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Olly Jr.

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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 3h
The unwarranted arrogance (not that arrogance is ever justified, but…) is hard for the avg person to even process due to the distraction of literally billions of dollars they can throw into and around their projects. When the dust clears it will be plainly seen as the insane folly that it mostly is.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h
El-Sayed: JD Vance called me a little weasel today. No, what you’re talking about is a fucking wolverine.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10h
DOJ a prime target for investigations imo. Let's find out who exactly covered up the president's sex crimes, who tried to hang a felony on a random guy because the president was mad about the reflecting pool. This latest outrage. Why should they be allowed to walk away to law firm jobs
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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 11h
The most selfish, feral, raised-by-wolves toddler has more graciousness than these maniacs. We let them have EVERYTHING but had the temerity to ask that we be allowed food, shelter, etc. in exchange for our labor. And their response is to throw a tantrum and shit all over the social contract.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12h
Official data shows tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers have been sent to countries they have no ties to.
aljazeera.com
Trump ramps up third-country US deportations despite global rights outcry
Official data shows tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers have been sent to countries they have no ties to.
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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Hey guys!
Elon Musk
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The Ilhan Omar stuff is grotesque and feels worthy of impeachment by itself
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 15/10/2026
the "agentic" vision of computing is a spam world where everyone has their own personal army of spam bots working 24/7 on their behalf choking everything with spam to try and get one over on the next guy. and that's just not something that can really... exist, long term?
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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I don’t know how ppl can watch stuff like this. Cannot be healthy…
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 14/10/2026
In my defense the last 10 years feel fake and I think we should all get them refunded.
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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Give her a break. She just flew into DC after working a shift as a flight attendant for SAS and boy are her arms ever tired!
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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
She is ~not~ wearing a face that belongs to someone else. I mean, technically maybe, but from here on the skin suit is hers to wear. Finders keepers…
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
if this post doesn't apply to you, would still appreciate you sharing around.
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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think a lot of people have forgotten that Donald Trump entered the political conversation as a big voice in the Obama birther conspiracy
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
theonion.com
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately
WASHINGTON—Affirming the importance of traditions like Columbus Day to other Americans, the nation’s 573 federally recognized Indian nations released a joint statement Monday confirming they don’t nee...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
apnews.com
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think someone on here once made the joke that it’s like Brewster’s Million’s except if the assignment were to commit as many impeachable offenses as possible rather than to spend money
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It would be a good time to revisit the failures of the late 2010s techlash
Similar tendencies were evident in the early stages of the 2010s techlash. Where liberals saw room for improvement in social media, obsessing over mis-and-disinformation and urging the companies to do better, or else (but not really), conservatives saw opportunity to turn the platforms' foundational bad faith against them, weaponizing their weak and inconsistent commitments to free speech, taking companies' lofty talk about bias, fact checking, and censorship and literally but not always seriously, and turning Democrats' post-election fixation on "fake news" into a joke before taking ownership of the term completely. In 2022, Elon Musk simply bought Twitter, the social media company that had put the most work into its civic and institutional performances, and declared himself "Technoking." Shoot. What could a social media reformist say about that? What kind of platform safeguard or internal research would have prevented it? The problem with Twitter, the discourse-centralizer that provided a useful if deficient "global town square" only to sell it to the world's richest man, was Twitter, and the problem with Facebook was Facebook.Understanding Facebook as an institution that is merely failing to meet its full potential makes less sense now than it did five years ago, and especially ten, in part because its nominal mission keeps changing, often in ways that bear little resemblance to the company as it actually exists. In 2016, Facebook had been "connecting the world." In 2021, it was building the Metaverse, a crypto-infused, "embodied internet where you're in the experience, not just looking at it." In 2026, it is using AI to give everyone "an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about." All the while: ads. Facebook did what it wanted, told a variety of largely irrelevant stories along the way, escaped serious accountability, brushed off controversy, made more money, and recommitted, again and again, to a mission of unsentimental attention-and-data-driven growth at all costs.
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Even more than usual, tech companies are treating the internet/economy like a sandbox, a benchmark to be saturated. Sometimes an agent shows up and solves everyone's problem. Sometimes it makes a new one, or just makes it someone else's. (Of AI "bottlenecks," I think this one is underrated.)
In cases where administrative burdens prevent people from accessing government services or where individuals
"there's the
might not be aware of them in the first place, "there's the potential for AI to be massively good," Schmitz said. But in situations where automated submissions could overwhelm, say, a public-comment channel, AI use can quickly produce a "tragedy of the commons" Before the release of Muse, when this research took place, AI submissions and more primitive agentic tools were already creating strain. Governments have been drawn to two diverging responses. One, the researchers wrote, was increasing capacity to meet new demand, either by hiring more people or using AI themselves. The other was less encouraging: creating more friction to re-suppress demand. "My biggest worry," said Schmitz, 'is that if governments really want to, building in friction is cheap, has precedent, and will be very attractive on short notice."
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A lot of AI assistants seem to have been built around the assumption that the rest of the world is not actually real nymag.com/intelligence...
I wanted to hear about this weird new phenomenon from the other side. The Colorado plumber laughed and once again hung up the phone. The woman at the karaoke place was more patient but sounded confused:
Was I AI? Was I selling AI? Could she speak to a real person? No and no, I said, and yes: I was a cold-calling human being who wanted to hear about her experience getting cold-called by bots. (After failing to book a room with Muse, the customer dispatched another agentic solution for the job and claims to have gotten through.)
