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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 16h

HBO got a taste of that prestige and forgot their origins (crime and hot naked people).

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 14d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 15d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 6h

Some people rejoicing at the incoming economic disaster due to the AI bubble really need this reminder🥸

Jonty @fairless.xyz · 15h

The global economy? But that's where I live!

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mynameisblueskye Âû @mynameisblueskye.blacksky.app · 6h

Always loved this song from Tom Waits and never got how relevant this song could truly be till I truly listened up and connected it to today.

Tom Waits - "God's Away On Business"

YouTube video by ANTI- Records

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 6h

you could make a gumbo with all the reasons this is wrong 🤣

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10h

When I say I've only told a fraction of the fucked-up shit I mean it. Because telling the whole truth means roping in people whom the institution has harmed. And I was a "keep my head down and work no drama" person.

That place needs to go out of business.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10h

Look, I've never skeeted about this before but when I was at NYT I was involved in a sexual harassment thing. I was not the person lodging the complaint (nor was I the harasser). I was a corroborating witness let's say. Anyway, NYT did the right thing and fired the harasser.

BUT

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 6h

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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dial “m” for marlo @marlo.ooo · 7h

do you ever think about how the last time the guillotine was ever used was in 1977.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

people are going to post AI slop...sometimes they just do not realize it at the time and have the good graces to delete it

but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 7h

The voice. Which is really their perspective conveyed into prose.

A good main character lies at an odd angle against the plane of the world.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 8h

Q3: What’s one quality you NEED your main character to have when you’re writing fantasy, dystopian, sci fi?

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7h

i’ve been trying to think of the real actual applications of generative ai in it’s current state and the two things i have so far is it makes everyone more dumb and also every more paranoid

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 7h

Rollerball (1975)

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Mar 7

Connections between corporate boards in the DOW 30. I think this is basically the org chart of the US

The image displays an intricate network illustrating the overlap between board members of the top 30 companies in the Dow Jones index. It uses distinct symbols to differentiate roles and gender: blue circles with a plus sign for female board members, yellow circles with a plus for male board members, plain yellow circles for male board members who are also CEOs, and black circles with a plus for male CEOs. This visual representation highlights the connections and shared roles among these influential individuals and companies.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 9h

this video is AI generated. the reporter has three arms and people in the background phase in and out of each other, and it comes from an AI sharing account

be cautious with what you share these days, friends

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 10h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 7h

Someone just said the same thing about the Supreme Court re whether they actually agree w him or whether or not they're giving him carte blanche bc he'll reveal they (we) have a problem when he openly defies them

illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 20h

It’s easy to call out Pritzker on this but something darker may be happening here. I’m not sure if he is secretly helping Trump behind the scenes. I think he’s terrified to test whether state police would obey him at all if he used them against the feds

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

Several Illinois state troopers out here now with pepper ball launchers of their own.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Pixel Pushers BOOO!!nion 512 @ppu512.bsky.social · 13h

"At the end of every labour-process, we get a result that already existed in the imagination of the laborer at its commencement."

- Engels

And this is why AI will never replace artists or any creative labor.

It has no imagination. It cannot have it.

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 23h

This classic episode of "The Cosby Show" aired 40 YEARS ago today.... #GenX was seated for it.

Rest easy, Malcolm-Jamal Warner 🕊

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Tifa | Sacred Ho🧘🏾‍♀️ @chicmojo.blacksky.app · 13h

If they can’t convince us that we need AI then those billions of dollars they spent on it will be for nothing.

Don’t use that shit. Let these companies lose that money. They should’ve used it to pay fair wages, instead of giving it to tech bro scammers for shitty, useless “innovation.”

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 17h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Andboo @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 14h

I don't want a high speed bullet train. I want a high speed bourbon train from Chicago to Louisville.

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 15h

You won't believe this: Click (2006)

Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · Aug 23

What movie has had the most impact on your actual literal life? Not necessarily your favorite, but the one that’s most influenced or shaped something in your trajectory?

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B. @missxbri.bsky.social · 15h

Everybody be pro-hoe, until it’s somebody you don’t like. Then y’all get to shaming sex workers 🤣

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15h

If you want proof that people are incapable of learning here is your reminder that Titanic had a sister ship called the Brittanic that was pressed into service as a hospital ship during WW1 and was so successful that they called her unsinkable and then she sank on the next voyage

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 15h

I took this screenshot last night right before my watch died ⌚️🪫 😭

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