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Aka Dustin. He/him RPG enjoyer #RoadTrip enthusiast Trans rights are human rights Prosecute ICE
Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h agoTalarico: "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness"
Hard to believe that I had capacity to loathe this nazi scumbag even more, but…guess I do! May he fall into a K-hole and never get out. www.advocate.com/politics/ele...
Elon Musk’s PAC makes transgender people its multi-million-dollar midterm target
America PAC is attacking Democrats in four competitive Senate races as the trillionaire prepares to spend at least $100 million helping Republicans.
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Some police are trying to hide from the public their use of ALPRs and other surveillance tech to avoid scrutiny and prevent communities from holding them accountable. EFF is committed to shining a light on the use of spy tools that threaten privacy and civil liberties. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Cops Play Hide and Seek About Using Spy Tech to Avoid Scrutiny and
Law enforcement agencies across the country are increasingly relying on spying technologies—automated license plate readers (ALPR), cell-site simulators, and facial recognition, to name a
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Woah. This is good news. People may not realize it when they demand this feature, but what they're saying is "I will not buy a car which requires an ongoing subscription to remain fully functional" and it is a good sign GM may be responding to that. carbuzz.com/gm-not-compl...
GM May Not Completely Kill Apple CarPlay And Android Auto After All
Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are available for the 2027 Cadillac Lyriq despite GM saying it's not going to include them anymore.
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Just to be clear, this is the German far-right party whose victory Trump and Musk are both celebrating:
I want to thank Based Green Donald for imposing the world's stupidest carbon tax.
Rory Johnston@roryjohnston.bsky.social · 8h agoUS diesel now fetching more than $200 per barrel. Highest print of the Hormuz crisis thus far, only two days closed at the height of the April 2022 crisis closed higher.
ok but at least that trans kid cant play jv volleyball with her friends anymore
Patrick De Haan@gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 6h agoBREAKING: diesel history is about to be made. $6/gal nationally — never seen before, days away, it's now in the pipeline, unavoidable.
Media Matters reviewed Fox News' coverage from five of its evening "opinion" shows. We found that their Iran coverage collapsed over the summer, while references to socialism, the WNBA, and Fauci soared. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/ira...
Iran coverage collapsed this summer on Fox News’ evening “opinion” shows
Six months into the war Donald Trump launched against Iran, the campaign “has deteriorated into a quagmire of the president’s own making with no clear goals, no obvious strategy and no end in sight” w...
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Headline : “Anthropic AI Dev runs out of building screaming ‘it’s awake good god it’s awake’” Everyone : “fuck off no he didn’t” I adore this.
Hey! The world is on fire. Get your friends together and roll math rocks! #ttrpg d20monkey.dashery.com/products/843...
this recently popped up in an instagram comment thread and I cackled so hard I scared my cat absolutely perfect, no notes
Oh good the LG TV spyware video dropped. youtu.be/6IFVTcM28KA
216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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What is consciousness? What is sentience? These are philosophical question that have been asked since the dawn of time. How lucky we are to live in a time where 7 people in Northern California realised the answer is “being able to predict the most statistically significant next word in a sentence”
Hey everyone, tonight I saw the new @rifftrax.com @mst3kofficial.bsky.social episode that’s showing in theaters tomorrow. Lots of big laughs! Get tickets while you still can, you’ll have fun!
RiffTrax@rifftrax.com · yesterdayThe not-too-distant future is... tomorrow! Don't miss the premiere of The RiffTrax Experiments in theaters nationwide! Tickets here: www.fathomentertainment.com/releases/mst...
I can see how some might take this quote as a form of "granting permission" but I read it as him essentially saying: Those who use AI are doomed to a level of mediocrity and useless regurgitation that they might as well make nothing at all and be replaced by the machines they worship.
Werner Herzog's scathing quote about Ai is what I needed this morning.
idk why people are ripping on the new style i think it looks great
At least 75 career federal officials who’d played important roles in elections have left, been fired or been reassigned. In their place are roughly two dozen people Trump installed in positions that could affect elections. Ten of them actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote. (Published April)
Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...
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🚨 OCTOBER 17 — NO KINGS: VOTE EARLY! With our democracy at stake, we're showing up again to promote unprecedented voter participation in the midterms. Our goal is to translate the historic protest power of No Kings mobilizations into a massive wave of voter turnout.
Happy #StarTrekDay! Here's to Star Trek: Lower Decks, the show that turned me from a casual Trek viewer into a full on Trekkie. I love vintage things, so I wanted to make a tribute in the style of retro comics, it's the 60th anniversary after all! #StarTrekLowerDecks #lowerdecks #StarTrek
Unfortunately about two dozen people I know are about to go flat dead broke
TrekCore.com 🖖@trekcore.com · 2d agoNEW! The first big announcement for #StarTrek's 60th anniversary week is here — a new collaboration with luxury cookware company Le Creuset to send your kitchen to the final frontier blog.trekcore.com/2026/09/star...
OpenAI guy deeply concerned that OpenAI product is extremely powerful. no no this is not an ad. don't say this is an ad. it's The News
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 2d agoOpenAI’s top scientist, in a blog post on Sunday, warns that artificial intelligence is evolving so rapidly that it is becoming increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control it. Here is the post: openai.com/index/an-ali... And a couple of small excerpts--clear warnings.
A journalist would interrogate these claims rather than just repeat them, right?
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 2d agoOpenAI’s top scientist, in a blog post on Sunday, warns that artificial intelligence is evolving so rapidly that it is becoming increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control it. Here is the post: openai.com/index/an-ali... And a couple of small excerpts--clear warnings.
I'm already at max capacity for outrage today so I don't quite have the vinegar this deserves But if this continues and spreads, this will take away the rights of an entire generation of children, stop them from using the library altogether, and ultimately destroy public libraries.
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3d agoJesus Christ: after a recent ruling by the Eighth Circuit that allowed Act 372 to take effect, an Arkansas county has banned all children from checking out any books in the adult section, bringing home any DVDs, or using the self-checkout kiosk in its public libraries.
I'd be OK fighting a holy war on behalf of the libraries.
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3d agoJesus Christ: after a recent ruling by the Eighth Circuit that allowed Act 372 to take effect, an Arkansas county has banned all children from checking out any books in the adult section, bringing home any DVDs, or using the self-checkout kiosk in its public libraries.
FDR knew that you push to the LEFT and give people real, material benefits if you want to neutralize a rising fascist threat. Sadly, contemp centrists in the US and Europe have not learned this lesson.
Tim Smedley@timsmedley.bsky.social · 3d ago"Merz has made the mistake of trying to push what was a popular centre-right party under Angela Merkel much further to the right in an attempt to win over disgruntled voters." This never works. And seemingly politicians never learn. theconversation.com/even-if-it-d...
