Paul
@pgpsound.bsky.social
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Horrific news. The book is great btw, but also horrific.
People worked for years to get PFAS under control and only recently got some action. They're not only undoing it, but ramping it up.
People worked for years to get PFAS under control and only recently got some action. They're not only undoing it, but ramping it up.
Once again: read @mariahblake.bsky.social's "They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals"
bookshop.org/p/books/they...
bookshop.org/p/books/they...
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food
Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Horrific news. The book is great btw, but also horrific.
People worked for years to get PFAS under control and only recently got some action. They're not only undoing it, but ramping it up.
People worked for years to get PFAS under control and only recently got some action. They're not only undoing it, but ramping it up.
Oh Jacqueline
November 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Oh Jacqueline
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @emmywalimaki.bsky.social)
October 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @emmywalimaki.bsky.social)
C'mon now folks I gotta bang Wayne
If this skeet (???) gets 1000 likes we’re adding sex with wayne to episode 5 of scarlet hollow and making your pus-filled dreams a reality
September 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
C'mon now folks I gotta bang Wayne
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Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
High in the running for my favorite game ever...
scarlet hollow has claimed 80,000 victims. you will be the 80,001st
25% off right now. the first episode, which is 122,000 words and has 1,200 illustrations, is free
store.steampowered.com/app/1609230/...
25% off right now. the first episode, which is 122,000 words and has 1,200 illustrations, is free
store.steampowered.com/app/1609230/...
Save 25% on Scarlet Hollow on Steam
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than a 1/5 of the game on...
store.steampowered.com
August 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
High in the running for my favorite game ever...
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Perfect excuse to buy one of the best games of the last few years
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in a dead-end mining town with no way out.
Explore a branching story so dense that you'll only see 15% of the game in a single playthrough
😬 Make bad choices that you'll argue about with friends for years to come
Scarlet Hollow is 25% off
Explore a branching story so dense that you'll only see 15% of the game in a single playthrough
😬 Make bad choices that you'll argue about with friends for years to come
Scarlet Hollow is 25% off
August 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Perfect excuse to buy one of the best games of the last few years
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If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
![[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihjvnz2ttxl7z4a2b3a4kylubobgvqxmjhwz6yuetuztzoc4g2s4y@jpeg)
August 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
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Pliny the Younger apparently thought sports were very stupid but it's funny that it's for the exact reason laid out in Seinfeld s6e12 ("The Label Maker")
![[6] L To Calvisius.
Thave been spending all my time here among my tablets and books as quietly as I could wish.
"How is that possible," you ask, "in Rome?" Well, the Circensian games have been on, and that is a kind of spectacle which has not the slightest attraction for me. There is no novelty, no variety in it, nothing which one wants to see twice. Hence I am the more amazed that so many thousands of men * should be eager, like a pack of children, to see horses running time after time, and the charioteers bending over their cars. There might be some reason for their enthusiasm if it was the speed of the hors or the skill of the drivers that was the attraction, but it is the racing-colours which they favour, and the racing-colours that fire their love.
If, in the middle of the course and during the race itself, the colours were to be changed, their enthusiasm and partisanship would change with them, and they would suddenly desert the drivers and the horses, whom they recognise afar and whose names they shout aloud. Such is the influence and authority vested i one cheap tunic, I don't say with the common crowd, - for that is even cheaper than the tunic, - but with certain men of position; and when I consider that they can sit for so long without growing tired, looking on at such a fruitless, cheerless, and tedious sport, I really feel a sort of pleasure in the thought that what they take delight in has no charm for me. Thus it is that I have been only too glad to pass my leisure time among my books during the race-meeting, while others have been wasting their days in the most idle occupations. Farewell.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26gfiesadzjgf44w2dv5yeo7/bafkreieap7ojlbpperccfkitgfnxrufik6wdvrgrtfa6ssdm72ihbdhwqm@jpeg)
July 31, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Pliny the Younger apparently thought sports were very stupid but it's funny that it's for the exact reason laid out in Seinfeld s6e12 ("The Label Maker")
I was working on an audiobook once that wasn't very good, but it had a scene where a massive spider crawled up a deep crevasse and sank its fangs into the skull of a fallen enemy so that it could talk to the protagonist through the puppet-corpse, and I thought it was lovely moment
If i read a 200-300 page pulp horror novel and i don't think it's very good, it will still be absolutely worthwhile to me if it has one indelible horror setpiece or moment that wrecks my shit.
