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I remember when Dana Perino was the worst @Pressec, ever. Then came Sarah Huckabee, who was far worse. And then Kayleigh McEnany felt like GOP had finally hit rock bottom, until Karoline Leavitt punched right through it.
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I remember when Dana Perino was the worst @Pressec, ever. Then came Sarah Huckabee, who was far worse. And then Kayleigh McEnany felt like GOP had finally hit rock bottom, until Karoline Leavitt punched right through it.
I don’t know if she’s an evangelist for hire, but her writing is clear-headed about AI fears, both real and misguided. AI tech is here. It’s up to we humans to decide how we apply it.
Ten Most Common AI Fears, and Why They’re Misleading | Pinar Demirdag
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Ten Most Common AI Fears, and Why They’re Misleading | Pinar Demirdag
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November 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I don’t know if she’s an evangelist for hire, but her writing is clear-headed about AI fears, both real and misguided. AI tech is here. It’s up to we humans to decide how we apply it.
Ten Most Common AI Fears, and Why They’re Misleading | Pinar Demirdag
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Ten Most Common AI Fears, and Why They’re Misleading | Pinar Demirdag
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For those asking about my turtle friend, I found this guy in my area. He came quickly and said “he” was definitely feeling poorly. He took him to his refuge for some antibiotics and TLC. Joe has a great brand and a better mission.
joerassicpark.org/
joerassicpark.org/
November 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
For those asking about my turtle friend, I found this guy in my area. He came quickly and said “he” was definitely feeling poorly. He took him to his refuge for some antibiotics and TLC. Joe has a great brand and a better mission.
joerassicpark.org/
joerassicpark.org/
Only a handful of super-wealthy, from the Gilded Age, right up until the 1980s-ish. Then KABOOM. Now we have thousands of billionaires. And their needs and wants are not like yours.
November 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Only a handful of super-wealthy, from the Gilded Age, right up until the 1980s-ish. Then KABOOM. Now we have thousands of billionaires. And their needs and wants are not like yours.
Simple as that. Democrats have decades of experience showing no common sense whatever. If we’re serious about saving ourselves, we need to find some. Dumping an infamously toxic label is a pretty easy place to start.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Simple as that. Democrats have decades of experience showing no common sense whatever. If we’re serious about saving ourselves, we need to find some. Dumping an infamously toxic label is a pretty easy place to start.
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I appreciate it when ChatGPT’s chat models are honest with me. Even if I want to strangle every product manager in the fucking company every time it happens.
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I appreciate it when ChatGPT’s chat models are honest with me. Even if I want to strangle every product manager in the fucking company every time it happens.
Remember when bloggers made headlines? Today there are thousands more podcasters and influencers than there ever were serious bloggers, yet they have little discernable impact on news or narratives. As aways, there are a few exceptions.
But it’s not really their fault. The audiences for serious …
But it’s not really their fault. The audiences for serious …
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Remember when bloggers made headlines? Today there are thousands more podcasters and influencers than there ever were serious bloggers, yet they have little discernable impact on news or narratives. As aways, there are a few exceptions.
But it’s not really their fault. The audiences for serious …
But it’s not really their fault. The audiences for serious …
Only in America would a scoundrel who profited from a war he co-created, and torture he condoned, would lie in state and be portrayed by the media as a great patriot. Fuck Dick Cheney and anyone apologizing for him.
![Cheney served as Halliburton CEO until 2000, and continued to receive deferred compensation and held stock options after becoming Vice-President.
(Wikipedia)
Halliburton’s subsidiary, KBR Inc. (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root), received large no-bid or sole-source contracts for Iraq war/ reconstruction tasks. (CorpWatch)
“I’d do it [torture] again in a minute.” — Dick Cheney
(New Yorker)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hvwm6oxhn6wtawvztgudugvd/bafkreial2milf27h2orxj2b6ypbjp23epqrfptnbapo2q4s3ahhw6prq5u@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Only in America would a scoundrel who profited from a war he co-created, and torture he condoned, would lie in state and be portrayed by the media as a great patriot. Fuck Dick Cheney and anyone apologizing for him.
