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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2m

It is at least *interesting* that the people making this supposedly world-changing technology think its most profitable use cases are: social media videos and sexting.

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 2m

clean on opsec, where opsec is full on racism and misogyny and all the other bigotries

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20m

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct 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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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 3m

If we are forced to choose between China and the US then I’m not sure which authoritarian human rights abusing hegemony to go with.

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 5m

Really, someone should ask WTF it has to do with people who don’t own the land in question. If “ugly” is now somehow a valid metric then can I object to ugly scowling NIMBYs or their ugly cars?

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 7h

*bangs head on the desk until it bleeds**

A ONE OFF wealth tax cannot help the problem of a DEFICIT which is a RECURRING thing
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

*my head not the desk

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 15m

Debt and deficit both begin with D therefore they’re the same thing.

(It did take the BBC literally years to learn that wasn’t true)

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 17m

“In order to save free trade it was necessary to destroy free trade”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28m

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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The Verge @theverge.com · 21m

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 20m

US chip makers without the Dutch ASML machines would quickly fail. Time to start punching back.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 26m

U.S. officials’ warning to their Dutch counterparts was stark: If they wanted a Netherlands-based chip maker to avoid being put on a trade blacklist, it would almost certainly have to remove its Chinese owner as CEO.

How U.S. Pressured Netherlands to Oust CEO of Chinese-Owned Chip Maker

Dutch officials moved to take control of Nexperia, underscoring how U.S.-China tensions are reverberating across the tech sector.

on.wsj.com

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 22h

Tomorrow about a third of Perseverance rover staff will be laid off, despite the mission being the penultimate step in a decades long effort to bring samples back from mars.

Reckless, needless budget cuts intended to hinder the pursuit of knowledge.

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R Phelps @greygosling.bsky.social · 57m

Seems like a good hook for the UK press to discuss whether the UK government should be on a Nazi-run site like X and not say, on here, and whether Ofcom is doing its job.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 48m

"joking" eh?

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Politico @politico.com · 49m

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 48m

I had to junk CPU because of this. And that meant junking a motherboard. And that meant junking memory. And that meant I just bought a whole new PC. 👎

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 3h

I’m just surprised they didn’t call it “Australian-style A level standard”.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 10h

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

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The Register @theregister.com · 4h

Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Another 550 employees set to leave the building

US government shutdown nothing to do with action as space veteran calls move 'an alarming time' for science The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is facing another round of layoffs, with 550 additional employees set to lose their jobs.…

dlvr.it

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4h

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: “If China were to move against Taiwan, it's likely China would force its junior partner in that relationship, being Russia, under Vladimir Putin, to move against NATO to keep us busy.”

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 4h

I dunno: if it’s coupled with a One Smart Migrant In, One Moronic Brit Out policy it would work wonders.

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 4h

You hit the nail on the head with your observation that everyone in the Tory Party must sign up to a cult-like credo that anyone with any decent intellect knows is just wrong. And we can see across the sweep of history how a Credo First approach hollows out an organisation.

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 4h

Accelerated by costs of hardware vs software flipping over.

*Yorkshire accent* Eee when I were young, we used to dream of 1000nm transistors and had to lick wafer clean wi’ tongue. Kids today have 2nm transistors but are they ‘appy? Nurr!

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kirschly @kirschly.bsky.social · 4h

This article being decorated with Amazon ads for Bose products for me is 🤌

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 4h

The Yaxley Taxi.

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 4h

Nearly 25 years ago Wired ran a story about my startup producing embedded tech for what became known as the Internet of Things. It covered all the amazing things that devices could do when they were connected. I’d just like to say now: OH BOY WAS I WRONG! 😑

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