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Sophie Hurwitz

@hurwitz.bsky.social
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reporter @motherjones.com etc | signal: @shurwitz.18, email: shurwitz@cir.org

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 4h
Direct quote from the Defense Sec: “We are no longer the woke department or the weak department” Follow along:
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 21h
Only 11 Democrats voted for it in 2024.
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 30/09/2026
big balls is involved
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Patrick Egan @pegan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A textbook example of how our legal system punishes those that our society at large has failed again and again. People aren't born evil. Something—many things—happen to them and make them someone they didn't have to be.
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Attn: hospital workers using Timpani or similar scheduling software
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Are you a nurse working in a hospital that’s using Palantir technology? Do you want to talk about how that affects your work for @motherjones.com ? Reach out on Signal at shurwitz.18–your anonymity will be protected
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Attn: hospital workers using Timpani or similar scheduling software
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Are you a nurse working in a hospital that’s using Palantir technology? Do you want to talk about how that affects your work for @motherjones.com ? Reach out on Signal at shurwitz.18–your anonymity will be protected
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/09/2026
Yet another Democrat has released an ad decrying "boys in girls sports." This Democrat is NY-21's Democratic candidate for congress, Blake Gendebien. You can watch his full ad in our latest story. He joins several other Democrats releasing similar ads this cycle.
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NY-21 Dem Congressional Candidate Blake Gendebien Releases Ad Decrying “Boys In Girls Sports”
This corresponds with a modest, but growing, trend: Democrats are capitalizing on anti-trans hysteria, or otherwise leaning into Republican narratives on so-called culture war issues.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gov. Bill Lee has rejected clemency for Christa Pike. Her lawyers say they are "heartbroken." "Christa will be the first person Tennessee executes in the modern death penalty era who was a teenager at the time of the offense and the first woman executed by the state in more than 200 years."
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
But an increasing proportion of arrests have been made by local law enforcement in partnership with ICE, via 287(g) agreements. In many regions, it can be difficult to know when local officers are conducting routine policework or immigration enforcement. In many cases, they are doing both.
A chart showing immigration arrests by local police, which have increased steadily since ICE's new enforcement strategy began in April 2026, reaching its highest amount above 200 arrests per day in late June 2026.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
International politics and sports collide once again.
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Irish soccer fans call for boycotting matches with Israel
International politics and sports collide once again.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
ICE wiped thousands of people from its database. Families are paying the price.
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ICE wiped thousands of people from its database. Families are paying the price.
Lawyers and loved ones are scrambling to find people suddenly culled from DHS rolls.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
Palantir’s co-founder thinks we should be less judgmental about that deadly Iran school strike.
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Palantir’s co-founder thinks we should be less judgmental about that deadly Iran school strike
The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump's war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.
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The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts
Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
In today's speech, Netanyahu appeared particularly eager to defend settlers in the West Bank, whose state-supported violence against Palestinians and international observers is extremely well-documented by reporters, activists, and international human rights groups.
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Netanyahu's UN speech was a full-on defense of Israel's settlements
“Peaceful settlers, honorable people” are being smeared, Israel's prime minister said.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/09/2026
At the U.N. this week, President Trump repeated his attacks on the ICC and urged other nations to pull out of the global tribunal. “It’s an absolute low point ... that President Trump has shown up here and attacked the international legal order,” says Varsha Gandikota of the Hague Group.
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The Hague Group: South Africa Leads Coalition Against U.S./Israel’s “Unilateral Bullying” of the ICC
At the United Nations this week, President Trump repeated his attacks on the International Criminal Court and urged other nations to pull out of the global tribunal. The United States earlier this yea...
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This guy pronounces Hasan Piker’s name the same way he pronounces Hamas and that’s what I learned today
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026
dealing with this bullshit right now! love 2 live in hell
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
Thousands of detained immigrants with “Final Orders of Removal” have had their records hidden or deleted from ICE’s tracking system, leaving families and lawyers unable to locate them.
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ICE wiped thousands of people from its database. Families are paying the price.
Lawyers and loved ones are scrambling to find people suddenly culled from DHS rolls.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
ICE wiped thousands of people from its database. Families are paying the price.
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ICE wiped thousands of people from its database. Families are paying the price.
Lawyers and loved ones are scrambling to find people suddenly culled from DHS rolls.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 23/09/2026
Want to spend money Congress hasn't appropriated or violate the First Amendment? No problem. Just slap a "national security" stamp on the project to avoid public scrutiny.
