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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 22h
President Donald Trump dropped his final challenge to the $5.6 million payout to writer E. Jean Carroll, ending the case she won against him in 2023. The president also withdrew his bid to make Carroll return the money.
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Trump quietly caves on $5.6M payout as E. Jean Carroll case ends: 'A first'
President Donald Trump dropped his final challenge to the $5.6 million payout to writer E. Jean Carroll, ending the case she won against him in 2023.Trump agreed to dismiss his appeal "with prejudice," meaning he can never bring it again, according to a Sept. 25 order from the U.S. Court of Appeals ...
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 29/09/2026
Every accusation is a confession.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 29/09/2026
THIS!
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 25/09/2026
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Delaware Corporations-Can-Vote Ruling Looks Likely to Win Appeal
The ACLU looked to have a steep hill to climb Wednesday as it urged Delaware’s top legal tribunal to invalidate a town charter authorizing some corporations, LLCs, and other artificial entities to vot...
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 25/09/2026
My crush remains undiminished.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 25/09/2026
(strong) Opinion: All of y'all should make it a priority to watch "The President's Analyst". We're almost 60 years from the release, and it's prescient and funny, and especially connected with the AI bubble. Watch it. And don't forget, this was released in 1967.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"House Republicans will continue to hold Hunter Biden’s feet to the fire until we have his testimony...no one – not even the president’s son – is above the law.” - Tom Emmer, 1.17.24 "Don Jr is a private citizen and businessman so this unwarranted attack will go nowhere," Tom Emmer, 9.23.26
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 21/09/2026
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Arkema strengthens its fluorospecialties business with its new Forane® 1233zd production unit in the US | Arkema Global
With the successful start-up of its 15 kt Forane® 1233zd production unit in Calvert City, Kentucky, Arkema continues to develop its low Global Warming Potential (GWP) fluorospecialties.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 21/09/2026
Coming to Calvert City, KY.
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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 21/09/2026
Before you say yes to a data center, listen to this advice from coal country kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Before you say yes to a data center, listen to this advice from coal country • Kentucky Lantern
The mayor of Russell learned in June that a Barcelona company wanted to build a two-gigawatt data center on the old AK Steel site in his town. He learned it from a consultant's email.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does it matter what happens to the Kennedy Center? Because the guy running it into the ground is the same guy running the war with Iran.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 17/09/2026
And yes, there's a site with an AI "doomsday clock". The owner and operators are completely opaque.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 16/09/2026
And, I would add - as any hard core gamer knows - The way to win is by accumulating a whole bunch of seemingly small advantages. It's about increasing your spell damage by 3%, decreasing your cooldowns by 1 second, and a bunch of other small things that add up. The win is in the margins.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Kai Schreiber Makes History as First Trans Girl to Win Breakthrough Model of the Year
​Schreiber became the first trans girl to win the Breakthrough Model of the Year statue at The Daily Front Row’s Fashion Media Awards.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 16/09/2026
This was the state of the art ten years ago - before "Generative AI". It's 'old school' now. You are being manipulated.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 16/09/2026
This machine gets turned up to max for every election now. When you see posts about "not voting" or not supporting flawed candidates, consider the possiblility that you are being targeted by people spending huge amounts of money to piss you off enough to stay home.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 16/09/2026
So they could target those influencers to repost rage bait, and reach their intended audience.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 16/09/2026
Ads containing the exact thing to make you stay home. Or make you vote, depending on the party/candidate they support. It wasn't just targeted ads. Remember I said whether you repost non-original content was correlated with engagement? The data also revealed which 'influencers' you would repost.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 16/09/2026
Remember that I said that things which are known about you can predict things you haven't revealed? It works the other way, too. Now that they have a prediction of your "group", they can extract the predictors for that group and target advertising to those groups.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 16/09/2026
People who typically vote Democratic, who can be demoralized into staying home. Single-issue voters who can be influenced against their party's candidate. Etc. It was all about the margins. And then - with all that data, they sliced and diced them into demographic groups that they could target.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 16/09/2026
They scored individuals by categories, including: * Political Party * Candidate Leanings * Likelyhood to vote * Issues on which they were inflexible And then they grouped them into many groups: People who are indifferent and vote Republican, who could be angered into turning out.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 16/09/2026
Age is very strongly predicted by other factors - which celebrities you follow, what bands you follow, and which events you attend. Age can be predicted with good accuracy from other information that you reveal. And then that predicted age can be used to predict your likelyhood to vote.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 16/09/2026
Your propensity to vote is predicted by multiple factors , but a leading indicator was whether you post original thoughts or mostly repost content. Similarly, age turns out to be a strong predictor. But what if you haven't revealed your age on social media? Not a problem.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 16/09/2026
His practical examples were - Even if we don't know your party affiliation, it can be predicted with good accuracy from who you follow and repost on Social Media (in his case, FB). Also, your "political engagement" (propensity to vote) can be predicted.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 16/09/2026
He volunteered A LOT of information that he said was related to what CA was doing. The first thing he volunteered (and covered in class) was "missing data imputation". This is not new to ML folks. Basically, it's the ability to predict data you don't have (about a person) from data you _do_ have.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 16/09/2026
Some background. I think it's important. Almost ten years ago I took an intensive machine learning course (before they called it AI), paid for by my employer. The instructor had formerly worked for Cambridge Analytica. He was an engaging guy and we hit it off.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 16/09/2026
I want to talk a little bit about a tangent to recent discourse here. The discourse is generally of the form of "I could never vote for anyone unsupporting of [a particular issue], no matter what else they support. I'm not going to cite examples. They're _everywhere_ now in the runup to the midterms
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 11/09/2026
"That's what America is all about. It's to go down to Disney World in Florida. Take your families and go shopping, after you've done your duty in the way we've structured it." GWB after 9/11. Disgusting.
