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Werewave @werewave.bsky.social · 5h

this was very hard to watch. impossible to not notice a few things:

1. if this lady had been 10% smarter she would've gotten away with it
2. imagine how crazy you have to be to generate enough body cam footage for a 90 min documentary
3. fuck crump, sharpton, & the rest of the ambulance chasers

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3d

The subject of the new documentary “The Perfect Neighbor,” Susan Lorincz, interpreted the ordinary play of children in her neighborhood—who were predominantly Black—as an ongoing crime, or a conspiracy to drive her insane.

The Lessons of “The Perfect Neighbor”

A new documentary, now on Netflix, shows how disconnected from one another Americans have become—and also how cohesive some of us still are.

www.newyorker.com

Werewave @werewave.bsky.social · 6h

fascism speed run getting tripped up by the cop body pandemic among chuds

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 10h

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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MutantsMichael @mutantsmichael.bsky.social · 10h

a black and white image of the East Wing facade of the White House being demolished with an inset of a Google Translate screenshot:

hello i am fleeing the American century of humiliation. Can you show me where to buy White Monster Energy Drinks?

你好，我正在逃离美国百年来的屈辱。你能告诉我在哪里可以买到白色怪物能量饮料吗？

Nǐ hǎo, wǒ zhèngzài táolí měiguó băinián lái de qǔru. Nǐ néng gàosù wǒ zài nălǐ kěyǐ mǎi dào báisè guàiwù néngliàng yǐn liào ma?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

“Inside a multistory office building in Manila’s financial district, around 60 young men and women monitored and controlled artificial intelligence robots restocking convenience store shelves in distant Japan.”

Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines

Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.

restofworld.org

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

doug emhoff's law firm cut a deal with trump to provide him 100 million in pro bono law services and eliminate all dei initiatives. seven partners resigned, doug emhoff did not 💙

Doug Emhoff @douglasemhoff.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings Santa Monica

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

this is a betrayal of the rust belt coffee farmers who voted for him to bring the plantations back to gary indiana

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ

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Werewave @werewave.bsky.social · 1d

the crud doesn't really every get better but eventually it gets easier to predict and power through

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Israel violating a ceasefire deal as a mob of Israeli settlers attack an American journalist and Palestinian grandma & an Israeli soccer match has to be cancelled because of violent fans is all the worse when you remember the deal calls to "de-radicalize" Palestinians and not Israelis

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

we are in a self-awareness crisis

Quote post from X by "OscarAI":
Never do this:

Passing off someone else’s work as your own.

This Grok Imagine effect with the day-to-night transition was created by me — and I’m pretty sure that person knows it.

To make things worse, their copy has more impressions than my original post.

Not cool 👎
Quoted post:
Prashant @Prashant_1722
Oct 15
Grok Imagine trick:

Add "day to night transition" to your prompt.

In shots like this, you’ll see a beautiful, harmonious effect as the day turns int...
(AI slop animation video)

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 1d

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 6d

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 2d

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 2d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Werewave @werewave.bsky.social · 2d

how much does it cost to print a zine these days

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

Every time this comes up I feel compelled to mention that the KKK was moribund when Birth of a Nation came out, and the version most people are familiar with emerged from the fandom around the film

塑料巫醫 Plastic Shaman @psiop.kawaii.social · 2d

Wouldn't be the first time holywood had an uncomfortable relationship with Fascism.

Lest we forget that Birth of a Nation and Triumph of will are supposedly the founding texts of great cinematography or something.

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Werewave @werewave.bsky.social · 2d

the structure of the format is bad enough but I also get the sense that it is wreaking havoc with the cultivation of talented or even competent writers. a lot of TV is just mediocre now, bc filling the 8 ep structure requires hitting specific beats and patterns to "optimize the viewer experience"

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 3d

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d

BREAKING: A far-right Israeli group, Tsav 9, is blocking trucks from carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza at the Karem Abu Salem crossing.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5gja2w

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Thierry Ennui @heisenbergkamp.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone is 12 hypothesis not going away anytime soon

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 3d

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d

Vic Mensa, an American rapper born and raised in Chicago, breaks down ICE raids and the politics of division.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 4d

South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea

South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.

restofworld.org

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Werewave @werewave.bsky.social · 4d

in summation

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Werewave @werewave.bsky.social · 4d

1 - the evidence you think is gonna exonerate you and implicate me doesn't exist
2- if it did and I have the only record of it, why would I give it to you
3 - escalating this issue is only going to raise the question of why a project leader doesn't have basic awareness of their own project

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Werewave @werewave.bsky.social · 4d

baffled by my coworker's attempt to make me look bad for not following up with them, but they have no idea what the project timeline is or that I can't follow up because they haven't completed their task yet. so they're asking me for my notes to validate their inaccurate assertion

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 4d

Gary Larson's still got it

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 4d

Palestine is everywhere

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 4d

Earlier today I was listening to one of the hosts from Here and Now repeatedly ask a resident from Southeast Chicago whether throwing rocks at ICE was justified. And finally she just said, "They invaded our community. They have machine guns."

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. New Economist poll finds only 34% of Americans say ICE's use of force has been justified, vs 51% who say it's been excessive. And they oppose agents wearing masks by 52-35.

Yep, ICE is becoming a pariah agency, and that's gaining deep penetration in the culture:

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