Butcher Pete
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For hvad det er værd, har jeg studeret dansk i et par år. Hvorfor? Det ved jeg ikke. Current preoccupations: go (tsumego), Jean Shepherd, Fela Kuti, trying to read Isak Dinesen in Danish.
French ‘est’ and ‘ouest’ look a lot like ‘east’ and ‘west’. That’s because they were borrowed from Old English, along with other nautical terms, which points to naval contacts. French passed on the words for the wind directions to the other Romance languages. My new graphic tells you more: 1/
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A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Surveillance pricing incentivizes all businesses to harvest as much of our personal data as possible. So we support a California bill to ban it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Yes to California's Bill to Ban Surveillance Pricing
Corporations harvest and monetize ever-growing amounts of our personal data, such as our browsing history and physical location. One bitter fruit of this poisonous tree is known as “surveillance
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Out-of-touch elitists www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/out-...
Out-of-touch elitists - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The entire Republican Party is now committed to believing or pretending to believe that a D-list MAGA reality star was a viable candidate to become mayor of a city where Trump is widely despised. But ...
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Today on @indicator.media: A handful of anonymous bots have taken over fact-checking on X. This isn’t hyperbole. In the first three weeks of May, just eight AI contributors wrote 50.3% of all visible Community Notes on the platform.
8 AI bots now write 50% of X’s Community Notes
The crowdsourced moderation project faces a choice between scale and legitimacy
indicator.media
Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...
AI generated identical resumes for a man and a woman: Hers was more likely to be labeled 'weak,' while his got a 97% approval rating | Fortune
“If people believe they will be judged more harshly for using AI, they are less likely to adopt it—regardless of their capability."
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Exactly one year ago today:
News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · 6mo agoNEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East. This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family. Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships. Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court! 2025 Republicans: We run things now so
”In conclusion, Hillary Clinton is a land of contrasts”
FIFA Peace Prize winner drives out FIFA World Cup team
Politico@politico.com · 7mo agoIran’s soccer president casts doubt on World Cup participation following strikes
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
i just saw someone say "Kid Rock makes music for the people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody" and hol up i need a minute
ChatGPT is Trump’s biggest donor and is used by ICE. If you don’t like Trump or ICE, you should quit ChatGPT.
QuitGPT — OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest Donors
Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.
quitgpt.org
I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.
Runa Sandvik@runasand.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide. www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
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"People will still find a way to gamble if they want to!" Ok, but people still find ways to buy meth but we still don't sell it at Boots and let the Sinoloa Cartel advertise on football uniforms.
Watching Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon at the moment. Boy this hasn't aged well. A romance between Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn. What an embarassment. Thought to myself, look at that old bastard. Then I realized that I'm older right now in 2025 than Cooper was in 1957.
Into the Twilight of the Trump Era What becomes of MAGA as Trump’s hold over the movement is weakening, his ability to integrate its different factions is waning? A deep dive into the state of the fever swamp. New piece:
Into the Twilight of the Trump Era
What becomes of MAGA as Trump’s hold over the movement is weakening, his ability to integrate its different factions waning? A deep dive into the state of the fever swamp
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