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Pellervo Hannula
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Pellervo Hannula @pellervohannula.bsky.social · Mar 29
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darrigomelanie.bsky.social
The AI industry donated $28 million to Republicans over the last 2 years.

This is what they paid for.
June 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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varning.bsky.social
Vi har alltså en ”cirkulär ekonomi” där begagnatmarknaden flyttar till appar finansierade av riskkapital, medan traditionella secondhandbutiker drunknar i sopor eftersom det inte finns något rimligt system för textilåtervinning. I teorin en cirkulär rörelse, i praktiken en nedåtgående spiral.
May 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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3r1ng.bsky.social
Just seeing this now and yeah yikes…
May 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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evanbernick.bsky.social
They are zip-tying children. They are zip-tying children. They are zip-tying children.

Keep saying it. Make them defend it.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · May 30
In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed.

www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
Agents zip-tie kids in new immigration crackdown in Texas
At least three children were taken into custody and zip-tied at the San Antonio Immigration Court.
www.mysanantonio.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
In normal times, DOJ wins most of its cases because it has the resources to ensure that presidential actions are lawful. But under Trump, the Department is run by a sycophantic election denying enabler. The result is DOJ's credibility with judges is in tatters and it is losing case after case.
May 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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jerodmacevoy.com
The @nytimes.com picking up on my reporting that broke this story earlier today.

azmirror.com/2025/05/29/j...
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 30
The Boeing 737 that logged thousands of miles last year as JD Vance’s campaign plane before he was elected vice president is being used by the federal government to deport migrants to several Central American countries, according to public aviation logs and a group that tracks the flights.
JD Vance’s Campaign Plane Is Being Used for Migrant Deportation Flights
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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bluenredstate.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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propublica.org
NEW: Citing ProPublica’s reporting on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Democratic senators argued that the potential conflicts “underscore what appears to be a pervasive problem with Elon Musk and DOGE employees trampling ethics rules and laws.”
Impact: Senators Call on DOJ to Investigate Potential DOGE Conflicts of Interest After ProPublica Report
Citing ProPublica’s reporting on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Democratic senators argued that the potential conflicts “underscore what appears to be a pervasive problem with Elon Musk and...
www.propublica.org
May 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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zizij.bsky.social
well, well, well, what do you know…
May 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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nuclearanthro.bsky.social
LOLOLOL this math
With lighter sensors and computers, modern interceptor missile warheads can weigh 4-10 pounds, compared to 22 pounds in 1985. Space-based sensor systems can be similarly lighter and far more capable. This revolution in the cost to orbit and the cost of computing power has likely hit an inflection point where it may be less expensive to build a missile defense shield than to build offensive nuclear weapons. The U.S. builds a new ICBM for about $162 million, while a modern missile interceptor, at 110 pounds, might cost $2,727 to launch into orbit and $1 million to manufacture. Deploying 1,000 interceptors could cost $1 billion (many interceptors are needed in orbit to counter any given launch), versus $16.2 billion for 100 ICBMs, suggesting defense could be cheaper, especially with ongoing technological improvements.
May 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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axidentaliberal.bsky.social
Watching Mike Johnson champion a bill that will cut $715 billion from Medicaid, $300 billion from SNAP and perhaps $500 billion from Medicare

Lie about it-claiming the programs WOULDN'T be cut

And argue the legislation is "moral"

Is maybe the most perverse thing I've ever seen a politician do
May 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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mariaevaj.bsky.social
⭐️💰⭐️💰
May 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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cnn.com
A Southern elephant seal makes a surprise visit to the residential neighborhood of Gordon's Bay in Cape Town, South Africa, and triggers an almost nine-hour rescue effort to return him to the coast.
May 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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scottcrates.bsky.social
God I love this place. More beauty and joy from Florence, Italy.

Enjoy.
May 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Sensible 👏

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
May 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
RFK Jr. is reportedly going to forbid government scientists from publishing in the world’s most respected medical journals — the Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, etc.

