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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oral arguments happening now. One of the claims is that because a white supremacist streamed content on Twitch thst Amazon is liable for a mass shooting in Buffalo NY. www.youtube.com/live/Sz1t7_2... #section230 #amazon #socialMedia

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New York State Court of Appeals Oral Arguments

YouTube video by New York State Court Of Appeals

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 07/03/2025

I wrote section 230 to protect the little guys and the upstarts like Bluesky. Repealing section 230 only helps Meta, Musk, and Donald Trump.

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Took a nap in the middle of the work day. I was up past midnight doing things for work. I should step out early today. #work

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This project is a mess. I told him about a woman that almost cried on the call yesterday. He told me she should take her issues to the project manager. I told him that she is the project manager. #work #projects

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

when someone gets dog piled on blue sky

2 panel comic

Panel 1: Blue Guy surrounded by a crowd of Purple Guys. Blue Guy screams “You buncha purple assholes!”

Panel 2: All of the Purple Guys now look mad at Blue Guy. Blue Guy folds his arms and says “Oh here we go. Mad at me for no reason”

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

New: A judge entered a nationwide order blocking the US Postal Service from carrying out Trump’s directive to overhaul mail-in voting policies before the midterms, expanding an earlier halt that covered roughly half the country www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Order: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

What type of fish could survive in the reflecting pool? What would thrive there? #DC #WashingtonDC #NationalMall

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Stopped processing gifts, pissing off donors

71. Finally, the Kennedy Center’s conduct threatens lasting reputational and
institutional harm to WNO. Before the disaffiliation in January 2026, the Kennedy Center
controlled WNO’s gift-processing operations, and its inadequate staffing and administrative lapses
damaged donor trust. For example, one donor’s intended $50,000 credit-card contribution was
never processed by the Kennedy Center’s staff responsible for such gift processing. Expecting a
substantial charitable gift to be handled promptly and professionally, the donor withdrew the gift,
and WNO lost both the contribution and the valuable donor relationship. After the January 2026
separation, the strain on donor trust took a different form. WNO can now process and acknowledge
new gifts made directly to WNO, but donors have raised questions about whether past
contributions and bequests entrusted to the Kennedy Center for WNO will continue to support
WNO’s mission. WNO’s ability to raise future funds hinges on its ability to assure donors that
funds given for WNO will be honored, protected, and used for WNO’s benefit. The Kennedy

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

To this day, I cannot keep straight in my mind whether the XBOX ONE S or XBOX ONE X is more capable, and what games I can play on my XBOX ONE. This confusion was sufficient to motivate me to just not get XBOX games any more. Great job, Microsoft. #Microsoft #XBOX

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/06/2026

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

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Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet

It’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Ballroom are essential to safety! Queue some argument on how this money is needed to get this man out of a situation he got himself into. www.samsung-news.com/articles/ujU...

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

On this day in history, Trump signed an executive order targeting §230 after Twitter fact-checked him. #Section230 #History

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Two days until this election is over. Ive never before had to be involved in campaigning. I cannot wait for this to be over. #Election

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

先週はとてもさむいでした。昨日は厚いでした。今日はさむいです。 #天気 #Atlanta

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Wondering what the public health impacts are here? Is this an inelastic expense? Would this lead to lower usage and higher pregnancy and disease transmission rates? #health #sex #pregnancy #disease #Iran #war

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I swear this thread could be about the father suing Google for self-termination of his son after interacting with Gemini case. Gavalas v Google, I think. #FirstAmendment #Speech #Lawsuit #Liability

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

They are going to be busy **not** doing that! #olympics #politics

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 15/02/2026

NEW: David Greene was the voice of NPR's "Morning Edition." Is he also secretly the voice of Google's popular AI podcast tool, NotebookLM? Google says no. Greene thinks they're lying. My story today breaks the news of his lawsuit and compares the two voices. Listen for yourself: wapo.st/3ZHRvho

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He spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it.

NPR’s David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he’s suing over it.

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

eah, dark thought, I know. Looking at the pied piper or the witch of Hansel and Gretel through the modern lenses, I cannot help but help but seeing them as characters as unable to survive allegations of being groomers.

