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Chuples Dobson

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Reformed roboticist, public servant, and dabbler in art, TTRPG, and video game design.

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WIRED @wired.com · 07/02/2025
SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
here’s a thing!
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The power of independent journalism: From her Brooklyn apartment, she 'scooped' the nation's media
Independent journalists live outside the mainstream and their numbers are growing. They have just had a big moment: a woman working from her kitchen in Brooklyn broke a big story about the Trump admin...
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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The Video Game History Foundation Library is now in early access. For free. For everyone. Wherever you are. Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
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library.gamehistory.org — Now in early access
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks" www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
404media.co
Zuckerberg Says 'Everything I Say Leaks' in Leaked Meeting Audio
"There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025
If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.
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USAspending.gov
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
“There’s still this idea that news is only ‘real’ once it’s confirmed by big corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely zero institutional backing in leggings and a sweatshirt in her NYC apartment really be the one to break such an important story? Now we know the answer is yes.”
thehandbasket.co
Breaking: The Handbasket is first to report catastrophic OMB funding memo
Posted on Bluesky earlier this evening, other major outlets have since confirmed.
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy “study finds we can keep grid stable with more renewables-every major renewable-geothermal, hydro, wind, solar-is lower cost than fossil fuels on average, globally" grist.org/energy/calif... @gristnews.bsky.social @mrmattsimon.bsky.social
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California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy
Are renewables reliable? A new study says California ran on renewables alone for a record number of days last year.
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A GUY IS SPEEDRUNNING NEW SUPER MARIO BROS WII WITH HIS FEET WHILE PLAYING PIANO ALONG WITH THE SOUNDTRACK WITH HIS HANDS: www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick
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GamesDoneQuick - Twitch
Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 - Benefiting the Prevent Cancer Foundation - New Super Mario Bros. Wii
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Koy Boi🦎 | Flabbergast!⚓Comic @k0yfish.art · 08/01/2025
Oh. Windows updated and completely removed my ENTIRE art folder. Its not even in recycling..can't recover since apparently idk the pass to this acc on Microsoft. 2019+ years worth of art, obliterated. I have some saved in other areas, but its not high resolution All my vtuber assets are gone.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/01/2025
As we witness these heartbreaking scenes from the fires in LA, an important reminder that incarcerated people make up over 30% of California’s forest firefighters.
motherjones.com
30 percent of California's forest firefighters are prisoners
About 4,000 inmates battle blazes in the Golden State's woodlands.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 08/01/2025
marvel rivals making a male character: give him the most creative kit ever seen in the shooter genre marvel rivals making a female character: i don't know, have her shoot energy shots out of her hands. and make her ass big.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
Keith Wasserman: Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A new study finds about a quarter of freshwater animals are threatened with extinction
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New research shows a quarter of freshwater animals are threatened with extinction
New research shows about a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction.
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Lainna Fader @lainna.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Holy cow. Just woke up to this view from mid-Wilshire looking downtown
Wildfire in Los Angeles
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 07/01/2025
By leaving insecure tracking devices on the open internet, “police have not only breached public trust but created a bounty of location data for everyone who drives by which can be abused by stalkers & other criminals,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @wired.com.
wired.com
License Plate Readers Are Leaking Real-Time Video Feeds and Vehicle Data
Misconfigured license-plate-recognition systems reveal the livestreams of individual cameras and the wealth of data they collect about every vehicle that passes by them.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Zuck is citing an explicitly political justification to require large numbers of workers to relocate to a state where abortion and youth gender affirming care are illegal. That’s quite a statement on who belongs on your trust and safety team.
