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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 18h

Can't get numb to this: it’s still absolutely shocking, if totally unsurprising, that Trump is actively helping Russia and harming Ukraine.

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Chris Dolgos @cjdteaches.bsky.social · 8h

The stats: "Last year there were 235 shooting incidents at K-12 schools in the U.S., according to data from the K-12 School Shooting Database. So far this year, there have been at least 149, including the one in Bend, Oregon."

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 8h

We could use your help to make the next No Kings Day as big, impactful, and historic as possible! Thousands of protests with millions of people and hundreds of moving parts can only come together with a lot of grassroots support. Please chip in to support recruitment and anchor events for Saturday.

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Ed Tracey @ed-tracey.bsky.social · 8h

The Boston Globe right-wing columnist Jeff Jacoby (currently on medical leave) used to defend Columbus, believing he was being judged by modern standards. In 2023, he looked into the matter ... and changed his mind. jeffjacoby.com/27260/i-used...

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I used to defend Columbus as 'magnificent.' I don't anymore.

IN 1997 I wrote a column for Columbus Day weekend that opened on a smart-alecky note: "Say," I asked, "is it OK to admire Christopher Columbus again?" Ever since the quincentennial of Columbus's first...

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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 8h

Long-acting injectable therapy was similar to daily oral therapy for maintaining viral suppression in people with HIV and adherence challenges in Africa, according to an open-label phase IIIb trial. Read more at: www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…

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Long-Acting HIV Shot Works Just Fine for Patients With Adherence Issues

IMPALA study builds on research showing long-acting therapy is similar to daily oral therapy

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 8h

Commentary; Do you celebrate an arsonist who brings a cup of water to a fire they started? Is the president a hero for cutting small healthcare relief checks after he gave families the largest rollback of federal support for healthcare in American history? ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/15/t...

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Commentary: Trump slashed healthcare for Ohio families and spiked premiums. Now he's offering small checks. • Ohio Capital Journal

Do you celebrate an arsonist who brings a cup of water to a fire they started? Is the president a hero for cutting small, healthcare relief checks to people struggling under his policy, the largest…

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 13h

It’s almost as if there’s a relationship between the groups that are the subject of mainstream media and social media attention, chatter on extremist websites, and hate crimes

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This mother, Patricia, was pulled over and detained by masked ICE goons after dropping off her children at school in Austin, Texas this morning. She tried to explain to goons that she had another child at home alone. They pulled her into the the vehicle and and drove off.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 11h

Y'all, if there were a difference between a lawyer and an attorney, that difference would be defined and explained *in the law* just like the difference between a lawyer and a paralegal is.

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Lynn Gazis-Sax @empressnorton.bsky.social · 11h

dollars a month on AI with no accountability for whether you can afford that much and whether you're getting thousands of dollars of value also has its downsides. It does sound like a top 10% of users thing, probably.

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Lynn Gazis-Sax @empressnorton.bsky.social · 11h

want some of that budget to come out of particular cost centers tied to projects, rather than out of a general ever growing AI budget pool. If the company is really jumping down from thousand dollar budgets to $29 and that's it, that seems drastic. But letting people spend thousands of

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Lynn Gazis-Sax @empressnorton.bsky.social · 11h

... it's more complicated than just letting your eager adopters use as much as they are using. Some level of budget may need manager approval. The company may want to check that people are, for instance, not using the most expensive model for everything. Some companies may

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Lynn Gazis-Sax @empressnorton.bsky.social · 11h

There's a balancing act, where companies want employees to embrace AI, but also want to be able to budget without a few big AI users using up the whole monthly corporate AI budget. Most IT departments are going to want at least some users to have more than $29 a month AI budgets, but ...

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Lynn Gazis-Sax @empressnorton.bsky.social · 11h

... then expansion looks like the better of the two choices. Of course, IANAL and don't play one on the net, so what I actually want is whatever's legal, can be done now, and gets us away from voting rights being trashed and special boy R POTUS super powers.

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Lynn Gazis-Sax @empressnorton.bsky.social · 11h

... if my choice is between court expansion as soon as Ds have the power, and court reforms that will be ruled unconstitutional and leave me stuck for the rest of my life with a court that's anti-voting-rights and things POTUS should be a dictator if and only if POTUS is R ...

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Lynn Gazis-Sax @empressnorton.bsky.social · 11h

... because if we had a rotating set of Supreme Court justices such that some got appointed in every presidential term, I could see that making Court appointments less of a food fight, and then maybe we'd get more moderate judges. But ...

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Lynn Gazis-Sax @empressnorton.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah. There are, theoretically, other reforms that I'd prefer to expansion, if I were sure that they could legally be done now. For instance, term limits, even if I had to grit my teeth and live through some non-term-limited years, feels like a better long term solution than expansion ...

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 11h

Libertarian Party of Massachusetts. Doesn’t really seem to be a celebration of personal liberty, does it?

There's now no doubt as to why the Epstein files were suppressed. They were suppressed because the child rape scheme under Epstein was an Israeli intelligence operation.

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 11h

I still feel libertarianism has a collection of good (though too-broadly-applied) ideas that are unfortunately ignored by approximately 100% of all people who call themselves libertarians in 2026

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 11h

I was, because I didn't (and don't) think the state should hold vast power over the rights of individuals, like, say, the right to deport and denaturalize someone for having takes they don't like. the problem is that the vast majority of "libertarians" also want to deport people for their takes.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 15h

I'm not saying every "dirtbag leftist" was and is an amoral garbage bag, but I'm not not saying that.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11h

As ICE is terrorizing California’s Central Valley, one gas station owner has been preparing and delivering food directly to his farmworker customers. "For Mohammed, delivering meals is one way to show farmworkers they have not been forgotten.” kmph.com/news/local/c...

