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Tatum Garnett @tatumgarnett.bsky.social · 1d

This is excellent news.

Scott (Rock & Roll Rabbit Hole on Takoma Radio) @herbivorous.bsky.social · 2d

So encouraging. From @emwhitenoise.bsky.social emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

Reports say Gen Z isn't discovering new artists. But college radio stations are overflowing with new DJs. As young listeners reject algorithms for analog—the industry should pay attention.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 2d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 6d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Tatum Garnett @tatumgarnett.bsky.social · 6d

I saw an article quoting an exec at an AI company saying "in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that's bringing those people to life."
Do they really see themselves as god-like, or are they just trolling us? Either way, there's serious psychosis afoot.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 6d

*takes massive bong rip*

hailey
@hailey.at • 6h
an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you'd agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing "dna" with "bits" doesn't make it ok
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i'm completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron
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@hailey.at • 6h
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 7d

Fantastic

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 7d

Buster Keaton by Roddy McDowall, 1965

"Keaton was doubtless the most unpretentious (perhaps even unconscious) Surrealist worthy of the name, & his movies shimmer with incongruous images which are both uproarious yet faintly disturbing."
- Stephen Harvey

Buster holds a picture of himself when he was about five or six, from the time he performed on stage with his parents in their family act, The Three Keatons.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 7d

Remembering Buster Keaton on his birthday 🎂
📷 George Hurrell, c. 1931

"Keaton’s face ranked almost with Lincoln’s as an early American archetype; it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful, yet it was also irreducibly funny."
- James Agee

A serious Keaton looks at the camera, as he peeks out between two doors.

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 8d

TGI(stfu)F. Learn the script.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 11d

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 13d

Portland doesn’t need the military. Portland has its own defenses.

The Unipiper, a Portland institution, shown here wearing utilikilt, coconut shell bra, and Darth Vader mask with brightly colored snorkel, while riding a unicycle and carrying a beach ball and, of course, trademark flaming bagpipes.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15d

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 20d

Baby if you expect people to quietly give up their rights and freedoms you didn't understand the first American Revolution

Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 FCC Chief Brendan Carr authored the chapter about the FCC for The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025.

Does Carr agree with his Heritage Foundation colleagues? Posted July 3, 2024:

"The Second American Revolution will remain bloodless if the Left allows it to be."

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Tatum Garnett @tatumgarnett.bsky.social · 21d

100% correct. Real journalists don't need no stinking badges.

Kristin Roth @kristinroth.bsky.social · 21d

It’s clear that press credentials no longer matter. Real journalism will now come from those who aren’t beholden to official government sources.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 22d

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Alt US Digital Service @altusds.altgov.info · 22d

Don't comply in advance.

We are watching people in fear trying to avoid pain by censoring themselves and changing their behavior before being compelled to.

Following rules of a group is pro-social behavior that is dangerous now. How can you resist this urge as a law-abiding citizen? A quick 🧵

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Tatum Garnett @tatumgarnett.bsky.social · 22d

Emily Gallagher is my state assemblywoman. Couldn't be more proud of her.

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 23d

here's a resource for if you've been doxxed. share widely docs.google.com/document/d/e...

What to do if you've been doxxed or placed on a watchlist - PUBLIC

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23d

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

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Tatum Garnett @tatumgarnett.bsky.social · 25d

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Daniel J. Willis (That’s already a scary name.) @bayareadata.press · 26d

“But I am also going to offer some context and some nuance about the death of George Floyd that no one dares to say out loud, which is that this guy was a scumbag.” -Charlie Kirk

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 26d

Fox News' Marc Thiessen, without a hint of irony: "Imagine if – we didn’t see this on the right, but imagine if after the George Floyd killing, people had gone on in saying he was a POS and that I’m glad he's dead... do you think anybody would have employed them ever again?!"

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 28d

Words can damage people and nations. Words can be DELIBERATELY CRAFTED to undermine and hurt an adversary in wars that run hot or cold. Militaries know that. Propagandists know it. Can we please not pretend that all rhetoric is the same? Some words are not harmless. wwnorton.com/books/978039...

Stories Are Weapons

A Book Riot Best Book of 2024 One of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Politics/Current Events books of Spring 2024 A sharp and timely exploration of the dark art o...

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Tatum Garnett @tatumgarnett.bsky.social · 28d

Pretty much nothing makes me laugh these days. Except this.

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Login • Instagram

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · Sep 11

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others?

David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC.

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Law enforcement officers remember police officer killed in CDC shooting in Atlanta

Weeks after David Rose was killed while responding to a shooting this month at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, officers are remembering the DeKalb County police officer as a courageous leader who pri...

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