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Flock-o'-Lantern @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 9h

My "fell for the Chinese room again" shirt is actively listening to and considering a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 8h

LLM chatbots need to embed metadata into chat logs which tell them which replies are the user and which are them. switch them mid-conversation, they will carry on as the other side of the conversation like nothing's changed

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steviebaby🫡 @steviebaby.bsky.social · 8h

you people need to get a cat and log off

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a birb @rhiolit.bsky.social · 10h

worth also noting that both the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti happened in her district, and on top of the obviously racist targeting of her personally this is also an attempt to deny the people of Minneapolis their democratically elected representative

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17h

"do you love your dad?" as a setup is diabolical

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Jesi🃏♠️🔥 @luciferjesit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 20h

Host: We just hit a new record for gas prices. The national average is above $4 a gallon for the most days ever in one year. The typical household has now paid an extra $1,043 in fuel expenses since the start of the Iran war.

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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 20h

Trump’s core 2024 promise was bringing down costs by being the energy president — “when you bring down energy costs, everything else falls.” The story of 2026 is that his energy policy, killing clean energy to make us dependent on oil, gas, and coal, has been a massive failure.

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 18h

As I've written before, & I"m sure I'll write again, both here & at the mothership Elon is the biggest insider threat. In August 2023 Ronan Farrow reported how Biden's senior natsec treated him as equivalent to a head of state. 1/ (Link in next post).

Last October, Colin Kahl, then the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, sat in a hotel in Paris and prepared to make a call to avert disaster in Ukraine. A staffer handed him an iPhone—in part to avoid inviting an onslaught of late-night texts and colorful emojis on Kahl’s own phone. Kahl had returned to his room, with its heavy drapery and distant view of the Eiffel Tower, after a day of meetings with officials from the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. A senior defense official told me that Kahl was surprised by whom he was about to contact: “He was, like, ‘Why am I calling Elon Musk?’ ”

The reason soon became apparent. “Even though Musk is not technically a diplomat or statesman, I felt it was important to treat him as such, given the influence he had on this issue,” Kahl told me. SpaceX, Musk’s space-exploration company, had for months been providing Internet access across Ukraine, allowing the country’s forces to plan attacks and to defend themselves. But, in recent days, the forces had found their connectivity severed as they entered territory contested by Russia. More alarmingly, SpaceX had recently given the Pentagon an ultimatum: if it didn’t assume the cost of providing service in Ukraine, which the company calculated at some four hundred million dollars annually, it would cut off access. “We started to get a little panicked,” the senior defense official, one of four who described the standoff to me, recalled. Musk “could turn it off at any given moment. And that would have real operational impact for the Ukrainians.”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19h

You’ve got to be kidding me.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

Carl Quintanilla: Real average hourly earnings down 0.7% on the month, that's the sixth straight month... Jim Cramer: Look, rich people are making a lot of money. God, I sound like Marx. I really don't want to sound like Marx. It's just, look at the data.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 21h

If reports of an end to intelligence sharing and Starlink access limits are confirmed, then the Trump admin has started helping Russia’s war effort. This a more harmful act against Ukraine than all the silly Witkoff/Kushner plans/trips put together. The US is trying to force Ukraine to surrender.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19h

boy Trump fucked the American auto industry. first he yanks their EV subsidies, leading them to slash production and write off tens of billions in investment, then he jacks up the price of oil by 50%, leading to skyrocketing EV demand going almost entirely to China bc GM et al left the market

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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 18h

I was living in the Bay when companies where making a big deal about shop lifting, which turned out wasn't that big deal at all and just a cover to fire people, when I learned this happens because white women steal these items the most.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 18h

what stage of capitalism is this futurism.com/artificial-i...

From Futurism:
Y Combinator “Customer Surveillance” Startup Says “Every Company Will Soon Assign an AI Agent to Every Customer to Watch Their Every Move”
"Irrespective of how people feel about it, I think this whole concept of continuously monitoring — and call it surveillance, whatever you want — it is going to happen."

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 18h

Anyway, technofascism isn't just a matter of a handful of rich oligarchs who enshittified the web. It's a widespread industrial culture that doesn't see there being any problem of conducting mass abuse and manipulation of society for profit.

