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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 16h

that's what you asked for

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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 16h

good luck w/vlad

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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 16h

has to be now, just do the thing

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dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 21h

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razorgirl @razorgirl.diy · 22h

god old VCR manuals are so cool. I really wish we hadn't lost this culture of repair with the shift to purely digital devices

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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 22h

elevating the world's highest ranking augustinian should thankfully continue to shine a light on Leadership

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 1d

The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires.

"I urge you: never sell out your authority"

News agencies deliver a service which “requires competence, courage and a sense of ethics”.

p.a.lapid, phd 👾🖖🏽🤙🏽 @palapid.bsky.social · 1d

da pope! first affirming migrant rights and now this

(and yes the headline is clickbait-y by design)

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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 23h

"the west" is an abstract historical category defined by premodern distance. the air was let out of that balloon with the first undersea cable and has been deflating ever since. it's nothing. it doesn't exist anymore

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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 23h

need to answer the conservative rhetorical tic of referencing "the west" or "western civilization". there is no citizen or even resident of "the west": we watch eastern cartoons, venerate eastern saints, and intermarry profusely

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 23h

did you ask her about her first job working for Tucker Carlson where she wrote about, among other things, ranking Syrian refugees by how hot they were

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23h

Just wrapped a great conversation with @kaitlancollins.bsky.social. Watch tonight at 9pm on @cnn.com.

Zohran and Kaitlan Collins on set at CNN sitting next to each other and smiling.

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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 23h

federal robert moses

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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 23h

and this was obvious way before LLMs. tons of modern music is purely derivative slop for this reason

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

the basic problem is that it is easier to reproduce an artist's style in almost every detail or answer most questions with like 88% accuracy than to walk up four steps

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 1d

Japanese politics was rocked on Friday as the Kōmeitō announced it would leave its coalition with the LDP after twenty-six years. To understand why this happened and what it means, I wrote a guide for the perplexed.

open.substack.com/pub/observin...

Kōmeitō quits the coalition

A guide for the perplexed

open.substack.com

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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 1d

is there a meme magic kemetic frog trickster god? i guess

ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 1d

xenosystems is down but all i can think about today is nick land’s genealogy of kek

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

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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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 1d

final cut pro

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

the double-event is upon us already

A meme showing a man at a chalkboard from "Pacific Rim". He says "in the beginning the [new French PMs] were spaced apart 24 weeks. Then 12. Then 6. Then every 2 weeks. In four days we could be seeing a PM every 8 hours until they are coming every 4 minutes. We should witness a double event within seven days

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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 1d

good

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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 1d

the ai slop hijacking of artist tags on streaming platforms is going to drive me to violence. no, the latest @pile.bsky.social single was not released by new manchester united striker benjamin sesko OR "magnus jensen"

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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 1d

bsky.app/profile/bost... busy in this thread today

The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 1d

An explosion at a Tennessee military munitions plant left 19 people missing and feared dead, authorities said.

Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 19 people missing and feared dead, sheriff says - The Boston Globe

Humphreys Count Sheriff Chris Davis said it was one of the most devastating scenes he’s ever seen.

trib.al

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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 1d

like a proggy Baring Teeth, nice

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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 1d

time to play a game

ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 1d

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 1d

mainframe for zoomers mentioned!

Oxide Computer Company @oxide.computer · 1d

Is Oxide a mainframe? FAQ Friday #22

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 1d

The naivete of the people in charge of literally everything jfc

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