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TheBOOstroso (RE-Animated WTYP) @themaestroso.bsky.social · 1h

The average journo apparently needs to take classes on digital literacy and critical thinking, because I’m suddenly seeing them sharing obviously fake videos as real

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17h

A rat ran across the table at Al Jazeera during a broadcast 🐀 😬

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2h

Remember, this is how much it has cooked people’s brains after like one year. Think of what 10 years of this will do. Think of the brains of kids who will grow up not only unable to spot AI but unable to understand “real” and “AI generated” as two different concepts.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 4h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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VoidBurger 𝑓 (AKA Jess) @voidburger.com · 8h

Feels like Del Toro is like, the only guy out there rn that really appreciates the artisanship of "dying" media enough to *do anything about it* and foster/incentivize people to keep it alive. Never die please i love you Guillermo 😭

Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.social · 16h

Guillermo del Toro and Netflix have announced plans to form a new stop motion studio that will be both a studio and a school to push the medium forward and will develop plans to make Del Toro's next stop motion project after Pinocchio. I'm very hyped to see what this leads to!

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 12h

Oh fuck you turning off comments this is AI generated the windows on the building arent even consistent

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 2d

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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TheBOOstroso (RE-Animated WTYP) @themaestroso.bsky.social · 1d

The only good Tron sequel:

Screenshot from Kingdom Hearts 2 in the Tron-inspired world, The Grid; pictured are Goofy, Donald, and Sora in classic Tron costumes, glowing lines and all, with Tron himself in the background, all readying their weapons to fight

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TheBOOstroso (RE-Animated WTYP) @themaestroso.bsky.social · 1d

Is AI Shapiro admitting to his own “writing” habits here?

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

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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🔴 LIVE | BlueBirdBreeze 💖🏳️‍⚧️ @bluebirdbreeze.bsky.social · 2d

Do not watch the HBO series.
Do not buy wizard game (2).

I usually don't judge too much, I get that not everyone is fully in the loop for everything. If you support JKR now, we are done.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 2d

a fascinating writeup on the making of a set of widely distributed IDF propaganda videos, specifically identifying assets they used. there's something incredibly unsettling about the creative ethos here. stolen assets. no actual intelligence information at all. just hubris and pure fabrication.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

Others assets came from scans made by the Scottish Maritime Museum of their boat-building workshop which was downloaded (via @sketchfab.bsky.social) and reimagined by the IDF adornments for underground missile factories.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when the head of the cop union in Chicago promised "800-1000" cops would quit if Brandon Johnson won and it was actually six, all of whom were "quitting" by taking a lucrative early retirement.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

The essence of Bari Weiss: not reporting, but crude partisan propaganda presented in the form of reporting—and usually pronounced from the mouths of anonymous sources which likely don't exist. Expect this sort of prolefeed at CBS News soon.

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TheBOOstroso (RE-Animated WTYP) @themaestroso.bsky.social · 2d

This further solidifies my choice to not buy any Ubisoft games since like…Unity, I think?

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TheBOOstroso (RE-Animated WTYP) @themaestroso.bsky.social · 2d

And grass is green

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 2d

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 2d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 2d

BREAKING: Burger King workers are on strike in Oakland due to pregnancy discrimination.

The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵

#UnionsForAll

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

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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TheBOOstroso (RE-Animated WTYP) @themaestroso.bsky.social · 3d

Snake: I can’t believe it, Pullman. You should’ve seen this loaf. It was…truly awful.
Pullman: So it’s true then. The right bastard…
S: I almost threw up trying to eat it. How could someone make something so diabolical?
P: *sigh* I suppose I should tell you the story; the truth about…

Soggy Bottom.

First image, above: A screenshot of a skeet from Emma Kidwell saying “hideo kojima ass bread” about a picture of a bread display at a Japanese shop with the label “White Pullman” in English above Japanese text.
Second image, below: a closeup image of Paul Hollywood, a middle-aged man from Liverpool with bright blue eyes and white hair and a short beard, known for being one of the judges on The Great British Bake-Off/Baking Show

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 3d

Minimum demands from here on:
- Abolish ICE immediately
- Prosecute and jail all ICE leaders nationwide, and any ICE goon who can be proven to have violated the Constitution
- Prosecute and jail all Trump administration officials responsible, inc. Cabinet level
- Abolish Dept of Homeland Security

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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TheBOOstroso (RE-Animated WTYP) @themaestroso.bsky.social · 3d

Snake: I can’t believe it, Pullman. You should’ve seen this loaf. It was…truly awful.
Pullman: So it’s true then. The right bastard…
S: I almost threw up trying to eat it. How could someone make something so diabolical?
P: *sigh* I suppose I should tell you the story; the truth about…

Soggy Bottom.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 4d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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404 Media @404media.co · 4d

NEW: Cops in Texas told 404 Media in May they used Flock to find a woman who self-administered an abortion out of concern for her safety.

Documents now show police were conducting a “death investigation” and discussed whether they could charge her with a crime: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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TheBOOstroso (RE-Animated WTYP) @themaestroso.bsky.social · 3d

Clearly it’s all about the clothes for him. After all, he leaves everything to the imagination