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“Could this be what is referred to as hacking?” - Persona 5

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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don’t understand the hype around personal AI agents that shop on your behalf. It’s like using Google’s “I’m feeling lucky” to get groceries or book travel and I would prefer not to be surprised in either of those categories.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Man stands at a grocery store self-checkout machine with his groceries. The screen on the self-check asks the customer “Got any fun plans for the weekend? tap yes or no.” It’s likely he will tap no
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Breathtaking levels of buck-passing: apple.news/AtKOe1_okTUq...
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Trump dings longtime ally Jeanine Pirro for dropping Reflecting Pool vandalism case — POLITICO
The president said he disagreed “100%” with the top Washington prosecutor after her office abandoned vandalism charges for the former Olympian.
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Another excellent piece from @nberlat.bsky.social and the crew at Public Notice. We’re living through completely preventable public health crises at the hands of vicious boors. open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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Trump’s latest public health initiative: explosive diarrhea
This administration is the best thing that ever happened to cyclosporiasis.
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Odyssey roars by at nearly 3 hours that feel like 2. Like Dunkirk and Oppenheimer, the standout dimension is Nolan’s ability to keep the audience holding its breath for the climax without feeling suffocated.
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
@404media.co Much as I loved the idea that a Chicxulub impactor and its victims have the physiognomy of police cars, I think something went haywire with this morning’s newsletter.
A picture of many police cars copy-pasted onto a Kazaa green background, with a definitely wrong caption calling them concept art for a Chicxulub impactor and its soon to be victims
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
When, eventually, the Final Fantasy franchise makes its final game, it will of course be called First Fantasy.
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In these trying days, can I offer you some finely aged Italian disco: music.youtube.com/watch?v=9NK3...
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Gloria
YouTube video by Umberto Tozzi - Topic
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Take this moment and imagine it 500% more underwhelming and dumber and that will be what the Reflecting Pool refill will be like
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Release The River
Alt: GIF of the Ents breaking open the dam at Isengard
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/06/2026
Every Fox News live shot today from Trump's post-rapture-like fair on the National Mall has been hilarious. Here's a supercut:
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I don’t know if this is a joke or a misclick on Politico’s part but I’m loving this an exemplar of a lot of recent presidential news.
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/06/2026
This is Pamela Griffin. Back then, Black people weren't allowed to buy city land so her family settled outside, next to the farmer. Seeing them play baseball, the farmer told them he'd donate his land for a park—and put it in a deed. The city still sold it. www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 27/05/2026
I have donated to Wikipedia. I will do so no longer, unless they actually fix this. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...
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Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” These are the words of the president of the United States, today. The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment. snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...
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The president speaks genocide
The words, the law, the future
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/03/2026
war_iran_final-blow_v1.pdf war_iran_final-final-blow-v2.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1).pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1) APPROVED.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL (1).pdf
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.” Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.
“Good afternoon. My name is [redacted] and my wife and I have been at OMDC since April 15 2025,” reads a handwritten note, wrapped around a lotion bottle that was thrown by a man held captive inside the Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC) on Sunday.

“It’s cold here all the time and the food is poor,” the missive continues. “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
And when you're a star they let you do it.
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
COLD BLOODED MURDER: Here is a frame by frame account of a sadistic ICE Nazi who was looking for an excuse to murder Renee Nicole Good. Good was a legal observer who had been monitoring the Nazis in Minneapolis. 😳👇
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 09/01/2026
Next commenter remarks on the kidnapping of an 11 year old in Little Village and how no parent can rely on the police to protect their children. Crowd is uproarious. Chanting, "who do you serve? Who do you protect?" Two CPD officers are watching from behind the bar in the back.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
People who will flip on fundamental issues in return for a payoff naturally assume that everyone else will flip on fundamental issues in return for a payoff. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Jan 8 (Reuters) - U.S. officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States, according to four sources familiar with the matter.
While the exact dollar figured logistics of any payment are unclear, U.S. officials, including White House aides, have discussed figures ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 per person, said two of the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Lebensraum
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Modern conservatives hate the long, slow march toward authoritarianism. They would prefer something much faster.
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Rove: “He [Trump] needs to lower the expectations, and over-deliver. Under-promise and over-deliver ought to be the goal of the next year.” Very strong “he’s cute if you squint” dating energy there Karl. thehill.com/homenews/cam...
