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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

These fucking idiots took emails of Hillary Clinton ordering pizza and turned them into a child trafficking scheme, but they’re perfectly fine with Donald Trump being best friends with the most notorious sex trafficker of our time.

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Exactly! Don't fix it if it already works great.

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Those "losers" in their mamas' basements playing video games are part of their MAGA base, aren't they? But since those same losers are probably too lazy to vote (or do all the legwork to get on Medicaid in the first place), they don't care what this part of the base thinks.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/06/2025

NEW: Hegseth is deploying Marines against U.S. citizens. Mayor Bass says to know your rights :

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/06/2025

After several unmarked DHS vehicles had their windows smashed, DHS is now deploying infantry-style escort tactics to walk vehicles into and out of the area. These CBP officers look absolutely sweaty and miserable as the crowd lets them hear it. It's too hot to wear masks. (sound on for A+ heckling)

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 08/06/2025

👇👇👇 [Alt-text] post reads “If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487

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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Elon Musk can take his one-month free offer of Starlink services (to those affected by the wildfires) and shove it up his ass. Starlink poses a national security threat. Also, Musk said that Canada is not a real country. Screw him!

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

And if it's not a free account, cancel your subscription and make it free again. Paying for LinkedIn is almost as bad as paying for Twitter.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 31/05/2025

This is why "you're right, it isn't what you voted for, because your values aren't shared by the Republican Party" is a much more effective message to help build a better America than "yes you did vote for this, you bad person" which fails to take advantage of this once-in-a-generation opportunity

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Before you delete the account, verify with LinkedIn that if you delete it no one else can reuse your username/handle and then impersonate you. If it can be recreated, delete the data you don't want there and leave it dormant.

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Get your pope bingo card ready for the upcoming "Pope Games" spectacle. Rob Anderson gives you all the info you need! youtube.com/shorts/rq07l...

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The Pope Games are here! Who will snatch the papal tiara? #pope #conclave #vatican

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

These five people: bsky.app/profile/indi...

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 30/01/2025

No one knows what caused last night's tragic crash outside DCA. Investigations are ongoing, and no one - not Donald Trump or anyone else - should be drawing conclusions until all the facts have been released. But here is what we do know. (1/7)

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/01/2025

Mitch McConnell wouldn’t have to vote no on dangerous cabinet picks if he’d done his damn job in 2021.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The ADL’s cowardice around Musk’s Nazi salute is especially galling to anyone familiar with that institution’s long and brave history of monitoring and analyzing the fascistic threads in US political culture. This book is from 1996, for example.

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As Internet use expands, it is not surprising to find some of the more notorious extremists already catalogued in these pages - Tom Metzger and his WAR, William Pierce and the National Alliance, the Holocaust deniers from the Institute for Historical Review among them — experimenting to find the best way to exploit the propaganda value of cyberspace. But the low cost of entry and the relative ease of Internet publishing is also expanding the number of lesser-known haters cranking out the extrem-
ist message.

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Nah, I don’t care what the excuses are that start to leak. Especially the Aspergers one… It’s an insult to others on the spectrum with Aspergers This was intentional by someone who has watched and learned how to perfect it.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

And of course he really will say "sell us your country" because he doesn't know it's part of Denmark. UGH.

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

This has to be a stunt and never intended to actually fly like that. Depending on the size and shape of the lights, the added drag could be considerable. If the lights and the wiring are not held in place firmly, so many things could go so horribly wrong. Consider what ice on wings can do.

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

That's for sure! If she really does have children, I bet they have some stories to tell. When they're old enough maybe we'll hear some of them.

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Yours is an amazingly short yet extremely accurate summary of the whole situation!

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Of course you're assuming that such companies are doing this on purpose when in reality, hating that their employees are happy working from home, they're just floundering around trying to take more control back and causing themselves bigger problems. The king, the mice, and the cheese strike again.

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Here is a link to the full grand jury report. For the "father" McCaa stuff, go to page 79: www.bishop-accountability.org/reports/2016...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The people I went to high school with in the 1980s in Cambria County, PA voted for Trump in part because they fear that undocumented people will harm them. There are virtually no undocumented people in the country. But the priest at our Catholic Church assaulted dozens of our friends. Crickets.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

It's not just more attention. The attention is also more positive rather than all negative. As another responder said, if this reduces the number of school shootings, that's a good thing, I guess.

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Douglas M. Charles, PhD @dmcharles.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

New FBI double agent case from World War II (with help from British intelligence, of course). I never heard of it til today. Will be in my new book. Lots of FBI-run double agents.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The “conservative movement” that eventually swallowed the old “Party of Lincoln” was turbocharged in 1954-5 by the reaction against Brown v Board, a case that rested upon the application of the 14th Amendment.

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Do you mean 1) "who are you telling this to" or 2) "who are you to be telling me this"? If 1) to anyone reading your thread who might find it helpful and if not no big deal. If 2) I'm just a retired, old fart engineer/linguist born too early and missing out on so much stuff developing so fast.

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A few last thoughts. As a linguist and computer programmer, LLMs are truly amazing. I never thought I'd see anything like this in my lifetime. But as far as AI goes, at their present state, they're still mostly the A without much of the I.

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

..."simple" language manipulation devoid of real thinking. All output from these LLMs must be taken with the biggest block of salt you can find and work from there. Use them for what they're good at and then do your own post-processing. Otherwise you use them at your own peril. 8/8.

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

So until/unless they add sufficient post-processing that can accurately detect which sources might be the root of the result, they can't even properly cite their sources. To us humans it's truly a totally foreign method of "thinking" and writing. It's less thinking/writing and much more... 7/?

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

...the sources are no longer available in the strict sense. They don't have the PDFs of sources in their memory. What they have is the entire corpus, each source disembodied and pre-synthesized into one giant blob. Give that blob an input and it predictively pumps out the most likely response. 6/?

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

If they regurgitate too directly from a source without citation, then just as with human writers, yes, it's plagiarism. But they don't write like we do. We are generally aware of the sources we are using and then synthesize our writing through our thinking. In their case... 5/?

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Since everything they generate is based entirely on what they've internalized from the training corpus (I can't call that true learning yet) and only using probability to rearrange it to an output, they really don't add anything of their own thinking to it. But does that make it plagiarism? 4/?

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Both those posing questions to them looking for answers they can trust and those asking questions about their capabilities are asking the wrong questions because we assume they have the other 90%+ (a total guesstimate) thinking power and knowledge of an actual brain. 3/?

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

While some knowledge is embedded within language itself, the vast majority is not. These models predictively push words around and generate a lot of apparently high quality language but just as often could create high quality invented garbage and outright lies. It's all based on probabilities. 2/?

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Because LLMs are capable of producing such high level language, we overestimate their actual thinking power but they don't think. They mimic one facet of the human mind (likely not in the same way), language input and output but without the majority of the real thinking a brain does in-between. 1/?

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Drastic power vacuums open the door to MANY possibilities. Unfortunately, most of the possibilities SUCK as bad as (or worse than) what got removed. We can only hope the Syrians make good choices. Keep your hopes high but your expectations low to minimize your likely disappointment.

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cate @buny.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

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JumpingBud @jumpingbud.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I always thought her name was margarine trailerpark grease.

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