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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 11d

"They will experience the consequences of this, but we have to be the consequence." is @democrats.org message, they just don't know it yet.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 9h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 19h

woke Marxist pope strikes again

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 21h

he then played a song off Taylor's newest album and I don't think I've ever scowled quite as hard as just now. for three minutes and forty-six miserable seconds.

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 21h

bf opened to a genuinely random page of the Eric Adams child crime prevention book and stumbled on the 110th Mayor of the City of New York instructing you on how to do PCP

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cedar subaru lesbian @pussy.meangirls.online · 1d

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Billy @billyidles.bsky.social · 1d

This is a powerful image

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

I am once again directing everybody’s attention to the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns turning their season around by putting in their third string QB named Lunch Winfield

mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 1d

louisiana just hit a 69-yd td pass + catch hit in stride. 🤌🏽🤌🏽

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1d

best currently serving DC politician imo

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices

Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil

Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world

Founder2: ok that works

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

neato, as the kids say arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22818

CAN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS DEVELOP
GAMBLING ADDICTION?
Seungpil Lee1, Donghyeon Shin1, Yunjeong Lee2, Sundong Kim1
1Department of AI Convergence, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
2Department of Life Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
{iamseungpil, dong97411, linda0706}@gm.gist.ac.kr,
sdkim0211@gist.ac.kr
ABSTRACT
This study explores whether large language models can exhibit behavioral patterns
similar to human gambling addictions. As LLMs are increasingly utilized in finan-
cial decision-making domains such as asset management and commodity trading,
understanding their potential for pathological decision-making has gained practi-
cal significance. We systematically analyze LLM decision-making at cognitive-
behavioral and neural levels based on human gambling addiction research. In slot
machine experiments, we identified cognitive features of human gambling addic-
tion, such as illusion of control, gambler’s fallacy, and loss chasing. When given
the freedom to determine their own target amounts and betting sizes, bankruptcy
rates rose substantially alongside increased irrational behavior, demonstrating that
greater autonomy amplifies risk-taking tendencies. Through neural circuit analy-
sis using a Sparse Autoencoder, we confirmed that model behavior is controlled by
abstract decision-making features related to risky and safe behaviors, not merely
by prompts. These findings suggest LLMs can internalize human-like cognitive
biases and decision-making mechanisms beyond simply mimicking training data
patterns, emphasizing the importance of AI safety design in financial applications

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1d

no, she won reelection to a four-year term last year

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1d

Janeese for mayor???? 👀

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d

No other options offered. Hmm.

Poll:

* Now, if the June 2026 Democratic Primary election for Mayor of D.C. were today, who would you vote for if the candidates
were:
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Janeese Lewis George
Muriel Bowser

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1d

I hate living in a flood-prone area because I have so much occasion to think "the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water"

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 1d

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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Ketracel Black @ketracelblack.blacksky.app · 1d

Another example of why we need to replace the police with real emergency responders. People trained to provide medical care rather than pass racist judgement.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 1d

I think most people who are in favor of ending U.S. military aid to Israel are also in favor of ending our policy of randomly murdered Venezuelan fishermen, yeah.

R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 1d

The "I don't want my tax money murdering children and families in Palestine" folks.

Well, your tax money is being used to bomb fishing vessels under the false narrative of them being drug traffickers.

Those are fathers, brothers, sons, and uncles.

You mad about that too? Or nah?

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

next thing you’ll tell me is that the same society that sneers at public displays of charity towards the most weak and vulnerable will elect, in turn, a government that is entirely predicated on terrorizing its own domestic population of ethnic minorities, laborers, and the poor writ large

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 2d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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famous bog body @bogbird.bsky.social · 2d

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 1d

no DMs test never fails

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1d

because they thought they'd get hack judges, which they kind of did at the trial level

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1d

the Appellate Division has ordered column ballots be used for in-person voting in Gloucester—bad news for Democratic Assemblymembers Heather Simmons, Dave Bailey, Cody Miller, and Dan Hutchison, who all represent Gloucester and all probably need to outrun Mikie to survive

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

Yes ultimately many Dem electeds are afraid to give police under their command lawful orders because they think they will not be obeyed and the consequences that fact would have for them and for their state.

illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 2d

It’s easy to call out Pritzker on this but something darker may be happening here. I’m not sure if he is secretly helping Trump behind the scenes. I think he’s terrified to test whether state police would obey him at all if he used them against the feds

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Several Illinois state troopers out here now with pepper ball launchers of their own.

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