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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
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September 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
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If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
September 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
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An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets.
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Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists' Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up
Artists&Clients, a website for connecting artists with gigs, is down after a group called LunaLock threatened to feed their data to AI datasets.
www.404media.co
September 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets.
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Trump is reportedly looking to shrink the FDIC and consolidate it into other govt agencies.
The FDIC was created during the Depression to protect bank deposits.
This would come after Trump and DOGE shuttered the CFPB, which protects us from financial fraud.
See the pattern?
The FDIC was created during the Depression to protect bank deposits.
This would come after Trump and DOGE shuttered the CFPB, which protects us from financial fraud.
See the pattern?
February 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Trump is reportedly looking to shrink the FDIC and consolidate it into other govt agencies.
The FDIC was created during the Depression to protect bank deposits.
This would come after Trump and DOGE shuttered the CFPB, which protects us from financial fraud.
See the pattern?
The FDIC was created during the Depression to protect bank deposits.
This would come after Trump and DOGE shuttered the CFPB, which protects us from financial fraud.
See the pattern?
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When we generalize about any group of people , we shut out the people who are on the fence. Trump is going to convince a lot of MAGA to stop supporting him. I'm ok being told I have TDS if the end result is that we convince the 1.5m more people that voted for him, to no longer consider him.
Part of what has me in a spiral is that there is no reaching them, Mark. They cannot have a civil conversation that does not include insults and hatred. That's the only way they can live with the ugliness of their choices. They are now devoid of diplomacy and decency.
February 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
When we generalize about any group of people , we shut out the people who are on the fence. Trump is going to convince a lot of MAGA to stop supporting him. I'm ok being told I have TDS if the end result is that we convince the 1.5m more people that voted for him, to no longer consider him.
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Memorizing this paragraph, tattooing it on my forehead, screaming it into the void once an hour for the foreseeable future www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
February 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Memorizing this paragraph, tattooing it on my forehead, screaming it into the void once an hour for the foreseeable future www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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Lauren Sanchez is, at this moment, the most powerful person on Earth:
—She deploys her formidable skills to bag #4 (The Zuck);
—Priscilla Chan gets half META’s voting shares;
—Mental health, trust in institutions, comity of man all skyrocket.
Lauren is the leader we need.
🇺🇸🔥
—She deploys her formidable skills to bag #4 (The Zuck);
—Priscilla Chan gets half META’s voting shares;
—Mental health, trust in institutions, comity of man all skyrocket.
Lauren is the leader we need.
🇺🇸🔥
January 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Lauren Sanchez is, at this moment, the most powerful person on Earth:
—She deploys her formidable skills to bag #4 (The Zuck);
—Priscilla Chan gets half META’s voting shares;
—Mental health, trust in institutions, comity of man all skyrocket.
Lauren is the leader we need.
🇺🇸🔥
—She deploys her formidable skills to bag #4 (The Zuck);
—Priscilla Chan gets half META’s voting shares;
—Mental health, trust in institutions, comity of man all skyrocket.
Lauren is the leader we need.
🇺🇸🔥
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So dark and funereal. Nothing celebratory about her look. Such a bleak existence she leads.
I see that Melania chose to wear her Hamburglar hat to honor the criminals in the nation--and next to her.
January 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
So dark and funereal. Nothing celebratory about her look. Such a bleak existence she leads.
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Big Tech billionaires had a front row seat at Trump's inauguration. They were seated in front of Trump's own cabinet. Tells you everything you need to know.
January 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Big Tech billionaires had a front row seat at Trump's inauguration. They were seated in front of Trump's own cabinet. Tells you everything you need to know.
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Lopatto Banger Alert (although it was my headline, give me that much) www.theverge.com/2025/1/20/24...
Welcome to the era of gangster tech regulation
Trump has offered tech a way to buy itself out of consequences.
www.theverge.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Lopatto Banger Alert (although it was my headline, give me that much) www.theverge.com/2025/1/20/24...
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Aston Martin "categorically denied" a report around Max Verstappen this week, though Juan Pablo Montoya can picture it eventually.
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January 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Aston Martin "categorically denied" a report around Max Verstappen this week, though Juan Pablo Montoya can picture it eventually.
www.planetf1.com/news/max-ver...
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There’s no X crisis, they should just leave. The real crisis is the absolute lack of engagement on the much bigger platforms where the actual people are www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Democrats Face an Existential Crisis on X
Conversations with a dozen insiders point to a party that is unsure about whether to leave or engage with the increasingly MAGA platform.
www.politico.com
December 1, 2024 at 7:53 PM
There’s no X crisis, they should just leave. The real crisis is the absolute lack of engagement on the much bigger platforms where the actual people are www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Interesting post on how regulatory capture at the local level aggravates income inequality
America's fucked up housing market is one of the biggest drivers of wealth inequality right now. Over the same time period that mortgages are skyrocketing, the poor are getting poorer while the rich get richer.
I wrote a whole article about it, here's the link: shorturl.at/WsS8E
I wrote a whole article about it, here's the link: shorturl.at/WsS8E
The Sneaky Way the Government is Making You Poor
Poor Americans have lost 47% of their net worth since 2001, while the wealthy watched their income triple in the same time period. This kind of inequality is destroying our society. So what's making t...
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December 1, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Interesting post on how regulatory capture at the local level aggravates income inequality
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If Bezos had real balls he’d explicitly list the estimated tariff markup on every item in the store with a number to call your member of Congress next to it, like Uber did with taxi regulations
December 1, 2024 at 8:00 PM
If Bezos had real balls he’d explicitly list the estimated tariff markup on every item in the store with a number to call your member of Congress next to it, like Uber did with taxi regulations
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Only 2k followers more and I surpass the Threads count in a tenth of the time. Impressive growth here comparatively and a much better experience obvi. Kudos to the @bsky.app team for 1. Amazing work 2. Making Jack Dorsey leave (that one is just personally gratifying)
a raccoon is sitting on a rock with its hands on its knees and says yay !
ALT: a raccoon is sitting on a rock with its hands on its knees and says yay !
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November 30, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Only 2k followers more and I surpass the Threads count in a tenth of the time. Impressive growth here comparatively and a much better experience obvi. Kudos to the @bsky.app team for 1. Amazing work 2. Making Jack Dorsey leave (that one is just personally gratifying)
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The irony of it all.
November 30, 2024 at 3:17 AM
The irony of it all.
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Australia bans social media for under 16s - https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/28/24308245/australia-bans-social-media-children-under-16
Australia bans social media for under 16s
Now platforms have to figure out how to enforce it.
www.theverge.com
November 28, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Australia bans social media for under 16s - https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/28/24308245/australia-bans-social-media-children-under-16
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Read
This story knocked the wind out of me and i hope esquire paid this man.
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www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
November 29, 2024 at 3:09 AM
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I'm angry at myself for participating for so long in a platform that was biased around its pro-fascist, antisemitic owner.
www.techpolicy.press/new-research...
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New Research Points to Possible Algorithmic Bias on X | TechPolicy.Press
The platform appears to be warped around Elon Musk's interests. Prithvi Iyer considers the findings.
www.techpolicy.press
November 18, 2024 at 8:23 AM
I'm angry at myself for participating for so long in a platform that was biased around its pro-fascist, antisemitic owner.
www.techpolicy.press/new-research...
www.techpolicy.press/new-research...
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I keep updating my starter kit after finding more of my favorites. Here's the latest update: go.bsky.app/HqLPwgm
November 16, 2024 at 6:12 PM
I keep updating my starter kit after finding more of my favorites. Here's the latest update: go.bsky.app/HqLPwgm