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a cartoon character is laying in the grass with the words `` i need top '' written on it .
ALT: a cartoon character is laying in the grass with the words `` i need top '' written on it .
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January 16, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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January 16, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
i desperately need to know if this baby is ok because i’m going to lose my mind, you know?
January 15, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”
January 15, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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edzitron.com
This isn't even what the article says! It's mostly about how nobody can really tell if AI is useful for science or maths, and as ever with every single one of these stories, there's one anecdote of a person saying "yeah it's good but you know, you need to check if it's right"
Kevin Barreto and Liam Price, two mathematicians in Britain, used GPT-5 this month to crack a problem that was previously unsolved. Then they used Aristotle, the A.I. system from Harmonic, to verify that the solution was correct. Unlike GPT-5, Aristotle uses a specialized computer programming language to prove whether an answer is right or wrong. The two mathematicians did play a small role. They nudged OpenAI’s system in a new direction when its proof did not quite do what they wanted it to do. But like other experts, they believe that A.I. has now shown that it can do academic research. “It’s not a very high-level piece of research, but the fact that A.I. is capable of research of any level is impressive,” Dr. Bloom said. If a graduate student showed him the same mathematical solution, he added, he would suggest that the student submit it to an academic journal for publication. “A consensus as to what the problem was even asking was only obtained in the last month or so, which might explain why it had not been properly addressed in the literature before,” he said. Though he was impressed, Dr. Bloom added he still hadn’t seen evidence that A.I. could generate ideas that humans couldn’t. “And I would be surprised if that happened anytime soon,” Dr. Bloom said. Nonetheless, scientists say that A.I. has become a powerful and rapidly improving research tool and that whether it is generating ideas on its own is — for now — a moot point. When Dr. Unutmaz uses A.I. for his research into chronic diseases, he said, he often feels like he is talking with an experienced colleague. But he acknowledges the machine cannot do its work without a human collaborator. An experienced researcher is still needed to repeatedly prompt the system, explain what it should be looking for and ultimately separate the interesting information from everything else the system produces. “I am still relevant, maybe even more relevant,” he said. “You have to have a very deep expertise to appreciate what it is doing.”
January 15, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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whodat35.bsky.social
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

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Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
i don’t know how to make sense of the world we’re living in. i write stories about the past. this one is, in its own way, my love letter to minneapolis.

we who struggle for justice have always been stronger and braver than they are. we’ve always fought back. and we will always, eventually, win.
January 15, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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crimethinc.com
Rapid response networks have evolved swiftly over the past few months. Besieged by 3000 federal mercenaries, volunteers in the Twin Cities have updated their rapid response model, developing a dynamic and resilient system.

This report explores how you can learn from their model to build your own.
Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities
The rapid response networks people organized to defend their communities against federal agents seeking to kidnap, brutalize, and terrorize them have undergone a whirlwind evolution to keep up with...
crimethinc.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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crimethinc.com
After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas.

ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.
An abandoned ICE vehicle with graffiti on it. An abandoned ICE vehicle with graffiti on it.
January 15, 2026 at 5:11 AM
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margaret.bsky.social
I must not discourse.
Discourse is the mind-killer.
Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face the discourse.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
May 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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bishonentype.bsky.social
they already fired someone at MSNBC for saying that Adams was a "subpar cartoonist"
January 13, 2026 at 5:30 PM