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Rens @shadur.bsky.social · 2h

Fascist middle-aged jackboot fetishists deemed too dumb or in too poor physical condition for even the cops to want to take them.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2h

Yes. YES!!! www.teenvogue.com/story/celebr...

Sabrina Carpenter, Doechii, Finneas, & More Speak Out Against ICE Raids

Here are the celebrities who have spoken out against Trump's mass deportations.

www.teenvogue.com

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 7h

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre

Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast)

Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

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Rens @shadur.bsky.social · 20h

Also, "perceived discipline, loyalty and efficiency" is the right way to put it because like every other fascist regime in history they were good at pretending to be all three but absolute shite at actually *being* any of them.

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Rens @shadur.bsky.social · 20h

Not so much "amazing" as "potentially alarming, why do so many soldiers think it's cool or edgy to have tattoos associated with one group almost every sane human being on this planet correctly defines as 'pure evil' ?"

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23h

man, if I had been caught wearing a Nazi tattoo and lying about my knowledge of it for 18 years, I might experience something called "shame," but I'm not an upper class failson pretending to be a working class hero.

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Rens @shadur.bsky.social · 20h

He didn't remove it, he overwrote it with a norse mythology brand and hopes nobody spots the dogwhistle.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

My comment to the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs about today's Pentagon announcement. —>

Chris "Law Dork" Geidner & @chrisgeidner
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I covered "don't ask, don't tell," as well as its eventual end, asking questions of Pentagon officials that they would have rather I hadn't asked. Never can I imagine such an embarrassing failure to consider the public interest — or the First Amendment — during my time doing so.

Sean Parnell v C@SeanParnellASW • 5h
Today, the Department of War is announcing the next generation of the Pentagon press corps.
We are excited to announce over 60 journalists, representing a broad spectrum of new media outlets and independent journalists, have signed the Pentagon'...

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Rens @shadur.bsky.social · 1d

Or asked chatgpt to come up with it.

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Patrick 🗽 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 ⚖️ @patrickjk.bsky.social · 1d

UVA agrees to reimpose segregation.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 1d

The ICE motherfuckers are doing such a great job of demonizing themselves, they don't need any help from Democrats.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 3d

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Monday criticized the media and politicians, including Gov. JB Pritzker, for “trying to demonize” federal immigration agents and she urged citizens to thank law enforcement officers and “cook a meal for their families.”

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem accuses Gov. JB Pritzker and media of ‘trying to demonize’ immigration officers

Speaking in Florida, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticized Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the media, and she urged citizens to thank law enforcement officers and “cook the…

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Rens @shadur.bsky.social · 1d

Gortash, on the other hand, had *everything* -- wealth, privilege, influence -- and betrayed everyone who ever trusted him just to make himself more powerful and can't even be bothered to regret it.

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Rens @shadur.bsky.social · 1d

Orrin is a sadistic psychopath, but learning her backstory makes it clear she was pushed down that path by an abusive cult. Yeah, she needs to be put down like a rabid dog but you can feel sorry for the person she was and wonder if she'd have had a happier outcome if she'd had people who cared. 2/3

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Rens @shadur.bsky.social · 1d

Out of the Three, I hate this colossal asshole the most.

Thorm's actions were unjustifiable but at least his motivations can be understood -- grief leading to making terrible choices is not uncommon.

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Rens @shadur.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, keeping your ears plugged and going LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU is hard work.

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Has that Lyle guy left yet because I have follow-up questions

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 2d

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone who has Siri or Alexa or Gemini on should turn them off like yesterday.

Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 3d

“Apple contractors regularly hear confidential medical information, drug deals, and recordings of couples having sex, as part of their job providing quality control, or “grading”, the company’s Siri voice assistant, the Guardian has learned”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Apple contractors 'regularly hear confidential details' on Siri recordings

Workers hear drug deals, medical details and people having sex, says whistleblower

www.theguardian.com

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Rens @shadur.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, given that all the dystopian hellscapes of what Republicans keep telling us "socialism" will lead to are actively happening in capitalist economies, I'm willing to see what automated socialism would actually look like.

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Rens @shadur.bsky.social · 3d

That last one is easy to explain -- they're imagining (or being told by Altman) that if they can just make their overhyped Clippy "good enough" they'll be able to replace three quarters of their workforce with an AI that doesn't sleep, doesn't take time off and doesn't complain about wages.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 4d

Thought for the day:

MBA graduates are the Commissars of Capitalism.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 4d

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 5d

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”

Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

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Dave Mueller @dave-mueller.bsky.social · 4d

And I 100% knew why: "Developers ended up spending a lot of time checking and redoing the code that AI systems had produced—often more time than it would have taken to simply write it themselves." It's hard enough to troubleshoot, but to find a problem when you didn't write the logic behind it?

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Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 4d

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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David Mullin @rdmullin.bsky.social · 4d

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

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SpiffySmallSound @doublecollusion.bsky.social · 5d

Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff

Block, move on.

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