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@rmaud.io
He/him. Sober, coder, graying bisexual, and happy to chat about any of that.
twitch.tv/karmaudio
twitch.tv/karmaudio
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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I will be donating because Sheryl does so much work for people PRO-BONO and needs to be able to hire someone to assist. She also fundraises to support others but not herself. If you can support, please do.
Hello Thriends! I hate asking for things On Here, but here goes.
With the ICE raids and spike in immigration based evictions in Illinois, the simple truth is that I can't keep up with the demand for my services. There are way more people who need a name-your-own-price lawyer than there are Sheryls.
With the ICE raids and spike in immigration based evictions in Illinois, the simple truth is that I can't keep up with the demand for my services. There are way more people who need a name-your-own-price lawyer than there are Sheryls.
Get more from Sheryl Weikal, the Name Your Own Price Lawyer on Patreon
BECAUSE REPRESENTATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT
www.patreon.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I will be donating because Sheryl does so much work for people PRO-BONO and needs to be able to hire someone to assist. She also fundraises to support others but not herself. If you can support, please do.
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A big reason this is bad is it could let the Future Forward Super PAC escape any accountability for the 2024 loss. It had hundreds of millions of dollars in donor money, and the DNC report was reportedly going to fault them. Now this will remain undisclosed:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
December 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A big reason this is bad is it could let the Future Forward Super PAC escape any accountability for the 2024 loss. It had hundreds of millions of dollars in donor money, and the DNC report was reportedly going to fault them. Now this will remain undisclosed:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
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🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨
PRINCE ROGERS NELSON
CHOSE THE COLOR PURPLE
AS HIS EMBLEMATIC COLOR
BECAUSE OF THE BOOK
HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON
(this has been verified)
which -- absolutely changes how imma hear Purple Rain from now on idk abt you
(PS that is not a white child, fight me)
PRINCE ROGERS NELSON
CHOSE THE COLOR PURPLE
AS HIS EMBLEMATIC COLOR
BECAUSE OF THE BOOK
HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON
(this has been verified)
which -- absolutely changes how imma hear Purple Rain from now on idk abt you
(PS that is not a white child, fight me)
December 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨
PRINCE ROGERS NELSON
CHOSE THE COLOR PURPLE
AS HIS EMBLEMATIC COLOR
BECAUSE OF THE BOOK
HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON
(this has been verified)
which -- absolutely changes how imma hear Purple Rain from now on idk abt you
(PS that is not a white child, fight me)
PRINCE ROGERS NELSON
CHOSE THE COLOR PURPLE
AS HIS EMBLEMATIC COLOR
BECAUSE OF THE BOOK
HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON
(this has been verified)
which -- absolutely changes how imma hear Purple Rain from now on idk abt you
(PS that is not a white child, fight me)
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Extending the ACA subsidies is essential. Letting the subsidies expire does catastrophic harm to our communities.
With two health care bills failing to advance in the Senate on Thursday, the ACA's enhanced premium tax credits — which 90% of enrollees in the government health program rely on to ease the cost of affording health insurance — are almost certain to expire on Dec. 31.
With ACA subsidies set to lapse, millions of Americans face a painful spike in health plan costs
"I don't know how I'm going to pay for this," said one person with an Affordable Care Act plan that will cost her $1,100 a month starting in January.
cbsn.ws
December 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Extending the ACA subsidies is essential. Letting the subsidies expire does catastrophic harm to our communities.
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LLMs.
They promote suicide and murder, undermine a century of educational practice, drive deskilling, harm the environment, and benefit foreign adversaries spreading disinformation.
But the federal government wants to prohibit states from regulating them.
You'd think they were guns.
They promote suicide and murder, undermine a century of educational practice, drive deskilling, harm the environment, and benefit foreign adversaries spreading disinformation.
But the federal government wants to prohibit states from regulating them.
You'd think they were guns.
Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die
OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.
arstechnica.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
LLMs.
They promote suicide and murder, undermine a century of educational practice, drive deskilling, harm the environment, and benefit foreign adversaries spreading disinformation.
But the federal government wants to prohibit states from regulating them.
