samdamandias.bsky.social
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I'm sure that with the 8th failed audit in 8 years, the Pentagon gets the same fiscal scrutiny...Bueller? Bueller?

What about the bag of money being passed around for the "AI boom"?

By the standards of the AI industry, the USPS is a rounding error.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 3d
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 26, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Hi! Historian! Midwest! Minneapolis! Nazis are bad! www.startribune.com/maga-antisem...
December 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free on Internet Archive for the foreseeable future.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free on Epic Games Store for the next 24 hours. Another mystery freebie tomorrow buff.ly/aadJJDg
December 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Let's be honest, if that professors wasn't trans the university would have had her back on this. This isn't something that the average professor has to worry about, it's very explicitly part of a systemic attempt to eradicate trans people by making it impossible to be trans and employed.
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
December 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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WRONG
December 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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I would would slam that button so fast it would break causality.
December 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Lol she literally forgot we exist when she was scrubbing that story from affiliates... Didn't bother saying one word to Global News and then when the story runs she's all "WTF is a Canadian?" and "They sound treasonous"... It's the funniest shit. Sheer ignorance and incompetence of the highest order
December 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Also, if I had the money to create an emergency fund, most things wouldn’t be an emergency in the first place.
People talk about "just create an emergency fund!" in all these finance videos, which assumes you aren't literally experiencing emergencies 2-3x per year. If you are having multiple emergencies a year, no matter how hard you plan, you will continue sinking.
December 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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by far the funniest use case for AI is “I use it for powerpoints because I hate making them and nobody looks at them” because it kinda sounds like the real workflow savings would be to stop making powerpoints
December 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.

Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Okay I figured out why this was bugging me
December 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.

There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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If I insisted that chanukah has no religious connotations because you can celebrate it without believing in god, I would sound insane.
December 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Many of those frustrated by the paywall aren't trying to demand unpaid labor or of the belief that journalists shouldn't be paid. They're upset by how capitalism makes it so access only belongs to those who can afford it, and people can increasingly not afford monthly subscriptions.
December 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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My no-fun-at-parties take is that "christmas is a secular holiday" is an uncomfortable way of assuring me that christianity is the status quo and everything outside of that is an aberration. Sorry! It's still a christian holiday!! Just because you're an atheist doesn't make it secular!
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Things are Terrible, but this isn't.

Be weird.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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protip youtubers: I will not watch your youtube if you're obviously using AI
December 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Ratatouille 2
tournament arc
December 21, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities

if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
December 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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gorp?!
December 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM