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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

They Live is a fantastic film but every time I introduce it to a Gen Z friend I'm reminded that the plot boils down to, "two hobos carry out a series of workplace mass shootings because they believe half the population are aliens wearing human skin"

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Juris Doctor Dredd Esq. @optimusviktor.bsky.social · 1d

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Juris Doctor Dredd Esq. @optimusviktor.bsky.social · 20d

Everyday after reading about a new horrific action from the regime, I will compulsively check my email spam filter to see if my parents messaged me saying, "you were right. Things have gone to far & we're sorry for going along with it".

It's been 10 years and I've never gotten that message.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

really should get around to writing my take that "AI uprising/robot uprising" fiction is just barely sublimated fear of domestic slave revolt

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 5d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

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Juris Doctor Dredd Esq. @optimusviktor.bsky.social · 6d

"shit-lib" is a slur

Juris Doctor Dredd Esq. @optimusviktor.bsky.social · 6d

Bluesky mods are on a tear this week and really seem to hate their users.

Also hilarious someone reported my private personal list after I placed them on it. Real shit-lib behavior.

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 7d

I like a number of songs on the new TS album, but there’s just no getting around the fact that it’s hilarious to fall deeply in love with Travis Kelce. It couldn’t be funnier if you wrote a set of romantic pop-ballads about Michelangelo the Ninja Turtle.

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Juris Doctor Dredd Esq. @optimusviktor.bsky.social · 7d

Her dumb movie is taking up all the theater space that should be reserved for the Avatar 2 re-release and I'm livid.

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Juris Doctor Dredd Esq. @optimusviktor.bsky.social · 7d

There's a whole bit about "the Japanese make the best stuff" in Back to the Future.

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Being good at being online is simple: just go online for hours a day every day from the age of 11 on and watch as some of the densest people the earth has produced outside of the dark ages make every possible variation of every mistake you can make and then don't do any of those.
8:51 PM • 2021-05-30

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Juris Doctor Dredd Esq. @optimusviktor.bsky.social · 9d

Vaxxed?

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Aug 1

sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco
it's catholic canon that in the garden of gethsemane jesus christ saw every sin committed by human beings which means that he watched a guy blasting rope to waluigi hentai and still decided to sacrifice himself for humanity. absolute legend
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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Jul 31

o, laconic beast @direlog
during this difficult time, keep in mind the 5 stages of grief: jungle stage, city slums, sewer level, robot factory and wizard's castle
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Juris Doctor Dredd Esq. @optimusviktor.bsky.social · 10d

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Juris Doctor Dredd Esq. @optimusviktor.bsky.social · 10d

I understand your apprehension. I believe she has a P.O. box you could send a check to.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 10d

And even if they can't convince people that this biased-by-design AI output is trustworthy, they still win at the basic authoritarian priority of undermining trust itself, of making people question whether *anything* they see or hear in media - any media - is true. This is one reason fascists ❤️ AI.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10d

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

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Juris Doctor Dredd Esq. @optimusviktor.bsky.social · 10d

Veilguard is perfectly fine. And even though Bioware has been trending downward in terms of quality and fun for 15 years I'm still angry and bummed.

Also weird that a bunch of people who "believe" in "America First" are so stoked an American company was bought out by the Saudis.

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Juris Doctor Dredd Esq. @optimusviktor.bsky.social · 10d

They are handing over their humanity to a machine but somehow I'm the irrational one.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10d

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 10d

Fuckin yikes, man

Some comics were transparent about their willingness to ignore their moral convictions in order to play at the festival. “So what, they have slaves?” asked Tim Dillon in a podcast segment that led to his firing from the festival. “They’re paying me enough money to look the other way.” Pete Davidson offered a similar take, acknowledging in a chat with Von that people have asked him why, given his father’s death on 9/11, he would take a paycheck from the Saudi government. He did not address the criticism directly, but he did suggest he was happy to forget 9/11 for the right price: “I just know I get the routing, and then I see the number, and I go, ‘I’ll go.’”

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