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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16h

When Putin talks to a Russians he consistently says that they invade Ukraine to destroy the state and nation and correct the path of history. NATO and similar framings are just for the useful foreigners.

Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 10d

Pu spells out Ru's imperialist motivations for the war. He calls the conquest a long-held dream and historical destiny.

He beclowns those who insist NATO expansion caused the war. Let's see if anyone from the Mearsheimer fan club admits the claim has been falsified.
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Обращение по случаю Дня воссоединения ДНР, ЛНР, Запорожской и Херсонской областей с Россией

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 12h

I love this image.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 10h

RFK Jr. trying to spin this into an anti-vax message

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 19h

„Papst Leo zitierte in diesem Kontext die Philosophin Hannah Arendt(…): „Der ideale Untertan totalitärer Herrschaft ist nicht der überzeugte Nazi oder engagierte Kommunist, sondern Menschen, für die der Unterschied zwischen Fakten und Fiktion, zwischen wahr und falsch, nicht länger existiert.“

Papst und Pressefreiheit: Vatikan warnt vor KI und Faschismus

Leo XIV. sorgt sich um die Information. Er warnt mit Hannah Arendt vor einer totalitären Gesellschaft, die Fakt und Fiktion nicht unterscheiden kann.

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Rob from Chicago (Sleeper Service) @robfromchicago.com · 1d

Portland right now.

Kermit the Frog sitting in his swamp and paying his banjo, singing:

Fuck you I won't do what you tell me Fuck you I won't do what you tell me Fuck you I won't do what you tell me

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 18h

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room.
Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’ More than half of all bird species are in decline, according to a new global assessment, with deforestation driving sharp falls in populations across the planet. On the eve of a key biodiversity summit in the UAE, scientists have issued a fresh warning about the health of bird populations, with 61% of assessed species now recording declines in their numbers. Continue reading...

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enamoramiento @enamoramiento.bsky.social · 1d

@ndr.de Erst "Bericht" auf NDR Info, dann auch noch ein Pro&Contra zu DT und seinen Chancen auf den Nobelpreis (darin versteckt die Auflösung mit der vor 9 Monaten verstrichenen Nominierungsfrist) - merkt ihr nicht, wie sehr so ein Gaga-Journalismus den Irrsinn befeuert, oder ist es euch egal?

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘It’s like fencing with a close friend. Terrifying in a lovely way’: Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton on taking a gamble with their new drama

The actors star in Edward Berger’s woozy casino film Ballad of a Small Player. Amid the opulence of a Macau hotel, they talk risk, addiction and Fabergé eggs

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enamoramiento @enamoramiento.bsky.social · 1d

Schamlos.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Vulture @vulture.com · 2d

Dolly Parton clarified that ‘I ain’t dead yet’ after her sister Freida Parton made a post about praying for Dolly. That hussy Jolene ain’t free yet.

Dolly Parton Is Alive and Well

Dolly Parton clarified that ‘I ain’t dead yet’ after her sister Freida Parton made a post about praying for Dolly. That hussy Jolene ain’t free yet.

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enamoramiento @enamoramiento.bsky.social · 2d

Ach du liebe Güte! Du allein mit dreimal Meinung... ich wünsche stabile Nerven

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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 3d

Ihr habt wahrgenommen, welchen Unterschied zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in den letzten Tagen bei der Frage der Chatkontrolle gemacht hat?
Gut.
Lasst euch nicht einreden, Engagement nütze nichts.

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enamoramiento @enamoramiento.bsky.social · 3d

Mir sträuben sich auch die Nackenhaare, aber hilft es weiter, gleich so absolut zu verurteilen, anstatt Kritik zu üben?

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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enamoramiento @enamoramiento.bsky.social · 3d

Oh dear.

enamoramiento @enamoramiento.bsky.social · 3d

Als erstes ist Schluss mit Fleischkäse, der Bundesverband Deutscher Milchviehhalter finanziert die Klage

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enamoramiento @enamoramiento.bsky.social · 3d

Every single article on this list is 100% plastic 💀 no wonder the planet is suffocating.

enamoramiento @enamoramiento.bsky.social · 3d

Niemand ist in Panik verfallen, nirgendwo.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 3d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 4d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 3d

It's only gonna get worse. 🙁

Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough'.
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

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enamoramiento @enamoramiento.bsky.social · 3d

Spot on. She's an amazingly prolific artist, but that's just a blatant money grab. That said, I am always annoyed by the hype machine, no matter who's churned through it, and its eventual backlash when people are suddenly turning on the object of their hype with the same fervor. Just chill, ffs.

enamoramiento @enamoramiento.bsky.social · 3d

Nononononononono

E! News @enews.eonline.com · 3d

Dolly Parton's Sister Freida Asks for Prayers for Singer's Health bit.ly/4nJmHr0