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Lysander @lysander1945.bsky.social · 22h

I wonder when the 'experts'out there will figure out that the UK Ministry of Defence's (& therefore also NATO's) new Skynet 6A secure comms satellite (due to be launched by Musk/SpaceX in 2027) is likely to suffer the same problems of being compromised👇 www.polarisintelligence.co/forecasts/la...

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Skynet 6A Launch Forecast (2027) | Polaris Intelligence

Skynet 6A is forecast to launch in 2027 on SpaceX's Falcon 9 FT5 to GEO. Launch window, payloads, operators, and source evidence.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 20h

I'm sorry but the key priority for the next US SecDef has to be extracting Elon Musk from every single thing related to US military contracting. No Musk company should receive any government contract of any kind from any Dem executive.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20h

CPI isn't a big deal unless you're one of those rare people who purchases medical care, vehicles, computers/software, or toys. Might also be a problem for people who earn money instead of already having money, but those people should really try having money instead.

By Chris Anstey, Senior Editor

Thanks for joining us today. Here are key takeaways from the September CPI report:
The headline CPI jumped by 0.6% compared with August, as expected by economists, and 3.7% on a year-on-year basis, marking an acceleration from 3.4% the previous month. More than half the monthly increase came from gasoline, which soared 9.1%.
The core CPI, stripping out food and energy, rose 0.3% on the month, more than all but 11 of the 73 economists in Bloomberg’s survey had anticipated. The annual rate accelerated to 2.6%, the fastest pace since June. Increases were broad based, including recreation and used vehicles, airfares and medical care.
Outsize gains in some categories pointed to evidence of both the AI effect and impact from tariffs. On a year-on-year basis, computers and software prices saw record increases, at 9.7% and 28.4% respectively. Toys, up an annual 6.6%, jumped the most since 1988.
Inflation continues to wallop workers. Today’s numbers mean real average hourly earnings contracted by 0.7% last month, the most since May. Real earnings have been shrinking for six straight months now, the longest string since the 2021-23 cost-of-living surge.
The odds of an interest-rate hike by the Federal Reserve in two weeks soared after the release, with Treasuries plunging, stocks sliding and the dollar rising. Two-year yields were up about 12 basis points as of 9:32 a.m. in New York, the S&P 500 opened down 0.4% and the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index hit its highest since May 2025.

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Aria Winningson @aria.labeledrude.online · 14/10/2026

happy sickos day to all who celebrate

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 14/10/2026

In saner times, we would consider an American who graduated from a US law school and then spent the only practical part of her career practicing for an undisclosed employer in Beijing as "having been developed as a Chinese asset and should in no circumstances be permitted in the White House." But...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yet another issue where the only reasonable position is "everybody goes to jail." Anything less is incompatible with the rule of law.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The DOGE people were idiots unable to think about second order effects. Lets use IRS data to round up immigrants! That data comes from immigrants who voluntarily pay about $66 billion a year taxes. What happens to the deficit when they are too scared to pay taxes? budgetlab.yale.edu/research/pot...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."

In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.

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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

You recognize the signs of DV in his he’s behaving and what he’s saying. And you know the danger of separating.. that’s what the midterms are to him - us separating from his DV

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Here's the most Musk-focused passage in this opinion...

SCREENSHOT OF JUDGE'S ORDER on 10/13 -- vi. February 11, 2025, Statement by Elon Musk---- On February 11, 2025, Elon Musk, a Special Government Employee and head of DOGE, retweeted on X a photo of Ms. Comans along with the statement, “FEMA CFO Mary Comans was just fired for funneling $58M to illegal migrant hotels in Manhattan” and he called it a “criminal action.” The Government concedes and the Court finds that other than the fact that Ms. Comans had been fired, the post by Mr. Musk was entirely false. The Government further concedes and the Court further findsthat Mr. Musk and officials at FEMA and DHS knew this information was false at the time it was posted. Based on the unchallenged facts and the fact that Mr. Musk was the head of DOGE, he knew or should have known that any payments made to state or local governments through a FEMA grant in February 2025 were approved by his subordinates. Finally, the fact that Mr. Musk posted a picture of Ms. Comans to his millions of followers while falsely characterizing her government service as a “criminal action” was clearly intended to make her afraid. Posting Ms. Comans’ picture served no legitimate governmental interest and was little more than state sanctioned intimidation....

