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Novarock.bsky.social
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Portlander, kinda geeky #RCTID . Tech that helps people. Arsenal . Timbers . History . Green things.
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#pets observing the change in weather in Oregon.
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Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off
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Published this last month. Trump's moved from illegal strikes on targets of unknown identity to preparing for a war against Venezuela for wholly unclear reasons seemingly on a whim. This isn't how you win a drug war but it will kill lots of people. internationalpolicy.org/publications...
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Have I mentioned lately that Heritage has a journalism fellowship named after the Guardabassi family, the male head of which was one of Mussolini's emissaries in the US in the 1930s, while his wife was a leading funder of US antisemites & neo-Nazis in the 1950s-60s? “Our own people.”
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts stands by Tucker Carlson after the former Fox News host release his controversial interview with Nick Fuentes.

"The Heritage Foundation didn't become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people" x.com/KevinRoberts...
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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
Buddy gets stopped from making coffee when he can’t find his step-stool.
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“Why have countries that have moved an ever-growing share of social interactions into a frictionless online space, where political claims are validated or invalidated by popularity alone, seen a commensurate rise in extreme political factions driven by emotional catharsis and decoupled from reality”
Oh boy, and it’s as sad sack as one would imagine.
There is no way it cannot be seen as simply a way to grab more people, to avoid human involvement, documents and any viable accountability process.
I think that’s the easiest way to boil down a lot of reaction views to homelessness, addition and people in need of help or accommodations. ‘Can i just not have to see or care?’
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Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
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“He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither…” —Declaration of Independence, 1776
America... boy, I dunno.
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the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
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Huge contrast with them illegally refusing to make SNAP payments.

What we’re seeing from the White House is them moving heaven and earth to pay what they want to pay, even if it’s illegal — and moving heaven and earth to NOT pay what they don’t want to pay, even if it’s illegal.
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Earlier today in Gresham, Oregon (a suburb just outside of Portland), a US citizen was detained by ICE after taking photos of their unmarked vehicles. US Gestapo smashed the persons car windows before detaining them. They have since been released.
Lubricating the suckers wallet inspections I see.
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Our new holiday sweater, winter scarf and beanie are up for pre-order now! 🎁 ❄️🎉 trimet.org/gear

The designs feature our old sector symbols: the fish, raindrops, snowflake, beaver, leaf, rose and deer. We also added Mt. Hood and Tilikum Crossing to the sweater 🌉 🗻😊

Go to trimet.org/gear
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NHC 5 pm Melissa update for Jamaica:

"Remain in your safe shelter and do not venture outside."

Winds "may cause total structural failure."

Wind speeds are now at *175 mph*.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
He thinks being a twitter-troll will keep him in the kings good graces, instead of forgotten