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Indignant Desert Bird

@longanimus.bsky.social

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A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. W.B. Yeats

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Indignant Desert Bird @longanimus.bsky.social · Jan 2

It is a commonplace that’s hardly worth
A poet’s while to make profound or terse,
That now the sun does not go round the earth,
That man’s no centre of the universe;
And working in an office makes it worse.

- W.H.Auden - Letter to Lord Byron -

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Indignant Desert Bird @longanimus.bsky.social · 1m

It's the naughty bits.

A medieval drawing of a naked man chained to a chair, with what appears to be a peacock diving to assault his naughyy bits with its beak.

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 17h

We are sorry to hear you have failed to pass your examination, and can only advise you to try again. We do not at all agree with your idea that “the only thing that can be done for you is to run away to London and try to get on the stage” nor do we see how that would help you.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

gonna keep reposting this until i don't have to

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 3h

From the linked blog, “generative AI cannot tell a user how it arrived at a decision when it grades or evaluates work” - this is key and if parents are unaware of what’s happening (which they are) they should use this to push back. Demand the explanations for evaluations.

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Jarkko Lauspalo @lauspalo.com · 1h

Jumpe että Janne osaa tiivistää nämä politiikkojen käyttämät kehystykset ja narratiivit, ja osaa purkaa niitä rakentaa tavalla! Toivottavasti näitä katsellaan myös media-alankin keskuudessa :)

Janne Seppänen @jannesep.bsky.social · 2h

Oletteko kuulleet pääministerin jos sanovan, että "hallituksen on tehtävä vaikeita päätöksiä"? Mediaproffa kertoo 60 sekunnissa, mitä siinä itse asiassa sanotaan. #mediakritiikki

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Heikki Turunen @heikkiturunen.bsky.social · 3h

Toiseksi laskin kumuloituneen eron verokertymissä Suomen, Ruotsin ja Tanskan osalta. Nämä ovat siis vain tylsiä excelöintejä, eikä laskettu VM:n supertietokoneilla simuloituna. Todennäköisesti ne sanoisivat Suomesta tulleen Tanskan veroasteilla rikkaan hygge-maan sijasta köyhä, surkea ja ankea.

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Marek @marekmcgann.bsky.social · 4h

A new facet to David Graeber's idea of "Bullshit Jobs": work that uses AI without consideration. If you think using AI without doing all of the work to check the outcome, you implicitly consider what you're doing to be bullshit.

(See also: every company deploying AI in customer service.)

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 4h

“Deloitte “misused AI and used it very inappropriately: misquoted a judge, used references that are non-existent,” Pocock told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “I mean, the kinds of things that a first-year university student would be in deep trouble for.””

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fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations | Fortune

The updates “in no way impact” the report’s findings and recommendations, the Big Four firm said.

fortune.com

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Indignant Desert Bird @longanimus.bsky.social · 16h

So, looks like there will be an Arc de Trompe in Washingtoh DC.

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 17h

You've probably seen the photos of the "Arc de Trump," spotted in the Oval Office.

Now read our story behind the models — and how initial plans for a temporary, triumphal arch have given way to Trump's desire to build a permanent monument.

Scoopy details at @washingtonpost.com:

Trump eyes a triumphal arch to mark America’s 250th anniversary

The arch would be constructed across from the Lincoln Memorial, on a small patch of federal land currently occupied by a traffic circle.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Johannes Herrmann (Phylloscopus) @taigasangare.bsky.social · 17h

Hitler devant la maquette de "Germania", son projet de ville dont le style architectural ressemble exactement au projet de Trump

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17h

That’s not how you science.

Tweet from Republicans Against Trump says: “RFK Jr: There’s no proof that Tylenol causes autism. We’re doing the studies to make the proof.” Below is a photo of a White House meeting showing RFK Jr., Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump at a long conference table.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 17h

Like hell am I going to share this article and give them traffic for clickbait.

Read it here, if you must: archive.ph/j5aGv

Spoiler: the dipshit is 100% unaware that most of the output of the Tennessee drug trade in the 1960s went directly to Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings.

Skeet from the Wall Street Journal:

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 20h

Some people say, ok AI is 80% right and 20% hallucinations, and if you know that then you can work with it.

Out of curiosity I asked AI to summarise the last b3ta newsletter & every single bit of this, other than the title, isn't true. Not just a distortion, but absolutely untrue. Pure fantasy.

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Indignant Desert Bird @longanimus.bsky.social · 21h

Is it just me, or does anyone even believe anymore that an action of some kind, no matter how ineffectual, but beyond mere whingeing, is required to win the peace prize? Might as well unfairly deny him the prizes for math and physics as well, while we're at it.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22h

Altoona, PA’s Sinclair-owned TV station with the perfect framing. Donald Trump is “once again denied the Nobel Prize.”

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 1d

Have you ever seen Bruce Springsteen or Bob Dylan sitting under a bush eating cake with their bare hands? No you fucking haven't.

Johnny Cash sitting cross-legged under a bush with a whole cake in one hand, a fistful of cake in the other hand, icing smeared across his face, and a pleased expression.

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Oskar Kohonen @oskarkohonen.bsky.social · 1d

Fjäder: ”Olen liian osaava ja näkyvä”

Fjäder (mahdollisesti asianajajansa neuvosta): "puolustautuu olleensa pois kuntapolitiikasta 40 vuotta. Hän huomauttaa tuntevansa kuntalain pykälät sekä kunnallisen päätöksenteon lainalaisuudet vain osittain."

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Sture Fjäder kiistää väärinkäytökset Hangon luottamustehtävässä

Hangon kaupunginhallitus on pyytänyt Sture Fjäderiltä selvityksen hänen toimistaan luottamustehtävässä. Hallitus puntaroi Fjäderin luottamusta seuraavassa kokouksessaan.

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Indignant Desert Bird @longanimus.bsky.social · 1d

I feel the assignment emphasised specificity.

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Indignant Desert Bird @longanimus.bsky.social · 1d

Crying and kicking, actually.

Indignant Desert Bird @longanimus.bsky.social · 1d

Rauhanpalkinnonpuutosraivari 🇫🇮 Ruhanpalkinnonpuutositkupotkuraivari, if you want to include screaming and kicking.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Oct 16

The thing about big restaurant chain food is that the entire business model requires cooking to become deskilled labor.

You need to deskill labor in order to make employment precarious, to make it easy to drop an employee for any reason you want.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1d

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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Jussi Ahokas @ahokasjaj.bsky.social · 1d

On käynyt selväksi, että 15 vuotta sitten Raha ja talous -blogissa alkanut todistelu Suomen rahoituskestävyyden tosiasiallisista perusteista on jäänyt hämäräksi jopa sellaisille toimijoille, joiden ehdottomasti uskoin ja oletin tämän viestin ydinasiat sisäistäneet.

🚨‼️Siksi tällainen hätäketju ‼️🚨

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Adam Bressler Chudiak @madam7.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that one episode of Eeerie Indiana where that neighbor family slept in giant Tupperware containers to stay “fresh and young”

I do.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 1d

They are so frightened of knowledge.

Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

An outspoken antifascist US-born citizen was stopped from leaving the US. This should terrify you.

(BTW, this is not to imply this is ok for non-citizens or naturalized citizens.)

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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