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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18h

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 23h

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The Onion @theonion.com · 7h

Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors https://theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439/

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 7h

It’s like a “select the chud” CAPTCHA.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 8h

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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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · Sep 18

my son forgot his homework at school yesterday and he said “sometimes when you forget about something you feel so free”

I can’t stop thinking about it

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 8h

Trump says "we will disarm Hamas and it'll happen quickly and perhaps violently. But they will disarm, do you understand me?!" The he claims he personally spoke to them.

US President wouldn't be able to speak to Hamas "personally", if you believe this, you may as well believe anything

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 9h

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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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 8h

When I ran a coal plant we kept 7 - 14 days of coal in the pile to accommodate rail volatility. When we got below 3 we started curtailment planning to ensure critical loads were served. Anyway, please tell me more about how PV can’t work because it requires overnight on-sight energy storage.

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 8h

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Karolyn Sharp @etcandsoforth

Was at a training once where the facilitator said "Unsolicited advice is criticism. Always.

Half the room audibly gasped/ objected.

The other half shouted a chorus of yes/ thank you/ amen.

She offered no quarter to the "just being helpful" brigade. It was glorious.

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Pedro Gonnet @pedrogonnet.bsky.social · 7h

Excuse me, what the fuck?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 8h

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet

Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...

docs.google.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 8h

Donald Trump is giving $20 billion of taxpayer money to Argentina – to help his political ally stay in power and bail out Wall Street hedge funds – while Americans at home can't afford health care or groceries.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

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Pedro Gonnet @pedrogonnet.bsky.social · 8h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

ZOHRAN: “We are an existential threat to billionaires who think their money can buy our democracy.” 🇺🇸

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 11h

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 2d

Dr Assal Rad—

"This is how you do a front page story."

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People's Day!

We're covering news of the world live now twitch.tv/theserfstv

Tony Soprano: IN THIS HOUSE WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT COLUMBUS WAS A CHILD TRAFFICKING GENOCIDAL MONSTER. HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

I used to think people just didn’t understand what Columbus did but now I think some are really attached to him (as opposed to other worthy italians to celebrate) because their whole thing is not only getting away with doing horrible things but forcing everyone to praise them for being horrible

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 2d

George Stephanopoulos cuts off JD Vance mid sentence 🤣🔥….this is the way!

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Der Postillon 📯 @der-postillon.com · 1d

Um ein Zeichen zu setzen: Merz und Klingbeil stoßen gefesselten Bürgergeldempfänger in die Spree www.der-postillon.com/2025/10/buer...

Um ein Zeichen zu setzen: Merz und Klingbeil stoßen gefesselten Bürgergeldempfänger in die Spree

Berlin (dpo) - Diese Regierung lässt nicht mit sich spaßen: Um ein Zeichen dafür zu setzen, dass sich Leistung in Deutschland lohnen muss, haben Bunde

www.der-postillon.com

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Jan Skudlarek @janskudlarek.bsky.social · 1d

Guten Tag Herr Bundeskanzler

Text ""Why don't poor people work harder?" - Bro, why don't billionaires just pay their taxes?"

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 1d

It bothers me to no extent that the media plays how Klarna whistles

Klarna wants to the headlines to say "AI-enabled Klarna"

It would have halved its workforce without AI because it overhired 2x in 2020-21 and never corrected till now

But this is how they get front pages

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 1d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 1d

Since 1967, Israel has never allowed international armed peace-keeping troops into the West Bank and Gaza.
If it does now, under US pressure, it would be major rewriting of Israeli red lines.
I'm still very sceptical, but if the US wants it it would happen.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4d

Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises

Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...

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