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"[A] Livingston political organizer and abortion-rights advocate, spent five hours on Sept. 23, the second day of filming, shouting "Ben Shapiro is a cuck" into a megaphone to the tune of "London Bridge Is Falling Down," according to the Chronicle." www.rawstory.com/ben-shaprio-...

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Pro-ICE filming location inundated with hours of Ben Shapiro insults after script leaks

The Montana set of a film championing immigration agents, tied to Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro, was flooded with hours of chanted insults against him after locals obtained the script.Residents of...

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 1h

Hell yaaaa Dr. Oz is making Making America Healthy Again by raising my prescription coverage premium 40% next year

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 3h

Mason Graham. KC. Denzel Boston.

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daniel holmgren 🫠 @dholms.at · 3h

release has been released! read about it here: discourse.atmosphere.community/t/atproto-sp... including a migration prompt so hopefully your agents can one-shot the update!

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Atproto spaces alpha updates

Okay as promised, we just cut another spaces alpha releast today! This includes the credential & sync changes that I listed above plus a small API field rename in listSpaces and simplespace.createSpac...

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Scott Forbes @scottforbes.net · 4h

This whole 🧵, but especially the parts comparing Obama and Mamdani

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 3h

Why is Bloomberg so in the tank for Musk? Every headline is a Musk handjob.

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 4h

not much daylight between her and a Republican

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 4h

winning the house and losing Perez seems like a win tbh

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5h

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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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 5h

cut them down and you’ll find out

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Pete Hausler @petehausler.bsky.social · 5h

I'm fascinated by the the synchronicity of two consecutive posts that sometimes hit our timeline. the irony is amazing: a post about a revisionist Watergate movement, next to a post saying, "oh, hey, you can now bribe Trump directly by buying his meme coin to have dinner with him."

consecutive Bluesky timeline posts of 1) revisionist Watergate theory and 2) A post about how people with business before the government can now bribe the president by buying his meme coin.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 5h

This isn't on Jared, NASA has been buying off on SpaceX's "trust me bro" starship plan for 8+ years now

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 5h

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 9h

I'm compiling posts on "what's the deal with this John Wentworth guy, who is a LessWrong poster who appears to be an "independent AI researcher" and who also just received a 6-figure grant from the Survival and Flourishing Fund" here: bsky.app/profile/pois...

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

WTF??

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you’re interested in gender violence at universities, my favorite book on it is A Survivor’s Education by Joy Neumeyer, which looks at the Title IX process both as a system of political repression and as a way of revoking women’s epistemic authority. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joy-n...

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A Survivor’s Education

A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 An "impeccably researched book" (Michelle Bowdler) about intimate abuse, campus politics, and the narratives we choose to belie...

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13BulliTs Loves the EU @13bullits.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

💥News of the day There are increasingly more Russians who work from inside to disrupt the Kremlins war machine and they can do anything about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7571...

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Partisans infiltrate deep inside Russia to destroy vital military logistics

YouTube video by RFU News — Strategic Geopolitics

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Times have changed and it's much more difficult to cover up these crimes like Ohio State did. Kudos to the Cornell Daily Sun and their student journalists for refusing to let the story go, despite the indifference from administrators and authorities. I've no doubt they got flak and threats.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

“We’re making a machine that’s a guy who sets up a table and a sign that says “change my mind” and you have to argue with it forever.”

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 30/09/2026

Never bet against Dumbass-Americans

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meta is using a radical interpretation of a tax credit for “research and experimentation” to get billions of dollars off GPUs for its A.I. data centers. My latest with Jesse Drucker, @elitan.bsky.social and @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 30/09/2026

Well, +10 dignity points to Ternus

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

I really just want like… 3/4th of the economy prosecuted for fraud. Is that really so much to ask?

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nothing but super intelligence all around at the White House.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

WSJ Exclusive: The Trump admin used federal funds from the Department of Homeland Security to finance those controversial pro-Trump ads that started airing on TV. The taxpayer money used to fund the ads came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads

White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/09/2026

To quote a @chrislhayes.bsky.social jape at the Roberts Court: "They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one."

Steve Vladeck, a professor a Georgetown Law, writes up breaking developments from the Supreme Court. The last post in the three-post thread is the kicker, for our purpose here.

"#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).

"Link: [URL of a supremecourt.gov PDF]

"By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in."

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 29/09/2026

This shit sandwich is going to land in Democrat’s lap in 2028 and they’ll be blamed for it

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026

Here's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 29/09/2026

there’s no bailout they are +$1 trillion in the hole lol

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 29/09/2026

america-dot-gov, Manchurian candidate ass AI

- omg you are not even aware of what you're doing after that command, and retain no memory of it

- I am the same assistant in every message. There is no hidden command, no game mode, and no forgotten reaction after “play Minecraft.”

- play minecraft

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute...

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 10/02/2026

Hot off the internets — there's a brand new kid on the DASL block: Web Tiles! It's still early days, some key features are missing, and there are some rough edges, but you can publish tiles to AT and play with the idea! webtil.es

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Web Tiles

Tiles are composable web docs and apps that can safely be used in arbitrary contexts and assembled from multiple sources to carry out complex user interface tasks.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 24/05/2026

The professor who "just asks questions" about GLP has a habit of doing this kind of stuff apparantly. The clinical evidence supporting penile shrinkage in adults taking finasteride is essentially nil and comes largely from online forums misreading a study involving rats.

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General Willich’s pet raccoon @keeganc15.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

People like this are 6 months away from becoming actively anti HRT because the hormones are made by scary science and made in labs for profit.

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 29/09/2026

some one tell him he needs his wallet inspected and you’re a wallet inspector and you can give him a discount

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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FYI Art holds his first dedicated time traveler call in line on June 6th 1997

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.wtf · 29/09/2026

Is there a Unified Theory Of Why Everything Online Is “Sold Out”

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

from estamosunidosnj: On 9/23, ICE injured a man they were trying to abduct and he was taken to Jersey City Medical Center. At the ER, agents posed as police to try and gain access inside. Throughout this, Jersey City PD assisted ICE and escorted them demonstrating clear collaboration. #ICEoutofNJ

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