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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 10h

we're so done. no one is going to be able to tell if any video they watch moving forward is real or not if it requires them to have critical thinking

can't wait to see how this is weaponized

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 10h

How to tell a video is AI

www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell
www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell/

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 2d

just insane www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Paramount Buys The Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News

www.nytimes.com

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 3d

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 3d

haven't seen this posted anywhere other than Reddit, but it seems like G&L Instruments, the last company set up by Leo Fender, the inventor of some of the most famous electric guitars and basses of all time, shut down this week

anyone know more ?
www.reddit.com/r/Bass/comme...

From the Bass community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Bass community

www.reddit.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

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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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 5d

nope

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 5d

The sight of opposition politicians being arrested is becoming more and more common in America.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 5d

The post-9/11 militarization of police forces remains one of the worst reallocations of material in US history. It will be the tool with which fascism likely spreads unopposed until it chokes our country. There are no well-regulated militias out there to stop these Desert Storm wannabes

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

Snapped this pic of DHS conferring with the IL state police just before ICE attacked the crowd, while state and county police assisted them. ICE said, "This is your first and only warning" and then instantly attacked. We were not in the road at that time. They just wanted to assault us and film it.

A DHS leader confers with a state of IL cop at a protest.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 5d

I do love that the people who built bluesky learned nothing about running a social network beforehand and are thus committed to making all the same social network mistakes as everyone who came before them, from first principles

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 5d

100 million Americans ?

ok

The Independent @the-independent.com · 6d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 5d

i mean most art is to a greater or lesser degree, but folklore at least was around a set of characters, rather than herself specifically

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 5d

isn't that what Folklore and Evermore were

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 5d

I don't get the AI doodads market

who wants to be constantly surveilled and annoy everyone around them just to get a summary of ephemeral stuff they didn't really need to remember anyway
www.wired.com/story/i-hate...

I Hate My Friend

The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy.

www.wired.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 6d

Dictators always go after universities
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 6d

my reason is i can't be bothered to change the email address i've used for 20 years

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 6d

a contemporary movie feels contemporary? astute analysis

Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 6d

this shutdown talk blaming democrats is like when a bully grabs your arm, starts hitting you with it, and then says, "why are you hitting yourself ?"

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 7d

i can't put my finger on why, but the term "vibe coding" makes me shudder like no other tech phrase ever has

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 8d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 8d

basically everything about this is wrong and horrifying but I'm stuck on the absolute fucking chutzpah you'd need to lecture professional military personnel like this after you personally texted wildly classified war plans to the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 8d

aren't you the opposition

Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 8d

military leaders hopefully remembering they swore to defend the constitution against all enemies foreign *and* domestic

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8d

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 11d

it rips

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 11d

afternoon

It’s my guitar and all the tiny machines that make it sound weird

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