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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1h

"Don't you ... forget about tree."

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 2h

Why will AI never take my job? Because it tagged this GIF "a man in a trench coat is walking on a field next to a tree ."

a man in a trench coat is walking on a field next to a tree .

Alt: Judd Nelson raising a fist in triumph as he crosses the football field in the closing shot of The Breakfast Club.

media.tenor.com

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 7h

Please stop polluting the world with AI image crap. It's bad. It leaves the world shittier. Please stop.

Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 7h

If Roger Stone called me a nobody I think I'd have to make a t-shirt about it, to brag about my good fortune of being on the right side of things.

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 9h

you think moving to berkeley won't change you and then eight years later you're crying in the car because the public radio station raised so much money in the first hour of the pledge drive

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 9h

Interests include green tech, education, physical sciences & engineering, ecosystem work, theater & stage arts, R&D. I like people and the work that people do, am less thrilled about AI. I believe in science and that the world is knowable.

Reach out with queries or ideas!

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 9h

Periodic reminder, because one never knows:

I am looking for work (in CO, CA, or NM). Skills & exp include writing (grants, blogs, papers), computers & networking, informal education, photo and videography, editing, electronics, strategic planning, research.

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 9h

It *does* seem that we may be in the process of sending some Tomahawks to Ukraine. But I don't think the below claim is correct.

1. If we do, it won't be 200 of them
2. Netherlands already agreed to buy Tomahawks earlier this year; it has nothing to do w/Ukraine: www.dsca.mil/Press-Media/...

Emily Dumortier @emilydumortier.bsky.social · 10h

Les 200 premiers missiles Tomahawk ont été expédiés des États-Unis vers les Pays-Bas à destination de l'Ukraine.

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 10h

I sometimes let myself imagine the far-future time when the Colorado will flow freely again. Won't be for centuries, certainly not in my lifetime, but it'll happen someday and I enjoy thinking about all the ways that the river and the things that live in and around it will heal.

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

Makes me wonder how much of this will flood the surplus/secondary market vs how much will be thrown out/recycled instead of resold. The street finds its own uses for things, but only if the things ever get to the street.

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

I looked this guy up and he's not young, so it's not just a matter of a young columnist who doesn't know better. A deeply puzzling view.

Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I forgot shingles, which I just got last year. And I may have had Hep-B before Kenya, don't know. And smallpox is also a maybe I guess (born 69).

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

If vaccines were dangerous I'd be dead. Some of these I've had multiple times.
bsky.app/profile/cpm5...

Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

I recently made a list of all of the things I've been vaccinated for. It's a lot.

smallpox, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, mumps, measles, rubella, yellow fever, typhoid, cholera, meningococcal meningitis, covid, flu, rsv, diptheria, hep-A.

Might even be missing some.

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

Troubleshooting a maddening and confusing MIME issue with Krusader/Krviewer and why can't computers just do what they're supposed to do and not...other things.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · Apr 27

you go to moma to see dada

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

I put these things on while doing other activities (sorting files, e.g., or reading news). My brain enjoys the quiet background activity.

Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

Example video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlyg...

6 Hour Halloween Train Ride – Relaxing Ambience For Spooky Souls

YouTube video by Halloween Addiction

www.youtube.com

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not beating myself up over this - I do live in the real world, and give myself permission to exist within that imperfect real world - but I am thinking about complicity and participation and shared responsibility.

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

Been having a little ethical merry-go-round with myself lately. Here's the shape of it:

1. I am opposed to most AI, and image/video gen in particular.
2. I have become a watcher of long, ambient, AI-generated (or facilitated) Halloween videos on youtube.

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

This is both cowardly and wrong, @ubisoft.com. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 2d

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. If we win but then fail to take action to prevent this from ever happening again we will have failed in spite of victory.

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

Use these links instead of following/supporting Ukraine war video profiteers on yt. You'll be better informed and you won't be supporting grifters.

Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

Some legit Ukrainian news outlets:
kyivindependent.com
www.kyivpost.com
militarnyi.com/en/ (military news)
english.nv.ua
www.dialog.ua (in Ukrainian)
euromaidanpress.com
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/
www.ukrinform.net
en.defence-ua.com
censor.net/en
odessa-journal.com

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

Some legit Ukrainian news outlets:
kyivindependent.com
www.kyivpost.com
militarnyi.com/en/ (military news)
english.nv.ua
www.dialog.ua (in Ukrainian)
euromaidanpress.com
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/
www.ukrinform.net
en.defence-ua.com
censor.net/en
odessa-journal.com

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

Some of these were because I traveled to Kenya in the 80s, others because I was at uni, and others because they're just standard. But I'm 56 and still haven't dropped dead in spite of being vaxed to the gills.

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

There are legitimate Ukrainian outlets for news about Ukraine and Russia's war in Ukraine. Please don't patronize the channels of these video hustlers, their aim is not to educate or inform but to make bank. Starve them.

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

Got blocked by a Ukraine war video grifter after I questioned a post. There are lots of these people: They take actual news about the war and then create utterly unreliable, inflated, misdescribed or outright false videos designed to generate pageviews & cash payouts.

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