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"It's making me dumber." At 404 Media's three-year anniversary, we got into how we report our stories. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social talks about how he was able to talk to developers at Google about how forced AI use was making them feel stupid. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Vj...

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 14h

Where are the Cristin Milioti starring roles in big movies? C’mon casting people

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 16h

YouTube and Facebook are constantly honeypotting me. I consciously avoid clicking on sexual content on those platforms so they shouldn’t be suggesting that kind of thing. I think they’re searching for kompramat.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 17h

I’d suggest for everyone to watch the 80’s miniseries “V” to show you the type of organizing we’ll need to learn. A cautionary tale about how easy it is for Fascism to take over.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I made a big pot of my locally famous Chicken Noodle Soup. MMMMMM

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Please, explain how, Mr. Defender of the Status Quo and hagiographer of American evildoers.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People have an issue with the difference between “amount” and “number of”. Same with “which” and “what”. They choose the less descriptive term.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mr. Scotty Aux has grounds to sue over likeness rights. @cbbworld.bsky.social

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Saw a sign for “Fight Club for Sexual Integrity” in Lafayette, CO today. Boy, I really think I can learn something from such well-read and empathetic people.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The evil of the elite class could not be sustained without the complicity of the Professional-Managerial Class.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We’d be way better off if it was Sen. Wayne Federman from PA.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t mind Brad Pitt’s line reading of “What’s in the box?” in Se7en. Scotty Aux found it odd.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My buddy Spam Risk calls me a lot. Great guy.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The anticipation my brother and I had for Talladega Nights was off the charts.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bet they were influenced by the lyrics of Tool’s Aenima.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Top 5 comedy in the theater experiences.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#doughboyspodcast Wiger is on his way to the Jim Rose Circus look with all his ink and painted nails.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Remember they used to badmouth the Soviet Union by saying that you have no freedom because you’re always being watched. Everything they taught us was a lie.

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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026

Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ellis’s WB will sell you audio comic books next for such occasions.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I wish politicians could admit that the post-war institutions that the US created were put in place primarily to promote the interests of empire - not the fun fairy tale we learned growing up that he repeats here.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“If you’re evil you’re actually kind of good. Because you’re at least getting something done.”🤔 Y’all aren’t alarmed enough about what MAGA tech billionaire (Trump donor, J.D. Vance’s pimp, Epstein’s buddy) Peter Thiel is doing to our country.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Market inefficiencies are a public good. I’ll let that sink in.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve been boycotting the MCU since WandaVision™️. Too many ties to the Military Industrial Complex for me.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ahh. Understood. I heard about how the ending changes and it sounded terrible.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t you hate those “activist judges”? Every accusation is a confession.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once again Gave Evans’s attack ads against Manny Rutinel are really pathetic. He has a couple cops to vouch for him and a trucker. They make sure to pound the “free healthcare for illegal aliens” point. Really emphasizing the “illegal” word. Dude, I want EVERYONE to get free healthcare.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Implement the MoU you signed. Iran holds all the cards. Retreat now before getting tricked into using a nuke. Yankee go home, and stay home. Cut the military and give us the freedom of portable healthcare.

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JoeBongo42069 @joebongo42069.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No mention of a dumb war that the US has lost and a president who is such a blathering moron that he can’t admit defeat because Iran has got us by the Hormuzes. Adhere to the MoU and Yankee go home.

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