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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
Please like this post if you're as tired of "winning" as I am.

#IncompetentKrasnov
March 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
One of these things is not like the other.
March 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Wow! The number of @bsky.app
users just passed 33 MILLION!!! 👏

LETS DO THIS!!
March 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
robertbirdsey.bsky.social
I’m just gonna put this right here.
An image showing the top 20 most invasive applications.
January 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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rickylongthread.bsky.social
January 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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theswu.bsky.social
The mood in America today:
January 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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h/t @karaswisher.bsky.social
January 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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zuckjet.grndcntrl.net

~ 951 gallons (3,599 liters).
~ 6,372 lbs (2,890 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $5,324 cost of fuel.
~ 10 tons of CO2 emissions.
January 10, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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gwillow.me
Okay so now that we've got a Twitter replacement, what are we using for an Instagram replacement
January 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
robertbirdsey.bsky.social
REMINDER: A department of the US government can only be established by congress. This is not a department. Every single news outlet not correcting this is further enabling the falsehood. Maybe just write “Department [sic] of Government Efficiency” - it’s more, efficient.
January 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
Also read @sambiddle.com on the new Meta content guidelines, including a bunch of racist, anti-immigrant stuff that is now fair game theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
Examples of newly permissible speech on Facebook and Instagram highlighted in the training materials include: “Immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit.” “Gays are freaks.” “Look at that tranny (beneath photo of 17 year old girl).”
January 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
robertbirdsey.bsky.social
How to delete Meta:

Facebook
m.facebook.com/help/2245628...
Instagram
help.instagram.com/370452623149...
Threads
help.instagram.com/313703828012...
WhatsApp
faq.whatsapp.com/213857790319...
January 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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amir.blue
I really don't understand how Community Notes is going to work in a wall-garden network like Facebook. The anti-vaccination group is going to all of a sudden post community notes on its members' posts?
January 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project. "I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."
January 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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walterkatz.bsky.social
Today’s Platformer.news on Meta rolling up its fact-checking and loosening content moderation is a seriously good analysis of how the social media giant is creating “dire” safety risks around the world. www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch... @caseynewton.bsky.social
Meta surrenders to the right on speech
“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer
www.platformer.news
January 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM