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Remember the burst of posts in October claiming Taylor Swift was a Nazi/trade wife/selling SS merch? It was a bot farm.
AND: Researchers "discovered 'a significant user overlap between accounts pushing the Swift Nazi narrative & those active in a separate astroturf campaign attacking Blake Lively."
AND: Researchers "discovered 'a significant user overlap between accounts pushing the Swift Nazi narrative & those active in a separate astroturf campaign attacking Blake Lively."
Taylor Swift's Last Album Sparked Bizarre Accusations of Nazism. It Was a Coordinated Attack
Data analysis from startup GUDEA reveals inauthentic social media network that pushed false narrative about her ties to MAGA world and white supremacy
www.rollingstone.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Remember the burst of posts in October claiming Taylor Swift was a Nazi/trade wife/selling SS merch? It was a bot farm.
AND: Researchers "discovered 'a significant user overlap between accounts pushing the Swift Nazi narrative & those active in a separate astroturf campaign attacking Blake Lively."
AND: Researchers "discovered 'a significant user overlap between accounts pushing the Swift Nazi narrative & those active in a separate astroturf campaign attacking Blake Lively."
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The FDA is compromised.
This decision, which will affect millions of Americans, is based on VAERS. This database is not a reliable source of information. An n of 10 is not statistically significant.
There have been multiple studies showing that the Covid vaccine saves lives.
🧪 archive.today/HTFk4
This decision, which will affect millions of Americans, is based on VAERS. This database is not a reliable source of information. An n of 10 is not statistically significant.
There have been multiple studies showing that the Covid vaccine saves lives.
🧪 archive.today/HTFk4
FDA to probe whether adult deaths linked to coronavirus vaccine
An agency memo alleged that at least 10 children died after receiving coronavirus vaccinations, citing it as a basis for overhauling how vaccines are approved, despite studies finding the shots have g...
www.washingtonpost.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The FDA is compromised.
This decision, which will affect millions of Americans, is based on VAERS. This database is not a reliable source of information. An n of 10 is not statistically significant.
There have been multiple studies showing that the Covid vaccine saves lives.
🧪 archive.today/HTFk4
This decision, which will affect millions of Americans, is based on VAERS. This database is not a reliable source of information. An n of 10 is not statistically significant.
There have been multiple studies showing that the Covid vaccine saves lives.
🧪 archive.today/HTFk4
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Boomers aren’t ready for 2026 politics.
December 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Boomers aren’t ready for 2026 politics.
Just in general there are a lot of factors that go into college choice, and a school/program they'll actually finish is a better investment than one where they're miserable and stop out partway through.
As parents are helping their kids consider colleges, this is my perennial reminder that state schools often have lower price tags, yes, but private schools, including many small liberal arts schools, often have better aid packages, and are thus often cheaper in the end (but may be more competitive).
December 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Just in general there are a lot of factors that go into college choice, and a school/program they'll actually finish is a better investment than one where they're miserable and stop out partway through.
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This is what banning under-16s from social media looks like for EVERYONE
December 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This is what banning under-16s from social media looks like for EVERYONE
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Re: everybody getting got by an ai dog video: I want to talk about propaganda in general as well as ai in specific. We are awash in way too much stuff to pay deep attention to and that's absolutely by design.
December 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Re: everybody getting got by an ai dog video: I want to talk about propaganda in general as well as ai in specific. We are awash in way too much stuff to pay deep attention to and that's absolutely by design.
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🎵Mal aimé
je suis le mal aimé ...
Les gens me connaissent
Tel que je veux me montrer.
The unloved one
I'm the unloved one ...
People know me
As I want to show myself.🎵
Petit fanart :)
je suis le mal aimé ...
Les gens me connaissent
Tel que je veux me montrer.
The unloved one
I'm the unloved one ...
People know me
As I want to show myself.🎵
Petit fanart :)
December 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
🎵Mal aimé
je suis le mal aimé ...
Les gens me connaissent
Tel que je veux me montrer.
The unloved one
I'm the unloved one ...
People know me
As I want to show myself.🎵
Petit fanart :)
je suis le mal aimé ...
Les gens me connaissent
Tel que je veux me montrer.
The unloved one
I'm the unloved one ...
People know me
As I want to show myself.🎵
Petit fanart :)
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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
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Right, thanks to generous patrons and getting those labradorite listed, I do have enough stock I could make it through Xmas if I sell it. Now... I just need to actually sell it!
Last posting date for US is 12th - this Friday, so please get your orders in by Thursday night.
Last posting date for US is 12th - this Friday, so please get your orders in by Thursday night.
December 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Right, thanks to generous patrons and getting those labradorite listed, I do have enough stock I could make it through Xmas if I sell it. Now... I just need to actually sell it!
Last posting date for US is 12th - this Friday, so please get your orders in by Thursday night.
Last posting date for US is 12th - this Friday, so please get your orders in by Thursday night.
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Millions of people who paid for apps through the Google Play Store have money coming.
Are you eligible for a share of the $700 million Google Play settlement?
Millions of people who paid for apps through the Google Play Store have money coming.
www.oregonlive.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Millions of people who paid for apps through the Google Play Store have money coming.
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The reason to favor Beit Hillel over Beit Shammai is because Shammai would have us making hanukkiot with hundreds of arms, and we'd be living the Dril Candles Tweet life.
