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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 5h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 10h

finally some good fucking news

Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 10h

I know protesting this regime sometimes feels like it achieves nothing, but these people are deeply insecure losers. the idea that someone in the world thinks they suck -- let alone large numbers of people -- grinds at their thin-skinned souls.

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 12h

given that crypto is fake and unregulated, do insider trading regulations even apply?

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 14h

Sora 2 is exorbitantly expensive to run -- like OpenAI is projected to LOSE $14,000,000,000 next year.

but if your goal is to harvest immutable biometric data and employ the GPUs you have hoarded for mass surveillance and face recognition, it's a completely logical step

Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 14h

remember, Ellison is part of the AI triad -- he runs Oracle, who OpenAI rents servers from.

my best guess for the biometric harvesting is that part of the abort plan is to build that panopticon.

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 14h

Ellison has also been talking about creating mass surveillance, so "everyone will be on their best behavior." It's grotesque and Orwellian.

fortune.com/2025/09/28/l...

Larry Ellison once predicted 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid constant recording. Now his company will pay a key role in social media | Fortune

“Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on,” Ellison said last year.

fortune.com

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 14h

If you don't believe me, remember those retna-scanning orbs? That was also Sam Altman, at least.

www.wired.com/story/sam-al...

Sam Altman's Eye-Scanning Orb Is Now Coming to the US

At a buzzy event in San Francisco, World announced a series of Apple-like stores, a partnership with dating giant Match Group, and a new mini gadget to scan your eyeballs.

www.wired.com

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 14h

Gave a talk on AI hype Friday, but one of the things I learned during was that Sora 2 collects biometric data on its participants to generate videos. You basically scan your face.

OpenAI has been hungry for biometric data for a while, or at least Sam Altman has. why? 1/

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 1d

being able to do work we find meaningful shouldn't be up to the caprices of the market

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 1d

another classic of the genre "if you want free college and healthcare just join army" yea, if everyone did that, guess what they would stop offering to get everyone to join

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 1d

one of my favorite things about these "why don't everyone do exactly what I do for a living" hacks is that, if everyone did that, the job wouldn't be lucrative anymore. that's supply and demand; that's how capitalism works.

Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 1d

side hustle idea:

Clean 2 houses a day for $300
Do this 5 days a week
Congrats you accidentally made $150k

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 1d

The “Starship Troopers” outcome seemed pretty stupid when I was reading the book, but it seems like one of the better outcomes at this point. I’ll take “global military junta” over “theocratic psychos”

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 1d

I remember having a discussion with someone who simply could not wrap their head around the idea that an NFT has no legal standing whatsoever, nor any content.

It’s just a short string attached to a blockchain.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 1d

These people need to work 24 hours a day because they’re getting nothing done, because they’re exhausted, because they work 24 hours a day.

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

they're coming through wardrobes, folks, and they're coming over through portals on train platforms and schoolyard walls, and by using rings of various colors, and they're saying "oh bother" and "by Jove" and they're taking over narnia folks and eating all the turkish delight, they eat the delight

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 2d

How will this go? It’ll go great. Everyone will respect them, institutions protected, etc.

Anyone who bends the knee will simply get picked up by the heel, flipped upside down, and shaken until every dime falls from their pockets.

Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 2d

Kudos MIT 👏👏👏

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 2d

If your organization is about "fighting crime", then you better make sure there's always some crime to go fight. Otherwise, why would anybody need you? To police, the idea of crime going down is like a company hearing they're going to lose the supply of resources that keep them in business.

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, a 65-year-old with CHF

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 2d

My hunch here—and not exclusive to the points you made, which are good—is that syntactic attachment is a more robust channel than coreference.

Coref is, merely and disturbingly, an implicature. It can be canceled.

Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 2d

A war zone, a notable thing that can be hidden

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Noem claims Portland hid their war zone from her.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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