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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 4h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 4h

If I see you posting AI slop, it's an instant block. Even if you think it's cute or says a lot about society. If you are purporting that some AI slop is real news, I will report you for misinformation, and then block you. Sloppers should be marginalised.

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Lithuanian Skeletor @tarheeldead.bsky.social · 3h

Crazy how much better of an approach this is than "welp there are real concerns about youth sports but uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" horseshit offered up by the Gallego, Buttigieg and Newsome types.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 2h

guards ignore—but are trained—that withdrawal is a life threatening condition, and ignoring someone in withdrawal is both deliberate and indifferent

the fact that they were *wrong* about this person’s emergency doesn’t make their conduct any less deliberate or indifferent

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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spooky addy, @addyct.bsky.social · 1h

its a good video you should watch it

spooky addy, @addyct.bsky.social · 2h

this 4 year old video was in my yt recs

How Socialists Solved The Housing Crisis

YouTube video by The Gravel Institute

www.youtube.com

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 2h

“They ARE arresting journalists” THEN POST THAT. STOP POSTING SLOP THAT CAN LATER BE USED TO FACT CHECK THESE KINDS OF THINGS AS FALSE.

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spooky addy, @addyct.bsky.social · 2h

this 4 year old video was in my yt recs

How Socialists Solved The Housing Crisis

YouTube video by The Gravel Institute

www.youtube.com

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Lina Morgan @alinaisyou.bsky.social · 3h

Mamdani standing up for transgender people living in America is a huge part of why he is dominating the mayor's race in New York City.

Giving a shit about trans people, immigrants, and the unhoused is a winning strategy. I hope that reminds you of what Trump wants you to forget:

People are good.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 4h

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Retired engineers, people who left careers that were science adjacent and suddenly have lots of free time, for generations these were the guys who end up having grand unified theories they gibber about.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jan 1

The physics crackpot video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=11lP...

physics crackpots: a 'theory'

YouTube video by Angela Collier

www.youtube.com

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Rayne Grimm ➡️Furpocalypse @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 19h

The only explicit purpose of all Gen ai is to steal labor/deny wages

Thats it in its entirety. They don't want to pay for someone to write, draw, voice act etc

(worse still in the cases of falsification of a person they also want a puppet that can't say no)

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

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memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 4h

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks (Erika Edwards/NBC News)

Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 6h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4h

Alaa and her daughters have lived to see a ceasefire, but they are still in dire need of assistance. They have only managed to navigate displacement, genocidal violence, and her daughter's deteriorating health with the help of donations. Let's help them continue to endure.

Your help are an investment in rebuild a woman and an architect

My name is Alaa, and I hold a Master’s degree in Architecture.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 5h

“I’ve spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations; no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living.”

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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spooky addy, @addyct.bsky.social · 5h

every move is fraud.

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made +$192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made +$192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 14h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 5h

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C H I L I @chili.bsky.social · 6h

If you post Sora AI videos I am legally allowed to open hand slap you as hard as I physically can

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 7h

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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spooky addy, @addyct.bsky.social · 6h

I see I made the right choice last night

spooky addy, @addyct.bsky.social · 14h

alright im tappin out enjoy your passtime gn

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