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I fit relevant descriptions of people I never heard of. / My clothing: suspicious; my movements: furtive.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 16h
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
wired.com
ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Anaheim Ducks’ incredible organist Lindsay Imber played a rendition of A Cruel Angel’s Thesis from Evangelion during the Ducks’ home opener vs. the Florida Panthers www.instagram.com/reel/DeH0AXO...
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Jehiah @jehiah.cz · 08/10/2026
"forced to retire" No - our city charter (section 1116) makes it explicit - any city employee making a deceptive report or statement in the course of duty, upon conviction, forfeits employment.
gothamist.com
NYPD detective forced to retire after false statements in Brooklyn investigation
Det. Patrick Craig admitted giving false information to a prosecutor and another detective before police obtained a search warrant.
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Strange Scaffold @strangescaffold.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Gods With Badges. A narrative tactics game examining the systems of law enforcement as officer Harrow McLellan gradually becomes separated from the people she is supposed to serve and protect. This is one of our most ambitious projects yet. Wishlist today store.steampowered.com/app/4462400/...
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Carmine @carminemac.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I regret to inform you that Jay Jacobs is still doing this shit. I guess he missed the "affordability" memo. The #1 line item on Nassau property taxes, far and away, is police. #2? "Police Headquarters."
New York State Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs, is accusing Blakeman of “defunding” the Nassau County Police Department, pointing to staffing vacancies and a proposed reduction in police equipment spending.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/10/2026
One thing all New Yorkers can agree on? It’s time to get your flu shot! Go to nyc.gov/healthmap to find all the free locations.
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Carmine @carminemac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Our Long Island congressmembers, Democrat and Republican, are tackling the affordability/energy crisis by... taking all-expense-paid trips to Alaska. www.newsday.com/long-island/...
newsday.com
Rep. Andrew Garbarino tied for 3rd-most trips paid for by special interests this year
Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-Bayport) accepted four trips from private sponsors totaling nearly a month of travel.
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Carmine @carminemac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The first, last and only thing I say at work meetings
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Tuber @itztuber.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So Day 3 of #combotober Today - Toss'em: a combo that starts with a throw So i may have gone a bit overboard and did a Throw Only Combo with Super and Sparking in DBFZ and yes I actually like playing 16, Broly and Broly (DBS)
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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · 04/10/2026
Hello everyone. I don't use AI on my ASM, ROM hacking projects and my code is available on GitHub: github.com/VitorVilela7 All my projects are focused to be on the highest possible quality bar and you all know that my ASM code is heavily combined with tool code to make projects doable.
github.com
VitorVilela7 - Overview
Software and Computer Engineer. VitorVilela7 has 26 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Bancho ZX @banchozx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🕯️Channeling the Great @crtpixels.bsky.social 🕯️ Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997, Konami) - PS1 Sharp Pixels vs. PS1 Composite via Sony KV-13TR20 Crt magically resculpts pixels into tinier bits enhancing details and depth. Juicy composite color bleed for extra succulence. #ScanlineSunday
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🕸️ @holojester.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
me on halloween when your house has king size candy bars
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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p.carredo @pcarredo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Walkin'
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026
Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...
A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is. Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol
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MattoBii @mattobii.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm going to blow up every leaf blower and lawn mower on the planet with my mind I swear to god
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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
new feature! back on RPS! i don't like deadpool in his contemporary form. i do, however, like deadpool in tokon quite a lot, as someone plugged into the FGC. please give it a read! this was really fun to work on, and i'm grateful to RPS for taking on a kinda niche pitch 💜
rockpapershotgun.com
The importance of being earnest: How Marvel Tōkon's Deadpool trades ridicule for fighting game reverence
By embracing fighting game culture, the Deadpool of Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is a much more likeable presence than his cross-media counterparts.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
She told an officer, “I can say with 100 percent confidence I was raped.” He cut it from the report. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
nytimes.com
Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped (Gift Article)
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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Carmine @carminemac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They say fighting games are hard to learn, but hero shooters have: • scores of buttons, not 6 (or less) • skill-leveling/"builds" • sprawling maps, not a short 2D plane • multiple axes of movement/aiming • menus on menus on menus • multiple objectives, not just "KO opponent" • team coordination
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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 30/09/2026
A weekend incident in which a Flock camera search led Lexington police to surround the wrong home has sparked widespread online criticism of the city’s use of the surveillance technology.
weku.org
Flock search that led Lexington police to surround wrong home intensifies debate over the tech
Resident Will Penn posted doorbell camera footage to Facebook after the incident. It's since been shared thousands of times.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
just another day in a country too corrupt to pass a privacy law, regulate data brokers, or adequately fund its regulators things are going to get wild
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
karlbode.com
Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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Carmine @carminemac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Damon Albarn at the Gorillaz show says it's good to be back in NYC, and "now you've got a great mayor" to HUGE applause. @mayor.nyc.gov
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 29/09/2026
If we can auto enroll every child into Trump accounts we can auto enroll every child into Medicare is the easiest layup of 2029.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sooner or later, after exhausting all other possibilities, everyone realizes that the only smart way to do public benefits is with auto-enroll www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/t...
washingtonsun.com
Trump Is Preparing to Auto-Enroll Every Child in a Trump Account
Few Americans have set up Trump Accounts on their own.
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Carmine @carminemac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sorry boss, I finished all the reports, but then the company email went rogue.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Appellate Division, in its own restrained way, has just tossed the Brooklyn Democrats' autogolpist rump leadership out on its ear: iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of student debtors are being kicked off an affordable repayment plan and put into more expensive plans tomorrow. Many are trying to find payment plans that work for them. Here's the repayment calculator today.
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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For nearly two years, I've been investigating a pattern of ominous legal letters sent to journalists by defamation counsel representing Bobby Kotick. That investigation is finally live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...
youtube.com
Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press
YouTube video by People Make Games
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remember when the president of Cornell got so mad at some anti-Israeli-genocide protestors on campus he tried to hit some of his own students with his car?
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
“Video footage obtained by The Sun shows Students for a Democratic Cornell members Aiden Vallecillo ’26 and Hudson Athas ’27 being struck by the car. In the video, no person can be seen touching the vehicle before it drove into Vallecillo and Athas.” www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
cornellsun.com
Kotlikoff Drives Into Student and Recent Grad Following ‘Harassment’
President Michael Kotlikoff backed his car into a student and drove over the foot of a recent graduate after what he called a "harassment and intimidation incident" in a Friday email blast to the...
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伊藤暢達/Masahiro Ito @adsk4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It was released on this day 25 years ago. I had completely forgotten that date. I bought my physical copy at my local game store. #SilentHill2og #SilentHill
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A provocative article in Rolling Stone titled "What some folks really mean when they claim to have never done the Humpty Hump."
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 26/09/2026
It is impossible to overstate how totally sociopathic it is for @rahmemanuel.bsky.social to have turned Chicago into his personal political corruption machine and now depict himself as the 2028 presidential candidate leading an anti-corruption movement.
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
scrippsnews.com
Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026
Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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Carmine @carminemac.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I had always assumed 9 to 5 was a movie about Dolly Parton getting a job, like a feature-length Mary Tyler Moore Show intro. I had no idea that it was so much funnier than that. And why did no one tell me that the great Lily Tomlin co-stars?
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Carmine @carminemac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They're making the worst Ace Attorney game worse?
The "miracle" never happen.
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