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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, I don’t disagree. My post was meant to be understood as a grouse about the reviewers.

Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 3h

It's a movie that makes you feel uncomfortable with the narrative and then reconstruct it as you go, and I'm sure some people are reacting negatively to those things.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

Meme image of Tom Cruise as Digger with the text: I'm joining the war on Digger on the side of Digger

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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 3h

It's making simultaneous points about the climate situation, art, and narrative control, and does so commendably. It had me--purposely--off-kilter for three-quarters of the movie, and then the tumblers all fell in place.

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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.

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Michael Morrison @michaelmorrison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Say what you want about his politics, but at least Greg Stillson could hold up a kid. Vivek really is useless at everything.

Martin Sheen as Greg Stillson in the movie The Dead Zone holding up a toddler.

On a side note, not a week has gone by in 11 years that I don’t think of this movie.

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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“HE’LL HANDLE THE ECONOMY AS IF IT WERE YOUR CHILD! VOTE VIVEK!”

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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also starring Dr. Who and James Bond in supporting roles!

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.

An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."

Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."

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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"As of this moment, they're known as the Double-Secret New Irish Republican Army"!

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026

This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...

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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh, hah, this was supposed to be in response to the “though Elon died” remark

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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever fail to follow up their call of “O-H” with “I-O,” a heavily-armed British Buckeye shows up at your house

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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Henceforth, rhetoricians who wish to flag a faulty argument that consists of a refutation (what about humans using computers to make art?) that neatly sidesteps the original claim (AI doesn’t make art) and tries to sneak the real claim in (“now add Ai films to it”) shall call it The Minion Gambit.

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 02/10/2026

Turns out every accusation is a confession. Anyway vote Nithya 2026 for a mayor who doesn’t do petty bullshit like this

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Governor Pervert sides with the Perverts. He is the future of the party.

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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Baby elephant taking a bath.. 😊

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 01/10/2026

ICE has notified me that another person has died in their custody. This is the 58th death under ICE’s watch since Trump returned to office. That’s 58 too many. We need to dismantle ICE, eliminate private, for-profit detention centers, and reform our broken immigration system.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”

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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I might have gotten carried away with the alt text.

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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

May I always have the moral and intestinal fortitude to do as Chloe Freeman.

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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Expecting an executive order any moment now renaming it Pooper intelligence

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm reminded of the case in 2018 where cops in California coerced a man into confessing that he'd killed his dad. The cops lied, saying they'd found a body and that they were going to kill his pet dog if he didn't confess. He attempted suicide. The "missing" dad was later found alive and well.

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Fontana pays nearly $900,000 for ‘psychological torture’ inflicted by police to get false confession

Detectives grilled Thomas Perez Jr. for 17 hours, deprived him of medications and threatened to have his dog killed if he didn’t confess to killing his father, who was actually alive.

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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have become increasingly confident that the main drive—aside from any profit motive—for those in the tech industry is “I don’t understand the world, and I want everybody to be as socially and culturally bereft as I am.“

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Okay, seriously, what the fuck is this?

The top of the Google results when I went looking to see just what Mamdani's tweet that mentioned the Talmud actually said (a search for "mamdani talmud"). This top search reasult appears to link to Mamdani's Twitter account ("NYCMayor" on "X"), then has a truncated header ("Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on ...") and then it has a vile lying antisemitic screed that ABSOLUTELY DID NOT COME FROM MAMDANI and I can only assume is some typical-for-Elon's-Nazi-website antisemitism someone wrote *about* Mamadani's post, but it's presented in the Google search results as if it's from Mamdani.

(text of the screed below, if you want to read it)
The Talmud teaches that the best of Gentiles should be killed, Jesus is boiling in excrement, and that non-Jewish souls are inferior and impure.
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Mamdani's post, linked from that vile preview, in full (but a screenshot, so it doesn't include the video). Text below:

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

Together, we will ensure Jewish New Yorkers are safe and celebrated. We will invest in their protection, their history, and their future.

Our safety and our thriving are tied together.

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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Even worse, that's a pretty sad number of the American people getting to weigh in on official government language.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here's the conclusion of the article Cruz links to that says the opposite of what he claims is says about Writing-to-Learn studies. It's as if he asked an AI bot to find him a study about WTL that included the word "inconclusive."

Text from the article Cruz cites as evidence against learning coming from writing:

7. Conclusion

We have outlined five recent trends in the evolution of research on WTL. The first has been the adoption of increasingly sophisticated analytical tools as a means of critically evaluating theories and practices. Early work on WTL was comprised of theoretically driven claims as well as individual experiments, which produced varied and inconclusive results. During the past decade, researchers have used meta-analysis to objectively integrate the results of multiple studies. At the same time, meta-analysis has been used to identify the instructional variables and student characteristics that moderate the effects of writing on learning. Methods such as path analysis have been used to investigate the psychological processes and text characteristics that mediate the effects of writing on learning. The result has been a consensus that writing contributes significantly to learning with effects that, on average, are small to medium in size; however, these effects can be increased, depending on the extent to which moderator variables are mobilized.

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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cruz could have just written "I don't really like writing or teaching much" instead of pulling inaccurate conclusions from articles he cites while extrapolating his (assumed) experience with AI at an elite school for all of education.

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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes, was just coming her to share this! Makes one wonder if Cruz let AI do the source gathering here. From the article:

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026

Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.

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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified

The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...

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Team Animal Voice @tav4accmedicals.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#TuesdayCuteness "A love muffin w/ extra zoom" Snowbean nycacc.app#/browse/265640 #AdoptMe This happy, patient, tippy tap master lives in a Pop-up Crate, no Adoption Fee. NYCACC blames him for too much energy when he is released from his crate🙄

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

why this is notable: the alpr photos show martinez and ruiz in the 30 days *before* the crash in brighton park. during that time, neither was under investigation for a crime, but police were able to retrace their movements anyway in an attempt to fabricate pretense for criminal charges.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DOJ has charged Wilber Garcés with felony assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer, based on the allegation he struck an ICE officer with his sideview mirror when driving off after the initial traffic stop. He was then chased for 8 minutes, rammed, and then shot.

Image 1: the agent is standing in front of the driver’s side mirror, with the mirror at waist height.

Image 2: the agent now has has hands on the car as it starts to move. The mirror appears to be very slightly in contact with his waist.

Image 3: the agent has pulled his hips back and the mirror is no longer touching the agent.

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