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Barry Deutsch

@barrydeutsch.bsky.social

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Post from "The Rundown"

July 18 at 5:30 PM
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DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online.
The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery.
While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material.
Source: TechCrunch

August 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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Melon Baller

@toomuchmelon.bsky.social

Deporting a 2yo sounds bad at first but have you seen this

Trump holding a photo of a baby’s fist with MS13 letters on its fingers (parody, for clarity)

April 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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Sarah Scott Scire

@sarahscire.com

Wild to flip through "Central ND News," described in court docs as "a direct mailer, stylized as a local newspaper." www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/a-pi...

A pipeline company is suing Greenpeace for $300 million. A pay-to-play newspaper is accused of tainting the jury pool

Though Central ND News promises to "fill the void in community news after years of decline in local reporting by legacy media” with “100% original reporting,” no staff are listed on the site and few s...

www.niemanlab.org

March 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM

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Democracy Docket

@democracydocket.com

Rep. Jamie @raskin.house.gov: "Here's something every American can do and ought to do: Get your FOIA request in" to DOGE.

Congressman Raskin explains how he's fighting back against Elon Musk's DOGE. Watch the full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYnN...

March 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM

HMP

@sugarbeetqueen.bsky.social

Believe it or not, but we totally have grocery stores in SE NM and W TX.

whet moser @whetmoser.com · Mar 10

um www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...

“It’s very, very difficult for measles to kill a healthy person,” he said, adding later that “we see a correlation between people who get hurt by measles and people who don’t have good nutrition or who don’t have a good exercise regimen.”

West Texas is “kind of a food desert,” he added. Malnutrition “may have been an issue” for the child who died of measles in Gaines County.

Texas health officials said the child had “no known underlying conditions.”

March 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM

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Jess Piper

@piperformissouri.bsky.social

He said he was “deporting criminals” but he’s actually importing them…

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Feb 27

BREAKING

Andrew and Tristan Tate have been released by Romanian authorities after significant pressure by the Trump administration.

They are en route to Florida via private jet.

BREAKING

Andrew and Tristan Tate have been allowed by Romanian authorities to leave the country.

They are reportedly en route to Florida on a private jet.

This comes after the Trump administration placed serious pressure on the Romanian government to loosen restrictions on the brothers.

It is unclear whether the charges remain in place and they were allowed to leave the country, or if the charges have been dropped or they have been pardoned.

G4Media was the first to report this news, with Reuters and Sky News picking it up.

In Romania, the brothers have been charged with human trafficking, rape, and forming an organized crime group aimed at sexually exploiting women.

The allegations include recruiting women under false pretenses, coercing them into creating explicit content, and subjecting them to physical and psychological abuse.

Additionally, Romanian authorities have expanded their investigation to encompass accusations of trafficking minors, engaging in sexual activities with a minor, money laundering, and attempting to influence witnesses.

In the UK, the brothers are under investigation for similar offenses, including rape and human trafficking, with British police obtaining arrest warrants in March 2024.

They are also facing civil action in the UK and Florida, among other places.

February 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

True.

February 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM

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T. Greg Doucette

@gregdoucette.bsky.social

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!

January 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM

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A.R. Moxon

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

I wrote about the reaction to the shooting of a CEO.

"It seems to me that when you create a world where human life has been made as cheap as possible, you will eventually find you live in a world where your human life is deemed by others to be cheap, too."

www.the-reframe.com/peaceful-sol...

Peaceful Solutions

On respectable and profitable human-suffering engines, the murder of a CEO, propriety in a land where life has been cheapened, and some good news for those who seek peaceful solutions.

www.the-reframe.com

December 8, 2024 at 7:39 PM

HMP

@sugarbeetqueen.bsky.social

Found this beauty in the garden this morning. #gardening #NewMexico

November 17, 2024 at 9:44 PM

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@sugarbeetqueen.bsky.social

Especially important to those of us in deep red counties.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Nov 17

This week I wrote about consequence in an age of coming fascist supremacy, the need for ourselves to find safe people, and to identify unsafe people, and the ways that they will tell us which they are often without even knowing they are doing so.

www.the-reframe.com/rules-of-eng...