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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 14h

This quote is seared into my brain

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 15h

A Dyson sphere just for porn

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: The People’s Law Office is representing Debbie Brockman, the WGN producer who was detained by feds.

“Ms. Brockman and her legal team adamantly deny any allegation that she assaulted anyone. Rather, Ms. Brockman was the one who was violently assaulted by federal agents on her way to work.”

Statement on Behalf of Debbie Brockman, WGN
Employee Assaulted by Federal Agents

Debbie Brockman, the WGN employee who was physically attacked and arrested in Chicago, Illinois by federal agents on October 10, 2025, would like to provide the following information to clarify any misunderstandings or misrepresentations that have been previously reported.

First off, Ms. Brockman wishes to clarify that at the time of this incident she was not acting in any professional capacity as an employee of WGN. During the morning hours this past Friday, Ms. Brockman was walking to the bus stop as part of her morning commute when she was attacked by Border Patrol agents.
Ms. Brockman, who is a U.S. citizen born in this country, was violently detained on Foster Avenue, on the north side of Chicago. As this occurred, individuals on the street began recording the incident and asked Ms. Brockman her name. In addition to providing her name, Ms. Brockman stated that she worked for WGN. She added this information because she hoped someone would notify her employer so her coworkers would know that she would not be arriving at work that day.
Ms. Brockman was detained and held in federal custody for approximately 7 hours before being released. She has not been charged with any crimes and she intends to pursue all legal avenues available to her to vindicate her rights and hold the federal authorities accountable for their actions.
Ms. Brockman is being represented by attorneys from the People’s Law Office in Chicago. Ms. Brockman and her legal team adamantly deny any allegation that she assaulted anyone. Rather, Ms. Brockman was the one who was violently assaulted by federal agents on her way to work. Ms. Brockman feared for her life multiple times throughout this terrifying experience.
“This incident should be alarming and horrifying to every single person in this country,” said Brad Thomson, one of Ms. Brockman’s attorneys at People’s Law Office. “If armed, masked, federal agents are sn…

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Arpit Narechania @arpitnarechania.bsky.social · 22h

Thrilled to share Exploropleth - our new #GIS #dataviz tool.

💡 @Mapmakers, you can simultaneously explore & compare 16+ data binning methods on a choropleth map, directly in your browser!

🎓 @Instructors, you can use the tool to teach how choropleth maps can mislead people!

exploropleth.github.io

Screenshot of a new, open source, web-based, geospatial visualization tool, Exploropleth, that lets users interact with a catalog of established data binning methods, and subsequently compare, customize, and export custom maps. The screenshot shows small multiples of 16 choropleth maps each showing Life Expectancy data for US counties, but using distinct data binning methods (e.g., natural breaks, standard deviation, pretty breaks, and so on).

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19h

The understood solution for the decline of print revenue, particularly for a paper with limited geographic footprint, was to build a national digital audience. The issue is less that the print number dropped than that the paper upended its national audience on a looooongshot bet.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 19h

congrats Maggie!

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 19h

mtg in 1997: this card is selenia, a guardian angel from the heavenly realm of serra. twisted by the phyrexians, she drove crovax of urborg insane with unrequited love

mtg in 2025: this card is spongebob. from spongebob squarepants

mtg in 2035: we ran out of ideas. this card is your coworker jeff

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 2d

This is why I keep my house just dirty enough to be constantly microdosing filth, so as to build up a durable immunity to it

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 3d

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 3d

In my experience journalists and editors usually resort to this frame when they’re trying to avoid stating plainly that Republicans are lying about something

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 3d

"Depends on who you ask" framing is one of the most grating tics in modern political journalism. Objective reality exists and your job is to describe it.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 3d

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3d

The noble frog's reclamation from fascist pervert associations is so long overdue

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 3d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 4d

If she wins, Mills would be 85 at the end of her first Senate term.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

(AP) — Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year, according to two people familiar ..

@apnews.com #MEgov
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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 4d

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 4d

Minnesota cops pulled over a black postal worker who was having a stroke. They assumed he was on drugs, threw him in jail, and didn't seek medical treatment. They left him alone in a cell for hours as he lost all bodily function. He died several days later. minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/10/l...

Lawsuit: Minnesotan died after Eagan, Dakota County law enforcement ignored serious stroke symptoms • Minnesota Reformer

Jensen muted his equipment just as Moseng told him, “Before you got there, I was like, ‘Is this dude having a stro—’”

minnesotareformer.com

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 4d

As a longtime frog appreciator this brings me great joy

J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 5d

frog semiotics redemption arc 2025

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 5d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 5d

sending up the @stephengutowski.bsky.social bat signal

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 6d

user name checks out!

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 6d

Weeping with regret every time I set foot in one of New York's many non-nationally ranked shitters

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 6d

1973 Time Magazine cover" The Good Life In Minnesota, with Gov. Wendell Anderson holding up a large fish

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