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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 5m

We're still stuck with the NTFS file system, searching with Explorer is a joke and we have had the important underpinnings of the OS split between Control Panel and Settings since fucking 2012.

But no THIS was what Windows users needed.

Copilot: Because Microsoft didn't learn shit from Windows 8.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 3h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 53m

People should be very alarmed about Trump's move this week revoking 6 visas for posting about Charlie Kirk. These weren't random. They were all prominent people in the arts, with business visas. One is German filmmaker Mario Sixtus, whose new documentary criticizes AI and US tech firms. 1/

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 10m

Trump says he doesn't have to spend any money he doesn't feel like spending. How can the Democrats make a deal with someone like that? It doesn't mean anything deanbaker22.substack.com/p/how-do-dem...

How Do Democrats Negotiate with a President Who Insists He Is Not Bound by Any Deals?

What does a deal mean with someone who says they can break it whenever they want?

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3h

oh my god the Riyadh Comedy Festival www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 26m

Spike Jonze: In my movie I invented the parasocial relationship with an AI as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Parasocial Relationship AI from the classic sci-fi movie Don't Create The Parasocial Relationship AI

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 30m

it would be cool if the tech industry could try, like, a single strategy *other* than “encourage users to develop a parasocial attachment to their computers”

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Rina @rina2012.bsky.social · 5h

Endlessly long and #skinnylegs

In proportion to its body, the black-winged Stilt is said to have the longest legs of any bird in the world.

#BirdofTheDay #birds #widlife #Alphabetchallenge #WeekPforPink #photography #landscape #scape #nature #thelittlethings #photohour #EastCoastKin

A stilt stands in shallow water with green reeds (Himantopus himantopus), recognizable by its extremely long, thin, reddish legs. Its plumage is mostly white, with black wings and a black back. It has a long, needle-like beak, which it uses to search for food such as insects, crustaceans, and worms in the shallow water. Relative to its body, it has the longest legs of any bird in the world.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 37m

this is my intro to our 25 series on the last 25 years of digital journalism. It's an incredible list of contributors and it's of course geared to @talkingpointsmemo.com's 25th anniversary. As I put it in my intro ...

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 44m

The united states are remaking themselves into a union, since the previous Union is being dissolved.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 48m

A great privilege of my life has been working for and learning from both @joshtpm.bsky.social and @espiers.bsky.social.

When these two write about internet media - as they both have for TPM's 25th anniversary festivities - you should absolutely tune in. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25

What Made Blogging Different?

Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 45m

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Chinese negotiators are a bit ‘unhinged’ but the American ones *definitely* are. Our strategy has been to play chicken with all the smaller cars on the road but now we’re encountering another 18 wheeler

Shoe + @shoe.bsky.social · 53m

They are so screwed and are lashing out

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2h

The owner of Twitter just reinstated the accounts of several Nazi who had been suspending for violating Twitter's rules about doxxing other users. Now here's another piece on Bluesky's intellectual diversity problem.

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 1d

I know this stuff isn't surprising anymore but I really can't stress enough how much everybody involved with CISA and cyber tried to keep the field nonpolitical and nonpartisan before this administration.

Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 1d

On CISA media call just now to discuss the F5 hack and source code breach, CISA staffer interrupted the discussion to blame the Democrats for the government shutdown and forcing workers to work without pay

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 41m

Trump's corruption of DOJ has become so ham-handed and buffoonish that it may end up failing precisely because he and his allies are confessing to all of it so publicly.

On the pod, legal scholar Matt Seligman is very profound on this point. Remarkable stuff from him
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Trump’s Big DOJ Scam Accidentally Exposed by MAGA Dimwit Jim Jordan

As Trump’s wrecking of the rule of law worsens on many fronts, a legal expert explains how Representative Jim Jordan revealed the bigger swindle underlying Trump’s grand project—and how Trump himself ...

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Jerry Newmark @jerryn13.bsky.social · 40m

A little context for this. There's been a fair amount of local zoning changes that have enables new multi-family dwellings (mostly 5-over-1 buildings) in the burbs. We all know that renters are the wrong kind of people.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 56m

Ciattarelli: "We've got an overdevelopment crisis in our suburban communities."

(Posted this clip yesterday, but reposting to correct the quote.)

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1h

“A House of Dynamite” is all too plausible. I’m a nuke expert - and it scared the heck out of me.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, by the way, I wrote in @thenation.com about how Trump is condeming millions of Americans to hunger this Thanksigiving with his accelarated timeline of adding work requirements for SNAP benefits.
I also discussed how work requirements provably don't work, for the neoliberals in your life.

Trump Has Just Condemned More Americans to Hunger

The administration’s decision to fast-track a bunch of changes to food stamps—including new work requirements—is as stupid as it is cruel.

www.thenation.com

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 55m

To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we asked 25 writers we admire—from @jeetheer.bsky.social to @anamariecox.bsky.social—to reflect on a moment from the past 25 years of digital media. Read @joshtpm.bsky.social's intro to the project: Pivots, Trolls + Blog Rolls

talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-o...

The Original Sin of Digital Media Was the Belief That Digital Journalists Were Part of the Tech Business

I want to begin this introduction to our 25th anniversary essay series...

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 1h

"House slave."
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15h

😡😡😡😡

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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 2h

“Why do all these nazis keep taking selfies with me?”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Q: Are you worried about extremist pro-Hitler sentiment among young Republicans?

JOHNSON: No. I don't know who any of these people are. I've never heard of them. Somebody posted a photo of me standing next to these guys wearing tuxedos. It was at the inauguration, people were coming up for selfies

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1h

I'm sorry you can't convince me No Kings is pointless when it has the regime this mad.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Scalise refers to No Kings as the "Hate America Rally"

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Ira @thejazzsoul.bsky.social · 52m

Miles Davis

"Flamenco Sketches"

Album "Kind of Blue"

John Coltrane-Beautiful Solo 2:02
Cannonball Adderley 3:48
Bill Evans 5:57

youtu.be/UpwlFYvdUXY
#Jazz #Music #MilesDavis #Jazzsky #JohnColtrane #KindOfBlue🎧#Music

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bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 1h

celebrating bob mould's birthday. perfection

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 59m

Streetsblog National Security Desk gets action: Federal judge Lewis Kaplan has ordered the federal government to pay the MTA $33,898,500 in Transit Security Grant Program funds after the feds initially told the MTA it was getting $0

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