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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 10h

Crazy how with these people it's always AI that's "here to stay like it or not" and never like gender affirming medical procedures or something

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 8h

Remember self-care. Sprinkle some joy in with the doom scrollin' and whatnot. I love you and there's absolutely nothin' you can do about it.

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Koro @kor0friend.bsky.social · 12h

Ah yes I have also played the hit JRPG Shin Megami Tensei

No Context Creepypasta Quotes IS TAKING TOO LONG @nocontextpastas.bsky.social · 19h

“I chose Bulbasaur as I always did, and I named him Belial. I always tried to name my first Pokemon different names for the devil (depending on their element.)”

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 15h

A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

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SUPER jules 'n ghosts @bonesnotncluded.bsky.social · Jul 27

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Koro @kor0friend.bsky.social · 17h

I feel like 3% is generous 😅

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 18h

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KirbGoneFishin @kirbgonefishin.bsky.social · 18h

Lord Skellington has crashed a wedding, been invited to a wedding, been to a Bachelorette party, and now has been a ringbearer. I think the next step is getting him ordained.

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 19h

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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🎃Yagamimi🎃 @luigiyagami.bsky.social · 1d

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Koro @kor0friend.bsky.social · 1d

If I had to guess, I assume it’s Machinedramon?

Koro @kor0friend.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a hidden technique that unlocks when you have the right Digimon in your party with that one. You only see it in battle though. That’s what I’ve experienced anyways.

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funbil @funbil.bsky.social · 2d

Poorly edited version of the original image replacing all instances of the word "2004" with "24 karat," and editing "FELL OLD YET?" to say "FEEL GOLD YET?"

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 1d

Hopefully we can stop all these damn folks who are... (checks notes)... against fascism?

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 3d

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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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2d

Dire as the stakes are, leaning into absurdist and lighthearted forms of protest seems like a great way to puncture the fantasy Trump & co are spinning to attempt to rationalize a violent crackdown.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

fake film poster with a sunset and the portland frog protestor with words The Portland War, A Film by Ken Burns

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Josh Foreman @josh-foreman.bsky.social · 2d

follow for more perfect specimens

On a scale of the smallest to the largest things we can see in the solar system, we sit pretty much dead middle. Or Danny DeVito does - at 1.50m he's about 10 billion times bigger than an atom, and 1 billion times smaller than the diameter of the sun.

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DOG of BLUD @dogblud.bsky.social · 2d

Keep calling your reps about age verification laws, or, at the very least, start prepping some mIRC servers and other Old World magics.

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem should never have been confirmed after this. It ended up being a perfect representation of what she would do.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 2d

so cool how everyone saw this coming, but the people in charge remained undeterred

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 2d

"Does that mean I will now submit a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in the name of Donald John Trump? The idea remains as absurd now as it did before this peace deal was announced. This man is as committed to peace as Elon Musk is to his children." michaelianblack.substack.com/p/celebratin...

Celebrating my Peace President

There's good news in Gaza! Let's see how long it lasts.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 2d

It’s kind of crazy that Nazis and the KKK have recently become controversial bad guys because a bunch of bitter online dorks assumed it was about them

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 3d

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Koro @kor0friend.bsky.social · 2d

HE DOES SOUND LIKE THAT OMFG LOLOLOLOLOJFDDGUDUGSRITSHKDODY

HIGNFY US @hignfyus.bsky.social · 2d

An all-new episode of HIGNFYE with guest @akilahhughes.com is available to stream now!

Don’t miss an episode! Follow us on Apple, Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. Even better watch the vodcast on Spotify or on the Have I Got News For You YouTube channel.

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