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Took dad to renew his license. He almost failed the eye test. They ask him to read the **numbers**. He starts off with the letter B. They tell him it is all numbers, there are no letters. He still says B. I could infer it was the number 8, but dad had a hard time arriving at that. #parents

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Me: I don't like that Microsoft keeps a copy of encryption keys ready to hand over to feds. Her: I don't see why you would worry unless you are doing something illegal. Me: Info on a non-guilty person could still incriminate them. Her: Then they don't need to be putting it on social media!

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I made a list of all the things I wanted to accomplish. At the end of the day, I had a pretty fair set of data points of how badly I failed.

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Another day, another tech hearing. "Senate Commerce hearing on censorship and technology with witnesses from Google and Meta" www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlTa... #Censorship #FreeSpeech #Meta #Google #Facebook

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WATCH LIVE: Senate Commerce hearing on censorship and technology with witnesses from Google and Meta

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I think I liked the Internet better before all the normies, "regular people", and kids got on it. Imagine having a favourite bar. You go there, find your niche group, socialize, and go home. The one day the kids, prudes come in and they want all the areas of the bar to be appropriate for them.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

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Politico @politico.com · 16/09/2025

Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to rebuke calls to target “hate speech” in an apparent swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” said Sotomayor.

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Sotomayor rebukes calls to ‘criminalize free speech’ in apparent swipe at Pam Bondi

The justice, in public remarks, didn’t name the attorney general, who has come under fire for comments to target people over “hate speech.”

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I made a new word document titled "USA Mythology." Reality and popular [mis]understandings of things in the USA has some massive divergences. I want to capture what some of them are. I have no plans to do anything with this word document. #Politics #USA #Myth

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Now I know she didn't just wake up from cyrosleep with her hair being perfectly in place. #AlienEarth #SciFi #HULU

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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Now he has just walked away and left his computer there. FREE LAPTOP!

A MacBook on the table in the Amex lounge at SeaTac.

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Never underestimate someone's willingness to sink the entire ship to get to someone that they believe may have wronged them. #wisdom

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 21/07/2025

I have a theory: this discourages you from using a throwaway email address that you never log in to when signing up, which makes it more likely that their shitty email marketing will be seen.

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Joke's on them! I use unique passwords on each site! Flip side, I don't actually know any of my passwords! www.msn.com/en-us/news/t... #Security #Passwords #DataBreach

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Pro tip - do you have team members that want to chat with you until an online meeting official starts? Want them to leave you alone? Connect to the meeting and immediately type BRB! #Meetings #OFfice #Work

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Why am I getting emails about hot sr citizens in my area? I'm not looking for a new husband for my grandmother.

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Her: What are you having for lunch? Me: Yellow Tail Sushi rolls. The grocery store has them for only 5 USD on Wednesdays. Her: It's Thursday. Me: Yeah, I got them yesterday. Her: Yuck! I guess she doesn't like yellow tail.

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I thought his initial position was unwise. Did he realize the same thing? Why did he initially think that? Should I attribute it to the drugs? #Politics #BBB

Musk Calls For Ending Electric Vehicle Tax Credit—Which Could Help Tesla
By Sara Dorn, Forbes Staff.
Dec 05, 2024, 04:12pm EST
Elon Musk said Thursday he supports eliminating a $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicle buyers, reiterating a position he expressed in July that could help Tesla—as Trump’s transition team is reportedly mulling the prospect despite pushback from most in the auto industry.

Elon Musk Urges Americans Take Action to ‘Kill’ Trump Tax Cut Bill
Story by Erik Wasson
(Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk is on a mission to block President Donald Trump’s tax bill after he tried — and failed — to convince Republican lawmakers to preserve valuable tax credits for electric vehicles in the legislation, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The Tesla Inc. chief executive officer personally appealed to House Speaker Mike Johnson to save the tax credit, the person said, requesting anonymity to discuss a private conversation. The House version of the tax measure calls for largely ending the popular $7,500 electric car subsidies by the end of 2025 that Tesla has benefited from for years.

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Me: <shares video from security camera> Look at this thing that happened on the street! Friend: Wait, why is the neighbor's violative vehicle still parked there Me: Ignore that. Look at this thing Friend: <link to county complaint about the vehicle>

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ThinkingSapien @thinkingsapien.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Wow! It only needed a single 9-volt battery!

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