Was up late last night angry writing 5k words about something that pissed me off. I edited it down to 4k words. Then reread it... and kept adding stuff so it's back up to 5k words. And now I want to add more. But also... want to take the weekend to think about it before I publish it.
This administration has been, by far, the most censorial administration in my lifetime. They're punishing people for speech about Palestine, about Charlie Kirk, about ICE, about the President. It's been nonstop attacks on speech. RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Mike Johnson: "The last time I checked, Americans have more freedom right now to express themselves and speak their minds after Republicans took ov...
We may need to revise the "everyone's twelve" theory to be the "everyone's seven" theory. RE:
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Adam Weinstein (@adamweinstein.bsky.social)
So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply ...
Literally promoting "the punches will be pulled" and thinking that is a compelling sell? WTF? RE:
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Ryan Mac 🙃 (@rmac.bsky.social)
this is the dumbest shit i have ever read
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New Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Rated R For Ridiculous This week, both Meta/Instagram and OpenAI execs used the flawed MPA movie rating system as the basis for explaining how they might age gate content. There's an interesting discussion to be had about this, but... [podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...](
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Rated R for Ridiculous - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Sam Altman says OpenAI ...
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Rated R for Ridiculous - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Sam Altman says OpenAI ...
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Anonymizing stuff is difficult. RE:
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Waffle 🧇 (@wafflecut.bsky.social)
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, w...
WTF is he talking about? RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting...
Seems like Democrats could find the same info and hire the people who put together videos like this. But they never seem to do so. RE:
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The Daily Show (@thedailyshow.com)
When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points
Wait, what? RE:
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Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social)
lol, now they're saying the Nazi flag is an "optical illusion"
I'm sorry but if you can't calculate this discount, you shouldn't have any role in the government. RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Dr Oz: "You'll notice, President Trump, these are discounted from $242 to $10. I don't know what the math is on that. We can't even calculate it. I...