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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 4h

The long versions from 1982 are particularly good.

Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 4h

That's awesome. Thanks!

Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 23h

How about Tom Verlaine on Marquis Moon?

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 1d

Citing an imagined left-wing conspiracy, the president is threatening any person or group holding any one of a broad array of disfavored views with investigation and prosecution. bit.ly/4330Su2

Trump’s Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition

Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” the president presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like.

www.brennancenter.org

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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 1d

the hype-to-reality ratio is wildly off, and there is likely going to be a big correction soon, if not a complete bubble burst.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

www.bloomberg.com

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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 7d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 3d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 3d

If highly selective universities, meaning those that admit <=10% of applicants, selected only on HS GPA, 63% of incoming students would be women. Wouldn't change much if considered test scores.

Trump's "compact" would hurt young men, and esp. young white men.

I doubt Linda "A1" McMahon knows this.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 4d

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

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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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 4d

My goodness. The "weave" is a personality issue to Tapper? How can he not see the cognitive decline of DT, especially in light of what he wrote about...?!?

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 4d

This is an extraordinary admission. “We can create the violence that justifies our presence.”

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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 4d

True, except I think the ultimate objectives may be beyond DT's processing capabilities at this point. It's his enablers and Project 2025 advocates pushing for this.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4d

You must defer to the president’s determination that there is an armed rebellion in Chicago, argues the govt’s lawyer.

That’s the Trump admin’s stance on everything. When the law doesn’t allow it, lie about the facts until it’s something that would be legal, then insist others live inside the lie.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 4d

Watch the full conversation:
zeteo.com/p/beyond-isr...

‘F*ck ICE and Free Palestine’ - Hollywood Star Hannah Einbinder Talks Zionism, Jewish Identity, and Palestinian Liberation

In the first episode of this new Zeteo podcast, host Simone Zimmerman dives deep into Israel and Palestine with one of the most outspoken anti-Zionist Jews in Hollywood.

zeteo.com

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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for the thread (preserve scientific autonomy!) and also highlighting others to follow.

Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 4d

#failingWaPo

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 4d

These are terrible numbers for Trump (via @pewresearch.org)

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

"Majorities say trump has used his office improperly; fewer say he has improved government, U.S. standing" (graphs via Pew Research)

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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 4d

The next time a student asks me to regrade an assignment I am going to share this with them. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

French appeal court increases sentence of Gisèle Pelicot rapist

Husamettin Dogan loses appeal after jury at retrial finds him guilty of raping Pelicot while she was sedated

www.theguardian.com

Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 4d

Indeed. As an educator and media studies person, it has been so disheartening to see journalistic standards at legacy media not keep up with the times. I have all but abandoned them and am turning more and more to independent outlets like ProPublica and @marisakabas.bsky.social