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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Three numbers every American should know today. Bezos paid Trump $40 million for the 'Melania' documentary. Now, Bezos saves $8 billion because of Trump's corporate tax cuts. While 17 million Americans lose health care. Corruption, plain and simple.

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Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts

The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

One thing I do admire about Smurf culture is how each one has an equal and unique role in their society where some of them are actual jobs like Housebuilder Smurf, but then there’s a guy just called Jerk Smurf whose job it is to be a jerk and that makes me feel like I have value as well

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

From the latest issue: Evidentialism, Inertia, and Imprecise Probability – William Peden Read it here: buff.ly/3ZrL7vx #philsci #philsky #evidence #epistemology

SHORTENED ABSTRACT: How should we update these probabilities when we discover new evidence? An epistemological theses that has been utilized in these debates is evidentialism, which claims that our doxastic states should reflect our evidence—and nothing more. So far debates have mostly focused on updating imprecise probabilities by a version of conditionalization. Instead, I consider the issue using Kyburg’s system of imprecise probability, where conditionalization occurs only as a special case. I provide the first detailed discussion of the circumstances under which Kyburg’s system avoids inertia, which I reveal to be very broad. I also argue for its general compatibility with evidentialism. I end with an irenic point: this system and the standard ‘imprecise Bayesianism’ are not entirely rivalrous. At least from the Kyburgian side, there are computational virtues of imprecise Bayesianism that mean it might often be the best way to revise our beliefs as we acquire new evidence.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/01/2025

What worries me a lot is that I think a permanent and irreparable gulf has opened up in society, because a sizeable faction has adopted an entirely new metaphysics based entirely on intentionally gaming viral reach. But it's more than that, they're not trying to discover the nature of reality>>

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Mice-side bias: Deliberative decision making in a model of rule revision reveals 'myside' confirmation bias-like cognitive processes in mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Win98 SPOOKY support @win98tech.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

without a doubt the single funniest thing in tech history is Facebook spending billions to rebrand as Meta in anticipation of their shitty VR metaverse being the next big thing and it failed on every conceivable level across the board

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/01/2025

Meta appointed Joel Kaplan, a longtime executive who was a former senior adviser to George W. Bush and is known for his Republican ties, to be its new head of global policy.

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Meta Appoints Joel Kaplan to Lead Global Policy, Replacing Nick Clegg

Joel Kaplan, who was a former senior adviser to George W. Bush, replaces Nick Clegg, who was a former deputy prime minister of Britain, as Meta’s head of policy.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Meta plans to roll out a range of AI products, including one that helps users create AI characters on Instagram and Facebook

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Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users

US tech group is rolling out a range of artificial intelligence tools to drive engagement

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