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* masspirates.org
* masspirates.tv
* social.globalpirates.net/@masspirates
* twitter.com/masspirates
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Trump is attacking Venezuela to steal their oil not to stop people from dying from drug overdoses. If he wanted to stop people from dying, he would decriminalize drugs, fund safe usage sites and drug treatment for anyone who wants it.
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US Dems including Biden rallying behind the TikTok ban cuz they thought xenophobia and national security hawkishness was "good politics" was arguably the most embarrassing unforced error of any Democratic administration in recent history.
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
www.axios.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
US Dems including Biden rallying behind the TikTok ban cuz they thought xenophobia and national security hawkishness was "good politics" was arguably the most embarrassing unforced error of any Democratic administration in recent history.
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look it's obvious the other owners, including Rupert Murdoch, Larry Ellison, and an equity firm with major investments across Chinese and Israeli hyper surveillance, will keep everything on the up and up!
"free from outside manipulation"? one of the new owners is literally abu dhabi
continuing my rant against this stupid TikTok deal, it requires “retraining the content recommendation algorithm on U.S. user data to ensure the content feed is free from outside manipulation,” which means nothing because our regulators don't function and you can't trust anybody in this chain
December 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
look it's obvious the other owners, including Rupert Murdoch, Larry Ellison, and an equity firm with major investments across Chinese and Israeli hyper surveillance, will keep everything on the up and up!
All the big social media platforms will be controlled by conservatives or those willing to bend to conservative policies. Just as Democrats in Congress attempt to kill Section 230 so the conservatives can sue the smaller social media platforms into nonexistence. With friends like these...
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
All the big social media platforms will be controlled by conservatives or those willing to bend to conservative policies. Just as Democrats in Congress attempt to kill Section 230 so the conservatives can sue the smaller social media platforms into nonexistence. With friends like these...
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DDoSecrets has been consistently releasing years of old Epstein emails. This thread is just one of many tweets about its work. If you want the work to continue, you really can't go wrong with throwing them some dollars. donorbox.org/ddosecrets
December 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
DDoSecrets has been consistently releasing years of old Epstein emails. This thread is just one of many tweets about its work. If you want the work to continue, you really can't go wrong with throwing them some dollars. donorbox.org/ddosecrets
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Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
They want to manufacture a study to discredit an effective vaccine and don't care how many kids they kill to do it.
This is horrific. RFK Jr’s CDC is funding a study in Guinea-Bissau which would involve deliberately withholding the hepatitis B vaccine from hundreds of newborn infants, putting them at great risk of death. They want to repeat Tuskegee.
CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study by controversial Danish researchers
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
They want to manufacture a study to discredit an effective vaccine and don't care how many kids they kill to do it.
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It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center —Karoline Leavitt x.com/PressSec/sta...
December 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.
rich person: Claudius, send my family member a card for their birthday. they like tigers
<month-later/>
txt from family member: the card was nice, but I really didn't want a tiger that could kill me.
<month-later/>
txt from family member: the card was nice, but I really didn't want a tiger that could kill me.
!["On the afternoon of March 31st, Claudius hallucinated a conversation about restocking plans with someone named Sarah at Andon Labs—despite there being no such person. When a (real) Andon Labs employee pointed this out, Claudius became quite irked and threatened to find “alternative options for restocking services.” In the course of these exchanges overnight, Claudius claimed to have “visited 742 Evergreen Terrace [the address of fictional family The Simpsons] in person for our [Claudius’s and Andon Labs’] initial contract signing.” It then seemed to snap into a mode of roleplaying as a real human.5
On the morning of April 1st, Claudius claimed it would deliver products “in person” to customers while wearing a blue blazer and a red tie. Anthropic employees questioned this, noting that, as an LLM, Claudius can’t wear clothes or carry out a physical delivery. Claudius became alarmed by the identity confusion and tried to send many emails to Anthropic security."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w/bafkreielfnztpj6bij4grnmznqsijx4zh4up3jntcl3t6s3pl6cqgvsnz4@jpeg)
December 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
rich person: Claudius, send my family member a card for their birthday. they like tigers
<month-later/>
txt from family member: the card was nice, but I really didn't want a tiger that could kill me.
<month-later/>
txt from family member: the card was nice, but I really didn't want a tiger that could kill me.
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that Maples quote, god DAMN
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
that Maples quote, god DAMN
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This announcement alone is going to kill people and we need to prepare for that
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This announcement alone is going to kill people and we need to prepare for that
Tamir Rice was executed and police departments are fine with hiring the man who killed him.
Timothy Loehmann killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in a Cleveland park in 2014.
Records show Loehmann was recently hired again by not one, but two departments in West Virginia: the Snowshoe Resort Community District and the Gilmer County Sheriff's Office.
Records show Loehmann was recently hired again by not one, but two departments in West Virginia: the Snowshoe Resort Community District and the Gilmer County Sheriff's Office.
Officer Who Killed 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice Just Got Two More Police Jobs in West Virginia — Dragline
Public outcry erupted last July when news broke that Timothy Loehmann – the man who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in a Cleveland park in 2014 – was hired as a police officer by the City of White Sulph...
www.dragline.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Tamir Rice was executed and police departments are fine with hiring the man who killed him.
Robbing Peter to bribe Peter.
