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  1. 40 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

     

     

     

     

    He so badly wants it to be called Trumpcare, no matter how terrible the implementation and execution of it would be.

     

     

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  2. 56 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

     

     

    That sort of headline, associated with Karoline Leavitt, really sounds like a porn headline/movie idea.

     

     

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  3. 8 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    How stupid do you have to be to not get that this guy doesn't give a tenth of a shit about you?

     

    When you spend your life searching and grasping for someone to give you a shred of hope about improving your life, you are willing to overlook everything they say and do, because they make you feel better about yourself, no matter how terrible your life still is.

     

     

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  4. A always

    B be

    G grifting

    https://www.theverge.com/news/816484/does-trump-phone-exist-yet

     

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    Last week I asked where the Trump phone was. The answer? Nowhere. There’s no update, no response, no sign of it. And since it’s still not here, I am — again — asking the same question. And I’m afraid I’m going to keep being here, week in, week out, until I have a T1 Phone in my hands. This is what I do now.

    Nothing’s changed since last week. The website sits there, unchanged. There’s still no release date beyond “this year,” I’ve still had no reply from my emails to Trump Mobile, and the company’s social channels are still sitting silent.

     

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    Trump Mobile hasn’t just promised a phone and failed to deliver it. No, like all good vaporware, it made sure to take people’s money first, with a $100 deposit required to place a preorder.

    That’s money that early buyers may have been without for almost five months now. The thing about money — and please take this as whatever is the opposite of financial advice — is that it tends to make more money. Even if Trump Mobile had made no effort at all to build a single smartphone (and we have absolutely no evidence that it ever has!) those deposits alone would bring in income. How much?

     

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    Since we’ve already established that I am by no means a financial expert, I turned to the entirely legitimate sounding stoculator.com to find out more. According to stoculator.com — a site I trust implicitly — if the Trump family had invested $100 in on-again, off-again buddy Elon Musk’s Tesla on June 16th, when the Trump phone was announced, it would have $131.90 today, a profit of $31.90. If it had put that money into all-American Apple instead, it would be sitting on an even better $136.57, profiting by $36.57. Invested in the S&P 500 index, gains would be a little more modest: $110.79 by today, for a profit of just over $10.

    Per phone, that ain’t much. But we don’t know how many preorders Trump Mobile sold, how many $100 deposits it managed to take, how many $30 returns it’s made — and how many people it’s deprived of making those $30 returns themselves.

    The Trump Organization, once again, did not respond to a request for comment.

     

     

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  5. 39 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    She's going to lose really badly.  Like, embarassingly so.

     

    The only chance she has of maybe pulling an upset is to repudiate Trump, maga, etc fully.  Thing is, no one forgets what she morphed into the past 4 years.

    I figure she will do that anyway after essentially being told to go back to the kitchen after her UN appointment was pulled by Trump.

     

     

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  6. https://abcnews.go.com/US/flight-capacity-reduced-10-40-major-airports-faa/story?id=127235525

     

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    ABC News obtained the list of airports, which includes Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson, Boston Logan, all three New York City-area airports, Chicago O'Hare and many others. Sources said the cuts could start as early as Thursday. (See the full list of airports below)

    A source told ABC News that the flight reductions will start at 4% on Friday and work up to 10%. The flights impacted by these reductions are scheduled during the hours of 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

     

    Anchorage International
    Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International
    Boston Logan International
    Baltimore/Washington International
    Charlotte Douglas International
    Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International
    Dallas Love
    Ronald Reagan Washington National
    Denver International
    Dallas/Fort Worth International
    Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County
    Newark Liberty International
    Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International
    Honolulu International
    Houston Hobby
    Washington Dulles International
    George Bush Houston Intercontinental
    Indianapolis International
    New York John F Kennedy International
    Las Vegas McCarran International
    Los Angeles International
    New York LaGuardia
    Orlando International
    Chicago Midway
    Memphis International
    Miami International
    Minneapolis/St Paul International
    Oakland International
    Ontario International
    Chicago O'Hare International
    Portland International
    Philadelphia International
    Phoenix Sky Harbor International
    San Diego International
    Louisville International
    Seattle/Tacoma International
    San Francisco International
    Salt Lake City International
    Teterboro
    Tampa International

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  7. (You need to visit the site; the graphics illustrating their findings are outstanding)

    https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464487#

    HOW ELON MUSK IS BOOSTING THE BRITISH RIGHT 

    For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does.

