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Fritz Fressulf @fressulf.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

At least I managed to find some clearance pants for costume purposes today, which was nice. I want to dress up for Summer Isle burn next month but I've gotten a little bigger since the last time I got to wear costumes, so. Need to try on my old tunic again too, see if I can let it out or sew anew

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

All of which is to say that an AI chatbot's explanations of its own behavior are no more reliable than its description of the outside world, and that they're unreliable for exactly the same reasons. IT DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING AND DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO KNOW ANYTHING.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Yep. And I'd encourage folks who don't understand this to make a personal one-time exception to any "don't ever use AI for anything ever" policies they may have. Because if you actually push on this stuff, it's quite illuminating. (Quick thread.)

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Please keep calling concerning this. Not just for the arts and environment but also for the increasing number of sexual deep fakes that are being made of children and to uphold the importance of state rights.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Update: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean? It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again! Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban! (Info in thread)

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US House Committee Advances 10-Year Moratorium on State AI Regulation | TechPolicy.Press

After an amendment challenging the moratorium language failed, it will advance with the rest of the legislative package.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Rwanda Redux. Britain has opened formal talks about sending failed asylum seekers to detention centres abroad, The Times reports. Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and North Macedonia could be destinations.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/05/2025

the single best thing democrats could do to win back trust with voters — and a good number of those voters who have a low opinion of the democratic party are democrats themselves! — is adopt an aggressively partisan orientation toward republicans and loudly perform their opposition

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 14/05/2025

KOSA will absolutely be used to actively target and discriminate against LGBTQIA+ people; it will be used to frame literally *Existing* as an LGBTQIA+ person as "pornographic;" you can know this because Blackburn has admitted it out loud. Do not let this fucking bill pass. Call your senators, now.

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Rep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

8.6 million people. That's how many people could lose health care under Trump & House Republicans’ budget—many through Medicaid cuts. That’s someone’s child, someone’s grandma, someone’s only shot at seeing a doctor this year. All so billionaires can get another tax break.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Welcome to Gilead.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 13/05/2025

BREAKING: A Montana court just struck down a ban on health care for trans youth, finding the law violates the state constitution.

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 14/05/2025

Benbecula, 2023

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Kevin Lehane @kevinlehane.com · 14/05/2025

71% of all online engagement in Ireland is far right bots from foreign adversaries attacking Irish people. It’d be great if the EU would sort this out. It’s gotten out of hand and doing genuine damage.

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Maria Montaño @themariamontano.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The cruelty hurts, but the joy they receive from their cruelty is worse. There is no reason for this whatsoever - the only goal here is to cause harm and try to force us out of public life.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Chilling final paragraph and editor’s note.

We know that tech corporations, fossil fuel companies, and governments bear the most responsibility for the accelerating climate crisis — not individuals. But you can choose to opt out of the Al hype.

Editor's note: In August 2024, Condé Nast, Teen Vogue's parent company, announced "a multi-year partnership with OpenAl to expand the reach of Condé Nast's content."

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨 TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts. MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here. Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️ OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid

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Save Medicaid

Please call your Representative right now and leave a voicemail, or first thing on Monday morning before the mark up session begins.

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Glenn Storm @glennstorm.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Right now U.S. Republicans in Congress are jammed up a) the protests are working to make the most vulnerable nervous (keep calling and protesting) b) they DO NOT want their constituents to realize they are set to cut $880 B from Medicaid and MORE c) they are at odds with each other Push Hard Now

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Fritz Fressulf @fressulf.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Speaking of geese, I still think about a news story out of Waterloo, ON I saw a little while back abt a neighborhood that was terrorized by geese lol Geese walking down the street patrolling and running down any humans they saw A whole box of Costco croissants flying into the air: spoils of war

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Fritz Fressulf @fressulf.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Not much going on here-- some Canadian geese made a nest at a neighbor's pond, so now we get to see a goose family with six little goslings in the backyard. We've seen that the geese don't mind rabbits joining their party to graze, but they will chase deer! Makes sense -- deer might crush or eat

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help I've autumned and I can't get up @daniskitchen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I Do. Not. Trust. This. Man.

Corey O’Connor is claiming credit for Pittsburgh’s paid sick leave policy in TV ads and mailers in his campaign against Mayor Ed Gainey. But the truth is, he almost killed it.

I know this because I was there in the negotiating rooms. As executive director of Pittsburgh United, I helped lead the coalition that spent months crafting a strong sick leave bill with unions and faith and community groups like SEIU 32BJ, Pittsburgh Interfaith Impact Network and Action United.

O’Connor initially agreed to sponsor the bill and told us he supported the policy. In early meetings, he said all the right things: praising unions, nodding along and assuring us he was with us. We thought we had a shared commitment. Then, out of nowhere, he reversed course.

After a private meeting with the Restaurant Association, he tried to introduce a massive exemption for businesses with fewer than 14 employees — a change that would have excluded 85% of workers. We were stunned at his cowardice at the cost of workers.

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Ms . Penny Oaken @skywitchy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

If knowing your rights didn’t matter, then 100+ right-wing sockpuppets would not show up to deny that your rights matter, dismiss your concerns, derail the discussion, and defend ICE on every single post of a Know Your Rights card old.reddit.com/r/garland/co... 238 comments total. ~175 trolls.

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Know Your Rights

Posted in r/garland by u/Ok-Ad-7954 • 524 points and 238 comments

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 10/05/2025

The Cass Review gets peer reviewed and absolutely shredded Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 10/05/2025

Sound of Harris, 2022

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Maria Montaño @themariamontano.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

This same mailer BTW says he plans to care for our unhoused neighbors by getting them work. Newsflash - many of our unhoused neighbors do work, they just make poverty wages as rent keeps going up and up and up. Minimum wage in PA is $7.25 nobody can live on that.

