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Rúnar Berg 🌲 @rokksula.theremins.club · 1d

Bara í dag voru 11 palestínskir einstaklingar úr sömu fjölskyldunni myrt, þrjú börn og 7 konur.

Það var ekki Hamas sem myrti þau, heldur Ísraelsher. Ísraelskur dáti miðaði fallbyssu skriðdrekans síns á bíl fjölskyldunnar, og skaut.

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Hamas grunað um að skipuleggja atlögu að almennum borgurum - RÚV.is

Utanríkisráðuneyti Bandaríkjanna segir það alvarlegt brot á vopnahléssamkomulaginu ráðist Hamas á almenna borgara á Gaza. Marktækar heimildir séu fyrir skipulagningu árásar. Hamas hefur afhent lík tve...

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 2d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Haukur Jónasson @swooper.bsky.social · 2d

Öfugt lottó: Alveg eins, nema vinningnum er skipt jafnt á milli annara þátttakenda.

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Haukur Jónasson @swooper.bsky.social · 3d

Var mjög matvandur krakki. Það hefur aðeins lagast, en ekki alveg. Get t.d. enga sjávarrétti nema söl og harðfisk, né sveppi.

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Þórgnýr @thorgnyr.bsky.social · 3d

Er fólk í fullri alvöru að versla við Temu?

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Svanhvít Hel Ada @pixelrambo.bsky.social · 4d

Ég held að við höfum verið að uppgötva rétt í þessu afhverju heimurinn er í fokki. Blý eitrun gerir mikinn skaða og þá sérstaklega í heila. Það að fólk er að éta svona prótein drasl sem meal replacements eða eftir æfingar þýðir að fólk er að dæla í sig blýi.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 5d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Haukur Jónasson @swooper.bsky.social · 5d

Nei, andskotinn hafi það, hvorki barnaníðingar né fasískir einræðisherrar eru velkomnir hér og hann er bæði.

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 6d

Fun with Data
Juvenile Crime skyrocketed between the 1960s and 1990s. Gang violence and 'super-predators' dominated the news. Then in 1995 it dropped and kept dropping.
No one knows why.
Some attribute it to Roe-v-Wade passing 20 years before.
Possibly it was all those "violent" FPS video-games.

Three graphs charting 1960 through 2021.
One tracks Juvenile Robbery Arrests Rates, another for Juvenile Aggravated Assault, and the third Juvenile Violent Crime. All the graphs rise from 1960, peak in 1994/1995, then drop to just above or below the 1960 rates in 2021.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 7d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 13d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Haukur Jónasson @swooper.bsky.social · 8d

Ég boycotta Ikea þrjá mánuði á ári.

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EJ @eirikur.bsky.social · 8d

he War on Christmas will not end until Christmas stops its illegal occupation of October.

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Haukur Jónasson @swooper.bsky.social · 10d

I love it, but feel compelled to point out that liquids are incompressible.

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Force Ghost™ @fieldmontgomery.bsky.social · 10d

Precisely.

Gordon Wark 🤬💥😡🔥🕗🕕🕓🕖 @1stwark.bsky.social · 11d

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Halldór Auðar Svansson @tharfagreinir.bsky.social · 10d

And there it is.

"We took the freedom of speech away."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 11d

"Kristi Noem, who shot her dog, said today..."

"Donald Trump, convicted felon, signed an executive order..."

"RFK, Jr., who swam in raw sewage, says you shouldn't trust your doctors..."

Every headline should look like this.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Adam (human animal)🍉 @forcolumb.us · 12d

It’s been 730 days and 78 years.

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Haukur Jónasson @swooper.bsky.social · 12d

Þeir gátu ekki einu sinni litið á tíkall til að ná landvættunum í rétta fjórðunga? 🤡🤡

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16d

We're not at war with Venezuela, these boats are many hundreds of lines from our waters, much less our shores, there is no threat, this is just murder.

I really do think everyone from the SecDef to the guy who pushed the button should be tried for murder on this.

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 16d

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

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Haukur Jónasson @swooper.bsky.social · 16d

Hvað ertu búinn að sitja lengi á þessum?

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 16d

„The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device.“

Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 18d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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Haukur Jónasson @swooper.bsky.social · 17d

Árás Ísraels á frelsisflotann er árás á fjölmörg NATO-ríki, þar á meðal Ísland. Hver ætlar að vera fyrstur til að virkja fimmtu klausuna gegn Ísrael?

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Haukur Jónasson @swooper.bsky.social · 17d

Æjj, en ömurlegt.

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Haukur Jónasson @swooper.bsky.social · 17d

Innilegar samúðarkveðjur! Hvað kom eiginlega fyrir?

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