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Kai. professional internet girl. Lefty content creator, freelance writer,multidisciplinary/digital artist/graphic designer,teacher/grad student, non-annoying YouTuber trying to beat a screen addiction by downloading more apps
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Peter Manseau

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Tis the season.

Chalk cartoon of Santa and his sleigh approaching forked trolley tracks. One way leads to a single elf tied to the tracks, the other way leads to five elves tied to the tracks. An elf standing at the fork controls the switch. Caption: The Jolly Problem

December 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM

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Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️

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It's a whole genre it's beautiful

December 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM

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Torch Antifa Network

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A member of the neo-Nazi white separatist group PNW Wolf Pack fell to his death trying to pick a mistletoe from a tree this holiday season 🎄❄

Telegram post from PNW Wolf Pack:

Hailsa folk!
Our kinsman fell to his death trying to get his wife a mistletoe out of a tree on Monday.

We are trying to get his body home from California so we can give him a propper send off. The mortuary down there want 2500 and the transport wants over 4,000.

We need him home so we can prepare his body in the traditional ways of our ancestors. This means washing his body, carving Mal Runes, cutting his nails, ensuring he has weapons and food for the hell road. We will also be preparing a water rite. Kiah will lead the archers in lighting the pyre as we set him off.

December 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM

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Ed Zitron

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I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work?
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Companies have also struggled with Al's lack of consistency.
Jeremy Nielsen, general manager at North American railroad service provider Cando Rail and Terminals, said the company recently tested an Al chatbot for employees to study internal safety reports and training materials.
But Cando ran into a surprising stumbling block: the models couldn't consistently and correctly summarize the Canadian Rail Operating Rules, a roughly 100-page document that lays out the safety standards for the industry.
Sometimes the models forgot or misinterpreted the rules; other times they invented them from whole cloth. Al researchers say models often struggle to recall what appears in the middle of a long document.
Cando has dropped the project for now, but is testing other ideas. So far the company has spent $300,000 on developing
Al products.
"We all thought it'd be the easy button," Nielsen said. "And that's just not what happened."

December 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM

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KJ Shepherd

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It's your birthday, Duane.

Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..."

There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel

Duane Puryear died in 1991.

December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM

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ProPublica

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Amid soaring starvation in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, one young mother of two said she had considered taking her own life to save her children, “because I heard the U.N. takes care of the kids when the parents are gone.”

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death

“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

www.propublica.org

December 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM

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@vaporwavedad.bsky.social

my TikTok algorithm is so good tbh when I spend an hr watching vids on there I don’t feel like my time was wasted

December 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM

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@vaporwavedad.bsky.social

Hello

December 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM

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Emory 🩶

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I just started watching this little docuseries on Netflix and I'm hooked (no pun intended). 🤭

#mermaids #sea #ocean #mythology

youtu.be/Q7hUc8HVSFk?...

MerPeople | Official Trailer | Netflix

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November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM

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derek guy

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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

A Twitter account called Ivanka News tweets an AI image of a young woman wearing Muslim garb. The woman is holding a sign that says "I came here illegally. Should I be deported?"

Ivanka News writes: What is your response to this person ??

In the "About this account" tab, it appears the account is based in Nigeria

An account called MAGA scope writes:

Who, in your view is the great enemy of the United States? Communism, Islam, Democratic Party, or Satan?

The account is based in Nigeria.

An account called MAGA Nadine writes: You go to work and find this. What would you do? The attached pic is an AI image that shows a microwave. The microwave has a sign that says "For religious reasons, this microwave is now making halal food only."

The account is based in Morocco.

An account called America First posts an AI image of Tulsi Gabbard. They wrote: How would you rate your trust in Tulsi Gabbard on a scale of 1-10?

November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM

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November 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM

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Colin Spacetwinks

@spacetwinks.bsky.social

one of the more frustrating things about AI shit is that it, unfortunately, represents how a lot of older types think the computer should work ("ask it questions, get answers, talk with it") and normal interaction with a computer makes them terrified they'll hit a "blow up everything" button

November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM

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Zack Bornstein

@zackbornstein.bsky.social

just realized my cats probably think I spend 10 hours a day in the garage

November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM

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Better Things Are Possible

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It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM

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@vaporwavedad.bsky.social

I hate apolitical speak and/or behavior disguised as this baby shit. Grow up!

Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · Nov 18

Listen. There’s a lot of discourse happening right now. But never forget the core truth of our craft: we’re all just weird little guys making weird little guys.

November 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM