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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 1d

I see the main downside is they will likely be enshittification accelerants. But they're not unique in that aspect.

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 1d

It's always people who don't use their names too. Like it's some kind of weakness that they want to exploit

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 2d

two men are standing next to each other with the words whaaaaat in purple letters

Alt: Daveed Diggs as Thomas Jefferson saying "WHAAAAAAT"

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 2d

A big part of this I think is bands don't make as much money off album sales/streaming anymore so they really focus on milking live performance for as much as possible

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 2d

Lol ok.

Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 3d

The question is very simple. What did you mean by saying his comment was "masturbatory"

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 3d

(handed out candy last night, Hank Green thinks I'm elderly...)

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 4d

Scott no

Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 4d

That's... Really strange! They just throw surprise propositions at you and you have to decide on the spot?

Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 4d

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 5d

Is this being talked about widely in mainstream media? Or just in certain segments mostly online?

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 5d

Power, ground, and uh... Everything else

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 6d

I didn't realize forcing women to cover up was a power the mayor of new york had

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 6d

What "brutal enforcement" did Harris threaten against people in El Salvador or Guatemala?

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 6d

Sure but this is also a post-scarcity society where artists don't have to worry about income. And how do you know the holodeck databank isn't based only on properly-licensed works used with permission? I think Picard would have a problem with plagiarism so why not a plagiarism machine?

President Goku 🌐 @presidentgoku.bsky.social · 6d

my favorite artifact of this is r/startrek convincing itself that Picard would hate AI, as if the predominant digital media in-universe isn't created by telling a computer to make exactly what you want with absolutely zero ethical restrictions

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 6d

How long until he's grifting in some right-wing-adjacent space

Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks, didn't realize most of these articles were quoting you :)

It would be useful to have some kind of detailed response to the memo itself that explains where Gates' arguments fall short, because at face value it reads as pretty reasonable

Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 7d

Have you read the memo? bsky.app/profile/tznk...

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 7d

‪*sigh* Now I have to read a 17 page memo since apparently others won't.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 7d

Our elites are omnicidal.

www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 7d

Abundance of what?? Ballroom floorspace??

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 7d

No one actually knows what "first cousin once removed" means and yet

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