It's actually come up three stairs since I checked on it last. Who knew they were climbers? But he's still not moving very quickly so I think she's trying to get to the canal behind the house and it's just lost. But the wildlife guy says they usually move much faster than this so she may be sick 2
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It's actually come up three stairs since I checked on it last. Who knew they were climbers? But he's still not moving very quickly so I think she's trying to get to the canal behind the house and it's just lost. But the wildlife guy says they usually move much faster than this so she may be sick 2
Anyone have a degree in soft shells? This monster must weigh 30 lbs and has been in my carport for like 90 minutes. It’s done nothing but turn around once. But it is inching closer to a plate of water. How do you know if it’s sick, thirsty, dying, or just slumming?
November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Anyone have a degree in soft shells? This monster must weigh 30 lbs and has been in my carport for like 90 minutes. It’s done nothing but turn around once. But it is inching closer to a plate of water. How do you know if it’s sick, thirsty, dying, or just slumming?
I have a visitor in my carport. He ain't moving real fast. Not sure if he's sick or not
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I have a visitor in my carport. He ain't moving real fast. Not sure if he's sick or not
It’s about time they did anything like this. We’ve needed this kind of chorus of credible voices speaking out on dozens of things for the last decade and the Democrats never bothered to do it even once until now. Is a new day dawning?
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November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
It’s about time they did anything like this. We’ve needed this kind of chorus of credible voices speaking out on dozens of things for the last decade and the Democrats never bothered to do it even once until now. Is a new day dawning?
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I’ve now seen this said in enough different ways that I’m inclined to think there’s some truth to it, if not all truth to it. I don’t know how they could get that many people to do it and cover their tracks but when you’ve got the entire FBI & CIA at your disposal, seems plausible.
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I’ve now seen this said in enough different ways that I’m inclined to think there’s some truth to it, if not all truth to it. I don’t know how they could get that many people to do it and cover their tracks but when you’ve got the entire FBI & CIA at your disposal, seems plausible.
I realize some feel a little bit of optimism this week, and I did too, for a fleeting moment, But I don’t now. Minor wins against this Trump crisis are not going to fix our more systemic crisis.
We are probably going to survive Trump and limp along another decade or two. But Trump wasn’t really …
We are probably going to survive Trump and limp along another decade or two. But Trump wasn’t really …
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I realize some feel a little bit of optimism this week, and I did too, for a fleeting moment, But I don’t now. Minor wins against this Trump crisis are not going to fix our more systemic crisis.
We are probably going to survive Trump and limp along another decade or two. But Trump wasn’t really …
We are probably going to survive Trump and limp along another decade or two. But Trump wasn’t really …
Alito decides our fate. Anyone have a doubt about how he will rule? Kiss that Texas Miracle goodbye. The only way we will beat these people is to depose them.
What Comes Next for Texas’ Blocked GOP Gerrymander - Democracy Docket
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What Comes Next for Texas’ Blocked GOP Gerrymander - Democracy Docket
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November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Alito decides our fate. Anyone have a doubt about how he will rule? Kiss that Texas Miracle goodbye. The only way we will beat these people is to depose them.
What Comes Next for Texas’ Blocked GOP Gerrymander - Democracy Docket
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What Comes Next for Texas’ Blocked GOP Gerrymander - Democracy Docket
www.democracydocket.c...
Good morning. I’m bracing for Trump’s next trick to stall the proceedings. My friend @cgerrish.bsky.social suggests that it could be this. He’ll call it the Thanksgiving Veto. After all, it’s tradition for a president to save a turkey.
November 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Good morning. I’m bracing for Trump’s next trick to stall the proceedings. My friend @cgerrish.bsky.social suggests that it could be this. He’ll call it the Thanksgiving Veto. After all, it’s tradition for a president to save a turkey.
