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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 9h

Fewer AND less AND "good riddance." And one fewer soon maybe.

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Fewer, AND "good riddance"

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I know we pay a lot per litre here, but it's hard to calcuate how much per gallon because US and UK gallons are different sizes!!! And I'm not going to atrophy my brain by asking an AI. I think we're paying between $6.25 and $6.75 per US gallon.

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Someone help me with this. Do you say 'less' or 'fewer' when referring to the death of a Repubican child molester? Or is it just 'Good riddance'?

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There is one less Republican child molester. Or is that one fewer?

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And after posting all that, I see that along comes Cory Doctorow with a wonderful prescription for a post-oligarch/post-America world where everyone prospers!!!! bsky.app/profile/dcjo...

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Measuring the Income Gap from 1975 to 2023

One study showed that between 1975 and 2023 $79 TRILLION that should have gone to US working people went to top few instead. A HUGE change, people getting less and less of the pie, the bulk of the gains going to a new billionaire class. www.rand.org/pubs/working...

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The author extends the results of prior work on the income gap between the bottom 90 percent of workers in 2023 and what they would have earned with an even growth rate from 1975 to 2023. These worker...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h

The Hegseth Pentagon as proudly released another snuff flick in which it proudly announces the murder of four sailors (whom it labels, without any evidentiary support, "narcoterrorists") and the destruction of their boat. Legal experts say this is, quite simply, homicide.

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US military says it struck vessel in Caribbean, killing four

The US military said on Sunday four people were killed in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean ‌Sea, the latest in a series of attacks that Washington says target "narco-terrorists" but human rights...

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Governments were intentionally "defunded" and cut services, pensions, healthcare, education, transportation, infrastructure - everything that made regular people's lives better. All the gains going to the top. Things for regular people cut and cut... Over time people began feeling the squeeze.

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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

Should a company whose CEO says this be allowed to operate unregulated? Is this our world now? OpenAI (ChatGPT) CEO Altman, “we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology...” www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 15h

The "AI race" would be a good thing in functioning democracies with oversight and regulations, and people had a say in how things are done. We do not have that. Companies are allowed to release unfinished and largely untested products to the public when they might or might not cause serious harm.

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WHY is everyone upset? Inequality. It's so obvious. This is US data, but same happened worldwide. In the 70s-80s the economy became rigged - tax cuts, deregulation, unions broken, etc - and all gains started going to the wealthiest. In the US $79 TRILLION was transferred away from working people.

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The volunteer internet sleuths hunting down rogue AI agents

I haven't seen this number reported: "over 100 third parties whose systems were bypassed or negatively impacted" just by OpenAI. Over 100 found so far. But who knows. When does OpenAI get prosecuted for hacking? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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An informal network of hackers and researchers is exposing new details about misbehaving AI that meddled with corporate and government websites.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 14h

⚡️Shell injures border guard at Moldova-Ukraine border, hits bus. The incident occured as Russia carried out attacks against Ukraine, Moldova's border police said.

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Shell injures border guard at Moldova-Ukraine border, hits bus

The incident occured as Russia carried out attacks against Ukraine, Moldova's border police said.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 16h

Supporting the Iraq war turned out to be a career killer. Opposing rights for LGBT. Taking money to support data centers. Taking corporate money in general... Those were the wrong thing to do and later came back to haunt them. Doing the right thing is always the right thing to do poitically.

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I interviewed one of the primary authors of this study. The numbers he throws around are mind boggling. nerdfarmpod.com/2023/08/14/a...

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A $47 Trillion Dollar Hole in the US Economy — Carter Price, the Rand Corporation — #199 – Nerd Farmer Podcast

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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 15h

To be fair, a large percentage of right-wing account "followers" on Musk's social media site are just bots. That provides the appearance of popularity, enhancing the bandwagon effect. You can actually purchase hoards of followers.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h

I regret to inform you that Russian Useful Idiot Benny Johnson has an enormous followers base. Hopefully the protestors who sued him last week can give him the Alex Jones treatment.

Benny Johnson

@bennyjohnson
🛑 Since USAID was defunded:

- Rap music is dead
- DNC is broke
- Communists have lost Venesuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Chile, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru, Costa Rica and Brazil is next
- U.S. Border is CLOSED, migrant caravans are gone
- Nationalists are winning across Europe
- CNN sold
- Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert’s shows canceled
- Dylan Mulvaney and Elliott Page can’t find work
- Lizzo can’t sell an album
- Nike stock collapsed
- No more hurricanes
- No more plant based meat
- The McRib is Back

Got what I voted for again 🥇
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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 15h

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16h

Bleak stuff here: the fascist international in country after country judging that they don’t even have to pretend any more that they aren’t farcically corrupt criminals, and they may well be correct.

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Republican bilionaire-owned newspaper trying too hard here.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That billionaire class is accelerating the transfer upwards and the rate of acceleration is accelerating.

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The "Zionism is racism" motion, to be debated at the Green Party conference tomorrow, will not advance the Palestinian cause one inch. But, if adopted, it would marginalise and discredit the party. There are powerful ways to confront the genocide. Toxic gesture politics isn't one of them.

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These companies are publicly saying they think it is OK if their products do "bad things" to the public -- and Republicans are saying they'll let them "self-regulate." I hope people hear this before they vote.

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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

politico.com

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 17h

That billionaire class is accelerating the transfer upwards and the rate of acceleration is accelerating.

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Each newer model is much better than previous models. I'm still finding problems but they're getting better. Might even be ready for releasing to the public after a few more generations. Unfortunately they started releasing to the public some time ago. Long before ready.

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Markle2k @markle2k.bsky.social · 23h

It seems like the press is repeating the same mistake, rooting for a horserace, rather than covering the policies

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Pluralistic: Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

I hope everyone can read this and pass it around. "The future isn't something that happens to us. The future is something that we make." pluralistic.net/2026/10/03/f...

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As public anger rose due to inequality, the billionaire information outlets pumped out distraction - fear and hate propaganda. The ancient tactic of pointing at an "other" to divide and distract increased. Religious division ("Sharia law.") Racial hatred. Hatred of migrants... "Invaders."

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The billionaire/oligarchs/capture of govts are SO outrageous that so many people are saying the same (obvious) things now. Doctorow offers in this a wonderful vision for what we COULD have. I love it.

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And after posting all that, I see that along comes Cory Doctorow with a wonderful prescription for a post-oligarch/post-America world where everyone prospers!!!! bsky.app/profile/dcjo...

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"A post-oligarch, post-American world could be a post-austerity world, one where we recognize that the limiting factor on public investment isn't money, but resources: energy, material, labor, expertise..."

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Pluralistic: Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

I hope everyone can read this and pass it around. "The future isn't something that happens to us. The future is something that we make." pluralistic.net/2026/10/03/f...

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An international authoritarian kleptocrat naturally movement rose up. Putin, Bolsonaro, Orban, Netanyahu, Erdogan, MBS, Farage ... TRUMP ... Milei, etc.

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