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Vincent O'Connor

@vdoc.bsky.social
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Computer consultant, science/history/theology geek, writer, poet, Co-Managing Editor poetry journal RockPaperPoem, sometime actor/director, Christian, AF vet. Equal rights for all humans.

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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” ― Malcolm X, The greatest of all time *Stares at the NYT*
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Proudly Blue @proudlyblue.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
ILLEGAL INSIDER TRADING 101: 1) Trump tipped off insiders yesterday at 3:19 pm that he would announce a 50% tariff on the EU before the next day's opening. 2) Insiders buy triple-leveraged reverse ETFs at 3:20 pm. 3) Trump announces tariffs before market opening & insiders get rich.
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Vincent O'Connor @vdoc.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Since the entire current administration sucks, this isn't surprising. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkGN...
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Allowing customers to cancel is a burden & may kill you - THIS FTC SUCKS
YouTube video by Louis Rossmann
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
an overwhelming percentage of cuts at the NSF are to STEM education. experts see it as part of a broader attack on DEI, as well as on education as a whole. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/s...
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Funding Cuts Are a ‘Gut Punch’ for STEM Education Researchers
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
what could go wrong you should definitely use the hallucinatory slop machine that can call the authorities on you
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2025
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 22/05/2025
“If they can be charged, we’ll charge them. But if they can’t be charged, we will name them...and in a culture that respects shame, they should be people that are ashamed. That’s the way things work.” That is, with good reason, not the way DOJ has worked, actually!! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
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If Justice Dept. Can’t Prosecute Trump’s Foes, It Will ‘Shame’ Them, Official Says
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Today’s bonus issue of “One First” takes a closer look at Judge Ho’s galling concurring opinion on remand in the A.A.R.P. Alien Enemies Act case—which accused #SCOTUS of showing “disrespect” to the district judge and President Trump by … protecting due process: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-152-...
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Bonus 152: Judge Ho, Due Process, and "Disrespect"
Some thoughts on Judge Ho's rather galling claim that the Supreme Court "disrespect[ed]" the district court and the President in Friday's ruling in the "A.A.R.P. II" Alien Enemies Act case.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The persistent myth that Steve Jobs just had genius ideas emerge out of his genius brain without incrementally building on prior work or observing humans or learning from huge mistakes continues to make people stupid.
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Vincent O'Connor @vdoc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Gee, who could have seen this coming? /snark
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 21/05/2025
After a Microsoft Build talk was disrupted by protesters, Microsoft’s head of security for AI, Neta Haiby, "accidentally switched to Microsoft Teams while sharing her screen, revealing confidential internal messages about Walmart’s upcoming use of Microsoft’s Entra and AI gateway services." Whoops.
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Microsoft’s AI security chief accidentally reveals Walmart’s AI plans after protest
Protesters interrupted Microsoft’s AI security chief at Build
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
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Vincent O'Connor @vdoc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I'm on board!
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Justice Demands Wise Awakes @inforwars.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Get the #1 counter to #Project2025 and that is "Project 2026, It is the Constitution Stupid!" - It is the BLUEprint for getting back every seat and steering not just the U.S. but the global relationships to a better place and away from this #idiocracy #project2026 #free www.amazon.com/dp/B0D53QK6S4
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Project 2026 It’s the Constitution Stupid!: How Democrats Stop Project 2025 and Save America-Again
Amazon.com: Project 2026 It’s the Constitution Stupid!: How Democrats Stop Project 2025 and Save America-Again (Audible Audio Edition): J.D. Wise Awake, Independently Published, Virtual Voice: Books
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20/05/2025
They want disease tear through the population because they think it’d be an easy way to remove “weak genes.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/05/2025
“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The sooner mainstream pundits, Dems, and journos accept that none of the reasons given by this administration for harming people are genuine and all the accusations they make against their opponents are confessions, the better
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FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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On Trump’s executive order on prescription drug prices, don’t believe the hype
On the surface, Donald Trump signed an executive order on lowering the costs of medications. Just below the surface, his plan is largely meaningless.
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“The reason they’re doing [this] is to try to create an environment of fear, to try to get people like myself... to shut the fuck up,” Piker said on a stream recounting the details of the incident. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...
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Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics
"They straight up tried to get something out of me that I think they could use to basically detain me permanently"
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Vincent O'Connor @vdoc.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Police and federal agencies have a new way to skirt the growing patchwork of laws that curb how they use facial recognition: an AI model that tracks people using attributes like body size, gender, hair color and style, clothing, and accessories. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/12/1...
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How a new type of AI is helping police skirt facial recognition bans
Adoption of the tech has civil liberties advocates alarmed, especially as the government vows to expand surveillance of protesters and students.
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Vincent O'Connor @vdoc.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Fuck RFK Jr! Also, fuck religious objections to vaccinations. Failure to vaccinate affects others as well, not just the objectors. Yes, I am a Christian. And yes, I swear when I feel it's appropriate, and believe me, it's appropriate.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The thing is: He didn’t just phrase this awkwardly - this guy’s view of the world is entirely shaped by eugenic ideas that he pairs with wild conspiracy theories. And then you have Oz talking about the “patriotic duty” to be healthy… Eugenics and aggressive nationalism - down that path lies evil.
