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denisedwheeler.bsky.social
I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went

This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers

2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon

But in 2000 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof

Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub....
February 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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missallot.bsky.social
Here it is.
bsky.app/profile/your...
youranoncentral.bsky.social Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Feb 12
This one was censored in the US so not sure how many of you caught this before, but little X knows about the election rigging. Which is why Musk has effectively kidnapped him and doesn't allow him to be with his mother or other family.
February 13, 2025 at 7:05 AM
swargar.bsky.social
Hahaha. Modi fails to gets his hand shook by Macron.
February 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
From Kate Conger’s book “Character Limit” on how Musk ruined Twitter.
February 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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shashj.bsky.social
"Google's parent company has ditched a longstanding principle and lifted a ban on artificial intelligence (AI) being used for developing weapons and surveillance tools." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Google owner Alphabet lifts ban on its AI being used for weapons
The tech giant has updated the principles governing its development of artificial intelligence.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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alexzucker.bsky.social
Google abandons its promise not to use its AI technology to develop weapons or other technology intended to kill people

www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/b...
Google erases promise not to use AI technology for weapons or surveillance | CNN Business
Google’s updated AI ethics policy removes its promise that it won’t use the technology to pursue weapons and surveillance.
www.cnn.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
It’s the new American 80s so I dug out my ancient copy of THE CLOTHES HAVE NO EMPEROR, a book which laid bare the Reagan admin just by listing all the idiotic things that happened. Introduction still holds up!
This book is a work of self-defense. It is the response of one observer who realized that his perception of the truth—an actor is playing the President—was a distinctly unpopular one. An observer who saw his nation's history being fictionalized as it occurred— an actor is playing the President! —while the ratings race turned media "watchdogs" into accomplices, bit players in the hit TV show the Presidency had become. An observer whose very sanity was threatened by the ease with which illusion-an actor is playing the President! —was embraced as reality. I did not find the President's ignorance charming. I was unwarmed by his genial head-waggling, unreassured by his stern frowns of manly purpose, uncheered by his hearty waves as he strolled to and from his limos and choppers and jets. His smooth purr did not soothe me. His nostalgic fables about an America that never was did not inspire me. And his canned one-liners, perversely celebrated as "wit" ("If I'd gotten a hand like that in Hollywood, I never would have left") definitely did not amuse me. The voting majority, humbled by its recent presidential choices, was thrilled to have elected someone who at least looked the part, but all I could see was the emptiness of his suit. To me, the President was a pitchman who seemed not to exist when the camera light was off, a front man so personally invisible that he'd actually called his autobiography Where's the Rest of Me?, an aging star who'd spent way too much of his time watching his own movies, like Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. Astonished that so few seemed to share my vision, I was compelled to document it. Armed with scissors, file folders, yellow highlight pens and a bank of VCRs, I embarked on an eight-year quest, gathering evidence to prove my case: AN ACTOR IS PLAYING THE PRESIDENT! I began reading four, then six, then eight papers a day (and five, then 10, then 20 magazines a week), seeking out the absurd and the outrageous, clipping and filing everything … landscapes. I became a media prospector, mining vast acres of ink in search of the perfect details and telling quotes that held the golden nuggets of truth. I began a video file, recording the evening newscasts—first one network, then two, then three—and dubbing the key sound-bites onto meticulously logged master tapes. The events of the decade were like a surreal novel unfolding in the media, and I found myself scrambling to get it all down, compiling a memory for a nation that clearly didn't want one. The Clothes Have No Emperor is the result—a presentation of the Reagan years as I saw them, an invitation to historians to set the record straight while Nancy is around to see it, and a call to vigilance as we set about choosing who will lead us into the next millennium. Yes, The President Reagan Show is off the air now, but a similar entertainment-Dan Quayle's Playhouse—is waiting in the wings. As we head into the '90s, the powers that be are working overtime-with the complicity, once again, of segments of the media that surely know better-to lull us into thinking that our Vice President is "growing" into his office and will soon be ready for bigger things. Do not assume that this lightweight can never be elected to the White House. Back in the '60s, we knew the very notion of "President Reagan" was preposterous. Paul Slansky New York July 1989
January 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM