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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 31m

This was such a great show. Or at least it was c. 2004 when I would smoke bowls after work, I dunno if it would hit the same now

Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 33m

Did you ever get breakfast at a high school cafeteria? The only thing I regarded as edible in mine were hashbrowns that were more grease than potato

Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 1h

A deep problem, and a deep pattern evident for decades now, is the ability of the right to constantly shift the terrain of political contestation: previous examples include the Brooks Bros Riot and the post-2010 gerrymander. Now I guess they'll just straight up own the election machinery

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1h

Nothing to worry about here, no sir.

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1h

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 2h

David Simon gets it

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 16h

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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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 4h

Ok friends, it's your time to shine: What visual metaphors are out there for LLM/AI resistance and refusal? Making slides for a thing!

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 8h

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 8h

It is hard not to connect these observable features of “academic” work on AI to the collapse of faculty governance in universities. Even academics in the midst of *doing* academic work *about* their academic work write as if they have no real choices about the material context in which it occurs.

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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 13h

Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

this is not a bug, it is a feature

all of these companies have a fucking platform. that's because they are trying to replace direct human-human relationships with mediated human-platform-human transactions

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 1d

The contradiction resolving itself into the fact that both capital and the state largely view artistic LABOR as worthless

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 1d

one thing I learned during 2020 is that "less than lethal" munitions are explicitly designed to be shot into the ground so they lose velocity and bounce up into people and the reason I didn't know that before is literally NO ONE has ever deployed them that way.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 1d

I've been thinking about this a lot lately and not that I have any great insight here but it does boil my blood that so many people in power today have just drained the intrinsic value of any kind of human joy, connection, creativity, cognition, you name it. I mean, what's it all for then?

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 1d

10/10 treat

Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 1d

Does adding one of those actually alter the flavor of the marinara or bolognese, or just kind of deepen it? Like it is different or just more umami-ish?

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 3d

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 3d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

Are you starting to get it? He was always going to hit us. You will not change the math by insisting that people assume some magical form of perfect victimhood that somehow reels in a monster. That's not real. And I am so sick of hearing it.

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 2d

The yearning some people have for the version of American government they learned in 8th grade is so powerful, and so at odds with reality

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2d

Just this morning people told me that it’s not the job of the democrats to set a narrative, meanwhile congressional republicans continue to do just that

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 2d

Hawley also raging about the FBI having "tapped my phone," but that's not what happened here.

The FBI reportedly analyzed data relating to dates and times of some of Hawley's calls during the week of Jan. 6. No wire tapping or looking at content of communications. www.huffpost.com/entry/fbi-me...

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 2d

Because they know the future is ai tutors and LSA they push through the apprentice route and use up in five years.
I don’t think the future is Ai tutors but I do know that is the goal. And everyone using teach mate Ai or whatever nonsense you think is helping you - you are advancing that cause.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 2d

The government has swung the axe on teacher training incentives – including cutting funding for shortage subjects such as maths and foreign languages

schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-swings-a...

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 2d

This looks so awesome

Brooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social · 2d

Queer Ecologies: Nature, Gender, and Ecocide (In-Person) | Fall Courses | BISR NYC | buff.ly/QwkqD19

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

An enterprising journalist that could prove that his aides and advisors are showing Trump fake shit that led to him signing EOs and making policy decisions would be a huge deal. Maybe the biggest story in the history of the Presidency? Bigger than Nixon. Too bad the newspapers quit being newspapers

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 2d

In the 1870s, Armand Guillaumin developed an interest in viaducts and bridges as an employee of the Paris-Orléans railway. This landscape was painted in the upper valley of the Marne in northeastern France, only a few miles from central Paris.

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 2d

Some graffiti artists are so talented

A small green utility box has the word TECHNO written on it sloppily in thick white marker

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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