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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

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Anodyne Handle @tommyg.bsky.social · 15h

New twist. I like it

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 15h

"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice"
-22nd Amendment

"no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States"
-12th Amendment

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Q: One theory on how you might try to serve a 3rd term is that you could run at the vice president

TRUMP: Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. But I would rule that out because it's too cute.

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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 23h

"ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds." www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda

ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

www.wired.com

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 20h

Who predicted this? Oh yeah, everybody with any sort of expertise in disinfo

Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 23h

"ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds." www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda

ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

www.wired.com

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 16h

> "a September contingency plan, since deleted from the USDA’s website...said Congress intended 'that SNAP’s operations should continue' and that contingency funds 'are also available to fund participant benefits in the event that a lapse occurs [mid-fiscal year]'"

www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...

Trump Administration Buries Legal Memo Suggesting It Could Pay November Food Benefits

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the food program, says its hands are tied by the shutdown.

www.huffpost.com

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Anodyne Handle @tommyg.bsky.social · 15h

Hoping that Jamaica weathers the storm safely.

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Anodyne Handle @tommyg.bsky.social · 16h

UU is a good time for everyone

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 17h

I'm starting to lose students from class because they're working extra hours because their military spouses aren't being paid.

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Anodyne Handle @tommyg.bsky.social · 18h

MROOOOW

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 18h

Everyone who can should donate to their local food bank now. any help matters.
AND this is a good way to see the power of government to provide public goods that benefit everyone.

Science and medical cures are the same. Private money and philanthropy cannot fully replace public support.

Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 19h

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: For years, the Phoenix nonprofit Keys to Change has run a mail room for thousands of homeless people.

Now the U.S. Postal Service is cutting its $24,000 investment, leaving the organization to raise the extra money to keep it open.

U.S. Postal Service Cuts Funding for a Phoenix Mail Room Assisting Homeless People

The loss of support comes at a time of uncertainty for one of Arizona’s largest homeless services providers as the Trump administration calls for reducing and restructuring homelessness assistance grants.

www.propublica.org

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 19h

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18h

Interviewer: “How long is this sustainable?”

Food Bank Director: “Wow, um, it’s not—it won’t be from the first day. For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9… It’s not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this.“

This is absolutely tragic.

Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 19h

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 18h

As true today as it was then. The culture wars in a nutshell.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 22h

Read this classic quote by my friend the late journalist Dan Baum:

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CNN @cnn.com · 18h

British commentator Sami Hamdi was detained by federal immigration officers during a speaking tour in the United States, in what a Muslim advocacy group said was retaliation for his criticism of Israel.

Here's what we know.

Why has ICE detained British commentator Sami Hamdi on his US speaking tour? | CNN

British commentator Sami Hamdi was detained on Sunday by federal immigration officers during a speaking tour in the United States, in what a Muslim advocacy group said was retaliation for his criticis...

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 18h

Today in 1981, Soviet Whiskey-class coastal patrol diesel-electric submarine S-363 hit an underwater rock and ran aground about 6.2 miles from the large Swedish naval base at Karlskrona. This international incident—which wags dubbed “Whiskey on the Rocks”—occurred during a Swedish naval exercise.

A low-level aerial color photograph showing the grounded Soviet submarine S-363 during the incident, close to land and surrounded by Swedish naval vessels.

second, slightly closer, aerial color photograph showing the Soviet submarine S-363 during the incident, surrounded by Swedish naval vessels.

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Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 20h

"We’ve been miseducated that the way to solve [traffic violence] is to have more squads of police chasing Americans so that they wouldn’t drive 120 miles per hour rather than arranging cars so they can’t go that fast." - NHTSA founder Dr. William Haddon

How State-Level ISA Bills Are Gaining Ground in a Polarized America — Streetsblog USA

Ten lessons from the front lines of the battle for speed limiter laws.

usa.streetsblog.org

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Anodyne Handle @tommyg.bsky.social · 19h

good lord, misplacing the accent is going to give me nightmares

Anodyne Handle @tommyg.bsky.social · 19h

Unironically want these specs now so that I can make my best effort to hit this level of elán when next I sit down to read

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

My big takeaway from Trump's lengthy Air Force One gaggle is that he's talking about shredding the Constitution by being in office for a third term increasingly openly.

If you don't think he try it, you're in denial.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on a third term: "I would love to do it. I have the best numbers ever. Am I not ruling it out? You'll have to tell me."

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 22h

It’s not a dissertation, but there is a growing field of ethnography focused on how organizations accept outsider advice

Doing Corporate Ethnography as an Outsider (Consultant) | 11 | Advanci

This chapter explains Vidar Heps's account of experiences informed by doing ethnographic work for more than 20 years as an 'insider' employee at a large

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20h

A school called Alpha that relies on AI to teach its students is also surveilling them at home, videotaping young girls in their bedrooms.

This is some seriously sick shit.

www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

While parents are asked to consent to these surveillance programs, the school’s handbook says that there is “no expectation of privacy” on campus. If parents want to restrict recordings of their children outside of the school, they have to manually opt out of the “anywhere” option—as Jessica Lopez learned midway through her older daughter’s second year at Alpha. The girl says she remembers sitting on her bed one night working on schoolwork when she received a notification that she’d been flagged for an anti-pattern. She says Alpha’s system sent a video of her in her pajamas, taken from the computer’s webcam, that showed her talking to her younger sister.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Anodyne Handle @tommyg.bsky.social · 20h

Er, OK Mike. Perhaps you are a little unclear on your job?