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Ihor Gowda

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 6h
My investigators have confirmed the Trump administration is hiding interview documents it conducted with some of Epstein’s banks, and there could be more. There’s no limit to how far Scott Bessent, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche will go to continue this cover up.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3h
Unsurprisingly the Russians are paying off the Americans to take their side in the Russia’s criminal war of aggression. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h
This reminds me of two scenes in the German movie “Downfall,” which depicts, historically accurately, Hitler’s last days. Both scenes involve Hitler and Albert Speer discussing Hitler’s “Nero Order,” by which the Führer had ordered the destruction of the Reich’s remaining economic infrastructure...
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Elizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 7h
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wrote about Cornell, the burnerverse, and how the distinct behaviors of fraternities—sexual aggression as an expression of male bonding and male power—now define male communities all over the internet. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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Is College Getting Less Safe for Women?
A lawsuit about an alleged gang rape at Cornell University and a Wired story about sexual cyberharassment reveal how campus rape culture and online misogyny are colliding.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h
this is very funny
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 5h
Many people confuse having access to experts with understanding a topic for themselves—and this “contagious sense of understanding” could proliferate as humans turn to AI for answers, Tania Lombrozo writes:
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Who Has Expertise in the AI Age?
Artificial intelligence could unmake a crucial human achievement.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 16h
"Autonomous Systems Command." Have none of these mooks watched Strangelove?
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 18h
The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 9h
We’re screwed www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 9h
How many local models do you run?

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Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You're not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?
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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 8h
What I learned today: Bands of high school students and young adults in Arizona are buying (or stealing) guns and selling them to drug cartels, often Mexican. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/w...
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American High School Students Are Selling Guns Bound for Cartels (Gift Article)
Drawn by money and status, teenagers in Arizona are buying, stealing and selling weapons destined for criminal groups in Mexico.
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James Gleick @around.com · 7h
One identifier of a failed state: other nations conduct diplomacy through bribes to the ruling family. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 6h
We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 6h
Make them crawl. This is now our American republic. We are the shithole nation.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 6h
Trump administration’s talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit a Trump donor and Middle Eastern businessmen with ties to Witkoff and Kushner. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19h
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 19h
Truth
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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 20h
Good clear thinking from Dave once again.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 02/10/2026
Whenever given a chance to condemn a sexual assaulter and side with a victim Trump always takes the side of the sexual assaulter
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
To be clear, and for the record, this is some other fellow. I don't know if Hollywood will rebound or not. Hell, I can't even get a good story greenlit anymore. And as for money, I've put all of mine into 10 mg gummies and Utz crab chips.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is bizarre in part because if the idea that AI models have “moral standing” were actually taken seriously, all of these companies would immediately be banned.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026
This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
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Your Canadian Girlfriend @yourcanadiangf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Crack came straight from the core of Three Mile Island!
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“‘Sir, we think the Oval Office should be taken down, and we’ll build a new one, sir,’” said Trump, quoting a Secret Service official. “I said, ‘My ass, you can’t build a new one. This is a special place.’” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump says Secret Service wants him to ‘take down’ Oval Office
The president also said he is looking into designating the White House room as a “federal landmark,” potentially preserving his changes.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end”
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 02/10/2026
“We can do as many crimes as we want so long as we say it was software and pay for a few PACs” is an absolutely insane way to run a society.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 01/10/2026
a large number of you seem to hold the bizarre mystical woo woo idea that neural networks are identical to brains
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I can’t believe America murdered democracy for this fucker.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 01/10/2026
Records come and records go. But this is one for the ages. The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now at a record 3.23°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This crushes the previous daily record set in 1982 by over 1.14°C. The Climate 8-ball is looking up.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
impressive chain of thinking
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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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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."
Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”
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Ihor Gowda @ihorgowda.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
no notes @audacityofdespair.bsky.social
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Elon Musk is not an expert on the future of warfare, and he shouldn’t be leading a US taskforce on the topic. The Trump administration’s attacks on, e.g., civil servants and DEI are inextricable from its attacks on expertise in general.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Two absolute lunatics
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He’s thought a lot about what worksite injuries are manageable.
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Your Canadian Girlfriend @yourcanadiangf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
so while Pete Hegseth is focused on soldiers' boners, the military was digitally sodomized.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hear we're not supposed to call these guys weird.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a Christian Nationalist revival meeting masquerading as a defense department speech...
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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete there is a war going on in the middle east right now. You might have heard about it. You could literally go right now instead of doing whatever this is.
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