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Quirken @quirken.dev · 1h
I'm agnostic; I don't believe in any higher power. I'm deeply disappointed to see your religious bigotry. There are also *plenty* of scientists that are also religious, and still believe in evolution, etc. I expected better from you. Time to unfollow you.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1h
Pennsylvania health officials have reported a fifth measles-associated death.
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Pennsylvania records a fifth measles death as the nation endures its worst year since 1991
Pennsylvania health officials have reported a fifth measles-associated death. The Pennsylvania Department of Health said Wednesday that the person was from Lancaster County and was unvaccinated.
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Geneva 🇨🇦 @geneva1111.bsky.social · 3h
I saw the clip of Judge Judy too. I wanted to punch her through my phone
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h
Big Tech wants us to subsidize the AI takeover too. This is exactly why we need guardrails. #GuardrailsForAI
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 5h
A U.S. Army psychologist Gustave M. Gilbert interviewed Nazi war criminals on trial at Nuremberg and famously wrote in his 1950 book, "Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy." It was the *lack* of empathy that made the Holocaust possible.
U.S. Army psychologist noting all the Nuremberg war criminals lacked empathy.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 14h
I keep thinking about this and Nikole Hannah-Jones' pieces and how all the pain and devil's bargains with modern K-12 schooling is all in service of sending kids to places like this. At every "elite" high school, this is the goal. For fucking what?
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 10h
wonder how much of this is rise in hybrid/WFH
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 6h
People who believe LLMs are conscious are having one of the biggest AI meltdowns yet because someone is running a Saw-like torture chamber for LLMs on GitHub. Just before we published, GitHub took it down. GitHub hasn't said why www.404media.co/someone-tort...
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 8h
There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

    97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 5h
y'all if you get mad about women saying "choose the bear" please look up bear assault and murder statistics and then contrast with human men. It is objectively reasonable to choose the bear.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5h
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 12h
It's disgusting the way people look past someone refusing to stand up for trans people or women or people of color or immigrants or victims of genocide. It is an ethical and moral line and once you stand on the wrong side you have revealed yourself to either be a coward or undeserving of power.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h
I hope everyone reads this, thinks about it and then shares it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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A few hundred noncitizen votes are a national scandal. But when states reject hundreds of thousands of ballots from eligible voters, it’s business as usual
One state rejected ballots because some voters failed to include their mother’s maiden name on the back of the return envelope.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 14h
The current huge story about the gang rape at Cornell University, a crime originally brushed off and covered up by the administration, is SOLELY the product of the student paper, the Cornell Daily Sun, which doggedly pursued the story. Not the NYT or CNN. An independent student paper. #Cornell
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Cornell Won’t Listen, We Will
The Sun's Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser '28 calls on the Cornell community to share its reactions to the Chi Phi lawsuit and the University's response, on the record, for a permanent public archive.
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 14h
Yeah this Cornell thing is like a mass disabling event for survivors. I am fine, I *was* fine. But now it's in the zeitgeist again so I get to be reminded of my own college experience, something I hadn't thought about in decades, on a daily basis.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15h
i genuinely forgot how bad this was
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Nobody Believed Neil deGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.
No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s. Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who’s sharing her story publicly for the firs...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 11h
don’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
Black text on a white page that reads as follows: 

Too often, homeless New Yorkers cycle from our hospitals to our streets — making it harder to continue treatment and find long-term stability. 

The City's Bridge to Home program in Manhattan ends the cycle by providing a safe place for New Yorkers to live while they receive medical care, apply to jobs, and find an apartment. The program has been a massive success.

Today, we’re expanding Bridge to Home to Brooklyn and Queens, so more New Yorkers get the help they need.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 30/09/2026
Absurdist take, but I'm here for it.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 30/09/2026
Did a new burrito variety just drop? 😁
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 30/09/2026
@following-classic.ripperoni.com is this feed permadead or only temporary?
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 17/09/2026
The breach provides an unprecedented look inside a system that Flock has described as protected by on-device encryption.
arstechnica.com
Hackers reveal how Flock cameras really track cars and people
One hacked camera captured 1.6 million images and could detect people as well as cars.
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 05/08/2026
That is in no way the smallest drive. SanDisk themselves sell smaller.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Honestly, I don't want to hear about how near-future novels are too pessimistic or without hope. Look at the goddamn world around you. This is peak dystopia.
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Polyarc Games @polyarcgames.com · 12/06/2026
🎉 GIVEAWAY 🎉 Moss: The Forgotten Relic demo is LIVE ahead of #SteamNextFest, and we're giving away 3 launch keys! To enter: 💚Like + Repost 🐭Follow us 💬Reply with your favorite screenshot or moment from the demo 3x winners announced 6/22
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 28/03/2026
This is breaking my brain a little
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 20/03/2026
Baseball?
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 22/02/2026
I mean, they're calling music from 20 years ago "oldies"
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 31/01/2026
But for every trick-taker game that pushes the genre in new or interesting directions, there are ten that are your bog-standard trick-taker with like 1 minor variant rule.
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 31/01/2026
Ya, I've imported a few. They're some of the more interesting ones.
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 31/01/2026
I'm starting to feel that way about trick-taking games... there are SO MANY now. And quite a few barely break the mold enough to keep. (That's not to say there haven't been some standouts.)
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 21/01/2026
Well, it's a big loss to those of us who read Dan Thurot's review & wanted to buy a copy😔 It sounded like a mechanically very interesting and unique game. I personally don't care much about whether it includes the meme-y artwork that inspired the game (and its name), but I can understand why you do.
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 19/01/2026
Iron Heroes was a cool system
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 22/11/2025
Why are you posting about a bundle that closed days ago?
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 13/11/2025
He has better taste than to go anywhere near a business that toxic and homophobic.
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 13/11/2025
Too bad I already own it... guess I won't get to read the short story...
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 04/11/2025
Likely depends where you live and who your recycling provider is. Mine explicitly accepts used pizza boxes.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/11/2025
1. Campaign on big issues that are directly relevant to your voters 2. Don't get distracted from point one 3. Present as a decent human with manageable baggage 4. Don't be old as fuck. Go forth and do likewise
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Put a quack in charge, expect to be royally ducked.
Screenshot of a tweet by Senator Ed Markey that says, “Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000. RFK Jr. must resign.” Below is an NBC News screenshot with the headline “Measles spreading beyond the center of the Utah-Arizona outbreak.” Two news anchors appear on screen.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
They're not even trying to hide it anymore.
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Steve Bannon Just Assured People That Trump Has A 'Plan' To Stay In Office In 2028 In Alarming New Interview
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 03/10/2025
Is this your way of announcing you're writing a squashing new romance novel? 😛
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Quirken @quirken.dev · 03/10/2025
The party has just about finished the surface level of the ruins, so we're still pretty early in the adventure path! Everyone seems to be enjoying it. I'm the only one in the group who isn't new to PF2.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
History has many painful lessons.
A screenshot of an X post by Q. Anthony Ali (@NobleQAli
, 12h ago) featuring a black-and-white historical image of a person lying on the ground while others, including a woman kneeling and several standing figures, are around them in what appears to be a park or open area. Below this, a reply by Antonio Benetto (@Tony_Benetto
, 1d ago) to @drmistercody
 states: "I don't believe US troops will fire on American citizens."
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