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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 17h

I love this. It kicks ass. We're gonna be protesting for the rest of our lives, we've gotta find ways to make it fun sometimes

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 20h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Deirdre Assenza @deirdreassenza.bsky.social · 14h

The golden idol

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

Nice work Jim Watson, nice work.

A photo from yesterday’s Trunp Cabinet meeting. Taken from a low position the decorations on the wall behind the orange felon make him look like he has devil’s horns.

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Elisha Dacey 🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @elishadacey.bsky.social · 2d

REPORTERS/RESEARCHERS/POLICY NERDS:

@nationalobserver.com has released a tool that automatically transcribes council meetings in 550 Canadian municipalities.

THIS Is how you use AI in the newsroom!

Check it out: civicsearchlight.nationalobserver.com

CivicSearchlight - by Canada's National Observer

Search transcripts of municipal meetings across Canada. Find discussions about topics that matter to your community with Canada's National Observer's search tool.

civicsearchlight.nationalobserver.com

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

The Dune comparison here is really interesting

Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 1d

Fuck the AI cult

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 6d

This is Brighton Park, the neighborhood where a U.S. Border Patrol agent also shot a woman earlier today. It is a predominantly Latine community on the southwest side.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 6d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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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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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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SciEditor—Adrienne Montgomerie @handle.invalid · 2d

Deloitte is refunding the final payment due to "substandard work," but still says the AI errors and fabrications "in no way impact or affect the substantive content, findings and recommendations in the report". An editor could have caught this for them! www.financialexpress.com/world-news/d...

Deloitte admits to using AI in $440k report, to repay Australian govt after multiple errors spotted

Deloitte will partially refund the Australian government after its AI-assisted welfare review report contained multiple errors.

www.financialexpress.com

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 2d

It's the best.

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for doing this! My wife teaches English to newcomers and banking is a massive obstacle for them.

Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 2d

Oh lord--have you seen The Contestant? Totally bonkers!
youtu.be/UG2Tdw6BEro?...

The Contestant Trailer

YouTube video by MetFilm Distribution

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 2d

Makes me less eager to go to a Bomber game, knowing that it is statistically likely that there are about 3000 people like this in my vicinity...

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 2d

👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 3d

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 2d

Turns out Sora isn’t any fun when their users can’t steal IP.

Most people have no idea how to do even elf themselves without stealing someone else’s IP, so implementing guardrails instantly killed the fun of Sora 2

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 2d

That's really great!

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely--and because the LLMs are now being "trained" on their own feces, the whole feedback loop is going to be degraded beyond recognition as human language, eventually imho :-)

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

This extended take on the value of AI "art" (incl. writing) by @theoatmeal.bsky.social is so very good, and it taps into pretty much every objection I have:

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Also, every new writer, PLEASE listen to this by Ira Glass: www.youtube.com/watch?v=91FQ...

Embrace the Gap.

Excerpt from "Let's talk about AI art" by The Oatmeal: "And by jumping to the "fun" part, you're denying yourself the process."

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 3d

Wow--thank you for sharing that! It nails it. One key takeaway (for me, as a musician):

Picture containing the text "this isn't a death sentence for artists; it's a tired groan into mediocrity--a Fortnite dance into a sea of Giphy-powered dog shit.
What was once a cherished skill is now just a marketing influencer slopping up engagement metrics like a nude pig in a cheap, hot dumpster."

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 3d

Soooo tiresome.

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 3d

I think Omega Man might have been the most blatant of these? Where the zombies are actually Black, and Charlton Heston is able to "save the world" literally using his "white" blood--as he puts it, as they are drawing it for transfusion--"100% Anglo Saxon, baby."

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 3d

In high school, my son knew a person named "Hunter Fisher," so there's that, I s'pose.

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 3d

I hope he is buried in the ECHL aka The Nemo League

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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 4d

A night of Ukrainian long-range strikes set refineries and power sites ablaze deep inside Russia as Europe moved to tap frozen Russian assets for Kyiv. Inside Ukraine, cyber forces, new missiles and record defense production signal a hardening winter posture.

TOP NEWS TODAY 🔝 6 October 2025 | Meanwhile in Ukraine

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 3d

*fewer

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