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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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James 🎃 Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 2h

One film photo of a sign each day, all month.

11. Minolta SRT202, Cosina 24mm f/2.8, Kodak Ultramax 400. College Street.

An old store front of a jewelry and fine clothing store, dark after hours; above it, in script-style lettering, Liberal; below it in type, Est. 1970

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 9h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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James 🎃 Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 12h

Hello to Nova Scotia

James standing in the morning light with a branch of Bras d’Or Lake and fall hills behind him at Whycocomagh, Cape Breton Island

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 21h

In grade 7 I read a book about this

It was the diary of the girl in hiding

It wrecked me

And then I read Miep Gies book and knew that at least some people knew good from bad

Wish there were more of them right now

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 23h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

We've all heard that there is no free lunch.

Well, guess what?

There is no free 747 either.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

ICE Raids: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/ice-raids-myth-vs-fact/

MYTH: My grandmother was deported to El Salvador.

FACT: No one really knows where she was deported to.

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James 🎃 Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 1d

Yup!

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James 🎃 Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 1d

The kid can play a mandolin!

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James 🎃 Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 1d

Hello, Cape Breton

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James 🎃 Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 1d

In the beguining, …

James 🎃 Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 2d

Look out: That wiley big guy’ll beguile you. He may seem like a colporteur for the jubilee, but begone, you, or you’ll get a bee in your bonnet it for him; it may seem a mere crush, but it won’t be so benign… 1/18

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James 🎃 Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 1d

One film photo of a sign each day, all month.

10. Leitz Minolta (Leica) CL, Kodak Ultramax 400. The Anarchist, Jarvis Street (establishment no longer in business).

Inside of an espresso bar. Partly obscured by a red chair and very small round table are signs on the front below the counter, one that says IT IS TIME TO TAKE ACTION and the next one, with a cartoon of a person at a desk with a computer, that says YOUR JOB IS KILLING (the last word, TIME, is not visible, as the back of the chair is in front of it). Other signs and posters are here and there.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

i’ll never get over this

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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 2d

And scene.

Ontario hospitals will be "rescued" by private capita, as intended.

Mob Hospital has brought in customer service consultants, and cabinet is invested in the healthcare precinct.

UHN has space for your health insurance info on the new ID bracelets.

The bust out reaches its conclusion.

Cbc News headline: Ontario hospitals say they have $1B in funding needs

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

We could have replaced actual football games with AI players on a simulated field a LONG time ago - we could have pulled this off by simply televising people playing Madden even before that.

Imagine the money executives would save!

How mysterious that this never took off.

Peace, Truth, Science @mrchompchomp.bsky.social · 2d

Analogy: Imagine a robot could play really good golf. Would you watch? Maybe as a curiosity. Would you want it competing against humans? Ofc not. Now imagine the robot played good golf sometimes but sometimes threw all its clubs off a cliff. That’s gen AI doing art. Misses the point & also sucks.

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John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social · 2d

At the In Formation website, the 1st printing is sold out. It's now on sale at Barnes & Noble but several stores have sold out. I'm expecting a 2nd printing to be announced, but can't say for sure. I have a few copies left for sale. I don't expect them to last long. buymeacoffee.com/johnsundman/...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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James 🎃 Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 2d

One film photo of a sign each day, all month.

9. Canon 7, Canon 50mm f/1.4, Fujifilm 400. Bloor Street, Toronto.

A professionally hand-painted sign for Sorrento Hair Stylist above a full-neight window front, with a faded photo of a woman in the window just below it. The salon behind is dark, as it is after hours.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 3d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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James 🎃 Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 2d

Kinda funny, I wrote some papers with all-nighters in junior high school, and after that I never. did. again. In undergrad once I almost had a nervous when I wasn't done an essay four weeks before due. I am now anxiety-driven observant of deadlines. I do not miss them. ever. Usually I'm done early.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2d

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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