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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 3h

It is a very short step from the military killing alleged drug traffickers off the coast of Venezuela to the military, ICE, or others killing people inside the US for crimes, real or imagined, as directed by the president.

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Mark @ferl67.bsky.social · 2h

US strikes another vessel off Venezuela coast, killing six - BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...

US strikes another vessel off Venezuela coast, killing six

President Trump said the vessel belonged to "narcoterrorists" and that it was "trafficking narcotics." US officials have not provided evidence to this claim.

www.bbc.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 1h

“The short-lived media enterprise was supposed to help transition McGraw from the traditional TV age to the new-media economy. Instead, the little-viewed Merit Street Media is now locked in bankruptcy proceedings and in an expensive legal battle with its distributor, Trinity Broadcasting Network …”

How Dr. Phil Blew It

When he signed off his talk show in 2023, he pivoted to MAGA politics. It’s not working so well for him.

slate.com

Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 1h

2025 Ebbers to Sullivan: ‘Hit the numbers, and you can hit the sexbot’

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 1h

If you want to virtually screw Grandma Millie in California, OpenAI is introducing a chatbot for that

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 6h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 6h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 4h

it's also a private market story. openai and anthropic are private companies, they have a lot of investors- including indirect retail investors, who invest through funding vehicles- but they don't have to make disclosures and if the bubble bursts, those investors will have a lot more trouble suing

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 6h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 1h

As a non-sentient fleshbot, I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or an Altman pitch to VC’s

jmrcodes.bsky.social @jmrcodes.bsky.social · 3h

Perhaps we will see the as-yet unrealised “productivity benefits” of AI once people begin easy sexual relationships with obeisant chat bots, instead of pesky humans with their emotional needs and desires.

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Dan @dannno0o.bsky.social · 2h

Microwaving the planet so some people can dirty talk to a chatbot feels like the logical endpoint for this technology

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Dersh Ohio @hershbdj.bsky.social · 3h

JFC. And this is why we need energy devouring data centers?

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 2h

Leaving many investors with empty... hands.

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 1h

‘Tilly Norwood the AI virgin’ is stalking you

Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 3h

Oh god just saw this OpenAI generated video someone posted to Reddit of ‘A girl knocks on your door at 3am’ and this may be the least mentally healthy product on the planet it not most terrifying

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 2h

"Man responsible for shitting in your clothes dryer warns you that your clothes smell like shit".

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 1h

“Santayana goodbye”

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

“[Techbro titan AI] wars, I can’t take it anymore”

Gary Gifford @garygifford.bsky.social · 3h

Sam Altman is "sounding the alarm"?" I believe he started the fire.

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VIBIN NEWS™ @vibinnews.bsky.social · 3h

Once dismissed as conspiracy, the Dead Internet Theory now has receipts. In 2024, bots officially outnumbered humans online - making up 51% of all web traffic. And they’re not just scraping data. They’re posting, liking, arguing, selling, seducing, and deceiving.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 3h

openai to finally acknowledge what has been driving the AI boom for years and years but no one really wants to admit: chatbots you can fuck www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

www.404media.co

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 2h

LOL this is going to turn out well when your kinky ChatGPT chat gets uploaded to the cloud

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/14/openai-chatgpt-adult-erotic-content

The Guardian: OpenAi will allow verified adults to use ChatGPT to generate erotic content

OpenAI Says It's Scaning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

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Blue Sedition Podcast @blue-sedition.com · 3h

GoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that more of his customers are crowdfunding just to pay for their groceries...

Are we winning yet?

finance.yahoo.com/news/gofundm...

GoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that more of his customers are crowdfunding just to pay for their groceries

GoFundMe’s CEO says more Americans are crowdfunding everyday essentials like groceries as high costs and strained household finances persist.

finance.yahoo.com

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Not the Governor of North Carolina; got the handle first @joshstein.bsky.social · 2h

“We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive…” is one of those statements that (if I were consulting on any of the ongoing or prospective lawsuits against OpenAI) I would snag as evidence of actual knowledge of the risks of their product.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 8h

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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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 2h

“China’s biggest automaker, its biggest battery maker and its biggest electronics … can recharge electric cars in just five minutes, all but erasing one of the most annoying hassles of E.V.s, the long charging times. China has nearly 700,000 clean energy patents, more than half of the world's total”

Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 2h

“In China, more wind turbines and solar panels were installed last year than in the rest of the world combined. And China’s clean energy boom is going global. Chinese companies are building electric vehicle and battery factories in Brazil, Thailand, Morocco, Hungary and beyond.”

f the new york times @fnyt.bsky.social · 2h

There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away. (Gift Article) (06/30/2025)
f the nyt

There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away. (Gift Article)

Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.

www.nytimes.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes.

instagram.com/reel/DPzWnGCklvl

unichicago on Instagram: "Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información …"

Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información en nuestra biografía.

www.instagram.com

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f the new york times @fnyt.bsky.social · 2h

There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away. (Gift Article) (06/30/2025)
f the nyt

There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away. (Gift Article)

Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.

www.nytimes.com

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f the new york times @fnyt.bsky.social · 2h

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different. (10/12/2025)
f the nyt

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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