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Cutler gas station owner delivers meals to farmworkers amid immigration enforcement fears

As fears surrounding immigration enforcement grow across the Central Valley, one local business owner is finding a way to support farmworkers, one meal at a tim

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

One metal magazine of the 90s actually coined the phrase "Hetfield Effect" to describe the tendency of rockers to switch from "anti-war / anti-establishment" to "patriotic / conservative" pretty much the second they passed draft age

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Her "immigration status" is that she's been a US citizen longer than either Melania Trump or Elon Musk. The Democrats SHOULD use this opportunity for 100% solidarity with one of their own, and throw the fucking kitchen sink at Trump and his Republicans. I doubt they will but would LOVE to be wrong.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

NEW: DOJ threatened to sue California unless officials sideline ballots from people the feds believe are “likely noncitizens.” But the department cites no clear legal authority for ordering state and local election officials to take those steps. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Trump DOJ cites no clear legal authority in demand that California sideline ballots from suspected noncitizens

The omission of clear legal authorities is notable because the DOJ has previously invoked a far broader collection of federal statutes when warning election officials about potential noncitizen voting...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

If the investigation is out of MN it means it is run by the very same HSI agents who have been lying over and over to judges. If they got a warrant in DC anyway, it's all the more problematic.

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

(And of course "foreigner" doesn't mean "recent immigrant", someone who's been living here for fifteen years and changed job last year is a foreigner & not a national but what, are they supposed to go "I better not apply for that job, I'm not a national" and not pay bills?)

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I'll also admit I'm just going off the scan of the front page, but the first few paragraphs most of this comes after the pandemic, i.e. under a different immigration system, and also immigrants coming in under job visas. The law changed after! It's _been_ changed for about three years now

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is actually wrong, and plays into the false narrative that recent migrants are "low-skilled/low paid". In fact new migrants do a range of jobs, from low to high paid, with somewhat faster earnings progression than earlier cohorts migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

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Upward mobility? Earnings trajectories for recent immigrants - Migration Observatory

This analysis uses new data from HMRC to show how the size and earnings of the migrant employee workforce has changed over time in recent years.

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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

here's what some very kind early readers have to say:

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Weird how the US Navy can seize boats without murdering the crews in the Gulf of Oman but not the Gulf of Mexico.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

RFK Jr is even opposed to vaccinating chickens, Lord help us.....

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

They don't expect to prevail here. IMO, they are preparing the excuse to refuse swearing in elected Dems.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

'We Will Not Forgive' They loathe Israel for destroying Gaza. They also blame Hamas for gambling with their lives and promising victory. In searing Facebook posts, Gazans describe the loss, abuse and daily humiliations no camera can capture www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-10...

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'We will not forgive': Gazans rage at Hamas for the October 7 gamble

They loathe Israel for destroying Gaza. They also blame Hamas for gambling with their lives and promising victory. In searing Facebook posts, Gazans describe the loss, abuse and daily humiliations no ...

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David the Trifecta: Fatty, Beardo, Weirdo @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"do not fuck with beavers" may be the best piece of ecosystem advice that people should heed

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"No one wants to hear this much about children's genitals" is a statement that seems self-evident to everyone except movement conservatives

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Gotcha questions often rely on a black-and-white premise, and they "get you" when you accept that premise no matter which way you go. How you reject the premise isn't through cover-up but by owning that nuance doesn't necessitate contradiction. This is masterful.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“Thuc Dy Dang Nguyen, a church deacon and Sunday-school teacher in Lawrenceville, Georgia, was re-detained by ICE … The Vietnamese national had spent about 12 years under an ICE Order of Supervision and had regularly complied with check-ins, according to court filings.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

New More in Common polling has Reform UK in third place and the Greens down at 7%, which I think is now officially below where they were when Polanski took over as leader.

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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Network hardware is another equally critical bottleneck. bsky.app/profile/tmon...

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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Here's a rough breakdown of modern memory throughput: LPDDR5X (current smartphone RAM): ~10 GB/per sec DDR5 (high-end gaming PC RAM): ~50 GB/per sec HBM (AI data center RAM): ~1-2 TB/per sec

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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The problem is that raw computing power is only one variable in this situation. The other, and equally important variable is bandwidth, in particular with memory. Think of bandwidth as your data transport pipes, which is why your newer smartphone with newer RAM loads apps faster than your old phone.

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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I understand why the layperson would think that 'a computer is a computer,' and as a consequence, I understand why that same person might believe it when someone says an AI model that needs a single hyper-powerful computer to run could instead run of a multitude of not-so-powerful computers.

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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Ok, time for a teaching thread, because responses both to this and other posts make it clear that there are some fundamental misunderstandings about the realities of modern computer hardware, and it's causing people to take the bullshit of AI hucksters seriously, so here we go.

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hoya81.bsky.social @hoya81.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I think Gunn has said that Rocket reflects much of his own personality and likely why he slowly became the main character. It’s also telling that Rocket is a key part of both the Infinity War/Endgame stories and an essential character on the level of Iron Man, Captain America and Thor.

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Consider the following. If you live in a median sized European country, the fact that there are books, at all, in your vernacular language, which most people /can/ read and many people /do/, would have been regarded by your ancestors as a transcendental political triumph beyond their wildest dreams

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

As a casual observation it is actually extremely historically unusual that more than 5% of the population read at all

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