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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
keithng.bsky.social
ai plot summaries but for porn
keithng.bsky.social Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 1h
introducing a new agentic AI service: an AI that watches TV for you and then summarise what happened thus saving you so much time
December 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
keithng.bsky.social
introducing a new agentic AI service: an AI that watches TV for you and then summarise what happened thus saving you so much time
December 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
keithng.bsky.social
A very good piece on the political limbo HK is in right now, where the old system hasn't been replaced so much as hollowed out.

thediplomat.com/2025/12/no-h...
No, Hong Kong’s Governance Is Not Becoming Like China’s. It’s Actually Worse.
Hong Kong is stuck in a governance vacuum, where neither democratic nor authoritarian accountability functions effectively.
thediplomat.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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rmi.bsky.social
Australian yachting commentators pronounce FEMALES exactly the same way as the Ferenghi.
December 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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weirdlilguys.bsky.social
this is why I can never log off
@viewmaster.bex: “Got my husband a thermal camera for Christmas and found out our cat's butthole is 94 degrees.” A thermal photo shows the back of a cat, its tail is 72.6 degrees and its butt is 94.3.
December 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
keithng.bsky.social
I think Some People treat estrangement as a modern woke phenomenon, but it's only a modern phenomenon because for the entire rest of history, when people wanted to go "no contact" they just moved.
danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d
Yeah, no thanks.

Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
SARAH DITUM Stick with family, whatever it says online Estrangement from parents or children seems to be growing, prompted by internet chatrooms advising 'no contact' Sarah Ditum Tuesday December 23 2025, 8.03pm, The Times
December 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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infinata.bsky.social
"You there, boy! [slurpy inhale sound] What day is it?"
Screenshot from Return of the Jedi of Admiral Ackbar leaning on the railing from his command balcony.
December 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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postnatodepression.bsky.social
We are currently experiencing a Category Five White Christmas Event, this is the southern hemisphere what the hell
December 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.

I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.

They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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chrisdeleon.bsky.social
this is still the best way to ask if someone is comfortable using terminal commands to do aws stuff
a girl with a nose ring is wearing a beanie and talking about cowboys in cyberspace .
Alt: young julia stiles with a nose ring is wearing a beanie and saying can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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spavel.bsky.social
AI is accelerating the velocity of stupid promises by 5x
AGI 2 years away, says CEO of Anthropic. Posted 2 years ago.
December 25, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Omg Chris Nolan really made him design and build a nuclear bomh
July 8, 2023 at 10:32 AM
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kevinbuist.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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kendrawrites.com
I saw a tiktok that said:

"You deserve a break. Stop healing. Crash Out. Choose Violence. Do. It. For. The. Plot"

And i feel like this is the energy we should enter 2026 with
December 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech. When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.” What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
If the Romans had simply deported woke baby Jesus to South Sudan, a lot of trouble could have been avoided
December 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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kinoghoul.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
After many years of comparative religious study I have determined that every religious sect is Catholic- or Protestant-coded this is very scientific and non-Eurocentric
December 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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rechelon.bsky.social
Lots of good news about the regime pratfalling, but the most annoying thing is that if they do plateau out and get no further, a set of people is going to spend years saying such was a historical inevitability and it was insane for the rest us to be concerned about the fascists winning a lot more.
December 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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mrxdentith.com
This. If it turns out the fascists were incompetent this time, it doesn’t mean the next lot will be as well. The second Trump administration learnt from the failures of the first, after all
rechelon.bsky.social William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 2d
Lots of good news about the regime pratfalling, but the most annoying thing is that if they do plateau out and get no further, a set of people is going to spend years saying such was a historical inevitability and it was insane for the rest us to be concerned about the fascists winning a lot more.
December 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
keithng.bsky.social
I remember a decade ago using "you wouldn't both-sides fascism, would you?" as a rhetorical question.
December 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
keithng.bsky.social
this [dying gasp] is the cyberpunk dystopia i siiii....
mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 3d
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.

www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
Showing highlights of paragraphs 202 through 206 in a doc with 203-205 blacked out. Text in next image 202. Defendants also actively obstructed law enforcement by denying investigators access to Little St. James beyond its boat dock. 203. Defendants also attempted to conceal their criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct by paying large sums of money to participant-witnesses, including by paying for their attorneys’ fees and case costs in litigation related to this conduct. 204. Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused. 205. Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct. 206. Defendants also concealed their fraud on the Government in obtaining unearned tax benefits by providing false testimony and submitting false and inaccurate reporting to the Economic Development Commission to prevent detection of Defendant Southern Trust Company’s non-compliance with requirements concerning the nature of its business and the residency of the persons it employed.
December 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.

www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
Showing highlights of paragraphs 202 through 206 in a doc with 203-205 blacked out. Text in next image 202. Defendants also actively obstructed law enforcement by denying investigators access to Little St. James beyond its boat dock. 203. Defendants also attempted to conceal their criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct by paying large sums of money to participant-witnesses, including by paying for their attorneys’ fees and case costs in litigation related to this conduct. 204. Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused. 205. Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct. 206. Defendants also concealed their fraud on the Government in obtaining unearned tax benefits by providing false testimony and submitting false and inaccurate reporting to the Economic Development Commission to prevent detection of Defendant Southern Trust Company’s non-compliance with requirements concerning the nature of its business and the residency of the persons it employed.
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
keithng.bsky.social
when the head of state is a sovereign citizen i think that's just a sovereign sovereign.
shakingstick.bsky.social Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 3d
And while it is funny in the sense that the POTUS has a weird sovereign citizen theory that he's running with, it is also bad, & unhinged, & concerning both politically & for the health of the US polis, that such a belief has been enabled by lawyers advising presidents for, lo, half of my life now.
December 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM