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like_a_bosstonian @wilkos.bsky.social · 5h

a group of cartoon characters are standing in front of a christmas tree and looking surprised .

ALT: a group of cartoon characters are standing in front of a christmas tree and looking surprised .

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like_a_bosstonian @wilkos.bsky.social · 6h

The 14 Words

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 6h

Houston teen says immigration agents detained, choked him. He's a U.S. citizen.

A Houston teenager who is a U.S. citizen said he was beaten, choked and subjected to racial slurs when masked immigration officers chased him and his father.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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like_a_bosstonian @wilkos.bsky.social · 7h

Alas, there were no warning signs..

elon musk speaking into a microphone with his eyes closed

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like_a_bosstonian @wilkos.bsky.social · 8h

Impossible to foresee

elon musk speaking into a microphone with his eyes closed

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like_a_bosstonian @wilkos.bsky.social · 8h

Hard to predict..

elon musk speaking into a microphone with his eyes closed

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like_a_bosstonian @wilkos.bsky.social · 9h

Elon Musk taking shortcuts for a product rollout, based on the wager that he can tie up any future lawsuits for as long as it takes? Color me shocked.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14h

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13h

This is The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter in one tweet.

"Dear American Jews,

I'm a Jew, I'm Israeli, and I'll be brutally honest:

If you vote for Zohran Mamdani, you're suicidal and stupid.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This account is ran by Ashutosh Shukla, an Individual from India."

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 13h

Once again, Every Republican Accusation is a Confession.™️

Vox @vox.com · 15h

There is real and growing recognition — at conservatism’s highest levels — that they have an antisemitism problem.

It raises a troubling question: Why do so many of the party’s youth operatives get seduced by neo-Nazism?

Read more from @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social: voxdotcom.visitlink.me/dyVq2T

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like_a_bosstonian @wilkos.bsky.social · 14h

“Rest assured we are working tirelessly to continue to beat this KPI each week, as we blindly lurch forward”

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: "The company’s estimates therefore suggest that every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis." @lmatsakis.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week

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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 14h

How “Neutrality” And “Free Speech” Become Excuses For Driving Out The People You Claim To Value

Mike Brock's piece on Sequoia Capital last week laid out a pretty damning case study: a well-respected COO complains about a partner's Islamophobic posts, senior leadership invokes "institutional…

How “Neutrality” And “Free Speech” Become Excuses For Driving Out The People You Claim To Value

Mike Brock's piece on Sequoia Capital last week laid out a pretty damning case study: a well-respected COO complains about a partner's Islamophobic posts, senior leadership invokes "institutional neutrality" and declines to act, she resigns, he stays because he made them billions on SpaceX. Brock correctly calls this out as a choice, not neutrality—a calculation about whose value to the firm matters more.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 15h

Trump hates that people are calling it the “Epstein Ballroom”.

We’re about to make him very upset. 🏴‍☠️

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15h

i once again would like to express some alarm and concern at the sheer pace of Nazi-related news updates

Alex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, they should

A Michigan elected official is married to a neo-Nazi. Some constituents have a problem with that.

Meghyn Booth says she didn’t know she was married to a neo-Nazi influencer, not exactly.

www.mlive.com

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like_a_bosstonian @wilkos.bsky.social · 15h

Kids don’t make a career out of getting kicked in the head…

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 16h

The Verge exists to print this huge cowardly stack of no-comments from huge companies which spent years pretending they would develop a wonky content authentication metadata standard only to have it come to nothing when Sora was released www.theverge.com/report/80635...

TikTok, Amazon, and Google haven’t yet provided comment to The Verge about C2PA support. Meta told The Verge that it is continuing to implement C2PA and evaluating its labeling approach as AI evolves. OpenAI simply directed us to its scant blog posts and help center article about C2PA support. Meta, like OpenAI, has an entire platform for its AI slop, complete with dedicated feeds for social and video content, and both companies are pumping AI-generated videos into social media.

X, which has its own controversies regarding nude celebrity deepfakes, pointed us to its policy that supposedly bans deceptive AI-generated media, but did not provide any information about how this is moderated beyond relying on user reports and community notes. X was notably a founding member of the CAI back when it was still known as Twitter, but pulled itself from the initiative without explanation after Elon Musk purchased the platform.

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like_a_bosstonian @wilkos.bsky.social · 16h

It is truly My Crippling Insecurities are now Everyone’s Problem, on a global scale

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 18h

The President isn’t describing an IQ test. He’s most likely describing a dementia screening and is describing it as “very hard.”

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22h

Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…

The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Walz: "They are paying contractors to pay down the East Wing but they're not putting money into the food bank. So if there's a sense of frustration in America, it's very real ... when the White House press secretary said their top priority is the ballroom, we could not disagree more."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h

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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like_a_bosstonian @wilkos.bsky.social · 16h

$40B for the people of Argentina, nothing for the people of America

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like_a_bosstonian @wilkos.bsky.social · 16h

“Full Self Driving”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 2d

Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire.

Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*