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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1h

Side note: we’ve gotten used to it, but solar panels are kind of an insane technological advancement.

Virtually every other form of energy production, from coal to nuclear, is ultimately about turning a turbine to crank out energy.

But not solar. Solar just…sits there and makes energy. Like magic.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 9m

Maybe I didn’t call it out loud, but I called it in my mind.

Israel isn’t going to stop murdering Palestinians until, at minimum, the US has a government that isn’t run by genocidal, enabling psychopaths.

Vote better next time.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

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Israel-Gaza live updates: 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza City for alleged ceasefire violation, IDF says

Israel on Tuesday identified two of the people whose remains were returned.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1h

The many media outlets, politicians, and commentators who rushed to declare “a great peace, glory to the king!” should ask themselves why they did that, and figure out how to not make the same mistake again.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Israel-Gaza live updates: 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza City for alleged ceasefire violation, IDF says

Israel on Tuesday identified two of the people whose remains were returned.

abcnews.go.com

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 1h

This is a really important point.

They’re performing power for an audience.

For us.

To convince us that they have more power than they do.

They’re fear-harvesting.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4h

This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 1h

His father’s reply changed his perspective. “I was an Indian in Uganda. I was a Muslim in India. And I was all of these things in New York City,” Mahmood Mamdani explained to his son. And “to be a minority is also to see the truth of the place amidst the promise of it.”

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 11h

This is a sign of immense weakness. It’s like a mobster asking others if they’d be interested in a shakedown because their first targets didn’t cooperate.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 15h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 14m

“Sinister”: when you improve people’s lives so effectively that it becomes impossible to propagandize enough of them into going back to the previous, shitty state of affairs

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agnest @agnostic.bsky.social · 12h

goodbye legend

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 12h

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 42m

Remember they not only want to expand this but also decrease the regulations.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 54m

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Americans are losing millions to scammers at crypto ATMs. Here’s how companies profit

Companies often fail to refund money to victims and aggressively fight police to claw back scam money seized from machines.

www.cnn.com

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 19m

So stop using the algo if you hate it. I have news for you about all algo feeds: they literally never actually work to curate the online experience you want to have. They exist to give you the experience site management wants you to have. Take responsibility.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23m

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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Kassandra Jo Tomaras @raconteuse.bsky.social · 14h

When a trans woman dies of natural causes, at an age greater than 75, having lived more than half her life as herself, that is cause for celebration, not mourning.

Thank you, Miss Major.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 12h

Seeing a lot of "No Kings" protests groups using AI images lately

You aren't resisting fascism by using their tools

Be better than that

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Kris 🐝 @joyfulenby.bsky.social · 10h

Post from Vexic929

I think a lot of what pro-AI people are really wanting is stuff that already exists but they don't know it's out there like

can't format a work email? templates

don't know how to write a resume? templates

writing a thank you card or a condolences card or a wedding invitation? templates templates templates

not sure how to format your citation in MLA or whatever format? citationmachine.net

summary of something you're reading for school/work? cliffsnotes.com

recipe based on ingredients in your fridge? whatsintherefrigerator.com

there's a million more like, guys, we don't need AI, we never needed generative AI

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t have it backwards, I’m saying some people will abuse this feature to comment spam and troll shit without it being as easy for the person they’re replying to to spot it.

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icookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 17h

If a person looks at it with any sense, Netanyahu and Trump played a game with the hostages lives this last year so they both can be seen as heroes in the negotiated plan for their release. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Pamela Parkington @bigdogmomthree.bsky.social · 18h

It wasn't even his, it was Biden's and Blinken's negotiated plan.

When this shit show is over, there's a ton of accountability that needs to be done.

People better get right with their lord, because the end is not going to be pretty.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17h

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 18h

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 14h

FLOOFY PANTALOONS

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Pokin @pokinpotentialppl.bsky.social · 19h

First and foremost - DO NOT DEFUND FEMA! Our country needs them more and more.

Second, it’s Indigenous Peoples Day. I bet a lot of those affected in Alaska are indigenous.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 19h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17h

ICE agents blocked ambulance from transferring an injured protester to the hospital, even going as far as to threaten to arrest and shoot the driver.

This crosses so many lines.

EMS and first responders need to be free to help whoever needs it.

Delays cost lives.

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 15h

Waffle-ass reply. Try again and read to understand this time.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 17h

An all powerful regime doesn't have their secretary of homeland security complaining to the news that they won't let her use the bathroom lmao

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