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This is a police hating and human existence loving account Whenever I do satire everyone thinks its news and whenever I do news everyone thinks it's satire so good luck with these posts I guess On Mastodon: Criminalerin.jorts.horse She/they/guy

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"The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points and also we call people on landlines and expect them to tell us their true deeply held political beliefs"

10.03.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Margin of error of +/-3.1 is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

10.03.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck it we're doing Crusader Kings

10.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am personally not surprised people who answer landlines and tell the person on the other end their voting views lean so heavily Republican but I am surprised they don't like the chatbot that can't do math but does say slurs while convincing you to kill yourself

10.03.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Isn't 30% like the default floor approval for any given thing or person lol

10.03.2026 14:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A long kind of janky screenshot of the whole NBC graph of positive and negative views on things like war and the pope in what seems to be no order at all, either by approval rating or disapproval rating. Very useless data visualization and the data isn't important enough to write out again, it's basically just what I am said in the post above

A long kind of janky screenshot of the whole NBC graph of positive and negative views on things like war and the pope in what seems to be no order at all, either by approval rating or disapproval rating. Very useless data visualization and the data isn't important enough to write out again, it's basically just what I am said in the post above

Can someone whose passion is data visualization help my stats are killing me

10.03.2026 14:38 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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Poll: Majority of voters say risks of AI outweigh the benefits In new NBC News polling, the only topics that were less popular than AI were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Support for:

The illegal war in Iran: 8%
GenAI: 26%
Gavin Newsom: 27%
The Democratic Party: 30%
AOC: 31%
Kamala Harris: 34%
The Republican Party: 37%
ICE: 38%
JD Vance: 38%
Donald Trump: 41%
Chicago Pope: 42%

10.03.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 5

Skimming but intrigued about how to select the best sized wirecutter for my task

10.03.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
the new york times post captioned β€œhere are the suggested serving sizes of common household supplies that surprised us the most” with a photo of a glob of white goo in the palm of a hand

the new york times post captioned β€œhere are the suggested serving sizes of common household supplies that surprised us the most” with a photo of a glob of white goo in the palm of a hand

gotta be another way to do this

10.03.2026 00:56 πŸ‘ 2392 πŸ” 298 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 81
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β€˜A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions

The Heat Will Kill You First

10.03.2026 14:16 πŸ‘ 139 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 8

Tho they did put him in some pretty questionable wigs and gave him weird teeth to wreck his very strong jawline sometimes so outrage retracted

10.03.2026 14:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is pure Keri Russell's husband slander!!

10.03.2026 14:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.

09.03.2026 17:04 πŸ‘ 1980 πŸ” 846 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 18
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Paramount President Jeff Shell Sued for $150 Million Over Alleged PR Contract Paramount President Jeff Shell was sued Monday for $150 million for allegedly failing to honor an oral contract for crisis PR services.

1. Get fired from Comcast for sexual harassment

2. Get hired by Larry Ellison's Paramount

3. Immediately get mired in an investigation over leaking inside information to a media manipulator who seeded favorable stories in the press

4. Get sued by that same media manipulator for failing to pay

10.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 327 πŸ” 120 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 4

they’re calling it β€œthe most normal business plan of all-timeℒ️”

10.03.2026 14:13 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes and some of them are claiming to do it in the exact way Claude documentation tells them to which it probably does lol

10.03.2026 14:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

*copper ripping intensifies*

10.03.2026 14:12 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh no, how tragic

10.03.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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From the Anthropic community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the Anthropic community

I just love to see it, is all

10.03.2026 14:10 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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From the claude community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the claude community

lol and also haw haw

"They aren't just banning $20 "freeloaders." They're banning developers paying $200/month for the Claude Max plan because we dare to use OpenClaw or OpenCode to actually get shit done. Let that sink in.

Charge us $250. Charge us $300. We'll pay it."

10.03.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cursor Goes To War For AI Coding Dominance After becoming the hottest, fastest growing AI coding company, Cursor is confronting a new reality: developers may no longer need a code editor at all.

Hilariously, the "$200-per-month Claude Code subscription could use up to $2,000 in compute, suggesting significant subsidization by Anthropic" and according to various Claude subreddits those $200/mo users are constantly getting banned with no appeal for stuff like asking Claude to do math right

10.03.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Anthropic Claims Pentagon Feud Could Cost It Billions Executives at the AI startup say companies paused deal talks after the Trump administration labeled it a supply-chain risk, warning that the fallout could cause a major revenue hit.

As ever when fash fight fash I am firmly supporting the fight itself

10.03.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Sounds like he should run for governor then lol πŸ™„

10.03.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe if someone tells OpenAI and Google that there's union activity afoot, they'll call the Pinkertons on themselves

10.03.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hip-Hop Icons Tell Justices That Texas Turned Rap Lyrics Into a Death Warrant

This article doesn’t mention that the amicus brief filed in the SCOTUS on behalf of Killer Mike, Young Thug, Fat Joe, T.I. & other artists & scholars is the work principally of colleagues & students in the Criminal Justice Clinic at @howardlawschool.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

09.03.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 404 πŸ” 101 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2
Leslie and Brianne are at a gas station. Leslie, in rabid-poster mode, exclaims "I'm so angry!! I have so many opinions on other people's opinions of the new Pixar movie!!"

Leslie, going to town on some Fresh Gasoline, replies "You need to drink more gasoline. It makes all my thoughts and opinions melt away!"

But then she sees the price of gas and freaks out- it's "A Lot!"

Leslie and Brianne are at a gas station. Leslie, in rabid-poster mode, exclaims "I'm so angry!! I have so many opinions on other people's opinions of the new Pixar movie!!" Leslie, going to town on some Fresh Gasoline, replies "You need to drink more gasoline. It makes all my thoughts and opinions melt away!" But then she sees the price of gas and freaks out- it's "A Lot!"

this @keithstack.com comic is both 4 years old and topical again which is giving me low-grade anxiety

10.03.2026 12:14 πŸ‘ 1389 πŸ” 328 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Every day of life under Trump is waking up to a headline like, β€œWyoming is missing”

10.03.2026 11:57 πŸ‘ 3526 πŸ” 700 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 18

Democracy is so saved

10.03.2026 13:16 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of β€˜Lavender’ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants

I'm sprinkling this eveywhere today.

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/a...

10.03.2026 13:11 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Ohio lawmakers send bill banning ranked choice to the governor β€’ Ohio Capital Journal The Ohio Senate voted Thursday to prohibit ranked choice voting in statewide elections and withhold state funding for governments that try it at the local level. The bill now heads to Gov. Mike DeWine...

We can't even get ranked choice voting!

10.03.2026 13:11 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1