You'd think they were guns.
They promote suicide and murder, undermine a century of educational practice, drive deskilling, harm the environment, and benefit foreign adversaries spreading disinformation.
But the federal government wants to prohibit states from regulating them.
You'd think they were guns.
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Refuse to acknowledge the rants of a psychopath and sadist. Celebrate Rob Reiner and his all of his beautiful films. Watch them. Laugh with them. Cry with them. Share them.
December 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Refuse to acknowledge the rants of a psychopath and sadist. Celebrate Rob Reiner and his all of his beautiful films. Watch them. Laugh with them. Cry with them. Share them.
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Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
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online gambling is essentially legal and open money fixing and laundering at this point
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
online gambling is essentially legal and open money fixing and laundering at this point
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BREAKING: 9 killed in shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach and police fatally shot one of 2 gunmen, Australian Broadcasting Corp says.
Gunmen kill 9 at Bondi Beach; police kill one, arrest another
Two gunmen have shot dead nine people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. This tragic event occurred on Sunday.
bit.ly
December 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
BREAKING: 9 killed in shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach and police fatally shot one of 2 gunmen, Australian Broadcasting Corp says.
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Oh this is a really great idea and generally those are "use it or lose it" so what a great way to use it!
This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
December 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Oh this is a really great idea and generally those are "use it or lose it" so what a great way to use it!
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Yesterday, Secretary Kristi Noem agreed, on the record, to meet with me.
We will hold her accountable to it.
We will hold her accountable to it.
December 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Yesterday, Secretary Kristi Noem agreed, on the record, to meet with me.
We will hold her accountable to it.
We will hold her accountable to it.
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Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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This is awesome. Print is such a good way to get around a bunch of distribution (and surveillance!) mechanisms that seem otherwise mandatory in this very gross economy. It is really nice to see it spelled out like this.
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is awesome. Print is such a good way to get around a bunch of distribution (and surveillance!) mechanisms that seem otherwise mandatory in this very gross economy. It is really nice to see it spelled out like this.
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
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Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
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Thread, long but very worth it.
My parents were free-wheeling Boomers convinced things were only ever going to get better, financially. They had good reason, then. They could afford a house, car, and weekly nights out on two full time assistant manager jobs at a fast food chain. But they also got caught up in emulating wealth trap
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Thread, long but very worth it.
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And showing up often means sending a letter and following up with calls so excuses of not having time don't fly.
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
And showing up often means sending a letter and following up with calls so excuses of not having time don't fly.
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“PJM is currently proposing to allow the interconnection of large new data center loads that it cannot serve reliably and that will require load curtailments (blackouts) of the data centers or of other customers at times. That result is not consistent with the basic responsibility of PJM…”
The regional electric grid that covers Virginia should stop plugging in data centers until it has enough high-voltage lines and power plants to meet their demands for electricity, the grid’s
Grid's watchdog: Halt data centers until infrastructure catches up
The regional electric grid that covers Virginia should stop plugging in data centers until it has enough high-voltage lines and power plants to meet their demands for electricity, the grid’s
richmond.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“PJM is currently proposing to allow the interconnection of large new data center loads that it cannot serve reliably and that will require load curtailments (blackouts) of the data centers or of other customers at times. That result is not consistent with the basic responsibility of PJM…”
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Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Psst! Registration ends in a few days!
I'll be doing an online workshop on character creation and development for Blue Stoop on December 7th! Interested? Register and pay here: www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/nk...
Finding the Heart of Your Story, a masterclass with N.K. Jemisin — Blue Stoop
Building a character is building a world of one; defining them, shaping them, and changing them is what a story is for. In this craft-first virtual masterclass, award winning author N. K. Jemisin will...
www.bluestoop.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Psst! Registration ends in a few days!
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In the horror of things, please yeet your Oura into a bin and then light it on fire. They're in violation of privacy and HIPAA laws.
I wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year for this.weekinsecurity.com, and found:
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
December 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
In the horror of things, please yeet your Oura into a bin and then light it on fire. They're in violation of privacy and HIPAA laws.
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ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety.
My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.
My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety.
My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.
My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.
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They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.