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radleybalko.bsky.social
That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.
ilhanmn.bsky.social
Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
I just think AI is so exciting bc it's a machine that you can get wrong answers from, that yields environmental devastation, and is being forced on all of us
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gotitatguineys.bsky.social
People are going to get even weirder about sex than they already are.
mattburgess1.bsky.social
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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maklelan.bsky.social
Wanted to share a photo of this life-size replica of the “YHWH and his Asherah” inscription & drawing on Pithos A from Kuntillet Ajrud (the best one I’ve seen!) that my friend Robert Augat sent me. He’s building a cool inventory of artifact replicas at relics3d.com.
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jamellebouie.net
this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave
wsj.com
Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.
Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner
The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.
on.wsj.com
biofunctor.bsky.social
The thing about p(doom) stuff is that it functions as an advertisement for power. Of course you want ChatGPT employees if they have the power to destroy the world.
But it’s still harder to verify their answers than to do the work, so it’s much more likely a mid level technology.
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hollyanderson.bsky.social
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
biofunctor.bsky.social
Repair always takes more work than destruction. If our constitution or its court interfere with our ability to repair the damage done we must work to change them.

Democrats fight over weak stakes. Up the ante
jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social
The empty formalism used to constitutionally forbid diversity-enhancing or remedial action—that to “stop discriminating on the basis of race we must stop discriminating on the basis of race”—is possibly the most invidious trope the Roberts Court has cultivated in our modern legal culture.
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rbreich.bsky.social
The most powerful force in American politics today is anti-establishment rage at a system that’s rigged against most people.

Democrats should ignore the carping of corporate-backed Wall Street Democrats and embrace Zohran Mamdani and other young progressives as the future of the party.
biofunctor.bsky.social
Where as the federal government has failed and abdicated its fundamental duties, we the states of CA OR and WA establish a new covenant and adopt the constitution of 1790, and the rulings of SCOTUS and appellate courts until Jan 2025; until such time as a congress of the pacific republic assembles
biofunctor.bsky.social
If we were serious about our own rights and not merely maintaining our places in the zombie constitutional order we would be demanding governors start formal succession. We are in a highly elastic phase of society where legal physics is suspended and more fundamental human regimes take over.
brianbeutler.bsky.social
They are going to egg each other into worse and worse atrocities until they are checked and stopped. The more depraved they are, the more viral they go, sending the country into a downward spiral. www.offmessage.net/p/governing-...
Governing For The Gram
Republicans are obsessed with finding non-existent connections between Democrats and "the violent left" Meanwhile...
www.offmessage.net
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unraveledpress.com
In Elk Grove Village, another empty car. Witnesses say two people were taken from it, and are trying to locate family.
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unraveledpress.com
Carpentersville this morning. Border Patrol grabs some laborers at a worksite. The agent accuses a woman filming them of interfering and also tells her if she has an issue she should "contact her senators and congressmen."
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originalsp.in
ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
biofunctor.bsky.social
These drooling thugs killed our government and are using its corpse to attack us. Who would consent to be ruled this way? We have never owed the state obedience, quite the opposite. Don’t finger wag when people start to act like people

www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
Shocking clip shows ICE agent tackle 'fleeing' black teen during Walgreens raid
King said he was detained for several hours in the ICE truck, sitting between two other men who were undocumented
www.themirror.com
biofunctor.bsky.social
I wonder how many of them have exclusively been read by ai
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biofunctor.bsky.social
We need to fight conservative frames of reference on the values of human life. Continuing to argue issue by issue will just keep us stuck here.
biofunctor.bsky.social
Turning nazis into slick villains was a Hollywood mistake. But we also fixate on the end of naziism. When I talk to my fam they can’t think of Nazis as less than death camps, so they resist seeing it now when we are speed running most of the nazi history
doctor1hundred.bsky.social
I think this is why I've always liked the way the Illinois Nazis are portrayed in The Blues Brothers. It shows them for what they are: spiteful little weirdos who are ineffective and deserve no respect.
srirachachau.bsky.social
It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”
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zeteo.com
Zeteo @zeteo.com · 11h
The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com/p/pentagon-h...
The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else
Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.
zeteo.com
biofunctor.bsky.social
The history of humanity is moving and mixing. Our society is built on impulsive interpretations of the world from our short lives. The impulse you feel to check your self is the error. It is strange to think we have the power to stop people from coming here, and the last 50 years proves we dont
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unraveledpress.com
Yesterday, white nationalist paramilitary forces attacked another Chicago neighborhood with chemical weapons. Families and at least one infant were gassed. This morning, they are kidnapping more immigrants both here and in other metros (D.C., L.A. still being terrorized).
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dollemore.com
Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.