     

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    "Elon Musk is a great leader," says Amy, a British woman outside the Britannia Hotel in London at an anti-immigration rally in August. She was there to vent her frustrations at migrants housed in the hotel and says X owner Musk's platform is the only social media she trusts.

    "We don't want sanctions. We want freedom of speech." Amy's view is one resonating with a growing number of British people.

    A month after we met Amy, thousands chanted Musk's name at the Unite the Kingdom march - a political rally organised by the anti-immigration activist Tommy Robinson. Musk dialled in from America, his face appearing on a screen above a huge crowd in Westminster.

     

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    His speech was also live-streamed on X.

    The image of Musk in front of a sea of adoring fans was symbolic of the tech tycoon's increasingly prominent role in British politics. 

    He's one of the world's richest men, and most powerful. And over the past year, he has weighed in on many contentious issues dominating debates in the UK.

    He has used his social media platform X to encourage British people to fly English flagsand has endorsed fringe right-wing politicians. In a recent post, he compared illegal immigrants to monstrous fictional characters in JRR Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings, and suggested all English people would die if they did not support Mr Robinson.

     

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    With these comments, Musk is flexing his ability to influence the political debate in a country where he holds no formal authority. He does, however, have power to control narratives on X, formerly Twitter. 

    And now, a Sky News investigation can reveal the platform is boosting right-wing content, extreme content, and politicians Musk favours.

     

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    THE X-FILES

    It has been over three years since Musk walked into what was then Twitter's headquarters with a sink and a promise: to turn the platform into a haven for free speech. 

    He has criticised other social media companies for being "controlled by far-left activists", with the content "filtered through a far-left San Francisco Berkeley lens". 

    In an effort to run things differently, he renamed the company, fired roughly 80% of the staff, and promised to make the algorithm's code open source. That code was posted to the website Github in 2023, and was last updated in September 2025. 

    An X spokesperson told Sky News that the algorithm will soon be fully AI-powered, at which point X "will open source the algorithm every two weeks or so". By December, they say users will be able to adjust their feeds "dynamically", by asking X's AI tool Grok.

    As it stands, the open source code gives an insight into how the algorithm behaves, but experts say it is far from a full picture.

    "They [X] do have a version of the algorithm online, but it doesn't really tell us how decisions are being made about what content gets amplified and what doesn't," says Dr Jen Golbeck, a computer science professor who studies social media and extremism at Maryland University. 

    One of the only ways to audit the algorithm today is to create new accounts and see what content surfaces. 

    The 'X-periment'

    We created nine new X users, each one emulating a British person with a particular political leaning: three were left-wing users, three were right-wing and three were neutral, designed to show no interest in politics.

    Over the course of two weeks in May, we collected posts from the users' For You pages - essentially their homepage for recommended content - twice a day. That gave us a database of around 90,000 posts from roughly 22,000 accounts.

    Tap to read how Sky News avoided bias in our new users' accounts.

    We worked with independent academics and researchers, including Dr Golbeck, to categorise the political leanings of around 6,000 accounts whose posts showed up most in our dataset. Analysing that data helped us understand what content the algorithm prioritises.

     

     

    There's a lot more at the link.  

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  8. 5 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

    Yeah but he probably won't be the last in the NYFD or NYPD to do some dramatic bitchy shit like this.

     

    He will get his 15 minutes on Fox News, then some Texas or Florida community will hire him as fire chief and brag about it being NYC's loss.

     

     

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