December 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The reason to favor Beit Hillel over Beit Shammai is because Shammai would have us making hanukkiot with hundreds of arms, and we'd be living the Dril Candles Tweet life.
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I like this proposal to progressively tax high CEO-to-worker pay ratios. This is what every tax should consider—how it can shape behavior in a desired direction.
I'll add that I think this should be paid in newly issued shares into a national UBI-paying fund that all corps should pay into annually.
I'll add that I think this should be paid in newly issued shares into a national UBI-paying fund that all corps should pay into annually.
December 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I like this proposal to progressively tax high CEO-to-worker pay ratios. This is what every tax should consider—how it can shape behavior in a desired direction.
I'll add that I think this should be paid in newly issued shares into a national UBI-paying fund that all corps should pay into annually.
I'll add that I think this should be paid in newly issued shares into a national UBI-paying fund that all corps should pay into annually.
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"But what does that say about my job if a machine that's wrong 75% of the time can do for me and no one notices?"
Hi, you are participating in the most inefficient and needlessly cruel version of UBI possible.
Hi, you are participating in the most inefficient and needlessly cruel version of UBI possible.
this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"But what does that say about my job if a machine that's wrong 75% of the time can do for me and no one notices?"
Hi, you are participating in the most inefficient and needlessly cruel version of UBI possible.
Hi, you are participating in the most inefficient and needlessly cruel version of UBI possible.
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also always deeply funny that every sci-fi video game from 1999-2014 was trying to be Aliens, and copied everything except the...working class woman protagonist
Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
also always deeply funny that every sci-fi video game from 1999-2014 was trying to be Aliens, and copied everything except the...working class woman protagonist
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this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
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Waiting for my dad to finish a doctor’s appointment. They’re playing Walker Texas Ranger in reception. The baddies are white supremacist militiamen decrying how “Blacks and Jews are ruining the soul of our country” and Walker responds by kicking the shit out of them. We used to be a proper country.
December 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Waiting for my dad to finish a doctor’s appointment. They’re playing Walker Texas Ranger in reception. The baddies are white supremacist militiamen decrying how “Blacks and Jews are ruining the soul of our country” and Walker responds by kicking the shit out of them. We used to be a proper country.
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an unfortunately plausible interpretation of the Biden economy is "if you cut wage inequality very quickly then there will be a broad-based bipartisan mental breakdown"
December 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
an unfortunately plausible interpretation of the Biden economy is "if you cut wage inequality very quickly then there will be a broad-based bipartisan mental breakdown"
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"The important thing isn't whether this actually happened or not, it's that I need attention/engagement"
Despicable behavior
Despicable behavior
What makes me angriest about the fake AI videos where people yell at ICE is that there’s a million actual videos, there’s actual priests being pelted with pepper balls, it’s just that the real priest didn’t say “we worship the real God not your ORANGE one” so he wasn’t quippy enough
December 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"The important thing isn't whether this actually happened or not, it's that I need attention/engagement"
Despicable behavior
Despicable behavior
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Tabletop RPG where the character playbooks include Child With a Knife, Monkey With a Gun, Cat That Can Just Do That, and Rat That Makes All of The Rules.
December 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Tabletop RPG where the character playbooks include Child With a Knife, Monkey With a Gun, Cat That Can Just Do That, and Rat That Makes All of The Rules.
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This is a very important scientific outreach project: Hallmark Christmas movies… but in the abyss. High-pressure romance included. Underwater and scientifically questionable. You’re welcome. Expect bioluminescent meet-cutes and emotionally unavailable octopuses.
#Trenchmas
#Trenchmas
December 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This is a very important scientific outreach project: Hallmark Christmas movies… but in the abyss. High-pressure romance included. Underwater and scientifically questionable. You’re welcome. Expect bioluminescent meet-cutes and emotionally unavailable octopuses.
#Trenchmas
#Trenchmas
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December 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Registered charity or direct to the person who needs it, the vague "a portion of proceeds/profit" stuff is a red flag. The real game bundles & charity auctions are happy to spell out the terms and don't pressure you in random pubs. Also magazines & candy are disproportionately scams in my experience
If they aren’t a registered charity and they aren’t registered with the Fundraising Regulator (example logo below), it’s probably one of these scammy orgs where the ‘profit’ is a tiny fraction of the money you handed over and some bastard gets rich on your good intentions. Give to a real charity.
December 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Registered charity or direct to the person who needs it, the vague "a portion of proceeds/profit" stuff is a red flag. The real game bundles & charity auctions are happy to spell out the terms and don't pressure you in random pubs. Also magazines & candy are disproportionately scams in my experience
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Nothing says vibrant like that... interchange?
Just when you thought this campaign couldn't get worse.
If anyone has more information about the creatives behind this abomination, I'd like to speak with them immediately
If anyone has more information about the creatives behind this abomination, I'd like to speak with them immediately
December 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Nothing says vibrant like that... interchange?
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The most important political fault line of our time is over whether children are people or property.
This whole so-called “parents rights” movement the right has taken up and the left is supposed to kowtow to for votes is so obviously anti-child it really bothers me to see it presented as anything other than justification for abusive “parenting” and disregard for actual science on child development
December 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The most important political fault line of our time is over whether children are people or property.