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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 17h
I believe one of the terms for this is malware.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 16h
Among the many weird things about this are that we don't treat it as a three-alarm fire that Google, Apple, and Firefox will already copy local models to your computer without asking Like, you already don't have control over whether "local AI" is happening on your machines. Why is that acceptable
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20h
The most indebted corporations in America right now are, at their core, computer virus companies. They think the computer viruses are their girlfriends, so they think this absolves them of guilt. Let's find out!
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Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices
Anthropic's latest research adds to the growing safety concerns around AI from the ability for models to carry out cyberattacks to the technology going rogue.
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Somebody please dox that piece of shit! #activism
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Our tech boys are unwell.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
UNEARTHED: Ken Paxton caught on video partying with fugitives in Dubai. The fugitives were charged with healthcare fraud and helped bankroll Paxton’s campaign.
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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Shane Gillis going 1999 mode, we are getting close to a countdown clock for a 17 year old Disney channel star
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Palantir CEO Alex Karp: I told the Israeli government from the beginning, maximum violence to the people organizing violence, minimal violence to the people on the front end. Andrew Ross Sorkin: Do you think that they lived up to that?
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hmmmm, wonder why Katie Miller deleted this tweet?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/10/2026
Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/10/2026
Homan: "We are gonna flood the zone of sanctuary cities"
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/10/2026
The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Void-BOO!!! GAh!!!! (AKA Jess Voidburger) @voidburger.com · 11/10/2026
cops have the best job security on this entire godforsaken planet
Turnage [the cop whose lazy and biased investigation lead a 12 year old to *record herself being sexually abused* so anyone would believe her] is still a detective, though she’s no longer in the special victims unit. Her latest performance review noted that she’s on track to become a sergeant.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Pentagon is “increasing [nuclear] options available to the President,” says undersecretary of war: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-fin...
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Trump’s Finger Gets Closer to Nuclear Button
Not that Congress cares
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
TIME: You said you might annihilate Iran TRUMP: Yeah, I would do that. It's possible. TIME: How can the president of peace be calling for annihilation of an entire people? TRUMP: Bc by annihilating Iran, we've created peace in the world. With Iran, I don't think you could ever have peace.
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer > anything Renoir ever painted
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is ADL's solitary statement after Nazis won state elections in Germany for the first time since the Holocaust:
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Ed Sheeran’s fans came for a concert, not performative, biased and hateful anti-Israel “activism” from his opener, Macklemore.

Imagine being a Jewish or Israeli fan who came with family or friends to enjoy the show, only to be confronted with this hostility from the stage. Or feeling so unwelcome by the opening act that you leave early.

This isn’t new for Macklemore. He has a record of demonizing Israel and Israelis, falsely accusing Israel of genocide and engaging in antisemitic rhetoric and behavior.

This is completely unacceptable.

(with embedded video of Macklemore's remarks on Palestine at the Ed Sheeran MetLife concert)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/09/2026
Trump: “I do this for our Country, not myself. I’ve made Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks, and many other type Holdings, for the USA, not myself, and all I do is get criticized by the Radical Left Dumocrats. Very unfair, but what can you do!”
Trump: “I do this for our Country, not myself. I’ve made Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks, and many other type Holdings, for the U.S.A., not myself, and all I do is get criticized by the Radical Left Dumocrats. Very unfair, but what can you do! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sickening to hear the head of the "Jewish Democratic Council" repeat a defamatory lie, concocted by centrist smearmongers and their MAGA brethren, that debases the very meaning of antisemitism.
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JDCA CEO Halie Soifer, who has withheld an endorsement of El-Sayed, shares a response to his apology over the weekend, calling it “a good first step” that “will take additional work”
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NEW @Jewishinsider via @matthewkassel: “El-Sayed’s apology to Jewish Democrats draws mixed response”

“One member of the Michigan Democrats’ Jewish Caucus said Jewish Democrats ‘remain divided’ on El-Sayed after his outreach”

