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Free-range shit-talker, user agency and democracy enjoyor, governance-fixated technologist.

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · Jun 9

PROFESSIONAL THREAD: I have recently been realizing that in our current late-stage grindset capitalism, no one has a "career" so much as a self-promotional narrative that they have to sell every time they're stuck in an elevator with someone, so let me sketch out the pitch for my consultancy. 🧵

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 1h

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 4h

Samuel Alito preparing to raise absolutely the craziest flag you've ever seen at his Long Beach Island compound.

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 4h

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin.

Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.

Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4h

the supreme court musing about racism being over and every young republican being outed as a literal nazi happened on exactly the same day

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 3h

life when women like the vehicle

richard scarry pickle car. a pink pig driving a car made out of a hollowed out pickle and the words i’d relish a chance to drive the pickle car.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 16h

Wait a second. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called you to give you your job at a private news outlet back?

OANN, anyone care to explain the government's role in your hiring decisions or do we need to FOIA to find out?

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 12h

If the web were invented today, people would write browsers that only supported a fixed list of sites for the sake of app store compliance

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 12h

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 11h

"It was unclear why Admiral Holsey is leaving now, less than a year into his tenure...

But one of the U.S. officials...said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

NYT: "Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say
Adm. Alvin Holsey is leaving less than a year into his tenure, and as the Pentagon escalates attacks against boats in the Caribbean Sea."

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11h

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
80000
60000
40000
20000
0
Bernie Sanders
200000
Number of Donations
150000
100000
50000
Elizabeth Warren
60000
40000
20000
01
25
50
Donor Age
75

Hakeem Jeffries
40000
30000
20000
10000
Nancy Pelosi
100000
Number of
Donations
75000
50000
25000
Suzan DelBene
2000
1500
1000
500
25
50
75
Donor Age

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

honestly the bit right afterwhere he's like 'so why did you chose the DSA over the Democratic Party' and Mamdani is like ... "I didn't? I'm in both?' is even funnier

conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 12h

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor.

I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor.

Who would it be?

David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist.

Thank you for the correction.

Very welcome.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 1d

A similar thing happened to me about 25 years ago, when I was a preteen. It was a nightmare.

Now, thanks to AI, so many young girls all over the world will have to live that same nightmare.

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · Aug 11

it's 30 years later and this still happens.

Jenna Ortega revealed in an interview with The New York Times that she quit Twitter after seeing explicit images of herself generated by Al when she was a teenager. She also became inundated with messages from fans that ranged from "disgusting" to "absurd."
"I hate AI," Ortega said. "I mean, here's the thing: AI could be used for incredible things. I think I saw something the other day where they were saying that artificial intelligence was able to detect breast cancer four years before it progressed. That's beautiful. Let's keep it to that. Did I like being 14 and making a Twitter account because I was supposed to and seeing dirty edited content of me as a child? No. It's terrifying. It's corrupt. It's wrong."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h

The purpose of a system is what it does.

People Are Using OpenAI's Sora to Mock the Dead

Thanks to OpenAI's Sora 2, it's never been easier to generate photorealistic AI slop videos puppeting the likenesses of deceased celebrities.

futurism.com

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 14h

earlier today someone showed me a picture of their baby and said "that's not even AI that's just what she looks like" and I am still thinking about the implications of that statement

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 18h

Meanwhile on the Fediverse - exciting demo of Bonfire for Open Science!
Enables creating highly configurable community spaces & also includes ORCID login + post to DOI conversion with Zenodo
An ATProto integration for this would be 🔥
indieweb.social/@bonfire/115...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18h

I think we're in a lot of trouble, and it would be a mistake to underestimate the threat. But the optimist in me looks at all the infighting and posturing even right now and thinks post-Trump MAGA implodes like post-Tito Yugoslavia. But maybe that's wishcasting.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 19h

Way too many people seem convinced that the day Trump dies all this somehow goes away.

People will snap out of it. No one will be able to harness his base.

I think this is simply wrong. But I also think Trump will still be “speaking” to MAGA after he’s gone.

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 18h

the nearest term AI thing that honestly scares me is continual learning

mainly that now there’s a data asset that’s maintained and is a barrier to switching

like if you got your whole life encoded into an OpenAI cartridge, how do you move to Claude, or a local model?

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 16h

Good morning to everyone, but especially women who don’t like the vehicle

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 14h

@goat.navy

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15h

Just received from a colleague: looks like Penn is going to join the universities refusing the extortionary Trump "compact". I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

screenshot of an email saying:

"To the Penn Community:

For 285 years, Penn has been anchored and guided by continuous self-improvement, using education as a ladder for opportunity, and advancing discoveries that serve our community, our nation, and the world.

Since receiving the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education on October 1, I have sought input from faculty, alumni, trustees, students, staff and others who care deeply about Penn. The goal was to ensure that our response reflected our values and the perspectives of our broad community.

Earlier today, I informed the U.S. Department of Education that Penn respectfully declines to sign the proposed Compact. As requested, we also provided focused feedback highlighting areas of existing alignment as well as substantive concerns.

At Penn, we are committed to merit-based achievement and accountability. The long-standing partnership between American higher education and the federal government has greatly benefited society and our nation. Shared goals and investment in talent and ideas will turn possibility into progress.

I am grateful to the Penn community for your thoughtful input and for what you bring to our University and our missions every day.

Sincerely,

J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD
President
University of Pennsylvania"

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17h

it's going to be a 20+ year orgy of dysfunction and financial fraud painfully illustrating why functioning regulators are important

completely avoidable, but we all have to suffer in perpetuity because eggheads like Andreessen got mad because a female antitrust reformer briefly ran the FTC

Printing Money: Paxos Mints, Then Burns $300 Trillion in PayPal Stablecoins - Decrypt

A fat-finger mistake, or a hack? Crypto traders are confounded after $300 trillion worth of PayPal's PYUSD was minted and then burned.

decrypt.co

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 17h

I assembled the bread recipe that is my carbs mainstay from comments on a blog post + a recipe someone posted *in the comments of the Amazon reviews* on a cookbook that wasn't working from me, which required finding a scan of the label from a discontinued Bob's Red Mill flour mix to interpret.

Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 18h

I know a lot of people use AI for recipes. Going to an actual website is so much better because people in the comments will tell you how to tweak it or make improvements based on a variety of preferences or mistakes they’ve made.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 17h

People have been using all the different chatbots, including ChatGPT, for erotica from the beginning, but I continue to be surprised by how few people are willing to acknowledge this. We found this in our analysis of WildChat last year at COLM: www.arxiv.org/abs/2407.11438

Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 2d

Surprised about openai enabling erotica in their models? They've stated that they want to safely enable this for adult users in their model spec for year(s), so it shouldn't be.

Screenshot from May 2024 Model Spec.
More people should have model specs.

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