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The five words every girl wants to hear
December 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The five words every girl wants to hear
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Bluesky folks came up with a fundamentally new and privacy-protecting method of doing this unlike every other service. Almost every negative response is based on how people assume Bluesky is doing this based on how bad everyone else does it. Bad actors have so poisoned the entire market...
v1.112 is live!
We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky.
Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts.
Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky.
Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts.
Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
December 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Bluesky folks came up with a fundamentally new and privacy-protecting method of doing this unlike every other service. Almost every negative response is based on how people assume Bluesky is doing this based on how bad everyone else does it. Bad actors have so poisoned the entire market...
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At… PROPUBLICA????? God we’re so fucked
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
At… PROPUBLICA????? God we’re so fucked
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I really appreciate how careful the Bluesky team was about making this process extremely secure and extremely optional
Contact importer just landed.
December 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I really appreciate how careful the Bluesky team was about making this process extremely secure and extremely optional
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monster train is a really good game because it understands that the coolest form of transit is trains and the coolest form of metaphysical creature is monsters
December 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
monster train is a really good game because it understands that the coolest form of transit is trains and the coolest form of metaphysical creature is monsters
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Urbanists will talk about how cars are a machine that makes you selfish and crazy, and I know it’s easy to roll your eyes at that but if you give drivers the ability to comment they will say “yes I am selfish and crazy”
I care about the harm to my sanity and schedule for being forced to go artificially slow
December 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Urbanists will talk about how cars are a machine that makes you selfish and crazy, and I know it’s easy to roll your eyes at that but if you give drivers the ability to comment they will say “yes I am selfish and crazy”
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I am very sympathetic to those who have built something on substack for years and are having trouble leaving. But to begin a substack now? In late 2025? idk man!!!!
December 12, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I am very sympathetic to those who have built something on substack for years and are having trouble leaving. But to begin a substack now? In late 2025? idk man!!!!
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It's here IT'S HERE IT'S HERE EVERYBODY THE FOOTAGE DROPPED
December 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's here IT'S HERE IT'S HERE EVERYBODY THE FOOTAGE DROPPED
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
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the rich want us all to actually just live in complete hell
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
the rich want us all to actually just live in complete hell
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the IT guys, they came to me they told me we’re going to have to install windows 11 i said no, no i don’t think so. every computer in the white house will be running bloat free open source software and it will work perfectly. we have the best audio drivers in the world folks. crisp, reliable, smooth
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
the IT guys, they came to me they told me we’re going to have to install windows 11 i said no, no i don’t think so. every computer in the white house will be running bloat free open source software and it will work perfectly. we have the best audio drivers in the world folks. crisp, reliable, smooth
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we actually life in hell
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
we actually life in hell
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i knew this part of using linux would be different intellectually, but i cannot express how nice it feels to not have my OS nagging me about anything, trying to get me to use AI, or trying to upsell me on cloud storage every three seconds.
December 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
i knew this part of using linux would be different intellectually, but i cannot express how nice it feels to not have my OS nagging me about anything, trying to get me to use AI, or trying to upsell me on cloud storage every three seconds.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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If you don't trust Google then you probably shouldn't use Gmail, but the claim it's training AI on your emails and attachments has *no real source that i have been able to find whatsoever*
And they said on the record that it doesn't matter whether you have the smart settings on or not, they don't.
And they said on the record that it doesn't matter whether you have the smart settings on or not, they don't.
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
If you don't trust Google then you probably shouldn't use Gmail, but the claim it's training AI on your emails and attachments has *no real source that i have been able to find whatsoever*
And they said on the record that it doesn't matter whether you have the smart settings on or not, they don't.
And they said on the record that it doesn't matter whether you have the smart settings on or not, they don't.
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it feels inappropriate to say ‘happy’ trans day of remembrance but i hope it has been a meaningful day and i hope my cis friends are doing right by the trans people in their lives
November 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
it feels inappropriate to say ‘happy’ trans day of remembrance but i hope it has been a meaningful day and i hope my cis friends are doing right by the trans people in their lives
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it makes a lot of sense that my employer and i pay anthem over $30k a year for my family's shitty health insurance instead of me paying a 10% payroll tax for a single payer system
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
it makes a lot of sense that my employer and i pay anthem over $30k a year for my family's shitty health insurance instead of me paying a 10% payroll tax for a single payer system
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the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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probably I wouldn’t like NA beer without the many associations I have with the taste of beer and the many social and cultural functions beer serves, but I do have those associations and it does serve those functions so here we are
I've never really understood the demographic for this beverage. Wouldn't you rather have a ginger ale? What's the benefit of the taste of beer without the alcohol? I doubt anyone really drinks beer for the taste of it first and most.
November 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
probably I wouldn’t like NA beer without the many associations I have with the taste of beer and the many social and cultural functions beer serves, but I do have those associations and it does serve those functions so here we are
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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Commentary: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process https://theonion.com/not-sure-how-they-deal-with-criminals-in-your-town-but-round-here-we-use-a-restorative-justice-process/
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Commentary: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process https://theonion.com/not-sure-how-they-deal-with-criminals-in-your-town-but-round-here-we-use-a-restorative-justice-process/