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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 4h

ok that didn't last lol

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 4h

whoever coached Sliwa for this debate needs a raise. he's tinpot, but these are surprisingly cogent answers

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 5h

tho i guess asteria never actually showed the data marey was trained on, right

Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 6h

"I know it's inconvenient, it's expensive — but let's get real, as technologists, it's possible if we want it, and we fight for it"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUu9...

Natasha Lyonne Asks AI Leaders: "Whatever Happened to Being Cool?"

YouTube video by TIME

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 11h

but at least we've sent more than double that to Argentina for... reasons...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...

Trump Says $16 Billion Hudson River Tunnel Project Is ‘Terminated’

www.nytimes.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 5d

how does she have her hands behind her back and also still be holding a microphone in front of her

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 6d

…also why is Gary Vaynerchunk in the movie on the board of an arms dealer ?

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 6d

having just watched Tron: Ares, I think Jared Leto was perfectly cast. if there was ever a guy who I’m supposed to believe is a computer program that now wants to live in the real world, it’s absolutely him

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 6d

here for the frogsistance
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMDJVsQx/

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility. Read more of our protest coverage at the link in our bio

TikTok video by The Oregonian

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 6d

oof glad I didn’t stop reading after the word “mainland”

NPR @npr.org · 6d

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 7d

Ugh the Dodgers

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 7d

beyond insane that in America that this is something a judge needed to rule on, in the country’s second city

Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 7d

Judge Rules Feds Can’t Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/09/j...

Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue

Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray...

blockclubchicago.org

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 7d

"no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois."

It's mind boggling than in 2025 a federal judge in Chicago just uttered these words in court case between against the President of the United States. My god.

Perry: "I have seen no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois."

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 7d

lol what

johnny cash rules. Johnny Cash gave the middle finger at San Quentin in 1969 to photographer Jim Marshall when Marshall asked Cash to share his feelings on the prison authorities, saying to Cash, "John, let's do a shot for the warden"

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 7d

this does not seem great for future US elections
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 7d

I think I hate this more than those Friend ads

some tech bro founder probably thought he killed with this. comparing his SaaS product to Monet’s brilliance

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7d

it's almost as if the extraction class has hijacked the press to help them use race and gender as wedge issues to distract the plebs from the fact they're destroying consumer protection, corporate oversight, democracy, and labor rights while selling the country for scrap off the back loading dock

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 7d

makes them sound like Vader accusing Leia of being part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 7d

not great that the country's paper of record has credulously decided that a nonexistent group exists, people can be a part of it, and it has its own experts

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 7d

this kid sounds like the anti- @edzitron.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/l...

How former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner turned a viral AI prophecy into profit, with a $1.5 billion hedge fund and outsize influence from Silicon Valley to D.C. | Fortune

Aschenbrenner is a Wall Street novice. So why have some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names trusted him to manage billions?

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 8d

we're so done. no one is going to be able to tell if any video they watch moving forward is real or not if it requires them to have critical thinking

can't wait to see how this is weaponized

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8d

How to tell a video is AI

www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell
www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell/

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 10d

just insane www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Paramount Buys The Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News

www.nytimes.com

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 11d

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

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