Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽 @kim-207.bsky.social · 10hI recently had to edit a multi-page document that clearly had been drafted using MS Copilot. That machine is *incapable* of emitting simple declarative sentences, or stating something just one time. I spent hours rewriting and (mostly) deleting obsequious, superfluous logorrhea. 030 3
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 11hAI drinks your water, eats your brain, and makes your "writing" generic. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of large language models - Nature Human BehaviourSourati et al. find that variance in writing complexity dropped on social media, news and scientific writing after ChatGPT’s release, a shift from individuality towards uniformity. LLM polishing strip... 23317 33
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The grift never ends. He just wants to be able to charge the government even when he’s out of office 61641471381 4.1K
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12hFeb 19, 2025. One month into Trump’s term. 17353871328 5.4K
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 11hTwo months ago (tinyurl.com/m3kyz4wd) we said it was imperative for every Maine voter to know that Susan Collins votes with Trump 95% of the time. (96% depending on your cut-off date.) It does seem Jackson and anti-Collins groups have pretty much achieved that. (Still bears repeating!) #MEpolitics 0319 31
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Note, Meta faces publishers' lawsuits alleging it torrented pirated books from shadow libraries to train its AI. Trial date was set just yesterday for May 3, 2027. Meta looks to now be trying to write sweeping website scraping rights into its terms. Quite a coincidence. Or a wake-up call, all. 4/5 345196 451
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 17/10/2026When faced with obvious cruelty, we have to ask: Who does this help, and how? The answers are: Somebody other than you and, Money + power + racist satisfaction 33920 39
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026When I talk to people about the ongoing impact of COVID, I find it helpful to lead with a concrete, undeniable indicator, which is that there are about 3,000,000 more disabled workers in the US than at pandemic onset. 5303130 303
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽ProPublica @propublica.org · 22hThe U.S. Army paid General Dynamics millions for a factory that kept churning out botched artillery shells. A former Army official called it an “absolute disaster” and said the Army “should’ve gone after recovering money from General Dynamics.” (Published August)propublica.orgFiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made NothingGeneral Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a... 521334659 1.3K
Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽 @kim-207.bsky.social · 19hIsn’t it more that “…but stocks will be alright”? There are many, many individuals and families who did not personally come out of those events alright. 010 1
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/10/2026The Tesla roadster doth use compressid ayre so technicallye it ys not a "flyinge" car it ys a "fartinge" car. 12591143 591
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20hBefore Trump it was just assumed that all this background machinery type shit was in the hands of career civil servants who followed carefully prescribed legal and administrative procedures and one thing DOGE really focused on was disrupting that. Do not assume it still works like that! 351148 511
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026My latest for @theverge.com - Meta has once again built tech that lets one person’s desire for individual convenience endanger the privacy of everyone around them. And unlike with pervert glasses, there’s zero way to even know when your privacy is violated. 🎁 Gift Link: bit.ly/4s7zBlDbit.lyFriends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agentsYou may have consented to sharing with Muse, but all your friends sure didn’t. 318983 189
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Full Fact @fullfact.org · 15/10/2026A fake image supposedly showing a tiger attack at Yorkshire Wildlife Park is circulating online. A man died as a result of the incident, and police asked people not to share footage of the attack - but this image isn’t real and was made with AI.fullfact.orgFake image of wildlife park tiger attack circulates online – Full FactAn image widely shared on social media after a man was killed by a tiger is not genuine and was created using AI. 56833 68
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026He knew the people who could do the job. There were very few, that’s why no-bid. Now he doesn’t really know them… l’m so sick of this. Plus he still throws out vandalism. #Blues 11310 13
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 15/10/2026Taking notes helps you to organise your thoughts, which has been shown to air comprehension and later recall *even if you don’t actually look at the notes afterwards*. Using an #AI device to do this for you provides none of those benefits. 🤷 #AIHype #Deskilling #CognitiveScience 83510 35
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 15/10/2026“An average person might understand wanting to use the system to look up a relative’s stolen car,” EFF's @lisafemia.bsky.social told @houstonchronicle.com. “But because it was so easy for that person to do that, it also means that it is equally easy for someone to, say, stalk a romantic partner.”houstonchronicle.comHarris County civilian staff searched Flock more than a dozen times in 2025A civilian employee of Harris County Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom Ramsey searched Flock Safety’s extensive network of surveillance cameras more than a dozen times in 2025. 06825 68
