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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 9h

I see they’re just regifting Kissinger’s Peace Prize now.

Yeah, Maduro’s an authoritarian creep who’s been chewing his country to rags to stay in power, but the rightwinger stooges trying to supplant him just wanna change where the stolen money goes, not stop the theft.

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

Tensions between Venezuela and America soared following the attack, but Machado insisted to The Sunday Times that Trump was right to bomb the boat.

“I totally support his strategy,” Machado said. “And I’ve said on behalf of the Venezuelan people that we are very grateful. I think it is the right thing to do. It’s courageous. It’s visionary.”

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

lmao this is how you do it

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 1d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 2d

"war crimes fall under fair use"

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · Apr 16

Death would be too kind for this piece of shit (Sam Altman), and destroying the world with OpenAI isn't even the worst thing he's done....

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman – the man we are being told is a generational talent, a revolutionary, on a par with Steve Jobs or Bill Gates – is also, allegedly, a rapist and paedophile, who considered his own sister his sexual property since she was three years old, and who responded to allegations by lamenting that “caring for a family member who faces mental health challenges is incredibly difficult.” Source: https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/

But Ms Altman claims her brother "groomed and manipulated" her and performed sex acts on her over several years, including "rape, sexual assault, molestation, sodomy, and battery", according to a court filing seen by the BBC.

Ms Altman said she sustained "great bodily injury", severe emotional distress and depression.

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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · Apr 15

I could put most of @taliabhatt.itch.io's book as great quotes (instead please go buy it!) because it's all 🔥, but this description of transmisogyny really stuck:

"She is the menace against whom any violence can be justified, both the failed man that can be beaten senseless and the failed woman who can be raped with impunity, against whom no amount of harm is unjustifiable"

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 5d

I am yet again suggesting that the term "scum" is much misused for the lowly *dregs* of society in which I proudly include myself, when we should remember that in fact *scum rises to the top*, the term "scum" has a much better usage for the supposed "elite" that should be more widely applied

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote about the ascendance of Bari Weiss from a hack columnist to media royalty, and what it means for the future of CBS News.

Bari Weiss Takes Her Grift Mainstream

Journalism's biggest fraud takes the reins at CBS

stringinamaze.net

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 6d

that's not a very nice way to refer to London museums

Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 7d

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts.
www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 5d

I dunno man, try listening to marginalized people *before* shit goes wrong, and maybe it won't keep being like that

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 6d

The history teacher is going to be stuck on “why didn’t the Biden admin punish sedition and why was a seditionist even allowed to run for president again” for a long, long time…Americans stopped believing they had a functional government long before they started believing they had a fascist one

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 5d

Obviously I cannot prove this but I strongly suspect there are a fair number of people in and around the regime who have enough sense to be looking around and getting extremely fucking nervous about how this could end for them

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5d

Yarvin convinced a bunch of credulous tech billionaires that they needed to back an extreme, dumb, & wildly unpopular politics to “save western civilization.” We’re now getting that politics on steroids, and now he’s all “oh no, these policies are unpopular, must flee the country to save ourselves.”

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 6d

mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 6d

Yes

"Say what you like about nurses, garbage collectors, or mechanics, it’s obvious that were they to vanish in a puff of smoke, the results would be immediate & catastrophic.

A world without teachers or dock-workers would soon be in trouble, and even one without science fiction writers or ska musicians would clearly be a lesser place.

It’s not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish - many suspect it might markedly improve."

- David Graeber

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 5d

It doesn’t hurt to be polite to everything, and it might help.

Hard to remember, sometimes, but worth the effort, I think.

Indiscreet Function @homotopic.bsky.social · 5d

That is why, though Kant is wrong about nonhuman animals (nonhuman animals have rights), Kant is right that lacking rights is not enough for you to be justified in treating something cruelly. Cruelly treating something with apparent humanlike characteristics undermines the norm

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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 6d

A local community group I'm affiliated with is running a charity drive for Gazans. If you can spare a penny and/or a repost, we'd be hugely grateful.

www.gofundme.com/f/Humanitari...

Donate to Humanitarian Appeal for Gaza, organized by Bromley 3 Faiths, organized by Bromley 3 Faiths Group

We, the members of the Bromley Three Faiths Group, are horrif… Bromley 3 Faiths Group needs your support for Humanitarian Appeal for Gaza, organized by Bromley 3 Faiths

www.gofundme.com

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Missino @onedeuxtriseigo.nullpo.dev · 6d

The simplest TLDR is they wanted to be RedHat but for atproto/social media platforms

But of course then they blew up and some devs have said they haven't even gotten to the point they feel comfortable taking regular PTO/vacations because everything is growing too fast

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat

Red Hat - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Missino @onedeuxtriseigo.nullpo.dev · 6d

As someone very into the technical side I can get into it.

Bluesky the social network was never supposed to be the product. This was a prototype/proof of concept for the underlying tech (atproto). It blew up past their intentions and so they've been trying to stick the landing since.

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 6d

let justice be done, though the heavens fall - except to jesse singal, god's birthday boy

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 6d

"because of the implication" holding water is always a nasty time but it honestly loops around to funny when it's just about a specific person always getting his way irrespective of the other party's consent & that person is just boring and obnoxious

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 6d

no one even likes the guy. they're willing to tolerate him, consider him a useful idiot in various ways. it's not like the rules are being bent for someone that draws registrations or traffic. it would be a different conversation if it was dril on admin life support. but no

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 6d

if he decided to retire i'm not actually sure what the administration would find to do with their days. who would the elaborate carve-outs that take up actual billable hours from the legal department serve instead?

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 6d

it's profoundly funny in a specific, mean sort of way that winning the Anti-Screenburned-Tranny Culture War that every website seems condemned to relitigate means endlessly coddling one specific, loathsome little guy beyond all reason

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 6d

i hope the replacement of "speaking truth to power" with "gilles de rais level of unimpeachable sexual access to minors" as the main form of license journalists have doesn't have any negative effects on society. probably it won't

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 6d

it's against the terms of service to not be jesse singal's friend. it's against the terms of service to tell jesse singal no if he asks you for nudes. you might be hiding something. we all owe each other transparency, but we all especially owe jesse singal transparency