Swiss

Swiss

@switzere.bsky.social

History nerd. News Junkie. Wargamer. Mediocre mini painter. Dad. Ardent ideological Liberal. Salesman. I think that’s it.

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Once again, very smart people work to intentionally manipulate idiots by cosplaying as also illiterate.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance says of the Middle East that it's "a region of the world made up of countries whose name I couldn't even pronounce"

Politico is trash.

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

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Replying to @amandamarcotte.bsky.social

Even setting aside the two accusers whose stories are shakier, we have three strong and credible direct accusations. Then we have three more young women who have evidence of Trump participating in Epstein's trafficking ring.

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Astonishing: Maxwell was willing to tell Blanche about some of Trump's rapes, and he ordered her not to. "Let's not talk about inviduals." WTF were they there to talk about? There's EVIDENCE on this.

Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

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It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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We’re so used to impunity we don’t even know how to process punity

Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social

“Flávio has given up,” a Bolsonaro family adviser told The Washington Post. “He’s terrified. He is worried his father will die in jail, that he himself will be jailed this week, and that he may have a long prison term ahead”

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We are delighted to announce our newest Table Ready Terrain line with a reskin of our existing Dark Age buildings. Ideal for games such as SAGA and Pillage, these buildings are ready to build and drop straight on to your table. Available from this coming Friday!

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Building a processing facility for a globally traded commodity that you don't produce in your community on the theory that it will reduce the local price of said commodity is a good way to fail an intro-to-economics term paper. But it is no basis for an energy policy. www.wpr.org/news/tiffany...

wpr.orgTiffany floats expansion of Wisconsin's oil refinery to reduce reliance on Middle EastRepublican U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany is encouraging expansion of Wisconsin’s only oil refinery to reduce reliance on the Middle East, but energy experts say it would have little effect on bringing down lo...

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Over on The Other Site, the City is being attacked for posting two men pushing a stroller. Tobi and suggested that a Bradford mayoralty would result in a city wouldn’t post that kind of content I dared to ask why and have been getting bombarded, but nothing compared to what City staff is getting.

The question becomes - how long can they maintain profitability once competing AI (coding) from overseas happens at a lower cost? Or a mix of offshore tokens and offshore programmers? Because the issue is that there is very little “unique” when they’re all just plagiarizing each other.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com

seems Anthropic has figured out how to make money

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Replying to @ryanlcooper.com

also kind of funny that it going YOLO with chatbots and image generators in 2022 appears to be extremely stupid, business-wise. that kind of shit is like two-thirds of why people hate AI, and it turns out to be unnecessary

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Like realizing your parents aren't infallible, political adulthood begins when you realize the "great minds" elites rely on are all dumb fucking propagandists that capitalism lifts through the system because they're shameless in their wrongness and are willing to serve as dull priests of whatever.

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Replying to @whstancil.bsky.social

Yes, this is why when the AI bubble bursts I think Anthropic will be one the few survivors. They’re the only big LLM company that realizes you need to have real customers and an actual business model.

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I managed to score this little lot on ebay. Complete rules set for 2nd, with all the trimmings, but no models. The chaos codex I already had. I warn you. Prepare for a nostalgia trip! #warhammercommunity #nerdlings #oldhammer

Hook it into my veins!

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

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We need this right here

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

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Replying to @brunodias.dev

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

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if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

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"The plausible techno-dystopian future we’re staring down is not one where a digital demon kills us all, but one where we... concentrate immense wealth and control of information in a small number of tech-industry figures whose personal interests do not align with the public interest."

liberalcurrents.comThe Plausible Techno-Dystopian FutureThe problems caused by AI development are widespread and multiplying, but none involves a digital demon that kills us all.

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Replying to @lorak.bsky.social

Simply imagine a Lockheed, Boeing or other prime defense contractor - out of nowhere, no communication - implementing some terms of service or term in a contract they think they have without reaching out first to say we think you are violating this. As a result we will nerf your crucial technology.

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Replying to @lorak.bsky.social

SpaceX describes Starshield as a "secured satellite network for government entities" that "leverages Starlink technology." And don't forget SpaceX gets *paid* to provide both Starshield and Starlink to Ukraine by NGOs, governments, etc. Poland is a big customer so is U.S. Pentagon.

Home of the free, land of the brave.

CNN@cnn.com

Mississippi police officer Hunter Foster has resigned after shooting into a moving vehicle, resulting in the death of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, while pursuing two women suspected of shoplifting from a local Walmart earlier this year, Senatobia Mayor Greg Graves said. Read more: https://cnn.it/4zIlzJM

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next time you have impostor syndrome just remember someone pays this guy to make words fall outta his mouth hole

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com

Matthew Yglesias continues to say that talking about ICE and excessive force in immigration enforcement helps Republicans. He is obviously wrong about this and refuses to acknowledge the data. Way past time for everyone to update their priors on this.

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🎸 album release day❣️ LOVE IS EVERYWHERE ~ featuring the fabulous Good Lovelies trio. 🌟 very grateful to still be in good voice, making new music. you’ll love this album! #newalbum #belugagrads

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This Defender has spent FIFTY MONTHS in Russian captivity. He says the chances of survival there were slim and many died. He looks emaciated... None of the letters from their families reached our Warriors in Russian captivity. 📹️️️️️️: army. media. ua/Instagram

Are we still doing orktober? Got a bit of highlights and finishing. But almost done these kitbashed meganobz. Been sitting half done for 10 years or more.

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70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

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From the steppes with love. Four more 28mm cossacks from the Foundry 18th century range thunder off the painting bench and join the horde. #miniatures #wargames