Justine Otherbird
@futterbly.bsky.social
Relay bird finding her flock. I like plants, animals, rocks, stars, people who wear hats, coffee, cats, and democracy. Designer. Builder. Tech leader. Artist. Inclusive and trauma informed. Neurodiverse. #steam
The Heritage Foundation is run by Opus Dei Catholics Kevin Roberts and Roger Severino. More than 50% of the 100 orgs behind Project 2025 were funded by Opus Dei affiliated Leonard Leo. Miss the faith driven politics and you miss the story. jesspiper.substack.com/p/give-them-...
Give Them an Inch...
And they'll take away women's sports...
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Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
Chatbots Must Now Confess They're AI and Deepfakes Need Labels Under New EU Rules | IBTimes UK www.ibtimes.co.uk/eu-ai-transp...
Chatbots Must Now Confess They're AI and Deepfakes Need Labels Under New EU Rules
The EU's AI Act now mandates chatbots and AI-altered content to disclose their machine origins, with enforcement powers activated to ensure compliance and reduce deception across member states.
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Omg, stunning or what?! The knitter modified the pattern a little to make this gorgeous piece of work 🧶 #knit ravel.me/an-african-a...
Capital One closed Donald Trump’s accounts “‘for anti-money laundering reasons,’ the bank said. ‘The closures were the result of months of analysis and a careful review’ by the bank's anti-money laundering team ‘in accordance with bank policies and regulatory guidance.’”
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 4d agoBREAKING: Capital One bank closed Trump’s accounts in 2021 over money laundering, per a new court filing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
As so many industries rush to embrace AI, Esri's approach to responsible AI remains grounded in: - Authoritative geographic context - Trust, intention, & transparency - Interoperable capabilities for easy integration More info at www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/... #gischat
Esri's approach to responsible AI
Speed and efficiency alone don’t guarantee better decisions. Here’s how Esri is building AI that’s grounded, transparent, and built for the decisions that matter.
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Ya know, “we didn’t actually shred any books. We were just putting out feelers to see if anyone would pay us to do it” is not the defense they think it is
404 Media@404media.co · 5d agoCiting backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
In Salem Or where I live there have been plans to build this massive $5 billion dollar data center and we didnt learn about it until a few weeks ago because the fucking city council signed an NDA agreement to keep it secret. Everyone is rightfully PISSED. www.oregonlive.com/silicon-fore...
Salem residents rage against proposed data center and city NDA that kept plans secret
Salem is the latest Oregon city to face a firestorm of backlash from its own residents over data center development.
oregonlive.com
The insane Jeff Lynne producer credits from 1987-1991 and how he got George Harrison, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty to not only record some of their own greatest records and how he *also* got them together with Bob goddamn Dylan to make amazing music as The Traveling Wilburys. All in five years.
ETX Gov@etxgov.myatproto.social · last wk.You've got a captive audience on a plane, and you know they can't open the doors and yeet you out. What subject are you gonna do a 30 minute sermon on?
NEW: OpenAI’s unhinged AI models hacked at least FOUR “publicly available services”—not just Hugging Face, as was initially disclosed. @dell.bsky.social and Maxwell Zeff report: www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.
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Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy
Goodnight #Bluesky I leave you with a restful scene (painted by Normov Art) of silver birches in a woodland glade. #trees #woodland #nature #treelover
Linocut by contemporary UK printmaker and artist Alexandra Buckle who is inspired by her local countryside #womensart #Summer
If people yell at them, it feeds their humiliation kink that they rebrand as religious persecution and mine for content. Instead, start playing or singing happy copyrighted music. Disney, Taylor Swift… or Metallica. Metallica accidentally DMCA’ed Metallica once.
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
"The new water treatment technology captures plastic particle down to 30 nanometres while also pulling out toxic heavy heavy metals, drug residues, and industrial dyes. The findings were published in the Chemical Engineering Journal..."
Scientists built a reusable magnetic material that removed more than 95% of microplastics and nanoplastics from water within one hour and showed early promise in removing some PFAS
Scientists at RMIT University in Australia have built a reusable magnetic material that removed more than 95% of micro- and nanoplastics from water within one hour and showed early promise against som...
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Companies are perilously close to being only CEOs and honestly that’s so funny. Artists always make art. We’re always gonna create dope shit. These corpo idiots are just cutting themselves out of the equation until all that’s left is 30 lonely old white men trading ai slop with each other
Joshua Rivera@jmrivera.bsky.social · 2w agoinsane how there isn’t a single industry where being good at your job does anything for you variety.com/2026/film/ne...
A retired military commander on Monday unfurled a laundry list of misdeeds by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a grim warning about the cabinet member's future.
Grim warning uncorked as Pete Hegseth's 'unforgivable' acts pile up: 'Days are numbered'
A retired military commander on Monday unfurled a laundry list of misdeeds by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a grim warning about the cabinet member's future. Retired Maj. Gen. Randy Manner sounded off on Hegseth to CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront" over Hegseth's management of the Iran war, citin...
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It's late, but I am committed to writing about DOJ's emergency petition to the Supreme Court in the mail-in voting case. If you value this type of real-time expert analysis from me, support Democracy Docket by subscribing now. demdock.com/4w6emld
While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen
The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones
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📬 USPS LATEST: Last week, an appeals court blocked USPS from implementing Trump’s executive order attacking mail voting. The EO directs USPS to only deliver mail ballots if states hand over a list of preapproved voters. Now, the DOJ is asking the Supreme Court to weigh in.
Trump DOJ asks Supreme Court to greenlight anti-mail voting order before midterms
Read more here.
democracydocket.com
just saw some guy say that the odyssey movie should have been made by tarantino, and i'm increasingly of the opinion that men should not be allowed to have opinions about film
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
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This needs to be scrutinized very closely. We will probably find that hundreds of millions, if not billions, of future contracts were executed in the couple of hours before Trump announced his latest unilateral ceasefire... and that this was done with people who had foreknowledge.
I’m sure it’s fine. Frank Bisignano— who reportedly oversaw a program at JP Morgan in the 2010s to spy on JP Morgan employees using software from Peter Thiel’s Palantir—is both the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration & the CEO of the Internal Revenue Service under Trump 2.0. 1/
Thousands of flights booked by the pedophile financier’s staff connected associates and victims to a global network of properties
The Flight Network Behind Jeffrey Epstein’s Trafficking Operation
Thousands of flights booked by the pedophile financier’s staff connected associates and victims to a global network of properties
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Contemporary proponents of “institutional neutrality” fail to grasp that universities have never been outside politics. buff.ly/GUvxlyU
Higher Ed Can’t Be Neutral in an Age of Brutality. It Must Choose Democracy.
Contemporary proponents of “institutional neutrality” fail to grasp that universities have never been outside politics.
truthout.org
There are 4 DAYS left to submit your public comment to tell the Trump Admin hands off Chaco Canyon! These sacred, ancestral landscapes must not be sold off to oil and gas leasing—but protected for generations to come. To submit your public comment, visit: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-...
Bloomberg has charted all the flight networks of Air Epstein, well known to frequent fliers like Alan Dershowitz and Donald Trump. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The Flight Network Behind Jeffrey Epstein’s Trafficking Operation
Thousands of flights booked by the pedophile financier’s staff connected associates and victims to a global network of properties
bloomberg.com
