Deborah Cohen
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Deborah Cohen
@debcohen21.bsky.social
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If you are a foreign president who commits crimes overseas, America will come get you, arrest you, and lock you up.

But if you are a US president who commits crimes here in the United States, America will give you immunity from prosecution, reelect you, and bribe you with billions of dollars.
January 4, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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Insider trading on war crimes seems like peak criminality.
January 4, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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This is how you do it. No preamble to swear to God you don't like Maduro.
January 3, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”
January 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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Not Somali.
January 1, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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Missed tram.
Toronto, Nov 2025

Sometimes a lost transit connection in an opportunity for creativity.

#EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbstract #longexposure #TTC #streetcars #gunzel #lightpainting #vintagelenses
December 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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If Marjorie Taylor Greene *really* cared about the Epstein victims, she would read the names of the perpetrators on the House floor (where she would have immunity) before she leaves office.
December 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer.

Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.

Now, it’s gone.
December 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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AI is being pushed on us because they see it as another vast income stream. Apps won’t work unless you subscribe to XYZ AI interface for a low, low price of $99 a month, ad free is $250 a month. They don’t care if AI shits nonsense, they just need your $$$. Broligarchs want to own the world.
December 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I’ve survived over 50 years without AI. I spent that time developing my actual intelligence. In that time, I have found very few artificial things stack up to the real thing & are often an insult to the original.
AI is no different and will only serve to enhance laziness & stupidity.
December 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The audacity of making a piece of junk and then insisting that everyone use it.

"Here's my paperclip and duct tape sculpture. I made 8,000,000,000 of them and invested heavily in duct tape and paperclips. Find a place for one in your house or your 401k is going down."
December 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Whenever anyone pushes AI, all I hear is, "Please figure out how to make this crap useful so that I can monetize your idea and prove how smart I am..."
December 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I, and others, clamor for other tools that we do need and want but are not met such as better indexes and intentional archiving. I don't need plausible sounding and hallucinatory output from plagiarism machines. If I had a human assistant that was so-so, lied, and stole, I'd fire them.
December 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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It's a sentiment that's gotten a lot more prevalent since the end of ZIRP, but it's been around longer: that they "took a risk" and are as a result, owed a return.

It also comes packaged with an attitude of "because you can make money doing something, you must do that thing."
December 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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It makes sense when you talk to certain types of business bros.

There's a type that feels entitled to your money. Not that they need to earn it, but that you, as a consumer, owe it to them, and they get very resentful when you don't give them what they feel they're owed.
December 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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In a saner world, the marginally useful bits of technology that fall under the AI* umbrella would be either background subsystems (as many already have been for decades) or plugins for existing applications, not hyped like the future of all that is good in this world depends on it.
December 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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The thing is, everyone who was sceptical about email eventually had to come around. Because it was genuinely useful.

If AI really is all that, there’d be less hysteria about how everyone needs to get on board now or else.
December 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Every time at work when an executive says they want us to start using AI I think
December 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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They want the illusion that the more you use it the more you’ll be able to magically divine if it’s spouting bullshit, but even better if you stop putting in the time & effort to doubt it & double check… and then they have you. Then they can train the AI to give you the “truth” they choose.
December 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This is my favorite version of the AI push — we don’t have any real ideas for how you should use it, but it’s not going anywhere, so you had better figure out a use for it and then start using it quick!

Uh, no. I don’t think I will.
Figure out how to use it. Ostrich mode will help no one.
December 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀

LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽‍♂️
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Just because everyone assumed this is what Bondi would do with the Epstein files isn’t a reason to not raise holy hell about it.
December 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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We live in the dumbest timeline.

It's like a story from the Old Testament.

www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
20 more measles cases found in Rockland County, New York, as health leaders urge getting vaccinated
A spike in measles cases in Rockland County has New York health officials urging families to get vaccinated.
www.cbsnews.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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This is an act of war and the Trump admin is doing everything they can to provoke a Gulf of Tonkin incident.
December 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Washington Post's new headline is still wrong.

1. The release was not "huge."
2. DOJ missed the deadline to release all the files.
3, No mention of extensive redactions.

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December 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM