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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 8h

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Lloyd Sullivan @lloydgonkillya.bsky.social · 4h

Glassholes deserve to be publicly shamed.

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 2d

The ineligible in-group is the key to understanding a lot of what's happening in this country and the world right now.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

The US Jewish right is a 30% minority of the community that tries to draw boundaries that exclude most American Jews, so as to portray themselves as the majority. They’d rather rule over a smaller community than work for influence in a larger one.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 9h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

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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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

I broadly agree, but also think this is too generous to the leftists sharing the meme in question. They aren’t resharing a Nazi meme about Jews stealing food cultures because they’re being tricked; they’re sharing because a segment of the left agrees Jews are parasites without culture of their own.

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 2d

The reason Nazis make memes like this is to get leftist crossover and inspire others to make their own copies. People fall for it

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Lloyd Sullivan @lloydgonkillya.bsky.social · 2d

John Chrysostom and similar Late Antique church fathers did not die just to have their hateful legacies get absolved by this reverse American exceptionalism.

Lloyd Sullivan @lloydgonkillya.bsky.social · 2d

Many such cases tbh. Far too many westerners cannot grasp the concept of race being a social construct.

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Lloyd Sullivan @lloydgonkillya.bsky.social · 2d

Sossan wishes she was Haman

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Lloyd Sullivan @lloydgonkillya.bsky.social · 2d

If only these idiots could learn the history behind what taqiyyah is and why which groups practised said thing.

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Lloyd Sullivan @lloydgonkillya.bsky.social · 2d

Taqiyyah-slop in 2025. Guess it never really died off.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 2d

My fellow Americans
what are we even doing here bruh

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Lloyd Sullivan @lloydgonkillya.bsky.social · 2d

This is why people who claim to be on the Left should seriously not see themselves as being immune to the Nazi bar.

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Lloyd Sullivan @lloydgonkillya.bsky.social · 2d

I do wonder if like many vatniks/rightoids, the account(s) is/are from India/Pakistan.

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Lloyd Sullivan @lloydgonkillya.bsky.social · 2d

Hot take: Groypers help launder neo-Nazi memes to these "leftists" as long as the targets are Jews.

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 3d

Checks out

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Erik Skare @erikskare.no · 4d

Congratulations to Dr. Skretting for successfully defending his PhD thesis “The Origins of Sahelian Jihadism” at the University of Oslo! 🥳

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Lloyd Sullivan @lloydgonkillya.bsky.social · 4d

As the wise sage Steve Bannon once said: flood the zone with shit. And somehow, a lot of people fell for it.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 4d

#BREAKING Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize

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John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 6d

Reading a lot recently on the intersections of gaming, violent extremism, extreme violence, and politics. Still so much we don't know about even the most elementary processes and functions. This is of the better books I've come across so far. Great starting point for anyone wanting to learn more.

Cover of the book Gaming Democracy, by Adrienne Massanari.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16d

This is not a random person, but the writer of "Mornings in Jenin," the most widely-read Palestinian novel of all time.

This person is opining on Jewish history without knowing anything about it. None of this is true about the concept of Jewish peoplehood.

Post from Susan Abulhawa: "Historically speaking, there was never such a thing called "The Jewish People" before zionism.

There were Jews--Egyptian Jews, European Jews, Yemeni Jews, etc.

The fairytale they sell now to the world was manufactured in the 19th century. Most Jews didn't buy it at first; so zionists set up schools (literal schools!) to indoctrinate them into believing that colonizing Palestine had been their lifelong dream.

Initially, the only Jews they could get to move from their home countries to Palestine were poor and disenfranchised Eastern European jews. It was easier to lure them with promises of "milk and honey," riches and land of their own.

Others were more difficult to dislodge from their homelands. Zionists had to bomb synagogues in Iraq, for example, to make Iraqi Jews--a prosperous indigenous community in Iraq--to leave, believing their fellow Muslims and Christians had bombed them.

They didn't really want Arab Jews. For example, they kidnapped the babies of Yemeni Jews and gave them to European Jews to raise them in the preferred jewish supremacist strand. Ethiopian Jewish women were involuntarily given birth control to curtail the Black jewish birthrate.

The only thing Israelis have in common is their hatred and jealousy of the Palestinians--the actual indigenous people of the land--and their delusions of grandeur, premised on a fairytale of common heritage."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5d

Animal cruelty is the no 1 indicator for sociopathy but I’ve been lobbying for “popular streamer” to be added to the DSM.

Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 6d

Hasan Piker is a piece of shit (not news) but using a shock collar on the highest setting (they're for alerting your dog, it should never get a pain/fear response) because it sets one paw outside of its teeny tiny dog bed as it tries to stretch while on multi-hour streams? Pure asshole behavior.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17d

the basic issue is that people want to seem brave by protesting but they don't want to face any actual danger, so they protest things which can't actually change anything because it's safe

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17d

They got what they wanted. Kamala Harris lost the election, and Trump is president. So, what do these protesters want now, and why aren’t they protesting Donald Trump?

“I’m not president right now. There’s nothing I can do.” - Kamala Harris (private citizen)

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Lloyd Sullivan @lloydgonkillya.bsky.social · 18d

Sometimes I wonder if people 5-10 years from now will dub these types of diatribe as "New Atheism 2.0"

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Lloyd Sullivan @lloydgonkillya.bsky.social · 28d

They're probably burning on the inside at the fact that Jews are not eliminated.

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