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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 3m

Young folks are disillusioned with social media and I know many of us elders are too. People are hungry for something different.

Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 40m

They are actively trying to poison our information environment and I’m sure will come for this very platform if they haven’t already.

I hope smart people are thinking about new models for online community and media that they can’t infiltrate.

BronSays @bronsays.bsky.social · 5h

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

Some people might laugh but there's something actually important in this as I have heard others talk about how a fear of dying is palpable among fascists. They carry hell with them in real life.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 1h

I have come to realize that the thoughts of those people are worth very little and mostly ignore them. Can really lead you astray and chasing the wrong things.

Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 1h

Wrestling with one’s mortality is so human that it’s one of the few things able to pierce through dementia and a lifetime of pathological lying

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 8h

Talking to wife about protest next weekend and toying with care bear family theme. Care bear inflatable, anti-fascist bear, care bear stare type stuff.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 10h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 15h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 21h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah I’m not convinced this was an “error”

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 21h

I wonder if someone in the WH saw this and rushed to overturn another bad RFKrank Jr call.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 1d

“The Trump administration is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

www.theverge.com/news/798388/...

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 1d

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 1d

Paging #nolasky

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I mean..

www.salesforce.com/news/press-r...

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2d

I think my least favorite thing about this era of history is that technology and obscene wealth have synthesized in such a way that the haunted pathologies of rich men spread across the global until they warp reality itself.

We are to some extent living inside Trump and Elon’s brains.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 3d

I'm thinking about writing about the experience of being gaslit by rural and suburban family/friends who tell you that their paranoid fantasies of your city trump your lived experience.

Long way of saying share your stories in comments! I may quote them.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 2d

People protesting in Portland against the federal show of force are dressing up as inflatable animals. Here's why.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 3d

the group & people most deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize this year are the Palestinian journalists in Gaza, who kept courageously telling the world the truth no matter the cost #nobelpeaceprize @nobelprize.bsky.social

Illustration of some of the Palestinian journalists in Gaza

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 3d

2002

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 3d

And a former New Orleanian? Me too 😁

What year did you graduate?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

"There's truth underneath all this fake outrage. Conservatives really are at a disadvantage in pop culture because most creative people are liberals, which has always been true & probably always will be. While MAGA has had some success building a culture machine, what it produces is mostly banal."

Whiny MAGA freaks out over Super Bowl halftime show

Songs in Spanish? In America?

www.publicnotice.co

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 3d

My alma mater, love to see this! ❤️

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

This powerful JB Pritzker response to Trump's lawless threats is another reminder of what I tried to argue this morning: Pritzker understands Stephen Miller's theory of this moment, and he's responding accordingly:

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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