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Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 20h

And over 1/3 of traffic is bots. Dead internet theory is real. Miss the internet before social media

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 20h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 1d

They been fighting it for a minute but I’m using it until it’s dead lol

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Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 1d

Use Firefox and ublock if you don’t want to go premium

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Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 1d

I have no idea how to deprogram this

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

One of the things that our political class refuses to admit even though it's obviously true is that Twitter is very obviously radicalizing many American elites into full-bore white supremacy

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 1d

It actually seems like Twitter made Vance into a Nazi.

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Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta agree

Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 1d

Would be nice to never have to see Mike Johnson speak again

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S(cary)W(rath) 👻 @toasterposey.art · 1d

“Want to see Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones?” No, because I have both taste and dignity.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Ben Alterman @benalterman.com · 1d

These words don’t have any meaning

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

WALMART PARTNERS WITH OPENAI TO CREATE AI-FIRST SHOPPING EXPERIENCES

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Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 1d

Wrong

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Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 2d

When he’s engaged he’s great

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Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 2d

Wow ETHEREAL

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

Apple TV+ has rebranded to Apple TV

It's their 'vibrant new identity'

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 3d

saw someone arguing that MTG's anti Israel noises suggest that she's a more reliable moral voice longterm than most centrist Ds, and...like, people really need to acknowledge just how antisemitic she is and what role that plays in her approach to Israel policy. 1

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Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 2d

“It will only be criminals” if anyone ever said that or believed that fucking line just remove yourself from the planet

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 3d

Drake Maye is the real deal

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Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 3d

Think we’ve had enough revenge on the British, don’t need to do London games anymore

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Ben Alterman @benalterman.com · 3d

Hey remember when the media tried to convince the world that Aaron Glenn was a serious head coaching candidate despite being the DC of the 30th scoring defense

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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bigredboss @bigredboss.bsky.social · 4d

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Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 4d

Religious psychosis is a plague on this country

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

Florida’s surgeon general’s anti-vax beliefs are only the tip of a very deeply weird iceberg.

Joseph Ladapo’s guiding voice? His wife, who believes she can talk to “Archangel Michael, Mary Magdalene, and many other beings of light.”

From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

www.motherjones.com

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Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 4d

Ghosts of yotei is so good, loved Tsushima

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CG @cg-sequel.bsky.social · 5d

These morons really elected the worst possible person for the job of President twice and worship at the idiocy to boot. Racism and greed rot your brain.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump announces he's putting a bajillion percent tariff on China

It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive position on Trade in sending an extremely hostile letter to the World, stating that they were going to, effective November 1st, 2025, impose large scale Export Controls on virtually every product they make, and some not even made by them. This affects ALL Countries, without exception, and was obviously a plan devised by them years ago. It is absolutely unheard of in International Trade, and a moral disgrace in dealing with other Nations.

Based on the fact that China has taken this unprecedented position, and speaking only for the U.S.A., and not other Nations who were similarly threatened, starting November 1st, 2025 (or sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China), the United States of America will impose a Tariff of 100% on China, over and above any Tariff that they are currently paying. Also on November 1st, we will impose Export Controls on any and all critical software.

It is impossible to believe that China would have taken such an action, but they have, and the rest is History. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 5d

Feel like if I ever got a fork in the road bullshit memo id just walk out.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 5d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 5d

Very normal reaction to not getting a peace prize

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Norway is bracing for Trump's reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize, stating that "US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy," per the Guardian

Ryan Hebert @ryanhebert.bsky.social · 5d

Yup lol