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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/10/2026

A very important read. Both in the specifics of what these 5 women had to endure and as an indication of the unscrupulous tools and tactics that oligarchs, businesses, and the Trump WH have at their disposal to try to control the public narrative.

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one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them

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Yep: 1. Dems flip the Senate in 2026 2. Lame duck Alito replacement 3. 2028 Dem trifecta win 4. SCOTUS nearly unrecognizable as an institution before 2030 (reduced scope, many Justices, decision by random panel)

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Yer another example that LLMs are pattern generating machines that store the full content of the entire training set replicated via encoding in the model parameters.

Good! I think we are seeing something similar to the revolt against Senate appointments during the beginning of the 20th century. Just as citizens tore down that corrupt system, SCOTUS will be something entirely different within 4 years - and we won't even need a Constitutional Amendment to do it.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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The Russia Plague:

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think you start by impeaching someone whom GOPers hate, like Whiskey Pete. See how that goes in the Senate. Given THEM someone to scapegoat for losing their majorities.

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This has become self-defeating for him. Even among most of his supporters, it across as clownish, untrustworthy, and only serves to remind everyone of his complete failure (caused entirely of his own making in dismantling the growing Biden economy out of spite).

If there was every a case to be made for completely socialization the profits of something, I don't think you could dream of a better slam-dunk example than AI.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2026

As much as I'd like to impeach the f*cker, the first order of business with respect to SCOTUS is structural reform: a. massively expand (188 by elevating all Cir. judges) b. final decisions by random sub-panel of 13 c. remove all authority except original jurisdiction specified in Constitution

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It’s batshit to me that the far left think they can win national, statewide, or even local races across this country w/out building a coalition that includes moderates. I’m a progressive. But I know calling moderates names doesn’t win them over, it just shrinks your coalition.

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Please proceed - absolutely beclown yourself even more Elon!

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That's brilliant. I'm stealing for future use!

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Beautiful! Plus, you can bet Trump will just be fuming for a full week if he learns this.

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The thing to remember about Mike Pompeo is that he is an untruthful, fundamentally unserious person, with terrible ideas about foreign policy & everything else, who weakened & embarrassed the State Dept & was the worst Secretary of State in 🇺🇸 history. This is embarrassing & shameful from SIPA.

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Certainly finish him electorally! He has no juice among anyone but the most absolute die-hard MAGA.

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Exactly. If Trump wasn't such a vindictive idiot and had continued the Biden economic policies our democracy would be seriously on the ropes (not that it isn't struggling now, but people are awake!).

God no - what are people in Maine thinking?

Just so convinced that most of our societal and political problems are from too much fucking capital floating around. Tax the hell out of these companies and billionaires. They'll be better off too - as they're are all suffering from a tragedy of the commons-like trap.

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Have kids and play the various LEGO games? Sorry, but I've never been able to get my wife interested in any video games so that was the only solution I was able to find.

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Reading the opinion it seems clear to a layperson this is the "correct" conclusion. Quotes from various founders, including Chief Justice Ellsworth, make the result appear obvious. I imagine it will feel wrong to many judges, not just the result-driven MAGA 6 on SCOTUS, so the 11 Cir. will reverse.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Not to repeat the obvious, but this is literally lawless behavior that makes a mockery of the Constitution and judicial system, should result in contempt prosecution for anyone involved, and disbarment of any lawyers

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He's such a resentful idiot that he didn't just continue Biden's policies. If he had, very few would have cared while he instituted fascism and corruption as the economy boomed. As it stands, though, voters in the middle aren't buying his crap anymore. These ads won't help him!

Ethan Sacks @ethansacks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Probably asleep.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every second "insight" from these guys is a literal late night college cafeteria bullshit session. Wandered into obscene wealth in their 20s based 90% on luck and their intellectual development has been frozen since then.

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Susan Collins chairs the committee that writes ICE's budget. ICE's two biggest jailers both send her campaign checks. She's one of nine. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One pattern I see repeatedly in my research into complicity is the conflict of interest involved between the public and private sector in many contexts. I have to wonder if there is such an issue with regard to the Tompkins Cty prosecutor’s office and Cornell 1/

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Robert Wilde @robertwilde.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not saying many directors are getting saved by their editor a la George and Marcia Lucas. As just a film viewer, I expect there's a reason directors often work with the same editor. Analogous to business relationships where respect with professional tension and differing POVs brings out the best.

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Seems that a healthy tension between editor and director is often a pretty key requirement to get the best possible film out of a director.

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Robert Wilde @robertwilde.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Continuing efforts of authoritarians to entirely subvert, and essentially revoke, the American Constitution.

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Robert Wilde @robertwilde.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Allowing personally targeted advertising was a societal mistake. For a lot of reasons, we should have treated all personal attributes like race and prohibit their use in digital advertising. If advertising had remained content targeted that likely would have left publishers in a stronger position.

P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 01/10/2026

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If you want an informed critique of LLMs just hang out with any engineer who uses AI to code

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"We are crying out for a thorough overhaul of our entire financial system. And there are few ways to make that easier than by taking the Silicon Valley oligarch class down a peg or three." prospect.org/2026/09/30/h...

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Here’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania - The American Prospect

‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market.

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CommanderApaul @commanderapaul.com · 30/09/2026

Oh man do I have a song for you. Unless this is more about geese than palindromes, in which case go watch it anyways bc palindromes are awesome.

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"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bob (HD Version)

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House has access to all the Flock and equivalent cameras. I genuinely didn't think I'd live to see the US surveillance state become this extreme.

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Robert Wilde @robertwilde.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"But how did we even get to this point?"

A life elevated from accountability combined with a personal manifest destiny that is drilled into these kids from their Exeter/Andover days is what has shaped many of this country's leaders.

Prompt injection wouldn't be a problem if safety was addressed at the point of model training rather than via processing and filtering the context window and input prompt. That's a very hard and somewhat ill-defined problem, though.

I agree that models likely can be controlled if effort is put into the problem. Designing safety protocols during model creation/training is a HARD problem. Filtering input sent to the model for safety is much easier. Why early models would do bad things when asked using poetry but not in prose.

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A critical issue is that in many of the safety protocols are implemented at the input / context window level not at the model training level. It's an easier problem, but only the most superficial of solutions with the underlying issues remaining hidden in the model.

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So many rapists of privilege. Reminds one how appropriate the designation "Epstein Class" is.

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A spot-on thread that identifies the principal reason we keep seeing the country fall victim to very similar fuck ups over and over again.

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That's a fair question. A quick search doesn't find it in any official statement. Perhaps the media independently latched onto the phrase or perhaps it was surfaced to them in background discussion.

Yep. Liability was either created during training or within the context window.

Yes, but companies aren't held responsible for the actions of rogue employees. It's literally in the definition. I'm not strongly opposed to calling what the AIs have done "going rogue," but it also seems clear that the language was chosen by the companies to try to shift liability.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Exactly! Both pitiful and ultimate cringe. No self awareness of that fact that they are pampered man-babies Ugh, I just remembered how I left SAT scores on my resume for at least 2 years post college. 🤢

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“If you find two ants in your kitchen, the best estimate of the total number of ants in your kitchen is not two.”

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Robert Wilde @robertwilde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are analogous rules for demographic data about race. Extend that to every piece of personal data. And no this doesn't kill the ad market, it actually empowers the content producers. Carve outs for existing business relationships allow things like personalized shopping lists to continue.