This strategy—using fake AI profiles to boost political causes—was tested during the 2022 recalls in San Francisco.
We called them the "Wencils" and they disappeared after being mapped and exposed. And now:
Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
Astonishing levels of hypocrisy from the "free speech" social network. Half of the content on X is more incendiary than this!
Ironically, this will only bring more visibility to Gil's work.
It has been pretty obvious for awhile now that the AI/crypto bros have been manipulating Github stars and social media engagement and using it as a vanity metric.
I don't know what's more pathetic the manipulators or the people who believe them.
awesomeagents.ai/news/github-...
We're on our 3rd year of rewilding our back yard in SF.
We've stopped mowing and replaced the grass with native wild flowers.
We're leaving out water and brush piles and fertilizing with homemade worm castings.
Our native insects, birds, and butterflies are returning.
I'm organizing a conference again this year! The OpenCV-SID Conference on Computer Vision & AI is this May 4th in Los Angeles. I have a slate of awesome speakers from Disney, Bonsai Robotics, Code19 Racing, Ultralytics, Procter & Gamble, and Looking Glass Factory! I'm very proud of our lineup.
Bay Area Rapid Transit (149.17 GB)
Over 120,000 documents and files from the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) Police department.
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We really live in some sort of David Foster Wallace meets Phillip K. Dick dystopian sci-fi future.
If you told me that Congress renamed 2026, "The year of looksmaxing with Chinese peptides" I would believe you.
This skeet sponsored by Kalshi.
Coop from Interstellar piloting a spaceship and saying "This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years"
your grandparents voting for reagan
This, one thousand times this.
Unless you are physically disabled go buy your own groceries.
Looking for a future where technology serves the interest of mankind instead of the other way around?
OSHWA is creating a future where safe, affordable, and plentiful open source medical hardware gets built for everyone.
More shots from the QuitChatGPT protest.
I'm stuck down in Mission Bay today and there's a @quitchatgpt protest going on.
Honestly, AI should be democratic and open source.
OpenAI was a ruse from the start and Sam Altman can't be trusted. I don't understand why people use ChatGPT when Claude and Gemini exist.
I'm always amazed at how fast rats learn new tasks.
All three of mine picked up this new toy in an hour.
Every other treat puzzle box I've tossed them they've learned in a night or two. Some of those have two or 3 steps to get a treat.
Join me at Open Hardware Summit in Berlin this May.
Tickets are affordable and you'll come back a little more inspired that a better world is possible.
We're also still looking for sponsors who want to get their products in front of the open source community!
Well, this is starting to take off on the other website.
The fine folks at @moreperfectunion.bsky.social did a great job summarizing the history of the Bohemian Club and the work of some of its members.
TL;DR they helped gut social security and organized a sketchy conservative astroturf group here in SF.
youtu.be/unSBLkk2FKc?...
The Bohemian Club is a secret society for the rich and powerful here in San Francisco.
Yesterday @drboguslaw.bsky.social dropped a list of its members.
Today we are releasing a searchable database of its members cross referenced with open source intelligence.🔎
thebohemiangrove.info
The fine folks at @moreperfectunion.bsky.social did a great job summarizing the history of the Bohemian Club and the work of some of its members.
TL;DR they helped gut social security and organized a sketchy conservative astroturf group here in SF.
youtu.be/unSBLkk2FKc?...
The Bohemian Club is a secret society for the rich and powerful here in San Francisco.
Yesterday @drboguslaw.bsky.social dropped a list of its members.
Today we are releasing a searchable database of its members cross referenced with open source intelligence.🔎
thebohemiangrove.info
r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
Let’s recap just the past day at Ohio State University:
1) The head of their ObGyn department was found to be getting quarterly payments from international child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein
2) OSU’s top donor was confirmed to be a co-conspirator of Epstein’s
3) Now this. 👇
These Peter Thiel backed startups have gone too far.
This one sells a "luxury security camera."
That's me.
It is the kind if Monday where my coffee pot stops working, there are trolls in our forum, and American Democracy is in obvious decline.
This might be a better use for GPUs than generating slop.
youtu.be/8jVogdTJESw?...
Top shelf logo design.
Join me at Open Hardware Summit in Berlin this May!
Pot roast is just shitty BBQ made by white people.
![4 frame comic. In the first frame, JD Vance is in Greenland. Text reads : praxis is a start-up funded
by american billionaires and
Trump backers such as jd Vance's
puppeteer Peter Thiel and open
AI's Sam Altman. its aim is to
create "freedom cities" outside
of democratic regulations and
managed by a "king-ceo leading
citizen-shareholders."*
Second frame shows some houses of Nuuk, in Greenland. Text reads : in 2023, praxis founder dryden
brown went to greenlAND TO
Attempt buying it (or at least
a sizeable chunk of it), without
success. he said in 2025 : "we
think Greenland is a very in-
teresting place. we view it as
one of the last frontiers
on earth."**
Third frame shows an iceberg. Text reads : he spoke for many. in April
2025, Reuters reported that
tech investors in silicon valley
were "promoting the frozen
island as a site for a so-called
freedom city, a libertarian utopia
[sic] with minimal regulation."***
Fourth frame shows a Twitter screenshot reading 'according to plan." Text reads : since then, ken Bowery, Who co-
founded a venture-capital firm
with his PayPal buddy Peter thiel,
has been appointed u.s. ambassador
to Denmark, with the express order
to lead greenland-acquisition
negotiations. praxis reacted to
the news by posting on Twitter:
Sources are indicated at the bottom of the first three frames from Le Monde (Peter Thiel, the libertarian billionaire waging war on government), The New Republic (The oligarchs pushing for conquest of Greenland) and Reuters (Greenland freedom city? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vcmpg73bt2wudku3nqgx33yx/bafkreibarlgqfhsaccjj2ujgezf4r5huqmxeh47fkcbz35hapjktlsp6mi)
4 frame comic. In the first frame, JD Vance is in Greenland. Text reads : praxis is a start-up funded by american billionaires and Trump backers such as jd Vance's puppeteer Peter Thiel and open AI's Sam Altman. its aim is to create "freedom cities" outside of democratic regulations and managed by a "king-ceo leading citizen-shareholders."* Second frame shows some houses of Nuuk, in Greenland. Text reads : in 2023, praxis founder dryden brown went to greenlAND TO Attempt buying it (or at least a sizeable chunk of it), without success. he said in 2025 : "we think Greenland is a very in- teresting place. we view it as one of the last frontiers on earth."** Third frame shows an iceberg. Text reads : he spoke for many. in April 2025, Reuters reported that tech investors in silicon valley were "promoting the frozen island as a site for a so-called freedom city, a libertarian utopia [sic] with minimal regulation."*** Fourth frame shows a Twitter screenshot reading 'according to plan." Text reads : since then, ken Bowery, Who co- founded a venture-capital firm with his PayPal buddy Peter thiel, has been appointed u.s. ambassador to Denmark, with the express order to lead greenland-acquisition negotiations. praxis reacted to the news by posting on Twitter: Sources are indicated at the bottom of the first three frames from Le Monde (Peter Thiel, the libertarian billionaire waging war on government), The New Republic (The oligarchs pushing for conquest of Greenland) and Reuters (Greenland freedom city? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north)
Praxis
