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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 16h

Interesting juxtaposition in the trending topics. Trump is such a fool. The guy is getting suckered and doesn't even realize it. Or maybe he is a stooge for Russia and doesn't care.

Bluesky trending topics list with "Russia reportedly arming Iran" at #1, and "Trump strikes diesel deal with Russia" at #2.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I wonder if Chicago TV stations had obituaries ready to go for Mike Ditka. One sports reporter had lost their voice and sounded pretty rough at the anchor desk. But in a later newscast, they played a retrospective from the same reporter and their voice was totally fine.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I saw this 2027 Chrysler Pacifica today. The purple color is awesome, but it’s not a choice on the online configurator. I wonder what I saw, then. It had Texas plates and this was in IL. These have only been out for a few months. Did someone repaint theirs already?

A 2027 Chrysler Pacifica in a dark purple color. The parts illuminated by sun are purple while the shaded parts are pretty much black.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I miss when we had cabinet secretaries who knew “we wasn’t” is poor English.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump has denied disaster relief for Illinois following severe storms in August. Trump approved a request from Indiana for damage resulting from the same storms. One is a "blue state." The other is a "red state." No other president has politicized natural disasters the way that Trump has.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Someone in the Trump administration needs to be prosecuted over these illegal pieces of propaganda being aired on television.

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m starting to think turning the White House into a MAGA podcast studio was a bad idea. I liked it better when smart people worked there instead of a speed freak pedophile and an administration full of grifter freaks.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

wikipedia has been ANNIHILATED with AI bot traffic for a while now (because LLMs can't get enough of it) which puts a huge burden on its tech and server costs. and now it looks like bots are making unauthorized edits to pages and trying to hack community tools diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/o...

Wiki editing: We’ve identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all of them were testing edits in “sandbox” areas of the wiki. It also included a few edits to the configuration for a citation tool, which we believe were potentially malicious edits that were intended to misuse this tool as a proxy for fetching data from remote services. While Wikipedia policies allow bots to edit when they are disclosed and approved by the community, none of those approvals were sought in these incidents.
Etherpad probing and use: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made some unsuccessful attempts to compromise our public Etherpad, a note-taking tool we host as a community service. Agents unsuccessfully tried to use it to fetch data from other websites as a proxy. Other agents also likely operated by OpenAI took notes about their tasks, though this did not appear to turn into coordination.
Excessive data downloading: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made millions of automated requests to our public APIs to access the knowledge on Wikimedia projects, crawled millions of pages (mainly from our projects Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons), and made hundreds of thousands of data queries to the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). This traffic may have contributed to a partial outage on WDQS in May.

Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. Rising bot traffic and agentic activity is showing a real impact on the Wikimedia projects and the infrastructure that makes it available for millions of users globally. In 2025, the Foundation reported that its bandwidth usage had increased by 50% due to the surge of bot activity on its websites since 2024. At the same time, 65% of the most resource-consuming traffic on its projects was coming from bots.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it blows my mind that these bizarre AI people think “the commons” is just sitting around for them to strip-mine for free

OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on wikimedia projects. by selena deckelmann 5 october 2026

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's weird how Subway has so many commercials about their nachos. I guess they think nachos will get people to come back. What they should do is come up with a kick-ass new sandwich or refamiliarize people with the classics on their menu.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I heard the trade deficit has widened. So Trump’s tariffs aren’t doing anything but piss off everyone and take hard-earned money out of our pockets. The stuff we import costs more, and nobody else wants to buy American products anymore.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger

The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t think Illinois lawmakers realize how badly regular people are getting screwed by the state’s vehicle emissions test. Not everyone can afford to fix issues related to a check engine light or afford to buy a new car. It’s so wasteful that an emissions test renders a car illegal.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

During the Sky Sports F1 pre-race, did anyone else notice Lewis joking with the Alpine drivers about spraying something into the air intake of George's jacket? Get Lewis some fart spray!

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am taking a judge's age into account when deciding whether or not to retain them. People lose their mental acuity after a certain age. They may still be smart, but they may get confused more easily. I want judges who are on top of things.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you live in Cook County, please read up on the judges who are running for retention. This is *your* opportunity to have a say in who sits on the bench. This is *your* opportunity to vote out judges who you think are doing a bad job and don't meet your standards. 2026retention.injusticewatch.org

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Cook County November 2026 Judicial Election Guide

Injustice Watch's guide to the November 2026 Cook County judicial elections.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The busiest I've seen Schaumburg Regional Airport. 3 aircraft in the pattern.

