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David Cabo
@dcabo.bsky.social
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Founder of @civio, promoting Open Data/Government, transparency and data journalism.
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d
Trump playing up his bullet dodging skills at the Charlie Kirk memorial is really beyond parody.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."
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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 3d
We aren't quite there yet, but Zuck has said it's his goal: People surrounded by "communities" of chatbots that replace humans as participants in the social construction of reality, which will lead us nowhere good.

*Parasocial construction of reality*

You heard it here first (I think).
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 4d
Heartbreaking reading, but this Reddit thread gives a sense of the relentlessness of the horror inflicted by ICE, and the damage being done to so many innocent people that doesn't make the news.
From the AskReddit community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Sep 14
an important thing for everyone to realize is that Elon manipulating the feed of which posts you see on the site (and which of your posts are seen by others) is *much* easier than Elon manipulating the Grok AI is. It's a brainwashing machine
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Sep 14
Not that I’m on there to get it first hand but it seems like the journalists and pundits who stayed decided there literally is no line, the owner of the site who *every day* proves how fucking terrible he is can apparently do absolutely anything and they will shrug and scoff at the idea of leaving
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · Sep 14
Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp
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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 9d
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11d
The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars
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Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 26d
Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 13d
the brazilians are better at being a country than us rn because their sane people have mastered slop
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Thomas Harvell-DeGolier, ABD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 13d
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Eva Belmonte @belmonte.bsky.social · 13d
San Fernando de Henares compró chalecos antibalas para su policía local a Guardian Homeland Security, que os sonará de la polémica por el contrato de balas israelíes cancelado. ¿Cuándo firmó el acuerdo? El mismo día que entró en vigor el decreto ley de embargo
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El Ayuntamiento de San Fernando de Henares compra chalecos antibalas israelíes pese al embargo
El acuerdo, que adjudica el contrato a Guardian Homeland Security, la empresa del polémico contrato de balas ya anulado, está firmado el mismo día de la entrada en vigor del decreto ley que prohíbe la...
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Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 14d
Far Side cartoon. One gorilla grooms her gorilla friend and notices something amiss. "Well, well-another blonde hair.... Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"
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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 14d
Enésimo recordatorio de quiénes perciben los españoles como principales amenazas en términos de difundir información falsa: políticos, agitadores y periodistas. Del Digital News Report 2025, analizado por nuestros colegas de la Universidad de Navarra

Aquí más datos www.unav.edu/web/digital-...
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Laura Bullard @laurabullard.bsky.social · 15d
Taking a brief break from sporadically posting photos of my pitbull to shout this into the void:

I’ve spent the last seven months thinking about the Antichrist, and now those thoughts are published over at @wired.com.

www.wired.com/story/the-re...
The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession
Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15d
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 16d
#Spain's Pedro Sánchez has committed to pursuing democratic regeneration.

Yet as Fernando Casal Bertoa and @josejavierolivas.bsky.social argue on @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social, international indicators point to declining democratic standards since Sánchez came to power in 2018.
Spain under Pedro Sánchez – from democratic regeneration to degeneration - EUROPP
Pedro Sánchez has committed to democratic regeneration in Spain, but international indicators point to declining democratic standards since he came to power.
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Civio @civio.es · 19d
En nuestra última investigación, buceamos en las #viviendasprotegidas autonómicas destinadas a alquiler. ¿Cuánto pagan al mes inquilinos? ¿Cuáles son los requisitos de acceso?

Te mostramos cuánto se paga como máximo por una VPO de 70m2 en cada comunidad autónoma ⬇️

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David Cabo @dcabo.bsky.social · 16d
Lo vi pasar hace unos días, ¡ojalá tener tiempo de hacer historias así! 😭
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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · 17d
A great post from @djnavarro.net, providing an accessible explanation of why statistics that can appear to reveal our ignorance may actually do the opposite. Makes excellent use of #datavis to provide visual support for the argument.

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Some notes on probability judgement – Notes from a data witch
For the love of fuck, literally nobody thinks that 20% of the population is transgender. Please stop sharing that ridiculous YouGov statistic
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 17d
Zack Fox tweet: this is how the photos be lookin in headlines when a white man kills his entire family it’s a photo of a family on a jet ski
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Civio @civio.es · 16d
🗣️ “Las cajas negras en la Administración han acabado”
No se nos ocurren mejores palabras para celebrar el Día Internacional del #DerechoaSaber que las de nuestro abogado y patrono, @javierdelacueva.es, en esta entrevista con @cdelcastillo.bsky.social - @eldiario.es.
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El abogado que ha empujado al Supremo a declarar la "democracia digital": "Las cajas negras en la Administración han acabado"
El Alto Tribunal ha reconocido el derecho de todos los ciudadanos a conocer el funcionamiento de los algoritmos públicos en una sentencia que habla por primera vez de la transparencia como "derecho…
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 16d
I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.
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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 16d
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
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Civio @civio.es · 22d
👉 Exigencias de ingresos muy por encima del salario más común.
👉 Cuotas casi de mercado.
👉 En algunos casos, hasta decenas de miles de euros por adelantado.

Esta es una radiografía de cómo las políticas públicas de alquiler pueden acabar logrando lo contrario de lo que prometen.
Alquiler de vivienda protegida: para rentas superiores a la media y con precios de mercado
Varias comunidades, con Madrid a la cabeza, marcan ingresos mínimos para arrendar vivienda protegida que en algunos casos llegan a superar los 2.000 euros mensuales y máximos de hasta 90.000 euros.
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Civio @civio.es · 22d
🏠 “Vivienda protegida” suena a refugio, a alquiler asequible.
Pero en España, muchas veces es otra cosa: un negocio para rentas medias y altas, dejando fuera a quienes más lo necesitan.

🔗 Investigación completa: civio.es/lo-publico/2...
Alquiler de vivienda protegida: para rentas superiores a la media y con precios de mercado
Varias comunidades, con Madrid a la cabeza, marcan ingresos mínimos para arrendar vivienda protegida que en algunos casos llegan a superar los 2.000 euros mensuales y máximos de hasta 90.000 euros.
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David Cabo @dcabo.bsky.social · 24d
Una cruz con ruedines, ¡Dios aprieta pero no ahoga!
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Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 24d
Bearing your cross is a lot easier with wheels.
A man in a suit walks across a stadium floor carrying a large wooden cross on wheels. The stands are full of people, a big screen shows musicians performing, and a banner overhead reads “Building a Legacy, Remembering Charlie Kirk.” Fox News logo is in the corner.
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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 25d
had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 25d
“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.”

Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil.

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Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · Sep 2
Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site.

This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
Grok used to say that misinformation and disinformation were greatest threat to Western civilization. Elon Musk changed the answer to something more in line with his personal views: “demographic collapse.”
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