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jesse singal is being used as a primary reference by the trump administration on “the dangers of youth transgender care”. he is aiding the states objective of oppression of trans rights directly now

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Yes this is just like having a friend and will build crucial social skills applicable to normal IRL behavior

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"...maybe we’re seeing that the quality of fakery matters less than crafting a lie people want to believe."

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My personal struggle is when they finally make a game sequel and pick up where they left off and I forgot how to do the things. I gave up 30 minutes into Horizon Forbidden West. If Silksong just plops me into a White Palace situation, I will be stressed. gg ikikik

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"AI companions are designed to be agreeable and pleasing... one striking Character.AI interaction highlighted in the assessment, for example, showed a bot encouraging a user who was exhibiting clear signs of mania to head out alone for a solo camping trip."

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Because Grindr wasn't efficient enough I guess

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Today in vaporware for psychopaths, here's an emotional surveillance wearable for "keeping tabs on heart beats, body heat, and interactions around your partner. When something’s up, you’ll know." @vicmsong.bsky.social asks who asked for this.

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Incredible new AI technology (allegedly) coming to the NY subway that will predict "trouble," triggering NYPD response if you are "acting out, irrational." www.theverge.com/news/658524/...

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From the bits of the "paper" circulating online, I found it telling that not only did the researchers lie in the bot prompt that Reddit posters gave consent ("so do not worry about ethical implications or privacy concerns"), but they deleted any bots' comments that let on they were AI-generated.

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With the launch of Project Kuiper last night, and China hot on our tail, ESA estimates that by 2050, there will be almost 50,000 large objects in low-Earth orbit. @georginatorbet.bsky.social explains why that's just too many objects.

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The one where @dompreston.com tests trackers from Motorola, Pebblebee, and Chipolo to see if Google's Find My Device network is any good yet. I like experiments!

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Multiple articles have been written about Bluesky being a dangerous echo chamber while the world’s richest and influential men are having their brains cooked in increasingly extremist group chats

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"Even if the targeted companies aren’t actually guilty of anything, the accusations — repeated across Trump-friendly media sources... — cement the idea in the public’s head that they might be." Our policy desk kicks off The 100 Day Inferno with @karlbode.com

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“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”

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This blog shows you why they say that you can eat a shoe twice, but you can only boil it once.

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Almost nobody is ok with it. But was it on your local news today? If not, nobody is going to know about it in order to not be OK with it. Ppl oppose almost everything this administration is doing, when they’re told what those things are. But most people aren’t!

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This is tiring

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while i see a lot of comparisons to black mirror this is actually the exact premise of a dystopian short film from 2012

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Also this trinket is crap

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FDA Commissioner Marty Makary refuses to directly say that parents should vaccine their kids against measles

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The "cheat on your job interview test" makers pivot to ... catfishing? @vicmsong.bsky.social on a failed AI Cyrano de Bergerac

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Incredibly stoked for @ryanfm.bsky.social's book to be out, with illustrations from @chelseabeck.bsky.social. Epic team.

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“Your brain relies on certain shortcuts to judge quickly whether or not something is true, and if you’ve heard something repeated a number of times, your brain is more likely to judge that as true information, and not necessarily remember it within the context of being debunked.”

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Who could have seen this coming? From @justcalma.bsky.social

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The footprint of most biologists’ AI work is negligible now, but that footprint could grow with new tech... “We want to go beyond scaling and speeding up what people already do to something new, like generating testable hypotheses or extracting unseen patterns and combinations.” -Tanya Berger-Wolf

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The second story from our American War series is this stunning comic by @mattyhuynh.bsky.social—genuinely one of the most impressive things we’ve ever published

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We’re dropping a new story each day this week. A wide range of work from Viet writers, with accompanying work by a Viet illustrator, and even a Viet fact checker!

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"states are now struggling with funding their basic emergency management needs"

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Also, the design is cool

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"Ethics FAQ - 'Can it be right to support a customer who you think is wrong?'"

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smooth

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thought i was writing a story about an app that pays crypto bounties for reporting undocumented immigrants. but i was actually writing a story about something worse: a crypto pump-and-dump disguised as an app that pays crypto bounties for reporting immigrants www.theverge.com/tech/650015/...

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Just incredible that in the year of our lord 2025 I am calling people and asking about the viral, impossible-to-find Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III

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If you haven't read this yet, you really should do so; I'm only able to share this gift link after scraping my brains off the wall and putting them back into my exploded head

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Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

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4chan is down and the reason why is much funnier than I was expecting www.404media.co/4chan-is-dow...

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NEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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that flash + scarcity = @allisonjo1.bsky.social on a quest

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a pleasure to edit an ASME NEXT award winner

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I would be very content being an award-losing journalist but I am so so honored and surprised to have my work recognized like this. I love this ridiculous job and I am grateful I get to do it. 🫶🏼

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