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Ooooooo, that was nice. Just donated to @angieforfl.bsky.social. (And before doing that I ran my scanner for Democratic malware.)

google search: angie nixon position on trans kids

answer: Angie Nixon strongly supports transgender youth, advocating for their rights, healthcare access, and inclusion in sports.
Angie Nixon for U.S. Se... +1

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Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.

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Tangentially, this is another example of how misogyny (like all bigotry) makes people's brains smooth. Calling this a "false binary" gives it too much credence, there's no substance here beyond the misogyny. If you think the AI pessimists are right, there are many other paths available, such as:

Renown AI scholar Sarah Connor, seen here in T2 preparing to ensure AI alignment.

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As someone with no expertise in this I am delighted to see many of my priors confirmed, including "private school vouches are expensive dogshit" and "banning cellphones is not a panacea." 🙏

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nvidia's CEO (net worth ~$200B, annual donations <1%) admitted he doesn't know his own zip code, much less his address, and that he doesn't care if kids can do basic math. No "safety" product by such a company should ever be trusted. This message brought to you by #BringBackShame

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the GOP is fully trumpified and the rising generation of staffers and wannabes are even worse. if you're between 25-35 and an aspiring right-wing politician you've spent most/all of your adult life in a political and social ecosystem the rewards this shit and weeds out people repulsed by it

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My favorite part is how people will immediately recognize the reasons for "$50" vs "$3,596.49." The first is the co-pay the patient believed; the second is because the doctor lied about insurance coverage while making them sign a giant legalese form that waived it and consented to the billing.

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This is both (a) the result of carelessness in the guardrails and (b) an unavoidable outcome with *all* AI. You can do better on (a) to mitigate when/how (b) occurs but a probabilistic model built to have essentially unlimited functionality will sometimes go bonkers. That's inherent to to the tech.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's fine if people don't want to have liberal arts education. Go ahead, have large gaps in understanding the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Live your life ignorant, incomplete, undeveloped, inadequate. You have the right to be a worse citizen, a shallow dullard, a lesser person.

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Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anthropic's denials mean *nothing*, just like how OpenAI's denials over Navier–Stokes mean *nothing*. These companies have shown time and again they have no idea what their AI is doing. The LLM agents—given "/goal" persistence and few if any limits—surely reviewed all they could, including chats.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hadn't heard of "Choosin' Texas" until two days ago; I derive zero "cultural cachet" from that. The interesting issue here isn't the psychology but how this gap occurred. Algorithmic tailoring of media discovery? Changing nature of what Billboard Hot 100 represents? Shame RS missed those angles.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gotta admit, my first impression of this was that someone at ICE told Daily Wire they would stop kidnapping non-criminals precisely so the Trump admin would loudly deny it and thus publicly reaffirm a policy that is firmly underwater in polling.

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Frances Kelsey saved thousands of lives by resisting pressure to approve thalidomide in the US. There have been tens to hundreds of thousands of preventable Covid-19 deaths caused by the anti-public health movement that Bhattacharya helped to lead.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 26/09/2026

It's not even the insurance carriers themselves in most cases--it's a subset of insurance BROKERS who have been enrolling people in zero-premium policies w/out their knowledge/approval in order to pocket the commissions. Technically speaking, they're defrauding the insurance carriers as well.

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They keep using this line and it's nonsense for many reasons, but also, if that's truly the case, there are only about a dozen "fraudsters" per state: the insurers. No one else could benefit from this particular no-claims "fraud." So where are the prosecutions of health insurers? 🤔

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Max's tips for job interviews: - don't bring a drink - mirror the interviewer's body language and speech patterns - fake identical sports interests, political beliefs, and religion - congrats now they think they're hiring themselves - of course it feels icky, do you want the job or not

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If you’re a random person and you have to deal with death threats and harassment from internet stalkers, it’s my understanding that the FBI basically ignores you in most circumstances. But the Millers are so powerful they can demote the head of the FBI’s DC field office for investigating too slow.

The orders from the bureau's DC chief Darren Cox stemmed from frustration shared by the Miller family that the field office was moving slowly in probing allegedly harassing phone messages left with prominent conservative podcaster, Katie Miller, added the people, who spoke anonymously to avoid retaliation.
Several of the individuals said Director Kash Patel was also displeased with the office's progress on the case.

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I don't know about you guys, but I am shocked that Trump's response to this situation he created is to fumble around and fuck up and see everything solely through spoiled brat emotions and cynical personal advantage. That's just totally unlike him.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hmmm this guy seems to have a rather weak view of what constitutes human "thought" as if there's nothing more than a mechanical process of drawing inferences and producing coherent text, who is this guy anyway—oh, I see.

