Mike Fulk

American exceptionalism.

She alleged in the past that it was former Israeli PM Ehud Barak but we can’t know that for sure because Trump, Bondi, Patel and Johnson are hiding this person’s identity from the public by blocking release of the Epstein files.

Whoever it is.

For some reason.

Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Everyone makes it about Trump and Epstein, but it’s about this whole ring of men. That’s what makes me upset, because we know they were there. We saw them. We know there were royalty, princes, very powerful people in academia and tech, and we saw them at parties.

University of Virginia football team ranked 16

Georgia Tech Football ranked #7

JUST IN: Israeli officials halt the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and ramp up military strikes after accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire. Israeli officials are pushing for military operations to resume “in full force.”

Hadn't noticed.

I believe Dave Matthews with a “I Am Antifa” sign at the Seattle No Kings Rally was my favorite photo of the day.

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

DOGE had a highly paid consultant vibe coding. He vibe coded some scripts to read in the PDF files with contract details, and then call ChatGPT to ask it which ones looked like fraud. Absolute dipshits. Meanwhile, the contracts are all in a database and you can query them.

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress nearly a month ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in. Why the delay? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Ditto

This is hilarious. 10%

Atlanta showed up — loud, united, and unafraid. Protesters filled the streets to reject authoritarianism.

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Nice.

That $180 billion from the BBB ain’t gonna spend itself you know.

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science

YouTube video by Iris van Rooij Critical AI Literacy: Empowering people to resist hype and harms in the age of AI -- Symposium 2025

Critical AI Literacy Symposium, with Dagmar Monett, @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & Miquel Pérez Torres, Linda Mannila, and @olivia.science

🎬 Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...

📢 Symposium website: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

🤔 Critical AI Literacy website: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Seems fine. Probably making conservative investments.

I’m still not convinced RAG really does much of anything but my main point is that RAG was all the hype, and then when it became obvious it wasn’t gonna fix the problems completely, poof, Agents to save the day! It’s been one big con after the next. For years!

WILD! This has gotten absolutely milked for every last drop. I still see journalists writing about RAG occasionally as if that didn’t die a horrible death also.

Exactly! Show me the agents!

I think I brought this up on LinkedIn this week, also, I have lost a tremendous amount of respect for colleagues who did not either stand up and say the obvious, or at least quietly confide behind closed doors.

It really is AMAZING it is just now coming around. How long have we been talking about this?

Perhaps Trump can give them some of the tariff TRILLIONS he has, as long as they pledge loyalty to his crown? Bezos I'm sure can broker the deal.

Venice, FL, bringing it. We’re in the heart of Trumpistan. #nokings

Teen Sues Maker of Fake-Nude Software There is a growing concern over AI sites that generate fabricated naked photos of minors and nonconsenting adults.

"A New Jersey teenage girl whose real photo was allegedly transformed by a classmate into at least one fake-nude image is suing the developer of the “clothes removal” software that was used."

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

NEW: Trump’s DHS appointees have:
• Dismantled civil rights guardrails,
• Protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks,
• Threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests & tactics.

By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

bsky.app/profile/did:...