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Rove says Trump administration needs to talk more about accomplishments ahead of midterms
Republican strategist Karl Rove on Saturday urged the Trump administration to speak more about its accomplishments to shore up support ahead of midterm elections. “The president will end this year …
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Some days there’s a lot going on, and some lucky days the worst that’s happening is that #Cyberpunk2077 might be bugging out so I can’t finish all the fixer missions in Santo Domingo
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
It’s very funny to watch Business Insider or CNBC videos about things consumers hate, where inevitably the narrative is, “Researchers and average users called out Acme for doing a terrible business practice, but when we talked to Acme’s Head of Avoiding Legal Payouts, they said, No we don’t.”
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Not a fan of how TechCrunch headlined this. The thumbnail and wording suggest related vulnerabilities affecting #Android and #iOS devices, but the real story is that Chrome got emergency patches, and coincidentally Apple devices got emergency patches. The only link given between them is timing.
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Today is the lucky day on BlueSky when people interested in cybersecurity and people interested in IBCK need only read one post
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
It’s #Thanksgiving Day, which means it’s time for the drop of America’s most beloved annual Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 podcast. #DeathBlart open.spotify.com/episode/0DS2...
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Til Death Do Us Blart 2025
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Too many people on LinkedIn seem to feel the need to apologize before criticizing annoying (and expected) effects of #AI. It’s always some version of “Listen, I’m all for AI supercharging everything, but seeing it applied to this one thing is not cool.” My dude you can just say “AI generally sucks.”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The way you know you’re starting an investigation in reactionary bad faith, and not out of deep principles, is that you don’t bother to start it until you’re being investigated for the same thing. #Epstein Oh in other news: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Trump, amid Epstein furor, directs Bondi to investigate Democrats
“Some Weak Republicans have fallen into their clutches because they are soft and foolish,” Trump wrote in another Truth Social post Friday.
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Fairly likely that the dominant developers of AI models today unironically subscribe to the Lord Farquaad theory of means and ends: youtu.be/Gm2x6CVIXiE
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some of you may die
YouTube video by Yang Ban-Ho
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
You can hide a hell of a lot with accounting, right up until you can’t. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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Microsoft's OpenAI losses hidden as part of $4.7 billion 'other' expense — stake in AI company still doesn't turn a profit as companies grapple with ongoing contract negotiation
Microsoft’s filings obscure the cost of OpenAI, but Wednesday’s earnings may offer clarity.
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
In the same way that hard economic times pull the curtain back on badly managed companies, hard political times more quickly reveal leaders with vicious motives.
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Daniel Lunghi @thehellu.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We saw Earth Estries, an advanced #APT intrusion set, sharing its access to Earth Naga (Flax Typhoon). We introduce the term "Premier Pass" to describe this behavior, and propose a four-tier classification framework for collaboration types among advanced groups www.trendmicro.com/en_us/resear...
Earth Estries and Earth Naga malware linksList of Earth Estries and Earth Naga targets, classified by targeted industry and locationCollaboration types and the related MITRE tactic stage where such collaboration occursEarth Estries and Earth Naga malware toolkits
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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The inflatable frog has gone global. Today’s #NoKings #NoTyrants rallies in Japan, Australia, Spain, and Germany.
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
If you love America, you believe it should have #NoKings
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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s: "I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
#Chicago is another in a line of cities that don’t matter to states’ rights folks
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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
If Elon has any courage, he’ll name his new AI game “Four Things”, IYKYK www.gamesradar.com/games/baldur...
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Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead sees Elon Musk's new AI-generated game, says "AI has its place as a tool" but won't "solve the big problem of the industry, which is leadership and vision"
The industry doesn't need "more mathematically produced, psychologically trained gameplay loops"
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Julian-Ferdinand Vögele @julianferdinand.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Recorded Future just published a report diving into the Beijing Institute of Electronics Technology and Application (BIETA), which is almost certainly a front for China’s MSS, developing technologies to support intelligence and military missions. Full report: www.recordedfuture.com/research/bie...
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BIETA: A Technology Enablement Front for China's MSS
Discover how China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) almost certainly operates BIETA and its subsidiary CIII as public fronts for cyber-espionage, covert communications, and technology acquisition. C...
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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 28/09/2025
I think the most telling part of this entire story is how they specifically separated her from her lawyer before grabbing her. That speaks volumes.
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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 13/09/2025
This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.
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What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism
Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic...
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
New trick for actually getting sleep on a plane - Don’t engage with the entertainment system, ever, once wheels are up.
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Newbie Alpaca @newbie-alpaca.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Turns out it’s very easy to “express alarm”. Doing something in response is what we expect of public servants. apple.news/AQdOBJfUGRlq...
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Senate Republicans Express Alarm Over CDC Director’s Firing — The Wall Street Journal
Susan Monarez’s removal has thrown the agency into turmoil and raised concerns about the Trump administration’s vaccine policies
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