@polyphonique
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Checking up on some of the big news from earlier this week
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Checking up on some of the big news from earlier this week
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the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault
October 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault
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Sora had a pretty great first week on the US App Store, nearing the size of ChatGPT's debut.
Sora's first week on iOS in the US was nearly as big as ChatGPT's | TechCrunch
Sora had a pretty great first week on the US App Store, nearing the size of ChatGPT's debut.
techcrunch.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Sora had a pretty great first week on the US App Store, nearing the size of ChatGPT's debut.
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Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin
The draft design of the coin, which was overseen by the Office of the U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach, features Trump’s profile on one side of the coin.
www.politico.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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had a ton of fun working on this poll with @today.yougov.com about the songs that everybody knows the lyrics to, the generational anthems are super neat
www.numlock.com/p/numlock-su...
www.numlock.com/p/numlock-su...
September 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
had a ton of fun working on this poll with @today.yougov.com about the songs that everybody knows the lyrics to, the generational anthems are super neat
www.numlock.com/p/numlock-su...
www.numlock.com/p/numlock-su...
Using an earthquake as an excuse to expand my personal network on Bluesky...
September 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Using an earthquake as an excuse to expand my personal network on Bluesky...
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
@quoteinvestigator.com Did Gandhi actually say "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed”? I see it quoted by the EPA, the United Nations, and others, but I cannot find the context in which it was stated. The earliest I can find the quote is E.F. Shumacher (1973)
March 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
@quoteinvestigator.com Did Gandhi actually say "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed”? I see it quoted by the EPA, the United Nations, and others, but I cannot find the context in which it was stated. The earliest I can find the quote is E.F. Shumacher (1973)
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Including the interview with @katecrawford.bsky.social - and the terrific idea of AI as a “metabolic technology”
December 24, 2024 at 4:34 AM
Including the interview with @katecrawford.bsky.social - and the terrific idea of AI as a “metabolic technology”
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The North Carolina General Assembly’s GOP supermajority just approved a hugely corrupt power grab, seizing authority from the governor and the courts to prevent any meaningful check on legislative abuses. Authoritarian stuff. A very dark day for democracy in NC. amp.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
December 2, 2024 at 10:41 PM
The North Carolina General Assembly’s GOP supermajority just approved a hugely corrupt power grab, seizing authority from the governor and the courts to prevent any meaningful check on legislative abuses. Authoritarian stuff. A very dark day for democracy in NC. amp.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
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“Knee surgery” is the hottest meme right now. Specifically the Grinch saying he has knee surgery tomorrow. There are dozens of blinch (blue grinch) knee surgery meme accounts on Instagram. This is what your children are doing
December 2, 2024 at 12:38 AM
“Knee surgery” is the hottest meme right now. Specifically the Grinch saying he has knee surgery tomorrow. There are dozens of blinch (blue grinch) knee surgery meme accounts on Instagram. This is what your children are doing
@jay.bsky.team Were bsky dot com and bluesky dot com too expensive? What's the deal there?
December 1, 2024 at 6:22 PM
@jay.bsky.team Were bsky dot com and bluesky dot com too expensive? What's the deal there?
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What I believe is actually happening here:
The robots are set up to identify what content gets engagement, read FB auto-gen text description, & feed that into the generative AI. Post, comments, iterate.
hundreds of seemingly real comments on these, most of them incorporating some form of "amen"
The robots are set up to identify what content gets engagement, read FB auto-gen text description, & feed that into the generative AI. Post, comments, iterate.
hundreds of seemingly real comments on these, most of them incorporating some form of "amen"
September 22, 2024 at 2:29 PM
What I believe is actually happening here:
The robots are set up to identify what content gets engagement, read FB auto-gen text description, & feed that into the generative AI. Post, comments, iterate.
hundreds of seemingly real comments on these, most of them incorporating some form of "amen"
The robots are set up to identify what content gets engagement, read FB auto-gen text description, & feed that into the generative AI. Post, comments, iterate.
hundreds of seemingly real comments on these, most of them incorporating some form of "amen"
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We spent $365 to build an AI news site that publishes 50 times a day, plagiarizes directly from our original reporting, uses services like Fiverr and popular WordPress plugins, is SEO optimized for Google and Adsense & breaks the rules of none of them
www.404media.co/i-paid-365-6...
www.404media.co/i-paid-365-6...