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is quietly big news for @esa. General chat around #EPSC2026 is a strong desire to reduce dependence on perfidious NASA, driving Europe to new capabilities and partners (see expanding partnership with JAXA for BepiColombo and beyond)
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 09/09/2026
This brain atrophy also brought on very specific symptoms including trouble walking, loss of bowel control, and syncopy, which caused him to nod off into a fainting state at random times.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 09/09/2026
When my father was in his last 6 months, he suffered from a host of ailments, including dementia caused by cerebral atrophy. He would often conflate events widely separated in time, or place himself at events which he had only seen in the news or on TV. He was insistent his false memories were real.
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Sarah @shhhhh-hush.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
accurate. timely. relevant. we could all use more @mcsweeneys.net in our lives.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I wish it was more of a scandal that our government is staffed by neo-Nazis.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 05/09/2026
"Things are the way they are because they got that way" - Gerald Weinberg
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Space industry lacks workers needed to rebuild satellites lost in war, report says
The U.S. does not have enough engineers, technicians and assemblers to rebuild military space assets destroyed in a war with China or Russia, per RAND.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 02/09/2026
You are here.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 02/09/2026
Chevron press release: "Chevron expands position in Venezuela" Chevron donated $2 Million to █████'s inaugural committee Chevron donated $5 Million to Trump's Freedom 250
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/09/2026
rest in peace to Wendell Berry
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 01/09/2026
My partner and I watched the 1983 film "The Pirates of Penzance" this evening (for the uncountable time). Starring Kevin Kline, Linda Ronstandt, Angela Lansbury, et al. And also the amazing Tony Azito, lost to HIV/AIDS in 1995. Highly recommended, whether you're an "effeminate theatre kid" or not.
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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Flock: "Comparing state-by-state, the share of residents who are Black was the only demographic variable in the analysis with a statistically significant relationship to camera density." cybernews.com/privacy/stud...
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Flock camera density linked to black population share
Our study finds that US states with higher Black population shares tend to have higher Flock camera density. Discover how demographics influence surveillance.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's not until he says the magic words, that he fears losing control, that it fully clicks. It's not that he believes philanthropy is bad, it's that the risk of someone receiving his money who he doesn't approve of is a bigger problem than the risk that his money helps no one. That speaks volumes.
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Billionaire CEO says charity is a ‘negative’ for the world: ‘I’m not going to do that’
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has a net worth of several billion dollars, but don’t expect him to donate to charity or do any kind of philanthropy anytime soon. During a recent interview, Armstrong exp...
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 30/08/2026
The Trump administration, according to the diocese, believes the “power of eminent domain overrides the right to free exercise of religion” enshrined by the First Amendment.
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Why Trump is picking a fight with a 29-foot-tall Jesus standing in New Mexico
Does eminent domain prevail against the First Amendment and religious freedom? A diocese in southern New Mexico says ‘nothing could be less Catholic’ than the president’s border wall, Alex Woodward re...
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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Well this is horrifying. Learn more here: www.uclahealth.org/news/article...
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Measles Infection Can Cause Immune Amnesia
I keep hearing about the complications that can happen when you have the measles and how they can land you in the hospital. I just saw on the news that getting the measles can mess up your immune syst...
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 27/08/2026
A Kentucky law meant to increase housing is now being wielded by a data center developer From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/27/a...
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A Kentucky law meant to increase housing is now being wielded by a data center developer • Kentucky Lantern
A law meant to increase housing is now being used by a data center developer in Simpson County to stop community resistance to the plan.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 27/08/2026
I paid off a revolving credit debt and two things happened. 1. My credit rating dropped. 2. The (former) debt holder demanded that I "confirm my income". I have zero debt with them. Fsck off. Credit scores exist to quantify your ability to be taken advantage of.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 26/08/2026
In a testament to the power that Dolly and commercials had on young minds, Any time my wife and I are together and hear the word "Dahlias", there is this exchange: "Dahlias!" in an East TN accent "But you can't buy 'em" "I can't buy em!?" "You can only get them in boxes of Breeze"
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
SCOOP: Republican House candidate Ralph Alvarado is pivoting his message, editing his website to remove Trump mentions and delete a photo of them together. From “America First Fighter” to “Independent Leadership.” Trump won KY06 by 15 pts. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202... BEFORE/AFTER
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