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patblanchfield.bsky.social
thanks to AI you can now become the malignant illusion spinning demiurge whom Descartes had to axiomatically banish in order to make Rationality possible
brocklesnitch.bsky.social Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 1d
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
when some people choose between a weekly injection or daily pill to regulate their hormones so as to align their body with their desired appearance i guess it's no big deal
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 4d
U.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity. n.pr/4pNYnVN
U.S. regulators approve Wegovy pill for weight loss
U.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity.
n.pr
December 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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smallbu.bsky.social
Take it easy, but TAKE it
November 15, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation
The WHITE HOUSE 45 47 K PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL CENSORSHIP The White House January 20, 2025 A memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi said these agendas may merit a federal investigation: • "anti-Americanism" • "anti-capitalism" • "anti-Christianity" • "opposition to law and immigration enforcement" - "radical gender ideology" - "hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality"
December 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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sparkster2600.bsky.social
Reposting this with alt text.

Delete your Twitter. Now.
For You "Elon Saved Free Speech" White Knight Assholes: Read the New Terms of Service Released Today X just updated their Terms of Service effective January 15, 2026. Here's what you agreed to: AI TRAINING RIGHTS GRAB: Everything you post becomes training data for their Al models. Every thought, opinion, creative work. You're building their models for free. No compensation. No opt out. PERPETUAL CONTENT LICENSE: They get a worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, and distribute your content "for any purpose" in "any media now known or later developed." Forever. They can sell it. Give it to governments. Anything. FORCED JURISDICTION: All disputes must be filed in Tarrant County, Texas. You waive the right to join class actions. If they wrong millions of users, you sue alone in THEIR court. ARBITRARY TERMINATION: They can delete your account "for any other reason or no reason at our convenience." Years of content, connections, reputation. Gone. Zero due process. $15,000 LIQUIDATED DAMAGES: Access more than 1 million posts in 24 hours and you owe $15,000. Per million. Journalists and researchers investigating the platform face financial ruin. GOVERNMENT DISCLOSURE: They reserve the right to hand your DMs, drafts, and entire history to governments based on what they "reasonably believe" is necessary. ANTI-JAILBREAK CLAUSE: Testing their Al systems, exposing censorship mechanisms, or security research is now explicitly a Terms violation. They added "prompt engineering or injection" to prohibited conduct.
December 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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palestinelegal.bsky.social
Palestine Legal wrapped 2025: Most absurd anti-Palestinian censorship at universities!
December 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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godheadheavyindustries.life
so insanely fucking real for this
December 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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theswweet.myatproto.social
Yes! Eviscerate them!
December 8, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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goodboy.bsky.social
Very, very good.
I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
December 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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kastor.sh
It’s that time of year again!
November 27, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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disneyprimevideo.bsky.social
A Christmas Story (1983)
Ralphie and his family smile, enjoying Christmas in blissful ignorance of world events of their time "The Holocaust is happening during the events of A Christmas Story" "Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days!" - Gene Shalit, ABC
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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zhugeex.com
How did you celebrate anti-communism week?

Lining up at a food bank? Finding out you’d lose access to healthcare? Being unable to afford housing?
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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erinrpineda.bsky.social
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
Two posts asking whether university administrators have thought about the consequences of purchasing and promoting AI for college campuses given a well documented college mental health crisis, and pointing out that university investment and endorsement may signal to students that dangerous technology is safe and beneficial
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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theswweet.myatproto.social
Read it. Internalize it. We are going to win, come hell and high water. They know it, too, which is why they fear.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Nov 5
There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
Great short thread. ⬇️

What bad faith operators like Third Way mean when they say they want a "big tent" is really the exact same sized tent, they just wanna move it over to include rightwing white people in rural and suburban area, and exclude inconvenient non-white and LGBTQ people in the cites.
chadstanton.blacksky.app Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Nov 4
It’s not framed this way, but what they’re demanding is that people in cities like NYC refuse to address their issues to privilege the politics of “flipping red and purple seats blue,” which they haven’t even demonstrated an ability to do.
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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zhugeex.com
This is a real vote btw
October 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
WTF 🤬

A police officer in Baltimore, Maryland, attempted to run over and kill a civilian who refused to answer their questions.
October 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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rickycilantro.bsky.social
Max Dubler @maxdubler • 2/8/25 That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. Jason C & @jasonc_nc・2/8/25 I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. Q 24 L. 1.8K 15K Ill 399K 贝 ① Max Dubler @maxdubler True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer dance parties.
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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theserfstv.bsky.social
Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers. Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites @evanhill · 11m Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.
October 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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otsumamiboy.bsky.social
The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.
September 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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alexwenzel.bsky.social
That quote is not out of context, the full version is worse.
“Then obviously the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look, how do they look compare to, say, you?” he said to the reporter, a tall, middle-aged man of Anglo descent.
September 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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ndrew.bsky.social
the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is

- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)

- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)

- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)
September 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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andyaml.bsky.social
Absolutely devastated by this news. SpaceDrake was no doubt a huge influence in drumming up interest for Japanese indie games localized into English and pushing for them on digital distribution storefronts like steam. Huge loss. Might be time for another playthrough of Recettear in his honour.
A tweet from Robin Light-Williams (@BlondRobin) stating the following: Hello to anyone reading this. I am Robin Light-Williams, formerly lead translator for Carpe Fulgur. I am very sorry to announce that my friend and business partner Andrew Dice, @SpaceDrakeCF, has passed away. Pursuant to that, Carpe Fulgur will be ceasing operations.
September 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM