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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Mar 25

what about Bernie? retire. what about some other person? they should retire too.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Mar 25

i cannot believe that after Biden and RBG we are still having discussions about whether 80-year-olds should hold public office. they shouldn't. flat out.

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

We’re going to win.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

I love this image.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 2d

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

Frog Bro is the redemption of Pepe

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

People are still doing “there aren’t going to be midterms” posts as we see these people struggle to handle a guy in a frog costume

Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev saying “You are accused of doomer behavior. The court finds you guilty and sentences you to be shot.”

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 3d

making getting assaulted by armed agents of the state into a funny meme is like unironically how we get critical masses of dumb white boys in the streets, Portland frog is a hero and a patriot

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 3d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 2d

That (NPR!) journalists think AI is a creative engine that can finesse iconic productions is not just context for the crap quality of writing in media but alarmingly the inability among a class of supposedly professional scrutinizers to distinguish between art and slop, good and bad, truth and lie

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4d

Millennia of human cultures would correctly have recognized this as demonic

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 4d

Zelda Williams urges fans to stop sending AI videos of her father, Robin Williams:

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on.”

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 4d

Gavin Poosom

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 5d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d

It is unbelievably funny how load bearing American democratic norms turned out to be

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 4d

Tbh this would make the redwood line so much more intuitive to me

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 4d

Love to get sick before a big trip. Nothing like traveling for 12 hours (minimum, assuming no delays) while also feeling like my throat is made of gravel. It’s the best!

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 4d

A black cat with green eyes and lone white tuft of fur on the center of his chest, sitting on a toy bridge, one paw dangling

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 5d

Source on these? They kinda go hard

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 5d

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly I cannot begrudge the parents. I cannot imagine the kind of pain they must live with on a daily basis, and the emotional fortitude it takes to dedicate yourself to a cause like that is immense. But the person who built a model of a dead child should have said “no, we shouldn’t make this”

L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 5d

Resurrection, as in using this technology to create a simulacrum of the deceased. I think that one day soon somebody is going to run a business where you can zoom with your late spouse. In fact this has already kind of happened with one of the Parkland victims www.axios.com/local/miami/...

Parents of Parkland shooting victim use AI to "bring him back"

The "AI Joaquin" uses the 17-year-old's voice and his past social media posts and other writings to mimic his personality.

www.axios.com

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 5d

I think a real problem in this world is a lack of posting bushido. You can go to war with the mods, with the big accounts, hell with the government itself on X the Everything Site, sometimes it is the honorable thing to do. But you should have your death poem written.

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 5d

how is it that the posts that get traction always have obvious typos

L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 5d

One thing that especially sticks in my mind is that you don't even need to be far sighted to see this. You cannot build this shit without knowing that and just not caring. And I also don't think you can untangle it from the reaction against MeToo.

L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 5d

I do not how you even deal with this other than social norms of a strength that we have spent the last 10 years proving we can't hold onto. How are you gonna stop the most anti-social teenager in the highschool deepfaking every girl in his class into the most obscene situations he can imagine?

L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 5d

Gonna get real dark when people start trying to honest to God res people with AI

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 5d

Really snapped at a family member recently when he asserted that he simply wouldn't care if someone used his image to create a humiliating video of him having sex with a horse. It's pretty indicative of me to where all this shit is going, which is total normalization.

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