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Dan @grinnz.com · 3h

someone told him how to pronounce vegan once and it lasted about a day

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 14h

What I found most interesting here was how dumb he is

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11h

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 02/10/2026

🎥 WATCH: Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave In the opening hours of the war against Iran, on Feb. 28, 2026, the U.S. military fired Tomahawk cruise missiles directly at a school in the southern city of Minab. At least 156 people were killed that... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OmK...

🎥 WATCH: Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave

In the opening hours of the war against Iran, on February 28, 2026, the U.S. military fired Tomahawk cruise missiles directly at a school in the southern city of Minab. At least 156 people were killed that morning at Shajareh Tayyebeh school—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers.

It will go down in history as one of the gravest war crimes committed by the U.S. government since Vietnam.

Drop Site News conducted a two-month investigation into the strike, speaking with survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day. This is their story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OmK0oeq5fc&feature=youtu.be

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

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Ticky🏳️‍🌈 @drac.at · 02/10/2026

I wrote a little piece about the ongoing battle for the soul of software as a craft, where we've been, and where I hope we're going

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The Silent War for the Soul of Software - drac.at

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Dan @grinnz.com · 19h

at the end of the day, they're new yorkers and cuomo is an upstater

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 02/10/2026

This summer, ICE arrests of people with no convictions or pending charges more than doubled. Arrests of people with charges or convictions rose under 20%. DHS says it targets the worst of the worst. The data say otherwise. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-summe...

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ICE’s Summer Enforcement Surge Driven by People with No Criminal History

The latest data from Deportation Data Project shows that ICE has never arrested so many people — and never so many people without any criminal history.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The state of Nebraska has released data on the 1st few months of Medicaid work reporting requirements Over 1,000 people have lost/been denied coverage Vast majority are losing not bcuz they aren't working but bcuz they can't get thru the red tape My new blog: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/09/30/n...

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Nebraska Releases First Data on Medicaid Work Reporting Requirement: As Expected, Coverage Losses Start to Mount Due to Red Tape

At a recent Medicaid Advisory Committee meeting, the state of Nebraska, the first in the nation to implement what will soon be a mandatory Medicaid work reporting requirement (WRR), shared the first d...

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Jonathan Harris @jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remains an underreported story somehow that the president is out of his goddamn mind.

Do you trust Sam Altman?

I like him. Do I trust him? Who do I trust? I like Sam Altman. Smart. Dario's smart. They're all smart. We're dealing with a very high level of IQ. Very very high level. That's a good thing. I like that. I like it. Did you see the story about my uncle?

The one who taught at MIT?

I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest. I'm fine, and I understand that stuff. You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know, I'm a—I believe in genetics, frankly, and I understand. I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this. I have an ability on those things that were the new frontiers.

What I've done is I've created, for instance, these massive plants have no—We have no electricity in our grid. These massive plants now are allowed to make their own electric—

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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW from me: The resurgence of measles in the US is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they haven't seen in decades. www.wired.com/story/measle...

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Measles Is Forcing Hospitals to Adapt to a New Normal

The US resurgence of measles is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they thought was in the past.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 30/09/2026

⚡️NEW from @dropsitenews.com: Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave The bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst US war crimes since Vietnam. Drop... Story by @jeremyscahill.com, @mazmhussain.bsky.social & Reza Sayah www.dropsitenews.com/p/minab-scho...

⚡️NEW from
@DropSiteNews
: Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave

The bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst U.S. war crimes since Vietnam. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, and witnesses. This is their story.

Story by
@jeremyscahill
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@MazMHussain
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@SayahTweets

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Dan @grinnz.com · 02/10/2026

Put another way: there's a ceiling to how much companies think they're getting return for their investment, because models are getting more useful but they aren't what keeps getting promised to investors

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Dan @grinnz.com · 02/10/2026

I would say we need to remember this is a very stupid old man but he's very persistent at reminding us of this

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Dan @grinnz.com · 01/10/2026

the corollary is that the money problem also helps get people elected who do what the money wants, even if it's not for the money

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right?

