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Ovis Ex Machina

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I get paid for engineering so I can lose money doing photography. Opinions probably aren't my own but I couldn't tell you precisely where I got them from. Grateful to hug my wife and kids every day.

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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · Jan 18

The #architecture at the #seattleferryterminal goes so unnecessarily hard and I love it!

#photography #blackandwhite #streetphotography

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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 10h

Pretty happy with this one. The wrens seemed closer than normal, almost comfortable with me being nearby. This one came within a few feet of me and stayed close for a while, even holding still long enough for a decent shot in the low early morning light.

#birds #photography

Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 1d

A male northern harrier whose grey plumage is still coming along flew close by as it was hunting this evening.

#birds #photography

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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 1d

From last April. Have you ever seen two birds more excited about a stick?

#birds #photography

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2d

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 3d

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

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GO 🇵🇷🚴‍♂️👨‍💻📱🤖 @gostack.bsky.social · 3d

The AI giants are constantly telling on themselves by saying they will eliminate jobs and become trillion dollar companies.

Who are you saving? Who are you enriching? What is being done to improve the world?

They never answer these questions because they don't think they have to.

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 3d

This isn't a "why can't we all get along" kumbaya moment. Its a moment to understand all the ways in which the people who created OpenAI, Anthropic etc claiming that their machine god will bring utopia, are the actual "existential risks" to humanity.

Raising billions of dollars to "save humanity."

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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 3d

Is there a good case for allowing corporations to own single family homes?

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Real estate investors now own about 20% of single-family homes in the country.

A big reason why home prices have skyrocketed in recent years is a lack of supply — and investors sinking their teeth into whatever is left on the market is making the problem even worse.

How Wall Street Priced You Out of a Home | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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🦋🕊️🦋GinLy47 @ginly47.bsky.social · 3d

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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 3d

Lol that's a funny way of saying Disney chooses to assert their legal ownership of their own copyrights.

Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 5d

Well you don't have to because most of our row crops go to exports or industrial use. We import most of our cereal grains and vegetables. All it takes is our farming infrastructure to weaken just a little bit and two central and south American countries to deny us and we starve.

Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 5d

Like manufacturing, farming is not something you can just do wherever you want. You need massive amounts of infrastructure to do it efficiently at scale. And just like how it's a national security risk to offshore so much of one, imagine having no internal food supply for 330M people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d

Soybean Farmer: So now I've got a tariff war that's killing my market. I don't have any money from grain we're sending to other countries for USAID. I mean, I've got a compound problem. I don't know how you plan for next year because we don't know where we're at.

Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 5d

This is such a predictable and simultaneously blatantly corrupt choice.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, was appointed to a senior DHS position in which she’ll help oversee election security.

“DHS now appears poised to become a primary amplifier of false election conspiracies pushed by our enemies,” one expert said.

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.

Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

www.propublica.org

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 6d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

Former FCC Chair Wheeler: An autocrat's favorite tool is a monopoly on telling the story. And if you can control the people who tell that story, then you've got an autocrat's greatest dream.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 7d

People keep endlessly falling for this idea that if they can just finally prove once and for all that Trump is a bad person, his voters will turn their back on him and it'll all be over. It's not even remotely close to reality and should have been clear as day the second he got elected back in 2016.

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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 8d

Better than teacher salary in one of the richest districts in Washington State. Wild.

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Alex Nelson @alxnelson.bsky.social · 8d

Roseate spoonbills will splash their wings through the water as part of their beauty routine. Here's one doing so mid-splash, facing straight ahead towards the camera. I really love this shot. #birds

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8d

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10d

At the risk of hyperbole these really may be the most horrible people to ever live.

istanbulshiite.bsky.social @istanbulshiite.bsky.social · 10d

DHS posted a sizzle reel about it.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10d

BREAKING: Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” More billionaires bending the knee.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 10d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 10d

He’s the reason why languages need words like “ghoul”.

Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 11d

It's almost like the reason they want to delay regulations is to exhaust the statute of limitations.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 11d

OpenAI's Sora 2 openly features copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips of SpongeBob, Pikachu, and Mario (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

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