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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

If you're ever tempted to believe or cite Jonathan Haidt's moral panic crusade against social media, you should consider that he's now also part of Heritage's crusade to criminalize porn.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 2h

Republicans could override the filibuster and reopen the government with only 51 votes.

Any other solution requires the House, and Johnson is refusing to bring it back into session.

Republicans completely control the shutdown. They don't want to reopen the government.

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 3h

If this were a reliable system then almost none of the stories I’ve reported (including the ones that won awards) were real.

The collapse of journalism means that many, many stories go unreported. Checking other news sources is one way to verify, but we must know and teach more methods than that.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 5h

I feel one million years old here, but we do actually have a pretty reliable way of knowing what news is true. Did a real newspaper publish it? Then probably yes. Can’t find it in a real newspaper? Maybe not.

Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 5h

A large majority of U.S. adults now get news digitally, but nondigital news consumers are less likely to say they extremely often or often encounter inaccurate news.

Read more on Americans’ views of information accuracy and distinguishing truth from fiction:

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1h

As I regularly note, "AI" at this point is an umbrella marketing term for a bunch or generative/machine learning/other formerly differently-termed processes that (of course) have no actual intelligence behind them. It means nothing useful for how the underlying computing proceeds. Thus the quotes.

Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 1h

I love how you used quotation marks around "AI." If you've been doing that all along, I'm kicking myself for not noticing. It's a misleading or just lying marketing term and we shouldn't accept and repeat it without pushback. Generative LLMs are not AI.

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Dread @dreaddbound.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah no shit
I wanted to order a standee of a character fully clothed not even lewd at all but it’s an anime character so my card declined and declined and declined. Fuck them

Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (4/5) @acvalens.net · 12h

MasterCard is marketing its new MasterCard Threat Intelligence platform to issuers & acquirers. A source familiar w/ MasterCard’s internal operations told me MTI is flagging anime, VTubing, adult content, tabletop, video games as potentially “high fraud risk”

fintechmagazine.com/news/how-is-...

How is Mastercard Preventing Payment Fraud at Scale?

Announcing Threat Intelligence at Money 20/20 US, Mastercard showcases its latest technology in preventing fraud, combining insights from Recorded Future

fintechmagazine.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 47m

If you recall, Trump lied repeatedly about how some pre-Ellison CBS edits to a Kamala Harris interview were misleading.

Now the post-Ellison CBS is editing out parts of interviews with Trump clearly showing how he's a corrupt, blithering, thin-skinned idiot

see how this works?

Trump loses cool as he's grilled on '60 Minutes' — but CBS cuts it from broadcast

President Donald Trump got snippy as he was pressed about a suspicious pardon for a cryptocurrency billionaire linked to his own family at the end of his latest "60 Minutes" interview — but that quest...

www.rawstory.com

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 3h

New awareness campaign

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James @lemurdreamer87.bsky.social · 2h

America needs some kind of federal recall rules. If these public servants don't want to do their damn jobs, the public should be able to fire them on the spot (relatively speaking), instead of being stuck waiting until the next election.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 3d

And there it is...

Announcement is made that the US House will be out of session again next week

They haven't voted since mid-September

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Barry Pierre @jorgpierre.bsky.social · 2d

Once again:

Microsoft is a corporation that turns 30% of it's new code is written by AI into (basic stuff breaking)

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 3h

elon musk: people in the uk live like hobbits. um let’s look at you for a second bro

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Elon Musk speaks directly to the reader using the lying mouth on his dishonest face
Musk: People in the uk live like hobbits, y’know?

Panel 2:
Musk continues to talk complete garbage and says: Like, they literally live like characters in a fantasy book

Panel 3:
Musk stretches and yawns like a weird cat.

Panel 4:
Musk curls up fast asleep on a giant hoard of gold and riches, mirroring Smaug at the end on the hobbit.

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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 4h

The analysis of what broke American democracy can probably stop right here.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report

Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap

www.theguardian.com

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Retro Blast 🎃 @retroblastpod.com · 1d

PSA: Before this "dislike" thing gets out of hand, because I've seen some very big accounts misinforming people, here's what it actually is.

It's a private option that lets you see less of topics you're not interested in on certain feeds. That's it.

It's not a downvote, thumbs down, etc.

Bluesky @bsky.app · 2d

Threads on Bluesky should feel more like conversations you’d have IRL.