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Dan @grinnz.com · 01/10/2026

Like, Scary Movie could do this right

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026

Here’s the monthly data with a 12-month trailing average, so we don’t “look ahead” of the time series. We can see that visits from Canada are substantially down. Like, a *lot*. And if we looked at the French series by itself we’d see something too. But it’s not on the scale of Covid. Yet.

Smoothed monthly graph shows Canada has dropped in visits substantially, but not to the extent we saw in Covid

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Dan @grinnz.com · 01/10/2026

I wonder if there's some reason that people with this ideology can't make compelling art. Must be lack of feelings

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Dan @grinnz.com · 01/10/2026

The only actually stolen presidential election

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i reflected on my failings as an engineering leader integrating AI into my team (before i quit it entirely); the result is beware: chronicling over 30 real risks from first-hand experience of using LLMs on a software team brettcodes.com/beware/

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Beware: Real risks of using AI as a software dev team

An extensive list chronicling the risks associated with software development teams leaning hard into AI-generated code and related tooling.

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

okay here's 6 www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/u... www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/u... www.liberalcurrents.com/mass-deporta... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... www.latimes.com/politics/sto... www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

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Dan @grinnz.com · 01/10/2026

@edzitron.com talks about this a lot. a huge cost of the model is training. but you can't just train it and be done. they have to continually train new and existing models to stay current with reality or they become useless

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This aligns exactly with what we know about noncitizen voting; it is extremely rare (9 noncitizen votes in MN out of 3,253,920 in the 2024 election, or 0.0002%), and when it occurs it’s most often green card holders who were mistakenly told they could vote (none of these people are undocumented).

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Brutal graphic on the amount of money everyone at Trump's AI roundtable contributed to Trump's Super PAC and vanity projects. It comes to $227 million. www.citizen.org/news/tech-ex...

CEO's donations paid off: Here's who had a seat at Trump's luncheon.

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Dan @grinnz.com · 01/10/2026

the basic issue is just that we've been doing "it'll eventually stop fabricating information" for a few years now and it won't because that is fundamentally how it operates. the only way "AI" gets "reliable" is by using it to build actual software which is a lot of what it does internally for coding

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Dan @grinnz.com · 01/10/2026

but also they get mad because it invokes a specific sentiment related to the holocaust and they don't like/want to admit how applicable it is

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Pennsylvania health officials reported on Wednesday the death of an unvaccinated resident of Lancaster County who tested positive for measles. It’s the fifth measles-associated death in the state since August.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

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Pennsylvania reports 5th measles-related death in the state

The state’s outbreak is currently the largest in the U.S.

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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OpenAI’s unlawful incidents are piling up. I’m not talking about the models; I’m talking about what its executives are accused of doing to obtain the data to create the models. AI is following its master down a road of deceit. And we don't have the will to hold those responsible accountable.

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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect

OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026

Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doing

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It Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?

How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look, the solution is obvious. Hold the execs accountable for the crime that the committed by their greedy negligence. Who cares about "superintelligence", what's rogue here is a number of companies with unsafe business practices which knowingly endanger the public

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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models

Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.

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Dan @grinnz.com · 30/09/2026

Differentiating between "this person's opinion sucks" and "this person is being an asshole" is an important qualifier for the followup responsibility

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House is bragging about reducing immigration (including refugees) from Muslim-majority countries to near 0. The U.S. is a nation of 340 million or so people. It was letting in just 18,000 people or less per month from these same countries prior to Jan 2025. Obvious anti-Muslim bigotry.

White House about reducing immigration from Muslim-majority countries to near zero

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...

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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...

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Dan @grinnz.com · 29/09/2026

Has any journalist asked JD Vance his opinion on it yet

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Dan @grinnz.com · 29/09/2026

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Dan @grinnz.com · 29/09/2026

It was recently revealed in Ha'aretz that Tony Blinken knew Hamas wished immediately to unconditionally release hostages (which you can't do without cooperation from the army that shoots their own citizens) and Israel was stonewalling, while saying to us that Hamas was refusing to release hostages

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Rashida Tlaib Unleashes On Antony Blinken As He Denies Shock Report on Hamas Wanting to Immediately Release Hostages

Tlaib's attack on Blinken highlights the growing rift within the Democratic Party over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the rise of the far-left.

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