Knickerbocker Bandwagoneer

Knickerbocker Bandwagoneer

@chefesque.bsky.social

Coastal media elite, and occasional fly tyer “Scromble oop de beasties”

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My immediate concern here is that the Trump administration will back this likely effort to attempt a coup, rhetorically if not materially. It would hardly be the first shameful thing the United States has down to our neighbors to the south, but it would be a very shameful thing indeed.

Faytuks Network@faytuksnetwork.bsky.social

Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede after losing Brazil's presidential runoff to Lula. "It is impossible to acknowledge the election results. We will ask for the elections to be annulled."

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Since last Saturday, Meta executives have given vague & shifting answers for why the No Kings Instagram was taken down at the height of the protests.   Today, I'm calling on Meta to come clean.   Is Meta intentionally censoring speech? Americans deserve answers.

newrepublic.comVan Hollen Demands Answers Over No Kings’ Blocked AccountsIn a letter shared exclusively with The New Republic, Senator Chris Van Hollen condemned multiple errors at Meta that have affected left-wing groups and individuals.
Senator Chris Van Hollen@vanhollen.senate.gov

Unacceptable. Meta took down the No Kings Instagram today and kept it offline for well over an hour. Censoring free speech to appease Donald Trump? We the people deserve answers, but regardless, we will not be silenced.

What do you think clouds are made of. Water vapor so you need the data centers to boil the water to make the water vapor so the internet can be in the cloud. It’s science.

I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟@nied.bsky.social

Ellie, please the internet isn't on computers anymore, it's on The Cloud. That's why we need to stop all this datacenter construction, they're trying to put the internet on computers that burn water!

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Replying to @drewjudge.bsky.social

That’s the thing they’re projecting. They actually do not believe in pluralism and they cannot conceive of anyone else believing in it, especially not a Muslim. That said pluralism does kinda mean you don’t believe your thing is the One True Thing.

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ICE used a Target parking lot as a staging ground to target immigrant New Yorkers and shoot a man in the Bronx. In the past, Target ended DEI, hid LGBTQ Pride items, and banned the SALVATION ARMY. Now they say there’s nothing they can do? Well there’s plenty we consumers can.

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if this post doesn't apply to you, would still appreciate you sharing around.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

If you're a fraternity alum (from any school/state) who experienced sexual violence as a member, I'm here to listen. I understand this is extremely sensitive and I will treat your story with the utmost discretion and care. Reach out— Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: marisa@thehandbasket.co

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Replying to @kjhealy.co

At least no mathematician has ever had an extreme reaction to the rapid development of technology.

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When people talk about rape culture this is exactly what they mean: Michaels and Herbstreit minimizing and dismissing the allegations of dozens of women.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Listening to Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit wave away the sexual assault charges against DeShaun Watson — even saying “winning is the best deodorant” — was pretty jarring, especially this week.

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eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it

Micah@rincewind.run

chat is that good

Raise your hand if you don’t want to pet the new kitty!

Jason GRIZZLED Bittel@bittelmethis.bsky.social

BREAKING NEWS: New cat species just dropped! 🧪 What is a tilcayo, exactly? Well, it's a small wild cat in the genus Leopardus and a member of the tiger cat species complex, but it is NOT a tigrina, oncilla, kodkod, Geoffroy's cat... www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

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I know I am not the median voter. But when I watch Trump performances like the one we just endured in North Carolina, I can't escape the feeling that our problems go much deeper than "affordability" and we're whistling past the graveyard if we reduce our politics to that issue.

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We need to really focus on the fact that OpenAI employees are behind this not sentient software. Like, if a person/company creates a malicious code then they’re responsible. AI does not change that

Raphael Satter@raphae.li

Scoop: OpenAI's rogue agents didn't just hijack a German wiki, they repurposed at least 10 sites -- and potentially many more -- to carve out communications side channels and cheat on tests. www.reuters.com/world/openai...

Ok great he’s gotta find a new country to give him a $400m bribe plane.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

It looks like one of the emergency slides may have improperly deployed? Which if so i would like to know A LOT more about how that happened. Did a crew member mess up the arming/disarming procedures, or did the mechanism malfunction on mfing Air Force One??? Plane shouldn't fly until replaced.

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democrats, literally the only thing you should be talking about for the next 3 days is donald trump lying about being a 9/11 hero. i dont care if the question is about the economy or gas prices or about how sexually attractive you are, you steer that answer to trump lying about being a 9/11 hero

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It's a scandal that the president of the United States is out of his damn mind. It's also a scandal that major news media aren't telling you that, loudly and often.

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Reasons to ride a bike: - Bikes are fast and get you places on time - Gives you a nice butt - Most energy efficient way to travel - Get to go whee the whole time - Virtually immune to traffic - The going whee thing, but again

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Replying to @opinionhaver.bsky.social

Well lets not forget they also promoted the tech the data centers power as "we can fire all of you and replace you with computer" surely that isn't a considerarion of Fuck Data Centers sentiment

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Replying to @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social

But in fact, the libertarians/conservatives *are the sea people*. they are the ones who make it politically impossible to technocratically fix social security! We know how to fix it (uncap payroll taxes), but they won’t let us do it!

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You’ve got to understand the WNBA’s dilemma here: on one side are the hardcore, dedicated socially liberal fanbase who supported the league during the dark days when it was barely profitable and on the other side are the people who hate women and don’t think the WNBA should exist.

Jessica Luther@jessicawluther.com

“The WNBA will not institute a league-wide ban on Freedom, according to a source with knowledge of the decision.” They are trying to lose me and it’s going to work the way this is going.

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Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

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Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.

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Why would anyone discuss anything with Jared Fucking Kushner?

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I'm being informed that it's unhealthy to live like you're fighting for your life every day, for years at a time. You're not even supposed to do that for weeks at a time. Who knew?