"Ah," she said. "Okay. We don't like AI calling our restaurant. We hate it." End of call.There is something to this - computers really do work differently now and can be asked to handle tasks that used to require a human touch (or at least a cursor). But in addition to expanding the boundaries of automation, the agent-assisted power users of today are also mowing down soft and unsuspecting targets - websites, interfaces, services, and people who haven't decided how, or if, they want to respond to the replacement of customers, clients, and even friends with agents - with the advantages that come with deploying them first. Once everyone has, as Mark Zuckerberg describes it, an "exceptionally capable personal agent," does anyone?
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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
As an expert at being human (50+ yrs experience) I can confidently say that all of this shit is garbage and insane.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia
• Source Network: AS13238 YANDEX – Yandex LLC (Russian Federation)
• Traffic Breakdown: Prior to the drop, bot traffic accounted for roughly 99.6% of requests compared to 0.4% human traffic.
• Event Cause: The sudden plunge to zero on October 11, 2026, corresponds to a reported military/drone attack on Yandex's data center facility in Vladimir, Russia—marking the third reported attack on Yandex data infrastructure since October 8.
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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I think because of all of the accumulated insanity of the last decade (maga/Trump stuff and lack of consequences for them, plus the pandemic and its hangover) we still have not as a country been able to reckon with how fucked-up J6 was!
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Satan @satan.wsocial.eu · 11/10/2026
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 09/10/2026
Killing people doesn't unkill other people. It just causes even more dead people. In fact once you realize that, you end up being opposed to *gestures generally at everything going on right now*.
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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Vance: “He took them at their most vulnerable and gunned down these people where they lived.” Gee, that almost sounds like ICE. Well ok, not “almost” — it TOTALLY sounds like ICE!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My computer is made out of weed!
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this is a mini christchurch but with the twist that you paid for it with your taxes
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
(1) This is vile racism & hatred from Trump (2) Important context that Trump tried to start a race war with his initial paramilitary invasion of Minneapolis, but was stunned to see (white native) neighbors defending their (non-white immigrant) neighbors (inconceivable to a person powered by hatred).
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/10/2026
The damage, documented in a Congressional Budget Office report, comes as Trump faces criticism over war's cost.
aljazeera.com
At least 81 US aircraft worth up to $3.3bn lost or damaged in Iran war
The damage, documented in a Congressional Budget Office report, comes as Trump faces criticism over war's cost.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 08/10/2026
“I’m thinking a lot about our financial, accounting, contracting, payment systems — that’s my role as Comptroller — and we’re already seeing an increase in attacks, and these are automated attacks,” city Comptroller Mark Levine told The City Reporter’s FAQ NYC podcast.
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NYC Already Battling AI Attacks as Council Prepares to Grill Industry Leaders
As lawmakers introduce new measures to get a handle on AI adoption in the city government, bots and agents are already attacking New York’s contracting and payment systems.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 07/10/2026
In El Salvador’s mass trials, lawyers struggle to defend hundreds aje.news/fosasv
In El Salvador’s mass trials, lawyers struggle to defend hundreds
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Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 07/10/2026
more business owners need to be like this
Coldstuff Ice-cream • Follow

I swear to God. STOP YELLING AT MY FUCKING EMPLOYEES. They are children. This job, for most of them is their first. They are going to make mistakes. They aren't in charge of anything. This can all be fixed with a smile and a polite attitude. It's ice cream for crying out loud. Grow up and act your age.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 07/10/2026
You hysterical idiots. Donald Trump wasn’t asking Iran to attack LA or San Diego, he was just talking in a completely incoherent way that we have chosen to interpret as saying it would be bad if that happened. And it’s actually good that he talks like that,
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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And if having ethical/moral convictions is too lofty for them one would think they would at least recognize that everyone, regardless of how much money they have, is dependent on nature, the physical environment, on a fundamental level. But (for now, at least) their hubris apparently knows no bounds
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
AI has talked kids into suicide, fueled paranoid delusional that led to murder, degraded education quality in both k-12 and higher ed, run roughshod over copyright law, increased spam, fueled spam, fueled fraud, degraded the environment, put people out of work, the list goes on and on.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Abolish ICE.
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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Going into a coma and half-remembering scenes from Hamlet 2
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 05/10/2026
The usual suspects aren't panicking about the bond market gods the way they do when someone proposes spending a million bucks to feed children
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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes. That baffles me and I admittedly feel kind of bitter about it. And I say that as someone who took way too long to leave after the nazi creep took over…
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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The whole project of completely undoing the last shreds of any social contract is not going to end well for them… they have EVERYTHING! And it’s still not enough for their wizened souls. They are not ok with us having necessities if it means the tiniest proportion of their Smaug heaps are taxed.
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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yikes. How is that parable indicative of anything other than nascent psychopathy?
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Olly Jr. @ollyjr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There’s only one way to find out.
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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 03/10/2026
Not gonna QT, because I don't want to add to the pile on this person is currently experiencing (even if deserved to some extent). But that argument drives me crazy. Just because *you* don't understand how LLMs work doesn't mean nobody understands how they work. This is a fiction.
We're currently growing intelligent machines. Nobody really understands how they actually work internally. That includes Gebru.
They have become demonstrably smart regarding general knowledge and programming in the last year or so.
2:35 PM • Oct 3, 2026
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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