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 15/10/2026No one should have to think twice before criticizing the government online. But a mass surveillance program known as "Catch and Revoke" was created to make millions do just that. Find out more with our latest issue of EFFector: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.org🗣 A Victory for Freedom of Speech Online | EFFector 38.18No one should have to think twice before criticizing the government online. But a mass surveillance program known as "Catch and Revoke" was created to make millions do just that. EFF and other 06726 67
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms. 151062478 1.1K
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Keep in mind that the Department of Homeland Security claimed up to 16,000 noncitizens were on the voter rolls in Nevada. It later lowered its estimate to 185. State election officials later determined all of those voters were citizens.washingtonpost.comJustice Dept. sues California officials over 20K alleged noncitizen votersThe state's election officials say the unverified numbers from the department can't be trusted. 053 5
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Congressman Eugene Vindman (VA-07) @gene4va.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I just introduced a bill to ban live-streaming public executions. As an Army JAG, I oversaw the post-trial legal proceedings in Nidal Hasan’s case. He should face the fullest consequences of the law. But turning executions into public entertainment is what terrorists and authoritarian regimes do. 04716 47
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽NBC News @nbcnews.com · 14/10/2026An ad attacking Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson features a quote from a union leader. He tells NBC News he never commented on Jackson's plan and was "shocked" to see the quote.nbcnews.toUnion leader quoted in Maine Senate attack ad sends ‘cease and desist’ to GOP PACThe ad quotes a union official slamming Democrat Troy Jackson’s healthcare plan. He told NBC News he never commented on Jackson’s plan and was “shocked” to see the quote. 1727381 273
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽GodlessPrimate @godlessprimate.bsky.social · 14/10/2026No more of this bullshit. Playing nice and moving on is over. We're going to do politics a little differently. It's called accountability. 2348 34
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Updated this piece on the difference between civic tech and DOGE to reflect new reporting on how DOGErs are monetizing their connections to Silicon Valley. This is the worst example: the DOGErs who blocked USAID life-saving aid have a $1.4B defense startup. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci... 5277107 277
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026🇺🇸 Six Flags Magic Mountain just finished installing a new 12.4 MW #solar installation above its parking lot, officially California’s largest solar carport. It’s expected to generate enough electricity each year to offset both the amusement park and neighboring Hurricane Harbor Los Angeles.electrek.coSix Flags has installed one of the largest solar carports in the USSix Flags Magic Mountain's new solar carports will offset both parks' annual electricity usage, shade cars, and offer EV charging. 903933757 3.9K
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Susan Collins’ allies ran ads against me in Portland, Oregon. Should’ve asked Navatek. They knew exactly where to send the money. 361295275 1.3K
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/10/2026Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.propublica.orgEctopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ... 6218071050 1.8K
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026To give a sense of scale, Musk is spending more on the midterms than he was on the 2024 election, and he was the biggest donor in that election. In 2025 he promised to pull back from politics and do much less political spending. Another lie. 251176433 1.2K
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026 181495324 1.5K
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/10/2026ProPublica designed a reporting experiment to demonstrate how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. We succeeded in opening two schools. No credentials or background checks required.propublica.orgHow ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 HoursThe reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required. 161569658 1.6K
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽CREW @citizensforethics.org · 09/10/2026In case anyone wants to take a look at Kimberly Guilfoyle's financial disclosure...we've posted it here:citizensforethics.orgKimberly Guilfoyle's financial disclosures - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in WashingtonCREW obtained Kimberly Guilfoyle's nominee public financial disclosure and a periodic transaction report. 113476 134
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 09/10/2026Social media companies should consider the U.S. government's motives, EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @cbsnews.com. "This seems to be the government wanting to broadcast the execution for propaganda purposes and wanting to glorify its ability to execute people.”cbsnews.comWill social media platforms allow Fort Hood shooter's execution to be livestreamed? Here's what their policies say.The Pentagon's decision to livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan could put the spotlight on whether social media companies will allow videos on their platforms. 910643 106
