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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

(Published June)

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

www.propublica.org

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 4h

And NONE of them had the guts to put their name on that trash.

Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 4h

Another girlfriend if the founders of antifa: www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

'She believed you have to take sides': How Audrey Hepburn became a secret spy during World War Two

As a teenager growing up in the Netherlands, the Oscar-winning actress bravely carried messages for the Dutch resistance during the Nazi occupation.

www.bbc.com

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 4h

Can we get rid of the Yankees in the fox shows too?

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4h

Happy Yankee Season Is Over Day to all who celebrate!

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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 23h

Brexit promised us higher environmental standards. Since Brexit though, the UK has often failed to meet the minimum standards set by the EU.

Latest evidence shows the UK doubling exports of plastic waste to non-OCED countries while the EU has banned it.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

www.theguardian.com

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 5h

Fare thee well TiVo. For a couple of decades you were indispensable for opting out of the ad world, and great for sports watching. www.mediaplaynews.com/tivo-exiting...

TiVo Exiting Legacy DVR Business - Media Play News

TiVo, the digital video recording pioneer, has moved on from its legacy DVR technology, focusing instead on its branded operating system software promoting third-party content searches, recommendation...

www.mediaplaynews.com

Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 5h

Manufacturing Terrorists... again. gizmodo.com/donald-trump...

Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump

A new Homeland Security report details orders to connect protesters arrested in Portland to one another in service of the Trump's imaginary antifa plot.

gizmodo.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

AP: “.. the administration has only pointed to unclassified video clips of the strikes posted on social media by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and has yet to produce ‘hard evidence’ that the vessels were carrying drugs.”

@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/trum...

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 10h

I think the Dolphins will be selling DE's cheap. I'd be looking at Chubb and Phillips.

Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 10h

A pretty good article on how Russia is adapting (as well as failing to adapt, in many cases) after years of War in Ukraine. The Soviet/Russian mindset is still a massive issue... www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/how-r...

How Russia Recovered

What the Kremlin is learning from the war in Ukraine.

www.foreignaffairs.com

Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 11h

Just listen for the YABBA-DABBA-DOO!

a cartoon of flintstone standing in front of a blue door with the words yabba dabba doo below him

Alt: Fred Flintstone standing in front of a blue door with the words yabba dabba doo below him

media.tenor.com

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David M. Bennett MD (FAAOS, FPOSNA, DABOS) @davembmd.bsky.social · 14h

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. @aptshadow.bsky.social @abraham.bsky.social

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 11h

Dementia takes many forms...

Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 11h

It's important to note that CA did this (levied the massive fine and correctional actions) as a result of a Consumer Complaint.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 11h

This fine highlights what anyone who uses the internet knows: practically every company is tracking your online behavior. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

California Targets Tractor Supply's Tricky Tracking

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) fined Tractor Supply, the country's self-proclaimed largest "rural lifestyle" retailer, $1,350,000 for apparently ducking its responsibilities to

www.eff.org

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 11h

It probably would have worked if Trump thought Putin was winning (as he did for the first few months), but the splashy Ukrainian efforts got our TV-addled President to backtrack, it appears (and in taking the fight to Russia, also stirring up domestic fears.

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Physghoul 👻 @physgal.bsky.social · 11h

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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 11h

Black holes don’t just swallow everything - they might be creating something, too. A new theory suggests they could be the source of dark energy, the mysterious force behind the universe’s expansion. spklr.io/63321BKDFf

Are Black Holes Creating Dark Energy?

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery

spklr.io

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 11h

Halloween 2025 - Whatcha Watchin?

I’ve started it off with S1 of Penny Dreadful (on Prime), and it has been a great throwback to the Universal Monster movies of my youth thus far. Eva Green as Vanessa Ives is just amazing and commands every scene she is in.

Penny Dreadful promo poster with Eva Green and Josh Hartnett

Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 12h

I would have gone with Argentinian (ex-pat from WW2...)

Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 12h

Nice to see someone's making some bread in this economy! ;)

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 12h

Heh - too true!

Image of the Carroll County Veterinary Clinic sign:
If a tree falls in the forest and no one's there to see it
A chihuahua 500 miles away will bark at it.

Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 16h

Awww....

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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