceive and blackmail

Claude 4 Opus showed willingness to deceive to preserve its existence in safety testing.

www.axios.com

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Mazarin221b @mazarin221b.bsky.social · 1d

One state just invaded another state. What in the civil war is this asshole playing at?

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Mazarin221b @mazarin221b.bsky.social · 1d

My EPA colleagues better be ready to not get paid.

... What a fucking shithead he is.

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Mazarin221b @mazarin221b.bsky.social · 2d

As we used to say: I cannot believe she went on Al Gore's Internet and said that out loud.

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Mazarin221b @mazarin221b.bsky.social · 2d

DO we all know each other? 😂 I also eonder if they included formula 1 as a sport, or if it was self-defined.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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Mazarin221b @mazarin221b.bsky.social · 3d

Explains the word vomit.

Mazarin221b @mazarin221b.bsky.social · 3d

Real question: what exactly is he on?

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Mazarin221b @mazarin221b.bsky.social · 4d

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Mazarin221b @mazarin221b.bsky.social · 4d

*speechless*

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4d

*takes massive bong rip*

hailey
@hailey.at • 6h
an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you'd agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing "dna" with "bits" doesn't make it ok
4J @dystopiabreaker.xyz • 3d
i'm completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron
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hailey
@hailey.at • 6h
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d

The New York Times doesn't tell you why the alleged murderer said he sent pizzas to the victim's house just before he ran down the girl and her best friend. He said on video that he was getting revenge for social media comments about death of Charlie Kirk.

2 Teen Girls Died In a Hit-And-Run. Another Teen Faces Murder Charges.

www.nytimes.com

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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 5d

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 5d

Whoa! A $600+ ACA increase, on a BRONZE PLAN? Insanity!

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Mazarin221b @mazarin221b.bsky.social · 5d

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. He told me Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

non-binary disaster bisexual @persian-slipper.bsky.social · 5d

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 6d

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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Mazarin221b @mazarin221b.bsky.social · 5d

Nice to know that the president and his administration actively hates more than half of the population.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Want more friends? A better social life? Be like my 85-year-old buddy Gerry

Friendship falters due to the belief it should just happen on its own. The solution: make a conscious effort to be social

www.theguardian.com

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Mazarin221b @mazarin221b.bsky.social · 5d

Ah, they've answered that question in a humongous FAQ - It's entirely possible they tried to download my book and that's why it's on the Atlantic list, but the file could have been corrupted or only partially downloaded so therefore it's not part of the class. It's actually a quite good website.

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Mazarin221b @mazarin221b.bsky.social · 5d

Well, hm. When I searched my book for the Anthropic class action (before the settlement) it was included. More that the website is live, it's not. Is it worth asking the question of someone or is it just one of those things where the final books proven used are just different?