We’re testing new systems to improve reply quality. See what’s coming: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Progress Update: Building Healthier Social Media - Bluesky

Over the next few months, we’ll be iterating on the systems that make Bluesky a better place for healthy conversations. Some experiments will stick, others will evolve, and we’ll share what we learn a...

bsky.social

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grace (𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏) @acab4cutie.top · 16h

we were all brought into this world against our will & we should not have to pay to survive in it.

Tea Berry-Blue @teaberryblue.net · 1d

Anyway, SNAP should be universal. Just like school lunches in NYC. Not everyone needs it to survive but everybody gets it, no means testing.

There should also be a lot fewer regulations on what you can buy with SNAP and discounts, not bans, on hot prepared foods.

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Deepak Choppa @adamsandler.click · 14h

Mass Shooting Results In Negative 4 Casualties - "KINDEST GUNMAN EVER" APPREHENDED AND SENTENCED TO LIFE

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 12h

I'm finding this a lot. Some MOR liberal friends have tuned out because it's too depressing. So when I tell them about the beatings or detentions of US citizens they're puzzled, saying "they can't do that, it's illegal." They don't grasp the scope of this. They think it's just Epstein and ballrooms.

Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 1d

Recently my brother in law explained what gerrymandering was to a coworker and they didn’t believe him because if that were really happening there would be riots in the street

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

This week I had someone tell me they're not worried about SNAP being cut off because "that's illegal, so it's impossible Trump could do that, so obviously it's just media sensationalism." Another person told me they weren't worried about ICE because "they can't detain you if you're legally here."

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Santa Clown” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 9h

ACA = “Obamacare”. Same thing. Its proof that many white folks would rather shoot off their own foot if they knew something helped a black or latino person get by too. Its no different from how they used to fill public pools with cement during integration resulting in everyone being hot & miserable.

LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 17h

America is so racist that some Americans believed SNAP benefits were for white people and food stamps were for black people and they did not know they were the same thing and are now horrified to learn they are losing their food subsidies.

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Leon Thomas @renegadecut.bsky.social · 18h

now would be the perfect time for fast food joints to bring back the one dollar value that everyone loved and get a rush of business and goodwill but nooooo ronald mcdonald needs to keep being a real cold penis about everything.

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James @lemurdreamer87.bsky.social · 3h

Dear lord, imagine the carnage from tourists taking selfies near wild Edmontosauruses or the like.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4h

bring back shame

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5h

I wrote about Nazism in a small Michigan town, and in a large North American country; about the uses of and limits of shame; and on the importance of holding shared standards. www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...

The Death of Shame

Modern Nazis, careless people, and the offensive necessity of caring in a shameful age.

www.the-reframe.com

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Frank Witte @alarcos.bsky.social · 4h

I am still waiting for the European political establishment to recognize the US is a hostile power currently.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 6h

🚨🚨Things are just getting worse. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules

Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.

www.politico.eu

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5h

“every time theres a republican president the economy collapses” feels like pretty easy messaging on the economy

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5h

Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess).
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Layoffs Already Higher Than for Any Full Year Since 2020
Announced US job cuts by quarter

It’s been harder than normal to get a grasp on the US labor market lately, with several agencies that produce key economic data, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics, going dark during the government shutdown. Even before that, President Donald Trump’s efforts to downsize the US government left holes in the sprawling federal statistical system. But private datasets have helped fill in some of the gaps.

A report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas showed almost 950,000 US job cuts this year through September, the highest year-to-date total since 2020—and that was before the heavy October run of announcements. (Excluding that first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, US job cuts in the first nine months have already surpassed full-year layoffs for every year since 2009.) When something is almost the worst since the Great Recession, North says, “that’s not a very encouraging number.”

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 3h

I was deeply disappointed at the time. I think it was a case of just not being noticed as opposed to getting actively ignored/buried, but I think it was an important report that should have been picked up by more media.

Sadly, my reporting work has always gone down that way.

Jpofferz 🏳️‍🌈✊🏾 @jpofferz.bsky.social · 4h

I’m still mad at how the industry and gamers ignored when you did the investigative journalism they keep asking you to do, when you covered Rockstars crunch and toxic work environment/conditions

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Feb 6

It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · Feb 6

2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 1d

you pay for WIC and you’ve never used it. Millions of people have never been on a plane and still pay for all the federal government functions at an airport that keep you safe whenever you take a flight. We live in a society. Everything isn’t for you. Get over it.

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