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Exactly right

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Some of the data used by Cambridge Analytica highlighted consumers’ most personal information, like: • If they owned cats • Whether they were dieting • If they were recently divorced • Their political opinions

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The fascistic AI imagery of the grotesque Trump Gaza video aims to alienate, disaffect, and deny futures. The point is not to coalesce publics behind visions of the future, but to assert power over futurity itself through the shitty banality of its anesthetics.

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Maternal health experts who reviewed ProPublica’s findings say Texas' abortion ban is the only explanation they could see for the sudden jump in sepsis cases. ⤵️ ✍️ Lizzie Presser, Kavitha Surana, @andreasuozzo.com, Sophie Chou 📈 @lucaswaldron.bsky.social

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There is a very good chance that next year tens of thousands of people will be dead because of an ideological opposition by the Trump administration to doing the basics of governing

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Again, folks seem not to grasp how much this is a total collapse of the Constitutional order. A random private citizen is running the "Cabinet" meeting of POTUS & the Principal Officers of the Executive Departments, & going around unplugging large portions of the government. And we're all just 🤷‍♂️

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She now says that she's undergoing background checks to join DOGE in a more official capacity, and also this is one of her ideas for how government should work

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All questions will now be this question: “Now that President Trump has Made America Great Again, what other Amazing Things can we expect and how can we demonstrate our heartfelt gratitude and unwavering loyalty?”

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Amy Gleason the newly named DOGE Administrator to just always be conveniently off-camera like Maris in Frasier

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Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book per day (it's okay to skip days if you're really busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #Esoteric #Occult #esotericbookchallenge #Witchsky

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The AP was banned from the event but the French press corps conspired to get a US AP reporter inside and insisted she be allowed to ask her question.

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OF COURSE, Y’ALL

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One of the easiest ways to make my kids happy is a double recipe of pastry so I can roll out the extra and bake it sprinkled with cinnamon. They think it’s like a real dessert instead of a frugal make-do. Anyway: kids are happy

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NEW: Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed.

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Okay, so working on a time-loop ethics case study. Probably skipping over Groundhog Day for Palm Springs. Any thoughts? What do y’all think the basic moral issue with time loop scenarios is?

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The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.

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Another great episode of System Crash, this time featuring Alex Winter! Listen to this, then go out and join a protest at your nearest Tesla dealership! Thanks @parismarx.com , @bcmerchant.bsky.social and @alexwinter.com @systemcrash.info

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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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…which is a measure of how completely normalized it is in American culture, even in non-MAGA spaces

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Humans care for the rich, robots are forced on the poor. The neoliberal fantasy of the oligarchs is coming to fruition by the way of austerity measures and spending cuts. Why pay for actual human support if a robot can tick the checkbox.

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Trump fired the country’s top general because the general made a four-minute video about being a Black man in America. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

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This is how it’s done.

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Eater is more aware of the moment and cares more about its community than college presidents who’ve issued zero guidance.

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Just booked our ticket to see @nnedi.bsky.social at the Southbank Centre this Sunday! We checked and there’s still tickets available too, so see you there… www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/nne...

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Running smack into the batshit crazy FoxNews talking points that folks you knew back when are now spouting, like it’s as self-evident as the rain outside, is…whoa. And then I’m supposed to pivot into a head space where I go to campus and act like I believe education is even possible anymore?

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a lot of people want to not be held responsible for slavery and indigenous genocide but want to hold onto the generational wealth and preferential structures resulting from them. I mean, I know it's obvious but I think it should probably get said out loud a lot more often

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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@sassycpa.bsky.social new on the wall in our CTL… I know, it’s not photocopied chickens it still reminded me of the sublimity of our dorm wall art

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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The last time someone claimed to be our king, we said this when we declared independence: A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

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Businesses still don’t know what an ‘AI agent’ is and they don’t really want one pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/20/b...

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It doesn’t have to be good for anything, it doesn’t have to work, no one has to actually want it…and it’s still going to happen bc none of that is the point

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incredible exchange, @marisakabas.bsky.social

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“We know in our bones and from our modern history the danger of an unchecked government scapegoating ‘outsiders’ to gain power, preying on a population experiencing hard economic times to gain support for a violent and destructive agenda. We will not stand by while history repeats itself.”

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