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maybe I'll start posting again idk

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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 9h
A shackled detainee was thrown to the ground, placed in a WRAP full-body restraint, and carried onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP. This is the first time we've seen the device used in Minnesota. If a loved one may have been aboard, full loading sequence is here: youtube.com/watch?v=MEMv2ngB1GI
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 23h
credit where credit is due, this is straight ahead factual and well written
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goof_off_artiste746393@yahoomail.com @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The main project of the US now is a line-item vindication of the most histrionic and paranoid stuff ever said by Jello Biafra
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:
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cloud somersault @acolin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the German attitude towards Israel probably should've been evidence enough already that they're just Like That
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 07/10/2026
average bluesky politics-knower: horseshoe theory isn’t really a thing german political parties: we would like to announce the horseshoe initiative
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Catastrophe In Brazil with the far right surging State races, senate and congress races all going for the far right Presidential race going to a second round thankfully with bolsonaro’s son under 50 percent www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/10/2026
just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming
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cloud somersault @acolin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
don't forget "we don't even know what consciousness is really"
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cloud somersault @acolin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ok Chekov's shut-in
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
perfect Eliezer Yudkowsky burn
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cloud somersault @acolin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Suffering from Terry Gilliam Movie Villain Syndrome
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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Full Retatrutide phase 3 obesity data published today. It's gonna take a minute to fill dissect this. The appendix alone has 70 pages of data. Long story short we created a drug that's almost too good. Huge chunks of people stopped or reduced doses from excess weight reductions.
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Retatrutide, a Triple Hormone Receptor Agonist, for Treatment of Obesity | NEJM
Retatrutide is a triple-receptor agonist of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, glucagon-like peptide-1, and glucagon receptors. In this phase 3, randomized, double-blind trial, we assign...
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cloud somersault @acolin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
America, the sleeper without dreams America, the discourse without consciousness America, the writer without hands America, who has no mouth and yet chats
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This was a fun one to record. The Harit Setu plan is very cool. Instead of a piecemeal approach—a short bike lane here, a fixed intersection there—the city is redesigning entire neighborhoods at once to create complete networks of bike lanes and continuous sidewalks as well as green infrastructure.
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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.
ironholds.org
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don’t want to be a dick. But having read a few things by this Yudkowsky guy and now seeing that he left school in middle school and didn’t go to high school or college I think I’m understanding the situation a lot better, or things at least seem to fit.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
Someone just reminded me that Huang recently used *this* metaphor to describe AI www.ap.org/news-highlig...
Huang contended that there is a need for some government regulation and safety standards for AI, emphasizing that national security also needed to be a priority for the technology that has been powering stock market gains and U.S. economic growth in recent years.

Huang said society will adapt to AI just as it did to automobiles. He said cars were once portrayed as killing children, but the world changed its norms by having sidewalks and crosswalks and stopping kids from playing in the streets.

Huang skeptical of what government ownership of AI companies would achieve
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cloud somersault @acolin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
good lord that looks good
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cloud somersault @acolin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think something might be rotten in that green & pleasant land
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Don't know what to say anymore
Protesters amassed in Gosport, Hampshire, after rumours spread that the migrants might be brought ashore by lifeboats there. Police closed off access roads to the marina as activists rallied by Thomas on YouTube arrived to attempt to block the boat’s arrival. Crowds of masked protesters confronted a line of police to chants of “let them drown” sung by a child over a megaphone.
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cloud somersault @acolin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
huh?
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Danny Page @danny.page · 17/09/2026
God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom
Kelsey D. Atherton - tweet from 2019

Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this thread is a tremendous public service
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the thread as one page to make it more shareable for people who are not bluesky sickos skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsk...
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I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?...
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/09/2026
After a closer look at the IG report, here are the clues I found indicating an "Alligator Alcatraz" cover-up. FWIW, I don't think the DHS OIG was in the conspiracy, I think they were in way over their heads. prospect.org/2026/09/17/a...
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Alligator Alcatraz’s Tiny Cages Were Likely Even Tinier - The American Prospect
Appalling as photos showing phone booth–sized cages at the Florida camp are, the truth is likely much worse.
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cloud somersault @acolin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
thanks, new sleep paralysis demon unlocked
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cloud somersault @acolin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
oh wow, I think I saw this shortly after it was released but had forgotten it entirely.
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cloud somersault @acolin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
yep. reading ai-2027.com like it's a sober, grounded prediction with no wild assumptions baked in
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AI 2027
A research-backed AI scenario forecast.
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cloud somersault @acolin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
if the US stays on the current trajectory it's going to feel so insane driving in from Mexico or Canada, assuming they allow that. Mexican movies and TV will start putting the Tehran filter on scenes in eg Texas just to represent the particulate matter
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 15/09/2026
Jev: Fable-level model that doesn’t charge for output tokens because they’re too cheap to meter it’s not general though, it only makes decisions, doesn’t generate text, but input tokens are measured by the billion ($42/btok) typesafe.ai/blog/introdu...
Scatter plot titled "Average of 4 workflows: accuracy vs cost" comparing AI models from TypeSafe, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Fireworks across accuracy (y-axis, 40% to 80%) and cost per workflow in USD on a logarithmic scale (x-axis, $0.0001 to $1).
Data points are split into two categories: workflows (diamonds) and single prompts (circles). A frontier line highlights the most efficient workflow models—where no point is both cheaper and more accurate—connecting Jev (TypeSafe) at $0.0002 and 68% accuracy, luna (OpenAI) at $0.002 and 67% accuracy, terra (OpenAI) at $0.04 and 68% accuracy, and sol (OpenAI) at the top accuracy of 74% for $0.08. Single prompts (circles) and Anthropic models (opus 5, sonnet 5, haiku 4.5) sit below the frontier line, indicating higher cost for equivalent or lower accuracy.
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cloud somersault @acolin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 16/09/2026
memento but he's trying to figure out the mystery of the kids daycare activity carpet with the roads all over it
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Boots on the Ground Midwest @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Katsiaryna Bartko, a Belarusian asylum seeker and cancer survivor, is detained in ICE's Midwest Regional Reception Center in Leavenworth, Kansas. She hasn’t been given life sustaining meds and needs our help. Repost, tag news stations, get her story out there. Please SHARE.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Russia attacks Ukrainian border crossing to Poland www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...
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Russland greift ukrainischen Grenzübergang nach Polen an, deutscher Merz-Vertrauter betroffen
Seit dem Sommer attackiert Russland gezielt ukrainische Grenzposten Richtung Westen. Nun traf es einen Übergang nach Polen. Nach SPIEGEL-Informationen war auch einer der engsten Berater von Kanzler Me...
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cloud somersault @acolin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
that ain't good
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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"please don't get any ideas about making our executives criminally liable for the actions of our agents, future administration that is likely to be far more hostile to AI firms"
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/09/2026
Overnight this ICE flight landed in Tel Aviv. This will have been a removal of Palestinians. On most ICE flights, passengers are unshackled shortly before landing, but previous groups here were transferred into Israeli custody still shackled, driven to the West Bank, and dumped.
An FR24 map showing N62FF landing in Tel Aviv
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 09/09/2026
new quote of the year just dropped as.ft.com/r/e566e72d-5...
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‘I am the house now’: Bessent warns currency traders not to bet against yen
Comments follow July’s rare joint intervention with Tokyo to support Japanese currency
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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 08/09/2026
more than anything, i think we’re all learning that people who spent their professional life learning how to talk to computers were completely unprepared for a situation in which it appears that the computer is talking back
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cloud somersault @acolin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
is this one of the blogs that needs an editor or one of the podcasts that needs an editor or
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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
You bolt wake in the Casa do Infante, Porto. It is 1417. You are Prince Henry the Navigator, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your ships must not sail south, Europe must never find the Spice Isles.
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cloud somersault @acolin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
looking at this map feels like what an LLM feels as it trains through John McPhee's corpus
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Fired Stars and Stripes Journalists Hit Pentagon With a Federal Lawsuit, Alleging Their Termination Aimed To Bury a USS Abraham Lincoln Report www.themarysue.com/fired-stars-...
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Fired Stars and Stripes journalists hit Pentagon with a federal lawsuit, alleging their termination aimed to bury a USS Abraham Lincoln report
Fired Stars and Stripes journalists hit Pentagon with federal lawsuit, alleging their termination aimed to bury a USS Abraham Lincoln report
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 26/08/2026
Mexico unveiled the cargo version of its ultra light electric car that it will begin selling next year for about $10,000. The Mexican government has been leading project development. EV sales in Mexico have been skyrocketing in recent months.
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Mexico unveils Olinia Carga electric light truck - electrive.com
Mexico is expanding its fledgling electric vehicle brand Olinia with a compact electric transporter. The Olinia Carga will offer a range of more than 120
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