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A Minnesotan in PA. God of Cookies. Sociologist and Historian. ManCity and Oranje. Jigsaw puzzles and anti-fascism. Food and pets. Trying not to get banned for trolling white-wingers and CEOs again. Oh, yeah: Fuck LLMs and crypto/AI pimps.

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Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 2d

A song for the day, every day.

Chumbawamba - The day the nazi died

YouTube video by Huppelplopp1848

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Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 18m

"How do these Nazis keep ending up in my party?" asks Ohio fascist.

Politico @politico.com · 1h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 25m

PLAY WITH ME, KITTY!

Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 44m

Mighty white of him.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 45m

Get some DoxyPEP. You never know where he's been.

Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 1h

I'm in my late 50s, and I can't remember a time when Republicans haven't been rancid bigots.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 1h

I think Michael was the most hatable person on The Office.

Dr. Frisky Whisky McThicky, Ball Knower @professorpash.bsky.social · 1h

Most hated characters in TV history… Who would you add?

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 2h

One day y'all gon learn that trying to split hairs between aesthetic/ironic bigotry and bigotry-bigotry is a fool's errand.

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Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 2h

Someone should have smothered those boys in their cribs.

Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 2h

So fucking stupid and worthless

Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 3h

Mighty white of 'em

Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 3h

why?

Nature @nature.com · 5h

Next week will see a first in computer science, with the launch of a scientific conference in which all of the papers — and all of the reviews — have been produced by machines

go.nature.com/3J82tYH

AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference

Event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.

go.nature.com

Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 3h

why?

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Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 3h

STOP WITH THE FUCKING LIPS ALREADY!

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 4h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 3h

I actually saw a Charlie Kirk memorial “Freedom” license plate.

Fucking Nazis.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 7h

White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 16h

One thing that’s probably getting overlooked here is: these folks are serious about this stuff.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 17h

They weren't doing politics the right way?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18h

“Humanity could still decide not to build it.”

Calling this in advance: my biggest issue with this book is going to be their complete ignorance of how humanity *decides* things.

Their theory of social behavior is built out of discussion-board debate club. Likely to be absolutely disqualifying.

This book is not full of great news, we admit. But we're not here to tell you that you're doomed, either. Artificial superintelligence doesn't exist yet. Humanity could still decide not to build it.
In the 1950s, many people expected that there would be a nuclear war between the major powers of the world. Given the history of human conflict up until that point, there was reason to be pessimistic. Yet, to date, nuclear war has not happened.

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Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 18h

"At the same time, many college campuses face a shortage of available counselors,"

HIRE COUNSELORS!

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

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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Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 18h

With Hegseth, everything is "Sorry about your dick, dude."

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

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.

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Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 18h

What Coach said.

Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 19h

AI you say?

Office Space - Printer Scene (UNCENSORED)

YouTube video by RP

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 23h

"No IRB in the world would approve it." That's what every researcher has told me about saline placebo trials to test vaccines we already have.

The CDC just got rid of its entire IRB. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and whiplash’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while former top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

www.theguardian.com

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 23h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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