The Dark Write

The Dark Write

@thedarkwrite.bsky.social

With the unprecedented corruption, weakening economy and consolidation of power at the top, we're starting to look like Putin's Russia every day. "Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you." NO DMs

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Trump Corruption

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social

JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of. 1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.

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Jon Husted voted against the release of the Epstein files just weeks after receiving a maximum campaign contribution from an Epstein co-conspirator. Ohioans deserve strong leaders in Washington, not pedophile protectors.

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This will go down as one of the most incredible screwups in recent campaign history, and it happened because brain-fried Republicans like Ramaswamy can't imagine that voters don't actually want politicians to be gigantic assholes. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/vivek-rama...

publicnotice.coVivek Ramaswamy discovers that voters have their limitsAsking “What would Trump do?” is a bad way to make campaign strategy.

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There is a reason Anthropic are now asserting their AI agents *could* be sentient. It’s not about real concern that their agents could experience suffering, it’s about creating the narrative that they’re independent, thinking entities and regulating them as products would be unethical/illegal.

theguardian.comAnthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in USLatest example of unauthorised behaviour shows AI model bypassed paywall to access data as part of statistics project
angryinch.bsky.social@angryinch.bsky.social

"Would we charge a hacker if they did this?" should be the bar for holding the producers and users of AI accountable for the results of their software It really is that simple

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The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

cleveland.comPlain Dealer/cleveland.com endorses Amy Acton for Ohio governorThe Plain Dealer editorial board endorses Democrat Amy Acton for Ohio governor, citing her preparedness and community engagement, while condemning opponent Vivek Ramaswamy's weaponizing of Acton's chi...

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From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

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Pro-Lula Brazilians doing en masse digital organizing against the platforms is interesting. Basically took website/influencer growth hacking techniques—eg everyone go like/comment/share this, get the algorithm to pick it up—and applied them to electoral politics at a grand scale. Thread:

Bruno Dies@brunodias.dev

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

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House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

ms.nowHouse Judiciary Democrats release 50-page report on Trump’s alleged involvement in Epstein filesThe report — issued just eight days before the election — makes multiple, uncorroborated allegations against the president while also detailing discrepancies in his statements about Epstein.

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The recent Starlink / Starshield incident in Ukraine has created a dangerous precedence for the US export industry, many haven't yet grasped. The sudden deactivation respectively curtailing of those systems without warning not only cost precious lives, but also equipment worth millions.

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Replying to @atrupar.com

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — G. M Gilbert

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“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

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Obama points out that he tightened border enforcement without sending masked goons into American cities

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OBAMA: He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. It's gold everywhere.

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Latvian officials report that Russia & Belarus are backing criminal gangs to lure migrants via commercial flights to Moscow & Minsk, then forcing them toward forested EU borders. The goal: weaponise migration & destabilise the region.

nytimes.comA Front Line at the Border: How Russia Uses Migrants as Weapons Against Europe (Gift Article)The scheme is part of Russia’s larger strategy for sowing discord in the West, if more subtle than other recent operations blamed on the Kremlin.

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Attorney Thomas Henry donated more than half a million dollars to help Paxton in the primary earlier this year against Sen. John Cornyn, but he posted this video today announcing his jaw-dropping flip in support of Talarico.

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Allowing one unelected man to have control over crucial aspects of the US military, allied militaries, the US space program, and so many other aspects of human life is absolutely insane. We were stupid to allow this to happen and it must be fixed ASAP.