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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 8h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 8h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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liaskwerklooi.bsky.social @liaskwerklooi.bsky.social · 22h

Charlie who?

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liaskwerklooi.bsky.social @liaskwerklooi.bsky.social · 1d

πάντως μία υπερταχεία ειναι σχετικα ακριβο μεσο μεταφορας για commuting (το χτίσαμε ήδη κ το κριτικάρω)

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liaskwerklooi.bsky.social @liaskwerklooi.bsky.social · 1d

Israel's officials labelling any criticism of their state as antisemitism does not help make that distinction either.

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 7d

"Asked what percentage of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward, Justice told ProPublica: 'I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.'”

by @megomatz.bsky.social / @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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liaskwerklooi.bsky.social @liaskwerklooi.bsky.social · 1d

hell, even as a tourist I don't want to mess with that and will keep away of any US visits for the next 3 years. Imagine being in a city only for a few days and wasting one day (or worse) because those knuckleheads have quotas to fill and you re dragged who knows where to give explanations.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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liaskwerklooi.bsky.social @liaskwerklooi.bsky.social · 1d

indeed as a student in the 80s I was reading both english and french for language learning and the latter's humour rested mostly on the story while the english one had me opening a vocabulary every few bubbles of dialogue.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

"More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect"

More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect - News From Antiwar.com

Rescue workers in Gaza have recovered more than 200 bodies of Palestinians killed by the IDF from the rubble and from areas they were previously unable to access since the ceasefire went into effect o...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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mperedim @mperedim.bsky.social · 3d

Διαβάζω για άγαλμα αφιερωμένο στον Έλληνα μικρομεσαίο επιχειρηματία, ψάχνω στο Γούγλη και βρίσκω αυτό. Επικροτώ

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4d

'The circularity has also prompted questions about how sustainable the revenues will turn out to be.'

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 4d

Fake AI videos mocking dead celebrities are going viral. We talked to their families, and they're horrified.

We break down OpenAI's Sora 2 and the moral and legal problems of "synthetic resurrection."

Gift link: wapo.st/4nNKzd3 w/ @tatumhunter.bsky.social

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