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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

Large fire erupts at Los Angeles-area Chevron refinery in El Segundo Officials say a large fire at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, in Los Angeles County, has been contained and there are no reports of injuries.

El Segundo is the largest oil refinery on the west coast. It was built in 1911, when William Taft occupied the White House.

Before television, radio, air travel, or antibiotics.

The political power of Big Oil keeps us stuck in the dangerous, regrettable past.

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Trump: we will do project 2025
Harris: he will do project 2025
Public: oh that’s bad
Trump: I’m not gonna do it have never heard of it
Harris: he’s still gonna do it
Media: no one can predict the future 77 pinocchios

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

really seems like @govpritzker.illinois.gov is talking out of both sides of his mouth. either step in or stop pretending.

TRUMP CANCELS NEARLY 8B IN CLEAN ENERGY PROJECTS INCLUDING MILLIONS IN NY REPUBLICANS' DISTRICTS $26,236,446 cancelled for NY-17 • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION • URBAN ELECTRIC POWER INCORPORATED $27,000,000 cancelled for NY-23 • JAMESTOWN BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITIES • CLEANFIBER INC. Source: Appropriations Committee These are jobs. These are investments in lowering your energy bills. Trump just cancelled them.

Trump just cancelled $8B of energy projects to pressure Democrats to let him jack up health care costs.

And he didn't just cancel projects in Dem districts; he canceled them in R districts too. The difference is that Republicans are letting him use their constituents as pawns.

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

There's a really great MinutePhysics video about the aesthetics- and physics-based reasons for the number of wind turbine blades: youtu.be/pgqkti7yePk

The apple cupcakes were super tasty, plus I got back to donating to AZ Native Dems

When you put tech bros in charge

Yeah...

Paramount set to announce deal for Bari Weiss to join CBS News: report Puck News correspondent Dylan Byers reported on X Thursday that Paramount will announce a deal to acquire The Free Press and its founder Bari Weiss on Monday.

Gross, but I'm also not going to panic about it.

Even the NY Times eventually let Pamela Paul go. There's just not a big audience of real news consumers who are willing to believe a few sanctimonious liberals on Bluesky is a bigger threat than actual fascism.

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Washington Post push alert: Breaking News The Trump administration quietly approved a new abortion drug, infuriating the right

No they fucking didn’t—they said another manufacturer can make generic mifepristone, the same drug that’s been on the market for 25 years

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

I missed the "use your waffle maker for non-waffle waffles" trend from years ago, but now I'm thinking pão de queijo waffles are worth a try.

Made burrito bowls from scratch - Mexican rice, black beans, pulled pork, onions and bell peppers. Tastes amazing and it's gonna keep me strong during my poll worker training next week!

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog Researchers employed a specialized brain imaging technique to identify a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for Long COVID. More than four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scien...

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog.

Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.

so does that mean we could say "what, you don't listen to Donald Trump?" and then Trump will hear that and get mad at them for not worshiping him?

so glad someone is answering these questions. I can see an argument where, if LLMs have similarly structured knowledge to us, make the same mistakes as us, hold the same biases as us, that they can reflect us in other ways as well

This picturesque luxury cottage is available free of charge until the family that owns it gets back from their trip to Montauk. Reference #07965

Real Estate: Window Ajar

Schiff sucking again. I get he did a good job on the impeachment but he feels like a one-hit wonder to me.

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor

Could we get hyperscalers to buy heat pumps for households? Ari Matusiak and Carla Peterman join me to discuss a wild new idea: getting data centers to pay for your next heat pump.

Today on Volts: the folks at @rewiringamerica.bsky.social have an idea. Hyperscalers desperately need to free up grid capacity for data centers, right? Why not let them buy that capacity by paying for residential heat pumps & solar/storage systems? I discuss it w/ the head of RW & a rep from PG&E.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.

NEW: Workers at the SBA got a template from HR suggesting they set out-of-office replies blaming Democrats for the shutdown, which would appear to be a blatant Hatch Act violation; at HUD, even internal systems have a weird pop-up blaming "the Radical Left." @telliotter.bsky.social has the details!

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

“But collective investments make personal choice possible” is pretty much the lesson all of America needs to relearn

“Trust your own judgment” needs to be understood as an abdication of government responsibility in many respects. Americans deserve better, and should demand it.

there's this assumption by the admin that there is an infinite supply of buff KKK members ready to fill the ranks of the military and ICE and I have bad news for them both about the overall number of KKK members and their general fitness level

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue arrives home, wearing a soaked rain cloak. Green greets him happily. Blue: I'm back! Green: How was the rain? Blue: It's not quite as nice as it would be in wilderness. But it makes the city quiet down. And the air feels fresher. View of Blue standing serenely in the rain in his raincloak, peering from beneath the cloak's raised hood, eyes contentedly closed in meditative peace. Blue, narrating: The rain isn't as nice in the city, but the city is much nicer in the rain.