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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 2h
huge news if we can sue people for being unethical now
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 3h
okay here's 6 www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/u... www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/u... www.liberalcurrents.com/mass-deporta... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... www.latimes.com/politics/sto... www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 22h
okay but to be fair if I were a judge I wouldn't read this DOJ's briefs either
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 22h
Pass a law clarifying that the supreme court’s appellate jurisdiction does not begin until a final ruling has been made by district and appeals courts.
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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‘Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the master: His songs are stronger songs and his feet are faster.’ Tom opens the barrow, sings away its spell, and awakens Frodo’s companions.
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
key to family separation running under the radar is that it isn't a Big Policy anymore. it's just the deportation machine quietly working as intended
Also different: The separations of the first Trump administration were the result of a distinct policy (“Zero Tolerance”) that, once brought to light, could be challenged in federal court. Today, family separations appear to be incidental—the consequence of a ruthless effort to hit a quota, no matter the cost. And this time, people with firsthand knowledge of separations are keeping quiet. Many temporary caregivers are undocumented themselves or have relatives who are; they worry that drawing attention would put their own families at risk. Government and nonprofit workers are also scared to speak up. The White House has attacked organizations that oppose its goals by cutting funding, launching dubious criminal investigations, and issuing retaliatory executive orders.
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
decided to try using my work's in-house chatbot to scan 30 big documents and cite where certain information could be found in each one. gives me a good-looking response. start manually confirming, immediately discover a complete hallucination. great stuff
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I continue to think that most people not steeped in this stuff are missing the important point this attorney made. ICE and CBP do a lot of heinous, unethical shit, and pretty much all of it is legal. The laws governing immigration enforcement are so excessively permissive it's hard to break the law
The ACLU is suing to stop ICE's use of Guantanamo for immigration detainees, but that suit is still pending. Twin Cities immigration attorney Marc Prokosch, who represented Abdullah and three of the other Somali men held at Guantanamo, said in an interview Friday that because the detainees had deportation orders to their nation of origin, ICE's actions do not appear to run afoul of federal law.

"We can all debate the morality and the ethics of it, but legally, it seems like it was solid," Prokosch said.
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I see multiple drivers every day blow through red lights or stop signs, plus many more staring at their phones. Literally watched someone drive three blocks while scrolling TikTok the other day. Another guy just had YouTube playing on the dash. It's so so bad out there
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
a niche pseudo-controvery I can't look away from right now is the former immigration advocate who joined OPLA last year and now makes anti-immigrant bait posts on LinkedIn with accompanying AI art, then gets mad when people argue with her in the comments
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lots of thoughtful and good proposals for overhauling DHS and/or ICE, and lots of people saying nothing short of abolition is sufficient, but simply repealing IIRIRA would go a long way towards reform
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
important to underscore that third country removals can and do still happen. the thing they're running to SCOTUS about is being able to do it *without allowing the person to claim fear of torture or persecution*
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am not qualified to weigh in on technical specifics of AI and its capabilities. But these people sound insane, and I am increasingly sure it's because they're insane
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
11/ Even Navatek’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” former executive Eric Schiff said.
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OrcGirlBoss @orc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gas high
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I didn't think plants could be trans
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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 18/09/2026
Practically speaking, the most serious extant legal threat to AI companies is copyright. But copyright is a private ordering system for economic transactions, not an all-purpose public governance scheme, so there are strong incentives for rightsholders to accept large bags of money and walk away.
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
would put good money on the impetus for this being a Stephen Miller memo
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Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection (Gift Article)
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
4+ hours in satsang with a miniature horse or donkey liberates the embodied soul from the clutches of the material realm
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So I’m supposed to tell a patriot, who wants to serve and protect his country by the way, that he cannot due to he’s balls deep in a dog
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
why is the New York Times uncritically quoting a white nationalist organization spokesman who is also lying to them
Andrew R. Arthur, a former immigration judge and a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that backs tougher immigration policies, acknowledged problems in the FOIA system but defended the Trump administration's policies as legally required efforts to protect privacy of those mentioned in immigrants' files.

