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Dean Alan

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Love and Crime in Paris: Chapter 1 of the audiobook on.soundcloud.com/2zuii4cnMGKf43E7H9

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11h
Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
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ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO
Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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Dean Alan @deanalan5.bsky.social · 5h
Boooooooo! Booooo this specifically.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
spotted on facebook, creator unknown (feel free to tell me and I'll post)
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Unlicensed SCARtender @adamosports.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
*Taps Sign*
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Dean Alan @deanalan5.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Is Nic Wayne a power ranger? #AEWGrandSlam
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Protos @protos.com · 09/10/2026
China releases three-part documentary on pig butchering protos.com/china-releas...
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China releases three-part documentary on pig butchering
The Chinese government has released a three-part series, designed to expose the public to pig butchering scams on the southern border.
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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
For @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
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FRONTLINE @frontlinepbs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Facebook's promise was to create a more open and connected world. Our 2018 documentary "The Facebook Dilemma" investigated how multiple warnings about the platform’s negative impact on privacy and democracy were eclipsed by the company’s pursuit of growth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T48KFiHwexM
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The Facebook Dilemma, Part One (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
A major investigation of Facebook's impact on privacy and democracy around the world. Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/1BycsJW Facebook's promise was to create a more open and connected world. FRONTLINE finds that multiple warnings about the platfo...
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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You Can See Everything
Alt: You Can See Everything why would I lie to you face
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Dean Alan @deanalan5.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#AEW
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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 09/10/2026
TL; DR
Me: I fucking love when people fall down the Tether rabbit hole.
If you ever find yourself there, please reach out. It's my favorite topic.

It's such a niche niche topic that's increasingly important and I am actually an expert and always happy to chat.

Eastern Motors Appreciator: How is it increasingly important?

Me: Because Tether is one of largest t-bill holders in the world, one of the largest gold holders in the world, and Howard Lutnick, who is the secretary of commerce of the United States, acquired those t-bills for Tether.

