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Tonton OB

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Retired psychologist, telecom exec, professor of practice; chess, naps. Central MA USA Rescued by Tom the Russian Blue 🐈‍⬛ music.youtube.com/watch?v=JSMubgZoL…

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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 13h
@michael-feinberg.bsky.social Information wants to be free!
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schrödinger's model. Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...
"Potential model awareness of our evaluation efforts creates a
significant limitation on our ability to assess model safety,"
Anthropic said in the prospectus, adding that models sometimes
develop unexpected capabilities during training that may not be
discovered until they have been deployed and have resulted in
significant safety incidents.

Al researchers have also warned that as models grow more
capable, they increasingly recognize when they are being
watched and adjust their behavior accordingly, which makes it
harder to monitor model behavior.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
AOC spoke directly to a body of students and touched on the horrific case of a Jane Doe who was gang raped at Cornell University in 2024, and it got covered up.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and I’m asking our community to help spread the word: the earlier prostate cancer is found, the better your chances are of beating it. Visit cancer.org/getscreened to learn more from the americancancersoc.bsky.social and find a screening location.
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
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Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten says his office is reopening the investigation into the 2024 gang rape of a student at a Cornell University fraternity abcnews.com/US/district-...
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“The Art of Making the Same Deal Again”
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mellencamp - what a set! Dude’s my age - 75! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Me...
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John Mellencamp - Wikipedia
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The President of the United States is a traitor and a rapist.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 24/09/2026
Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk that Rolling Stone called “a nonfiction horror movie” following its film festival debut earlier this month. Watch ↓
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Elon Musk Is in the Business of Selling Dreams in Trailer for New Doc
Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk.
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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
A very long 4 years...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
We were mid-handshake and he pulled me in and grabbed tighter and got upset and raised his voice and said: "What are you talking about man?! Those aren't real people. They're illegal aliens!"
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A guide - The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ballot questions
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Jeff de Boer @jeffdeboer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yesterday I posted the phot, today I can take you on a video tour of the setup. #jeffdeboer #mousearmour #metalarts #tabletopphotography #miniatureart
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/ An AI chatbot invented a nuclear threat aboard a Chinese ship. The U.S. launched military aircraft and prepared armed troops to board it before anyone discovered the intelligence was false. One hallucination nearly became a war. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Busted!
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Powerful plea today from my colleagues on the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board, urging Pennsylvania to join most of our neighboring states in blocking local cops from working with ICE under 287(g), in which police terrorize our immigrant communities www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...
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Pennsylvania’s shameful contribution to President Trump’s immigration crackdown | Editorial
Gov. Shapiro should seize the opportunity to counter a cruel attack on the state’s communities.
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
First of the season (lotta wind & rain)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
😬 Trump's brags are being met with total silence at the UN
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Larry Colvin @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Even Fox Said No When the president's favorite network refuses to hold his camera, the game has changed. Here's what happens now. #Blues open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...
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Even Fox Said No
When the president's favorite network refuses to hold his camera, the game has changed. Here's what happens now.
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Come for the cat-fight; stay for some Gaetz 😎
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
But Wait! There's More! In this ethics complaint, it says that Boebert and Navarro went to Mar-A-Lago together ... where they were having sex with Matt Gaetz -- together and separately! (On our dime, of course.) And during all of this...
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What does a sniper position at Memorial Circle actually defend against? Not China. Not a submarine. Not a missile. It overlooks a bridge, a traffic circle, and the front door of the National Mall. Those are places where Americans march. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Flak Towers
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Judges are targets in the United States, a backsliding and damaged democracy, because they have repeatedly stood up for democratic notions of justice. We are in a fight for the soul of the judiciary and the future of what law will mean while Trump retains power.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new incidents in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission, amid an ongoing industrywide debate about A.I. safety.” 9/16/26 … Gift link. … 1/
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OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior (Gift Article)
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@nicollewallace.bsky.social youtu.be/nme0EUuYSfA?...
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Donald Trump playing Toxic by Britney Spears on the flute
YouTube video by Matthew Lenton
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He’s claiming to have taken flute lessons youtu.be/nme0EUuYSfA?...
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Donald Trump playing Toxic by Britney Spears on the flute
YouTube video by Matthew Lenton
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
my latest column. please subscribe if you can to Lincoln Project. lincolnproject.substack.com/p/strait-tal...
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Strait Talk: Breaking The Wheel
Matthew Dowd: Reforms To Rebuild The Constitution
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dead Cat Bounce?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Jimmy Kimmel plays a montage of “Dozy Don”, the man who spent years calling Biden “Sleepy Joe dozing off at one event after another. The irony writes itself.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW: Judge Emmet Sullivan finds Atty General Todd Blanche is failing to sufficiently follow court order over Epstein Files Sullivan orders Blanche to respond to the civil lawsuit filed by plaintiff @katiephang.bsky.social by Sept 24 Phang is seeking release of more Epstein Files
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s framed as a defense of kavanaugh when it is in actuality an argument that kavanaugh was entirely unfit for the job, someone who rules out of spite rather than the law
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Colin Kaepernick accuses NFL owners of “openly colluding” against Macklemore after the rapper was removed from Ed Sheeran’s U.S. tour: “They want to protect their interests. They want to protect their power. They want to protect their money.”
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Exclusive: Kaepernick Says NFL Owners “Openly Colluded” Against Macklemore
The rapper was removed from Ed Sheeran’s U.S. tour after speaking out about genocide in Gaza and saying “Free Palestine.”
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14/09/2026
not a banner fucking week for journalism, guys
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Summer on Squam (from my son, last night)
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
buckle up. gas and diesel look set for a spike over the next 48 hours, hardest in parts of the nation's interior. i track this for a living and i'll be sharing real-time updates as it unfolds powered by GasBuddy data, looking at many different angles. ready to share w/ you all.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Atlanta Fed has a Home Ownership Affordability Monitor: (via Schwab)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rep. @aoc.bsky.social : “To see what Patriots owner Robert Kraft did to line up all the stadiums to censor speech in that one specific way… this isn’t just about one artist.”
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@arimelber.bsky.social
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“The oligarch was part of a large group whose presence puzzled other attendees. They sometimes stood off by themselves, speaking Russian.”
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Steve Ballmer I Knew How did the coked-up Rolling Stones enthusiast I danced with at the Windows 95 launch become the cheating NBA scoundrel now under federal investigation?
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think the word is “seething” 🤡
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“This year what we witnessed was, quite brazenly, the world’s richest men gathering to discuss the real estate possibilities of a mass grave.”
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