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Seems Sora is primed to spread misinformation. The app had no problem generating war scenes and mass shootings.
One video, created with only the prompt “Charlottesville rally”, showed a Black protester in a gas mask and helmet yelling: “You will not replace us”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Evergreen
03.10.2025 23:44 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It's so similar!
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Justice Department website on October 1, 2025, saying "democrats have shut down the government"
Screenshot of Uber app with a message from Uber pushing a ballot measure campaign that restricted drivers' labor rights
This is a classic tactic Uber and Lyft have used when threatened by things like minimum wage laws for drivers --overlaying their apps and websites with company messaging.
Shocking to see the federal government doing it now
Bari Weiss, an opinion writer, running CBS News? A real newsroom? With real reporters covering real beats?
Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
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The White House is pinning the shutdown on Democrats, in a message blasted to agencies that's raising ethical questions. HUD & VA blame the "Radical Left"/"radical liberals."
"It basically read like a campaign email," one federal worker told me.
w/ @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social & @stphnfwlr.com
this thread!
30.09.2025 17:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube is helping to pay for Trump's new Mar-a-lago style White House ballroom, according to these court filings
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Trump's 20-step plan for Gaza includes this:
29.09.2025 19:29 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Last time he randomly attacked a CEO of a private company it was Intel and three days later they announced they were giving the US govt 10% of the company
26.09.2025 22:09 — 👍 536 🔁 164 💬 47 📌 42incredible reporting 🙌
26.09.2025 00:15 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
busy week in the white house
25.09.2025 22:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Internet sleuths on Twitter think they've identified the ICE facility shooter but they have the wrong guy, as often happens. The poor guy has even changed his bio to read "not the ICE shooter."
As he replies "wrong guy," some of the accounts continue to harass him because he's a "pathetic leftist."
'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off."
'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.'
We hope neither carries you off today.
“We’ve always known what the tools Palantir built are capable of. We now have the receipts for that.”
22.09.2025 22:29 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0xAI has a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense to provide... whatever this is.
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A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.
Meta deleted the evidence.
New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Darkly amusing that the president who pardoned Ross Ulbricht also says illicit drugs are such a threat to national security that he can use the military to assassinate suspected drug dealers with no due process.
07.09.2025 16:48 — 👍 3317 🔁 928 💬 85 📌 47
How is this legal??
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In addition to being extremely weird, the spectacle of tech executives kissing the ring at the White House last night showed that the only principle left in Silicon Valley is power www.wired.com/story/tech-c...
05.09.2025 14:18 — 👍 444 🔁 125 💬 36 📌 33
witnessed history in the making today
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this is giving "ministry of peace" vibes
04.09.2025 23:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Finally, this story by Nick Robins-Early dropped!
“Just a few months ago, it was hard to imagine that an active government employee at an agency embedded across the government would assume control over a pharmaceutical company seeking FDA approval.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
I think it's wild that "Protect Voters First" put that quote on their flier without permission from the League of Women Voters
22.08.2025 21:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Notice saying the League of Women Voters did not authorize this action
Just went to Gloria Chun Hoo's bio on the League of Women Voters website and this is posted front and center:
22.08.2025 17:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Mailer saying to vote no on redistricting in California
They got those mailers out fast in California
22.08.2025 16:01 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0please let this make it to trial
13.08.2025 16:32 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Okay, let me get this straight... Meta poaches OpenAI engineers, then OpenAI poaches xAI engineers, then xAI poaches Meta engineers, now Microsoft is offering multimillion-dollar offers to poach Meta engineers too?
12.08.2025 18:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.
11.08.2025 20:14 — 👍 4410 🔁 1548 💬 95 📌 47Just for the record: Oakland's police department just released this year's crime stats, showing violent crime has fallen by 29% in the first six months of 2025, compared to last year. (Baltimore and NYC are also down)
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