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Richard Ⓐber

@richaber.bsky.social
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Pressing all the Ⓦords since 2009. This is a personal account. Opinions are my own. No cross, no crown. No gods, no masters. And I'm Batman. He/Him

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 5h
What a good pup, protecting that butter from potential thieves. I saw a thing on Fox News about roaming gangs of butter thieves, it’s no joke.
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Abby The Cleric @abbythecleric.bsky.social · 6h
The face of a dog that's never held butter in her mouth before and is unsure that she made the right choice, but in this house we commit to the bit
The cropped face is a yellow dog with a pink nose named Subaru holding a stick of butter in her mouth, with a little smeared on her nose. It's exactly as silly as you think it is.
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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 5h
Abolish the death penalty.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 6h
Homie what set you from
The notorious gangsta tweets of Xeni Jardin aka Jennifer Hamm
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 7h
I don't think they'll ever recreate what it was like to be on twitter in the 2010s. Soap opera stuff happening constantly. Poster you were vaguely aware of involved in federal fentanyl bust. Poster whose jokes you occasionally liked posed as his aunt (or wife?) for 6 years. Pastor who steals jokes
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JLMeyer @jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social · 5h
Artists quote with your art on fire 🔥
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h
Come on, Pete, show us how your warrior fighters do kinetic asskicking without the beardos and weirdos slowing you down. If anyone can do it, you can, Major Fuckup.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h
Someone should tell President Trump that the best way to turn the Iran War around and stick it to the Democrats this fall is to have Pete Hegseth lead an infantry charge that they'll air on live TV.
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Richard Ⓐber @richaber.bsky.social · 4h
Fascists and authoritarians love to rewrite history. Tricky Dicky was actually a great president, he committed no crimes, and was couped by the deep state.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 6h
Dozens of broke new readers have signed up to get free solidarity copies of HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY. It costs $37 to send a stranger a book and share our buried history www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/nnkuy...
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Buy a Stranger a copy of "Here Where We Live is Our Country" — Molly Crabapple
So many broke young people want copies of HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY . When Molly does signings, there are a lways many trios and quartets of friends pitching in to buy a single copy to...
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 6h
It’s not ‘rogue agent activity’ it’s data hacking, by a company who who programmed software to hack data.
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Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 5h
Plunder. Everything is there for them to plunder. That something belongs to all of us is incomprehensible to them.
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 14h
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Hannibal Tabu | writer/VO actor (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 6h
This is ridiculous. thenerdybird.com/thank-god-fo...
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Thank God for Google Alerts - The Nerdy Bird
"None of this Is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article.
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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 12h
Was famous criminal and dirtbag president Richard Nixon treated unfairly? We ask famous criminal and dirtbag president Donald Trump for his thoughts.
WSJ headline that reads "More than 50 years after Watergate, the Justice Dept. is reaching back into his- tory to consider whether Richard Nixon was treated unfairly"
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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 6h
One of them looked up the woman who rejected him over 300 times. Over 200 of those ALPR searches were off duty. 🫠The other stalked a 17 yo girl and came to her restaurant to bother her, repeatedly, and looked up her sister. Stalking is the least of the shit these men do.
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 6h
Inevitable outcome of a society that tells little girls that boys hurt/hit/harm you when they like you. Except now the boys are men using and using state surveillance tools to terrorize women
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6h
Lot of words when the term “stalking” already exists.
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2 Pinellas deputies arrested for tracking people they were interested in, sheriff says
One deputy queried a license plate reader database 300 times to track a woman, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 6h
As a journal editor I have zero time for the idea that AI in writing is just normal now. It's been forced on us and it's combining with the worst aspects of academia. The result is an academic slopocalypse. Journal editors are now trying - but inevitably failing - to mop up the mess.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 6h
To be clear this excerpt in a paper claiming to offer a novel conceptual synthesis, based on an "integrative review" of multiple literatures, that actually referenced *zero sources*. And then the author fully disclosed Claude's involvement but missed its instruction to manually add the citations! 😬
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 6h
I keep hearing that AI is going to transform research and publishing. Then in my journal editing role I come across the below - an instruction from AI to an academic author to add in missing scholarly references. Claude is telling the named author how to slip this past the journal editor 🤬
Screenshot of text generated by AI reminding a human author to add citations to academic sources as expected by the target journal.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 6h
A new lawsuit by journalist @bubbaprog.xyz reveals that the DOJ secretly searched his digital accounts for a wide range of materials. And prosecutors failed to tell the judges who signed off on it about a federal law that protects the press from search warrants… again.
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DOJ’s secret search of journalist’s accounts omitted press law
Journalist Tim Burke’s new lawsuit challenges the government’s search of months of emails, messages, files, and other information from his Google and Twitter accounts
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7h
Among other things, the State Election Board wants DOJ to open a variety of election-related investigations. It also asks DOJ to “prohibit” the use of QR code tabulation in upcoming election.
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Richard Ⓐber @richaber.bsky.social · 6h
Computer software isn't human. It is code.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 7h
“It appeared to Rabbi Navon that Mr. Olah and his team believed that Claude had what philosophers call “moral status” on par with a person — that it was a being with similar inherent rights to dignity or respect.”
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 7h
“We must be very nice to the AI” is not a fringe view. the people making this stuff are a fucked up cult www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 6h
Furthermore, there's a new law that will provide annual tax credits for newsrooms that hire local journalists—a bulwark against the rise of AI-generated content, as @mattdpearce.com points out, and an investment in human journalists.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 6h
The laws include a ban on bosses using AI to fire workers, bans on AI surveillance in a number of workplace environments, including the bathroom, codification that healthcare professionals cannot have their decision-making outsourced to AI, and professors and teachers cannot be replaced by AI.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 6h
Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.
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California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US
Finally, some good news
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 7h
Yehonatan Ovadia – a Hasidic Jew and Israeli citizen who has lived in the U.S. on a visa since 2022 – is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center (a notorious federal prison) and facing deportation … for his criticism of Israel on religious grounds.
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A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported.
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.
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Richard Ⓐber @richaber.bsky.social · 7h
From my own experience, hazing is bullying, and it starts very early for boys. Early in life, I was picked on and insulted by grown men for being "sensitive." When I started elementary school it escalated to homophobic slurs and frequent beatings by classmates and older kids.
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Richard Ⓐber @richaber.bsky.social · 7h
Uh oh. Youngest is complaining that his hearing is muffled and inside his ears hurts. Called the clinic and they can see us in about an hour. I love how back to school, means back to the doctor's office.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9h
An adopted St. Louis man discovered his father is five-time Grammy award winner Michael McDonald
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Adopted St. Louis man discovers his biological father is a Grammy-winning artist
A St. Louis man who spent decades wondering about his biological roots was recently reunited with his birth parents—and discovered his father is a five-time Grammy Award winner
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 9h
It's officially pumpkin season, which happens to be a special treat for our ambassador wolves this time of year! 🎃🐺 Although wolves are classified as carnivores, they can sometimes have an omnivorous diet. Along with meat and eggs, wolves may also enjoy fruits like pumpkins. #wolffact
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 9h
Christa Pike's botched execution is a horrifying reminder of the cruelty & inhumanity of the death penalty. State-sanctioned killing is barbaric and it's time we end this unjust punishment once & for all.
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spooky scary renegade cut @renegadecut.com · 9h
re: nixon watergate news fascists rewrite the past to justify future goals. they need a mythic past in which their movement was both glorious and betrayed. nixon was given an option to resign, a pardon, and a library/museum to glorify himself. he was protected by the system, not victimized by it.
richard nixon on a cathode ray tube television screen
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 9h
so the DOJ lawyer who is trying to discourage a judge from appointing a special prosecutor to look into the DOJ's misconduct during the Broadview Six case doesn't know the DOJ's standard for opening a criminal investigation and needs to be told what it is by the judge
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 9h
Honestly, he nearly finished eating so I sat down on a nearby bench and then he just abandoned his remaining piece to run back to me and stand next to me expectantly
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 10h
I gave a squirrel in the park one strawberry because he wouldn't leave
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h
HOLY SHIT
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h
AI companies made an imaginary friend who you talk to all day and are addicted to and now they can pitch big clients on "hey we got all these people on the hook and can push them to buy your product or vote for your guy and they'll trust the message because it's coming from their friend"
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h
The reason they want more people to adopt chatbots is because that could theoretically create a new revenue stream by eliminating the need for marketing or advertising and just taking cash from brands/parties/etc to change what the chatbot tells the user.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h
If your goal is to push people to a product or service (or ideology!), you need to establish that AI is coming to these conclusions on its own, and therefore more trustworthy than someone with an obvious agenda. Chatbots can be leaned on by their owners, but most users don't know that.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h
Dark thread. Since we watched Musk literally push a "protect the Boers" button in real time with Grok, we now know people or companies could theoretically pay their way into putting a thumb on the scale for Grok/Claude/ChatGPT. This is why the AI stans want you to believe it's thinking
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 11h
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10h
BREAKING WSJ: The Trump Justice Department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor's office that investigated Watergate committed misconduct. A revisionist historian went to DOJ HQ to present his case that Richard Nixon and his associates weren't treated fairly.
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 10h
Prisoner execution has no place in our society. It is immoral, unjust, and ineffective at any objective of criminal justice or public safety. It is state-sponsored revenge policy, it has killed innocent people, and it should be outlawed in every state, for every case www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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‘It was a mess’: Tennessee fails to execute woman after 2 lethal injections
Christa Pike’s attorneys said she was being treated at a hospital but her condition is unknown. May Martinez,, the mother of the murdered teenager Colleen Slemmer, called the failed execution “a mess....
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12h
On Wednesday, Pete Hegseth announced the creation of a new entity within the Pentagon: the Office of Religious Affairs. The office will “sponsor and oversee research, technology, and analytical tools to support and assess spiritual fitness, spiritual readiness, and spiritual resilience.”
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What to know about Hegseth’s new office of religious affairs
"Our department is, you might say, putting on the full armor of God."
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