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
AI is just such a profound insult to my craft as a writer and my interests as a human being. i hate it so much lmao
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Nearly all of Puerto Rico is without power on New Year's Eve
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Nearly all of Puerto Rico is without power on New Year's Eve
A blackout has hit nearly all of Puerto Rico as the U.S. territory prepares to celebrate New Year’s.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
To every guy who came into the comments on my Gisele Pelicot article to yell “not all men” at me and demand I give due deference to the good guys… It’s time to be quiet. Investigation uncovered more than 70,000 users in Telegram group chats admitting to raping women & sharing tips to sedate them 🧵
telegraph.co.uk
Telegram ‘rape chat groups’ with up to 70,000 members uncovered
Users from multiple countries have been sharing tips on how to sedate and sexually assault women, German investigation finds
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
California forcibly sterilized hundreds of women. Then, it 'allowed' them to apply for compensation. But only ≈15% of the affected women have gotten compensation so far. Many were denied. And the deadline to apply/appeal is in just 10 days, leading to an unfair rush many don't know about:
boltsmag.org
For Survivors of Forced Sterilization in California Prisons, a Rushed Shot at Justice
A state board deciding reparations for women sterilized against their will rejected most applications. Advocates are now racing against a January deadline for victims to appeal.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 21/12/2024
A U.S. Congresswoman disappeared for the last six months of her term. Nobody noticed. Turns out she's in a memory care unit, & her staff (and apparently other people?) covered it up (though she was somehow propped up for an event a month ago?) WILD story
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‘Missing’ GOP Congresswoman Not Seen For Six Months Finally Found Living at Dementia Care Home - WCBM TALKRADIO AM 680
In a startling revelation, Rep. Kay Granger, missing for six months, has been found living in a dementia care home. Discover the details behind her sudden disappearance and the implications for her political legacy. The post ‘Missing’ GOP Congresswoman Not Seen For Six Months Finally Found Living at Dementia Care Home appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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Please Follow the Official Guardian Account @guardian-world-rss.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
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‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 15/12/2024
@safety.bsky.app would be very wise to adopt this language from GitHub
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
The Mount Vernon, New York, police department strip searched nearly everyone it arrested and performed illegal cavity searches, Justice Department says
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NY police force strip searched nearly everyone it arrested, DOJ says
A report from the Department of Justice finds that the police department in a New York City suburb grossly violated residents’ rights, documenting illegal strip searches of people who weren’t under ar...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
"If a journalist calmly and truthfully explaining the problems with an industry or the problems of a company, with no embellishment, just explaining what the problem is directly to camera, comes off as a threat or comes off as a motive, then perhaps that industry is the problem."
washingtonpost.com
A reporter covered United Healthcare. TMZ thought he might be a killer.
TMZ contacted Sean Morrow, a reporter for the nonprofit newsroom More Perfect Union, saying it had multiple tips tying him to the killing of Brian Thompson.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
i'm confused by bluesky's lack of response to the j*sse s*ngal situation and i'm working to get some answers as part of a larger story about the platform's trust and safety measures.
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Kim Rhodes @kimrhodes.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
You can hate on “Baby it’s Cold Outside” all you want but my least favorite is “Rudolf.” It’s about an atypical being rejected by his peers until he is deemed a useful commodity by an authority figure and then lauded. Fuck you, reindeer.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The backpack the NYPD says belonged to the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect reportedly held only two items: a jacket and Monopoly money
abcnews.go.com
UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting latest: Suspect's backpack had Monopoly money: Sources
The manhunt for the suspect who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has now entered its fourth day as authorities learn more about his movements before the attack.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Transgender advocates converged at the Supreme Court for the oral arguments of U.S. vs Skrmetti, a case that will decide the fate of access to gender-affirming care for trans minors. UR was on the ground covering a rally near the U.S. Supreme Court Building steps. unicornriot.ninja/2024/supreme...
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Supreme Court Hears Gender-Affirming Care Case - UNICORN RIOT
Washington, D.C. — Transgender advocates converged at the Supreme Court for the oral arguments of U.S. vs Skrmetti, a case that will decide the fate of access to gender-affirming care for trans minors...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/12/2024
absolutely true and so disappointing. we can’t cede the future — and our ideas of what tech is and who it serves — to people who have very different interests and motivations than most of the public.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/11/2024
for my next newsletter and episode i bought the bestselling laptop on Amazon to try and explain how shitty most people's exposure to tech is. Currently at 30 minutes of menus and updates. I have agreed to three privacy policies and created two new accounts. We live in hell
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 29/11/2024
As a disabled web accessibility practitioner. This pisses me off. Extremely. GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE. Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing. Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.
a11y-ai

Accessibility explained by those impacted.

