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I call this "The Lying Screen"
Microsoft pop-up inviting me to click a box to "stay signed in". I always tick the box. Microsoft never keeps me signed in.
December 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Is it political violence when students get killed after JD Vance and Trump call universities the enemy of the people? Or is that just "tragedy" while only the murder of far-right advocates of violence like Charlie Kirk qualifies for political recognition?
www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
What Is Political Violence? - Boston Review
Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself.
www.bostonreview.net
December 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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labuzamovies.com
I’m not some fancy business knower but aren’t you supposed to get paid for licensing rather than paying the company using your copyrights?
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d
Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora

Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer

openai.com/index/disney...
As part of this three-year licensing agreement, Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos that can be viewed and shared by fans, drawing on more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters. Agreement will make a selection of these fan-inspired Sora short form videos available to stream on Disney+. Disney and OpenAI affirm a shared commitment to responsible use of AI that protects the safety of users and the rights of creators. Alongside the licensing agreement, Disney will become a major customer of OpenAI, using its APIs to build new products, tools, and experiences, including for Disney+, and deploying ChatGPT for its employees. As part of the agreement, Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, and receive warrants to purchase additional equity.
December 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
themountaingoats.bsky.social the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 7d
new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.
A screenshot of Apple Music’s auto mix feature, which the new iOS update defaults to on, thereby ruining the listening experience for countless millions.
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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felipegaonar.bsky.social
Because capitalism orients people toward profit rather than allowing us to pursue our interests freely, it inevitably separates humans from the creative act.

AI art is just the slop frothing up from that gap. jacobin.com/2025/12/ai-s...
AI Art Is Weird, Sad, and Ugly. Let’s Not Pretend Otherwise.
Because capitalism orients people toward profit rather than allowing us to pursue our interests freely, it inevitably separates humans from the creative act. AI art is just the slop frothing up from t...
jacobin.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
It’s hard to imagine a better metaphor for late-stage Silicon Valley: Pay us a cut to imagine the future for us. An industry completely devoid of new ideas asking users to gamble on what might happen next.
www.garbageday.email/p/here-are-1...
Morals aside, these prediction markets are the dream of the post-COVID NFT mania. Unlike the NFT frenzy, though, they aren’t trying to turn JPGs into digital assets, they’re trying to commodify our opinions. But yes, crypto is involved here. Kalshi is a traditional betting market, but is launching a bridge to the Solana blockchain ecosystem soon. Polymarket runs on the Polygon blockchain and pays out in the USDC stablecoin. And just like the early 2020s crypto boom, there is an entire ecosystem of influencers that want to convince you to buy in. Kalshi has a whole army of users that post their wins to X and even livestream them. And 60 Minutes did an interview last week with a Polymarket user that goes by Domer, a former professional poker player, who has made around $3 million last year. Polymarket also seems to have quietly acquired the @NewsWire_US X account, which has more than 120,000 followers and now links to the platform’s “breaking news” tab. “Kalshi versus Polymarket is the first time we’ve seen armies of loosely affiliated paid influencers battling on behalf of their companies,” Neeraj Agrawal, the communications director for crypto nonprofit Coin Center, wrote on X last week.
December 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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emilystjams.bsky.social
The media successfully convinced itself all the humorless scolds were on the left, and while we certainly have our share of them, oh, baby, is it not even CLOSE to how many there are on the right.
leahfeiger.bsky.social Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 7d
NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less.

“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
Dr. Oz Tells His Federal Employees to Eat Less
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers.
www.wired.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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aselrod.bsky.social
I wrote about the Olivia Nuzzi saga and how it reflects the voyeurism and indignity that drives so much of our media—social and otherwise.

This is an essay about elite excess, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and the crisis of our democracy.

www.liberalcurrents.com/american-fre...
American Freakshow: Our Reality TV-Driven Media Is Killing Our Democracy
The lurid details of Olivia Nuzzi's transgressions and the popularity of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives derive from the same culture of voyeurism.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
As a fascist trend, the anti-gender movement supports ever strengthening forms of authoritarianism. Its tactics encourage state powers to intervene in university programs, to censor art and television programming, to forbid trans people their legal rights, to ban LGBTQI people from public spaces, to undermine reproductive freedom and the struggle against violence directed at women, children, and LGBTQI people. It threatens violence against those, including migrants, who have become cast as demonic forces and whose suppression or expulsion promises to restore a national order under duress.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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areimer.bsky.social
One of the reasons Trump has appeal amongst poor folk is that he is a poor person’s idea of a rich person.

The idea of becoming that rich person is engrained in American society. We have a TON of work to do before it is politically viable to tell people being that rich person isn’t possible
dennycarter.bsky.social Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14d
Wrote about the whole Strong Floor, No Ceiling thing, the pipe dream of American class consciousness, and the political salience of economic security:

badfaithtimes.com/strong-floor...
Strong Floor, No Ceiling, Bad Slogan
A bad slogan doesn't mean it's bad policy, however.
badfaithtimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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tusk81.bsky.social
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
www.aidsmemorial.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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theverge.com
The indie web is here to make the internet weird again
The indie web is here to make the internet weird again
Welcome to the new old internet.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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standplaatskrk.pl
an internet explorer window against the windows xp background with a geocities.com address in the bar "/Kingofkings". The page displayed is a broken image on a black background, and the sentence: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look upon my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
October 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction:

- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
January 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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jonbois.bsky.social
i'm way better than all of the dogs in the dog show. i can ride a bike, i can cook meals, and i'm very familiar with computers. i can do all kinds of things that they will never be able to do
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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dumbmike.bsky.social
SCULLY: It's impossible. There's no one on earth who could teach you to fit that many marshmallows in your mouth.

MULDER: Daff righ...... No one...... on urff...
December 7, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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antlervel.vet
The real and true story of why Police Squad (the TV series Naked Gun was based on and easily the funniest tv show of its time) was canceled is legitimately insane and one of the most egregious examples of TV malpractice I’ve ever heard:
ABC announced the cancellation of Police Squad! after four of its six episodes had aired in March 1982. The final two episodes were aired that summer. In an interview for the DVD release of the series, Nielsen said ABC entertainment president Tony Thomopoulos asserted Police Squad! was canceled because viewers had to pay close attention to the show in order to get much of the humor: "the viewer had to watch it in order to appreciate it"
November 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
oh whoa the models aren't just getting better and better consistently huh
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
Mamdani turned his haters into waiters at the table of success
November 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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adamweinstein.bsky.social
2005 me: I love literary journalism, I love writers who bare their souls

2025 me: Stop stop oh my god please stop
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
ok like who the fuck is their sign guy because you assholes are getting ripped the fuck off
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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thwphipps.bsky.social
My last word on the matter
a tweet from 2020: (james bond being beaten up by a goon) GOON: bond you will maintain continuity BOND: Never GOON: the year is 2020 and you're roughly forty five, you were born around 1975 BOND: *spits out blood* i was a sea captain in world war two and i've been to space GOON: you son of a bitch
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
David Byrne As Photographed by David LaChapelle Will Fix You. David Byrne Photographed by David LaChapelle for the New Yorker Will Solve Your Problems www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
byrne as a towering spaceman wearing a business suit under bubble belmet juxtaposed over a street of tiny cars and enormous off kilter glowing skyscrapers david byrne foregrounded in a telephone booth wearing a tie with hair flipped to the side. background a seedy moonlit building with a shadowy female figure posed through a window david byrne descending green and white striped stairs, he's in a marching band costume and bass drum byrne in a snake riddled cowboy suit on a lawn chair. background is a yellow taxi with smoke pouring out from under the hood
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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requiemarm.bsky.social
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM