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Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 11h

This seems bad, when the masters of the tech world are openly demanding the biblical Revelations era get started, don't you think? I'm a dumb cabbie, but it just seems bad from over here.

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Former CEO of Intel Building Special AI to Bring About Second Coming of Christ

After being booted out of Intel, Patrick Gelsinger immediately threw himself into doing God's work: spreading Christian-aligned AI.

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Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 12h

Don't forget to vote tomorrow, people.

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SNAP benefits will restart, but will be half the normal payment and delayed

About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month per person in the food assistance known as SNAP. For the first time, the Trump administration stopped the payments due at the beginning of th...

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Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 17h

Zipcar is gonna be booked solid for a year. Stay off the sidewalks, suburbanites!

Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 17h

These reporters really need to start asking these reactionaries to explain the difference between communism and socialism.

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Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 18h

Oops it's stuck. Note to self: make sure it's on Following when opening Blueskeet from now on.

Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 18h

Next year? Most of the acts playing at the big stadium near me this year were 90s nostalgia groups. (Who knew 3 Doors Down was so popular ever?)

Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, daylight savings time ended for the season and I am celebrating/recuperating by going to bed at midnight like an old coot.
Have a Monday, everybody!

Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss' 60 Minutes is kicking off swimmingly, I see.

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Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I had to do it. I'm over here on "Discover" looking for people to mute.
Guess everyone I'm following is trying to figure out how to reset the clock on their stove right now...

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Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 1d

Anime No Gogo looks fun

Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 1d

Wanted to end it with a Fulci movie but City Of The Living Dead is a rental on Amazon Prime, and....no. So A Chinese Ghost Story it is, which I'm sure was way funnier.
Until next time!

Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 2d

So did Canada win or what?

Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 2d

Actually the funniest part of the show was that Maher has no idea people do haunted houses on Halloween for fun. There was one in my hometown growing up that ran for years, and he grew up on the other side of the state line. Didn't they do that in Jersey? Or is all that weed killing his memory?

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Proton @proton.me · 3d

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

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Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 3d

Nope. I'm not participating in the rehabilitation of MTG. Not doing it.
I'm not a Maher hater, but I am getting frustrated with defending him.

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Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 3d

And Halloween Night movie is out of left field: I Saw The TV Glow is a surreal, ambient, interstitial look at coming of age in the time of TV on demand. Very slow, but it enchants and disturbs in equal amounts as time goes by.
I wonder if they did whole episodes of the TV show within the movie? :o

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Halloween! Got your playlist ready?

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Halloween Lofi Radio 🎃 24/7 Dark Lofi Beats (No AI)

YouTube video by Ill-Advised Records

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Pivot Podcast @pivotpod.bsky.social · 3d

“Whenever they say we're not here for the money, I'm like, you're here for the money.”

@karaswisher.bsky.social and @profgalloway.com dissect OpenAI’s for-profit restructuring and the buzz around its trillion dollar IPO.

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Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 4d

Not all heroes wear capes:

Menotti Minutillo @menotti.bsky.social · 4d

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

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Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 4d

And a couple of the Betty Boop cartoons I didn't get to go see at the Alamo tonight because it was monsooning. Appreciate YouTube for providing the standard def copies. I just love that stuff, I hope you do too.

Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 4d

Just some Treehouse Of Horror + vintage Simpsons. Always fits Gate Night, don't you think?
+ Bob's Burgers, the Millennial Simpsons. I got into it recently and it's my comfort food sitcom now.

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Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 4d

OK who else misses the good old days when the FBI was full of drab people in dark suits who followed the letter of the law and enforced it all the way? Or at least dressed the part?

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 4d

Here's the full list -- both "specific policy" and "prioritizing the wrong issues" are pretty far down.

(This is an open-ended question, so these categories are researchers' coding of individual responses.

www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/u...

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Mario plays guitar @gtrplayingman.bsky.social · 4d

Another reason to get your fancy coffee at an independent cafe.