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Trump Cites National Security as He Faces Pushback on Press Ban, D.C. Arch and More
The president is increasingly invoking the rationale while facing legal challenges to his plans, even in more curious cases like his triumphal arch, which he says will now include snipers and drones.
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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New: Jake Sullivan moved to the hedge fund, private equity, defense-contractor speaking circuit, paid more than half a million dollars last year. The former national security adviser in 2024 defended U.S. weapons to Israel in its assault on Gaza.
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Jake Sullivan Cashes In on the Corporate Speaking Circuit After Defending U.S. Support for Israel’s Gaza Assault
Biden’s former national security adviser collected $560,000 in speaking fees from private equity firms, corporations, and exclusive gatherings for investors and executives in 2025. He now backs withho...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The group hosting Peter Thiel's "antichrist lectures" here in Nashville is every bit as weird as you would expect.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
President Trump said that he has ordered the U.S. government to refer to AI in all official documents as “super intelligence.” www.washingtonsun.com/donald-trump/…
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Trump Says He’s Ordering the Government to Call AI ‘Super Intelligence’
The suggestion came days after industry leaders called for greater government oversight of the emerging technology.
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
UNGA week is all about almost getting run over by an SUV really
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Eileen Guo @eileenguo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New investigation from @jamesmodonnell.bsky.social & me into the border #SurveillanceTech by #Anduril, General Dynamics, and Israeli co. Elbit Systems that failed to catch 1 in 4 deaths within range. In other words: 1,050+ people dying on camera. www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/21/1... 1/x
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The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
Surveillance towers, increasingly powered by AI, promised faster responses to crossings. Our investigation of deaths near the towers found they are failing to deliver.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/09/2026
“People would be pretty shocked that what they’re using for their homework or to summarize emails is also being used by intelligence officers.”
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Killer AI is already here—we’re using it in Iran
Despite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'll be live-posting through part of today's General Debate at the United Nations General Assembly--at least through the first few speeches (UN Secretary General, Brazil, US, etc)
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Another delayed IPO. First, Holtec. Now, SB Energy “has been delayed, as investors question the company’s sought-after valuation of $50 billion or more, according to interviews with four people familiar ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a good deep-dive into AI slop invading what used to be legit media sites. One thing I’m seeing more and more: slop outlets churning archaeology stories from 1-5 years ago and presenting them as news. 🏺🧪
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Robocop (1987) @robocop1987.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
...and a loser.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
this is an interesting thing that happens on social media but rarely in face-to-face conversations, and I'm always curious about whether it's just the absence of vocal inflection or something else
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey New York
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John Wilson’s ‘The History of Concrete’ from Magnolia Scores Biggest Opening Weekend for Documentary in IFC Center History
John Wilson's 'The History of Concrete' broke the opening weekend record for a documentary at IFC Center.
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2027 class of fellows! Apply by Oct. 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) at bit.ly/periplusfaq
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/09/2026
“People would be pretty shocked that what they’re using for their homework or to summarize emails is also being used by intelligence officers.”
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Killer AI is already here—we’re using it in Iran
Despite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 17/09/2026
as usual excellent reporting by @hurwitz.bsky.social and addresses Israel's use of AI to target and kill Palestinians
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Killer AI is already here—we’re using it in Iran
Despite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres.
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On the victims of AI-assisted American warmaking and their absence from the “AI safety” discourse. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Killer AI is already here—we’re using it in Iran
Despite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/09/2026
The US-Israel war on Iran represents an unprecedented application of AI in warfare. The Pentagon’s Maven Smart System uses Anthropic’s Claude AI to “semi-autonomously rank targets by strategic importance, drafting automated legal justifications for each strike along the way."
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Killer AI is already here—we’re using it in Iran
Despite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres.
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State of St. Louis @stateofstlouis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“AI is not making lethal decisions.” -Hegseth But it’s making lethal recommendations, which don’t appear to receive enough human oversight to prevent atrocities February, US military fired Tomahawk missiles directly at a girls’ school in Minab, Iran and killed over 150 people—most young children.
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"...[AI is] making lethal recommendations, which don’t appear to receive enough human oversight to prevent atrocities. In February, the US military fired Tomahawk missiles directly at a girls’ school in Minab, Iran and killed over 150 people—most of them young children." @hurwitz.bsky.social
Screenshot of text: Cameron Stanley, the chief digital and artificial intelligence officer for the Department of Defense, wrote in June that xAI’s Grok “enabled U.S. forces to deploy over 2,000 munitions to 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury.” 