https://jewishinsider.com/2026/08/el-sayed-apology-jewish-democrats-michigan-mixed-response/
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
At a certain point you might think establishment Dems would speak out about the head of their main think tank indulging in the kind of rank bigotry that damages election prospects
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
we genuinely need creative ways to punish corporations for this sort of low-stakes acquiescence
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in the pocket of Big Tenant @allezlesboulez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Natalie Harp's handwritten love letters to Trump raise concerns about Biden's use of an autopen.
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Assignment Understander @90sslowjamz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Anakin/Padme meme with Anakin saying “Well, here we are in the catacombs.” And padme says “For the Amontillado?” And Anakin looks back at her and she is partially covered by a brick wall
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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨 BANGER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨
In 2017, I closed my Atlantic essay with the words “And trans kids should know, CIA is always recruiting.” That promise has been broken. I cannot in good conscience advise LGBTQ Americans to join the CIA—and that sentence is the hardest thing I have ever written.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/08/2026
US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.
US choropleth map showing percentage change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since before the pandemic, by county. Decreases are shown in pink, increases in green.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The incredible reaction to Jon Ossoff saying just one word about our emperor's new clothes -- "Natalie" -- shows what Democrats can do if they just speak the truth about what all of us can see with our own eyes
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/08/2026
Artist Profile: Phoebe Bridgers theonion.com/artist-profile-phoebe-…
Genre: Bummed out in H&M
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
*wearily grabs megaphone & shouts at BBC News* How would they save £50bn from welfare? Which benefits would they cut? Which hospitals and care homes are they closing? Will nurseries reject 30 free hours now? Last time they talked about tens of billions in savings they abandoned it six wks later
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
One of the Dem weaknesses is that we refuse to attack the MAGA base. Meanwhile they attack Dems as inherently evil people who might be demonic and whatever their corrupt politician is doing “Dems are worse”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"FOR THE FIRST TIME" www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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FDA travels to Mexico a month after linking Taylor Farms to cyclospora outbreak
Senior FDA official confirms that inspectors were on-site at the Taylor Farms processing facility and plan to be in the fields next.
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Watcher at the Gate @watcheratthegate.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"random guy" loll
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
There could not be a more blatant violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits any executive branch employee from "Using his or her official title while participating in political activity." Unlikely to be prosecuted, however. Will any news org even mention this? www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/7...
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Zack Zwiezen @zackzwiezen.com · 13/08/2026
If you scratch the surface of basically any website that lets people post stuff and has ads, you'll run into AI porn and apps that let you remove women's clothing in seconds. Seems really fucking bad!
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Democrats and Republicans are pushing through a bill that would allow every member of a congregation to sue a person protesting illegal property sales hosted at their synagogue. jewishcurrents.org/newsletter/f...
The bill explicitly says that the restrictions it imposes are in place for an hour before and an hour after the end of a “scheduled religious service.” An Israeli real estate fair hosted just after the daily afternoon or evening prayer service might, therefore, be covered by the bans.

The fines laid out in the bill, meanwhile, climb from $2,500 for a first-time offender to $10,000 for a third-time offender. The law would also allow individuals to bring civil claims. _Those claims, it appears, could be stacked, such that one protester could notionally face lawsuits from dozens of congregants claiming to have been impeded from worshiping, quickly pushing the potential liabilities into the hundreds of thousands of dollars._
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
the actual order of events from 2020-2024 gets strategically jumbled by reactionary centrists all the time. They love to blame 2024 on wokeness while skipping over the fact that Dems won in 2020. They talk about early COVID Iike it was a failure of Dem policy when Trump was in office.
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donnayoungdc @donnayoungdc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Again: When Democrats retake Congress & White House, they MUST enact laws to strip & ban Donald J. Trump's name & image from every taxpayer-funded building, etc. Trump is a Mobster, a FELON, an Adjudicated RAPIST, a Con Man, a Thief & his name/image SHOULDN'T be on any of our buildings/monuments.
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Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
$900 million on White House construction! And if Trump's people are saying it's $900 million it's more likely going to be $3 billion. But don't you dare ask for lower drug prices, gas prices, food prices or affordable housing. Everyone needs to tighten their belts and make do, except Trump.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/08/2026
WOW: Katie Phang makes a SCORCHING filing in federal court unloading on Todd Blanche over his latest attempts to delay her Epstein files lawsuit, saying his arguments have "no basis in reality." Plus, Katie breaks the filing down herself in a must-watch video.
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Katie Phang Rips Todd Blanche’s Epstein Case Delay Bid as Having 'No Basis in Reality'
Her recent filing notes there is “no question he is in default.”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
WaPo Exclusive: The Trump admin is now set to spend at least $900 million for construction projects on the White House grounds. 
The price tag is much larger than previously reported, according to a Post review of confidential contracts. Taxpayers would cover most of it.
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Trump administration set to spend at least $900 million on White House construction
The price tag is much larger than what has been previously reported, according to a Post review of confidential contracts, and taxpayers would cover most of it.
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Horrorcore Kool Moe Dee Simpson @luarvik.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
the words "Koyaanisqatsi: Free with ads" are really doing something in my head. nothing particularly good, I think. but it's happening
youtube thumbnail for Koyaanisqatsi with a "free with ads" label under it
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/08/2026
SHOCK REPORT: Desperate sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have tried to jump overboard amid an extended Middle East deployment, as families sound the alarm over severe mental health struggles, exhaustion, food shortages, water contamination, deteriorating conditions, + more, per Military Times.
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Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say
Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026
Peggy Flanagan: "We show up for our neighbors. And I think the damage that has been done here to the economy, the trauma that our children experienced, the loss of of 2 Minnesotans -- we can't let Donald Trump let this completely outrageous agency continue to do damage."
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Mark Walter selling RAPIDLY to a Kushner a week after the SEC probe into him was announced? www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
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Sources: Josh Kushner, Bob Iger to buy Lakers for $12B
The Lakers are being sold to American businessman Josh Kushner and Bob Iger for over $12 billion, a record-breaking price, multiple sources told ESPN.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026
so Mark Walter, who was at the White House recently, is under investigation by the Trump administration and just so happened to abruptly sell one of America’s premier sports franchises to the brother of Trump’s son in law 🤔
The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold to American businessman Josh Kushner and Bob Iger for a record breaking price over $12 billion, multiple sources told ESPN.

Kushner and Iger were involved in the expansion process in Las Vegas, but a stunning turn, they pivoted to make an aggressive offer to buy the Lakers from Mark Walter, who had purchased a controlling interest in the team from the Buss family last year.
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