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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 4h

Hi what

Headline: “nature’s labubu: why are gen z unboxing conkers?”

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5h

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...

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 9h

Remember when Alex Pareene predicted this after Charlottesville in 2017 www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4h

the brunchlords left running the empty husk of that place deserve much worse

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5h

I'm not sure I could help myself in this instance. Kudos for your restraint

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 9h

It's good that the hostages are home and that the bombs have quieted. But rumors of peace are extremely premature.

New Racket.

theracket.news/p/this-isnt-...

This isn't peace

Israel is threatening the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, the occupation continues, and the real negotiations haven't started. But Trump wants the glory.

theracket.news

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 6h

The boring and obvious take that anti-woke positions have the effect (and in many cases the intent) of making it acceptable in polite circles to be a degenerate racist was and remains correct.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6h

I like this false claim that they just magically "fixed" the mental health issues of their unregulated bullshit machines so therefore you can fuck your phone now

they're hemorrhaging money and desperately need to goose engagement after badly flubbing the last release

Sam Altman: "We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6h

or that people may just not like them and genuinely believe their policies are trash

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6h

I'm sure the AI "therapist" and sexbot chat logs will be useful for the profiles data brokers and governments already have, yes

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6h

super smart to share your sexual fantasies with technofascists in a country too corrupt to pass a baseline internet privacy law

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6h

seriously

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The Onion @theonion.com · 8h

Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors https://theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439/

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17h

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8h

yeah who is going to correct their misperceptions, Sinclair Broadcasting? Ben Shapiro?

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8h

they won't because you wouldn't want to upset a Republican, bad things might happen!

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8h

"he did politics the right way" is permanently burned into my head

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 8h

It’s like a “select the chud” CAPTCHA.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 9h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8h

if anybody can hook me up lmk

it would be an extra bonus if the company is run by an unmarkable fucking knob

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8h

my life's ambition is to be used as a powerless prop by a company with no ethics seeking to validate its relentless quest for maximum engagement in a country too corrupt to have functional regulators