That admission, part of the administration’s case for the national security importance of Elon Musk’s data centers, is just the tip of the iceberg. The Pentagon’s Maven Smart System, built by Palantir, also uses Anthropic’s Claude AI—the same program that people use to create AI boyfriends for themselves or draft awkward texts to their roommates—to “semi-autonomously rank targets by strategic importance, drafting automated legal justifications for each strike along the way,” according to Katie Livingstone of Military Times.
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"...the additional safeguards AI policy groups tend to propose revolve around stopping fully automated technology—not regulating the semi-autonomous technology that is already being used to kill at scale." @hurwitz.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Killer AI is already here—we’re using it in Iran
Despite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New: Ed Markey, Jeff Merkley, and Bernie Sanders have introduced a joint resolution of disapproval against the Trump-Vance admin's new proposed $5 billion sale of bombs and JDAMs to Saudi Arabia.
Senator Markey Introduces Joint Resolution of Disapproval on U.S. Weapons Sales to Saudi Arabia
 
Resolution Text (PDF)
 
Washington (September 17, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), co-chairs of the bicameral Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, along with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), this week introduced a joint resolution of disapproval (JRD) for the Trump administration’s proposed sale of conventional weapons to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The weapons include thousands of joint direct attack munitions (JDAMs) and five thousand 2,000-pound bombs.
 
Separately, the Trump administration recently submitted an agreement on U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperation to Congress—as is required by law—but has classified two important side letters, which is unprecedented. Because the side letters affect the obligations and operation of the underlying agreement, Congress and the public cannot fully assess what the United States and Saudi Arabia have agreed to without seeing them.
 
On September 16, Senators Markey and Merkley led a bipartisan group of senators to press the Trump administration to declassify and publicly release the two side letters accompanying the proposed U.S.-Saudi civil nuclear cooperation agreement, referred to as a “123 agreement.”
 
“The United States must not send thousands of conventional weapons to Saudi Arabia or allow it to develop a nuclear program. I am deeply concerned by the Kingdom’s human rights abuses, the security of the region as the war in Iran rages on, and the proxy war that is escalating between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Yemen. Further escalation in the Saudi-Iran proxy war will worsen an already dire humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen and risks setting off a nuclear arms race between Iran and Saudi Arabia,” said Senator Markey.
 
As a founder of the national Nuclear Freeze movement, Senator Markey has long been the Congressional leader on ending the proliferation of nuclear weapons. On …
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you’re going “hey wait and what about Israel” I implore you to actually read the article
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Chérry the Créature🍒 @apuppyisanangel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"In January of this year, Pete Hegseth released a memo directing the United States to embed AI in every part of the “kill chain.” As it moves to comply, the Department of Defense is placing relatively few checks on what technology companies can or cannot do when the United States is waging war."
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Dorri @ravinedweller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Claude’s target selection is reportedly only about 60 percent accurate in good conditions, 30 percent accurate in bad weather
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On the victims of AI-assisted American warmaking and their absence from the “AI safety” discourse. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Killer AI is already here—we’re using it in Iran
Despite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres.
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Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The Pentagon’s Maven Smart System, built by Palantir, also uses Anthropic’s Claude AI to 'semi-autonomously rank targets by strategic importance, drafting automated legal justifications for each strike along the way,' according to Katie Livingstone of Military Times."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/09/2026
Killer AI is already here. We’re using it in Iran.
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Killer AI is already here—we’re using it in Iran
Despite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres.
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