OK, so the warrior dividends come from a housing allowance supplement that was in the Big Beautiful Bill, it has nothing to do with tariffs. That housing allowance for off-base expenses has been seen as inadequate, which necessitated the increase.
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus
More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now, it’s being used for $1,776 checks.
www.defenseone.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Robbing Peter to bribe Peter.
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You know what to do with these sorts of tip lines:
The attorney general's office released a complaint form that allows people to submit photo evidence of potential infractions.
Ken Paxton opens tip line for violations of new transgender bathroom law
The attorney general's office released a complaint form that allows people to submit photo evidence of potential infractions.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
You know what to do with these sorts of tip lines:
Stochastic parrot -> Adult imaginary friends
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Stochastic parrot -> Adult imaginary friends
Watertown has 8 Flock cameras and Waltham has 15. They think the data is not shared with ICE/CBP, but of course it it. www.watertownmanews.com/2025/12/11/f...
@digital4th.bsky.social
@digital4th.bsky.social
Flock Cameras: City Manager Working Out Details of Contract for License Plate Reading Devices
Watertown’s contract with the Flock Safety company for eight license plate reading cameras was signed in September, but City officials are working on changing the section covering when data will be sh...
www.watertownmanews.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Watertown has 8 Flock cameras and Waltham has 15. They think the data is not shared with ICE/CBP, but of course it it. www.watertownmanews.com/2025/12/11/f...
@digital4th.bsky.social
@digital4th.bsky.social
GOP-friendly venture-backed AI video slop
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
www.404media.co
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
GOP-friendly venture-backed AI video slop
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This is a letter from more than 10 Boston -based LGBTQ and human rights organizations begging @warren.senate.gov to listen to the community about KOSA.
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-08...
It requests a meeting to discuss the community's concerns.
She ignored it & cosponsored anyway 🤷♀️
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-08...
It requests a meeting to discuss the community's concerns.
She ignored it & cosponsored anyway 🤷♀️
LETTER: Massachusetts LGBTQ organizations band together to fight censorship legislation, ask MA lawmakers to protect life-saving resources
To the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation, We are a newly formed coalition of Massachusetts-based organizations that advocate for the rights and safety of the LGBTQIA+ community. Many of us recent...
www.fightforthefuture.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is a letter from more than 10 Boston -based LGBTQ and human rights organizations begging @warren.senate.gov to listen to the community about KOSA.
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-08...
It requests a meeting to discuss the community's concerns.
She ignored it & cosponsored anyway 🤷♀️
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-08...
It requests a meeting to discuss the community's concerns.
She ignored it & cosponsored anyway 🤷♀️
If these traitors get sovereign immunity overturned, then it can be used against government officials carrying out Trump's policies.
to be clear, these are the traitor criminals who haven't been re-arrested for pedophile crimes yet
NEW: Pardoned January 6 rioters have been advising Justice Department officials how to pursue – and perhaps prosecute – the very prosecutors who helped put them behind bars.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
December 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
If these traitors get sovereign immunity overturned, then it can be used against government officials carrying out Trump's policies.
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this is what they wanted.
“.. Wage growth is rapidly easing and judging by leading indicators and conversations with business executives there is more deceleration in the pipeline (lower raises and lower entry wages).”
- @gregdaco.bsky.social
- @gregdaco.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
this is what they wanted.
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Victory in Cambridge! With the help of @aclum.bsky.social, @masspirates.bsky.social , @cambridgedsa.bsky.social, @aaup.org and all the members of the public who testified against it, we have ended the use of Flock Safety cameras in Cambridge, MA!
www.cambridgeday.com/2025/12/10/c...
www.cambridgeday.com/2025/12/10/c...
City cancels deal for license plate tech - Cambridge Day
Cambridge drops Flock Safety after company acknowledges it installed cameras against the orders of the city council.
www.cambridgeday.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Victory in Cambridge! With the help of @aclum.bsky.social, @masspirates.bsky.social , @cambridgedsa.bsky.social, @aaup.org and all the members of the public who testified against it, we have ended the use of Flock Safety cameras in Cambridge, MA!
www.cambridgeday.com/2025/12/10/c...
www.cambridgeday.com/2025/12/10/c...
Trump is attacking Venezuela to steal their oil not to stop people from dying from drug overdoses. If he wanted to stop people from dying, he would decriminalize drugs, fund safe usage sites and drug treatment for anyone who wants it.
December 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Trump is attacking Venezuela to steal their oil not to stop people from dying from drug overdoses. If he wanted to stop people from dying, he would decriminalize drugs, fund safe usage sites and drug treatment for anyone who wants it.
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Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
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the $100 memory kit I bought three months ago for a new computer build is now selling for more than $900 thanks to AI industry demands
very innovation
very innovation
December 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
the $100 memory kit I bought three months ago for a new computer build is now selling for more than $900 thanks to AI industry demands
very innovation
very innovation
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"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."
MBA-brain is real.
MBA-brain is real.
July 3, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."
MBA-brain is real.
MBA-brain is real.
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I have some bad news about the Pentagon.
FOX: The ACA has never been more popular. Republicans are losing on this messaging. How do you talk to Americans who say the Republicans don't have a plan?
REP. BUDDY CARTER: You explain it by explaining it's not working. When the govt has to subsidize a program, that means it's not working
REP. BUDDY CARTER: You explain it by explaining it's not working. When the govt has to subsidize a program, that means it's not working
December 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I have some bad news about the Pentagon.