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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1h

A reminder that the GOP could stop this man from literally tearing down our country at any time, and they are *choosing* not to

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 3h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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lacey, infested with bears @byelacey.bsky.social · 6h

you could really hang this picture somewhere

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 23h

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 6h

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23h

the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Can’t say I’ve seen too many palm trees here in Illinois.

Maybe in the President’s home state of Florida though.

Trump and White House Busted Using Red State Footage to Show ‘Chaos’ in Chicago

The president posted the deceptive high-octane ICE raid video to his own social media account.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 2d

You’d think if the Trump admin was so certain they were drug trafficking terrorists that it tried to kill them, it would have enough evidence to prosecute them. But like with Abrego Garcia, Trump sees deportation as a way to avoid the justice system: to accuse without having to prove guilt.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Breaking News: The Trump administration has decided to repatriate two survivors of a deadly U.S. strike this week on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea rather than prosecute them or hold them in military detention, people with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday.

U.S. to Repatriate Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel

The U.S. military rescued the two men in the Caribbean Sea after Special Operations forces fired on a semi-submersible that was assessed to be smuggling drugs.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 2d

Given NYPD, this probably means that the actual crowd totals were closer to 250k.

Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 2d

I hope each and every one of the fascists who rule this country read this and choke.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

They'll cast these rallies as "angry" but everyone there is plainly having a great time because it's fun to get together with like-minded people to engage in the oldest American tradition: telling a tyrant to eat shit

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 2d

Finally disabled replies on that post because people do not know what the words "actionable threat" - "a threat that can be legally interpreted as capable of being acted upon in courts" means.

Just... holy fuck, people. "Don't post fucked-up threats that get you The Knock" should be pretty obvious.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 2d

Quick reminder today:

Always observe Shut the Fuck Up Friday

Two-panel screenshot from the Simpsons - on the top panel is a bus annoyedly saying "Don't make me tap the sign."

The bottom panel is the bus driver tapping a sign that reads "Do not post anything on social media that can be interpreted as an actionable threat."

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 2d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

ultimately, zohran mamdani is a reminder that politicians can be younger than 80 years old

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

amazing how you can write about culture professionally and still have no idea what’s going on in the world

Will Staley on Twitter writes: "Maybe this is an artifact of Elon's stewardship of this website, but the "No Kings" stuff — the language, the iconography, even the notion that Trump wants to be a *monarch* — is just totally foreign to me. I don't know where it comes from. Definitely not here."

Independent headline reads: "What order? Trump team ignoring 1 in 3 major judicial rulings against them, analysis finds"

ACLU headlines reads: "Supreme Court Grants Trump Broad Immunity for Official Acts, Placing Presidents Above the Law"

Reuters headline reads: "In a switch, Trump White House seeks to reward colleges for abiding by its ideological terms"

ABC News headline reads: "With Comey, Brennan, Soros, Trump steps up his retribution campaign"

Politico headline reads: "White House pauses new round of largely blue-state projects"

AP headline reads: "Trump’s moves against media outlets mirror authoritarian approaches to silencing dissent"

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giantrobo.bsky.social @giantrobo.bsky.social · 3d

Abuser logic and justification.

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Leon Thomas @renegadecut.bsky.social · 3d

Shinra believes that these so-called No Kings rallies are funded by the terrorist group AVALANCHE...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d

For @spitfirenews.com, I found that increasingly realistic AI-generated videos are being deployed to harass, smear, and create endless offensive content of influencers, whose likenesses are already readily available online. It’s happening to private figures, too.
spitfirenews.com/p/ai-generat...

AI-generated influencer scandals are here

Now anyone can play with the hyperrealistic likenesses of public figures.

spitfirenews.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Probably worth noting that both Vance and Trump have been “joking” about murdering fishermen in these strikes.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

The U.S. military has destroyed five boats it has alleged were ferrying drugs into the U.S., killing 27 people. No authority has publicly released the names of any of the dead. One family is believed to be the first to publicly say they believe a relative is among those who were killed.

U.S. Military Killed Venezuelan Fisherman in Suspected Drug Boat Attack, Family Says

For the first time, one of the 27 people killed in U.S. airstrikes on suspected drug vessels has been publicly identified.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 3d

Trust me - I own a small business. "My country" hasn't turned on me - it was literally the fucking Republicans, led by Donald Trump, who seems to only be able to get sexually aroused by directly harming people or imposing tariffs.

People need to start calling this shit out for what it is.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. It’s to the point now where .. I could lose everything ... Being a small business owner isn’t worth it when your country turns on you,” said Jared Hendricks, the CEO of Village Lighting, a small business selling Christmas products.

@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/h...

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 3d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 4d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

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giantrobo.bsky.social @giantrobo.bsky.social · 3d

If you do the ML correctly the packing machine won't have errors because there is a fixed set of possible inputs and it's been trained on them.

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giantrobo.bsky.social @giantrobo.bsky.social · 3d

I agree that their single purpose is to parse and generate human sounding text.

The problem is that humans don't generate text for one singular purpose.

Sometimes the meaning of the text exists outside the text itself. Something LLM will always struggle with.

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giantrobo.bsky.social @giantrobo.bsky.social · 3d

Half the reason this is tough to answer definitely is that "AI" means so many different technologies.

Machine Learning for example can be extremely powerful and can have low error rates.

LLM are by their very nature error prone. It's an inherent part of the underlying statistical modeling.

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giantrobo.bsky.social @giantrobo.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly correct.

Extremely tailored single purpose AI. Pretty good!

General Purpose AI.
It stinks.

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