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selahsean

@selahsean.bsky.social
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Midwest till death. Supporter of all things Detroit.

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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
At $51 million, my House race is the second most expensive in the country. I haven't taken a dime of corporate PAC money. I’m fighting for Mid-Michigan. Tom Barrett is fighting for his corporate donors.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13/10/2026
in an alternate universe where storefront space remained cheap and wealthy people were taxed at a sane rate this man is a moderately successful trading card game store manager and outside the handful of shop regulars he subjects to his petty tyrannies he's leaving everyone else well enough alone
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I spoke a bit about Matthew Shepard over the weekend in person to some folks, but I didn't want to let the anniversary of his death — October 12, 1998 — pass by without giving a moment to him and his memory here.
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selahsean @selahsean.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hard to believe THIS guy doesn't take his job seriously. Who could have seen this coming?
John Fetterman showing up to work
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If nothing else, just read the opening paragraphs of the new @vevalenz.bsky.social piece. This sort of casual cruelty, and worse, is so common in U.S. jails/prisons that to most it barely registers as scandalous—but it is, and this reporting really matters: boltsmag.org/california-p...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026
just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand
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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
This is excellent. Great presentation, eye opening, and makes you think. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tavern Brawl, after Gillis Van Tilborgh, 17th c, 📸 by @HagyPhoto
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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump and Barrett are separating American children from their families through the unconstitutional and un-American actions of ICE. This is inhumane. We need immigration reform.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/10/2026
If you can stomach it, here's a detailed reported story from @dropsitenews.com on the schoolchildren that the US bombed in Iran. However angry you are, it's not angry enough.
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Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
The bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst U.S. war crimes since Vietnam. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, and witnesses. This is their story.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s happening again: Elon Musk is spending thousands to elect his data center champion Tom Barrett.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel like Arnold was the one guy to truly hold the republican line about what the great goodness of America means in his heart and when they stopped pretending to believe any of it he looked around and was like fuck it I’m Bernie I guess
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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 25/09/2026
THIS. AI isn't "going rogue" any more than those exploding Samsung galaxy phones from 2016 went rogue. Human engineers poorly deployed a technology and there were negative consequences. The responsibility falls entirely on humans.
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selahsean @selahsean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have no idea what this says about me...
My copy of NYT's ballot of top 10 TV shows of the 21st century
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fun fact I would die for Ms Rachel
3 comments ms Rachel left on her subway takes IG video:

1. Retire racist nursery rhymes and kids songs 
2. Free Palestine 
3. Pie for all kittens
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Sahat English @sahatenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Days after the NFL fined him for wearing Hind Rajab’s name, Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair returned to the field with another Palestinian child on his eye black: 8-year-old Wafaa Akila. Wafaa was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza on September 6 — her first day of school.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As Health Director for Wayne County, we put vending machines with free Narcan and fentanyl test strips in 100 locations. We hoped to make even a small dent in offsetting the opioid epidemic that Mike Rogers made even worse by voting with the pharmaceutical industry his entire career in Congress.
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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 19/09/2026
The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever.
Ford app AI prompt, with the user-entered text "Write a 150-word story about Sailor Moon and Hatsune Miku kissing."Under the gentle glow of a moonlit Tokyo skyline, Usagi Tsukino stood atop a quiet rooftop terrace, the night breeze catching her golden twin tails. Beside her, Hatsune Miku adjusted her glowing teal ribbons, a soft electronic melody humming faintly from the synth display at her wrist. The vibrant city buzzed far below, but above the streets, the air was peaceful and still.
Turning toward each other, Usagi smiled warmly, her bright eyes reflecting the starlight. Miku stepped closer, her digital glow softly illuminating the space between them. Without a word, Usagi leaned in, and their lips met in a sweet, tender kiss that seemed to bridge magic and music into…one perfect harmony. As they pulled back, blushing beneath the moonlight, Miku shared a soft, cheerful smile.
Now that the magic and music are in harmony, is there anything I can help you with regarding your Mustang Mach-E
today?
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who will show more commitment to, and solidarity in support of, First Amendment values: members of the White House Correspondents Association, or opening acts for Ed Sheeran?
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Sol @solexposure.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cannot express how badly I need some sales to come through. I have to get my car running + pay bills + get pet food. Next order in the store gets this print & sticker set! Also, three new ink paintings! The panda is 9x9, the fox & bison are 6x8. Happy to frame! Name your own price!
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 14/09/2026
The Guardian: "Pregnant woman among more than 10 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza. She died of injuries after being shot in the head while sitting inside a tent." Life is hell for Gazans. Please give to my friend so she can take of her children. And to others. ❤️🙏

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My friend's three children in Gaza.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026
My thoughts on the "AI slow down" are ~ the same as my thoughts on the "AI pause", back in 2023/2024 👇🏾: All they want is time to capture & shift the regulatory & paradigmatic frames away from their rapaciousness, & to skate on the money they owe for promises they absolutely will not be able to keep
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Dr Damien P Williams Warned You About Exactly This

@Wolven

…You know they just want time to play catch up and plan for regulatory capture in secret, right? https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1641136990753103872

3/30/2023, 1:05:36 PM Screenshot of an archived twitter post:
 Dr Damien P Williams Warned You About Exactly This

@Wolven

…Y'all i am so fucking tired.

