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This account still hasn’t deleted this “A.i.” disinfo video. Please block them.
I'm blocking @mary1kathy.bsky.social and adding the account to my blocklists. Life is too short and the times are too serious to fuck around with disinformation and "A.i." bullshit. For accountability, here's the screenshot of the video they posted.
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on some level, this is just a form of anti-politics.
A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"
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Jesse Watters made the subtext text yesterday in discussing the Michigan race between Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed: “It's kind of silly that you have an FBI agent running against a Muslim... It writes itself.” www.mediamatters.org/jesse-watter...
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There is no bottom for the Republican Party. It is a force for evil I’ve watched for my entire adult life (I’m almost 49). This is why I can’t stand calls for bipartisanship or demonstrations of the old boys and girls club. They’re fucking monsters who ruin the very fabric of society.
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Even if you're not an old-timer who was around for this era of computing, you may well enjoy seeing what was involved in getting a _program_ running in that era — or checking out the fully-working version of the game that is embedded in this piece. (There is, of course, a little Prince detour, too.)
Friends, I have some urgent and very timely information for you: Here is how to install an app on your Commodore 64. www.anildash.com/2026/10/08/i...
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Billionaires throw a fit at the idea of an annual wealth tax... but literally everyone else already pays one via property taxes (either directly as a homeowner or secondarily as a renter). The only reason securities aren't taxed the same is because that's where the rich keep most of their wealth.
“The borrowing let Ellison keep his stock and avoid locking in taxable gains, and highlighted how billionaires often employ a strategy called ‘buy, borrow and die’ to retain their wealth without selling assets.”
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Sorry, Dems, you're going to have to destroy Elon. Or he'll destroy you.
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Over on Xitter, btw, the same DOJ that searched Ilhan Omar's house 21 days before an election is WAILING that @propublica.org published a story about a Black Democrat and a dead guy 14 days before an election.
NEW: Lindsay Graham and Jim Clyburn were under FBI investigation for bribery. Then Trump dismantled the DOJ & FBI public corruption units. The investigation died. We unearthed it: www.propublica.org/article/nava...
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One way to describe the failure of the press in our moment is their completely inability to engage in second order thinking. If you have enough status, you can tell the press anything and they will just dutifully repeat it. It doesn't matter if the last 100 things you have said have all been lies.
Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society. https://cnn.it/4yWTjTJ
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A life-sized statue of #climate denier Florida governor Ron DeSantis unveiled and promptly began melting. The structure was cast from solid gallium, a metal that melts at 85.6F (29.8C). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Remarkable story here from @mtredden.bsky.social and others at @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/nava...
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Nearly 800,000 people took to the streets in over 140 cities across France on Saturday. The protests were made up of high school and university students demanding better education conditions, as well as labor unions, who mobilized workers in protest of public service cuts.
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The Palestinians routinely victimized by settlers should be no less important but it’s hard to miss here that the photojournalist a bunch of them savagely beat is named Heidi Levine — almost certainly an American Jew. The story says she’s a 64 years old woman Staggering levels of impunity
Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives and severely beat Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine.
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hell yeah mapquest!!
The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.
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Long thread about court packing. I kinda think anything less than overturning citizens united, reinstating civil/voting/abortion rights, or any hint that oligarchs have more power than people, doesn't go far enough for me, and will just perpetuate the problems.
These are good questions. So I'm going to spend a little time giving my answers to them. Will build it as a full thread that posts all at once, rather than post by post.
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You can't trip Mamdani and El-Sayed up with a trick question because they know who they are and what they believe and they speak from the heart. A very simple thing that most politicians can't actually do. We need more of this.
This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.
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When we first reported this, Meta gave us a GLOMAR response. Now it says: “Unlike traditional data centers, AI-optimized data centers are inherently new and require extensive testing and experimentation that cannot be simulated in order to get the design and build right.”
Democratic senators on the Finance Committee sent Meta a letter today about using the research tax credit for A.I. data center expenses calling it a “violation of the spirit and, potentially, the letter of the tax law." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/t...
Damn, @adamconover.net is still ruining everything. Apparently blue zones are fake - just bad data and money making ventures?! I remember watching the Netflix doc and believing all of it. youtu.be/itYSCny8oNw
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This was such a fun read. And I'm pretty sure it wasn't AI-generated, because I found myself wanting to use some of the vocabulary more often, especially the word "cack" haha
I wrote about the feeble attempt by prominent tech punditry mainstays like John Gruber and Casey Newton to rationalize their continued use of Elon Musk's propaganda website.
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