He also dismissed concerns that the redactions and denials violated immigrants' rights, noting that people can sue the government if they think their requests were improperly rejected. Pro bono representation is available to immigrants, and if they prevail in courts, the government would compensate legal costs, he said.
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 15/09/2026
This is misinformation, Keri Russell won for every season of The Americans
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
periodic reminder that not a single person in ICE detention is there on the basis of a criminal conviction
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
gonna need a special investigation into this place with criminal charges to follow
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't agree with every word of this but it's overall quite good and it's important that a former DHS Secretary is calling for the whole thing to be dismantled www.lawfaremedia.org/article/home...
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Homeland Security 25 Years Later: Time to Rethink and Rebuild?
The DHS constructed by Congress in 2002 is now outdated, reviled by many, and was flawed from the start. Time to rethink and rebuild.
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Whether or not LLMs will lead to human extinction is above my pay grade and I really do think this guy believes this and isn't (consciously) doing marketing, but "the end of the world is nigh-inevitable, and only I can stop it, using this one weird trick" is fairly classic death cult logic.
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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
first principles, clarice. simplicity. read marcus aurelius. of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? what is its nature? what does he do, this man you seek?
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
my kingdom for some strong privacy/personal recording devices laws
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Elizabeth Holmes is getting Chotinered by Nathan Fielder 😌
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
lol
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The actual number of moves that are not utterly stupid in chess is tiny and chess will be fully solved one day
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers.
One day, it will be fully solved like checkers.
Between now and then, or even after, have fun.
People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly betterThere are more possible chess games, by about 40 orders of magnitude, than atoms in the observable universe. To solve chess, you'd have to map them all. Good luck.
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers. One day, it will be fully solved like checkers. 

Between now and then, or even after, have fun. People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly better.
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Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 oom less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend. 

(Here I am arguing with some random intern at a chess website 🤦‍♂️)
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Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 oom less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend.
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
congratulations to John Fetterman's 2028 primary opponent (either party)
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 03/09/2026
“Millennials are the only normal generation” theory continues to remain undefeated. we are the only ones that didn't get our brains cooked by the computer
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
kind of surprised he hasn't renamed the Mississippi to Truth Social River or something. Trump Canyon. Potomac Bay, Sponsored By Polymarket as far as I understand there's nothing stopping him from making these official designations?
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I want every Dem telling this guy's story at every rally and every media hit
Some bills can be devastating, as they were for Antonio, a 62-year-old Chicago resident who asked to be identified by his middle name for fear of retaliation. The Venezuelan asylum seeker, who has a history of pancreatic and gallbladder issues, was working at a cardboard box factory when he was detained at his annual ICE check-in.
Over three months in ICE custody at a Kentucky jail, he said, he felt worsening pain in his abdomen. He said he asked three times to see a doctor, but was examined only once by a nurse and given a white pill that dampened the pain.
On April 14, after dinner, the pain returned — but it was much, much worse. “I thought I was going to die,” he said in Spanish a recent interview. 
He fainted. When he came to, he was in an ambulance.
At the hospital, the doctor told him his gallbladder had burst due to untreated gallstones, he said. He underwent emergency surgery while handcuffed to a bed. When he was discharged from the hospital on April 16, he was handed bills reviewed by the Chronicle totaling $17,210. 
Later released from ICE custody, he was unable to get back his job at the factory. His boss was unsettled by his ankle monitor and feared ICE would show up to arrest other immigrant workers. Now, Antonio said, he has no way to pay the surgery bills.
“I don’t know what to do,” he said. “I thought this is something ICE was going to pay. … I was in their custody.”
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erin balconyskeletons @balconyskeletons.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The truth is important on its own merits and also because you really weaken your own arguments when you lie!!!!! For some reason this is a niche opinion of mine.
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
is the State Department vagueposting about Canada annexation on LinkedIn?
U.S. Department of State

In 1803, four U.S. diplomats turned a French financial crisis into an American opportunity-securing 828,000 square miles and doubling the size of the nation.

A masterstroke of diplomacy that redrew the map, and the course of American history, with a signature
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The biggest influencers of 2026: -Seven Hour YouTube Reviews of Theme Park Rides -NOT Antisemitic Per Se (Wink Wink) -Squid Games But Real and For Kids -Wholesome Lessons From The Bible and Camp of Saints -Gamer Bronze Age Pervert -Become Handsome By Slamming Your Face With Bricks
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I can't believe Bluesky account "💚 24 / 7 Luigi Mangione Posts" lied 😔
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
if you spend any time in ICE detention centers, one of the most common questions you'll hear is "why haven't they deported me yet?"
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
my muted words are hasan and piker
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/08/2026
nothing has made more of a radical anti-car extremists than being a guy whose primary form of transportation is a bike
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 26/08/2026
trump now underwater on every policy issue, including border security. dems drawing even on handling deportations, immigration, and crime -- the GOP's last significant issue advantages. is that bad? seems bad www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-25...
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 22/08/2026
Guys chill out. This is just another HBS moneymaking scheme. We do not have to pretend to take MBAs seriously.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“having a bizarre obsession with a daddy figure is not uncommon in right-wing households” good point Amy, people on the right are freaks. they’re freaks and they’re worse than us.
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
GenAI absolutely has helpful use cases for lots of people in lots of ways. I also think it should be banned because the negative tradeoffs for society are so large and apparent
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Tudor Dixon" is a 17 year old intern in his uncle's House office
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