If I gave you a magic button that would erase the entire existence any two American public figures, which would you choose. Quote-reply to this post with your choices.
November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
If I gave you a magic button that would erase the entire existence any two American public figures, which would you choose. Quote-reply to this post with your choices.
The only news rural America gets comes from Fox and the far Right. If you don't think that's what's led to America's political free-fall, you're as dumbed-down as they are. Yet we still allow those fake-news empires to corrupt the world we must live in.
www.thedailybeast.com/damning-poll...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The only news rural America gets comes from Fox and the far Right. If you don't think that's what's led to America's political free-fall, you're as dumbed-down as they are. Yet we still allow those fake-news empires to corrupt the world we must live in.
www.thedailybeast.com/damning-poll...
www.thedailybeast.com/damning-poll...
FYI: Cloudflare is still down in many places, wiping out countless connections all over the world (including ChatGPT), proving just how vulnerable big-capital has made the internet. It wasn't supposed to work like this.
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
FYI: Cloudflare is still down in many places, wiping out countless connections all over the world (including ChatGPT), proving just how vulnerable big-capital has made the internet. It wasn't supposed to work like this.
And half the world shuts down.
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
And half the world shuts down.
You want to know who is really looking forward to the release of the #EpsteinFiles going really badly for Donald Trump and all his pedophile-supporting MAGA muttonheads out there (such as @RealJamesWoods)?
This billionaire-made nothing-burger, the couch-molester himself.
This billionaire-made nothing-burger, the couch-molester himself.
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
You want to know who is really looking forward to the release of the #EpsteinFiles going really badly for Donald Trump and all his pedophile-supporting MAGA muttonheads out there (such as @RealJamesWoods)?
This billionaire-made nothing-burger, the couch-molester himself.
This billionaire-made nothing-burger, the couch-molester himself.
Let ‘De-Educated’ Enter the Dictionary — Because We’ve Manufactured It
▶ ‘De-educated’ is not in the Oxford Dictionary. But it should be, because the word we don’t have perfectly defines the crisis.
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▶ ‘De-educated’ is not in the Oxford Dictionary. But it should be, because the word we don’t have perfectly defines the crisis.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Let ‘De-Educated’ Enter the Dictionary — Because We’ve Manufactured It
▶ ‘De-educated’ is not in the Oxford Dictionary. But it should be, because the word we don’t have perfectly defines the crisis.
hillpost.in/2025/06/l...
▶ ‘De-educated’ is not in the Oxford Dictionary. But it should be, because the word we don’t have perfectly defines the crisis.
hillpost.in/2025/06/l...
lololololololol…
Where Is Democrats’ Transparency on Epstein? – The White House
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Where Is Democrats’ Transparency on Epstein? – The White House
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November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
lololololololol…
Where Is Democrats’ Transparency on Epstein? – The White House
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Where Is Democrats’ Transparency on Epstein? – The White House
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The one thing early social media seemed to promise was that it would amplify things that were important in an age when newspapers and real journalism were disappearing. But it’s had the opposite effect. It now helps conceal those things.
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The one thing early social media seemed to promise was that it would amplify things that were important in an age when newspapers and real journalism were disappearing. But it’s had the opposite effect. It now helps conceal those things.
You may think you’ve heard it all about the hollowed-out middle class. This will prove that you haven’t. ^@chrislhayes.bsky.social
Right-Wing Radicalization in a Fractured America with Beth Macy
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Right-Wing Radicalization in a Fractured America with Beth Macy
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November 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
You may think you’ve heard it all about the hollowed-out middle class. This will prove that you haven’t. ^@chrislhayes.bsky.social
Right-Wing Radicalization in a Fractured America with Beth Macy
podcasts.apple.com/us...
Right-Wing Radicalization in a Fractured America with Beth Macy
podcasts.apple.com/us...