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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17h

New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 9h

Islamic State jihadists are currently storming Tahoua city en masse, likely a second assault on the airport is the plan. So it begins. #Niger

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 16h

Finishing yesterday's work by 8:25AM counts, right

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Democrats, with Sexual Assault

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Mark — A townsperson you believe to be a conspicuously easy victim."

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Air to Ground Message: HELLO PAX IN FLIGHT FOUND 3 FRENCH PASSPORT HIDDEN INSIDE THE LUMBAR SEAT 27 A-B-C. ALL BIO PAGESHAVE BEEN REMOVED. REQUEST POLICE AT AGP. TKS Area: Kleine Brogel, Belgium Type: Boeing 737 MAX 8 A: #aeac45e3594 F: #f7f3a581cc8

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the fact that nuremberg failed doesn't mean there's nothing worth studying. or even appreciating there. It's basically the first time we tried to hold a nation's leadership accountable for war crimes in such a way. but let's not pretend it was a success.

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natasha iilov @natasha-iilov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There is a real and actual debate to be had about NATO’s intervention against Gaddafi and what happened in its aftermath, but all this talk completely frees gaddafi from any blame for killing literally anybody who could create an alternative state

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Really wish all the "I just don't know if AI is intelligent" marks could read papers like this: arxiv.org/abs/2601.10387 It's still just y = Ax + b, these things have nothing resembling life, let alone intelligence. They are mechanisms, automatons, etc. Embarrassing people fall for this marketing

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The Assistant Axis: Situating and Stabilizing the Default Persona of Language Models

Large language models can represent a variety of personas but typically default to a helpful Assistant identity cultivated during post-training. We investigate the structure of the space of model pers...

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

wow, firefox is finally getting serial support, years after other browsers. firefox decision making is complete ass.

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Dungeon Chill @dungeonchill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some Tatsuro Yamashita to start my Friday morning 🔊山下達郎- Love Talkin’

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seems like the "AI is going to kill us all" is confirmed as a marketing campaign. Are American's, pound for pound, the biggest marks on the planet?

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So, just a few weeks ago a significant part of the frontline troops of the Nigerien army rebelled and were very close to succeeding in their Niamey storm. The cause? Islamic State rampage and catastrophic casualties. Massive arrests and purges followed and are still ongoing.

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

can't rollback a livestream on YouTube to the beginning while stream is in progress. What a fucking pile of shit.

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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 20/09/2026

Russia's FSB just imposed a curfew along the border with Estonia, banning movement within 5km from Sept 16–26. Officially cited as "environmental protection," analysts fear it's to prevent a mass exodus or prepare for potential escalation against NATO. usa.news-pravda.com/world/2026/0...

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Russia’s FSB has imposed temporary restrictions along part of the border with NATO member Estonia, including a nighttime movement ban in the border zone

From September 16 to 26, people and vehicles are prohibited from moving outside settlements after dark within 5 km of the border in the Slantsy and Kingisepp districts. Access to the Narva riverbank a...

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

RUMINT that the US will hit Yemen soon. If true, would be the perfect USian move: comes a week too late to impact the situation on the ground, needlessly escalates the whole situation, and kills a bunch of people for no reason.

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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thread. Middle East signs. 1/

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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 19/09/2026

Appeasement has a cost. By prioritizing Russia over its allies, the White House is inviting exactly this outcome, and if a major war erupts in Europe, America won't be able to stay on the sidelines any more than it could in WWII.

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

two days in a row arguing with people who cannot solve this. (if you can't solve the linear variant, you can't solve the quadratic either)

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it's fascinating to read so much postcolonial theory you begin to ignore asians, asian-americans, and historians of china telling you that you are wrong and still continue to issue silly claims about the nature of the Qing

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I will post once, and only once, about Hassan. Hassan is a troll, and wins by getting attention. He does not lose to facts and logic. Ignore, don't engage, let it pass over. Be like water.

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OpenAI does not look completely unlike Oprah on a fast read.

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Perfect example of why lay people can't read graphs and know nothing about econometrics. No, the correlation doesn't break down. Sentiment (aka people's opinions) are sticky, but Will can't read the graph correctly. The graph clearly shows sentiment lags indicator. Obviously.

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"We don't know where or how in the brain" is not the same thing as "we don't know where or how".

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is clearly a prompt from a couple year ago, calling it a chat bot instead of an agent. It's just regurgitation.

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes we do. Meat thinks, metal doesn't. It is, in fact, that simple.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You don't need to kill a single person to commit genocide. In fact for most of history genocides have involved way more expulsion then they have extermination.

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

you are not immune to a proper gander.

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The dengist-libertarian alliance forming around AI is a pretty strong cyberpunk indicator

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's beyond time to stop fetishizing academia. Academia is fine, it mostly works, but not everyone in there is brilliant, and there are far more brilliant people outside of it who face real consequences for being wrong.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#BREAKING: Over public dissents from Justices Thomas and Alito, #SCOTUS *denies* the Trump administration’s request for a stay in the mail-in ballots case. The USPS Rule will remain blocked—almost certainly through the midterms.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's crazy how bad the neocon/pro-war scholarship was. Like, absurdly bad.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

ICYMI Plaid and Sinn Fein and the SNP are meeting to “plot” the downfall of the UK. Critical support.

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Karl @iblewoutmyflipflop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Toyota Hilux commercial

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

People aren't so stupid as to be fooled by "Green" in "Green Party" right, it's just a label which means nothing. Every single green party candidate turns out to be a grifter or loon. Every single time.

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The difficult part is to get that what is happening here is that the Houthis are de facto no proxy anymore, but a true player that has outgrown its purpose and calls the shots where it sees opportunity. Hence, strategies they plan may aid Iran - but that's not the main goal.

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

CNN in their new reporting heavily suggest that Saudis have dreadfully underestimated what's coming and, indeed, the airforce was nowhere to be seen on key coast frontlines. "A fuck up of epic proportions’: Blame game begins after Houthis’ blitz". edition.cnn.com/2026/09/12/m...

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‘A f***-up of epic proportions’: Blame game begins after Iran-backed Houthis’ lightning advance down Red Sea coast | CNN

Desperate pleas for air cover from Yemeni generals started coming mid-morning on Thursday. As the Houthis advanced, backup support from Saudi Arabia was nowhere in sight.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Rumors (with evidence) that (presumably) Houthis struck and seriously damaged the East-West Crude Oil Pipeline that transports Saudi oil drilled in the Persian Gulf area to the Red Sea port of Yanbu.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

once again if the chinese models basically manage to get the same performance as frontier labs what exactly do frontier labs argue is their selling point

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think westerners tend to underestimate just how oppressive copyright is and how much worse it would be if it were possible to enforce globally. Enabling textbook and academic piracy is one of the more liberatory impacts of the internet. Money is too cheap for us to fully understand how vital it is

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Everything on the internet is true." - Abraham Lincoln

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The map projection debate has go to be the most "do nothing while pretending to do something" I've seen in a long time. Maybe "black squares" level of do-nothingism.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think it's quite possible that the largest use of ballistic missiles at the tactical/operational level to support ground forces since the 1989 Battle of Jalalabad very well may be underway in Yemen right now, with the Houthis making heavy use of SRBMs to support an advance towards Mokha

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