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Textor @textor.leftis.best · 29/09/2026

So sick of Discord's automated systems. Struck with a hateful conduct violation, appeal, accepted, then struck on the SAME POST for "violent content" violation, for *sarcasm* that is apparent in context of the conversation going on.

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

i absolutely love the way the democratic party is freaking the fuck out about the DSA and i look forward to a near future where the DSA is in power and freaking the fuck out about me.

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Textor @textor.leftis.best · 02/07/2026

So if what I'm thinking will happen happens, I'm putting forth the idea that we call the aftermath of the fireworks show in DC the "Great DC Fireworks Fire of 2026"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/06/2026

Have you ever noticed your monthly SNAP benefits are low? Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are the victims of EBT theft. If you think your SNAP benefits may have been stolen, we want to hear your story.

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Textor @textor.leftis.best · 25/06/2026

If AI is so great, so revolutionary, so wonderful then these disclosures should boost sales, wouldn't you think? "My product causes cancer, but forcing me to tell people that could discourage sales" is definitely a bold argument choice.

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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Instead of banning an entire demographic of humans from a dominant form of social connection, we could just choose to make the internet safer. That's an option.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/06/2026

Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025. In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft. www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...

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Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 13/06/2026

Friend sent me this photo he took today of the Reflecting Pool ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Textor @textor.leftis.best · 13/06/2026

"We're currently working on a Cultural Victory, but the Iranians aren't responding to Kid Rock's music as much as we hoped."

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Textor @textor.leftis.best · 12/06/2026

If every billionaire is a policy failure, every trillionaire is a catastrophe.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

James Joyce is gonna read this and come back from the dead so he can publish Finnegan's Wake 2 out of sheer spite.

Threads post from "real_mstar_author"

hot take: we should be writing books with accessibility in mind.

shorter chucked paragraphs and more approachable prose should be industry standard

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Israel is using white phosphorus on civilians in Lebanon

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/06/2026

Free newsletter: The dawn of token-based-billing has shown that generative AI doesn’t have a return on investment. It's too unpredictable, too unreliable, you can't easily measure the cost of tasks, and organizations are already pulling back. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/06/2026

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

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Just one prompt and I got 50% of my whole month credits using Claude Sonnet 4.6.
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This is hilarious. For context I used the Copilot Orchestrator that has Condutor, Planning, Implementator and Code review agents. But with the new "usage based pricing", seems like this is not an ideal setup anymore?
Anyone has the same experience here? I am on Copilot Prot. This is so expensive.

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Love the new Copilot token system
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Last month I used ~60% of my quota in an entire month.
This month I've already used 25% on day one.
What an amazing improvement.

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First day of the new pricing model, I tried one prompt to just refine one of my existing change proposal, basically a conductor with few sub agents to update the existing change spec, architecture, test plan, prototype, tech spec and implementation plan.
About 20-30 mins task, ends up burning 16% of my monthly credits in one shot.
Bye.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/05/2026

A vital network of research centers has been unable to help on the ground in large part because the Trump administration slashed its budget over conspiracy theories surrounding COVID-19's origins.

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These researchers would be in Africa fighting ebola—but Trump cut their funding

US Infectious diseases centers launched during COVID have lost their funding under Trump.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Impeccable logic. All those people who need to go to NYC for work or want to for vacation are just gonna switch their jobs and vacation plans to Oklahoma. And all those New Yorkers who work in New York are gonna what? Move to red states why?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

My favorite thing about Google is not being able to search, and my favorite thing about Instagram is not being able to see the stories.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A fun test for how popular AI actually is would be giving us the option to opt out of it

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? @ahhhhhlt.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Someone said these were the inverse of each other and I can’t stop thinking about it

Soviet painting of Bolsheviks entering royal homes

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Incredible how all the concerns about anti-semitism go out the window as soon as the victim is an anti-zionist Jewish leader

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Textor @textor.leftis.best · 02/05/2026

People need to stop treating prediction markets like data points. They are people with way too much money wishcasting on what they want to happen, they predict nothing.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

a social status and identity whose definition is inextricably bound to the exercise of domination REQUIRES an object for it to exercise power over. we simply cannot have "the absence of subjugation" while keeping around "the class defined by domination." there is no way to sustain that contradiction

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Textor @textor.leftis.best · 29/04/2026

Powell makes me nostalgic for the days when admin officials were boring bureaucrats that do press conferences about boring fact-filled reports they wrote and didn't spend half their time praising the president and telling everyone what a good boy he was today.

