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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 14h

sleeping overnight at the racism factory

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

A tweet by Mark Kretschmann showing two photos of the xAI office on Grokipedia release day. The office is filled with small camping tents set up between desks and along hallways, suggesting that engineers have been sleeping there while working late. The caption notes it’s early morning and the engineers are still in their tents, joking that a good night’s sleep does wonders.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 15h

Tapping the sign

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 15h

*heavy sigh*

a gun-toting maniac repeatedly screams "Elon Musk Says" as UN blue helmets close in saying "we got you surrounded, come out and do some actual journalism"

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Hunter🔪 @holybible.bsky.social · 1d

Alphabet, Apple, Lockheed, etc I’m not surprised. The New York Jets? Tampa Bay Buccaneers?? Lmfao

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 1d

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Another great product launch from OpenAI!

Geoffrey A. Fowler @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social · 1d

ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.

@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.

My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC

Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.

OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.

wapo.st

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Dulse Yeen @yeen.paw.bs · 2d

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spooky (bi) commie 👻 @nopalcartoons.bsky.social · 1d

80s cartoon villains could never

spooky (bi) commie 👻 @nopalcartoons.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing choice of picture

JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 1d

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spooky (bi) commie 👻 @nopalcartoons.bsky.social · 1d

Crazy take but that thing should be in a museum shdjsjksk

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spooky (bi) commie 👻 @nopalcartoons.bsky.social · 1d

the MaoMao Money Train Won't Be Stopped!!

Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 1d

We're getting a new Apothecary Diaries season AND a movie!

The Apothecary Diaries Anime Confirms Season 3, Original Film in 2026

Season 3's 1st part starts in October 2026, 2nd part in April 2027, with anime film in December 2026

www.animenewsnetwork.com

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1d

Foreign countries put John Fettermans face on packs of cigarettes to scare children away from smoking

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spooky (bi) commie 👻 @nopalcartoons.bsky.social · 2d

Los LLMs no son éticos pero uff a veces las alucinaciones son bastante divertidas I guess

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 9d

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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Angel @discovolcel.bsky.social · 2d

i know its fun to talk about American century of humiliation but the British really are just having their own like being a far right nationalist and you will happily grovel to Zionists like this one that says all your people have a special place in hell because you need anything to own the muslims

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spooky (bi) commie 👻 @nopalcartoons.bsky.social · 2d

it was only through these pioneering works of practical goopy make-up and animatronics that we got homoerotic serial killer, played by David Cronenberg, trapped in a magical horny monster world

spooky (bi) commie 👻 @nopalcartoons.bsky.social · 2d

Nightbreed was released in 1990, but it's totally a late 80s movie. Using this Swan Boy logic, it fits because it was the result of a lot of 80s creative excess, including:
-Henson's fantasy era (Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal)
-silly 80s sword and sorcery films (Krull, etc)
-monster boob lady film era

Swan Boy strip panel: Face of cartoony George Bush on the left at the start of the decade timeline. Panel reads: "1990 - The first three years of any decade are indisputably 'early.' The only complicating factor is the zero year, which can—in times of extreme duress— be counted as a 'late' year for the previous decade"

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 2d

It's amazing to me how prescient Arpaio's tyrannical reign was.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 2d

Despite the pain his immigration crackdown caused, former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio said he’d do it again. “I tell everybody: I didn’t do anything wrong. I had a federal court who was biased against me. And all they could get me out on was a contempt of court?”

This County Was the “Model” for Local Police Carrying Out Immigration Raids. It Ended in Civil Rights Violations.

Under Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County was one of the first testing grounds for ICE’s 287(g) program, which lets local police enforce immigration laws. Many Arizonans say those abuses parallel what...

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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 2d

Every time there is a major announcement of cuts to PhD programs at a major institution, it reactivates my own deep worry: to reduce or shutter doctoral programs endangers whole fields, and yet to bring young people into those fields, with no ability to provide jobs for their future, seems wrong.

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Aleph, The Black Ram @alephblackram.bsky.social · 2d

"hardline conservative" is a softball if I ever saw it

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

Breaking News: Sanae Takaichi is Japan’s first female prime minister. She’s a heavy metal drummer and hardline conservative. nyti.ms/3Jj0KQx

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Cowabunga 1.2 @cowabunga1-2.bsky.social · 2d

If nothing else, this Maccabi Tel Aviv fiasco shows the extent of power the Zionists have in the UK.
A direct line straight to the PM of the UK. And that PM is under strict instructions to take that angry call from the Zionists, no matter how trivial the matter or the hour of day.
And act on it.

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 3d

Remember when the media kept shopping McCain as the non-racist non-evil republican?

McCain basically said this too.

www.motherjones.com/politics/200...

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✨🌯 jamie @glitterburrito.bsky.social · 3d

not to be esoteric extremely online leftist about it but seeing a building so many held scared to American government is kind of exactly what needs to be shown for some to Get™ how ephemeral it all is.

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Andy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 3d

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.

Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

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Strider @strider-ms.bsky.social · 3d

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PISS_SHITTER @amiyatzin.bsky.social · 3d

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