I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AI
Paying a freelancer on Fiverr to create a plagiarizing ChatGPT-powered news site revealed an industry of middlemen and services trying to game Google Search.
www.404media.co
June 25, 2024 at 1:27 PM
We spent $365 to build an AI news site that publishes 50 times a day, plagiarizes directly from our original reporting, uses services like Fiverr and popular WordPress plugins, is SEO optimized for Google and Adsense & breaks the rules of none of them
www.404media.co/i-paid-365-6...
www.404media.co/i-paid-365-6...
Yuck
Holocaust survivors to use AI to ‘future-proof’ their stories for UK schools
Holocaust survivors to use AI to ‘future-proof’ their stories for UK schools
Testimony 360 project allows pupils to talk to AI versions of survivors and take virtual tours of concentration camps
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Yuck
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June 16, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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You just so rarely see a Priest body someone so hard
June 15, 2024 at 4:11 PM
You just so rarely see a Priest body someone so hard
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that is not where i expected this sentence to end
May 11, 2024 at 4:44 PM
that is not where i expected this sentence to end
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Revival of vinyl records in Brazil spares a 77-year-old singer – and others – from oblivion
Revival of vinyl records in Brazil spares a 77-year-old singer – and others – from oblivion
It took almost a half century for Brazilian singer Cátia de França to find her audience, but she finally has — with the help of a near-obsolete audio technology.
apnews.com
April 29, 2024 at 5:18 AM
Revival of vinyl records in Brazil spares a 77-year-old singer – and others – from oblivion
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Young children paid $500 to set shop alight in Victoria’s tobacco and vape wars
Young children paid $500 to set shop alight in Victoria’s tobacco and vape wars
Gangs fighting to control state’s illicit tobacco and vape market are using children to commit arson, inquiry hears
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Young children paid $500 to set shop alight in Victoria’s tobacco and vape wars
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Covid vaccination markedly reduced blood clots, heart attacks, heart failure, stroke and other adverse cardiovascular outcomes, as seen from over 20 million people, about half of whom were vaccinated heart.bmj.com/content/earl...
March 12, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Covid vaccination markedly reduced blood clots, heart attacks, heart failure, stroke and other adverse cardiovascular outcomes, as seen from over 20 million people, about half of whom were vaccinated heart.bmj.com/content/earl...
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things Louisiana just did, all within days:
—speed up executions
—expand qualified immunity
—end mechanisms to release people from prison
—move all 17-year olds into adult courts & detention
—jail people for technical violations of prob
and more...:
boltsmag.org/louisiana-sp...
—speed up executions
—expand qualified immunity
—end mechanisms to release people from prison
—move all 17-year olds into adult courts & detention
—jail people for technical violations of prob
and more...:
boltsmag.org/louisiana-sp...
“We’re Going to Be Overwhelmed”: How Louisiana Just Ballooned Its Jail Population
Louisiana
boltsmag.org
March 9, 2024 at 11:27 PM
things Louisiana just did, all within days:
—speed up executions
—expand qualified immunity
—end mechanisms to release people from prison
—move all 17-year olds into adult courts & detention
—jail people for technical violations of prob
and more...:
boltsmag.org/louisiana-sp...
—speed up executions
—expand qualified immunity
—end mechanisms to release people from prison
—move all 17-year olds into adult courts & detention
—jail people for technical violations of prob
and more...:
boltsmag.org/louisiana-sp...