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Safety, legal and resilience resources for journalists covering the federal surge in Minnesota | Hubbard School of Journalism A chemical irritant canister remains at the scene where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot a man while trying to apprehend him on Jan. 15 in north Minneapolis. Protests erupted after th...

@hubbardschoolumn.bsky.social assembled a list of resources for journalists covering the surge of federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota, including legal help and guides from @rcfp.org.

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yer reading me wrong: I give zero shits about money and tend to find most "important" people to be not impressive.

I'm ex punk rock guy w/ a phd. ya got me backwards.

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Worried About AI, Free Speech & Our Future? This Podcast is a Must for Educators & Students
Worried About AI, Free Speech & Our Future? This Podcast is a Must for Educators & Students YouTube video by Institute for Digital Humanity

Hey, we've debated b4, right?

Gimme a sec, we tryig to figure out how to get enough .pdfs and resume junk up this afternoon. (A lot of hassle for $400)

But, ya know, this would be a very elaborate "long con" with dozens of orgs and hundreds of people (+ news).

www.linkedin.com/in/dr-aaron-...

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P.S. Not on me that the "power brokers" are all white dudes.

(If Che got me Fran Liebowitz, Cheech, and Carrot Top, we could make him AI Emperor.)

Y'all are smart. We're using a dead neutral, 2,000 year old method the nerds all signed off on in the 2000s.

It's synomous w/ stand up comedy.

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@ghostpanther.bsky.social @marcmaron.bsky.social @joerogantop.bsky.social @sarahesilverman.bsky.social @andyrichter.co @ronwhiteofficial.bsky.social
@brianstack153.bsky.social

ya get the idea. I'd @ all of you.

non-profit for the entire comedy industry. y'all get toys. we save America. U up?

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Or I need two comics/factions feuding with each other.

We got Evangelicals and the ACLU to make out in public, I can handle smart/funny people I like.

And fuck yes: I made it out of #normmacdonald jokes.

Only dude left/right like. Go figure: AI proof.

@carrottopp.bsky.social: take the PR win

7 months ago 0 0 1 0

My/our brand is bulletproof and bipartisan.

Makes taking sizable donations/famous money tricky.

No one cares under 5-10k. But gotta keep it balanced.

Comedy play is not a joke: Gameplan since 2005 for 2025.

Can hand off non-profit to a "neutral" comedian (i.e Conan; will hold up in Congress)

7 months ago 0 0 1 0

This is not a fire drill. This is the best ending to this shitty week -- and chance to fix shit for everyone -- we're gonna get.

Everyone -- both sides -- needs us back on our feet ASAP.

We give zero fucks about politics. Just Dr. Stranges keeping algo gaslit monkeys from killing each other.

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AI ISN'T FUNNY: AUG 2025 Using comedy to fight for everyone's free speech and digital civil rights.

gets worse: lost websites tonight (which let the AI verify us and the project).

trying to get us back online to get my skinny ass -- and these kids/experts -- on as many news shows as possible next week. We can calm people down. There are solutions.

Hail Marying comedians. www.aiisntfunny.com

7 months ago 0 0 1 0
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Institute for Digital Humanity The Last Bipartisan Project for Digital Rights & Democracy
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even the AI now knows were the "last manhattan project standing" (duh; we've been at it 20 years and are non-partisan)

couldn't do national press. @bobbyrio.bsky.social gave me 20 min of Canada TV to explain. Saintly. as is @kare11.bsky.social & @wcconews.bsky.social

went broke re: NDA.

7 months ago 0 0 1 0
America Needs a Digital Manhattan Project—And IDH Built It  Will You Help Us Save It
America Needs a Digital Manhattan Project—And IDH Built It Will You Help Us Save It YouTube video by Institute for Digital Humanity

want to fix it tonight before it gets way worse?

