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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 29m

Now we’re eating paletas and mango with chili micholove.com

Welcome to Micho Love, your locally family-owned ice cream shop, bringing the authentic flavors of Michoacán to Minnesota!

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 2h

important to remember that no matter how unpopular you think the regime is currently, this is actually the most popular they will ever be between today and any dat you pick in the future

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 2h

I have just eaten cart-service dim sum, and nobody could be more fortunate than I.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 5h

Remember, this is how much it has cooked people’s brains after like one year. Think of what 10 years of this will do. Think of the brains of kids who will grow up not only unable to spot AI but unable to understand “real” and “AI generated” as two different concepts.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 7h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 3h

Nggh omnivorescookbook.com/peking-ribs/...

Peking Ribs (京都排骨)

My Peking ribs recipe teaches you a fast way to create super flavorful pork ribs that are crispy on the outside, juicy inside, and coated with a glossy sweet and sour sauce.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 5h

Whenever you hear a tech CEO spinning out *absolute fucking nonsense* using star trek language, some of what you're hearing is a screeching positive feedback loop between him and the crackpots he's spending all of his time listening to.

Some of whom he literally created.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · Jun 29

Every day it becomes more and more clear that Sylvia Rivera was right, we never should have settled for Pride when we could have had Power.

Sylvia Rivera in the early 1970s, holding a sign that says "GAY POWER"

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 4h

This song hits like a truck youtu.be/ZQMxFptjsZI?...

West Texas Exiles & Kelly Willis - “Division” (Live at Studio 601)

YouTube video by West Texas Exiles

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 4h

In its recent ruling, the Hawaii Supreme Court vowed to protect the due process of Hawaii residents; the majority opinion stated that the state constitution offers more safety than the federal constitution’s “suddenly fluid protections.”

Hawaii Supreme Court Expands Rights of Defendants, and Once Again Rebukes SCOTUS

The justices ruled that Hawaii’s constitution requires police to record interrogations. And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaii residents—unlike, they said, the Roberts Court.

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 6h

Tangent regarding white media being Charlie Brown: As far as I (an utter numpty) can tell, it’s a thicket of “white journalists love fascism,” “white journalists don’t mind fascism” and “white journalists KNOW whites don’t betray whites, and no provocation can change their minds.”

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6h

There must be some mistake, I read 50 Atlantic articles about how RFK Jr just wants to help Americans eat more vegetables

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 9h

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 15h

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 6h

I share this fear

Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 6h

Absolutely not the point, but the second we put a $10M ceiling on wealth Peter Thiel becomes just another bloodshot golfer with a big ugly car.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 7h

Here's a rule of thumb: If "AI" seems like a good solution, you are probably both misjudging what the "AI" can do and misframing the problem.

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Comment by Tom Diettrich on a linkedin post reading:

"You can't "test-in quality" in engineering; you can't "review-in quality" in research. We need incentives for people to do better research. Our system today assumes that 75% of submitted papers are low quality, and it is probably right (I'll bet it is higher). If this were a manufacturing organization, an 75% defect rate would result in bankruptcy.

Imagine a world in which you could have an AI system check the correctness/quality of your paper. If your paper passed that bar, then it could be published (say, on arXiv). Subsequent human review could assess its importance to the field.

In such a system, authors would be incentivized to satisfy the AI system. This will lead to searching for exploits in the AI system. A possible solution is to select the AI evaluator at random from a large pool and limit the number of permitted submissions. I imagine our colleagues in mechanism design can improve on this idea."

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20h

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 6h

an affirmative case for trans rights as a pillar of good democratic governance

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 8h

*obvs the tyrant of the moment LOVES the Gorilla Channel and makes no such efforts.

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 8h

One of the most challenging and demanding parts of being a ruler must be trying to get ANY halfway-objective information about literally anything.

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 8h

Point of horror: It seems likely to me (though digging through the history will be fun and informative) that every tyrant and chief executive in history has been Gorilla Channeled by their advisors and courtiers for their own ends.

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 13h

I read all the books in our small-town public library over the course of grades five to eleven and the mix of past purchases by a handful of librarians set the course of my interests for the rest of my life.

Kate, Queen of the Squirrels @pavlovcat.bsky.social · 16h

At my grandparent's as a kid, the room I slept in had a stack of grandma's novels from the 30's and 40's. There was nothing else to do but read them. No TV, no kids to play with. I remember the weird tension of being grateful for something to do but also reading material I was too young to parse.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jul 11

You'd get book 5 of a series at a yard sale, and then simply never find that series or even its author again for years.

Your reading *had* to be eclectic because you were stuck with whatever you had, and what you had was scrounged up like a post-apocalyptic scavenger.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21h

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 19h

"Career prosecutors determined that there was no evidence to support these charges. They were pushed out and replaced with individuals whose only qualification is their loyalty to a single man, not to the Constitution or the law. That is corruption. That is abuse of power...we must all speak out."

Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 21h

INBOX: National Bar Association President Ashley L. Upkins calls the charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James “unjust and dangerous” and a representation of "the continued weaponization of our nation’s justice system for political gain."

Full statement below:

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 13h

Same except all buses are irrational.

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 19h

Up to their necks in it...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister

The ex-PM confirms he met Epstein in 2002, six years before the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 23h

This one featuring @karenattiah.bsky.social discusses how the broader center-to-left has failed to understand power, at both personal and organizational levels.

We have to seek power and use it in order to protect our beliefs.

To stop Trump’s authoritarianism, his opponents must understand and wield power

Karen Attiah, a victim of Trumpist purge at the Washington Post, discusses how liberals and progressives can get their groove back

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