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Char
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Char @charlieh.bsky.social · 3h
President announces that he’s going to sneak into your home tonight.
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Char @charlieh.bsky.social · 4h
Scotus?
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 4h
I’d love to see more signs like this everywhere.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12h
GOP’s labor market policy is market protectionism for white men.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 13h
"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office
Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 11h
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."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h
Just a feckless, feeble, snot flap of a man
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"
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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 23h
The Take it Down Act, which makes threatening to distribute nonconsensual intimate images a federal crime, was passed on May 19 of this year. According to reports, Mills made at least one threat after this date.
Quote from Daytona Beach News-Journal article: "In another message exchange, dated June 12, Langston said to Mills: "Leave me alone." Mills replied: "Okay Linds. Get me his number and I can send him videos. Take care.""
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the Gaza ceasefire will not affect his country’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ aje.io/mbmr4o
South Africa says ICJ genocide case will continue despite Gaza ceasefire
President Cyril Ramaphosa says progress and healing hinge on the case against Israel being heard.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d
"The tables will turn one day," @govpritzker.illinois.gov said. "These people should recognize that maybe they’re not gonna get prosecuted today, although we’re looking at doing that, but they may get prosecuted after the Trump admin because the statute of limitations would not have run out.”
'The tables will turn one day': Pritzker blasts ICE, CBP in Chicago
Governor Pritzker is speaking out about the federal immigration raids of the last few days.
www.fox32chicago.com
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d
Articles like this drive me insane. The amount of tokens being used is going up because they explicitly made it so that models use more tokens. This is the tech section of a globally-renown newspaper and it's an argument that's unmoored from reality or meaning.
www.wsj.com/articles/ai-...
“Over the last few months, we’ve begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves,” Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in July on the social-media giant’s second-quarter earnings call. All of that should make AI models more efficient, which could have a beneficial effect on the economics of AI. Second, data centers under construction around the world will soon begin operations, increasing the supply of computing power and energy and driving down the cost of training and using AI. Tech company Microsoft last month said it is in the final stages of construction on a $3.3 billion data center in Wisconsin and announced plans for a second, $4 billion facility in the area. And third, increasing demand for tokens could finally become an economic benefit as models improve and the supply of computing infrastructure expands. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ | CIO Journal The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team. Preview Subscribed Another massive increase in demand for AI is likely in the coming months or quarters, just as those other forces take hold, according to Terry. That’s because the most promising corporate AI trials are likely to move into broader deployment.
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Char @charlieh.bsky.social · 1d
Yes, but still the line “increasing demand for tokens could finally become an economic benefit” is such a dumb statement.
Quality can go up, but cost does as well.
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Char @charlieh.bsky.social · 1d
Right so tokenization is kind of nifty because you can make a decision and then pass it around but more doesn’t mean better so I don’t know why people seem to be buying it… Oh wait, right. I guess humanity is also a great big AI model.
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Char @charlieh.bsky.social · 1d
So they’re driving down costs by spending more money.
Also, can anyone help me understand where the need for more tokens is coming from? Are tokens like cowbell?
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 1d
Tell me you're desperate for revenue without telling me.

Seriously, imagine your elevator pitch is "we offer an AI that revolutionizes the enterprise, answers questions at a PhD level, and also talks dirty to horny young men." It would be like if PornHub was selling a productivity suite.
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404 Media @404media.co · 1d
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 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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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d
Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.
Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal
If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.
www.msnbc.com
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d
Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.
Alt text: Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d
What Trump is doing is very bad. But I want to push back against some of the numbers here.

ICE did not hire 10,000 agents. It WANTS to. That it keeps running ads suggests it is struggling. And when it does, it seems to cannibalize local police, who don't like that.

More significantly:
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 2d
"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."
Purge, Merge, and Surge
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 2d
On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 2d
Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 2d
I thought this was brilliant: a great introduction to the problems of The Free Press (and what the CBS acquisition represents), and John Oliver as energized as he's ever been. youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 2d
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver
Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.
www.wweek.com
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Worf Email @worfemail.bsky.social · Aug 27
All crew,

Do not click on links in emails. They pose a major security risk. For more information: http://bit.ly/1MUISmu

Worf
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d
This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."
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