Check any website for barriers and generate the perspective of those who face them.A11y-AI is an experiment using the storytelling capabilities of generative AI to bring the impact of accessibility violations to life. It aims to inspire web professionals to take action.
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hey AI devs: immature and inconsiderate shit like this is why no one likes you. Fix your broken, extractive culture. Tech should serve people, not the other way around.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
“I go from panic to despair to righteous indignation. It’s also been weighing on me that journalists are likely to be in the crosshairs in the new Trump administration. Going to jail for reporting is not something I ever thought I’d have to consider as an American.” i talked to @parkermolloy.com!
depthperceptionbyll.substack.com
Writing through the apocalypse with The Handbasket’s Marisa Kabas
As independent journalism faces mounting threats, one writer builds a platform for uncompromising reporting.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 27/11/2024
Ok, I have 699 paid members of my patreon right now. My goal is to get to 850 by the end of the year. This would allow me to cover my rent and car payments with Patreon. I'd appreciate your support. <3
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 27/11/2024
It's never autonomous, it's always just hiding people behind a computer
gizmodo.com
Tesla Is Looking to Hire a Team to Remotely Control Its 'Self-Driving' Robotaxis
Elon Musk's
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/11/2024
Another listeria outbreak. This is what happens when you deregulate and underfund health agencies.
cnn.com
72,000 pounds of ready-to-eat meat, poultry recalled amid deadly listeria outbreak | CNN
A listeria outbreak linked with ready-to-eat meat and poultry products from Yu Shang Food Inc. has caused 11 illnesses in four states, with nine hospitalizations and one death, according to the US Cen...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
my sister always says that the kind of people who need to have boundaries drawn on them will prove your point by immediately pushing back forcibly against them and come up with a host of excuses to make you the bad guy for doing it
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
After House Majority Leader Mike Johnson (R) stated no intent to release investigatory findings against Rep. Matt Gaetz on allegations he paid for sex with minors, an anon hacker released 2 depositions from the investigation asserting he did just that. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
Hacker accesses sealed testimony of woman alleging Matt Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17
The file, which was hacked Monday, included the testimony of the woman who alleges she had sex with Gaetz when she was 17 in 2017 and the testimony of a second woman who said she witnessed the encount...
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 19/11/2024
don’t let the failures of some (major) news outlets disillusion you with media as a whole. and ESPECIALLY don’t let those failures desensitize you to attacks on free expression. we can criticize media failures while also fiercely defending media freedom.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Nice thread explaining alt text. As a reminder, I generally will not reshare images without alt.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/11/2024
The U.S. Senate has a chance to pass critical protections for journalists -- help us tell them this must be a priority.
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Tell Congress To Pass the PRESS Act Now
The Protect Reporters from Exploitive State Spying (PRESS) Act is a long overdue federal shield law that provides protections to journalists against government surveillance and forced disclosure of co...
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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Science has never been, and never will be, apolitical. It is a human activity, the federal government is the biggest financial backer of it, and one political party is doing everything it can to reduce our capacity to answer scientific questions.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/11/2024
Something real odd about ai welfare concerns when your tech is contributing to the deterioration of human welfare.
arstechnica.com
Anthropic hires its first “AI welfare” researcher
Anthropic’s new hire is preparing for a future where advanced AI models may experience suffering.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
My piece on processing our emotions and embracing the work of collective survival, reprinted in Truthout. “Humanity is flawed, but our capacity for kindness, connection, and transformation is real, too. Take solace in decency—it’s still there.”
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Let’s Move Beyond Blame to Fight for Each Other in the Face of Fascism
While principled critiques are often necessary, let’s communicate like people who still need each other — because we do.
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