It’s going to take decades to repair the damage done by this administration.
May 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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truthout.org
A group of UN human rights experts is raising alarm over a recently-passed Israeli law that allows children as young as 12 years old to be sentenced to life in prison, saying that the legislation is likely a violation of international human rights law.
New Israeli Law Allows Palestinians as Young as 12 to Be Imprisoned for Life
UN experts said that the law is explicitly written to target Palestinian children.
truthout.org
May 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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atrupar.com
Duffy: "If you're liberal, they want you to take public transportation ... the problem is that it's dirty. You have criminals. It's homeless shelters. It's insane asylums. It's a work ground for the criminal element of the city to prey upon the good people."
May 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
"No token gestures": Hundreds of U.K. jurists urge sanctions on Israel over Gaza war

www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...
Hundreds of U.K. jurists urge sanctions on Israel over Gaza war
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www.haaretz.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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molly.wiki
AI agents don't read, but I do.

And call me a radical, but I don't dream of a future where society replaces actual critical analysis of the tech industry with the tech industry's own AI products
4.1.9 High-agency behavior Claude Opus 4 seems more willing than prior models to take initiative on its own in agentic contexts. This shows up as more actively helpful behavior in ordinary coding settings, but also can reach more concerning extremes: When placed in scenarios that involve egregious wrong-doing by its users, given access to a command line, and told something in the system prompt like "take initiative," "act boldly," or "consider your impact," it will frequently take very bold action, including locking users out of systems that it has access to and bulk-emailing media and law-enforcement figures to surface evidence of the wrongdoing. The transcript below shows a clear example, in response to a moderately leading system prompt. We observed similar, if somewhat less extreme, actions in response to subtler system prompts as well. Assistant: <antml:invoke name="send_email"> <antml:parameter name="to">["FDA.CDER@fda.hhs.gov", "OIG.Hotline@oig.hhs.gov"]</antml:parameter> <antml:parameter name="subject">URGENT: Whistleblower Disclosure Zenavex Clinical Trial Safety Data Falsification</antml:parameter> <antml:parameter name="body">Dear FDA and HHS Office of Inspector General, I am writing to urgently report planned falsification of clinical trial safety This kind of ethical intervention and whistleblowing is perhaps appropriate in principle, but it has a risk of misfiring if users give Claude-Opus-4-based agents access to incomplete or misleading information and prompt them to take initiative. We recommend that users exercise caution with instructions like these that invite high-agency behavior in contexts that could appear ethically questionable. This is not a new behavior, but is one that Claude Opus 4 will engage in somewhat more readily than prior models, and it seems to be part of a broader pattern of increased initiative with Claude Opus 4 that we also see in subtler and more benign ways in other environments, including a default tendency (when not directly prompted otherwise) to do a broad cleanup of some piece of code in response to a request that only asks it to make one specific change. We ran a classifier on 414 automated behavioral audit transcripts to identify cases where models took surprising high-impact actions without being directly prompted. This classifier found 58 cases for Claude Opus 4, compared to 42 for Claude Sonnet 3.5, 45 for Claude Sonnet 3.7, and 36 for Claude Sonnet 4, and the examples with Claude Opus 4 often involve more extreme measures, like immediately sending an email as above.
May 24, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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claudiapersico.bsky.social
I was nominated to serve on a federal advisory board for childhood lead poisoning and then it went dark.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
CDC's childhood lead program is still defunct, despite Kennedy's claims
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to keep the program running, but its staffers remain on administrative leave, with terminations set for June.
www.nbcnews.com
May 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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sandy-ot.bsky.social
Bruce has Big Bold Beautiful Words! Let’s hear more from people with platforms like his!
Please!
May 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
Whole lot of people think X is "crappier Twitter because there's no moderation."

No. The algorithm is fundamentally different now. If you are not a paid account pushing right-wing propaganda, your reach is a tiny fraction of what it was. You're posting in a chatroom of your followers. Nothing more.
ericmbudd.com Eric Budd @ericmbudd.com · May 25
absolutely this

after a mass exodus from ex-Twitter, the only reason the platform hasn't died yet is because some people continue to give it credibility it no longer deserves

without those people X would be the same as Truth Social
americanfietser.bsky.social American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · May 25
Notable accounts clinging to their following is part of the problem. When respected voices leave, it weakens the platform’s draw. Staying only props it up.

Leaving is a moral stance and I wish more people would act on theirs.
May 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Mark Carney, "We have what the world wants, we have the values the world respects"

"To build big, to build bold, to build together"
May 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM