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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 34m

I miss the days of my youth, back when there was an unspoken universal agreement that we all hated Nazis.

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Expensive Fjord (Neovagina Evangelion) @gammarae.design · 1h

"Do you think it was having it lead by a widely hated cardboard actor who's also a sexpest cult leader who's every project in the last decade being record breaking bombs, and sprinkle it with cameos from some nepotistic rich shitheads?"

"No, it was the Tron that was wrong."

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 5h

A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.

'Tron' Might Really Be Doomed After 'Tron: Ares'

A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

I am not remotely Catholic but somehow it's still deeply disconcerting to see Pope Bob shit-talking the Cubs from the Popemobile

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h

more people in power should allow themselves to be authentic sports haters

do not try to pander to every team, there's nothing people hate more than inauthentic sports "fandom"

Karen Leick @kleick.bsky.social · 2h

I'm a Cubs fan and this doesn't bother me at all! (much more disturbed by Obama's "I like both teams!" thing. like, we know you're a sox fan. it's fine)

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

I just want to be very clear here. This is the Vice President of the United States saying it’s a regular practice among white people to enthusiastically endorse slavery, Hitler, and rape.

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 3h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 3h

what even happened on the other site this time

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2h

no he's right, it was spiritual attacks. by me

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 3h

Jordan Peterson critically ill with pneumonia, neuropathy, and sepsis

Jordan Peterson is sick, and suffering from "spiritual attacks" (and surely it's not the drugs, or long COVID, or a meat-only diet, or...)

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 7h

White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.

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gleebix @gleebix.bsky.social · 3h

sam altman: "if you don't fuck the computer, we can't have a dyson sphere"

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 4h

yeah 15-20 years ago they didn't have group chats so they didn't write stuff like that down, they'd just say it out loud to eachother at parties, usually without a paper trail

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 21h

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3h

Truly iconic👃🏿

Temu Tisha Campbell @thatgirlbamz.bsky.social · 4h

When you ask me stupid questions.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15h

Here is a guy who is one of the stupidest fucking people alive, who has been huffing his farts so long in a potemkin village full of sycophants that he can't perceive how much loser stink that statement has.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15h

Like, no part of that statement reflects a successful product.

Much less, a product that literally over a third of the US stock market is inextricably tied up with, a product desperately jammed fucking everywhere.

It's such a colossal statement of abject fucking failure.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15h

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Zuckerberg already tried, multiple times, to pivot the plagiarism machine what amplifies your delusions while being wrong, into a sexbot.

And each time, it turned into a pedophile.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 15

Facebook literally made a chatbot months ago that sexted with children while pretending to be John Cena, and *then* made a chatbot with actually-written out specific policies on how to sext with children.

Meanwhile, the US and UK are going wild destroying the internet in terror of trans people.

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gleebix @gleebix.bsky.social · 3h

it would be deeply hilarious to see zuckerberg try to control a squad of former spec ops guys society has crashed

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 4h

The way these guys strain against mortality is only going to get weirder tbh. I would caution anyone against conspiratorial thinking that "they know something we don't" because, first and foremost, these techlord guys are morons

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 3h

Yes. This.

It always makes me laugh because if we have the sort of collapse they appear to be imagining, the strongest factor in survival beyond sheer brute luck is strong bonds with your immediate community. You know, outside the bunker.

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 4h

The funniest part of all the billionaires are building bunker stories is the part where they’re sure the class hierarchy will survive the apocalypse.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 5h

AI adopting the Moviepass model but at about 50x the revenue/cost discrepancy per user is incredible.

Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 1d

'Sora cost $20 a month & subscribers can generate an unlimited number of AI videos... this costs (Sora owners) OpenAI "at least $5 per 10-second video"'.

Journalists, please ask more questions about how this tech could ever in a million years make a profit?

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 1d

studio execs & major outlets claim AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over Hollywood. the reality is much different. i spoke with filmmakers, producers, and editors about how AI is actually showing up in productions – and what it still can't do:

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 9h

now, I'm trying not to be a cynic but this trope doesn't end well in real life. The goodie CEO tends to be taking the longer route to the position of the baddie CEO

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 9h

Tron: Ares and Jurassic World: Rebirth do the thing where the capitalist is a baddie because they are *very openly doing it for the money* and the goodie is the one that *claims* they are doing it to save lives etc

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 9h

there are 3 ways to look at the antagonist/protagonist narrative of Tron:Ares

1. CEO vs rival CEO
2. CEO vs their own product
3. CEO vs rival CEO and their own product

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 9h

the reason I zoned out in the climactic fight scenes of Tron: Ares is because I don't care who wins in a fight between two CEOs and one of their products.

No amount of Nine Inch Nails UX design can cover the emptiness of that conflict

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3h

The dominant business plan these days seems to be let’s turn everyone into slaves, who famously never revolt

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ThatGuyYouHate @thatguyyouhate6111.bsky.social · 4h

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
- Frank Wilhoit

They are trying to expand who is protected and who is bound, no longer just by law.

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gleebix @gleebix.bsky.social · 4h

these people want to live like large babies - shouting when they need or want something and everyone else being obligated to give a damn about their bullshit.

never responsible, never facing consequences, just a never-ending selfish dream state forever.

whole damned party of borderline people.

Micah @rincewind.run · 4h

the entire conservative project these days is built off of making it illegal to dislike them or say rude things about them even in private

it is not enough to be in charge, or even feared, they must be adored

or else

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 5h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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