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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 4h

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

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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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 4h

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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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 11h

Amazon Prime provides streams of local morning news programs from all over the country. The number of cities who get the right-wing National News Desk as their morning news is disturbing.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 1d

“The shower was always cold.”

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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🎃 Spooky Scary Jam (they/them) 🎃 @jaimekay.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People Day!

Did you know that Indigenous women go missing and are murdered ten times more than average? They don’t even get a quarter of the attention that a white woman going missing would get. Please keep these women in your mind. Don’t forget them

www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) | NIWRC

www.niwrc.org

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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 1d

I worked with a reserve Army Intelligence officer who was an engineer and also a ChatGPT evangalist to a degree that every use of ChatGPT that he recounted was in a tone of gee whiz amazement that was hard to take seriously.

Probably makes sense.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

futurism.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The main reason why Vought is so angry is that he is not just after political power in a narrow sense but obsessed with status and cultural domination. He believes there is a “natural” order of white male Christian domination in all spheres of life – and America is supposed to follow it.

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 1d

Not just elections. I still think back on doing traffic safety for a small march in a northern suburb of Denver and having the cops literally redirecting traffic back at us. When one of us went to ask them to stop actively endangering ppl, the cop said "can't, we've been defunded."

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 1d

+1 to this. I’ve gone back and re-read favs when I’m having trouble finding a new read.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 1d

I was watching college football game yesterday, and in one of the crowd shots they showed two guys checking their phone. Usually, my first guess would be texting a friend. The looks on their faces made me think they were watching their money go down the drain.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 1d

Not puritan at all, it’s awful.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 1d

a man with his hands on his face and the word accurate written on the bottom

Alt: Bill Hader as Stefon on Saturday Night Live saying accurate.

media.tenor.com

Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 2d

Most of those apply to Magas.

Extremism on migration, gender, and race? Overthrow of the government, like J6?

As far as “traditional views on religion,” evangelicalism has mushroomed in the past couple of decades, and Vance’s form of Catholicism sure isn’t traditional.

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 2d

Isn’t this the third time that Peterson’s daughter has made some announcement about some very extreme and unusual health condition?

Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 2d

The far-right mouthpiece who told young men to clean up their place while in front of his very clearly messy home, now has contracted an illness from all the mold in his home.

If you wrote such a fascist character in a story it would be deemed a silly caricature.

Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold

Peterson's daughter said her father has a "genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold."

www.newsweek.com

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 2d

"'We don't have enough cops, so if they [National Guard] can be cops, I'm all for it,' he told the New York Times from aboard his private plane."

Another of SF's "good" tech CEO's sheds his mask.

Benioff says Trump should deploy National Guard to San Francisco

Salesforce chief executive's comments came as he headed to the city to host his annual Dreamforce conference.

www.sfgate.com

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 3d

“People don’t know that they are federal agents, and it’s an invitation to copycats who are bad actors kidnapping people because there’s no way to distinguish kidnappers from federal agents when they’re acting this way.”

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3d

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 3d

There might be a market for inflatable frog body armor now…

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3d

I really recommend browsing a reddit called "Is this AI?" for this purpose. people post questionable images and commenters weigh in on their validity, but are required to provide specifics as to their reasoning. once you start seeing the signs, it gets easier and easier over time

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 3d

LET’S F**KING GOOOOOOO!!!

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 3d

Do you think they’ll let me wear this on the plane?

An Amazon search for frog inflatable costume. Results include two inflatable frog costumes for $155 and $38, free delivery by tomorrow.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 3d

It’s like the old “when you see it you’ll sh*t bricks” pics. Sometimes you’d have to stare at them for a minute like Where’s Waldo. And that’s when you *knew* there was something to find.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 3d

And UNC is nowhere near its bottom, yet.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

www.dailytarheel.com

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 3d

And on an FBI watchlist. What a world.

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