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So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 31m

Well, now I have to ask the question. Are we sure Pierre "threw himself" in front of the truck?

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Julio Peña III @juliopenabk.com · 4h

The former chair of the BK Dems is trying to call a meeting at 10pm tonight to pick a new chair, in defiance of a judge’s order and using rules that the court struck down. No one should attend this meeting. Democrats respect the results of elections and the rule of law.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 2h

I don't know what can replace it, but it simply can't be the system going forward that people who make things lose income because ten seconds of a two hour video has a copyrighted song in the background, but gAI companies can steal data to make bots to try to replace those same people's jobs

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 13h

Was bored with work, wanted to do something rewarding, I volunteer a few hours once a month for a charity. It's amazing. A boring Fess, but it is rewarding. Just do something good for someone, it will make you and more importantly someone else feel better. Do it, please.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/10/2026

Just bumping into this again with people _reflexively_ using the word "grape" or a 🍇 emoji and not even realizing they're doing it. It's all part of the same system, where the men running these companies make platforms that don't even let people accurately describe the crimes that they enable.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20h

A significant part here is that it matters a lot *which* LLMs people are using. That the president is using the Nazi LLM made by Musk, which also generates CSAM, is materially different from other commercial models, but especially from models that we could audit and inspect. This could be regulated!

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 03/10/2026

I remind everyone, again, that they tried year-round daylight saving time and stopped it because it got bunch of kids got killed in just a few weeks

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Nothing to see here, just a national *news* station airing a segment where they do open anti-Muslim racism and laugh about beating the shit out of a Democratic senate candidate

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 03/10/2026

In fact @timnitgebru.blacksky.app has a solid track record of having been right again and again about artificial intelligence, for years, and that's why she's worth listening to today. Musk, Altman, Karp, Zuckerberg, et al.??? not so much

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...

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These people shouldn’t make policy.
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discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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The Sisko @patbits.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

HE CAME FROM SOMEWHERE BACK IN HIS LONG AGO

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have never, EVER worked for an outlet that treated interviews this way morally and ethically, this is reprehensible for USA Today to do practically, the only logical conclusion any potential source or expert can come to is that they should never speak to USA Today about anything

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media

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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

LA is HOT. But does it have to be this hot? Did you know shade from a single tree can drop temps by 20° or more? Yet working-class neighborhoods like South LA, East LA, and the Valley get the least tree coverage and bear the brunt of extreme heat. Let's finally cool things down for everyone.

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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pennsylvania state Rep. Scott Barger was arguing against a menopause-related bill aimed at improving workplace conditions when he floated some good ol’ workplace discrimination www.jezebel.com/gop-state-re...

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

She's doing it! She's getting better at social media!

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The Sisko @patbits.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

bro it's like plumbing heaven

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

When all else fails, try xenophobia.

““With any change, there will be important questions raised, but there will also be misinformation and outright lies, and in the age of social media and 24/7 news, myths take hold faster than ever before,” said Garman. “In fact, this build out is so important geopolitically that there are widespread reports of various countries intentionally seeding misinformation in the US about data centers to trick us into slowing down.””

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

“In a more than 3,000 word blog posted today, Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pushed back on public concerns around the impact that data centers may have on jobs, power demands, and the environment, saying ‘our nation can’t afford to lose’ the race for AI dominance.”

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Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers

Nothing drums up support like fearmongering.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 02/10/2026

State Dept.'s Sarah Rogers defends Brendan Carr threatening Disney over Kimmel comments (which she totally misrepresents) by saying it's the same thing as Murthy case... leaving out that Supreme Court literally said there was no evidence of speech suppression in Murthy...

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Flock's whole thing is that they argue their system does not need a warrant and they claim this is a settled issue. Very hard to overstate the importance that a federal judge has said this is not the case. Flock's CEO just said it was "pretty cut and dry"

The new decision also immediately invalidates the core argument that Flock’s CEO Garrett Langley has made saying that Flock was not a constitutional issue. “You and I don’t get to pick what’s a constitutional violation and what’s not. We have judges, we have elected officials, there’s a process for that. We follow the law, we follow the Constitution. So far, in our belief and what will be for a long time, the courts have deemed this is not a warrantless search; this is a valid product as it relates to the Fourth Amendment. So I don’t see any change there,” Langley told The Drive in July, adding the issue was “pretty cut and dry.”

Notably, Hill suggested that other courts that have ruled Flock searches do not constitute a Fourth Amendment search were likely wrong to do so, and that they have not considered the widespread and automated context of the AI-powered surveillance system.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is an incredibly important decision, and the judge is requiring the court to throw out all evidence obtained against her. Judge wrote Flock’s network is “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance” and that courts must update their understanding of the technology

“The Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz’s search in just the ALPR system provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle’s whereabouts across the country for an entire month,” Hill wrote. “The Court finds that because the ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle’s historical location information intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was because he saw her license plate was from California.”

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...

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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

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The Sisko @patbits.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

so the Star Wars racing game basically sections off the pod racing parts into its own less fun segment? and it's primarily a land speeder racing game, which is basically a Toyota corolla racing game.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.

An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."

Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

last night at dinner we were talking about how much tracey sucks and the server overheard and was like are you talking about michael tracey? that guy fucking sucks, and it was very satisfying

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

i have been laughing at this for 5 minutes straight

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

REVIEW: Ghost of Yotei expansion Echoes of Sekigahara lacks a strong hook, is mostly set on a cramped map, but it's...terrific! One highlight: More interactions with nature. A greater abundance of animal-related quests; a subtle system for making the world greener www.gamefile.news/p/review-gho...

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9 1/2 lush hours with with Ghost of Yotei expansion Echoes of Sekigahara

Review: A strong addition with some beautiful breakthroughs involving bears, deer, trees and catching arrows.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Trump-backing Ellisons are the #1 🇺🇸 supporters of the IDF Now they control all of this Are Y’all paying attention?

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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

these people are very stupid

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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/10/2026

Cashier Forced To Incorporate Humiliating New Phrase Into Every Customer Interaction theonion.com/cashier-forced-to-inco…

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 02/10/2026

This is what happens when you only look at numbers out of any kind of context. 3 Av reduces crowding at Union Sq. 3 Av ranks 207th of 423 stations (MTA ridership 2025). That's not nothing. stopthestop.com More like #stopthestupidtechbro

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MTA, close the 3rd Ave L stop.

How much time would cutting each subway stop save?

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