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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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump has: -Cut protections for national monuments to open them up for mining -Pushed to open up our national forests for construction and logging -Proposed building data centers on thousands of acres of federal lands Nothing is sacred to this regime. It acts solely on behalf of the oligarchy.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I notice British people say "the cherry on the cake." I've never seen a cake with a cherry on it.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't understand why people are into horror movies and TV shows. There's enough horrible stuff happening in real life. Why would you voluntarily seek more of it?

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So my tax money paid for that commercial of Trump walking down a hallway while one of his cockamamie speeches is playing? How is that legal? It's a campaign ad paid for with government money.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Disappointed to see the Weakest Link is replacing Family Feud at 9PM Central on Game Show Network. The contestants on recent iterations of Weakest Link were shockingly stupid.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million to defeat Prop 40. Their combined wealth in January 2025 was $439 BILLION. By September 2026, it had grown to $722 BILLION. They're accidentally making the case for the billionaire tax better than anyone else could.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve known many other defense secretaries, starting with Cap Weinberger, who served as defense secretary under Reagan. I can say without fear of contradiction that Pete Hegseth is the stupidest and least qualified of them all. He is a danger to the entire world. He must be impeached.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Don Jr. & Eric have investments in data centers and AI infrastructure. Don. Jr's firm 1789 Capital also has shares in tech companies working on AI. Donald's own stock portfolio itself is heavily invested in Big Tech. When Trump calls reasonable AI safety concerns a "hoax," follow the money.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump brags that his uncle taught at MIT, trying to piggyback on his uncle’s IQ. "I believe in genetics." What he doesn’t talk about is the genetics of a closer relative, his father, who had dementia and Alzheimer's. The family built a fake office for Fred Trump to pretend he was still working.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A 15ft mini USB cable I bought for $4.97 in 2012 now costs $9.58.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So if you ask one of the White House propagandists about "artificial intelligence" or "AI" at a press briefing, they're gonna stick their fingers in their ears and say "I can't heeeeaaarrrr yooooouuu."

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've found planespotters are the photographers most likely to take a really shitty photo and think it's awesome. They're also the photographers who severely overprocess. (Disclaimer: I'm a planespotter too, but I'm also a professional photographer who knows what he's doing.)

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I got to take a dealership’s loaner RAV4 for an unsupervised test drive. I’ve been driving hybrids for a long time, so my driving style leans toward efficiency. This was a mix of residential streets, suburban arterials, and a couple miles of expressway. I was surprised by the high EV driving ratio.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jeez, I saw a listing for a car that had $1400 of dealer-installed accessories added. $1000 of that was for a flashing center brake light. I hate those flashing CHMSLs, and they're illegal. medium.com/@sethlindgre...

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Flashing Brake Lights Are Illegal in the U.S.

Walk through any auto show, scroll social media car builds, or browse aftermarket accessories online and you’ll see them everywhere…

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trying to shop for a new car. On one dealer's website, every car I am interested in is shown as "In Transit." So I can't even go there just to sit in the car.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

All these flights inbound to Chicago in holding pattern because the orange guy is here to watch golf.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I always look forward to the Azerbaijan national anthem.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump's working real hard. Going to a college football game on Saturday, then a golf tournament on Sunday.

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The last time Hegseth held a press briefing at Pentagon was May 5th. I can’t think of a time in American history when such an unqualified, alcoholic sexual predator was allowed to do so much harm to USA with zero pushback from GOP, Trump set a precedent that’ll lead us to ruin.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The only reason I was able to solve today's Wordle was my familiarity with the Silverstone circuit.

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The only show on this list that I watch/watched regularly is Survivor. I watched The Good Place for the first 2 seasons, but fell behind and haven’t gotten around to finishing it. I watched a few episodes of Bourdain’s Parts Unknown. The rest of this list, I’ve never watched.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

this is basic product liability. if a company was selling Rat Poison Ice Cream they would be made to stop pretty quickly

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

if altman felt there was jail time in the mix for releasing these genuinely dangerous automated processes into society this stuff would not happen

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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Martin Pinnau @martinpinnau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I saw door-to-door salespeople walking thru my neighborhood at 5:45PM. Seriously? That’s when people are either having dinner or just coming home. Nobody wants to deal with sales people at that time of day. Honestly, nobody wants to deal with salespeople ever. Door-to-door sales should be illegal.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TRUMP’S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS “Was the bravest boy at the doctor and only cried twice” “Remembered to flush two hours later” “Didn’t throw dinner vegetables at Natalie” “Voted ‘Best Napper’ unanimously by every administration member”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30 billion/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $43 billion in roughly seven months (and that's a low estimate) It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.

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