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Fraud detection is a perfect case study โ€” AI stopping fraudulent transactions in milliseconds isn't hype, it's behavioral pattern recognition at scale. The real challenge is combining ML with behavioral science to catch the *intent* behind anomalies, not just the anomalies themselves.

25.02.2026 00:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@joyannreid.bsky.social tells the โ€œMAGA Trollsโ€ to take their bullshit outside. #PSOTU.

25.02.2026 01:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
LIVE: MeidasTouch and MoveOn Host โ€˜Peopleโ€™s State of the Unionโ€™ as Democrats Boycott Trumpโ€™s Address
Join this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpLEtz3H0jSfEneSdf1YKnw/joinLIVE coverage as MeidasTouch and MoveOn host a โ€œPeopleโ€™... LIVE: MeidasTouch and MoveOn Host โ€˜Peopleโ€™s State of the Unionโ€™ as Democrats Boycott Trumpโ€™s Address

In case you hadnโ€™t heard, @meidastouch.com is producing a โ€œPeopleโ€™s State of the Unionโ€ in DC tonight. @joyannreid.bsky.social is co-hosting with @katiephang.bsky.social

Hereโ€™s the live youtube link:

25.02.2026 00:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
"The woman who directly named Trump in her abuse allegation claimed that around 1983, when she was around 13 years old, Epstein introduced her to Trump 'who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out.'" RE: https://www.threads.com/@senwhitehouse/post/DVJH59KjTye

"The woman who directly named Trump in her abuse allegation claimed that around 1983, when she was around 13 years old, Epstein introduced her to Trump 'who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out.'" RE: https://www.threads.com/@senwhitehouse/post/DVJH59KjTye

I hope was was tested for at least the Asshole Virus after she bit him.

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24.02.2026 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Once in correcting someone about the spelling of my name, I snarked, โ€œItโ€™s with a K and a Y โ€” like the jelly.โ€

Yes, they spelled it correctly after that. But, after the shock/horror wore off, they couldnโ€™t stop *scandalously* repeating the story to others.

It spread. (Also like the jelly.)

21.02.2026 20:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Suffice it to say, I was reminded about the spelling of my own name VERY often after that. ๐Ÿ˜‰

21.02.2026 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bast loves sending me Black (void) cats that look like @shoq.bsky.social avi

24.02.2026 08:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hey MAGA? Remember when you fucking idiots thought you were voting for fewer wars? Howโ€™d that work out for us, dipshits? Now do us all a favor and just block the vapid, Trump fluffers like @realjameswoods and @catturd2 and go read a fucking book. Just this once.

24.02.2026 13:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Who the hell sets themselves on fire because someone cheated on them? I mean, come on. Would they amputate a limb as payback for an insult? Something doesnโ€™t make sense to me here.

What Tony Gonzales aide said the night she set herself on fire

www.expressnews.com/n...

23.02.2026 23:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trumpโ€™s approval rating with independents hits a new low ahead of the State of the Union | CNN Politics When President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address Tuesday, he will face a public that increasingly questions his priorities and expresses broad doubts about whether his proposed policies are helping the nation, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

Welp, maybe only 33% of us are truly committed Nazi swine. Only.

Trumpโ€™s approval rating with independents hits a new low ahead of the State of the Union

23.02.2026 23:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Itโ€™s amazing to think that American conservatism, which claimed to have an intellectual heritage going back to Burke, Hamilton, Hayek and Buckley, would now be a movement whose sole ideology is whatever crazy policy Trump pulls out of his ass.

21.02.2026 20:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 905    ๐Ÿ” 211    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 67    ๐Ÿ“Œ 37

Thatโ€™s suggestion was worth two follows Carolyn. Even if you canโ€™t spell your own name. But my homie @marmel follows you, so thereโ€™s thatโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜Ž

21.02.2026 20:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Think about the Least Memorable person in your orbit โ€” the one you canโ€™t place/ when you run into them you canโ€™t remember their name.

Now, find ways to associate the buns with this amorphous walking memory hole.

They are JUST LIKE Gary (or is it Jerry?)โ€ฆwait what were we talking about?

21.02.2026 20:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I suppose there are far worse earworms to have than Nessun Dorma. Still, Iโ€™m unable to unhear it for a least 72 hours since last exposure.

21.02.2026 20:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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RFK Jr. is a joke. Blame the left's lies for getting us here. | Opinion Trump's appointment of RFK Jr. was a bad choice with terrible consequences, but Democrats need to remember how we arrived at such a climate.

