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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h

7/ Among the most jarring trends we found: 36 U.S. citizens were not allowed to contact their family or a lawyer.

36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their family.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 5h

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 2h

The DMT machine elves made it out into our world

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 8h

We are surrounded by PR disguised as journalism

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 8h

Some WHCA hack should ask Trump this, and see what LLMesque nonsense response happens

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 8h

Software isn't a person, and it's okay to say so...

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 9h

The thing about the Cornell mass rapist scandal that gets me the most mad is the acceptance by way too many people, obviously mostly men, that it's feasible a woman might have wanted all that to happen. That it's a plausible defense that women desire what happened to Jane Doe, sometimes. No! Wrong!

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 9h

SuperPACs are people, LLMs are people, only people aren't people.

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 9h

Thinking about this, I wonder if it's a new GPT-4o situation, where something about a particular model makes people delusional?

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 10h

Ashes to slop bucket, dust to slop bucket...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 11h

folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 11h

will you people shut the fuck up

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 13h

this is just so, so deeply cruel, stupid, outrageous, offensive, blood-curdling, idk, from beginning to end. it is a pathology unto itself. it is the disgusting bigotry of a tried-and-true bigot whose brain is increasingly broken by old age. it is, to say the obvious, intolerable in our society.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 13h

For that matter, is there even a mechanism for a PAC to pay the federal government for misappropriated funds by the White House and have the ads been paid for? At a minimum the networks airing these ads need to tell us the answer to the second question.

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 13h

Hey, as long as he keeps running those weird counterproductive things

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 14h

Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 16h

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 15h

meanwhile on Xitter...

Curtis Yarvin post on X on 10/5/2026: "Every time I’m in the UK I hear this. More and more people asking, subtly or straight out: what would Hitler do?

As if it was that easy. Have you looked around you? Man, Hitler wouldn’t even know where to start" 102.3 k views, 4:11 a.m. 74 replies, 51 shares, 997 hearts, 95 saves.

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 14h

People who think LLMs are, or could be, conscious don't understand how LLMs work, nor consciousness. There is no plausible path for LLMs, in their encoding or operation to produce consciousness. It's silly and a lot of people who should know better like LLMs too much to let themselves know better.

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Mason B. Williams @masonbwilliams.bsky.social · 14h

I've always loved this quote from Gordon Davis on the democratic promise of Central Park (from Blackmar and Rosenzweig's great book)

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16h

“We hate this guy and would never vote for him…but what if he had our accent… 🤔🤔🤔🤔”

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 16h

These people are psychotically deranged

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 17h

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A happening is a performance, event, or situation art, usually as performance art. The term was first used by Allan Kaprow in 1959 to describe a range of art-related events.

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 17h

re: the $500 ACA Marketplace "refund" checks Trump is sending out with a "Please Love Me" letter, mostly in red states — he needs more people who make less than $63,840 than he does anyone else, and I dunno what pisses people off more than watching more affluent people get even more money.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 18h

This is insane.

In December, Dr. Rachel received a letter from the attorney general's Consumer Protection Division demanding her vaccine purchase records over the past 10 years. "The division believes that you are in possession, custody or control" of material, "involving potential misleading or deceptive acts regarding incentives associated with the administration of childhood vaccines," it said, adding that such acts could be in violation of the state's deceptive trade practices law.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 20h

Since July 27, brave people have been occupying an ancient cottonwood tree to block the construction of Trump's border wall, which is destroying the region's ecology. This morning, Border Patrol raided the camp, arresting a number of people and killing the tree. Background: crimethinc.com/lochiel

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The Border is an Open Wound

A report from the tree occupation in Lochiel, Arizona that is halting the construction of the border wall.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18h

I emailed top USA Today editors on Friday, in the hopes that there was some misunderstanding. No response. Unilaterally feeding entire interviews into an AI slop machine is not OK. It has to stop.

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Cale @calen26.bsky.social · 19h

abcnews.com/amp/Health/t... Residents in the following states: AL, AK, AZ, AR, Delaware, FL, HI, IN, IA, KA, LA, MI, MS, MS, MT, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

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Trump administration begins mailing out $500 ACA refund checks. Here's what to know

The Trump administration began this week mailing out $500 Affordable Care Act checks to enrollees who were allegedly overcharged for coverage. Here's what to know.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20h

Dems honestly should just lie about this right now so Alito (a dumb guy who doesn't actually know how anything works) doesn't figure out that he needs to retire in the lame duck if the GOP loses the Senate

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The thorough cleansing that we are carrying out now in southern Lebanon is unprecedented. “They have nowhere to return to. Look at how it looks. “And by the way, the world isn’t stopping us.”

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If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's important to understand that we are a culture in free-fall. Sh!t is being said hourly by POTUS that would not have been accepted from a middle school bully ten years ago.

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is a ridiculous thing to say when ultimately you support Trump himself

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

jaw dropped when I read this www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...

But for many Brazilians, the most pressing issue as they prepare to vote on Sunday is a crisis much closer to home: crushing personal debt.
More than 80 percent of Brazilian families are in debt, a historic high for the country, according to the National Confederation of Commerce, a retail group.
Brazil also has the highest benchmark interest rate among 40 major economies, and families spend nearly 30 percent of their income on debt payments, according to Brazil’s central bank. In the United States, that figure is about 11 percent.
Unlike in the United States, where most household debt is driven by mortgages, in Brazil debt is fueled by credit cards, payroll loans and retail store installment plans carrying among the highest interest rates in the world.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist who is locked in a tight race against a right-wing opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, has seized on this concern in the closing days of the campaign. On Friday, Mr. Lula signed an order banning online gambling, which was legalized in 2018 and has supercharged the household debt crisis.
Brazil is the first country, experts say, to ban online gambling after introducing and regulating the industry.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is sad news. Simon was a big help with this story that showed Howard Lutnick apparently lied about his business entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein—a story that deserves more attention. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender

The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.

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Dmitri. #freeLink @momus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the most predictable consequences ever: Strikingly, every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls.

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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 03/10/2026

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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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Somehow, effective altruism returned...

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump admin yesterday: "The higher mortgage rates are actually a good sign for the economy because corporations are borrowing money to build things like data centers instead of lending to homeowners"

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We should stop indulging the weird god complex at the heart of the "broken culture" at the AI companies, and start treating them like the mundane criminally negligent narcissists they are

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lots more kids standing around in the dark at bus stops, but at least the PGA Tour golfers are happy

The PGA TOUR, as an example, needs more Daylight in the afternoon in order to finish their Tournaments. Likewise, regular Golfers, Tennis Players, Hunters and, perhaps most importantly, Farmers who want more Daylight to play or work. See letter from Brian Rolapp, CEO of the PGA TOUR below. 65% PLUS want

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.

hollywoodreporter.com

Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.

The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A response I couldn’t have fathomed 15 years ago: “What radicalized you?” “Oh, it was Robert Kraft’s treatment of Macklemore, I’d say.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

FLORIDA — @angieforfl.bsky.social Nixon ♥️ : “I was a single mom for 12 years. I struggled. I was able to purchase a home for me and my daughter because the government did the right thing… Trump cut those programs. Those lived experiences are why I fight. You got me crying on TV.”

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