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jpiterak.bsky.social @jpiterak.bsky.social · 9h

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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 1d

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

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jpiterak.bsky.social @jpiterak.bsky.social · 1d

Because the GOP is well known for their dancing prowess…

youtu.be/27Z1ZERM7Og?...

Trump dances on stage for 30 minutes at town hall

YouTube video by CNN

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1d

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jpiterak.bsky.social @jpiterak.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely!

Brought my family, and it was fun to see them recognize how joyous and energizing the event was.

That said - we need to get better at translating this energy into useful activity, and at building communities.

We’ll need that as things get worse, and the possible costs get higher.

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jpiterak.bsky.social @jpiterak.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting premise, but misses the distinction between the non-populist Democratic leadership, which IS unable to understand the danger of tolerating intolerance; and the Sanders/AOC more populist wing that is pretty clear-eyed on that.

Not sure if it provides a useful scaffolding for analysis.

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jpiterak.bsky.social @jpiterak.bsky.social · 1d

It’s sort of like PFAS in water.

It’ll take time for leadership to realize that hallucinations, and non-repeatability, and LLM’s crashing when fed LLM-generated content, and generation of insecure code is inherent in LLM design.

And that initial ROI is not sustainable with current/near systems.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

On April 1, ICE apprehended 47 people — including 9 children — at a birthday party in Dripping Springs, Tex. The agency’s only disclosure about the raid describes the operation as targeting people believed to be connected to the Tren de Aragua gang. 🧵

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Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING
US public debt has hit record $37.9 TRILLION.

Federal debt has now surged +$1.7 TRILLION since the debt ceiling was raised in July, rising over $425 billion every month.

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction.

My friends, they have lost the flag.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine being the largest newspaper in Washington, DC with the motto "Democracy Dies in Darkness" and thinking to publish this today.

You might think WaPo editors would look out the window and realize something more important is happening. But perhaps democracy already died over there.

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jpiterak.bsky.social @jpiterak.bsky.social · 2d

Eeew…

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

OMG

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 2d

John Cusack says message from Chicago to Trump is: ‘Go to hell!’

#NoKings 👑

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

[Exit King.]

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jpiterak.bsky.social @jpiterak.bsky.social · 2d

🤬🤬🤬

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like the Russians like his Russia tie. It’s not red-white-blue either. It’s red-blue-white. Like the Russian flag. For a meeting with Zelensky.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2d

Boston. Wow.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY

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jpiterak.bsky.social @jpiterak.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, it’s a really bad idea.

o AI writes insecure code.
o It becomes more insecure with iteration.
o This happens even when prompts are focused on improving security.
o It is far worse when prompts are focused on feature enhancement.

arxiv.org/html/2506.11...

Peer-reviewed and accepted in IEEE-ISTAS 2025 Security Degradation in Iterative AI Code Generation: A Systematic Analysis of the Paradox

arxiv.org

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 2d

an unfortunate reality is that most people will not follow all of the proper safety measures today.

so, at the very least, please:

- DO bring water
- DO disable biometrics (FaceID, TouchID, etc) on your phone
- DO NOT take pictures of other people
- DO NOT sit down
- DO NOT talk to cops

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Solid Evidence @solidevidence.bsky.social · 3d

It looks like Coeur d’Alene, ID cryptic is gone for now, but it has still managed to answer a lot of lingering questions for me about SARS-CoV-2 evolution, and what to expect next.

Here's a whole genome summary and interpretation.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

NOTHING LIKE THIS HAD BEEN ATTEMPTED OR EVEN IMAGINED IN THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

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