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The claim that "LLMs cannot think" is unscientific, unless supported by a very difficult argument about non equivalence of causal structure producing anthropomorphic outputs. The claim requires a formally rigorous definition of thinking that captures how humans mentally manipulate conceptual structure. Since LLMs can reproduce all kinds of human output that require operations that are typically considered to involve thought (eg. scene understanding, text summarization, translation, computer programs, mathematical proofs, common sense arguments, spatial cognition, theory of mind), it has to be shown that LLMs reach these results in fundamentally different ways than human minds. In principle, this is not impossible (given that thinking is still relatively poorly understood by cognitive neuroscience), but would be surprising, because it has been shown that the causal structure of computer vision models is structurally equivalent to what neuroscience discovered about visual cognition in primates.
In any case, saying that LLMs don't think cannot reasonably mean that LLMs are inferior to human cognition (since that this evidently not true), but that LLMs discovered an equivalent yet at least equally powerful mechanism.
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Wikipedia section, "Association with Jeffrey Epstein
A 2019 article in Science reported that Bach received funding from Jeffrey Epstein after his (Epstein's) first conviction,[27] citing a conference paper which included a funding acknowledgement from Epstein.[28] In January 2020, law firm Goodwin Procter released a report following fact-finding efforts by MIT after connections were revealed between Epstein and Joi Ito and Seth Lloyd, among other MIT faculty and staff. The report indicated that Bach was hired in the Media Lab partly due to Epstein's donations to support Bach, claiming that donations made in November 2013 and in July and September 2014 totaled $300,000, or roughly 40% of Epstein’s post-conviction donations to MIT.[29] In May 2020, Harvard released a report of its own fact-finding efforts, finding that Martin Nowak permitted Bach access to PED offices between 2014-2019, but that "Harvard never paid or received funds to support" Bach's research. The Harvard report also mentioned that Bach was listed as a PED research scientist between 2014-2019, noting that two papers published after Bach's departure from MIT acknowledge support from Epstein and PED.[30]

Epstein files released in January 2026 show that Bach had sought Epstein's funding for tuition, accommodation, conference travel, tuition for his children’s private school and that he had discussed an invitation to visit Epstein in the Caribbean in 2014.[31][32]"

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Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...

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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)

Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.

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It's missing The Expanse, and "TV show" makes no sense. You can't lump together The Wire (tv show), Chernobyl (miniseries), and The Great British Bake Off (single-episode competitions). If you do, then might as well include the MCU and NFL too, because the criteria is "you can watch it on a screen."

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Men, don't think this means you can wear an Indiana Jones hat. We can't, it looks ridiculous. The only exceptions are when you are carrying a baby or a gigantic gourd, preferably both. Then it looks cool.

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- be health insurers - require use of a Byzantine system of billing codes disconnected from actual medicine so you can avoid paying - use computers to find even more ways of denying payment - get really mad when providers also use computers to comply with the Byzantine system you require they use

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Millions voted for Trump because he would somehow make them rich but they feel poorer and they're mad about it. Millions of others didn't vote because obviously a Black woman can't be President and they're not sorry but they're mad Trump did what he promised instead of what they imagined he would.

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Elon dumping hundreds of thousands of dollars and counting into a bunch of districts the GOP gerrymandered to try to pick up seats. Boy, if Dems end up picking up extras in TX in a blue wave it's gonna be some sweet, sweet schadenfreude

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is after China porch-pirated the military’s f-35 parts delivery

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If we take that at face value the next step is for the UN to pass a resolution declaring the makers of AI to be hostis humani generis ("enemy of humanity"). That would be the predicate under international law to treat them like privates, creating universal jurisdiction to capture and punish them. 🤷‍♂️

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Hackers Say They Stole Thousands of Sensitive F.B.I. Personnel Records

That's not possible. In 2025, the smartest person in history took complete control of federal government IT and his "DOGE" modernized and secured everything. Right? Surely that wasn't just a data heist by a billionaire white nationalist and a bunch of 20-year-old freaks from neo-Nazi chatrooms?

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The compromise, if confirmed, would be the latest in a string of cybersecurity failures at the F.B.I., which said it was investigating the matter.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is partly a story of personal corruption and government waste but the driving force is consistent with RFK Jr's policy objectives: he is a eugenicist who wants certain groups of people to die.

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The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for

Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."

Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.

Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."

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Yes. The lean of a social media site does not mean much by itself. The question is how the site is perceived, and far too many people in positions of influence think the warped feeds they're served on X, Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok reflect the population at large. Absolutely not.

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