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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 6h

Decades of experience. And every single one now handing their press pass in.

Another step towards the authoritarian state.

(📸 Mike Brest)

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 7h

Daily bunny no.3108 will grow into a beautiful butterfly

A very small bunny munches on a leaf, like a bug or caterpillar. The leaf is the same size as the bunny, and the bunny is beneath a flower in someone's yard or garden. It is a warm autumn day

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Kyle D. Platz @vascodagamer.bsky.social · 9h

Knowing how well the 1st Kathy Rain game came together, I'm excited to see how its recent sequel "Soothsayer" and its hunt for an occult serial killer go. However I will warn that this game starts slowly with somewhat realistic research into basic leads we need to proceed: youtu.be/bwc5KgUR5_w?...

Kathy Rain vs the Card Catalog (Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer)

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Kyle D. Platz @vascodagamer.bsky.social · 9h

The final act of Kathy Rain: Director's Cut makes me feel a bit silly for ever questioning if the game would be spooky enough for October. To rescue Eileen, Kathy will need to escape jail, challenge a cult leader with ominous abilities and then complete an otherworldly rite: youtu.be/4bRqEQ5i6Wg?...

Escalator to Hell (Kathy Rain : Director's Cut)

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 12h

Software engineer salaries are going to be crazy high after the LLM companies spend years enabling everyone to create mountains of technical debt then go bankrupt.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12h

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12h

I assume that every single journalist reading this understands that the *first question* to ask the State Department tomorrow morning is how quickly it will provide a list of foreign nationals banned from the United States for statements made about Democrats or Americans perceived to be left-leaning

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

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Cheryl Platz @funnygodmother.bsky.social · 14h

This is the kind of root cause analysis we desperately need right now, because something deep and systemic is not right. www.motherjones.com/environment/...

America's Real Criminal Element Is Lead

The hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and the maybe even the ADHD epidemic.

www.motherjones.com

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 17h

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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TrooperSJP of the AcademicFoxhole @troopersjp.bsky.social · 17h

Everyone! In 10 Minutes I will be live with a special One Shot of The Spy Game! Do you want to see a sneak peak of the new Spymaster's Toolkit? The one that just launched on Kickstarter? Then join us over on twitch.tv/followblackcats
I will be playing soccer/footy star Chip DeSouza!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Q: Will you consider removing new restriction on Pentagon press?

TRUMP: I think he finds the press to be very disruptive in terms of world peace and maybe security for our nation. The press is very dishonest

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 10d

Even if it fails as a platform, the technology is here to stay, and every amateur video of, say, a police shooting will be doubted until there’s an extensive forensic analysis.

Alas, journalists and amateur sleuths won’t be able to verify whether every girl videoblogging from Gaza is real or not.

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 1d

All experts agree: the world simply doesn’t have enough homework to cheat on to justify all these AI investments
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21h

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

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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Dave Wiskus @dwisk.us · 1d

TIL Nebula is bigger than The Free Press. If anyone wants to put me in charge of facts at a global media corporation hmu

youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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olive🌺 @wick.works · 4d

All PC mechs are officially in-game for Lancer Tactics, fantastic: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wic...

Update 44: NHP portraits, in-person playtesting, finished HA mechs · Lancer Tactics

(looking back at my calendar) Wow, I went to a lot of conventions in a month!I’ve done showcase/workshop circuits for my games before, but not since COVID hit. Since the last update here, I attended S...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20h

over and over again I am encouraged by the way this guy reaches out to constituencies who aren’t naturally part of his coalition - not to pander for votes with changing views but to try to find common ground and work together on stuff he believes in

he’ll need every bit of that attitude as mayor

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Reporter: Latino immigrants in Memphis who are legal residents are afraid to go to work

Gov. Bill Lee (dodges question): “If they’re not a criminal element, then they shouldn’t be afraid.”

As tone deaf as it gets when Trump’s ICE goons are assaulting legal residents & citizens

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 20h

RIP to one of the greats. He illustrated pure excitement.

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Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social · 21h

So, now that Pokémon Legends Z-A reviews are up, I'll say I've got an early copy and have put aprox 10 hours in so far.

Genuinely really enjoying it - The new combat system is robust and, while set in a single city, the HUGE density of NPC side quest content has helped it to feel really alive.

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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 19h

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22h

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.

www.404media.co/man-stores-a...

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21h

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion judgment for calling Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors.

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