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Brian Urrutia

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852dude@852dude.bsky.social · yesterday

This sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.

Anna Holmes@annabookwriter.bsky.social · 20h ago

Hey, Washingtonians, Oregonians, Canadians et al—your resident “never stopped masking because my lungs and immune system suck” pal here. Just like when selecting a mask for virus protection, you want the mask that provides the best seal. Check for gaps around your chin, corners of your mouth, nose.

NBC4 Washington@nbcwashington.com · 19h ago

The extension of the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. until January 2029 will cost roughly $1.4 billion, according to a Defense Department estimate provided to Congress.

Guard deployment to Washington into 2029 will cost roughly $1.4B, estimate shows

The extension of the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. until January 2029 will cost roughly $1.4 billion, according to a Defense Department estimate provided to Congress. The figure offers...

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Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 2d ago

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 2d ago

Whenever I go for a ride across the Golden Gate Bridge, my route coming and going through the Presidio passes the spot where a day drunk driver crossed the oncoming lane to kill beloved track racer Ethan Boyes head on. I stay angry. sfstandard.com/2024/07/15/e...

No prison time for intoxicated driver who killed cyclist Ethan Boyes

Champion cyclist Ethan Boyes’s loved ones split on whether the intoxicated driver who killed him should be incarcerated. On Tuesday, a federal judge sentenced that driver, Arnold Low, to one year of h...

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Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d ago

I realize I probably come across as an "angry cyclist" a lot on here but then I remember that 7 cyclists have been killed in my state since early June and I have my life threatened on a nearly daily basis and then I don't feel so bad about being a jerk sometimes

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Susie "Nickname In Quotes" Beeca@susiebeeca.bsky.social · 4d ago

Ah, this warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart. Wait til you see the price a TERF had to pay for lying about a trans woman. "...also be required to publish a court-approved apology that must remain pinned on their social media channels for three months" www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/an-a...

An anti-trans activist lied about a trans athlete injuring cis women. Now she has to pay the price. - LGBTQ Nation

Kirralie Smith admitted in court she didn't have any evidence to back up her claim about a trans woman injuring two cis women.

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Anna Holmes@annabookwriter.bsky.social · 5d ago

A friend reached out this evening to request clarification on an AI apologist’s talking point, and it’s worth reiterating: Digitizing is a process librarians, archivists, and curators understand to preserve the information inside a book as a unique entity. What these bros are doing is destroying.

Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 5d ago

MLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury

Gwen Snyder is uncivil@gwensnyder.bsky.social · 5d ago

I say this with love but it really hasn't ever been latent. We went through a brief period where it somewhat fell out of fashion to be overtly racist/xenophobic/transphobic/misogynist, and I do mean *brief.* MAGA is the rage response to that short interlude.

Peter Marino@mondium.ai · 5d ago

Also, given how quickly this version of the country and society burst up through the ground, it's kind of disturbing to realize that it must have been always latent, simply waiting for permission and its moment

Science News@sciencenews.bsky.social · 5d ago

Fires hum. As they suck in air and belch out hot gas, they give off pressure waves below the range of human hearing. Researchers used that infrasound to track a prescribed burn in Idaho from nearly two kilometers away. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fire-sound-monitoring-tracking

Scientists tracked a fire using sound alone

Researchers tracked a prescribed grassland fire using infrasound, sound waves pitched too low for people to hear.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW: The State Department finalized a rule implementing a "visa bond" program for tourist/business visitor visas, to be imposed on a list of countries to be announced. Applicants for B1/B2 visas from those countries will have to pay a $10k, $15k, or $20k bond, to be paid back once the visa expires.

his document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 2026-08-03 and available online at https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2026-15726, and on https://govinfo.gov DEPARTMENT OF STATE 22 CFR Part 41 [Public Notice: 13089] RIN: 1400-AG33 Visas: Visa Bond Program AGENCY: Department of State. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: This rule finalizes the temporary final rule that went into effect on August 20, 2025, which launched a 12-month long Visa Bond Pilot Program (Pilot Program), and establishes a permanent visa bond program. An alien applying for a visa as a temporary visitor for business or pleasure (B-1/B-2) may be required to submit a bond (“visa bond”) to ensure that the alien maintains his or her nonimmigrant status and departs as required. Consular officers may require covered nonimmigrant visa applicants to post a bond of up to $20,000 as a condition of visa issuance, as determined by the consular officers. DATES: This final rule is effective [INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].
vortex_egg@vortexegg.com · 6d ago

LinkedIn training their users to do unpaid outsourced data work to label AI slop posts to train an AI model to discriminate between what AI generated posts humans perceive as AI slop, which will raise the quality of AI slop to be more undetectable in order to help users “connect with real people”.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d ago

Updated with comment from LinkedIn executive. The button will help train LinkedIn's models for identifying AI slop www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

After publication of this piece, Hari Srinivasan, chief product officer at LinkedIn, wrote their own post about the button. “AI slop is a top priority for all of us. We really care about this. People come to LinkedIn to connect with real people and share their real perspectives, ideas and expertise. Here are a few more changes to keep it that way,” he wrote. The button in part will help LinkedIn tune its own models for identifying AI slop. “We are ramping up a series of new and improved classifiers that identify if a post is AI-slop or generally low-quality content. This will reduce the amount of AI slop you might see in suggested content and content from outside your network,” the post said. “We are ramping the ability for members to tell us if they believe a post or comment seems like AI slop. Slop is hard to define and the definition changes; this lets us tune our models and make better feeds.”
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 6d ago

Yeah I did food safety audits for a farm down there (southern GA) that DID NOT hire local H2A contract crews. They jumped through all the hoops to hire their own crew, direct from the consulate in Mexico, & charter a bus from the consulate drive the crew up themselves. For protection, basically.

Mad Max Guitar Guy's Desert Performance

Alt: GIF of the Doof Warrior from Mad Max shredding on his sick flamethrower guitar with the whole convoy hauling ass behind him No this is not a 100% faithful recreation of what the farm did, which is just "charter an air conditioned bus for a work trip." But you gotta admit "driving down to pick the crew up yourself or they'll get diverted, extorted, have their passports taken by some power-tripping dickwad on the way" has a certain Mad Max energy to it.

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@diop.bsky.social · 6d ago

I was acquainted with a farmer in GA who had their workers living in cinderblock houses with no A/C. Workers were forbidden from leaving the farm, “because they’d run away”. Operation Blooming Onion did not surprise me.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 6d ago

Yep, "you can't just fire people, keep their passports, do brutality, not even a little bit" was in some anti-slavery reforms to the H2A program in 2024. Farmers were outraged at the "gov't overreach & red tape." They went hard for Trump in '24, & he repealed those farm worker regs in June 2025.

Gaius Cassius Longinus@cassius1213.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'm also guessing that the farmers in question didn't want their workers to be able to quit and that they wanted the right to "discipline" them for "poor performance" however they saw fit?

Shiro Sirius@shirosiri.us · last wk.

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

"A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information," it continues. "Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an Al model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated. The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one."
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 7d ago

"The top U.S. commander for the Middle East has warned troops that cellphone videos shared online can help Iran target American bases, and sources told Reuters some deployed personnel could soon be ordered to surrender their phones." www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

US military may require some troops in Mideast to surrender cell phones, sources say

The top U.S. commander for the Middle East has warned troops that cellphone videos shared online can help Iran target American bases.

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