Steve B
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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (March)
December 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (March)
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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (June)
December 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)
December 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)
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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (September)
December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (September)
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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BTW you can let a Paramount+ agent that you'll cancel your sub unless they air an unedited CECOT segement on 60 Minutes here help.paramountplus.com/s/contact-us
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December 22, 2025 at 4:08 AM
BTW you can let a Paramount+ agent that you'll cancel your sub unless they air an unedited CECOT segement on 60 Minutes here help.paramountplus.com/s/contact-us
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America, you've spoken loud and clear: you do not like being stabbed in the dick with an ice pick. But what if stabbing yourself in the dick with an ice pick is the only way to fight, idk, climate change or whatever?
December 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
America, you've spoken loud and clear: you do not like being stabbed in the dick with an ice pick. But what if stabbing yourself in the dick with an ice pick is the only way to fight, idk, climate change or whatever?
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Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
December 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
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The president announces an arbitrary price hike on Americans because his feelings are hurt by an ad accurately quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs
October 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The president announces an arbitrary price hike on Americans because his feelings are hurt by an ad accurately quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs
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We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...
September 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...
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Conservatives believe free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Rand Paul: "People say, 'Oh, people have a right to say things.' Well, actually they don't necessarily have a right to say things. Many people have in their contract what we call a morals clause ... I think it is time for this to be a crackdown on people."
September 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Conservatives believe free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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I think students should be taught *about* chatbots and generative systems in the same way they should be taught about quackery, anti-vaxxers, pseudoscience, snake-oil and charlatans: confident wrongness is a threat to their safety and they should learn how to spot and counter it
Why AI?
Because educators should prepare students to properly use LLM tools and be able to effectively compete in the modern knowledge-based job market.
It's as wildly irresponsible for educators to teach abstinence-only AI education as it is for them to teach abstinence-only sex education.
Because educators should prepare students to properly use LLM tools and be able to effectively compete in the modern knowledge-based job market.
It's as wildly irresponsible for educators to teach abstinence-only AI education as it is for them to teach abstinence-only sex education.
September 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I think students should be taught *about* chatbots and generative systems in the same way they should be taught about quackery, anti-vaxxers, pseudoscience, snake-oil and charlatans: confident wrongness is a threat to their safety and they should learn how to spot and counter it
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I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed.
There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.
Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.
Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
September 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
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I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
August 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
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This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
August 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
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This is some fucked up shit.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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August 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This is some fucked up shit.
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According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago.
8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois.
And yet Trump is sending troops here.
8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois.
And yet Trump is sending troops here.
August 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago.
8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois.
And yet Trump is sending troops here.
8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois.
And yet Trump is sending troops here.
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Again: they found absolute monsters to run gov social media accounts. People who at some point lost or never had the idea that the things you say online might have real world connections. Literal psychopaths.
They’re making fun of the media referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Maryland man as they threaten to send him to Uganda, a country where he’s never lived.
They’re simply fucking vile.
They’re simply fucking vile.
August 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Again: they found absolute monsters to run gov social media accounts. People who at some point lost or never had the idea that the things you say online might have real world connections. Literal psychopaths.
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The president the United States using armed, masked paramilitaries to intimidate a political rival.
Gavin Newsom is holding a press conference today on redistricting and DHS agents have arrived masked up and in full gear. Many are armed with guns.
August 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The president the United States using armed, masked paramilitaries to intimidate a political rival.
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The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.
Citing a nonexistent crime crisis, Trump plans to take over the Washington DC police and put troops in the streets of the nation's capital. Contrary to his claims, violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low. @katierogersnyt.bsky.social Campbell Robertson Chris Cameron www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Here’s the latest.
www.nytimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.
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hey remember how the entire basis of the tariff authority the president is claiming is that we're in some kind of economic emergency, without which that power rests solely with the legislature? what part of the economic emergency is this
Trump’s latest ridiculous pretext for treating Canada like shit just dropped
July 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
hey remember how the entire basis of the tariff authority the president is claiming is that we're in some kind of economic emergency, without which that power rests solely with the legislature? what part of the economic emergency is this
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I honestly expected this to be a @thebeaverton.com story, but that’s the lede! Of the piece!
tl;dr
He wants his own country where him and his wife don’t need to get vaccinated and can occupy cities /border crossings for weeks on end
“I've never felt more patriotic pride than when singing O Canada with a crowd of hundreds at a protest shutting down the Coutts border crossing”
He wants his own country where him and his wife don’t need to get vaccinated and can occupy cities /border crossings for weeks on end
“I've never felt more patriotic pride than when singing O Canada with a crowd of hundreds at a protest shutting down the Coutts border crossing”
FIRST PERSON | I was proud to be Canadian. Now, I support separatism for Alberta | CBC News
Calgary resident Gord Larson supports the separatist movement in Alberta. But that wasn’t always the case. When the trucker convoy and other protesters first set out to get the attention of Ottawa, he...
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July 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I honestly expected this to be a @thebeaverton.com story, but that’s the lede! Of the piece!
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.