AnnT
@lucyannd.bsky.social
A product of the public school system
“45 Republican officials from 18 U.S. states — including the current president, sitting senators, governors, members of Congress, and senior federal officials — amplified Islamophobic, nativist, racist, and red-baiting narratives targeting Mamdani.”
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Equality Labs Releases New Report “Tracing Online Hate Against Zohran Mamdani” | Equality Labs
[Oakland, CA] — [11/3/25] — A new report from Equality Labs, Tracing Online Hate Against Zohran Mamdani, exposes the massive scale of hate, disinformation, and coordinated narrative attacks targeting ...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“45 Republican officials from 18 U.S. states — including the current president, sitting senators, governors, members of Congress, and senior federal officials — amplified Islamophobic, nativist, racist, and red-baiting narratives targeting Mamdani.”
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Seems like a good time for the Speaker of the House to swear in Rep. Grijalva.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Seems like a good time for the Speaker of the House to swear in Rep. Grijalva.
“This seems to be AI’s new role: manufacturing life-like ‘evidence’ to justify harmful narratives. It’s a stupefying sign of things to come as these fakes become harder to distinguish from reality.”
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Fox News Falls for AI-Generated Footage of Poor People Raging About Food Stamps Being Shut Down, Runs False Story That Has to Be Updated With Huge Correction
Fox News ran a story treating AI-generated ragebait as if it were real, in order to stir up anger against SNAP recipients.
futurism.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“This seems to be AI’s new role: manufacturing life-like ‘evidence’ to justify harmful narratives. It’s a stupefying sign of things to come as these fakes become harder to distinguish from reality.”
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“… AI has become a powerful tool in perpetuating the myth of the welfare queen — a harmful and unfair stereotype dating back to the days of Ronald Reagan.”
#Disinformation
#AI
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#Disinformation
#AI
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Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
“… AI has become a powerful tool in perpetuating the myth of the welfare queen — a harmful and unfair stereotype dating back to the days of Ronald Reagan.”
#Disinformation
#AI
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#Disinformation
#AI
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“… many organizations choose not to disclose breaches when not legally required, or delay disclosure.”
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Proton Data Breach Observatory to expose infosec cover-ups
: Service will tell on compromised organizations, even if they didn't plan on doing so themselves
www.theregister.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
“… many organizations choose not to disclose breaches when not legally required, or delay disclosure.”
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www.theregister.com/2025/10/30/p...
“The automaker has had so much trouble convincing customers to pay for a car that’s been recalled eight times …”
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Grokipedia's Article on the Cybertruck Clearly Shows Why the Whole Project Is Doomed
Grokipedia, Elon Musk's AI-generated version of Wikipedia, has a lot of questionably glowing things to say about the Cybertruck.
futurism.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“The automaker has had so much trouble convincing customers to pay for a car that’s been recalled eight times …”
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Oh great
“… the company says it expects people will be encouraged to share more of their unfiltered thoughts…”
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“… the company says it expects people will be encouraged to share more of their unfiltered thoughts…”
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Threads adds 'ghost posts' that disappear after 24 hours | TechCrunch
Instagram Threads is launching “ghost posts,” a new disappearing-posts feature that lets users share updates that automatically archive after 24 hours. The ephemeral option — rolling out globally on M...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Oh great
“… the company says it expects people will be encouraged to share more of their unfiltered thoughts…”
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“… the company says it expects people will be encouraged to share more of their unfiltered thoughts…”
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
“…humans who consume ‘large volumes of trivial and unchallenging online content’ can develop problems with attention, memory, and social cognition.”
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Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot”
Models trained on short, popular, and/or “superficial” tweets perform worse on benchmarks.
arstechnica.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
“…humans who consume ‘large volumes of trivial and unchallenging online content’ can develop problems with attention, memory, and social cognition.”
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Hegseth is such a fraud lol!
October 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Hegseth is such a fraud lol!
“…some of the impacts of rising government debt on Americans — including higher borrowing costs for things like mortgages and cars, lower wages from businesses having less money available to invest, and more expensive goods and services.”
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US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic
The U.S. government's gross national debt has surpassed $38 trillion during the federal shutdown, marking a record high.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
“…some of the impacts of rising government debt on Americans — including higher borrowing costs for things like mortgages and cars, lower wages from businesses having less money available to invest, and more expensive goods and services.”
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“…the private jets used by Epstein had been remodelled in order to afford many bedrooms - they were designed as flying trafficking agents, they were there to use girls in.”
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Prince Andrew should share what he saw of Epstein abuse, co-author tells BBC - BBC News
The ghostwriter of Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir says Andrew should speak to US authorities.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“…the private jets used by Epstein had been remodelled in order to afford many bedrooms - they were designed as flying trafficking agents, they were there to use girls in.”
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“Scrolling through OpenAI’s Sora app, it’s easy to find crude videos resembling other historical figures, including artist Bob Ross, singer Whitney Houston, and former President John F. Kennedy.”
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OpenAI pauses Sora video generations of Martin Luther King Jr. | TechCrunch
OpenAI is pausing AI video generations of Martin Luther King at the request of the late civil rights activists' estate.
techcrunch.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“Scrolling through OpenAI’s Sora app, it’s easy to find crude videos resembling other historical figures, including artist Bob Ross, singer Whitney Houston, and former President John F. Kennedy.”
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“Don't be fooled by those in Epstein's circle who say they didn't know what he was doing. Epstein not only didn't hide what was happening, he took a certain glee in making people watch…”
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Virginia Giuffre accuses 'entitled' Andrew in posthumous book
Virginia Giuffre, who took her life earlier this year, gives her account of meeting Prince Andrew.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“Don't be fooled by those in Epstein's circle who say they didn't know what he was doing. Epstein not only didn't hide what was happening, he took a certain glee in making people watch…”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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“Comedy is the greatest way to attack anything like a totalitarian regime. They can't stand it…”
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How Charlie Chaplin used his uncanny resemblance to Hitler to fight fascism
It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film.
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October 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“Comedy is the greatest way to attack anything like a totalitarian regime. They can't stand it…”
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“…found her views to be ‘extremist and inflammatory comments towards Muslim, Black, Jewish and LGBTQIA+ communities which generate controversy and hatred’…”
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Far-right US influencer Candace Owens loses legal fight to enter Australia
Australian minister cited US influencer's public comments downplaying the Holocaust and making Islamophobic remarks.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“…found her views to be ‘extremist and inflammatory comments towards Muslim, Black, Jewish and LGBTQIA+ communities which generate controversy and hatred’…”
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“If you start to look into citations in LLM chatbots, you're going to see that sources have gone from journalism sources to marketing sources…”
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AI Is Eating the Internet, but Many Are Hopeful Human-Made Content Will Win Out
Publishers, including CNET's owner, are taking a wide range of approaches to try to make it through AI's changes.
www.cnet.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“If you start to look into citations in LLM chatbots, you're going to see that sources have gone from journalism sources to marketing sources…”
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