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Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Important to note here that he was not arrested while protesting. He was arrested while attempting to perform his job and inspect the facility. Something neither the operator or ICE can legally stop. Please report on this correctly and stop defaulting to Fox News talking points.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 07/05/2025

DOGE’s creation of one massive, omnipotent database could let authorities retaliate against critics of the government, undermine political foes or personal enemies, and target marginalized groups, EFF’s Tori Noble told @gizmodo.com.

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With Its Destruction of Government Data Silos, DOGE Is Building a 'Surveillance Weapon'

There's a reason the government's vast trove of data is compartmentalized.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2025

i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers

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County Exec. Innamorato @ace-innamorato.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Today we announced 1st Home Allegheny, a new $2.6M program to help first-time homebuyers put down roots in the County. We’re aiming to support up to 90 households this year with down payment and closing cost assistance. Learn more: alleghenycounty.us/1sthome

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 01/05/2025

Towards the Thunderbolt, 2022

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Jeremy O'Kelley @jeremyokelley.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

What color is the smoke? Couldn't give a shit, mate. (Catholic Church threatens to excommunicate priests who report child abuse)

newsweek.com

Catholic Church to excommunicate priests for following new US state law

The Justice Department is investigating whether the new law violated the First Amendment.

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Bess Pallares @besspallares.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

If you use ChatGPT I think you’re a loser. Hope that helps.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing. Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.

A picture of an incredibly grim room, filed with depressed-looking African men, in filthy clothes laying on filthy mattresses in a filthy detention center with bars on the window. Everyone looks like the life has gone out of them.

Global development
This article is more than 3 years old
Fresh evidence of violence at Libyan detention centres as boats turned back
This article is more than 3 years old
Amnesty International says sexual abuse and beatings rife at camps for those forcibly returned after trying to cross the Med

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John Muir @johnmuir.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Thames barge

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 07/05/2025

Apropos absolutely nothing: Everything you put *into* ChatGPT/Copilot etc becomes a part of their training data, too. That means if you ask it a question like, "is Carl in Accounting a cheat?" it might say no, but also "Carl in Accounting is a cheat" is part of its training data.

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 07/05/2025

I honestly was not expecting the "sometimes ChatGPT just makes stuff up to make you happy" to be this easily verifiable. This is using the prompt that @seattlein2025.org said they used to vet authors for controversies. ChatGPT will literally invent new people with fake problems to fulfil the prompt

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 07/05/2025

I don't think it's an understatement to say there's going to be entire cohorts of junior academics, coders, copywriters, "artists" etc who are functionally illiterate in their own discipline and this will become *very* apparent when anyone takes a second glance at their work

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Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

"Mayor Ed Gainey, joined by County Executive Sara Innamorato and state lawmakers, is pushing to amend Pennsylvania's Price Gouging Act to cover local disasters on the heels of last week's deadly storm. The law [currently] applies only to state-declared disasters"

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John Muir @johnmuir.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Beasts coming in from the east..

Black and white view of a stormy shoreline with wind turbines, shimmering water, and sandy beach.

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John Muir @johnmuir.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Looking for a brighter horizon..

Cloudy sky over a calm, wide sea, with a sandy beach in the foreground.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, has been hacked. Hackers claim to have stolen flight manifest information and flight details, and have also defaced the website www.404media.co/globalx-airl...

Anonymous
Operation DreadNought
Anonymous has decided to enforce the Judge's order since you and your sycophant staff
ignore lawful orders that go against your fascist plans.
You lose again Donnie.

A federal judge ruled on May 1, 2025, that the Trump administration's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798 to remove alleged members of a Venezuelan gang from the country is unlawful.

"The President cannot summarily declare that a foreign nation or government has threatened or perpetrated an invasion or predatory incursion of the United States, followed by the identification of the alien enemies subject to detention or removal.

"The Proclamation makes no reference to and in no manner suggests that a threat exists of an organized, armed group of individuals entering the United States at the direction of Venezuela to conquer the country or assume control over a portion of the nation. Thus, the Proclamation's language cannot be read as describing conduct that falls within the meaning of 'invasion' for purposes of the AEA.

"Allowing the President to unilaterally define the conditions when he may invoke the AEA, and then summarily declare that those conditions exist, would remove all limitations to the Executive Branch's authority under the AEA, and would strip the courts of their traditional role of interpreting Congressional statutes to determine whether a government official has exceeded the statute's scope. The law does not support such a position."

- Trump-appointed Federal U.S. District Judge Fernandez Rodriguez

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.

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Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net · 05/05/2025

More and more ‘Lady Marmalade’ roses are blooming in the garden. Paddington would be delighted. 🌱

Two ruffled peachy roses in bloom, more buds and roses behind.

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Fritz Fressulf @fressulf.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

You know, I would share more trans rights stuff if it wasn't so often explicitly support for trans women, and leaving out trans men as if we simply don't exist, or worse, treats us as less than human. Funny how that mirrors lived experience pre transition.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/04/2025

Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it - Sounds confident even when factually wrong - Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf - Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases - Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…

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Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net · 03/05/2025

They just keep coming! My first ‘Bathsheba’ rose of the year is now fully in bloom, and she’s a beauty! 🌱

A large, ruffled rose with a peachy centre that fades to soft pink at the edges.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Labor landslide in the Australian federal election.

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