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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
We saw you from across the bar. Can we have your blood?
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Meta's PR absolutely lost its shit at us a few months ago when we wrote about how a student added facial recognition to its Rayban smart glasses, the underlying implication being that it would not do that itself. Well Well Well. WELL WELL WELL www.404media.co/well-well-we...
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Well, Well, Well: Meta to Add Facial Recognition To Glasses After All
Meta previously lost its shit at 404 Media when we reported that someone had paired facial recognition tech with the company's smart glasses. Now Meta is building the invasive technology itself.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
We are living in the dumbest timeline
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Jef with one f @monhegan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Trump's shipping migrants to prisons run by a Libyan warlord—where torture, rape & extortion are routine. It's not about safety. It's about profit, cruelty & deterrence by atrocity. This dehumanizes them—and corrodes us. Don't look away.
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MAGA's warlord scheme should shock the hell out of you
Good God.America stands at a moral precipice, and we’re about to tumble over the edge. The Trump administration is now planning to transport immigrants on U.S. military planes to detention centers in ...
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The last of the fully public loss datasets is gone.
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FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Why older Americans are Trump's biggest nightmare www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Contributor: Why older Americans are Trump's biggest nightmare
If you're over 60, you viscerally get the need for, say, the Clean Air Act, functioning Social Security and affordable dolls at Christmas.
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Chesh 🇨🇦 @chesh.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
It's the, I voted for this to happen to OTHER people. Not yo MEEEE
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
War for Ukraine Day 1,164 update has posted.
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Balloon Juice - War for Ukraine Day 1,164: Ukraine Establishes a Another First in the Annals of War
Two quick housekeeping notes. First, I’m going to be very busy – not bad busy, just busy busy – for the next two weeks, so unless something really major happens I’m just going to be running through th...
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Dr. Jaimi Gray @jaimiagray.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology. www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
A banner image showing CT scans of a collection of 3D rendering of the skeletons and soft tissue of different vertebrates, including amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and fish
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Blue 💙 Greenhills @greenhills-united.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Worthy of a thorough read:
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
my reaction to this is not "oh Trump's losing it" it's "the entire point of fascism is that the leader declares reality and everyone else has to follow it".
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Life in A Blue Bubble report (sorry): They just sent out what they're doing in 7th grade sex ed and the "everybody's got body parts" section includes a lesson on intersex people centering intersex voices and THIS IS THE US WE COULD HAVE EVERYWHERE DAMMIT
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Republicans are pushing to restrict abortion pills based on a garbage new 'study.' We’ve seen fake data like this reach SCOTUS—but if we make it politically toxic now, we might stop it before it spreads. Feel free to steal these images, or read the full debunk in my newsletter
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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
There’s a reason he was picked to succeed Pelosi. Large, “stable” organizations almost always prefer leaders who are risk-averse.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
We had actually very little to do with the existence of the Suez Canal.
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Vyoma, Sanskrit for Sky or Space @vyomanya.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Debate Pub; April 2025 - Dire Wolves. America vs The WORLD and ITSELF! www.youtube.com/live/QrLx-4r... via @chesh.bsky.social @dapper-dinosaur.bsky.social @landonnoll.bsky.social #America #WorldTrade
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Debate Pub; April 2025 - Dire Wolves. America vs The WORLD and ITSELF!
YouTube video by Debate Hub
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Trump’s nominee to run NASA once kited checks at his Atlantic City casino, among others. www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-...
Civil cases were brought against him by Trump's now-defunct Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey and the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, according to court documents.
The Trump Taj Mahal sued Isaacman in July 2009 in connection with a line of credit he
got in November 2005. Isaacman wrote four checks in 2008 for a total of $1 million but his
bank account did not have the funds for
them to be cashed, according to the complaint.
The case was settled in 2011 for $650,000.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
👇👇👇👇👇
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/04/2025
President Trump and Elon Musk promised taxpayers big savings. Now, as he prepares to step back from his presidential assignment to cut bureaucratic fat, Musk has said without providing details that DOGE is likely to save taxpayers only about 15% of what he originally pledged to save.
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What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too
An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.
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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
SCOOP: Trump's Equal Opportunity office is investigating Barnard's employment practices. Professors received texts to their personal phones on Monday, linking to a survey asking if they were Jewish and if they had been subjected "unwelcome discussions" theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...
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Trump EEOC Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They Were Jewish
“Barnard was not given advance notice of this outreach,” the college’s general counsel wrote in an email to faculty.
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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Goddammit
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/04/2025
Three users on X who feuded with Elon Musk in December saw their reach on the social platform practically vanish overnight, The New York Times found, signaling that Musk or others at the company have the power to punish critics and that they may be willing to use it.
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They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed.
Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet.
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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 23/04/2025
The most important thing for you to know as a software engineer is that if you destroy the computer with a hammer it cannot hurt you anymore
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 19/04/2025
Judge James Boasberg said he would start contempt proceedings against the Trump administration for showing “a willful disregard” to his order to return a wrongfully deported Maryland man. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Judge Finds Cause to Hold Trump Admin In Contempt Over Alien Enemies Act Removals
Read more here.
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