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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 13h

For the evening crowd. I made this and I like how it turned out.

T.P. For Your Earholes: A Beavis and Butt-Head Podcast @tpforyourearholes.com · 23h

Also, if listening isn't your thing, here's a graphic:

An infographic showing the IMDB episode ratings for each episode of Beavis and Butt-head. Seasons one through 10 are included.

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Charlynn Schmiedt @ohtheprofanity.com · 23h

My husband made a kickass infographic related to this week's @tpforyourearholes.com topic, where we talk about why the early episodes suck. Turns out, IMDb user ratings agree with us. #BeavisandButtHead

T.P. For Your Earholes: A Beavis and Butt-Head Podcast @tpforyourearholes.com · 23h

Also, if listening isn't your thing, here's a graphic:

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

The Oatmeal, ladies and gents. Really thoughtful illustrated essay on the use and misuse of AI art and why it often feels…bad

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 3d

Sora stuff has filled a big chunk of my social feeds. I’m discerning enough to notice (most times). I fear for how its misuse will outpace, by orders of magnitude, society’s ability for its output to be debunked.

BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 3d

I started a project earlier this year looking at generative AI as a national security risk. Now that Sora is being publicly tested, more media outlets will have to cover and debunk AI slop and disinformation: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

OpenAI launch of video app Sora plagued by violent and racist images: ‘The guardrails are not real’

Misinformation researchers say lifelike scenes could obfuscate truth and lead to fraud, bullying and intimidation

www.theguardian.com

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 5d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 6d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 6d

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 7d

Part 1 of 2 discussing the early days of Beavis and Butt-head… with @ohtheprofanity.com dishing out maybe her hottest of hot takes so far.

T.P. For Your Earholes: A Beavis and Butt-Head Podcast @tpforyourearholes.com · 7d

Early critics did NOT know what to make of Beavis and Butt-head. With 30-plus years of retrospect, we take a look at those early critiques, giving praise to those who could see the good things coming and giving hell to those who couldn’t. New episode out today, wherever you get your podcasts!

Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 8d

Final version out… soon (?)… but the draft copy feels good in my hands. #pokepioneers

A copy of the book “Poke Pioneers: The people, plays and pageantry that defined the first half-century of Wyoming Cowboy football,” by Patrick Schmiedt. Lots of old black-and-white football photos.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 10d

This is not actually how copyright law works. I don't need to opt out, copyright is automatic and you can't just use* my stuff without asking

But it *is* how the UK government is proposing to change the law, to benefit AI firms instead of creatives

*For a given, currently debated, meaning of "use"

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 10d

this is not gonna go down well

www.reuters.com/technology/o...

OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports

OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora generator that creates videos featuring copyrighted material, unless right holders opt out of having their work appear, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

www.reuters.com

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 13d

My horsie feels attacked

mr potato @tweetpotato314.bsky.social · 14d

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 14d

… and why a character I hate is one of my favorites! Another @tpforyourearholes.com that crushes it. (Yes, I’m biased.) Follow along now so you can say you were one of the OGs who started when the episode count was still in the single digits, since this is the last week you can do that.

T.P. For Your Earholes: A Beavis and Butt-Head Podcast @tpforyourearholes.com · 14d

We only saw them once, but they captured our hearts and minds (or sometimes enraged us). Our newest episode, out today, gets into our favorite characters who we only saw once in a Beavis and Butt-head episode. Listen wherever you get podcasts; we're likely there!

Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 15d

I wish we could stop seeing this framing in media. It’s not “social media,” it’s social media USERS. It’s US. When we blame “social media,” we absolve ourselves of any personal responsibility for our roles in it. Comforting, maybe, but disingenuous and ultimately harmful to societies.

