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Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated

EMS called to ICE facility bc protestor has broken collar bone (!). ICE agents then refuse to let EMS ambulance leave. EMS driver puts ambulance in park, which makes the vehicle lurch slightly. ICE agent then get up into the cab threatening to shoot driver in the head
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This line of attack is a masterstroke that has been months in the planning.

Announcing a near-universally popular policy for affordable groceries with the same budget as Andrew Cuomo’s legal bills for his sexual harassment allegations and then making the connection on stage like this is pure genius

Wall Street Journal: New York's Richest Ask 'How Dare He?" as Mamdani Close In on City Hall

These people are embarrassing.

“I hope Mamdani is going to give out free Xanax,” said Caroline Leventhal, a lifelong Upper East Sider who co-founded “Mic’d and Medicated,” a podcast that dissects the lifestyle of cosmetic surgeries and private ski instructors. “It’s hard to be chill and relaxed.”

'You Cease, I Fire': Israel Kills at Least 9 in Gaza, Says It Will Break Truce Aid Terms | Common Dreams "Israel is working extremely hard to blow up this ceasefire," said one observer after IDF troops shot dead Palestinians trying to return to their homes in the largely flattened strip.

Israeli "troops shot dead at least nine unarmed Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis."

"During the last Gaza ceasefire [..] Israel violated the agreement more than 1,000 times before scrapping the deal."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an activist who took part in Stonewall and remained an advocate for the decades that followed, including caring for AIDS patients & pioneering needle exchange & defending the rights of incarcerated trans people on both coasts, passed away. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

As it exists, I don’t believe that SCOTUS is actually a place that interprets the law or exists to seek justice. It is a lever of power and a numbers game, and I have no respect for it as an institution.

There is no consistency or true philosophy at work, save this: they do what they want.

Lol, we had ONE SINGLE TICKET open up, Chicago!

Snag it if you want it!

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A poster for the show NOCTURNAL OMISSIONS by cabaret performers John and Jonah, with a big SOLD OUT on top

And with that, our Chicago show is officially SOLD OUT! See you this week!

Brad Lander Wants New York City to Resist The NYC Comptroller talks ICE, Trump, Zohran, and Brooklyn.

If you live in New York City, you've got to start your day by reading this @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social x @bradlander.bsky.social conversation!

i don’t really understand why this made me start bawling i just really love seeing people try to help each other in creative ways and that this shit is necessary

I know, it should be Captains Hook, but you expect a two bit gumshoe to know that?

My noir parody sketch for our new show continues to get dumber:

"She walked into my office looking like more trouble than a trio of Captain Hooks at a fisting party."

This is literally directly across the street from an elementary school.

Chicago! We only have *7* tickets left for our show NOCTURNAL OMISSIONS on October 9th! This is your last shot!

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Anything who says that ICE is anything other than racist thugs just isn't living in reality. And I truly don't know how you're supposed to work, live, and build a lasting society with people that willfully hateful.

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

“there’s no real difference between an acetaminophen scaremonger like RFK Jr. and an anti-trans obsessive like J.K. Rowling. Neither are doctors, both have been poisoned by a steady stream of online propaganda and disinformation”

When science is thrown out the window, everyone suffers.

There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.

(It gets worse.)

“But it's not true! He never even used that brand of poppers! I mean, RUSH? As a grown man in 2025?”

“Was there any evidence of anyone else with him?”

“Well, He's Polly. And by that, I mean in the bedroom, he used to pretend he was a parrot.”

“Mmm... so you suspect Fowl play.”

“It's my husband, he... he gooned himself to death!”

“I see. So it's an edge case.”

Working on a noir parody scene for our new show and it's one of the dumbest things I've ever written.

The struggle is real

Apparently a condom!

@mattbaume.bsky.social Every now and then I come across a little piece of queer history that stops me in my tracks.

Here's today's that I knew nothing about:
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Chicago! Less than 20 tix left for our October 9 show! Get yours before we sell out!

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

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