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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 32m

King George III in early 1776

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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En Buen Ora - "Hell Çid" 😈 @enbuenora.bsky.social · 45m

can the Supreme Court decide that the Civil War was decided incorrectly, because I feel like they might want to

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Maisie Pubblechook @maisiepubblechook.bsky.social · 33m

I'm going through PT for 70yo knees & a bad hip, and they always ask my pain rating before we begin, and I always feel impostor syndrome trying to pin a number to it. It's just there, I'm used to it.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Maisie Pubblechook @maisiepubblechook.bsky.social · 12h

I knew when this all started that paper wouldn't shield anyone. Even if these mooks are literate, there's nothing stopping them from ignoring or destroying any documents when they want to brutalize someone.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 18h

This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid

It's racism all the way down

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20h

I know the headline everyone's running with is "erotica" but "we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues" and "we are putting personality back in ChatGPT so it will act like a friend" are diametrically opposed statements

that's the cause of most of the mental health issues

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 21h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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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Jack Pondit @jackpondit.bsky.social · 14h

And similarly, when Biden was making rational decisions, constrained by norms, and surrounded by a highly competent staff his mental acuity was a top media concern. Trump is acting irrationally, with dictatorial powers and surrounded by clowns and the media is silent.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15h

When you strip everything else away, the problem is that we have treated all of this as fine for only This One Special Boy. No one else, & certainly not a single Democrat anywhere in the country, would be permitted to do this stuff every day w/o it being a nonstop national scandal. Why is that? 🤷‍♂️

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 15h

I think allowing online gambling was one of the worst mistakes of the last couple decades

Misandrosaurus Hex @bexone.bsky.social · 16h

My bff is a high school teacher and can verify that the (freshman) children are absolutely mobile gambling in high numbers, an activity that *already* has laws defining it as an adult-only activity requiring age verification

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yesitspaulhere.bsky.social @yesitspaulhere.bsky.social · 20h

From AGI and curing cancer to ad-supported porn generator in a single quarter. Wild. I was sceptical as to whether all of these massive deals OpenAI are doing were to make the company 'too big to fail', but I'm pretty convinced of it now. It'll be largely US government backed within 12 months.

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Lennon @lennon-s.bsky.social · 20h

3 years ago this tech was going to change the world and the best use case they have is "I'm too lazy to read this email" and "porn bot"

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 20h

A decade ago we were told that every time you masturbate Jesus would kill a kitten, and it turns out that instead of that, every time Silicon valley techbros will burn down a stand of trees.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 1d

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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rhapsodybooks.bsky.social @rhapsodybooks.bsky.social · 23h

Every word of this by David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social - while we celebrate the "non barbarism" (per Jared Kushner) of the Israelis . . .

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 23h

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23h

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 23h

"We're saving God from Colin Kaepernik" is a pretty good distillation of Republican thought

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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johnmaen.bsky.social @johnmaen.bsky.social · 22h

i’ve said it many times to family and friends that I bet we see actors sign away their likeness to studios so they can make movies with them long after they die. I’d bet my life savings of approximately $2,700 in Lego’s and GI Joe’s that the first person to ink such a deal is Tom Cruise.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 22h

For like 20 years, you weren't able to make a YouTube video featuring a popular song without getting hit with an orbital laser. I don't understand how every single one of these deeply litigious companies is okay with turning their copyrighted IP into sludge people can pay another company to make

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

Trump hates this photo of him. Definitely don't share it far and wide today.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22h

TIL that the aggro af wasps you see in late summer are worker wasps who have finished their nest tasks and are all out seeking sweet stuff and raising hell for the locals with the last days of their lives while waiting to die, wasps are basically just the insect version of retired Brits in Spain

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 23h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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