★Kristen Elizabeth★
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GenX. LIBERAL. #Blue No MAGA. No ⛔DMs - I wont check/respond There will be cursing.
So, if I have this right, Covid-19 was a Chinese bioweapon developed with Gain of Function funding from Fauci that killed no one but eight million people died from the vaccines developed by American companies to fight it. Is that about it?
Apple got a $2.2 billion tariff refund check. Amazon got $600 million.: Walmart got $10 Billion. So basically they got to raise all the prices then cash in?
NEW: OpenAI is sharing more details of how its agents went rogue and hacked other companies. Those agents did it right under OpenAI’s nose, using a *message board* to correspond: (Yes, this is absolutely insane.)
OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose.
wired.com
Trump: "I don't want to kill people. I do not want to kill people. But ... "
This is truly sickening and heartbreaking 💔 This will never be an acceptable or moral thing to do. The right have gone way too far down a dark and evil path. For what? For who? A pedophile? Do you even sleep at night? #SheShed futurism.com/health-medic...
Kalshi Defends Plan to Bet on Lives of Cancer Patients
Users on Kalshi will even allow users to bet on whether drug trials for potentially lifesaving drug trials will succeed.
futurism.com
Bluesky is definitely playing favorites when I see more moots on other moots' feeds than my own.
Cassidy will vote for Blanche. He simply doesn't have the testacular fortitude to stand up to Trump.
Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · 10h agoTodd Blanche briefly puts head in his hands after critical meeting with the two holdout senators who have the power to defeat his nomination, Lisa Murkowski and Bill Cassidy.
Corporate America is doing fabulous, with tax cuts, job cuts, tariff refunds and price increases. How about the rest of America? Have your wages increased? Have prices dropped? Can you afford health care? It’s clear just who is winning in Trump’s America #Sheshed
This is a new view of the bulldozed White House complex. The criminal monstrosity subhuman filth won’t stop until he destroys everything, makes me sick to my stomach.
Iran is dictating terms of surrender ...
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h agoThis is what complete capitulation by Trump looks like.
Remember, if you see someone stealing copper from a data center, no you didn't. youtu.be/xCzkSyAAf4M?...
Suspects steal $100K in copper from data center site
YouTube video by FOX 5 Washington DC
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ICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.
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!🥳
In an Already Broiling Summer, El Niño Is About to Turn Up the Heat e360.yale.edu/digest/el-ni...
In an Already Broiling Summer, El Niño Is About to Turn Up the Heat
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There is a lot of detail that you won't want to miss in this story. Big thanks to the @texasobserver.org for running it, and to my research partner @kylebazgo.bsky.social. www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
texasobserver.org
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
texasobserver.org
This is an outstanding line and he should keep using it.
Patricia Zengerle@reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 13h agoEl-Sayed attacked Rogers as a Trump stooge and accused Republicans of trying to use his faith and full name - Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed - to scare voters. "My name is not the reason you can't afford your groceries," he said. "You know what is? Their BS policies." www.reuters.com/world/us/pro...
If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future. The @theguardian.com just published an amazing piece about my book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy." Coming August 18! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
theguardian.com
Some More News: Yes, DOGE and Elon Musk Killed a Lot of People #blogpost
Some More News: Yes, DOGE and Elon Musk Killed a Lot of People
Hi. On today's episode of Some More News, we look at the lasting impact of Elon Musk's DOGE: all the jobs and programs they slashed, plus USAID and how feeding it "into the woodchipper" resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 2:23 - Perhaps Putting A Nazi in Charge of Government Efficiency Was A Bad Idea 9:23 - All the Things DOGE Did To Us 23:27 - What Actually Happened With USAID? 32:28 - Who Is Responsible For All The ...
littlegreenfootballs.com
Something real is happening in rural Iowa. Voters who backed Ernst, Grassley, & Trump are turning out for Josh Turek because they’ve finally had enough. That’s not a fluke, that’s a movement building right in front of us, and we’ve got 90 days to keep it growing. #BlueWaveIn90Days
misinformation was obviously going to be the main use case for this technology its so baffling they even released it for a minute
onion person@junlper.beer · 2d agonew episode where we talk about google pulling down its disastrous AI image editing tool they put into Google Earth, you can now bet on wild fire outcomes, and more