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Logan @loganws.bsky.social · 3h

at least it's not the duolingo owl

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Logan @loganws.bsky.social · 16h

I have to say, you're much more calm about the chaos now

Logan @loganws.bsky.social · 22h

Excited to see how many employers want to make this tool available to or mandatory for employees when it becomes chiefly used for porn

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 23h

This is a salient point, but my main takeaway is they’re not seeing the returns they want selling it as “productivity software” so they have to go after the porn market.

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h

“There are about a dozen companies that specialize in school surveillance…That monitoring reaches into students’ lives beyond school hours, with all but two of those companies monitoring students around the clock.”

What Do We Know About the Edtech Services That Watch Students? - EdSurge News

After talking with teens lobbying against the dark sides of AI, EdSurge asks: “What’s known about the companies that schools use to monitor students?” ...

www.edsurge.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23h

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“Customers’ current Walmart or Sam’s Club accounts will get automatically linked to ChatGPT. Goods will also be available from third-party sellers.” 🙃

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Ooof.

Walmart Partners With OpenAI to Offer Shopping on ChatGPT

Walmart Inc. is teaming up with OpenAI to enable shoppers to browse and purchase its products on ChatGPT, the retailer’s latest push to incorporate artificial intelligence.

www.bloomberg.com

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The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?"

Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 1d

always so grateful for @chrisgeidner.bsky.social's principled clarity... if you don't already read Law Dork, you really must!

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

some words

Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Dan Goodin @dangoodin.bsky.social · 2d

The problem solving required for making Signal quantum safe is as daunting as any in engineering. In less adept hands, mucking about with an instrument this complex could have led to unintended consequences. Yet this upgrade is nothing short of a triumph!

arstechnica.com/security/202...

Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement

New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness.

arstechnica.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

Guessing that the timing of this @asavage.bsky.social video about how inflatable costumes are made has more to do with Halloween than the protests that are utilizing them, but fascinating either way: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuds...

Adam Savage Learns How Inflatable Costumes Are Made!

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested

www.youtube.com

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Logan @loganws.bsky.social · 2d

happy to see Apple making the Microsoft Teams mistake

And yes, I have many Teams on Teams, but you're not in the right Team for this Teams call

Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent VERY comprehensible

Apple TV is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV,

Logan @loganws.bsky.social · 2d

officially losing my mind about this ridiculous not-bunny

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Logan @loganws.bsky.social · 2d

and like this one has a taaaaaail

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagidiu...

Lagidium ahuacaense - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Logan @loganws.bsky.social · 2d

just...
- "convergently resemble rabbits"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscacha

Viscacha - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Logan @loganws.bsky.social · 2d

how

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Logan @loganws.bsky.social · 2d

oh! well, felicitations, better you than me, many happy returns, etc!

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

Damn this is outstanding and honestly better citizen journalism than we’ve seen from any mainstream outlet

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 2d

This is a really well done—I hope it catches on: A silent roadside protest staged over the weekend in Westerville, Ohio, and posted to the Facebook page of the Westerville Progressive Alliance.
www.youtube.com/shorts/TpZFS...

Signs of Fascism!

YouTube video by COOLHAND

www.youtube.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 2d

This is a really well done—I hope it catches on: A silent roadside protest staged over the weekend in Westerville, Ohio, and posted to the Facebook page of the Westerville Progressive Alliance.
www.youtube.com/shorts/TpZFS...

Signs of Fascism!

YouTube video by COOLHAND

www.youtube.com

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Logan @loganws.bsky.social · 2d

you know, I certainly don't envy you on nights like this, but you do wonders for my blocklist getting all these folks crawling out of the woodwork

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

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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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 4d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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