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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 4h

OpenAI with the uncanny ability to get this wrong in two directions at the same time.

Your climate destroying plagiarism machine shouldn't be depicting anyone in a false light, and it should've had that guardrail before release. But that doesn't mean public figure estates should have a veto on art.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5h

Statement from OpenAI and the estate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. (King, Inc.) and OpenAl have worked together to address how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s likeness is represented in Sora generations. Some users generated disrespectful depictions of Dr. King's image. So at King, Inc.'s request, OpenAl has paused generations depicting Dr. King as it strengthens guardrails for historical figures.
While there are strong free speech interests in depicting historical figures, OpenAl believes public figures and their families should ultimately have control over how their likeness is used. Authorized representatives or estate owners can request that their likeness not be used in Sora cameos.
OpenAl thanks Dr. Bernice A. King for reaching out on behalf of King, Inc., and John Hope Bryant and the Al Ethics Council for creating space for conversations like this.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 7h

They call it long pork. Used to serve the best long pork here. They traveled from Europe. Now you don't see it anymore, gone because of the radical left agenda, people like Adam Shifty Schiff. The other day a Black lady in a MAGA hat approached me, said "Please Mr. President bring back long pork!"

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 11h

Paste the whole Threadnought.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 12h

Wonderful video that reinforces a theater/rhetoric lesson you can see in, e.g., last year's halftime show: move laterally while maintaining engagement with your audience when you really want to drive home a point. This guy dominates the scene from the background, and you know he's right.

Still from QT video where the taller bearded Black guy in white tee shirt and ballcap in background is yelling at the start of the video at the Bodega Assn rep who looks like Latino Guy Fieri speaking outside a bodega at an ad hoc press conference.

still from Kendrick Lamar halftime show where he's mugging from the camera as he raps about Drake being a pedophile, allegedly.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 14h

Sounds like they didn't actually believe it was relevant to a criminal trial because holy mother of spoliation.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 15h

Area Political Candidate Cooler Than Expected, CNN Learns

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 15h

So from Penske's POV that makes plausible sense for maybe Variety or THR but none for Rolling Stone. Sorry big companies suck and best on the new gig!

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 15h

"Do you realize you just profiled me based on the car I drive?"

a cartoon of spongebob brushing his teeth with the words " wanna see me do it again "

ALT: a cartoon of spongebob brushing his teeth with the words " wanna see me do it again "

media.tenor.com

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 16h

The tech press is verbal analingus compared to almost any other press we have excepting maybe the crime beat's treatment of cops and prosecutors. The big city sports press would've driven someone like Zuckerberg or Bezos to retirement years ago.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 16h

My No Non-Borbón Kings shirt is raising questions answered by my shirt.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 16h

I, for one, prefer political parties that don't have to hold press conferences to clarify their position on The Third Reich.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 16h

Why can't this doofus ever just say he saw something? It was "allegedly" a swastika you "heard about this morning"?!? How hard is it to look at a single photograph that's all over the news? He's not even working his primary job right now. What's he doing all day?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

Johnson: That is not the principles of the Republican Party. You want me to articulate them? We fought the Nazis, we defended that evil ideology.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 17h

"My whole feed is Big Law love. Get to the bunker, stat!"

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 19h

Say what you will about their politics, Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem seem like great company, and I'd love to have them over sometime for homemade deep dish and Malört bombs.

Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, go ahead and have an emotional support alligator, it's totally safe.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 1d

There's no other way to read that with the next sentence when Chicago's mayor is a Black man.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 1d

She can Zoomfuck 99.99% of the population and I'll cheer her on. But the subject of a feature article she's writing seems to be in that 0.01% bucket.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration's subsidy to our number two agricultural export competitor now exceeds the combined value of our corn and soy exports for 2024. From an admin that allegedly cares about trade deficits. Difficult to fathom a worse combination of policies for upper Midwest farmers.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 1d

When you overthink it, Hillbilly Elegy is basically Mein Kampf for chuds who feel entitled to have their toxicity tolerated.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 1d

Austen using a Caribbean slave plantation as a casually mentioned background fact in Mansfield Park makes so much more sense when you realize she's framing the family patriarch as a gray area new money entrepreneur (a universal Type; see also tech bros) rather than proving that slavery is bad.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 1d

Progressive compared to what? Not having at least a prepared answer for what do about the Netanyahu problem doesn't bode well for having a good answer for what to do about the Trump problem.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 1d

Cathartic to hear someone call the "Republicans don't snipe at each other" line deflection bullshit to his face.

It's frustrating that Booker has good policy preferences and a noble heart but absolutely no understanding of strategy to get from A to B in a bad faith environment.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 2d

He should've tried to get a book out first. Fill it with compete nonsense and take the air out of whatever she's doing.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats to the Brewers for somehow making me root for the bleeping Dodgers and taking another L tonight.

Brewers team photo after the division series with a giant L flag to mock the Cubs.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 2d

The primary debates are going to be a hoot because you know someone is going to try the lame "we have to work with them and move forward" routine and they're going to be sacrificed on live TV by multiple other candidates before getting curb-stomped out of the race.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 2d

What's the title? The Webcamityville Horror?

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