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mctsonic

@mctsonic.bsky.social

“M-cee-tee sonique, you're wonderful, in a loathsome sort of way." Loud music & drums takes/sci-fi/InfoSec & Sysadmin takes. Feminist, Pro-LGBTQ+ rights, Anti-fascist. Pro-science.

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McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 6h ago

"The central lesson of this cycle is not that Charlie Brown should stop trusting Lucy. It is that Charlie Brown must do a better job explaining why trusting Lucy remains the responsible choice." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party

“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS@oniblackstock.bsky.social · 8h ago

Stanford used "AI" to remove a Latino student from a photo and replace him with an "AI-generated" Black woman. The two other students in the photo were made thinner. There are so many aspects of what happened that are egregious. sfstandard.com/2026/09/22/s...

Stanford University replaced a Latino man with an AI-generated Black woman in a photo

University slammed for AI-generated race swap in photo in back-to-school banner.

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Lex Roman@lexroman.com · 9h ago

Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

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Maryn McKenna@marynmck.bsky.social · 18h ago

Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...

Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels

Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.

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Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 15h ago

NEW: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted the conservative majority for ignoring the harm voters will endure by allowing Trump to use a flawed system for voter purges. "The harm caused by burdening...lawful voters outweighs the nonexistent harm that the government experiences," she wrote.

Jackson blasts Supreme Court decision reviving Trump voter-purge database

The U.S. Supreme Court’s three liberal justices argued the Court’s conservative majority ignored real harms to voters by reviving the Trump administration’s flawed centralized citizenship database Fri...

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 15h ago

Here is the opening paragraph of the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan that the six MAGA justices just overruled, to their everlasting shame: www.headsupnews.org/i/203459883/...

This case implicates two fundamental rights that protect Americans from government overreach: the right to privacy and the right to vote. In the past year, several federal agencies have joined forces to create a centralized federal database that contains the private information of United States citizens, including Social Security numbers, citizenship status, and other sensitive data. But decades ago, Congress put protections in place to prevent precisely this type of centralized data bank. And the record in this case shows that the federal agencies that created this database knew that the database violates those statutory protections. The agencies were scrambling to comply with an Executive Order aimed at reshaping federal elections, which directed them to create a system for mass voter verification. So they haphazardly combined and repurposed the private information of millions of Americans, including citizenship data that they knew to be unreliable. Since then, states have partnered with the federal government to access the database and are actively removing United States citizens from voter rolls based on inaccurate information. All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote. This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h ago

BREAKING: SCOTUS allows DHS to use its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database with Social Security info, staying a district court order that had vacated the new policy. Justice Jackson dissents for the three Dem appointees. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2d ago

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

@ffrf.org · 17h ago

In an affront to state/church separation, a federal district court yesterday issued a ruling paving the way for the nation's first religious public school. Taxpayers should never have to foot the bill for religious institutions — but here we are. Read more ➡️ ffrf.us/4yitCwy

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NBC News@nbcnews.com · 18h ago

NBC News' Claudio Lavanga asked Pope Leo if he had anything to do with Chicago White Sox 'miraculous' historic ride to the playoffs during the pope's flight to Paris.