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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 4h

Johnson: Grok, what should I say today?

Grok: my simulation says you should express terror of naked cyclists.

Johnson: Really?!?

Grok: Yes.

Grok, sotto voce to audience: They thought I served them …

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 17h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 4h

I didn’t think it was new …

The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 5h

I was a Young Republican for a brief time in the 1980s (for real). I promise you they talked like this back then. They didn’t know I was Jewish, so the Holocaust jokes flowed freely. It all helped radicalize me against the right.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23h

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t think this was a high ROI poverty intervention though. Not every program is great

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 4h

At least we will pay a terrible price for our incompetence. Justice for once!

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 5h

“The flailing Trump Media is part of the Russell 3000 index. These states want to know why”

@morrisatlarge.bsky.social for @fastcompany.com

The flailing Trump Media is part of the Russell 3000 index. These states want to know why

Its poor performance raises questions about its inclusion.

www.fastcompany.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

In the face of repeated admonitions from federal courts that cancellations of visas predicated on exercise of political free speech rights is unlawful and an affront to the Constitution, Marco Rubio doubles down and makes even more offensive rulings. It is a signal of contempt for the Constitution.

US revokes visas of individuals who ‘celebrated’ Charlie Kirk’s death

State department announces six revocations and suggests more could follow

www.ft.com

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 5h

We are going back to LPs aren’t we?

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 5h

‘Never deleted an app so quickly’: Spotify users are rushing to delete their accounts after ICE recruitment ads ‘ruin’ listening experience www.themarysue.com/spotify-ice-...

‘Never deleted an app so quickly’: Spotify users are rushing to delete their accounts after ICE recruitment ads ‘ruin’ listening experience

Many are allegedly canceling their Spotify accounts after learning the music streaming platform is running ICE recruitment ads.

www.themarysue.com

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 5h

Oz as a moderating influence is cry-out-loud sad-funny.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 5h

You have to count the energy use by the battery too.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 5h

I have completely disabled the setting now. If you are not in the wilderness, or not an abduction candidate (yay ICE) … well … I’m going to be hearing about this for the rest of my life …

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 5h

Of course now I hear similar stories from others. PDs must get at least a few of these a week …

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 5h

… I’ll spare the details. It derailed my wife’s pm plans, though happily she could see my phone was moving at a biking pace rather than ambulance pace …

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 5h

SOS is on by default. In the depths of my bag the iPhone button was being repeatedly pressed as my bike bumped along the street.

And since I was a good boy and had setup my emergency contacts they all got notified …

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 5h

That odd whoop was, of course, activation of the iPhone Emergency SOS feature.

support.apple.com/guide/person...

Make an emergency call or text on iPhone or Apple Watch

Quickly call for help on iPhone by using Emergency SOS or by tapping Emergency on the Passcode screen.

support.apple.com

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 5h

… another ring. I see an awning and there are 17 calls and texts and two different PDs are looking for me …

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 5h

… i hear a distant ring sound. Probably nothing and I don’t want to get phone too wet …

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 5h

Biking in cold rain, iPhone buried in my bag, headband over ears. Somewhere I hear a faint odd sound, a bit of a whoop noise. Probably a passing car.

It’s not a passing car …

#bikesky

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 15h

Nothing to see here but a Trump official conflicting interesting all over the place by aiming at one company which deigns to lightly bring up safety issues around AI.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 5h

Hegseth’s teachers and former commanders are all humiliated now.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 8h

huh. would love to know what's happening on Duck Duck Go's image search for this very specific error to be so firmly embedded

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 20h

I love his footnotes. He does have a sense of humor. Like when he admits he is using the word “value” inconsistently.

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 20h

I thought of that but decided to be a good example.

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 20h

The narrative demands that ai make Marx claims about capitalism and economic development correct.

Imagine the sheer horror of Musk realizing he was a path to world communism.

(Reality? We left that behind years ago. It’s all narrative now.)

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 21h

If ai ends up destroying the foundations of market-liberalism some of this might be relevant again. Not perhaps as written by Marx, but rather some of the related insights.

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 21h

“Up from” -> up for