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In early 2025, Ms. Comans was directed *by DOGE employees themselves* to continue payments to local governments for sheltering migrants. She followed those orders. Then other DOGE employees found out, and the Trump admin decided to blame her personally and smear her in public for the payments.

early point of confusion was whether the Executive Order required a pause in funding only to nongovernmental organizations or whether it also paused funding to state and local governments. This
was not a decision to be made by the CFO. In fact, as CFO, Ms. Comans had neither the authority
nor the ability to direct money to or away from a particular grant recipient. Defining the scope of
the Executive Order was left to senior DHS or FEMA leadership, their general counsels, or at the
very least other FEMA employees who had direct authority over the grant programs at issue.
Ultimately, the agency’s decision was that payments should continue to state and local
governments. This decision was explicitly approved by employees of the newly
created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who were embedded with DHS
and were reviewing and approving all funding initiatives. As a result of DOGE’s approval, Ms.
Comans was directed to continue payments to state and local governments.
Thereafter, other DOGE employees embedded with the Department of Treasury claimed
FEMA’s payments to state and local governments violated the President’s Executive Order. What
followed was a series of finger pointing and backtracking that resulted in the decision to blame
Ms. Comans and three other career officials. On February 11, 2025, Ms. Comans was fired and
DHS and DOGE officials began their public campaign to use her as a scapegoat.

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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

massive win for the "I dont need my fridge to have firmware" crowd

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...

To some companies, accepting even a dollop of 1789’s money represents an insurance policy against Trumpian rage. As Trump’s star falls, however, it also represents a risk.

The question, one executive told me Monday, is: “Do I let these guys on my cap table now in the event something random comes up and I need Trump universe aligned? Or does that hurt me later if Dems take back power?”

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12/10/2026

This is the level of social acceptance I want for LGBT people:

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hiss driver @hiss-driver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

had to google this one up so his company's name is not a LOTR reference, it is a Russian bootleg novel reference where Sauron is the good guy web-wp.archive.org/web/20150910...

Thiel's reputation for contrarianism is well founded. Forever the chess player, he revels in trying to outthink the competition, in devising the unexpected move—the seemingly absurd but devastating maneuver that no one sees coming. "Most people think that if something's written, if it's shared by the majority of people, then you'll look like a black sheep for challenging it," says his friend Gary Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster. "Peter doesn't have any problem with that." A devoted J.R.R. Tolkien fan from an early age, Thiel is equally enamored with Kirill Eskov's The Last Ringbearer, a retelling of The Lord of the Rings in which Sauron is a beleaguered victim and the elves are bellicosely bent on world domination. "Gandalf's the crazy person who wants to start a war," Thiel explains, "and Mordor is this technological civilization based on reason and science. Outside of Mordor, it's all sort of mystical and environmental and nothing works. Anyway, it's really clever." He's

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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Once again, humanity has built a mirror and immediately complained about what it shows

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Van Alan @van-alan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It’s so funny watching the world find out that the Art of the Deal guy actually has 0 idea how to negotiate.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/10/2026

its very convenient when people admit their crimes like this, if only there were actually going to be consequences, its a shame crime is legal

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ilhan Omar: 'Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced'

"I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.

I will not be silenced."

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Let me make a sort of orthogonal point: I don’t get the attacks on immigrants - that even I’ve experienced - that sound like “you came here from a bad place.” Yeah man I know. That was the whole idea of coming here. To come to a good place where you can make something of your life in freedom.

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

To quote @patrickwyman.bsky.social once again: Christopher Columbus was "a dogshit person even by the standards of the late 15th century."

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola. Fuck Columbus.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"More than being upset and furious right now, I am just beyond disappointed in the government. I have done everything humanly possible to give the government the benefit of the doubt in this case. I have done it repeatedly. I have done it for months."

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Judge Reyes: I'm at a total loss to understand what happened here - it's been to intentionally not tell the Plaintiffs, and clear hundreds of trees. How many? I said, I don't want TEN trees taken down. I said, the Government won't lie. And now they did.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

1. The AP ran a headline that said it all. "Can $1 billion buy victory in the midterm elections? Some Republicans fear the answer is no," read the topline item from yesterday's "Morning Wire." link.apnews.com/view/5f524b5...

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions.

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Faster Fourier Transforms

The OpenAI algorithm for the FFT is less a breakthrough and more a malicious exploit.

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's not at all hyperbolic to say the president is trying to denaturalize and deport my congressional representative

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