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dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · Sep 10

It's a tiny, utterly irrelevant thing...

But having written for & edited a few local print publications back in the day, I can't abandon em-dashes to be nothing more than LLM owl pellets. 😂

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dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 13h

If you haven't heard this conversation from ~5 hrs ago yet, I think you'll thoroughly enjoy it! www.youtube.com/live/jsdkihf...

I greatly appreciate all the outspoken NeverTrumpers for seeing what was happening 10 yrs ago & being astute + relentless in opposition every moment since.

Steve Schmidt DROPS THE HAMMER on ENTIRE Trump Regime | PoliticsGirl

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 15h

It seems like that would be phenomenally practical & move high volume in food desert areas.

dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 15h

I know the soybean crop was for feed & thus difficult to quick-pivot (since tons of feed isn't an impulse buy)...

But OMG, it kills me nobody has talked to them about crops they could switch to if, for instance, NY city stores tried offering just 5-10 staples in bulk. Beans, wheat berries, etc.

dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 15h

When someone asks why there's a vent hood on an outdoor bench:

dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 17h

"If only she was here, I would swear her in"

*SWEAR HER IN!*
*SWEAR HER IN!*
(crowd pointing to Grijalva)

"Sometimes it's almost as though I can hear her voice...."

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dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 21h

I will note one, and only one, "higher nature" plea touched my heart.

Tim Miller pointed out loss of time to contemplate & grow, which he (Tim) had experienced, was a tragedy. And noted anyone now marveling at Kristol's warmth & integrity wouldn't have thought so of him at Kirk's age.

Fair enough.

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dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 21h

Agreed. His business model was yelling BS at undergrads to generate footage for algorithm grift.

"Ca-ching!" was making a campus rando seem dumb in a way they'll never escape, guzzle viral ad revenue, & sucker in teens who thought that "libcuck own!" was cool.

Pathetic.

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 22h

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah... call me an antiquated prima donna, but I want to see & ponder human artistic decisions.

I don't want to order a steak & be served a perched vulture which spits a paste of indiscriminately blended dead things into my mouth.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 22h

Crashing into cars as a method of stopping them is insane and is the sort of thing that would have gotten you fired from the literal Gestapo

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 1d

At 105th chaos erupted when ICE agents allegedly crashed into an SUV. A crowd formed and objects were thrown. Pepper balls were shot into the crowd. Police arrived to try to have dialogue with the crowd when witnesses stated they began throwing rocks at ICE. ICE then deployed tear gas.

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dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 22h

Agreed. And I believe they want as much discovery as thorough, hyper-competent pursuit of these avenues can yield.

IMO he wants to prevail & bring anything from within the admin to light that prevailing permits.

Have you heard him tell this fascinating Dubya-era story?

youtu.be/VJpX5IcCHBQ?...

Would James Comey Do It All Again? Plus, MAGA's new FBI narrative (w/ James Comey) | Bulwark Podcast

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 23h

Boat Derangement Syndrome

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dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 22h

Could be completely wrong about this, but my current theory is that the data analysis & diagnostic assist LLM applications will slowly flourish into helpful hand-honed tools b/c they'll need to be confined to private networks as online AI gets flooded with AI-automated pseudoqueries.

dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 22h

An odd, interesting example of this was how the "little foxes" mention in Fleabag had all the classical & reform denomination folks, Jewish folks, & literature students DiCaprio pointing & yelling "Song of Solomon!" But it was a fraction of the recognition the Bible Study era would have yielded.

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dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 23h

Instablock reply was inadvertently correct about one thing: Evangelicals in general are not encouraged or are actively discouraged from studying ecclesiastical texts b/c reading leads to interpreting rather than in-group obedience. Very likely that she did most of her theology study after fleeing.

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dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 1d

I can't do that with $4k-$20k machinery. It's insane expense & uncertainty.

dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, pre-tariffs I got 3 of every tool/consumable I could justify storing, but I wish I'd bought more.

B/c I'm currently awaiting delivery of a smartwatch with a 100% unique health monitoring feature for a loved one.

And I have no idea if I'll be charged $4, $40, or $400 when it arrives.

dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 1d

Outrage? Did she mix neon & pearlescent beads or something?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

gene kelly is antifa

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dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 1d

I'm wondering if that's why pea protein powder tastes like a dried out bong experiencing demonic possession.

Vega has surely dialed in its formula, but I remember when it launched, the first workout-recovery vegan powder in my market.

I do low carb most of the time (IBD) & was BRIEFLY excited.

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dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine how unbelievably normal Harris would have been about any terrible pic.

"The kids mentioned it... wasn't my best angle. The third or fourth round of roasts got a little hurtful." (Peal of *this doesn't matter in the slightest* laughter)

dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 1d

And only to the faithful.

Otherwise, a dropout who yelled insane shit at college kids to farm content for a viral clips hustle.

He literally could have just gotten a dog, a parrot, and 2-3 mirrorless cameras.

dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes the only thing keeping me sane is that I know how many ppl tried w/ every breath in their body to explain what history & factions within his coalition told us he'd do.

Which means the vast majority of the INSANE fabrication the admin is spewing isn't registering outside the base either.

dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 1d

I've been contemplating how part of the lesson of this time, assuming the election machinery operates as usual in the next few years, may be that we're going to have to show up in No Kings numbers for the people in the gap between the candidate's views & true fairness/justice.

dawnlaurier.bsky.social @dawnlaurier.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed.

I truly appreciate his pushback & poise now.

I hope he isn't the nominee & someone else rises in the remaining years, as inconceivable now as Obama was in 2005.

But if he's the nominee, at least it's reasonable to believe he can be pressured & redirected if ppl show up in solidarity.