Capt. Native America
@captnativeamerica.bsky.social
Video game preservation / Library science / History / Politics / Feel-goodness
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Neighbors Always Knew Teen Gunman Was Evil And Did Nothing Because They Are Evil Too
November 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Neighbors Always Knew Teen Gunman Was Evil And Did Nothing Because They Are Evil Too
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A big congratulations and well done to the beautiful nation of Ireland
October 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
A big congratulations and well done to the beautiful nation of Ireland
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Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include:
-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Google
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family
Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.
-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family
Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.
October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include:
-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Google
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family
Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.
-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family
Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.
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I hope each and every one of the fascists who rule this country read this and choke.
October 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I hope each and every one of the fascists who rule this country read this and choke.
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We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...
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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.
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.
October 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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.
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.
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David Cross folks.
September 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
David Cross folks.
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An ICE officer was “relieved of his duties” and is under investigation after he shoved an Ecuadorean woman whose husband had been arrested and pushed her to the floor at an immigration courthouse in Manhattan, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday. nyti.ms/46EMKYP
September 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
An ICE officer was “relieved of his duties” and is under investigation after he shoved an Ecuadorean woman whose husband had been arrested and pushed her to the floor at an immigration courthouse in Manhattan, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday. nyti.ms/46EMKYP
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The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
news.harvard.edu
September 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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Charlie Kirk’s killer was a white heterosexual Mormon. So why does it feel like he was a dark gay Muslim?
September 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Charlie Kirk’s killer was a white heterosexual Mormon. So why does it feel like he was a dark gay Muslim?
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mom's spaghetti
Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."
September 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
mom's spaghetti
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Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
September 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
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very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
September 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
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Meanwhile in Oxfordshire, UK....
Endlessly vacationing Vance is getting booted out of British pubs.
Even the pints are telling him to fuck off.
Endlessly vacationing Vance is getting booted out of British pubs.
Even the pints are telling him to fuck off.
Staff Mutiny Forces Pub to Turn Away JD Vance
The vice president had reportedly attempted to dine at The Bull in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, weeks after the venue hosted Kamala Harris.
www.thedailybeast.com
August 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Meanwhile in Oxfordshire, UK....
Endlessly vacationing Vance is getting booted out of British pubs.
Even the pints are telling him to fuck off.
Endlessly vacationing Vance is getting booted out of British pubs.
Even the pints are telling him to fuck off.
“History is best told as a story of organised crime,” Kemp says. “It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory and population.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“History is best told as a story of organised crime,” Kemp says. “It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory and population.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Young men lack positive models of healthy masculinity because they haven't seen Alec Guiness's portrayal of George Smiley in the BBC adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy
August 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Young men lack positive models of healthy masculinity because they haven't seen Alec Guiness's portrayal of George Smiley in the BBC adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy
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NBC confirms that the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has now been fired.
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report
The president implied that the BLS commissioner, longtime federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."
www.nbcnews.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
NBC confirms that the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has now been fired.
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Rural areas would feel the largest impacts, Maher said. Local stations also provide vital alerts in emergencies like storms, floods and wildfires.
www.cbsnews.com/news/corpora...
www.cbsnews.com/news/corpora...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, funder of NPR and PBS, says it will end operations within months after federal budget cuts
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a nonprofit that provides funds to public radio and TV stations, including NPR and PBS.
www.cbsnews.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Rural areas would feel the largest impacts, Maher said. Local stations also provide vital alerts in emergencies like storms, floods and wildfires.
www.cbsnews.com/news/corpora...
www.cbsnews.com/news/corpora...
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A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.
![[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreidzblpxefncqr2c73v7myen325wvtk767i7rw4zcc32c3hj4gzv5a@jpeg)
July 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.
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Another bit of early pre-Internet history: the GEnie Network was a text-based online service that at its peak in 1994 had 350,000 subscribers, and was popular with sci-fi authors and TV writers including J Michael Straczynski.
This #VideoBytes is from a Canadian TV show promoting its GEnie presence
This #VideoBytes is from a Canadian TV show promoting its GEnie presence
October 11, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Another bit of early pre-Internet history: the GEnie Network was a text-based online service that at its peak in 1994 had 350,000 subscribers, and was popular with sci-fi authors and TV writers including J Michael Straczynski.
This #VideoBytes is from a Canadian TV show promoting its GEnie presence
This #VideoBytes is from a Canadian TV show promoting its GEnie presence
Pick it up at 27, and you'll find a different novel to the one you read as a teenager. Revisit it again at 45, and it'll feel like another book altogether. Copyright has never had any bearing on the impact of the words it governs.
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
'No one had the slightest idea what the book was about': Why The Great Gatsby is the world's most misunderstood novel
F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is synonymous with glitz and glamour but this is just one of many myths that have surrounded the book since its first publication in April 1925.
www.bbc.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Pick it up at 27, and you'll find a different novel to the one you read as a teenager. Revisit it again at 45, and it'll feel like another book altogether. Copyright has never had any bearing on the impact of the words it governs.
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...