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Textor @textor.leftis.best · 27/04/2026

Everyone keeps asking about why we're going to taxpayer funded. "It was supposed to be privately funded!" Well, yes, but the lawsuit stopping it is because it wasn't congressionally authorized, so they are trying to bypass the lawsuit now because the Dear Leader demands it.

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Textor @textor.leftis.best · 27/04/2026

If we build a ballroom on Hormuz Island the straight could be open right now.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/04/2026

When DOGE arrived at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the operatives had no real background in nuclear issues. They boxed out experienced hands, forcing resignations and massive exodus of talent. Over 400 people have since left or been forced out. Our full story: propub.li/3OBQMwk

Graphic displaying how hundreds of staff who do work related to nuclear reactors and their safety have left and not been replaced. The data is categorized into six sections: Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Nuclear Regulatory Research, Nuclear Security and Incident Response, Regional offices, and Other offices. Each orange square underneath a category represents a loss in staff, while each gray square represents an addition of staff. The graphic shows that there have been 443 losses and 57 arrivals across all six of these categories. Note: The data is from the week ending Jan. 24, 2025, through Feb. 13, 2026. Source: Weekly Information Reports from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

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Textor @textor.leftis.best · 17/04/2026

Apparently discord thinks that talking about bombs in the context of a war is violent threats, so I am not allowed to talk for a day.

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Textor @textor.leftis.best · 16/04/2026

I see the repairs are going splendidly today.

Firefox error page saying it can't connect to status.bsky.app and suggesting to try again.

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Textor @textor.leftis.best · 13/04/2026

"Some people just can't take blasphemy these days."

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 13/04/2026

Swalwell resigning x.com/RepSwalwell/...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/04/2026

This is going around on X, a new study by SEGM member Riittakerttu Kaltiala (the abusive head of a clinic in Finland) is getting picked up as proof that gender-affirming care doesn't work. The data actually shows something very different from what the authors claim. It's purposefully distorted. 🧵

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A screenshot of a post on X by SEGM (@segm_ebm). The post text reads: "A new Finnish study reports that youth gender transitions (under age 23) did not improve mental health symptoms. For some youth, medical gender reassignment may have had a negative impact."

Below the text is an image showing the "Results," "Conclusion," and "Summary" sections of a medical study. The word "FALSE" is stamped in large, bold, red letters across the center of the study text.

A specific sentence in the "Results" section is highlighted in blue: "Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up—rising from 9.8% to 60.7% in feminising gender reassignment and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising gender reassignment."

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Textor @textor.leftis.best · 03/04/2026

They keep comparing AI to tools used by musicians. The tools aren't generating entire compositions for the musicians. AI isn't a typewriter or a pen, it's a predictive algorithm. Whitney Houston wrote her song with the 808, the 808 didn't come up with the final product after a vague prompt.

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David R. Slayton (He/Him) @drslayton.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Hoping more people will find my magical school for everyone book. A reluctant assassin, an elf boy with a secret, and dinosaurs. Available everywhere, and however, you read: davidrslayton.com/books/rogue-...

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

For an upcoming story, I'd like to hear from people who have had an encounter with a stranger recording them on Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. If that's you or you can pass along this request to someone else who has experienced this, I'm at miles_klee@wired.com or millionbear.44 on Signal. Thanks!

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Textor @textor.leftis.best · 03/03/2026

Can't wait for the media war between the Newsom camp and the Mayo Pete camp, this should be fun to watch.

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Textor @textor.leftis.best · 26/09/2025

From my experience and the experience of everyone I've talked to in the last 6 weeks, the job market is abysmal across the board.

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Textor @textor.leftis.best · 24/09/2025

TNG: Serek is a parable about an old politician that refuses to retire having a severe mental health degradation hidden by his family and staff from the public to the detriment of the Federation, and absolutely has no parallels to anything that has happened in recent history.

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

This is evil. I want every single "bipartisanship" D (and D consultant) tell me why we need to "work with" Trump (& acting POTUS) Stephen Miller?! No amt of *hoping & praying* will stop MAGA Christofascism from crushing all opposition w/o *strong resistance* — or these weak Ds aid in our demise.

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