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She/her. I am a collection of buttons in the shape of a cat.
I somehow do not think "my ex-wife is the bad guy because she took the kid to the emergency room for a broken collarbone" is gonna go the way he thinks.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayRep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."
One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Zero rich Republicans — literally zero — send their kids to trade school. But they push trade school relentlessly on the middle class. It's interesting!
Five weeks after 100+ people were killed in a hotel hours after being deported on a GlobalX ICE flight, these ghouls are back at it.
JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 2d ago🧊✈️ VENEZUELA⛓️🌎 😲 A GlobalX jet (tail: N278GX) departs Miami, trafficking chained humans to Barcelona, Venezuela (not Spain) 🇻🇪 👉 This is the first ICE flight to Venezuela since a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Caracas on June 24 👀
On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee will vote on four bills that would expand age verification, increase online surveillance, and make it harder to access lawful speech online. Take one minute to tell your senators to vote NO. www.acteff.org/campaign/16...
Tell the Senate: Don't Turn the Internet Into an ID Checkpoint
Tell the Senate to Reject Bills That Expand Age Verification
acteff.org
If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky
Spongebob Squarepants Despair Meme
Alt: Spongebob Squarepants lying face down in his living room while the light from the TV cycles through bright colors. This style of image is often associated with the song Caramelldansen.
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Doug!@itsdoug.ca · 2d agoIf you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media has obtained a coaching guide that Flock surveillance gives to police about “how to speak to city councils about public safety technology.” @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Read the full story here: www.404media.co/own-the-narr...
NYT is covering for Trump 2 on the diarrhea lettuce the same way they did for Trump 1 during covid. 'Underlying health issues' is their favorite phrase to wave away responsibility from the people in charge
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
I'm always dumbfounded when people are like "a trans player could take away a scholarship and an opportunity for a cis girl to go to college" because, basing educational opportunity on how good someone is at a game seems like the bigger problem to me.
Reminder that we published an extensive interview with a former editor at The New York Times who laid out, in detail, how the paper's pushing of anti-trans bigotry was both very intentional and directed from the very top of the organization. The NYT plays a direct and major role in trans genocide:
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
Also, whoever was doing the set dressing for this shot either 1: Should have thought twice about the implications and symbolism of the daddy's-boot-print-turned-kids-art, or 2: Knew exactly what they were doing by leaving that right over his shoulder.
Interesting that they're going ahead with it.
Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · 4d agoCapital One Financial hits back against a lawsuit over its decision to close the Trump Organization's bank accounts years ago with a disclosure that marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to the US president's family business. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
At the time, Lemoine probably knew more about language transformer technology than anyone alive and it still consumed his sanity. Google fired the engineer but pressed on with the technology. And now it's installed on your computer whether you want it or not.
Google fires software engineer who claims AI chatbot is sentient
Company said Blake Lemoine violated Google policies and that his claims were ‘wholly unfounded’
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Party that spent the last decade grooming and funding and encouraging blind nazi ideologues to run for office and government positions : uh oh
'We're in serious trouble': Senior GOP staff scared by 'rabid' young Republican 'idiots'
Concern is mounting among high-ranking Republicans that the next generation of conservatives consists primarily of "rabid" "idiot" Nazis, according to a new report. GOP veterans have begun to fret tha...
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New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
hollywood is COOKED something like this used to cost $100,000,000 to make and i just did it for free with one prompt 😎
All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.
Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.
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Fun fact (not) : after the 2018 Toronto attack, where a lookist (incel) militant killed 11 and injured 15, Ross Douthat penned an opinion piece where he leaned into incel propaganda and advocated for a 'fairer' distribution of women's bodies among men.
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · last wk.' "Ross is one of the preeminent public intellectuals in America today, a thinker of uncommon rigor and a journalist of deep empathy," Bilton said. ' So those are words that have happened. www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minu...
The reason we know this, notably, is that Dems tried the same thing on immigration/asylum for, what, a decade (or two?) and we’re still here
I have been a good Bling 😊🇨🇦@blingdomepiece.bsky.social · last wk.Just stating the obvious, but even if Dems decided they were going to bully and marginalize trans people to sell out, Republicans would run the same ads, and the same rubes would believe them.
Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
Happy 36th anniversary of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To this day, disabled people still can't get married, and our rights are actively being challenged over and over. True disability inclusion happens when we're equals to our able-bodied peers.
one very mildly frustrating thing about the book im reading is the author says "anymore" every time never "any more" even when thats correct
FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.
Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI "Pervert Glasses"
Meta is vowing to crack down on creeps misusing its Ray Ban smart glasses. Whether it will be enough to regain trust remains to be seen.
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nobody should use twitter (you don’t have to use bluesky! just not twitter!) but very specifically journalists and entertainment reporters using it has been astoundingly corrosive for our civil dialogue, because we have completely lost any semblance of “saying this is unacceptable”
Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 2w agoIt would help a lot if a lot of journalists and pundits weren't using Twitter as their assignment editor, several years into its transition into Stormfront.
