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Moderately old, very liberal SoCal tech dude 🚫 I do not respond to DM unless I know you 🚫Solicitation

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Sam Biddle@sambiddle.com · 14h ago

NEW: In further embarrassing AI executive news this evening, OpenAI's national security officials were tricked into thinking they were speaking to the Ukrainian Intelligence service. It was actually a Russian prank duo, and they uploaded the call online. theintercept.com/2026/11/11/o...

Russian Pranksters Got OpenAI’s Top National Security Officials to Open Up About Ukraine

Top OpenAI national security officials told who they thought was a Ukrainian official that they want to expand their offensive military AI.

theintercept.com

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h ago

PabloReports: What's your reaction to this intimidation letter that your colleagues have received from the White House about oversight? AOC: It is an act of desperation. They are going after whoever they feel intimidated by, and we should not be afraid of them.

Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉@pguist.bsky.social · 16h ago

🚨This morning we reached the required 218 signatures on my discharge petition for Epstein Files Transparency Act II ! I’m working closely with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández and Rep. Ro Khanna to get this to the floor for a vote soon. ~ Thomas Massie

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Massie: "I hope Hegseth addresses the 8 articles of impeachment, and doesn‘t get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and call everybody fat and gay. I may have just given you half his speech, I don't know."

Robert Mahon@bedform.org · 3d ago

Just learned that a colleague who is a geomorphologist (prof at USU) was elected to a seat in the Utah legislature after several years of running! One of two “non-affiliated” members of the new Utah legislature, flipped a Republican incumbent seat, and broke the Republican supermajority!

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 4d ago

Roman anti-cheating gaming gadget! This Roman dice tower was designed to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲 Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over a series of internal ramps, emerging randomly at the bottom. From Vettweiss-Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400 📷 Landesmuseum Bonn #Archaeology

The museum photo shows a rectangular metal Roman dice tower (turricula) standing in 3/4 profile on a light grey surface. The tower was designed for use as an anti-cheating gaming accessory to ensure a fair roll of the dice during dice games. It is made of four copper-alloy (bronze) plates with punched openwork decoration and Latin text. The metal is now dark grey in colour. There is a decorative pine cone finial at each top corner of the front plate. At bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the top of the opening. The steps are flanked on either side by a dolphin. The top of the tower is open, and the inside is hollow except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomise dice as they fall, to ensure unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the bottom of the exit chute they rang the bells! H. 25 cm, W. 10 cm, D 12.5 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped exit chute to illustrate how it was used. The front inscription reads: PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LVDITE SECVRI Translated as: ‘The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’. Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads: ‘UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as ‘Use happily; may you live well’. Found at a Roman villa site at Vettweiss-Froitzheim, Germany, in 1985. Collections Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn.
KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞@mary1kathy.bsky.social · 3d ago

Renée Good still had a pulse 8 minutes after she was shot by an ICE agent. A physician on scene offered to administer aid and was denied. This had to be reviewed by everybody in the chain of command. It is a GROSS breach of Standard of Care. Please get these records if you represent Ms. Good!🙏

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 4d ago

Oh, lookie here! Bernie Sanders is saying pretty much the same thing Hakeem Jeffries said. But we’re all good with it now, right? Just making sure I understand the rules. 👀