July 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I was working on an audiobook once that wasn't very good, but it had a scene where a massive spider crawled up a deep crevasse and sank its fangs into the skull of a fallen enemy so that it could talk to the protagonist through the puppet-corpse, and I thought it was lovely moment
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I made a starter pack for indie horror devs who are cool people (no racism, no sexism, and no hate against the LGBTQIA+ community)
Also no AI and no porn.
If you want to join, please tell me about the cool horror game you're working on😊
#gamedev #horrorgame
go.bsky.app/3bvzpEK
I made a starter pack for indie horror devs who are cool people (no racism, no sexism, and no hate against the LGBTQIA+ community)
Also no AI and no porn.
If you want to join, please tell me about the cool horror game you're working on😊
#gamedev #horrorgame
go.bsky.app/3bvzpEK
July 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Reposts appreciated!
I made a starter pack for indie horror devs who are cool people (no racism, no sexism, and no hate against the LGBTQIA+ community)
Also no AI and no porn.
If you want to join, please tell me about the cool horror game you're working on😊
#gamedev #horrorgame
go.bsky.app/3bvzpEK
I made a starter pack for indie horror devs who are cool people (no racism, no sexism, and no hate against the LGBTQIA+ community)
Also no AI and no porn.
If you want to join, please tell me about the cool horror game you're working on😊
#gamedev #horrorgame
go.bsky.app/3bvzpEK
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Get off Spotify. You may think you need to be in it, but you don't. We recently switched to Deezer, which doesn't have AI tracks, doesn't support Joe Rogan, and pays artists better. Still not great, but better than Spotify. Even transferred playlists and everything. Easy-peasy.
July 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Get off Spotify. You may think you need to be in it, but you don't. We recently switched to Deezer, which doesn't have AI tracks, doesn't support Joe Rogan, and pays artists better. Still not great, but better than Spotify. Even transferred playlists and everything. Easy-peasy.
This really establishes a different, useful axis for considering political thought and actions; a valuable angle in modern times and also any arbitrary point in history
“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
The Politics of Humiliation
The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This really establishes a different, useful axis for considering political thought and actions; a valuable angle in modern times and also any arbitrary point in history
At least we can enjoy Trump's Ouroboros of Bullshit getting closer and closer to eating its own head
July 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
At least we can enjoy Trump's Ouroboros of Bullshit getting closer and closer to eating its own head
WeTransfer changed their language. They're now saying—and I *knew* they would—that it was all about content moderation. Oh really? So, if they found abusive materials of a child, let's say, they'd want to create derivatives and publicly display them and not compensate the user? Hmmm 🧐
This is egregious, read it read it. Imagine what you're agreeing to when using WeTransfer at this point. The cherry on top for me is that *transferable*, as if the rest isn't bad enough already
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
WeTransfer changed their language. They're now saying—and I *knew* they would—that it was all about content moderation. Oh really? So, if they found abusive materials of a child, let's say, they'd want to create derivatives and publicly display them and not compensate the user? Hmmm 🧐
This is egregious, read it read it. Imagine what you're agreeing to when using WeTransfer at this point. The cherry on top for me is that *transferable*, as if the rest isn't bad enough already
July 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This is egregious, read it read it. Imagine what you're agreeing to when using WeTransfer at this point. The cherry on top for me is that *transferable*, as if the rest isn't bad enough already
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At one point the Nazis announced over the radio that when they caught her they were going to rend her into 309 pieces and she got all excited that they knew "her score"
Happy birthday to Lyudmila Pavlichenko (born July 12, 1916), Soviet sniper in World War II, with 309 confirmed kills.
A true role model for today.
A true role model for today.
July 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
At one point the Nazis announced over the radio that when they caught her they were going to rend her into 309 pieces and she got all excited that they knew "her score"
Saw one of my magnets in the wild today... I didn't put it there
July 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Saw one of my magnets in the wild today... I didn't put it there
It's one thing to be full of shit. It's another thing to be dumb. Our great NYC mayor is both, but at least it gave us this.
July 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
It's one thing to be full of shit. It's another thing to be dumb. Our great NYC mayor is both, but at least it gave us this.
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ICYMI: An AI-related definition of the word ’slop’ has entered the Cambridge Dictionary for the first time, ’reflecting growing concerns about increasing amounts of low-quality content created by AI’ 👇 #BookSky
Cambridge Dictionary adds new definition for 'slop' to reflect 'low-quality content created by AI'
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June 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
ICYMI: An AI-related definition of the word ’slop’ has entered the Cambridge Dictionary for the first time, ’reflecting growing concerns about increasing amounts of low-quality content created by AI’ 👇 #BookSky
it's a hot day, folks
June 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
it's a hot day, folks