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Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators

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“Cold, cruel, heartless.” op: repmcdonaldrivet

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Karoline Leavitt: “Let’s be very clear: Iran has all that it needs to achieve a nuclear weapon…those new assessments echoed material provided by Mossad…which believes that Iran can achieve a nuclear weapon in 15 days.” So Trump gives them two weeks. Got it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/u...

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🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/

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Piazzale Loreto

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submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

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This old great grandmother wants you to listen carefully: When a conflict begins, everybody sit down! EVERYBODY! When you sit down it will put the agitators in a situation of standing alone and you will be able to identify every one of them. You will also show this is a peaceful protest. SIT DOWN.

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Looks like somebody finally learned how to send the National Guard.

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For all the time that Donald Trump has spent talking about how Joe Biden walks I just wanna make sure everyone knows that Donald Trump fell walking up steps today. Stable Genius?

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