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Jim Teeth

@drjamesjteeth.bsky.social

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I enjoy history, economics, politics, foreign policy and technology. I’m actually fairly knowledgeable about some of it. Over educated but under-credentialed. I have a fondness for Existentialism and Judaism.

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · Nov 7

I’m an adherent of the Block and Go philosophy of Bluesky. The thing is I don’t need rude people in my timeline and my life is better with them gone. Don’t be a dick.

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 3h

Trump should do this. You could totally build out the infrastructure to host the Olympics in a random Confederate city in three years. Same for the World Cup matches.

Totally easy to do. Cheap as hell too.

(Three years is not enough time to build out the Olympics infrastructure.)

Trump threatens removal of World Cup games from Boston, Olympics from LA

Blaming Boston street takeovers and LA wildfires, the US president said both global sporting events could be moved for supposed safety reasons

www.theguardian.com

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 9h

This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid

It's racism all the way down

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 4h

Sam Altman is a pimp.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 11h

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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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 10h

Sir, I’ve known a few union executives and I can say without doubt you are absolutely correct.

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 10h

The Young Republicans have always been creepy weirdos.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 10h

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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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 10h

If the Gaza cease fire holds…

Israel limits aid and keeps Rafah crossing closed in dispute over hostage remains

Tensions high as Israel accuses Hamas of breaching agreement by withholding bodies of 24 hostages

www.theguardian.com

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 12h

Alex Jones should have paid Trump to ask for him.

Josh Campbell @joshscampbell.bsky.social · 16h

The Supreme Court just declined an appeal from right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. He was seeking to overturn a $1.4 billion libel judgment over his lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/p...

Supreme Court rebuffs Alex Jones’ effort to overturn $1.4 billion Sandy Hook judgment | CNN Politics

The Supreme Court declined an appeal from Alex Jones on Tuesday, brushing aside the right-wing conspiracy theorist’s effort to overturn a $1.4 billion libel judgment a lower court ordered against him ...

www.cnn.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13h

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14h

honestly no one should have that much money, “can you sue someone for fun just to ruin their life” should be the marker on having too much money

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 14h

I remember entering mail submission contests when I was a kid and everything went off postmark. “Must be postmarked by x-date.”

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 14h

The US court system is just so broken. I assume the Republican justices understand that and just don’t care.

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 15h

Gobble, gobble.

Maybe he can get the Thanksgiving turkey’s pardon.

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 15h

I cancelled my WaPo subscription a year ago. I replaced it with The Guardian.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 15h

WaPo just needs to keep their oligarch happy enough to keep the paper running.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 17h

Once again, that damn dumb Noem video and everything like it ignores a basic law of politics: people think the President of the United States is a magician and can do whatever he wants when he wants. If he says Democrats caused the shutdown, well by God do something about it.

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 16h

Once again. Tariffs are a sales tax on imported goods. They are paid by the importer and passed to customers as part of the cost of goods sold.

Trump’s tariffs are also illegal at least until Republican SCOTUS decides laws don‘t matter anymore.