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A friend asked me to help show her mother that AI videos are not to be trusted online. So I made something CN: AI-generated www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuYP...

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Trusting the Internet

YouTube video by Mark Welch

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Here in the US, we created the FAA in order to keep air travel from killing people. Surely we could create a regulatory regimen, similar to the FAA, but to keep language models from harming people.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The embarrassing decision to call Lake Ontario “Lake America” is an admission of defeat. If we can’t understand basics of economics and politics, if we must lose a trade war to Canada while we are losing a shooting war to Iran, let us paste our name somewhere. snyder.substack.com/p/our-trade-...

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Our Trade War Against Ourselves

Treating Canada as an Enemy Leaves us Weaker in Every Way

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

To be right doesn’t mean debating down to the finest point and feeling righteous — it means working together and winning the future. It can be done. (2/2)

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Army Secretary resigned this week, leaving American forces without confirmed leadership at nearly every level. And with Pete Hegseth in charge, things are likely to get worse before they get better.

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Running It Right Into The Ground

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There’s an AI plugin now that generates comic books. I fed it the last few lines from The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe as a test

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"Pretty please, stop bombing Wildberries" lol

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID. One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions. Early indicators of mortality are very worrying.

I met with, first of all, a woman named Angelina David, who is the clinical manager in Panyijiar for the International Rescue Committee clinics. She was overseeing the clinics that were shut down and could tell me exactly what happened. It was a complete shutdown, and a scramble, because there were medicines and other things on the shelves they didn’t want looted, so they had to get out to these places—and they’re very far away. You have to travel, in some cases, seven or eight hours in order to get to the extent of what’s there.

I then went and visited some of those facilities, and I connected, with her help, to the subcounty chiefs—they’re called the payam administrators—who keep their own records of deaths. So one of the things I found was that their own records showed that they are measuring an over-all tenfold increase in child and adult deaths.

Wait. A tenfold increase?

Yes.

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Fuzzy Mike @fuzzymike.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Republicans love to say "unlike Democrats we would never let a person as awful as Platner run on our party ticket" and then let hundreds of people that awful run on their party ticket while the Democrats kick Platner off

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful. When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Know the truth.

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The power of propaganda compels them

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

it would be funny if OUR treaty of Versailles lead to the destruction of a fascist political party instead of its creation I want that for us

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

About (de)activating individual human genes that contribute to disease, among other things youtu.be/G0xl0oIjKB4

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PCSK9 Might Kill You - Should We Disable it?

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Not “the biggest” but it’s a milestone if I’m reading this correctly youtu.be/PD1N72OJa7U?...

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AI just disproved the biggest math conjecture so far

YouTube video by Dr. Trefor Bazett

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Achievement unlocked: won yet another election. By some fluke I’m near the middle of page 91 here

Multnomah County PCP Results card for Precinct 4804, Democratic Party (Vote for 33), from the May 19, 2026 primary election. Unofficial results as of Update #6, May 22, 2026. Seven candidates elected, listed by vote count: Marcia Schneider (361 votes, 14.66%), Anntoinette Kahl (356, 14.45%), Ann Berryhill Witte (339, 13.76%), Michael E Simpson (331, 13.44%), River Scholl (329, 13.36%), Sam B Kahl (320, 12.99%), and Mark Welch (320, 12.99%), with Mark Welch’s row highlighted. Note: all 7 candidates elected since the precinct had 33 open seats and only 7 filed candidates. Source: Multnomah County Elections Division, PCP results PDF page 91 of 116.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

His job is to destroy the United States

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This is only the beginning. This kind of thing is baked in from what has already happened in the Gulf, and every day the Strait of Hormuz is closed, it gets worse. I do not understand why the markets and Republicans are so oblivious. It's time to remove Trump.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

You just never realize how stupid living through the formation of the Church of England would have been

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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Good reminder

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

We’re just doing one stupid thing after another.

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Serious Antichrist vibes

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

More detail about Claude Mythos, and its potential impact on the tech industry youtu.be/d3Qq-rkp_to

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Claude Mythos is too dangerous for public consumption...

YouTube video by Fireship

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I’m having so many complicated thoughts about the Iran war right now. Every day that there are no US troops on Iranian soil - every day that we can keep the peace, and keep the troops out - is a good day

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

“Happening to normal people with no history of mental illness” youtu.be/btjhh7NVpeM

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Normal people are starting to go crazy

YouTube video by Mo Bitar

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Exactly why bombing civilian infrastructure is a war crime

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Oh good, Pam Bondi is out. Time to subpoena her, right?

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

China and Pakistan’s peace proposal for the Persian Gulf, from the source www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjbzhd/2...

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Five-Point Initiative of China and Pakistan For Restoring Peace and Stability in the Gulf and Middle East Region

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Some of the Iranian propaganda videos have memorable catchy themes, no doubt by design. battle of the brain worms

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube videos about agentic coding. At first I was taking notes all the time. But now that I know more about what I’m doing, I have tended to notice that they do not all have the same skill levels, but that all of them are trying really hard.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

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