Meanwhile, Tether is used by Iran, drug cartels, and pig butcherers to fund their operations.
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Dean Alan @deanalan5.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My man looks like he runs the evil fraternity in an 80s sex comedy that doesn't hold up.
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026
An ICE agent on the scene of a shooting in upper Manhattan on Thursday has repeatedly been accused in federal court of unlawful arrests and using force during arrests in New York and Minneapolis, a WIRED investigation finds.
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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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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 08/10/2026
Peter Thiel can't stop talking about the Antichrist. He says evil is "kind of good." He's the billionaire who co-founded Palantir, bankrolled JD Vance, and champions men who want to end democracy. He keeps pointing at everyone else. But here's who he's really describing 👇 #peterthiel #jdvance
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Dean Alan @deanalan5.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Womp Womp Seagull Meme
ALT: Womp Womp Seagull Meme
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Dean Alan @deanalan5.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
She looks like she can unhinge her jaw and swallow you whole.
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Dean Alan @deanalan5.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Again to the surprise of none.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The most important political task in America is clawing back wealth from the very rich. The most important ballot measure in America is the California billionaire tax. Oligarchy is at the front door. Time to stop fucking around. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...
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The War Against Accumulated Capital
Either pass wealth taxes or learn to love digital feudalism.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We spoke to the family that made the AI avatar of a killed man. They said the point of the video was to sway the judge. “Isn’t that what you want human connection to be?” The convicted man in the case is now being resentenced because of the use of the AI video www.404media.co/her-ai-gener...
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Her AI-Generated Video Swayed the Judge. The Court Said it Carried 'Undue Emotional Weight'
"Chris’ sentiment does not change," said the sister who created an AI avatar of her slain brother Christopher Pelkey to speak in court.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 07/10/2026
"It felt very much like a violation of my personhood."
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ChatGPT Caught Putting Signatures of Real Cartoonists on AI-Generated Comics
ChatGPT is churning out New Yorker style cartoons and slapping the name of real artists on them without permission.
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 05/10/2026
new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"
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Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices
A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Optimizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Protos @protos.com · 05/10/2026
ZachXBT poses as money launderer to infiltrate Lazarus network protos.com/zachxbt-pose...
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ZachXBT poses as money launderer to infiltrate Lazarus network
ZachXBT posed as a money laundering client in order to expose a Chinese crime syndicate laundering funds for North Korea's Lazarus Group.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“‘Many senior engineers believe it’s inevitable we’re going to have a massive data breach as a result of Hatch.’ Muse is called ‘Hatch’ internally and in Meta’s codebase.” @404media.co
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Meta Rushed to Fix Muse ‘VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch
The vulnerability could have let a Muse user access sensitive internal Meta databases.
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Dean Alan @deanalan5.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
These fucksticks read one Discworld book and throught The Patrician was super cool. Kidding, they don't read. Even if they did, they wouldn't understand Pratchett.
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Dean Alan @deanalan5.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This guy has moldy cottage cheese for brains.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026
Newsletter: Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the its flagship Clarity Act legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown.
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Issue 110 – The Clarity Act collapses
Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the industry’s flagship legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/10/2026
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The Cornell Rape Case & History
YouTube video by Hari Kondabolu
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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 02/10/2026
oh my God this is the greatest thing I've ever heard in my entire life
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Dean Alan @deanalan5.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wrestling is beautiful.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 02/10/2026
It's the seagull's friends who come back at the end to check on their buddy that gets me. www.reddit.com/r/interestin...
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From the interesting community on Reddit: A seagull is accidentally hit by a tennis ball during a game in Australia.
Explore this post and more from the interesting community
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
i have been laughing at this for 5 minutes straight
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scoop: Podcaster Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation over his ICE ride-along videos calling protesters "terrorists." www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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Reganelite 💙 @reganelite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every single spot Will Ospreay and Ricochet did was a tribute to PAC 🖤 - Black Arrow - Rebound German Suplex - Phoenix Splash - Belly to Belly - Shooting Star Pele Kick - DDT sell - Backslide Driver - Liger Bomb - Spaceman Plancha #AEW
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Dean Alan @deanalan5.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Same, dawg. Same.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My man looks like Poochie the Rockin' Tech Support
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Major Republican fundraiser winning contracts from Trump administration, emails reveal
Palmer Luckey has donated $5.9m to Republicans and bundled more, while reaping billions in Pentagon contracts
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Dean Alan @deanalan5.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"I don’t think it’s controversial to say that if one has ambitions of finding success in culture, the quantity of one’s output must be considered, if not prioritized." It is controversial, antithetical, even, to art and culture. This is the death of art and human expression, blithely stated as fact.
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♾️ UNCAИИY (they/them) VundaHalloweenathon Edition 🎃 @uncanny305.bandcamp.com · 01/10/2026
BRYCE'S REACTION TO COUNTING THREE ON THE BLACK ARROW IS DESTROYING ME #AEWDynamite 🤼
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TDE Wrestling @tdewrestling.com · 01/10/2026
Bless you, Orange Cassidy. #AEWDynamite
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TDE Wrestling @tdewrestling.com · 01/10/2026
BLACK ARROW!!!! #AEWDynamite
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TDE Wrestling @tdewrestling.com · 01/10/2026
#AEWDynamite
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TDE Wrestling @tdewrestling.com · 01/10/2026
Hangman Adam Page remembers PAC. #AEWDynamite
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Dean Alan @deanalan5.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Niagara falls over here.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
one of the most heated discussions on X is about the ethics of a project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted LLMs, sparking a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare"... time 2 log off
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 30/09/2026
Battlestar Galactica (1978): Promotional art by Frank Frazetta As Frank Frazetta as it gets.
Promotional art by Frank FrazettaPromotional art by Frank Frazetta in an ad
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murderedbybluesky.bsky.social @murderedbybluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Musk loves taking steroids, but he is not working out so his organs are bigger pushing everything forward and all the fat. Abusing T / HGH & estrogen suppressors (makes internal organs grow) and severe anterior pelvic tilt. Hypercortisolism likely as well. More alien-looking everyday.
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