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 15d

What social media got wrong about the ICE raids of the Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet

Social media posts suggested that "dozens" of people were detained during the ICE raid on the Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet and that swap meet officials cooperated with ICE. Interviews with swap meet officials, patrons and others show a different picture.

www.latimes.com

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 15d

The Chinese social credit system is constantly invoked as some unspeakable red line that must never be crossed, yet here is Larry Ellison, perhaps soon to be one of the most influential people in charge of TikTok—which, like other social-media apps, could be used as a digital-surveillance tool

Last year, he boasted to Oracle investors about the potential for harnessing artificial intelligence for panoptic surveillance: “Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison, who serves as the company’s chief technology officer and executive chairman, remarked. “It’s unimpeachable.” Ellison has also said that countries should try to “unify” as much data as possible to allow that information to be used by AI; the Trump administration appeared to be making such efforts earlier this year through DOGE.

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Josh Richman @joshrichman.bsky.social · 20d

Any self-respecting journalist must tell the Pentagon to go fuck itself.
(If they don't, they're not journalists - they're stenographers.)

Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 20d

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 21d

Not the only reason I left Wyoming, but certainly one of them

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21d

GOP Senator Cynthia Lummis: "Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right... I don't feel that way anymore." www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

Kimmel’s suspension prompts free-speech Republicans to reconsider their boundaries

One Republican said she no longer considers the First Amendment to “be sort of the ultimate right,” as she would “in normal circumstances.”

www.semafor.com

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 22d

"Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed."

They will never learn that capitulation doesn't work. Never

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22d

As we’ve reported before at @rollingstone.com, trump and his gang plotted to use the federal government against his enemies in late night tv even before he was reelected.

Now….

www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Pulled 'Indefinitely' By ABC Over Charlie Kirk Comments

'Jimmy Kimmel Live' has been pulled 'indefinitely' by ABC.

www.rollingstone.com

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 24d

None of this is normal. Also, now we know for sure, none of this is unique.

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 24d

Clemson students called on their professors to be fired for political speech they didn't like. The legislature threatened to defund the university if it didn't comply. The professors were fired.

Chairman Mao approves.

www.thestate.com/news/politic...

Clemson fires employee for Kirk posts. Two more removed from teaching duties

Clemson’s moves on Monday also come as the most influential members of the legislature called on the board of trustees to take action.

www.thestate.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 25d

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29d

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 29d

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

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T.P. For Your Earholes: A Beavis and Butt-Head Podcast @tpforyourearholes.com · 28d

New episode today! We're diving deep into Cornholio, Beavis' alter ego and one of the show's most interesting developments. We explore why this manic dude who's only in a small handful of episodes is often what people think of first when they think of Beavis and Butt-head.

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Holl🌞 @willows-song.bsky.social · 29d

This explains it better than I can

Dave Portnoy tweet saying ‘absolutely disgusting and disturbing video from Charlie Kirk shooting today. Hoping for the best for him and his family. Anybody who is happy about this is a disgusting human.’

Pop Crave Tweet: ‘Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy says he hopes a missile hits Greta Thunberg’s boat as she sails away with aid: “I hope they hit a f*cking, like, a missile on her boat. Knock that boat down. Greta or whatever her name is”

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 29d

What a gross misrepresentation.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 29d

The best way to honor Charlie's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse. In a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate — never through violence.

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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 29d

Reminders for following a breaking news story like the shooting of Charlie Kirk in Utah ⤵️

⚠️ Bad actors & opportunists often use such moments when information is being gathered & fact-checked to recklessly push unverified claims & conspiracy theories.

🔗 Download the poster: bit.ly/BreakingNews...

Text-heavy and colorful infographic titled BREAKING NEWS CHECKLIST with
6 tips on "What to do when information is scarce, falsehoods are rampant
and the story is still unfolding" 1 Mind the gap: Keep in mind that
there’s often a gap between what the public wants to know and the verified
information available. Unconfirmed or completely bogus content often rushes in
to fill that gap. 2 Beware bad actors: Remember that bad actors often
capitalize on breaking news situations to spread falsehoods for easy likes and
shares. 3 Do a quick search: This is often your best defense against
misinformation. 4 Look for evidence: Claims that make bold assertions but
provide no links or other evidence should always be approached with caution. 5
Seek credible sources: Be intentional about looking for credible news and not
relying on social media algorithms to bring you updates. 6 Practice patience:
Quality journalism and verification take time. Be ready to follow news
developments over time.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29d

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

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