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Doing my part to BlueSky one Alt Text at a time. It's not hard to do and it shows you believe in inclusivity. Go into your settings and check the box so you are reminded when posting pictures to add alt text.
a cartoon character stands in front of a house that looks like a conch shell
Alt: a cartoon character, John Zoidberg from Futurama,stands in front of a house that looks like a conch shell
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Doing my part to BlueSky one Alt Text at a time. It's not hard to do and it shows you believe in inclusivity. Go into your settings and check the box so you are reminded when posting pictures to add alt text.
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This is definitely how I would like to do my long distance travel in future, if possible. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport?
The Neoliner Origin set off on its inaugural two-week voyage from France to the US with the aim of revolutionising the notoriously dirty shipping industry
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is definitely how I would like to do my long distance travel in future, if possible. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: no one wants Diet Conservatism, it just doesn't taste the same.
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I've said it before and I'll say it again: no one wants Diet Conservatism, it just doesn't taste the same.
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conceding to far right ideas about the structure of society is conceding to a zero sum vision of the world, and more importantly giving voters a choice between two zero sum visions, where one is half hearted and the other is full throated. is it really a surprise then they choose the latter?
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
conceding to far right ideas about the structure of society is conceding to a zero sum vision of the world, and more importantly giving voters a choice between two zero sum visions, where one is half hearted and the other is full throated. is it really a surprise then they choose the latter?
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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There is no cure for their poison except to challenge its assumptions. Nothing is gained by pretending to agree with it, or mollifying it.
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
There is no cure for their poison except to challenge its assumptions. Nothing is gained by pretending to agree with it, or mollifying it.
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Evidence!
a person in a pink polka dot pajama opens a white aomi refrigerator
ALT: a person in a pink polka dot pajama opens a white aomi refrigerator
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Evidence!
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He had a brain scan, and the results were negative 🤨
November 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
He had a brain scan, and the results were negative 🤨
Hilarious responses on the serious matter of cattle sneaking about.
Last month he was a soybean farmer, this month he’s an expert on intercontinental cattle drives.
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Hilarious responses on the serious matter of cattle sneaking about.
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The Epstein case is likely to be seen very differently by history. Certainly, it will be seen differently from how it is typically portrayed in the media. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
We've Got the Epstein Story All Wrong
In the midst of our national Epstein-mania are we missing what's really important?
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The Epstein case is likely to be seen very differently by history. Certainly, it will be seen differently from how it is typically portrayed in the media. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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BREAKING: Documents reviewed by @bylinetimes.bsky.social
show Jeffrey Epstein received real-time internal White House info in 2019 from Trump's inner circle - while working with Steve Bannon to rebuild his public image by filming on Epstein's private island bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/j...
show Jeffrey Epstein received real-time internal White House info in 2019 from Trump's inner circle - while working with Steve Bannon to rebuild his public image by filming on Epstein's private island bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/j...
Jeffrey Epstein Had Access to Trump's Inner Circle, While Working With Steve Bannon
Emails and text messages reveal Jeffrey Epstein had a direct line into Donald Trump’s inner circle while Bannon worked to rehabilitate him in the hours before his arrest
bylinetimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
BREAKING: Documents reviewed by @bylinetimes.bsky.social
show Jeffrey Epstein received real-time internal White House info in 2019 from Trump's inner circle - while working with Steve Bannon to rebuild his public image by filming on Epstein's private island bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/j...
show Jeffrey Epstein received real-time internal White House info in 2019 from Trump's inner circle - while working with Steve Bannon to rebuild his public image by filming on Epstein's private island bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/j...
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We don't need to "protect our borders"
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
November 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
We don't need to "protect our borders"
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
The next taxonomy / ontology project?
We've been following deepfakes for the last 7 years. This article aims to shed additional light on the topic by:
1) creating a conceptual typology of deepfakes
2) coining new concepts like 'glowfakes' and 'fanfakes'
3) & analyzing deepfakes from the 2024 elections
@grailcenter.bsky.social
1) creating a conceptual typology of deepfakes
2) coining new concepts like 'glowfakes' and 'fanfakes'
3) & analyzing deepfakes from the 2024 elections
@grailcenter.bsky.social
'Darkfakes,' 'Foefakes,' 'Fanfakes,' and 'Glowfakes': Morgan Wack, Christina Walker, Alena Birrer, Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Daniel Schiff, and JP Messina systematically analyzed political deepfakes and developed a classification that categorizes them along key dimensions.
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The next taxonomy / ontology project?
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Whatever the case, I think a large part of it comes from the fact that so many Americans are consumer first, citizen second and where there is an active responsibility with being a citizen, consumers are passive and expect to be catered to.
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Whatever the case, I think a large part of it comes from the fact that so many Americans are consumer first, citizen second and where there is an active responsibility with being a citizen, consumers are passive and expect to be catered to.
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I dream of having a whole day where I don't hear anything about AI and I don't see some version of "there is an update available". #lifegoals
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I dream of having a whole day where I don't hear anything about AI and I don't see some version of "there is an update available". #lifegoals
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I keep urging folks to read Goliath’s Curse by Luke Kemp because these conditions have repeatedly emerged across human history. Without robust restraints, dominance hierarchies, extreme inequality & bizarre mythologies can develop almost anywhere, creating severe societal strain & potential collapse
So many of the wealthiest among us have these insane apocalyptic and racist ideologies and are just completely shielded from any consequences. The accumulation of power is melting their brains. Taxing the bejesus out of the oligarchic class is a first step towards restoring reality.
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I keep urging folks to read Goliath’s Curse by Luke Kemp because these conditions have repeatedly emerged across human history. Without robust restraints, dominance hierarchies, extreme inequality & bizarre mythologies can develop almost anywhere, creating severe societal strain & potential collapse
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Another reference to the thinking of Sagan,Cox and others. When you think of the progress humans have made all to be thrown away by stupid old men 🤦♂️
November 17, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Another reference to the thinking of Sagan,Cox and others. When you think of the progress humans have made all to be thrown away by stupid old men 🤦♂️
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For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.
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don't let Mayor Johnson's masterful answer to a dumb question get lost in the shuffle: "we don't have 'illegal aliens.' is that some sci-fi show? legal term for my people was 'slave'—you want me to use that?" @mayorofchicago.bsky.social #MustWatch
November 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
don't let Mayor Johnson's masterful answer to a dumb question get lost in the shuffle: "we don't have 'illegal aliens.' is that some sci-fi show? legal term for my people was 'slave'—you want me to use that?" @mayorofchicago.bsky.social #MustWatch
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“You muppet - you’re holding the map upside down”
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1419, May 2016.
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1419, May 2016.
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“You muppet - you’re holding the map upside down”
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1419, May 2016.
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1419, May 2016.
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“Flooded homes lose value. Overheated cities become uninhabitable. Entire asset classes are degrading in real time, which translates to loss of value, business interruption, & market devaluation on a systemic level"- Günther Thallinger
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
November 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“Flooded homes lose value. Overheated cities become uninhabitable. Entire asset classes are degrading in real time, which translates to loss of value, business interruption, & market devaluation on a systemic level"- Günther Thallinger
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
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Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Our side of the arms race may be staging a comeback
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Our side of the arms race may be staging a comeback