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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 9m

It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 19m

The Trump administration is pushing forward with sanctions against the ICC. A coalition of domestic political opposition and concerned foreign firms governments supporting the ICC is vital for future accountability against human rights abusers, including the Trump administration

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Here’s What to Do About Trump’s War Crimes

Despite the obstacles, foreign governments and U.S. lawmakers can begin the process of holding the president accountable.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 49m

The Kennedy Center's Trump-installed Board MUST produce financial information for its 2026 fiscal year, a federal judge rules. Judge Cooper "highly doubts that the Center has operated without core financial reporting over the past year." Doc buff.ly/3CFYynC

As for burden, the Court highly
doubts that the Center has operated without core financial reporting over the past year. Surely the Center has ready access to periodic income statements, balance sheets, cash flow reports, and budget documents that reflect actual financial performance over FY 2026, not just projections.
The Center should be able to gather these materials from existing sources without having to query its “updated” financial system for bespoke reports. If that is not the case, standardized
reports will do. So, although Plaintiff’s exhaustive requests are unduly broad given the expedited timetable, the Court hereby orders Defendants to produce FY 2026 financial statements of the nature noted above sufficient to show the Center’s financial performance and condition over FY 2026.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 1h

I'm so sorry, Zazie. Sending good thoughts and purrs your way

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 1h

I agree. But I've found that one component, which reappears in multiple stories, questionable.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 1h

And it wouldn't/ shouldn't have been a "test tube" but rather a biological container or tool. It has seemed to me that this report is questionable.

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 1h

I think about this every day

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve heard Pillay speak a lot but this interview stays with me because of its running thread of living up to the trust placed in you by a community, beginning with going to college on funds raised by her poor neighbors, who, she notes, would surely have loved to see their children go to school too

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 1h

Tbh, this is the type of AI hallucination that we should be worrying about. These people are living in a different universe.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 2h

This is very good. Listen to how each of them frames what they say. Ezra accepts a lot of the anthropomorphism of the AI companies. Narayanan talks about tools we can use.

nytimes.com

Opinion | What if A.I. Is Just a ‘Normal Technology’? (Gift Article)

The computer scientist Arvind Narayanan explains that just because A.I. is intelligent doesn’t necessarily mean it’s powerful.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

This is an excellent point. When pro-democracy, anti-corruption forces get power, they won't need elaborate new laws to start getting Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, Peter Thiel, and other tech oligarchs out of government. They've almost certainly committed fraud and other already existing crimes.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 3h

I agree that the tech edict illustrates their heedlessness toward humans, but I also think that cruel behavior in general should be avoided.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 3h

Tech companies imposting stronger protective rules about their own lifeless model than they will ever apply to the actual humans the model affects is going to turn a lot of people into the joker

macrumors.com

Anthropic Says Users Can't Be Needlessly Cruel to Claude

Anthropic today updated its usage policy (via The Verge) to bar users from subjecting Claude to "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior". Anthropic says the abuse rule is meant to apply only...

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 3h

y'all, the GA senatorial debate is must see TV. if y'all haven't watched it, highly recommend.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

Breakfast time

The tails of my kitties eggsy, benne and jimmi pickles as they eat breakfast next to each other

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 3h

wouldn't hurt for other denominations/faith leaders to do the same.

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 3h

Yes. That's clearly part of all this and why I simply will not watch Hasan's execution, or even be present where it is being shown.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.

Bo French, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, has taken this idea a step further, suggesting that the only way to be an American is to be white and Christian.

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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 3h

We're asking a court to stop the development of an intrusive, harmful 250-foot arch proposed in Arlington County across from the Lincoln Memorial. This vanity project — dressed as a military complex — unlawfully bypassed environmental review and would severely impact the county and its residents.

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 10h

Remember when we all agreed that Al-Qaeda and ISIS’s televised executions were a mark of retrograde bloodthirsty religious fundamentalism?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

Pete Hegseth picked Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to lead a Pentagon future of war project. It's: -Corrupt! Big Trump donors. -Conflict of interest! Defense contractors who will recommend their products. -Dangerous! Embeds techno-fascists deeper into US defense architecture. My latest, in @ms.now:

ms.now

Opinion | Oligarchs like Elon Musk are tightening their grip on the Pentagon

A new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing.

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CK DexterHaven 🍂🍁🍂 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 12h

Reminder that the majority of justices on the Supreme Court are Catholic. If this lands on the emergency docket it’s going to get zippy

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 12h

* will be very, very different.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 12h

*Who are trying to get employed by him

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Don Schreiber/Methane Mad Man @vivarioarriba.bsky.social · 12h

What if all cities under attack by ICE stood together and said this..

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 12h

I have a tremor too. Sympathy and solidarity!

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 12h

It's two years. Others may emerge!

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 12h

There's no way to predict a presidential candidate now.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 12h

Some of you are taking this to mean that I think he will be the D presidential candidate. I'm saying that the manner of campaigning will be more like what he's doing.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 13h

I think I brushed the icon as I was scrolling.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 13h

Here's a neighbor kitty, Copper, who was kind enough to share his crunchies when we ran out. He's an indoor-outdoor kitty and will sit outside his house saying "Mip mip mip" at passers by.

Closeup of orange tabby face with blue eyes and black spots on nose.

Orange target tabby with impressive circled tail with white tip, circling around to get pets.

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Steve Saidemonster 🧌🧛🦇⚰️👻👹 @smsaideman.bsky.social · 14h

Unpacking the court by increasing the number of justices is now a winning issue. I surely hope that the Presidential primaries of 2028 force any Dem candidate to stand for unpacking. Because governing with this court is impossible if you aren't a Trump.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 14h

Thiel is obsessed with the antichrist.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 15h

Trump planning a televised state murder spectacle? Charlie Kirk would be so proud. bsky.app/profile/bung...

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15h

Steadily increasing crowd at Allen Pavilion.

1 train passes overhead as anti-ICE protest grows at Allen Pavilion

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 15h

Swells from Isaias are affecting the western and northern portions of the Yucatan Peninsula and will spread northward toward the Gulf Coast on Friday. These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions. Be sure to check the conditions for your area at weather.gov.

$A regional coastal risk map centered on the Southeastern United States and the Gulf of Mexico. A red hurricane icon labeled "Isaias" is located in the Gulf of Mexico near $25^\circ\text{N}, 89^\circ\text{W}$. Highlighted Coastal Risks: High Risk (Red): Extends along the Florida Panhandle coastline toward Mobile Bay, and along the East Coast from East-Central Florida up through coastal Georgia. Moderate Risk (Yellow): Stretches along South Florida near Miami, Southwest Florida below Tampa, and the South Carolina coast. Low/No Data (Grey/White): Covers coastal Louisiana and Mississippi.$

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🍁🍂 🎃 Diva for the Season 💚💙🏈🫶👠👑 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 15h

This. I'd add sexual violence to the mosaic of vice signaling.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 16h

You be kind to yourself too. I hope your children bring you much joy.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 16h

If accurate, there's a lot here.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 16h

They are ramping up immigration enforcement because they think it will help them in the elections. It is more likely to hurt them. People don't like the violence. Another person was shot today in New York City.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 16h

He's great. It's what all the Democratic candidates should do.

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 16h

Y'all, I am aware that some in this administration WANT children to witness a live execution. There is value in forcing them to say so out loud & on the record. This is the kind of thing that alarms, motivates, & mobilizes people who "aren't political" & don't pay attention to the news.

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