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Yeah Ton', it's me. The thing with our friends over there with the macaroni problem? It’s all taken care of. 🤌🏻
January 1, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Yeah Ton', it's me. The thing with our friends over there with the macaroni problem? It’s all taken care of. 🤌🏻
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DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.
![@DHSgov on X: The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world.
[Image of a beach] America after 100 million deportations](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreiccvipzc5mayvbrzoo3cxhkp2iayuhphh4grk6lziqajuk7d2leee@jpeg)
December 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.
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Wow.
Large law firms are siding with Trump over their clients and employees. Let me give you one statistic to exemplify this:
DOJ is suing 22 states for access to sensitive voter data.
My firm of 60 lawyers is fighting in all 22.
Not a single big law firm is fighting along side us in any case.
DOJ is suing 22 states for access to sensitive voter data.
My firm of 60 lawyers is fighting in all 22.
Not a single big law firm is fighting along side us in any case.
December 31, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Wow.
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"Attention hacking" makes it sound like they are winning the game rather than rigging it - Republicans bought up and control the biggest platforms and audiences. There are machines that literally determine what stories people see and conservatives own the machines.
I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example.
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
December 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM
"Attention hacking" makes it sound like they are winning the game rather than rigging it - Republicans bought up and control the biggest platforms and audiences. There are machines that literally determine what stories people see and conservatives own the machines.
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We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.
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What I learned…
The U.S. is an unstable political remix: state‑run primaries blew up party discipline, Congress can’t coordinate, and the presidency rushes into the vacuum.
When no institution can actually govern, the whole system starts to wobble.
The U.S. is an unstable political remix: state‑run primaries blew up party discipline, Congress can’t coordinate, and the presidency rushes into the vacuum.
When no institution can actually govern, the whole system starts to wobble.
December 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
What I learned…
The U.S. is an unstable political remix: state‑run primaries blew up party discipline, Congress can’t coordinate, and the presidency rushes into the vacuum.
When no institution can actually govern, the whole system starts to wobble.
The U.S. is an unstable political remix: state‑run primaries blew up party discipline, Congress can’t coordinate, and the presidency rushes into the vacuum.
When no institution can actually govern, the whole system starts to wobble.
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This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
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Remember that time in 2019 when Wohl, Loomer, and future“Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander went to Ilhan Omar’s district to make a video “exposing” it as a “no go zone” and phoned in a fake death threat? Anyway , these people now run the country. www.indy100.com/news/ilhan-o...
Laura Loomer tried to doorstep a congresswoman. It went very wrong
Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar has already made waves since taking office in January, causing a stir among her own party after criticising the influence of Israeli lobbyists in Washington.Her cri...
www.indy100.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Remember that time in 2019 when Wohl, Loomer, and future“Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander went to Ilhan Omar’s district to make a video “exposing” it as a “no go zone” and phoned in a fake death threat? Anyway , these people now run the country. www.indy100.com/news/ilhan-o...
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Jacob Wohl is the guy of “I overheard people talking in a hipster coffee shop about how much they love Donald Trump” fame. He’s apparently now making six figures securing pardons for fraudsters.
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Jacob Wohl is the guy of “I overheard people talking in a hipster coffee shop about how much they love Donald Trump” fame. He’s apparently now making six figures securing pardons for fraudsters.
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This thread perfectly explains why AI has little value for qualitative research.
Yes, large language models can find patterns in qualitative data. But, they're trained on what we already know. So, they won't find anything surprising. And, surprise is qualitative research's primary value-add.
Yes, large language models can find patterns in qualitative data. But, they're trained on what we already know. So, they won't find anything surprising. And, surprise is qualitative research's primary value-add.
Absolutely right.
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
Not a historian but like to research. The AI might summarize what I'm looking for, but it doesn't find what I'm *not* looking for. The book on the shelf next to the one I wanted. The insight in chapter 6 based on the quote I needed from chapter 4.
December 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This thread perfectly explains why AI has little value for qualitative research.
Yes, large language models can find patterns in qualitative data. But, they're trained on what we already know. So, they won't find anything surprising. And, surprise is qualitative research's primary value-add.
Yes, large language models can find patterns in qualitative data. But, they're trained on what we already know. So, they won't find anything surprising. And, surprise is qualitative research's primary value-add.
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Bending your institution to meet the prejudices of your dumbest, meanest students is a surefire way to destroy a university.
Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.
Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Bending your institution to meet the prejudices of your dumbest, meanest students is a surefire way to destroy a university.
Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.
Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
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i wish they'd stop calling it "the old abandoned mine" i live there
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 AM
i wish they'd stop calling it "the old abandoned mine" i live there
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Penelope waiting for Odysseus
ink on scratchboard
2013
ink on scratchboard
2013
December 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Penelope waiting for Odysseus
ink on scratchboard
2013
ink on scratchboard
2013
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I honestly still can’t believe they did this
it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release.
AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.
AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.
December 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I honestly still can’t believe they did this
it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
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Ok then..
December 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Ok then..
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I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
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The supposedly dastardly Chinese algorithm that required everyone to lose their minds and set fire to the first amendment for this law also remains owned and developed by bytedance and is leased to the US consortium under this deal. So, y'know, congrats everyone, great job
December 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The supposedly dastardly Chinese algorithm that required everyone to lose their minds and set fire to the first amendment for this law also remains owned and developed by bytedance and is leased to the US consortium under this deal. So, y'know, congrats everyone, great job
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So we can all agree that when the Epstein files come out, anything making Trump look bad will have been redacted and/or removed, right-wingers will treat questioning this as a crazy conspiracy theory, and mainstream media will push the "Trump did nothing wrong" angle, right?
December 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
So we can all agree that when the Epstein files come out, anything making Trump look bad will have been redacted and/or removed, right-wingers will treat questioning this as a crazy conspiracy theory, and mainstream media will push the "Trump did nothing wrong" angle, right?
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MAGA is fighting each other. Trump's getting old and it's creating a power vacuum. It feels "smart" to tell yourself not to feel hope because these people will never change. But it's wrong.
They don't need to change. They just need to hate each other so much they can't organize.
They don't need to change. They just need to hate each other so much they can't organize.
December 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
MAGA is fighting each other. Trump's getting old and it's creating a power vacuum. It feels "smart" to tell yourself not to feel hope because these people will never change. But it's wrong.
They don't need to change. They just need to hate each other so much they can't organize.
They don't need to change. They just need to hate each other so much they can't organize.
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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscopic slide. 🫧🐻🧪
December 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscopic slide. 🫧🐻🧪
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true