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Virology research and fighting game enthusiast. English and Spanish OK. He/Him.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 3h
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 19h
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 17h
They understand harm. They don’t care. Every puff piece about them changing their ways like the Republican that’s Sad Now about violent ICE policy, every offer to reach across & find common ground with political opponents, it’s about humanizing those who enable unabated abuse. So it may continue.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 17h
This merciless lady exposes the minds of RW ideologues & adherents. People think they don’t understand harm & empathy unless it impacts them… but she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Roger Ailes yet regularly defends rapists as she is politically & financially invested in preserving patriarchy.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
rollingstone.com
J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/05/2026
a new investigative journalism audit of the Kenyan SHA system-AI that calculates affordability for access to healthcare-just dropped & its scandalous "The AI income predictor systematically overcharged those who could least afford it while undercharging the well-off" sha.africauncensored.online
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Hiding Behind AI
How SHA Was Used to Load Health System Costs Onto Poorest.
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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Solution was just to bump it down to easy mode. I wasn’t a fan of how unforgiving some of the stealth sections were (and how far back failure sends you!), but the story and environment design of this game are so cool.
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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
…Oh god, my best character is *Lily*.
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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Funniest possible way to finally hit High Master.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026
that this is over the daylight savings bill of all things is ten times funnier
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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m worried Silent Hill town fall is not going to be for me because I’m already really annoyed by the stealth and I haven’t even gotten to what people are calling “THAT PART” of the game yet.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Head of Tennessee's prison system to resign after failed execution of Christa Pike, governor announces.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
wired.com
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
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Juneteenth Edition NaClKnight @naclknight.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
The goal, unabated, is to shrink the size of the federal workforce as far as possible, in part because agencies like the TSA are disproportionately Black. This administration hates functional government and is trying to fire as many federal civs as possible.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
talkingpointsmemo.com
Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Surely their next project will hit WOW Forever user numbers as a modest starting point, with nothing but exponential growth afterwards.
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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ok, well, *surely* these expectations will pay off for the MMO they apparently have in the works.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“For months, Anthropic has been hosting private meetings like this one, shuttling in dozens of religious scholars from across the world, papering them with nondisclosure agreements and demanding that key aspects of many conversations remain confidential.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift Article)
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Alexalchemy’s Bluesky Thing 🇵🇷🇵🇸 🔜 First Attack 2026 @alexalchemy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Welp unfortunately, i am afraid to announce that looks like they are going full steam ahead with AI slop for their promo. Like jfc what even is this fucking button layout?!?!?! This shit would not even fly in other events so it’s sad that one of the higher ups decided to just go for it
An image from First Attack 2026 that unfortunately shows AI slop being used to promote the different areas in the event. This one in particular has a fucked up button layout in the arcade cabinet for some fucking reason lmao
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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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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 01/10/2026
This is what every media outlet should do - publish Trump rants verbatim, word-for-word. Not sanewash, like a certain newspaper of record.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.
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𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐛 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Man it's like, really annoying to be someone who cares about AI usage in the FGC because we got people hyping up SF4 rollback and XDZW when both were slapped together with AI, oh but the person who made SF4 rollback says they don't like the term "vibecoded" because they had a plan, fuck outta here.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/i...
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In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" - emptywheel
Once you realize Trump's morally binding AI code doesn't even spell "United States" properly, the whole sham looks even more ominous.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the thing about AI that I love so much. Think of all the morons you know (many on this site!) using and swearing by this tech that can change the output depending on who is controlling the AI. And those dumbasses still believe it should be used for anything regarding data!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the same day Trump announces that top tech firms have signed an accord to "self-police" their own AI development, we learned that OpenAI employees and security researchers were reportedly ignored when they brought safety concerns to the company's top executives. See the problem here?
nytimes.com
OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
populism reaches its apotheosis by treating a machine as an unimpeachable source of knowledge
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Roger @partlyhuman.com · 29/09/2026
Doxxing as a Service: "In one case, Muse unmasked a person whose name had been kept out of news reports for fear of retaliation and harassment. In another, it tied several pseudonymous accounts to the same person. It also matched a private Instagram account to a real person..."
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
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• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rolled credits on Trails in the Sky: First Chapter. Silent Hill: Townfall is next on the list but, uh, there's probably not going to be as much of a wait to play Second Chapter as I originally figured. Helluva game.
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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I was also hovering over Shadow of the Colossus for a bit, but if I have to be honest with myself, randomly stumbling across ICO was the more formative experience.
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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I was trying to go mostly chronological with this and think that FFX or Kingdom Hearts could probably swap out one of these if I gave it a bit more thought.
From left to right, top to bottom:
Donkey Kong Country 2, Crash Bandicoot 2, Final Fantasy 9, Psychonauts, Silent Hill 2, Dark Souls, Street Fighter 4, Guilty Gear XRD, Disco Elysium.
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LDB @ldb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Played some Super Turbo last night for the first time in a while and totally forgot how terrifying throw pressure is in that game.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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_Mostly_Ghostly_ @mostlyghostly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s almost his time of year again ✌️🗡️💀🛡️
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Smokage of the Burning Leaf @pattheflip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Esports hangover era" It's never been a better time to be a fighting game player, and yet... www.patreon.com/pattheflip/p...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
OMG -- under questioning from Hassan, Trump's FDA nominee Heidi Overton refuses to acknowledge that Trump can ever be wrong about anything even after she's confronted with a specific example of something Trump is clearly wrong about
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