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Doug
@dwcrooks.bsky.social
Musician, teacher
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.

Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Everyone stop acting weird and shocked about MTG. She has been systematically distancing herself from the current GOP for months and months. She has a plan reform herself under a new image ON THE RIGHT that’s not part of a sinking ship.

She’s not suddenly changing her tune! SHE’S AN OPPORTUNIST
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
We can’t believe a damn think this awful POTUS Admin tells the public. Nothing
#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy
Kristi Noem has told everyone that there are no U.S citizens being detained or deported & that’s a Blatant Lie like most of what comes out of her mouth. This is just a very short list of U.S. citizens that have been detained since January.
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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The Senate has passed the House Epstein bill by unanimous consent, so it goes to Trump’s desk to sign and he has said he will sign it.

This means:
1) He will lean on Bondi to deny release based on "ongoing investigation "

OR

2) PER Mark Epstein, the files are scrubbed of Trump & Republicans
Live: US House and Senate approve release of Epstein files
The bipartisan bill will now head to President Donald Trump's desk to be signed into law.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Well I guess it’s not like US is hosting the biggest international sporting event in a few months that will attract tens of thousands of international tourists to the country. I’m sure things will be fine 😳
#UhohFIFAWorldCup
NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care.

“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Amazing how you cannot replicate Siskel and Ebert's show. I took them for granted when I was growing up, and had didn't realize how one-of-a-kind they were.
50 years ago this week, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert made the first pilot for their TV show. In honor of this huge anniversary, I created my definitive “Best of Siskel & Ebert” article - 50 of their best reviews from across their entire career. 👍🏻👍🏻
The 50 Best Siskel & Ebert Reviews
screencrush.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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The fact that they now want to release the Epstein files can only mean, I assume, that they’ve purged them. Of some things.
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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No one should have to face such threats.

It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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This is kind of like Hitler saying Satan is bad, but still quite damning for DJT.

I shudder to think what Trump and all the other powerful men did to these CHILDREN.

RELEASE THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES!
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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The president of the most powerful nation on Earth is so terrified of the tales that an imprisoned sex trafficker can tell that he plies her with a comfort puppy and custom meals and is holding out the prospect of a pardon.
77 million people voted for this.
November 15, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
MAGATs = deplorable
NewsNation just dropped a jaw-dropping reel: Trump loyalists, including JD Vance and Kash Patel, on camera demanding the release of the Epstein files before Trump ever took office.
The same people now dodging questions once called transparency “essential.”
#ReleaseTheFiles
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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You would think that the 8 GOP Senators who are SO OUTRAGED that Jack Smith subpoenaed their phone records that they want $1 million compensation would bring him in to testify IN A PUBLIC HEARING to explain why he did this. But no, they don’t want to do that. I wonder why?
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Great idea!!
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Really difficult to overstate the fury one should feel that the GOP and institutions like the New York Times went all in on transphobia as some mortal threat to women and girls while covering up something like this.
When you read these Epstein emails, you start to understand why so many prominent conservatives are obsessed with checking the genitals of children. It's a big thing for them!
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
What the hell @padilla.senate.gov & @schumer.senate.gov - voting _AGAINST_ hemp?!?! How doesn’t serve CA?!?!?!
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Expand the Supreme Court.

The water is warm here.

It's been time.

Force Democrats to run on this issue.

It's a completely corrupt institution that serves to rubber-stamp Trump and MAGA's fascist agenda.
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
(SOUND WAY UP)

DAY 5 NOVEMBER 2O25

AMERICA VOTED AND NOW THIS

LITTLE TRUMP'S JOHNSON TODAY

I could listen to this over & over

Yes MAGA MIKE..(he giggles )
Yes We Will Sweep the Midterms
You will lose the majority

And a GLORIOUS DAY AWAITS
IMPEACH AND CONVICT
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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this was the election night I was hoping for last year. please keep this energy through the 2026 midterms.
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Haha
Dick Cheyney knew what was coming and intentionally chose to die today.
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM