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R Biggie @rbiggie.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

With $18 billion, Iran could build between 360,000 and 900,000 of its widely used Shahed-136 kamikaze drones, according to my google search.

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R Biggie @rbiggie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Are you tired of winning? $300B in $100 bills = 3 billion notes weighing 3,000 metric tons (6.6M lbs). It fills ~3,000 pallets. To move it: ~111 shipping containers, ~144 semis maxed to the legal weight limit, or 23 Boeing 747-8 freighters.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Find you somebody who looks at you like Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.

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Mystic Muse @cloudrider53.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Are Americans getting numb to this “in your face” corruption? bsky.app/profile/clou...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

The very definition of “special treatment” from the Trump admin for the most notorious convicted child sex trafficker in America. Why? Because she’s protecting Trump.

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R Biggie @rbiggie.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Most ironic gift ever: Russia gives meat grinders to mothers of killed soldiers.

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R Biggie @rbiggie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This level of interference in a state election is now possible because SCOTUS says that money is equivalent to free speech. And we’ve allowed vast sums of money to be accumulated by individuals. Ban billionaires.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

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R Biggie @rbiggie.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Language matters and the word to use is tyrant.

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CNN @cnn.com · 17/02/2025

Sheryl Crow recently dumped her Tesla in protest of the company's owner, Elon Musk.

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Sheryl Crow sells her Tesla and donates proceeds to NPR | CNN

Sheryl Crow is putting her money where her heart is.

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CNN @cnn.com · 18/02/2025

The CIA under President Trump has been covertly flying MQ-9 Reaper drones over Mexico to spy on drug cartels, current and former officials familiar with the matter told CNN, part of Trump’s dramatic reorientation of national security assets to the US southern border.

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CIA flying covert drone missions into Mexico to spy on drug cartels | CNN Politics

The CIA under President Donald Trump has been covertly flying MQ-9 Reaper drones over Mexico to spy on drug cartels, current and former officials familiar with the matter told CNN, part of Trump’s dra...

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R Biggie @rbiggie.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

arxiv.org/html/2412.19... Here’s the Dec paper on DS

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DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report

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R Biggie @rbiggie.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

DeepSeek 2 What DS has done was to slightly dent the old maxim that software designers will always waste whatever the hardware designers invent. But historically this maxim held as the demand for speed, storage and transmission has continued to explode. So expect the bumpy ride to continue.

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R Biggie @rbiggie.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

DeepSeek I suspect that it will become clearer that the limit on this tech will be availability of usable data for training—not the hardware. I expect some kind of organized attack on copyright law so that AI (sic) designers have legal cover to plunder the world’s libraries.

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R Biggie @rbiggie.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

In a world polarized by “Us and Them”. I Just read David French’s piece in NYT. Here’s the lead: “When you worship power, compassion and mercy will look like sins.” Benjamin Cremer, a Wesleyan pastor and writer who is based in Idaho, posted that thought last year.

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R Biggie @rbiggie.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Someone take Joe Scarborough’s shovel away. Just saw him freak. The trigger event was the apparent admonition Mika gave to David Frum yesterday. Regarding Peter Hegseth nomination for Sec Defense. Frum said, “If you’re too drunk for Fox News, you’re very, very drunk indeed.”

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Sarah Smarsh @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

"We became too woke, let's get back to center" is a disturbing pathology at this point. Symptoms include inability to hold socioeconomic class + social justice in the same thought and apparent denial that Bernie almost got the nomination twice. Breathtaking to watch & we all suffer for the delu$ion

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The opposite of the "nothing" Europeans thought they saw, the prairie is one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world. Restoring it requires eradicating the "green glacier" that's displaced it: cedar trees. @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social in @orionmagazine.bsky.social:

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Protecting the Prairie - Orion Magazine

On the native prairies of North America, green is the problem

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Ann Sloan @annsloan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The most illuminating post-mortem conversation on why the Democrats lost was @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social on The Weekly show with Jon Stewart. youtu.be/UC-VkbEpac4

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Jon Stewart on the Divide Between Dems and the Working Class with Sarah Smarsh | The Weekly Show

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Please welcome @erinburnett.bsky.social to Bluesky and giving thanks for the one and only @hwinkler4real.bsky.social and his whole amazing family!

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Here's a graphic explaining how the Big Lie was seeded and mobilized into the events of January 6, 2021 through a kind of "participatory disinformation" process. Trump's "war on drugs" refrain could catalyze a similar kind of participatory propaganda and mobilization cycle.

Title: "Participatory Disinformation
The “Big Lie” during the 2020 Election and
the January 6, 2021 Attack on the U.S. Capitol"

This is a visual graphic explaining the dynamics between “political elites” and “audiences” in this phenomenon. Political elites are at the top of the graph, audiences at the bottom, with several arcing arrows from elites to audiences on the right, and from audiences to elites on the left, in a kind of clockwise motion, showing a cyclical process. The arcing arrows have labels, explained below.

Political elites repeatedly spread the message of a rigged election, which set an expectation of voter fraud among their audiences. This became a “frame” through which events around the election were interpreted.

Online “crowds” generated false/misleading stories of voter fraud, reinforcing the frame. Sometimes these stories were produced intentionally (with knowledge that they were false). But often they were generated sincerely, through misinterpretation.

Activists and social media influencers helped amplify these stories, passing the content up to the political elites.

Political elites echoed the false/misleading stories back to their audiences, reinforcing the frame, building a sense of collective grievance.

As audiences echoed and reiterated this growing sense of grievance, violent language and calls to action increased.

Political elites then began to mobilize and organize the audiences… into a series of rallies and protests.

And one of these led to the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/11/2024

I’m distracting myself with Patrick O’Brian books. This means I’ve finally committed to learning all the bizarre maritime terms for “different bits of sailing ships. Which means I’m spending a lot of time poring over naval diagrams. I can highly suggest this coping mechanism

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

"RFK Jr. believes that Fauci and Gates are members of a 'vaccine cartel' trying to kill patients... He argues that this cartel secretly funded doctors to produce fraudulent studies showing that the drugs were ineffective against COVID—and that it did so in order to orchestrate global lockdowns"

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The Sanewashing of RFK Jr.

Let’s call a crank a crank.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Democrats should use this inflection point to shift ground – from being the party of well-off college graduates, big corporations, “never-Tumpers” like Dick Cheney and vacuous “centrism” – to an anti-establishment party ready to shake up the system on behalf of the vast majority of Americans.

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The Democrats must become an anti-establishment party | Robert Reich

The lesson of this election is that Democrats must attack inequality – and not cede working-class voters to Trump

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Working Americans need real champions. To win back them back, Dems must unapologetically take on the billionaires and corporations who have rigged our economy.

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W. A. Whipple @wawhipple.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

Remember when Mitt Romney put his Irish Setter in a carrier on top of the car and literally scared the shit out of the poor thing, and we all thought he was a monster for it? Kristi Noem is way worse. She's a soulless psychopath, and I have never felt sorrier for the people of South Dakota.

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