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/20262. But Anthropic researchers say they see patterns that suggest that Claude can. The employees at Anthropic are telling themselves stories based on the words they input into the software and the words that come back out. >> 131295154 1.3K
Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽 @kim-207.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Great one!! It made me actually chuckle out loud!! 😆 170 7
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A plague lab accident🧪, a football team mumps outbreak🏈, and a 5th measles death🪦. Here’s what you may have missed this week: 🦠 COVID waves in US, UK & Europe 🌊 Flu rising in Pacific states 🧠 HHV-7 linked to neuro-Long COVID Full Dr Ruth Report: buff.ly/i1LhWfm #medsky #nurseskybuff.lyDr. Ruth Report, 10/4/26Flu arrives to Pacific states; COVID wave seen in US, England, and Europe; Neuro-Long COVID and HHV-7; a 5th Pennsylvania measles death; Plague lab accident in Siberia; and much more. 14523 45
Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽 @kim-207.bsky.social · 08/10/2026That was me in my first software job as a Requirements Analyst around 2002! The devs would build and test the software, then let me “play with it.” I would always break it in ways they didn’t expect but seemed very likely and easy to me. Back to devs to prevent those actions! 020 2
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Why have so many people fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because corporations and billionaires rigged the system in their favor — and a bought-off political establishment let it happen. It's time to fix the system. 5724961083 2.5K
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/appsgetartcraft.comCrafting Apps: open-source creative toolsImage editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use. 19944421246 4.4K
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 06/10/202680% of all journalists/reporters currently writing about the plague should read this: fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/06/08/b...fakehistoryhunter.netThe Black Death – everything you need to knowThere are so many myths & misconceptions going around about the Black Death that I thought it might be a good idea to put a bunch of facts together.The topic seems to be extra popular among the… 512634 126
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 06/10/2026Many people use chatbots to verify information, including whether election-related images are real. Unfortunately, the bots are still not good at it. bit.ly/4zbQjSZbrennancenter.orgChatbots Still Bad at Spotting AI-Generated Images Despite New LawThe California AI Transparency Act requires AI-generated images to include digital labels, but most chatbots aren’t looking for them. 12616 26
Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽 @kim-207.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Exactly what I came here to say and you already did! “Trump says…” is the surest road to the opposite outcome, especially if it costs him anything at all! 010 1
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 06/10/2026New J. Research in Personality study: people with higher malevolent traits (psychopathy, dominance, authoritarianism) leaned conservative and favored Trump. More benevolent traits = more liberal views. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.com 32615 26
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/10/2026If you’ve been waiting to get involved in the midterms, now is the time! We’ve got lots of ways that you can make a difference from anywhere over these final four weeks: indivisible2026.org?utm_source=b... 8377183 377
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat... 9042501699 4.3K
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 06/10/2026To be clear: I don't know that it was actually "looking" in the window, just that it was hovering directly outside of it. But it *could* have been, and even if it wasn't, imagine if you were asleep, getting showered, etc. when this 5-ft wide machine suddenly just appears outside your window! 5583 58
Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽 @kim-207.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Postdocs or new faculty: any interest and availability? 🧪 000 0
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"A vote for Collins is a clear vote for Trump's agenda. If people disapprove of what Trump is doing to this country, then they should not be voting for Collins, period." #MEpolitics 44920 49
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽BillieB @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 05/10/2026Bookstores should also take note. Your Banned Books Week displays can actively, positively impact the livelihoods of living authors whose books have been banned. And it's super easy to avoid including harassers (Gaiman, Alexie) and/or bigots (Rowling) on your displays. Be thoiughtful. 12311 23
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges. 111005394 1K
Reposted by Kim-207 🗳️🦞☮️ #MaskUp #VaxUp 😷💉🇺🇸🗽Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yes, turnout is critical! But let's be smart about it. At the Electoral Innovation Lab, we have a resource for you: Vote Maximizer. We use demographics and polling data to show you where you will have the most impact on the ultimate outcome. Not all votes will land equally. votemaximizer.org 11513 15