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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

Yiiiiiiiiikes 😬

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 6h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11h

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 13h

i think the fundamental disconnect here, and i say this as an engineer without much creative talent, is that a lot of people who don't do creative things regularly (or ever) look at creative output (writing, music, whatever) as a product, and consume and experience it like a baby looking at a mobile

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

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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Trump Litigation Updates @trumplitigation.lawfaremedia.org · 1d

NEW: A federal judge in Illinois has granted a temporary retraining order which prevents federal agents from using force against journalists. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

1. It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,1 their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as “Federal Agents”), are temporarily
ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
a. Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless
Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.
Defendants may order a Journalist to change location to avoid disrupting law enforcement,

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 1d

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 1d

In particular, we must be wary of "new" proposals that allow scanning of "known content" while claiming to protect privacy by proscribing "indiscriminate" surveillance. We must also look out for those that mandate only scanning for “hashed images or videos.” 4/

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 1d

Good

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

Sources: Disney has opted out of having its IP appear in OpenAI's Sora app; CAA says OpenAI is exposing artists to "significant risk" with Sora (Mrinmay Dey/Reuters)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 3d

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 1d

The discrepancy in "must-have qualifications" is particularly interesting. The liberal expert must have "comfort engaging with complex political content" while the conservative expert must have "comfort with ideologically diverse material."

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 1d

Very interesting job ad, for a Peter Thiel-backed company, that involves trying to make sure AI models serve liberal users with liberal perspectives (and yes, there is an equivalent ad for a "conservative politics expert") www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/...

LinkedIn job ad for a "liberal politics expert" to work for Mercor in Germany

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 1d

I'm looking at a Temu ad where they've basically melded the head of a nine-year-old girl with the body of a woman in a swimsuit, and I'm just like, what has happened to this world

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Megan Gray @megangray.bsky.social · 1d

Police arrest man based on his ChatGPT prompts. Did they issue a warrant to OpenAI, did company give notice to the accused? How was the prompt “found?”

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 2d

This week's TGR is about AI's limits - please share with anyone who needs reminding! youtu.be/UNCG52ZcMKo?...

3 Things NOT to Expect from AI

YouTube video by Tech Gets Real

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 2d

Fabulous news!

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 2d

See this?

This story is the sound of a bullet you didn’t even know was coming at you whistling past your right ear.

Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 2d

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
therecord.media/chat-control...

Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU

“Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...

therecord.media

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 2d

Yup. I’ll be offloading my Squier Jag now - one in, one out, and I only need one shortscale. This is also my first guitar with a 7.25” fretboard radius, and so far so good!

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 2d

And it plays so beautifully

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 2d

Why yes I did buy a guitar today

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

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.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

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

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2d

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 2d

Alt-text:

A four-panel "expanding brain" meme illustrates increasingly complex takes on the classic gold rush investment metaphor.

Top panel (smallest brain, dark blue glow):
Text: “IN A GOLD RUSH, YOU WANT TO SELL SHOVELS.”
(The basic business wisdom: sell tools to prospectors instead of mining for gold yourself.)

Second panel (brain lit up with neon circuits):
Text: “BUT ONCE YOU'VE SOLD ENOUGH SHOVELS, YOU REINVEST THAT MONEY IN TRAINS.”
(Next-level strategy: use profits from tools to invest in infrastructure.)

Third panel (brain glowing pink, more connections):
Text: “TRAINS BRING MORE PROSPECTORS, WHO GET DISCOUNTED TICKETS IF THEY BUY YOUR SHOVEL ON BOARD.”
(Synergistic thinking: integrate transport and tools to fuel demand.)

Bottom panel (exploding cosmic brain, radiating lines):
Text: “ENTIRE WORLD ECONOMY IS TRAINS AND SHOVELS.”
(Editorial suggestion from the chatbot: OR POSSIBLY PAPERCLIPS.)

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4d

100% done with AI

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 5d

Reform UK’s Councillor Dave Poole has put out this bizarre graphic littered with spelling errors.

Our favourite part is where it says Reform UK keeps being called the ‘fat right’.

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David Meyer @superglaze.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, Meta AI, you insensitive clod

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