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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly.

It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 12h

Columbus City Schools may have to stop bussing high school students entirely because Ohio law requires public school districts to prioritize bussing for charter and private school students - and the state is already fining Columbus more than $10 million/year for not complying enough

Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 15h

Columbus City Schools Board of Education has voted to remove a requirement that the district provide busing for high schoolers as a potential cost-saving move amid district financial challenges.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

Columbus Schools board votes to remove requirement to bus high schoolers

Columbus City Schools voted to remove a requirement that the district provide busing for high schoolers as a potential cost-saving move.

www.dispatch.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

The Plot to Enslave America

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 12h

Columbus City Schools may have to stop bussing high school students entirely because Ohio law requires public school districts to prioritize bussing for charter and private school students - and the state is already fining Columbus more than $10 million/year for not complying enough

Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 15h

Columbus City Schools Board of Education has voted to remove a requirement that the district provide busing for high schoolers as a potential cost-saving move amid district financial challenges.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 3h

Good analogy for what the US is doing with solar.

Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 3h

As I noted earlier this week, it is as if we invented the cell phone, exported it and then spent the next 30 years taking photo ops with rotary phone workers, subsidizing their product and telling people on cell networks that they're too woke. We're playing catch up now. BUT...

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 8h

Hamas has demanded the release of a group of high-profile Palestinian leaders, including Marwan Barghouti. Hamas is also demanding the release of the bodies of its former Gaza leaders, the brothers Yahya and Mohammed Sinwar, according to Arab mediators.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The Sticking Points to a Gaza Hostage Deal

This week will show whether President Trump’s optimism about a deal to end the war in Gaza can survive the realities that have undermined many past attempts.

www.wsj.com

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 3h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3h

Watch the video. It's very good. More, please.

Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 3h

So Trump thinks we should give a $20B bailout to the right wing government in Argentina, but we can’t afford to keep your healthcare from going up by $1000s of dollars a year? Bullshit.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 3h

Journalist @radleybalko.bsky.social examines how Trump’s war on immigrants merges and expands the lethal policies of the wars on drugs and terror.

Trump’s War on Drugs

Journalist Radley Balko examines how Trump’s war on immigrants merges and expands the lethal policies of the wars on drugs and terror.

interc.pt

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 3h

"Part of the reason we’ve been more focused on governors and attorneys general is that they have a lot more they can do to successfully obstruct" Trump, says Dem strategist Arkadi Gerney, arguing Hill Dems have limited tools against Trump. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Evan Engel @evanengel.bsky.social · 3h

I just finished this in hardcover and it's informative and thrilling. Most surprising part: a book about encrypted phones did more to raise my understanding of the scale of the drug trade than books I've read about the drug trade

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 3h

Today's the day: DARK WIRE, my book on how the FBI secretly ran a tech company for criminals and wiretapped the world, coming to paperback. Updated with many more details. An Economist and FT book of the year. 404 Media subs: you just got 20% to your email www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/josep...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 2h

I haven't gotten this much flak for a positive review since I gave four stars to Pacific Rim! (And I was right about that one, too.)

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d

"A rave of a movie that acts as its own hallucinogen, best experienced on a huge screen with a state-of-the art sound system. If they’d played it again right after I saw it for the first time, I would have gladly stayed in my seat." My **** review of TRON: Ares. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tron...

TRON: Ares movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert

“TRON: Ares” is spectacularly designed, swiftly paced, thoughtfully written, and directed within an inch of its neon-hued life.

www.rogerebert.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2h

Already there’s some evidence suggesting judges are screwing up rulings thanks for AI: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Oct 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley on Monday asked two federal judges to answer questions about whether artificial intelligence was used to prepare recent orders that contained "substantive errors".
Grassley, an lowa Republican, sent C3 letters C to U.S. District Judge Julien Xavier Neals in New Jersey and U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate in Mississippi.
The two judges in a pair of separate, unrelated lawsuits in July withdrew written rulings after lawyers in the cases said they contained factual inaccuracies and other serious errors.
Grassley asked the judges whether and how they, their law clerks or court staff used generative Al or automated tools to prepare orders in the cases.
He also asked them to explain the "human drafting and review" done before issuing the orders, the cause
of the errors, and measures their chambers have taken to guard against similar errors in the future.
The letters noted that lawyers have increasingly faced scrutiny from judges across the country for apparent misuse of Al. Judges have levied fines or other sanctions in dozens of cases over the past few years after lawyers failed to vet the output the technology generated.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3h

At which point it becomes super simple to influence those decisions in one direction or the other. And because so much of our historical case law IS racist and misogynistic, it’s nothing to perpetuate that bias. And that’s just without the hallucinations.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3h

Unlike GPT, etc., it’s trained only on legal libraries, so it’s not infusing random slash fanfic into legal opinions, but it’s taking over a huge portion of the decision-making process—if the user allows. Like determining the relevant legal questions and referencing precedent.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3h

The tool markets itself as a digital law clerk unburdening judges and staff of tedious casework to speed up the judicial backlog. What’s it’s actually doing is applying its own pressure to influence the core work of legal analysis, which is the most important part of the job.

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MzMira @meerareads.bsky.social · 6h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3h

It’s my position companies like this are perpetrating a fraud until proven otherwise. LLMs don’t reason. They find patterns. They have enormous inherent bias. And their promises to eliminate hallucinations are outright lies unless they have a human looking at every output. www.learned-hand.ai/FAQ

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 6h

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.”

@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social · 4h

Here is is, from Bryan Stevenson @eji.org.
What's wrong with "heroic history?"
"It’s like saying, 'I’m going to the doctor, but I’ve already instructed my doctor, Don’t give me any bad news' ... if you don’t want to be sick... you have to be willing to hear the truth of your condition."
[gift link]:

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

www.nytimes.com

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 4h

Just the latest chapter in America’s fearmongering approach to seizing power: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/p...

Trump Claims ‘Rebellion’ in American Cities

www.nytimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

i’d say the real killer feature of EVs is basically the lack of real maintenance costs.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

we charge our hyundai ioniq 5 around once every two to three weeks at a muncipal charger and i’d say it runs about $9 for 250 miles of range.

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

www.nytimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

i’d day this nails the South as well

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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