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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 30m

Ordered a frog costume for Atlanta’s.

M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 52m

“Is this a” butterfly meme. The young man who is Atlanta United asks “Is this a trophy?” while gesturing at a butterfly who is the wooden spoon.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 7h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 7h

Even if AI somehow eventually finds use cases that are profitable, it seems inevitable that, before that happens, there will be a huge crash from the current bubble bursting.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
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The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises

Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 8h

Tron also came just at the front edge of the emergence of the “personal computer”.

Prior to the PC, computing power was a part of governments and large corporations. The “personal computer” was an intentional shifting of power to individuals.

So the original Tron captured a lot of that moment.

Sasha Drachen ΘΔ⛧⛧🏳️‍⚧️ @noodleofdoom.bsky.social · 8h

Tron was for an age when computers were mythical and rare things, these days people are surrounded by computers, it just doesn't work anymore

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12h

the idea that freedom is in our DNA is just a misinterpretation of the fact that we’re a nation of finicky whiners who don’t like to be personally inconvenienced

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 12h

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history

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Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 14h

Fun fact my co-worker who does very little is part of the Co-pilot pilot project at work and discovered he can use it to answer e-mails and make summaries of giant PDFs.

So boy howdy have we gotten fast e-mails and everything possible summarized.

Actual value added: 0.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14h

Amusingly, the feverish investment into data centers comes as AI adoption has *already* passed its peak in Enterprise, the AI companies themselves admit hallucination is ubfixable, and studies are revealing that workslop is not merely low-value but actually negative value for companies using AI.

"Workslop" was the logical outcome of productivity maxxing

Local throughput optimization always externalizes costs onto downstream colleagues.

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 1d

What I think of every single time I see the new Nike soccer ball. #USMNT

Illustration of the villain known as Spot from the spider-verse animated movies. He’s all white with black spots.

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Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 2d

Got really high and realized this is actually about the Democratic Party

Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · Jul 14

In every single episode, the Scooby Doo gang discover a human is behind the mystery, not ghosts or mummies or whatever. Yet they begin each new case believing the villain is a supernatural being. Every time. Not once do they say “maybe it’s an old man like last time”

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 1d

More AI as UPL/“lawyer”
Facebook ad and landing page.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 2d

Yo dog, I heard you like hallucinated citations, so we put hallucinated citations in your response regarding hallucinated citations so you can show cause while you show cause.
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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 1d

More AI as lawyer seen in the wild (Facebook) today:

Facebook ad for a company that helps people form LLCs. The ad compares themselves to lawyers who bill $150-400 an hour.

A screenshot from the tailorbrands website. It is a video showing their AI called Navi telling the customer which filings and licenses the customer needs for a business that does financial consulting in New York state.

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 1d

But what happens when the FOURTH frog of the apocalypse arrives???

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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 1d

I am an alpha male and fearless and a born leader.

Also, I am deathly afraid of three people hanging out on a corner dressed as frogs, mommy help me frogs frogs frogs

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 2d

John Carpenter’s The Parent Trap

Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 2d

John Carpenter's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 2d

John Carpenter’s Lawrence of Arabia

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 2d

Oops, I’ve definitely messed this one up.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 2d

we wrote this over 5 yrs ago

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

LIke, if literally any other president from Truman to Biden had openly monetized his properties, in plain sight, as part of regular WH business, & was selling branded items while in office, it would have ended immediately. And then we wonder why the One Special Boy keeps doing all of the things 🤷‍♂️

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8d

One reason the One Special Boy thinks he can just issue Executive Orders to do whatever he wants is because he keeps issuing Executive Orders & doing whatever he wants - in obvious violation of the law & Constitution - & no one who swore oaths to country & Constitution is doing anything about it.

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David Kluft @dkluft.bsky.social · 2d

#LegalEthics Tidbit: Is it OK to threaten to report the opposing party to the police if I’ve already reported them?

A NJ attorney was representing a client in a civil matter stemming from an assault by an acquaintance. The attorney wrote to opposing counsel ...(cont.)

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#lawsky #law

Doctor Who-style police box on UK street, Image by Nick Fewings via Unsplash

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 2d

People who live in big cities and have MAGA relatives in rural and suburban areas are getting deja vu, that's for sure.

We've all had conversations with relatives who insist they know better than us what our cities are like. That we must be deluded not to see the constant riots and muggings.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social · 2d

Describe your Bluesky account with a single image

A brown llama appears to be screaming at the sky which is full of storm clouds. The llama is standing in grass field with ancient stone ruins in the background.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller goes on camera saying ICE is fighting Antifa on the streets because the country is a war zone with dangerous criminals out to destroy America and then the video will just cut to a video of a group of ICE officers suplexing a 110-year-old blind nun

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