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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1h

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 1h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 2h

For ex.: Today's excellent piece on intimacy coordinator backlash is paywalled, b/c we paid the writer a fair (if tbh lower than we'd like) rate of $.50/wd, b/c it's the right thing to do to walk the walk of supporting feminist journalism. We believe in paying freelancers in dollars, not "exposure."

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Ben Canham @bencanham.bsky.social · 3h

When you're autistic or neurodivergent,
friendships can feel like walking on eggshells.
But true friends don’t flinch at your honesty,
your silence, or your struggles. Those who
mind don’t matter. Those who matter don’t
mind. Keep the ones who let you be you.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 2h

Software engineer salaries are going to be crazy high after the LLM companies spend years enabling everyone to create mountains of technical debt then go bankrupt.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2h

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 2h

"Ireland is actually one of Israel’s biggest trading partners. And many Irish people are accusing their government of silent complicity in Israel’s occupation and genocide. Dena Takruri travels there to look into Ireland’s surprising ties to Israel and to meet the people fighting to end them."

Is Ireland As Pro-Palestine As You Think?

YouTube video by AJ+

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 3h

Here is GOP Rep. Mike Lawler, all smiles with the Chair of the NY State Young Republicans Peter Giunta who:

*Said ‘I love Hitler’

*Referred to blacks as ‘the watermelon people’

*Said ‘if your pilot is a she and she looks ten shades darker than someone from Sicily, just end it there.’

#NY17

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 3h

The freedom of speech lovers are at it again

WSJ headline that reads "breaking news: The U.S. has revoked the visas of at least six people for their comments on the death of Charlie Kirk, the State Department said"

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Wesley @wesgo.bsky.social · 4h

a girl in a school uniform is sitting at a table with her hands in the air and saying amen .

Alt: a girl in a school uniform is sitting at a table with her hands in the air and saying amen .

media.tenor.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 5h

The guy who threatened Nigel Farage has been sent to jail for 5 years for a Social Media post.

There will of course be dead silence, or cheers about this from the 'Free Speech' brigade.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6h

Freedom of Press...

Trump refuses to take questions from ABC News in "retribution for George Stephanopoulos’ interview with JD Vance".

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 5h

What's fun about this theory is that it fits with how a bunch of crypto people pivoted to become AI people.

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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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 5h

Enoching - repeatedly turning up where you're not wanted.
https://waterfordwhispers.shop/collections/enoching

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 6h

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Hey, I wonder if CBS News has ever had a Jewish woman as president before?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Z...

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 5h

"I believe this guy I just spit on at the bar is purposefully punching me in the face."

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

“We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution.”

Trump: I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution. As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don't need to purchase it from China.
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Wesley @wesgo.bsky.social · 5h

Absolutely dire! This is why I stopped going to Irish matches, too many passionless performances.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 7h

Unprecedentedly illegal & unconstitutional crimes - things that make Nixon's presidency-ending crimes look like harmless high school pranks - now happening daily:

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 12h

Gentle reminder…the Special Criminal Court was opposed trenchantly and for compelling reasons by Mary Robinson before she became President; its continued existence has been criticised by the UN Human Rights Committee, UN Special Rapporteurs, the Irish Human Rights & …

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 16h

The two candidates in the Presidential Election have clashed over the Special Criminal Court with Heather Humphreys saying she supported it and Catherine Connolly calling for its abolition

Presidential candidates clash over Special Criminal Court

The two candidates in the Presidential Election have clashed over the Special Criminal Court with Heather Humphreys saying she supported it and Catherine Connolly calling for its abolition.

www.rte.ie

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Robert F @chippyman.bsky.social · 11h

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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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RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸 @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social · 7h

JFC!!!

Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 11h

ICE’s Use of a Full-Body Restraint on Immigrants, Referred to as ‘the Burrito’, Raises Concerns Over Inhumane Treatment | The WRAP is the subject of a growing number of federal lawsuits likening incorrect usage of the device to punishment and torture.

ICE's Use of a Full-Body Restraint on Immigrants, Referred to as 'the Burrito', Raises Concerns Over Inhumane Treatment - Bucks County Beacon

The WRAP is the subject of a growing number of federal lawsuits likening incorrect usage of the device to punishment and torture, and when used by local law enforcement has even resulted in deaths.

buckscountybeacon.com

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