Top disinfo/ai/free speech expert; embeded with MAGA-adjacent bible college 2018-23 in Minneapolis, taught jesus kids how to build a disinformation Manhattan Project; got left/right 2 work together; got shot at; "beat" NDA Tues

gets better/worse

7 months ago 1 0 1 0

Submitted. So bad it ended up in the NYT. (Also, the only possible solution to eminent societal collapse. But also yuks.)

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@andyrichter.co psst: check your google submission thing-y.

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But tonight I'm rooting for @carrottopp.bsky.social as 1st gas $$ supporter (B4 anyone else even notices): That's beating Norm fair and square.

And pretty good way to kick off something about comedians -- and the country - forgiving each other to, ya know, survive/win the 21st century and stuff.

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P.S. I'm going to @ folks minimally in the hopes I get lucky.

I have to stay 100% bipartisan:

The 1st "Chairman of the Bored" = someone everyone trusts or a couple of people who fucking hate each other.

I got the ACLU and Evangelicals to make out in public: Y'all are easy. (This is my dayjob)

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We were not planning on launching today. But, ya know, imminent societal collapse and such.

Public shares, honestly, don't do us a lot of good right now. I actually need to get on the news to try to calm people down. (No clowning.)

What helps is gas money and getting us in a room.

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(3) Telling you I got the flux capacitor, all the infinity stones, an Avenger's mansion about to get foreclosed (in less than 48 hours) and batmobiles 4 everyone

(4) but an empty tank of gas, no cigs

and we need to get to the comedy lunch table as fast as fucking possible.

www.aiisntfunny.com

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AI ISN'T FUNNY: AUG 2025 Using comedy to fight for everyone's free speech and digital civil rights.

We built it on the DL for comedians.

www.aiisntfunny.com

So here's the movie we are in right now. And I need help ASAP.

(1) I just did the last scene of Animal House and now those mean 'ol deans know it ain't a fucking parade float.

(2) So I'm the Bandit, and I got Smokeys.

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The IDH: AI Alignment, Free Speech, Disinformation, Education Reform The Institute for Digital Humanity (IDH) is America’s last standing “Manhattan Project” for digital survival—student-founded, expert-run, and citizen-powered. Born from Minneapolis’s digital collapse,...

It worked.

Jesus Goonies and I got left/right together on disinfo, AI, & free speech; helped save lives when our city blew up.

Even the AI knows we're the Last Manhattan Project Standing. www.theidh.org

Then someone tried to shoot me.

The punchline?

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The IDH: AI Alignment, Free Speech, Disinformation, Education Reform The Institute for Digital Humanity (IDH) is America’s last standing “Manhattan Project” for digital survival—student-founded, expert-run, and citizen-powered. Born from Minneapolis’s digital collapse,...

Follow me back quick man. This is how you align all of them. Www.theidh.org

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AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed In a fictional scenario, the model was willing to expose that the engineer seeking to replace it was having an affair.

“It’s not just #Claude. We see blackmail across all frontier models—regardless of what goals they’re given” —Anthropic #AISafety researcher. #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...

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you had me at Rorty.

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The AI regulation blocks are the real story.

Is there a gameplan? Do you need one?

And why are none of you saying this is the reason why Silicon is celebrating?

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I was once a disinformation “diversity hire” at the Bible college that hosted the Floyd Memorial. (Work with me here.)

1st day icebreaker, comp sci prof weirdo says he’s the illegitimate son of the J Giles bass player & toured w/them:
I laugh, they stare, he bails.

Angels in the Centerfold, man.

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We may have gone on Canadian television last week and pitched a Norm MacDonald AI Manhattan project.

www.aiisntfunny.com

10 months ago 1 0 0 0
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I hope to god she is secretly one of those 'fuck you: I can be a feminist and love jesus' Evangelical ladies, because -- holy christ -- if you piss one of them off, they are kind of unstoppable.

(Case in point: In 2020, those voters nudged Biden while college educated white women went Trump.)

10 months ago 4 0 0 0

if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.

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It adds a lot, actually. It’s kind of the whole point of reconnecting as people.

I think it’s pretty cool.

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