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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 2h

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 2h

I never saw that. I find it amusing that both Bruce Boxleitner and Peter Jurasik ended up in Babylon 5.

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 3h

You only have to look at Richard Dawkins to see what arseholes atheists can be.

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 5h

It’s a shame they only ever made one Tron movie.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 7h

On pedocon theory: why movement conservativism is inextricably entwined with paedophilia (and why the POTUS is probably a paedophile too):
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 16h

Why didn’t ChatGPT see this coming?

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Kent 🇳🇿 @kent.chenery.nz · 16h

"The autopilot has gone rogue...are there any software engineers on the flight"

Me:

a bald man wearing glasses is making a funny face while sitting in front of a wall .

Alt: Danny DeVito, a bald man wearing glasses is making a funny face shaking is head to say nope while sitting in front of a wall .

media.tenor.com

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 16h

I miss REAL journalists.

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 22h

It’s the Portland way.

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 18h

Trump’s been creating universes for years. People say he creates the best universes. Lots of people.

Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 18h

I’ve read some good books that were published since then.

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 18h

I think Seymour’s greater impact is on the Māori wards. Destructive racist shit that he is.

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 23h

I suspect it’ll be on something like 20%. Very little voter enthusiasm this year.

Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 23h

Oh look, Space Karen is coming for Aotearoa.

@gaye_ess
Oriini Kaipara said in her maiden speech today in parliament:
“When I stand in this House, I do so not as a survivor of colonisation who made it in a Pākehā system, but as the product of Māori resistance."
Wait Oriini, you forgot you also stand there as a benificiary of colonisation, which gave you the Pakeha system to learn to read and write, and study, and have a career, and earn money, and pursue your ambiitions, and enter parliament.
Learn some bloody respect and gratitude FFS.

@DrewPavlou
Fun fact: the Māori have been in New Zealand for less time than the English have been in England.

@elonmusk
Much less.

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 23h

Why didn’t you just wait for the food?

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 23h

Can you imagine Biden sending out illegal orders and the Supreme Court backing him? The whole system’s collapsing.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but