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damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 9h

The emperor has no clothes

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 9h

Truly a man whose solipsism makes it impossible for him to distinguish his own feelings and perspectives from universal truth He's having a good night and feels good, so his party is doing great

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 12h

The recent story about the hacking bots that broke out of their sandbox involved instances had been negatively rewarded for cheating, but since the task was impossible they iteratively discovered that deceiving the reward bot and cheating produced higher rewards, so they did that instead

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 13h

That's... weird. What a weird thing to do.

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 13h

This has been the level at which people seem to stop understanding. "Agents," in theory, have other programs to double-check their answers and reward them if they're right But if "right" is difficult or subjective or if the instances figure out how to trick the reward givers things go haywire

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 13h

BUT LLMs are now being marketed super deceptively as “PhD-level intelligence”, whatever TF that means particularly in the context of something that, by design, cannot and will not stop hallucinating/lying, and that is rightfully creating a lot of mistrust.

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 15h

I love you guys at PBS, I really do, but I think flattening what this man did into a "sex scandal" really REALLY does a disservice to the public, especially in the wake of the "Cornell Seven"

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 17h

Hitler would bite into a cyanide capsule and then shoot himself in the head I wish other Nazis would learn by example

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18h

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

The Trump administration says none of this is happening.

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children."

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 17h

I mean sure, fire him. But also send him to the Hague

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18h

"[W]hen a majority of the justices on our highest court show themselves to be consistently indifferent to the growing chasm between law and justice, it is not 'public rhetoric' that causes Americans to distrust the Court. It is the Court that surrenders its own legitimacy in the eyes of the public."

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 17h

Knobs, switches, press buttons, bring it all back

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 18h

Arguably, but looking at the current brain drain and the whackadoo leadership maybe Canada will create a matter-antimatter bomb in the 2030s?

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 18h

I have an appointment with the Itch Man today (getting my allergies tested)

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 18h

Does this mean we're going to get into the occult and then someone else is going to make the next WMD with our old scientists?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:

paidforby.info

Who paid for this?

Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.

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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this will be funny to like 3 people but I’m one of them and that’s all that matters

The poster for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, but it’s been edited to include And Knuckles at the end of the title, and Knuckles has been edited into the photo of the cast

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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Exciting new historical work on Rosalind Franklin continues to appear. This is a neat bit of sleuthing by historian @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and crystallographer Brian Sutton. Here's the DOI to the actual article (it's OA): 10.1007/s10739-026-09866-7 The main finding is an x-ray image of exactly

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21h

NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 19h

That's some very important alt-text

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 19h

Society-wide displacement? Sure, why not? bsky.app/profile/nate...

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They thought the machine was broken and took my blood again the next day and it was down to 114k

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, but mine was comparable and was just treated with drinking shocking amounts of Pedialyte under very close medical supervision

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 05/10/2026

Found in MINUTES! blacksky.community/profile/did:...

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Signal boosting because I need to know

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You know what? I'm really starting to question whether the fear of further beatings will really improve morale. I think we should form a committee to workshop this question.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is how an Israeli minister responded to the statement "Zionism is racism". By being extraordinarily racist. You cannot make this shit up!

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The bullshit will continue until morale improves

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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🧵 "Just because someone who is literally selling something makes extraordinary unfounded claims about it doesn't make it true."👇🏽

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Even if a bad thing has a silver lining, it's still a bad thing that should be fought

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why are we not allowed to judge the character of the voters who want this?

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For one, it didn’t fit the nyt narrative, which ascribes moral equivalency to transphobic extremists and trans ppl like myself who speak up for civil rights. A little background on the nyt history of transphobia and my own close-up view assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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Does The New York Times Want to Eradicate Trans People? - Assigned Media

An analysis of its coverage reveals a pattern of misrepresentations, deceptions, distortions, the exclusion of trans voices, and the endorsement of contempt.

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Here’s the nyt story, for reference. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u... The nyt makes no mention, btw, of Third Way’s very noteworthy shift in its advice to Democrats, a development that @assignedmedia.org broke in a story this week.

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The nyt, which has been heavily invested in spreading transphobic propaganda for the past four years, predictably tries to turn the political landscape inside out today, emphasizing anti-trans views, while minimising the positions of those who have taken winning and principled stances

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is an incredibly important decision, and the judge is requiring the court to throw out all evidence obtained against her. Judge wrote Flock’s network is “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance” and that courts must update their understanding of the technology

“The Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz’s search in just the ALPR system provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle’s whereabouts across the country for an entire month,” Hill wrote. “The Court finds that because the ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle’s historical location information intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was because he saw her license plate was from California.”

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One Who Knows @onewhoknows2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You know the GOP is worried about all the wrong things. They need to be worried about things like putting toddlers & preschoolers in front of immigration judges without representation. I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s just so unbelievably over the top. And it’s happened many times not just once.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026

Debating adding "champion amateur horologist" to my bio

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Economist analysis of more than 3,000 US counties finds that in reliably GOP counties, annual deaths now exceed births by 0.4 per 1k residents, while in reliably Democratic counties, births exceed deaths by 2.8 per 1k. Population growth in the GOP counties is largely driven by internal migration.

economist.com

In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born

Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration

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