CAPITALISM poses risk of extinction.

WHITE SUPREMACY poses risk of extinction (genocide, eugenics).

HEGEMONY poses risk of extinction.

And whatever "risk of extinction" "AI" poses, it poses because it is BUILT FROM THOSE EXTREMELY HUMAN VALUES.Screenshot of a question and answer from Time Magazine:
Questioner:
How can we untangle all of this?

Damien P. Williams:
One problem I have with the “AI Pause” some have suggested is that it does not look back. So many people have said, “Okay, let’s not build anything stronger than GPT-4 right now because we don’t know what it will do and it seems like it might get out of hand very quickly.” But none of that is about disentangling the current problems in those systems. If a pause were to happen, it would need to be to reassess what prejudices and inequalities are already baked into the systems we’re using now. If we don’t or can’t stop and fix these problems, we may have to untangle them by junking the current systems and starting anew. Either way, the process must be both thorough, and fast. Dr Damien P Williams Warned You About Exactly This

@Wolven

Remember: the vast majority of these signers not only anti-care about "a.i." oversight & policy, they also only care about "existential risk" as a means to get you believing their hype & Never in any sense of "exacerbated capitalism left unchecked is driving us all to extinction"
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Pat Shaughnessy @pbshaughnessy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
IMO it’s pretty obvious that Anthropic and OpenAI are burning cash at unsustainable rates so they want to collude under the guise of safety regulations, cut down on research costs, prevent new more efficient competitors from entering the market, and split LLM demand between them.
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selahsean @selahsean.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This could fix me
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selahsean @selahsean.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Someone in the Democratic party actually meeting the moment
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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selahsean @selahsean.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Dems should take notes. This is how you respond to this. Make them feel out of touch for asking ridiculous questions in the first place.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
brb going to michigan to canvas
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
"Building a sandbox that cannot be escaped has been a known and well-studied security problem since the early days of Java applets... Unfortunately, OpenAI appears not to have taken many of the lessons that malware analysts learned the hard way to heart.” "
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
"did these agents form a “swarm” that “ran free”? As before, no program “ran free” and there was no physical “swarm,” but the agents did collectively create a remarkable messaging system that presumably helped in figuring out how to attack Hugging Face’s network"
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
"Did OpenAI “lose control” of these models? No. OpenAI could turn off these models at any time. Did they “escape”/"break out of their cages”? No.These models are computer programs that were always running on OpenAI’s servers;they did not “escape” or “break out” or move from their original hardware"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Therrrre it is.
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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
once again, all that shit about how these AI companies are going to flip on the doomsday switch tomorrow was an attempt to boost Open AI’s IPO price and market their services. pls try to remember this the next time someone tells you the apocalypse is happening tomorrow for the 43rd time
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026
I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours
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selahsean @selahsean.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Wish the interview would have pressed harder for specifics. The AI extinction events discussed are plausible in that they could happen but it's the equivalent of saying we're pooling information we stole together in one place and making it easier for bad actors to access and act on that information
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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
you're already a step behind her when Ms. Rachel cuts across the back side. When she gets the ball you're on the perimeter with her on a goddamn island. No switch is coming. Jab step and you're on skates. You don't even get a hand up. Splash. She stares you down while backpedaling. Long night ahead
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/09/2026
Take all these Anthropic and OpenAI resignations and op-eds and put them in a spreadsheet with a column that shows the exact date when the author's final tranche of options vested. I just want to see something
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feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
new vision board brought to you by Family Feud
Money!
SEX 
DEATH/OF MY ENEMY
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I don’t remember whose insight this is, but it blew my mind when I first read that to understand American history you have to get that race law was designed to increase the number of enslavable people (one-drop rule) and decrease the number of claimants to indigenous land (blood quantum)
Jamelle Bouie writes: yeah this is a separate conversation but one of the things that hasn’t quite bubbled up from scholarship into mainstream thinking is that american slavery was a system centered principally on reproduction. forced birth for capital accumulation is what it was
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
hows that saying go again? if you go to a place and meet one disgruntled lesbian, you met a disgruntled lesbian. if you meet nothing but disgruntled lesbians, you’re the one disgruntling them
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
just got arrested for going up to a police officer while wearing meta glasses and saying "computer, transfer $100,000 from this officer's bank account into my account" and then waving my hands like a magician
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