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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 5d

oh Wait

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d

“These are scenes I was not expecting to see in the US. You have detentions in Germany, but …they’re certainly not carried out by people who are wearing masks. There’s no comparison to that in Germany”

—German journalist reporting from outside an NYC immigration center
www.cjr.org/getting-the-...

Scenes from immigration court in New York’s Federal Plaza.

Till Eckert spent two weeks reporting from the twelfth-floor hallways, where ICE agents have had charged encounters with immigrants and reporters.

www.cjr.org

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 5d

my heart goes out to you

I haven't listened to it yet but the bbc loves it www.bbc.com/news/article...

Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl is a loved-up pop victory lap

Taylor Swift's 12th album is a breathtakingly fun pop record, capturing the joy of falling in love.

www.bbc.com

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 5d

oh james

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 5d

“No self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar and former Columbia University president. “Trying to protect conservative ideas against being ‘belittled’ — that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.”

Colleges weigh whether to sign onto Trump plan or forgo federal benefits

A new proposal from the Trump administration would give colleges funding advantages if they adopt conservative priorities.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 5d

I have an answer:

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 5d

amen

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 5d

Dear computer boffins please stop trying to fix problems I don’t have | First Dog on the Moon

I don’t want AI in anything and certainly not everything please stop asking * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 5d

ok I'm in

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 5d

I can’t exactly describe how viscerally 90s the new Taylor album sounds to me. And not like in a here’s my new take on the 90s way, just, this is what the 90s sounded like kinda way.

And I wonder if whether you remember the cranberries and six pence none the richer is gonna impact how you hear it.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 5d

a more pointed question perhaps is why congress seems ok with neutering its own very clearly defined powers

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 5d

*sigh* www.defensenews.com/news/pentago...

Trump declares drug cartels operating in Caribbean unlawful combatants

Trump has declared drug cartels operating in the Caribbean are unlawful combatants and says the U.S. is now in a “non-international armed conflict.”

www.defensenews.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information:

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Reuters @reuters.com · 5d

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration

Apple said on Thursday that it had removed ICEBlock, the most popular ICE-tracking app, and other similar apps from its App Store after it was contacted by President Donald Trump's administration.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 5d

also I'd just like to say that this moment and like the decade afterward sure did feel like everything was going to work out

German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 5d

“This morning, Germany is one nation again.”

This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 5d

so anyway, do we like the new taylor swift album

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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 5d

“This morning, Germany is one nation again.”

This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 5d

anyway there is zero chance an ai-generated humanoid figure and dialogue reader will ever be remotely an "actor" because that involves emotion and audience connection, two things math problems famously suck at

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 5d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

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

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 5d

this is one of journalism's favorite things (especially in the opinion and "news analysis" spheres): to raise questions by writing an article about questions being raised... by us

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 5d

No it doesn’t, that’s you doing that

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 5d

Tilly Norwood raises the question of who will be the first to win an Oscar for best AI in a leading role

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 5d

No it doesn’t, that’s you doing that

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 5d

Tilly Norwood raises the question of who will be the first to win an Oscar for best AI in a leading role

Tilly Norwood Is Expensive, Even for Hollywood

The “synthetic actress” may be cheaper to cast than Leonardo DiCaprio, but AI’s footprint carries major economic and environmental costs.

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 6d

New: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement complied with a federal judge's order to release from custody 28-year-old Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago, a DACA recipient who has lived in the U.S. for two decades.

ICE complies with judge’s order and quickly releases El Paso DACA recipient

The El Paso federal judge said the Trump administration is violating the constitutional rights of Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago, a DACA recipient who has lived in the U.S. for two decades.

www.texastribune.org

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6d

yo swedes I heard you like water in your water

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 6d

do they know there are u.s. citizen communist globalists

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 7d

This is absurd.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 6d

so far looks like mass firings and (not sure what mechanism) canceling funding for blue state projects

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 6d

the trap is just their idea that they can hurt states/cities/americans and blame dems. but it's a poorly thought out trap

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 6d

I mean I think the crucial thing here is inflicting deliberate harm on states/cities/americans and gloating about it removes the one complication of a shutdown for dems, which is getting blamed for it.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 6d

in all seriousness, I don't think most normal people appreciate that the majority of the military is a logistical and administrative machine

if you make the military entirely the pointy bit of the spear it simply will not work

Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 6d

I know these guys are all dumber than a sack of hammers, but it is fascinating to see the military decide “logistics are gay” in real time

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