The often awful USAToday dug deep to find an immeasurably stupid bothsides tour de force by some nitwit who is obviously still angry that his parents named him โ€œDace.โ€

cc @driftglass @bluegal@newsie.social

undefinedsatoday.com/s/โ€ฆ

21.02.2026 20:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

100%, we canโ€™t let them off the hook, ever. Our history is littered with letting the monsters face no consequences so we can โ€œmove on.โ€ From Reconstruction, to Nixon, to George W. Bush, to the current felon. No more.

21.02.2026 16:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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So listen, without judging me, or lecturing me on the obvious health benefits of doing so, can anyone suggest a way I can undiscover Little Debbie Honey Buns? Supernatural or occult-facing suggestions will not be rejected out of hand.

21.02.2026 20:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
@shoq This โฌ†๏ธ is *all* a consequence of us letting our #PublicEducation system go from first (in the world) to worst (for the money).Talk about #enshittification. ..โ€œChemical Eye ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ on Homeopathic #Education.โ€ www.sitnews.us/MacDougall/062008_macdougall.html

@shoq This โฌ†๏ธ is *all* a consequence of us letting our #PublicEducation system go from first (in the world) to worst (for the money).Talk about #enshittification. ..โ€œChemical Eye ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ on Homeopathic #Education.โ€ www.sitnews.us/MacDougall/062008_macdougall.html

Thanks for the depressing take on how bad our education problem is. And that article was written in 2008, nearly 2 decades ago. Jesus, fuck the wheel and just levitate us off the track before we hit the wall.

www.sitnews.us/MacDou...

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21.02.2026 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Damn us all. 33% of Americans are thrilled with these these MAGA monsters. But we owe it to those who died for this country, and future generations, to objurgate them so completely that even their most deluded sycophants slink away in shame.

21.02.2026 13:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Poor Jesse Watters. He just canโ€™t understand why Kid Rock gets more respect than he does.

21.02.2026 13:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It is astonishing that weโ€™ve let our society be overrun by these sick, twisted know-nothing shit stains who make so much money spewing nonsense at people too stupid to know itโ€™s nonsense.

21.02.2026 02:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@shoq.bsky.social and I have long warned that if fascism ever fully takes hold in America, our autocratic toilet piranhas will make the German Nazis look like a Unitarian bake-sale.

20.02.2026 15:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
More incredibly stupid conversative blither found mostly on X. These peopleโ€ฆ

You're no doubt too ignorant to understand basic science, but I'm going to try, simpleton.

Evolution works like a tree, not a ladder. We didnโ€™t evolve from the monkeys you see today โ€” we share an ancestor. The only thing not evolving here is your idiotic question.

More incredibly stupid conversative blither found mostly on X. These peopleโ€ฆ You're no doubt too ignorant to understand basic science, but I'm going to try, simpleton. Evolution works like a tree, not a ladder. We didnโ€™t evolve from the monkeys you see today โ€” we share an ancestor. The only thing not evolving here is your idiotic question.

x.com/Shoq/status/202...

20.02.2026 12:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Everyone ready for a war with Iran? This is really going to bring down the price of eggs. I can feel it.

20.02.2026 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Excited to announce that Find Out Media is hosting our own state of the union show - live from Washington, DC!

We will have creators that you know, members of Congress, and who knows who might join.

Who wants to hear the same old TV panels say the same things?

I guarantee that wonโ€™t happen here!

18.02.2026 18:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
With immigration losing its edge, Republicans find a new boogeyman: โ€˜Radical Islamโ€™https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-02-18/texas-republicans-islam-anti-muslim-rhetoric?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Politics @politics-thenewsdesk

With immigration losing its edge, Republicans find a new boogeyman: โ€˜Radical Islamโ€™https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-02-18/texas-republicans-islam-anti-muslim-rhetoric?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Politics @politics-thenewsdesk

Florida gets a lot of shade. Deservedly. But Texas should not be overlooked as one of the more regressive places on the planet.

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18.02.2026 12:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

civilization has ever achieved. Fuck anyone defending them.


www.threads.com/@rona...

18.02.2026 12:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Trump abolished DEI and replaced it with unqualified and unfit white people throughout every area of the govt.

Trump abolished DEI and replaced it with unqualified and unfit white people throughout every area of the govt.

What these MAGA simpletons do not understand is that they are destroying the very reason America was โ€œgreatโ€ in the first place.

It is to our never-ending shame that we cannot make it clear to these deplorable people that they are destructive, know-nothing trolls who are toxic to everything human โ€ฆ

18.02.2026 12:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
@timo21 @shoq it looks like a mausoleum with windows

@timo21 @shoq it looks like a mausoleum with windows

Feels perfectly appropriate. He killed a country.

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18.02.2026 12:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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