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Alanah Pearce @charalanahzard.bsky.social · 2h

I’m quite seriously concerned about the economic collapse that’ll come with the AI bubble popping, and I feel like this really illustrates why: so many headlines touting huge numbers and insane productivity for services there is absolutely no market for. Who wants 8,000 extra books a year?

Marco Rinaldi @marcorinaldi.bsky.social · Nov 25

Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.

Bookseller article with the headline "New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone" 🤮🤮🤮

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Questy @questylurks.bsky.social · 6h

Our leaders will be quick to act like everything is resolved as Israel goes back to apartheid and steady ethnic cleansing. Palestinians are stranded in a wasteland with all necessary resources of life destroyed. Justice needs to be served. #Gaza

samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 1d

This is what is left of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 1d

A chance encounter

illustration inspired by the Scandinavian fairytale, "Bride of the Lindworm". A prince in the form of a lindworm perches on a moss-covered rock and peers curiously at a shepherdess from across a dark pond. The woman reaches toward him. The scene is set in a dark forest.

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Jamieson Roberts @jamiesonroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Sheltering kids from state detention forces to keep them from being rounded up. where have we seen that before…

Oh yeah, Nazi germany.

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 1d

We are in a time of frightening darkness but people are still stepping up and doing the right thing.
We must keep kicking at the authoritarian darkness until it bleeds daylight.

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Questy @questylurks.bsky.social · 2d

I have rarely been as called out as this. Of course Grim Dawn is the best, but when I get home I'm firing up my rig, powered by Nobara Linux, and punching out a scathing reply on my Razer Black Widow mechanical keyboard. #GrimDawn youtu.be/LB24ngLhZEQ?...

"What your ARPG says about you"

YouTube video by Darth Microtransaction

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Questy @questylurks.bsky.social · 2d

Without international military backing there is no peace when Israel is involved. The impunity with which they have been allowed to massacre Palestinians and attack other sovereign nations means it's unlikely they even understand what a peace treaty is. #Gaza www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...

Israeli drone strike kills two people in Gaza in ceasefire breach

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Questy @questylurks.bsky.social · 3d

I can't even imagine how much it hurts to see this nonsense as a scientist. It's bad enough seeing it as an idiot on the internet.

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 3d

Deloitte has been caught selling an AI generated report to the Australian government for the price of 440,000 dollars. Smart. An even cheaper way to make expensive BS consultant reports about how we can cut the public sector without any bad consequences at all.

Deloitte delivers report to government using AI which contained errors | ABC NEWS

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

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Questy @questylurks.bsky.social · 3d

Titan Quest 2 was a very nice surprise when it popped into early access. I've taken a quick look into the new chapter, seems a little tougher but I didn't dig into the patch changes to my builds. Very promising game.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 4d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 4d

Easily the stupidest thing I’ve read all day.

What lies beneath the bullshit is that the AI push is about concentrating wealth into the hands of five tech companies. People aren’t part of the equation.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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Questy @questylurks.bsky.social · 4d

It's very early to say yet, but there may be hope that politicians who have supported Israel in its genocidal actions could see their day in court. Keir Starmer can't arrest enough peaceful protesters to prevent justice forever. #Gaza www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Italy’s Meloni says ICC complaint accuses her of Gaza genocide complicity

A complaint lodged with the ICC points to the Italian government's role supplying lethal weapons to Israel amid Gaza war

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, these unreliable russian windows...

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gamersnexus.bsky.social @gamersnexus.bsky.social · 6d

We worked with dozens of viewers and fans to refurbish computers destined for 'e-waste,' then deploy Ubuntu Linux on them. This was done at the Kramden Institute locally! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHLT...

Installing Linux on Hundreds of "Obsolete" Computers | Microsoft Windows 10 Support Ending

YouTube video by Gamers Nexus

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 9d

just passing through

illustration showing a room with a shadowy ghost hiding behind open double doors that lead to a gloomy hallway and staircase. A small grey cat looks up at the ghost.

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Questy @questylurks.bsky.social · 6d

This is the simmering fuse in the US. A fascist crackdown in a country dripping with guns and military veterans. The kickoff could buy quite a bit of time for Canada. From @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social youtu.be/Qa1_K2P-OAE?...

‘F*CKING TRAITORS!’: US VETERAN EXPLODES AT ICE AS PORTLAND ERUPTS | The Kyle Kulinski Show

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 6d

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 7d

Don't be suckered in by Poilievre's campaign to launch a campaign over Canadian Christians suffering "persecution." He is running the same playbook as the AfD in Germany, Trump in the States and Farage in the UK.
My latest.

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POILIEVRE BRINGS THE MAGA HATE BOOK TO CANADA

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 7d

During search and rescue operation in Lviv region following a Russian airstrike, a kitty was pulled alive from the rubble.

And just like that, the world is a little better.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 8d

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 8d

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 8d

President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

YouTube video by WION

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Questy @questylurks.bsky.social · 9d

So, I have about 3600 hours in Path of Exile, and about 2160 hours in Grim Dawn. This is a GOAT interview. #GrimDawn youtu.be/uBbmPLqpxfI?...

Chatting with Grim Dawn's Arthur Bruno about ARPG Development

YouTube video by Chris Wilson

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Signal @signal.org · 9d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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