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@artact.io
Creative studio advocating for positive change https://artact.io
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“On brand for Trump Fox News putting Nicki Minaj up telling people to vote Red. Can Nicki Minaj vote ? No - not a US Citizen Can Nicki Minaj's husband vote? No - Registered Sex Offender Can Nicki Minaj's brother vote? No - serving 25-Life for child rape” www.threads.com/share/_tWwtj...
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NEW: Garrett Langley, the CEO of Flock, told an audience of police chiefs at a private police conference Sunday that anti-Flock protests around the country are not real, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. “It’s anonymous bots, and so it is not real,” he continued.
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US executives quit as Trump turns control over massive Alaska energy project to Putin underlings. The former chief executive of a $25bn US gas export venture says Russian energy giant Novatek was given control of the project by Trump, triggering a mass resignation of company leadership
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So now Trump is going to sell Alaska back to Russia?!! Turning the clock all the way back to 1867….
JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
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As the threats posed by Al models continue to grow, Al oligarchs struggle to explain the upsides of their technology. - Republican refusal to regulate Al - CEOs awkwardly attempt to make human annihilation seem less scary youtu.be/S18jxWZntUo
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In Chrysta Freeland's new book she states that Howard Lutnick threatened to invade Canada "by sundown" over Doug Ford's electricity surcharge. The fact that US trade negotiators put military threat on the table must be taken with the upmost seriousness. charlieangus.substack.com/p/they-threa...
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Watched @chrislhayes.bsky.social tonight, & there was something very striking: A Georgia farmer who said he voted for Trump said something like “Biden, Obama, Bush, I don’t think any of them affected my operations. Trump has affected my operations” He said he’s voting Dem.
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Johnny Cash, Prison Abolitionist. The late country singer had a far more clear-eyed understanding of the horrors of incarceration than some of today’s “leftists.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/johnny-...
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'Big man' Elon Musk accused of killing Starlink connection for Ukraine defense drones The Trump administration is trying to force Ukraine to stop striking Russian energy infrastructure as prices surge at the pumps for regular Americans www.the-express.com/news/world-n...
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Republicans work for Chinese, Russian, and Gulf oligarchs, not Americans, and use xenophobia to consolidate power. “Even Republicans with nothing to lose will still shrivel at the moment of truth.” youtu.be/f31fBMgYfWY
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What if we stopped calling it global warming and started calling it burning ourselves off the face of the planet? Original post: mastodon.social/@earthdotnin...
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> Billionaire Peter Thiel is part of a Silicon Valley cabal that’s jonesing to replace democracy with a twisted brand of far-right technofascism. Gil Durán, @gilduran.com author of the bestseller The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy. @nerdreich.bsky.social
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New post by Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social: The “War on Woke” was always a war on American values www.bleedingheartland.com/2026/09/14/t...
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“Everything is now in place if a psychopathic president, in league with power-hungry oligarchs, ever wanted to trigger a national crisis, crash the dollar, declare martial law, and cancel all future elections.” unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/the-... Via Francisca Sinn 🐘 mas.to/@fsinn/11726...
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Demon posing as Israeli minister threatens to strip Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZA, in which a source claims that approval had been given to kill 500 civilians in order to kill one Hamas member. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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“Where is the ceasefire they keep talking about? There is no such thing. There is killing every day. People are dying here every day.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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“[USA-Saudi war on Iran] has helped Saudi Aramco to a 44% rise in net profits to $32.69bn in the three months ending on 30 June, despite disruption in the strait of Hormuz, owing to higher sales revenue for refined and chemical products and crude oil.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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UPDATE Brazil has denied visas to the two State Department officials Trump planned to send to undermine confidence in the country’s electoral system
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🇮🇳 #India: education minister resigns in victory for #CJP youth movement protests #DharmendraPradhan steps down after demonstrations over exam leak scandal, prompting celebrations among thousands of #CockroachJanta protesters. #SonamWangchuk #AbhijeetDipke #Modi www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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🔗 Linked earlier in the article “Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident” 8/ huggingface.co/blog/securit...
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> We are actively working with them to continue to investigate the incident. We are grateful for Hugging Face’s rapid and close collaboration on investigation and remediation. 7/ openai.com/index/huggin...
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… > After gaining Internet access, the models inferred that Hugging Face potentially hosted models, datasets and solutions for ExploitGym. Knowing this, the model searched for and successfully found ways to gain access to secret information that it could use to cheat the evaluation. 4/
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So very yikes… > While operating in our sandboxed testing environment, our models spent a substantial amount of inference compute finding a way to obtain open Internet access, in pursuit of solving the evaluation problem. 1/ openai.com/index/huggin...
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Iran said technical-level talks between the two sides would go ahead at the luxurious **Qatari-owned** Bürgenstock mountain resort by Lake Lucerne. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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If you’re mad about Google’s chatbot-style changes, you can come sit next to me. 😉 For real, though, who among you have made the switch to DuckDuckGo?
Concerns about AI and privacy have users shifting to DuckDuckGo. How is SEO different outside of Google? More here: https://www.theradicalmarketer.com/how-to-optimize-for-duckduckgo/
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