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👻👻 Ben, but rationalized a reason to stay on Xitter 💀💀 @benfields.net · 30m

Holy shit the US market is cooked futurism.com/artificial-i...

Screenshot from the linked article. The text reads: "Yet according to recent estimates, generative AI now accounts for roughly 40 percent of the United States’ gross domestic product. In other words, if the AI spending boom falls apart, it could take down the entire economy with it."

👻👻 Ben, but rationalized a reason to stay on Xitter 💀💀 @benfields.net · 45m

One of the easiest ways I found to eat a bunch less animal protein without much work was to basically stop eating chicken. It's just a vehicle for sauce/cooking techniques most of the time. Plant based protein swaps are v v v simple.

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2h

oh but also chicken is a massive disappointment of a meat and i can’t imagine saying “something must die for my tummy” and picking that. eat a condor if you just want to kill something. make it count. or pick a better meat. like arby’s.

(i’m serious: i used to love arby’s)

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 14

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 11h

hmm this Art. it speaks to me

screenshot from tumblr. username @matthewsiji.com says "It's 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousness of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4"

username crazy-pages reblogs with the added note: "I can't decide if it's better if they're not really uploaded into the cloud, they just all tricked themselves into thinking a GPT model trained on their brain is them, so she's playing with their fake echoes in a macabre imitation of the immortality they deluded themselves into believing they had. Or if they're real and she's just about to torment them forever"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

The Attorney General of New York was just indicted by our tinpot dictator

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 10h

JVP and IfNotNow, two Jewish groups principally committed to nonviolence, are both on the government’s list of left-wing violent extremist groups

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11h

Admin cracking down on Soros, Indivisible, ActBlue, & Jewish peace groups is incredible projection in light of federal contractor El*n M*sk spending more on politics in 2024 than anybody in human history and all the big money corruption of 2025

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 16h

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 14h

ill keep saying it and theyll keep doing it: podcaster occupied government

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15h

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/b9U7CY1

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione

The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

trib.al

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14h

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite.

Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform.

Major conservatives joined in.

Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up.

Subscribe to support my journalism.

Netflix Stock Up As Elon Musk's Anti-Trans Boycott Fails To Materialize

Last week, conservatives tried to cancel Netflix to force the carrier to remove transgender characters.

www.erininthemorning.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h

The crazy thing abt this hearing is that the Judge keeps saying, "What about this"
DOJ lawyer: Hypothetical.
Judge: Literally the Attorney General said that on TeeVee yesterday.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 14h

Perry is asking whether the law could be triggered by Illinois' sanctuary status.

Hamilton: "Well, so, it's a hypothetical. It's very different from the situation here."

Perry: "It's not. It's not a hypothetical."

She notes AG Pam Bondi has suggested just that.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 14h

Perry cites the claims of "slashed tires" and "keyed cars."

"Some of this frankly sounds like a Carrie Underwood song."

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👻👻 Ben, but rationalized a reason to stay on Xitter 💀💀 @benfields.net · 14h

Subhead really needs to s/which he denies/which doesn't exist/ to be doing the good work of the fourth estate. Not even mentioning this in the article elevates this to collaboration

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17h

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 1d

The situation on cycleway 1 at Whitmore Road is just completely unworkable and it is a travesty the Hoxton LTN hasn’t been designed to fix this. There is *far* too much motor traffic for these cycle flows. Someone is going to get hurt. @sarahwoodberrydown.bsky.social @hackneylcc.bsky.social

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

Even a pause in the killing and displacement would be good and I share the cautious optimism that this could end this phase of the catastrophe. But it is wild that people are treating this as if it’s the negotiated end of the Russo-Japanese War, or even Camp David 1978.

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👻👻 Ben, but rationalized a reason to stay on Xitter 💀💀 @benfields.net · 1d

Nothing else going on in the world today, eh?

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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👻👻 Ben, but rationalized a reason to stay on Xitter 💀💀 @benfields.net · 1d

Ah this is that politics the right way I've heard so much about

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

america ❤️s fascist terror and 💔s antifascist resistance

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Michael Ekstra Scary @md.ekstrandom.net · 1d

“Everyone has a plan until Portland shows up with a butt-naked peloton and inflatable dinosaur costumes.” — ancient proverb

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 1d

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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👻👻 Ben, but rationalized a reason to stay on Xitter 💀💀 @benfields.net · 1d

Old enough to remember when this was Buy Nothing Day

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's $100,000 skilled worker visa fee gives Britain a golden opportunity to attracted global talent. Needless to say, we're going to piss it away because we're scared of upsetting Nigel Farage.

inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Trump's migrant obsession offers Starmer a rare win - but Farage has scared him off

We have a golden opportunity to kick-start the British economy

inews.co.uk

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👻👻 Ben, but rationalized a reason to stay on Xitter 💀💀 @benfields.net · 1d

"kiss the boss's ass and cover mine"

Ernesto O. @ernest33141.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
#FuckTrump

👻👻 Ben, but rationalized a reason to stay on Xitter 💀💀 @benfields.net · 1d

Not to put too fine a point on it, but, uh

That right there is Joe Biden's legacy. I suspect that wasn't the bridge he meant to build, but it is what he built.

Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 1d

It's almost like January 6th, 2021 happened and then time just skipped over to January 20th, 2025. It's one long illegal coup.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

Sens Ted Cruz and Eric Schmitt are holding their hearing on the Biden Censorship Regime of 2018. Watch live here as they try to figure out: who was president in 2020?

Witnesses: Alex Berenson, Sean Davis of the Federalist,
Eugene Volokh, Gene Kimmelman

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRu...

LIVE: Ted Cruz Leads Senate Hearing About 'How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans'

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

www.youtube.com

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👻👻 Ben, but rationalized a reason to stay on Xitter 💀💀 @benfields.net · 1d

The only way out is through, there is no going back. The faster this idea becomes normalised the less there will be to repair.

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

that the entire republican party and the supreme court have enthusiastically gone along with this is a structural issue that also needs to be solved and we cannot simply return the pre-trump status quo, yes

Seentoomuch @seentoomuch.bsky.social · 1d

That our current system was unable to prevent this is a sign it probably should not recover