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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 2h

Would be accompanied by slowpoke.png in some traditions

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Ravishing Rick Ruud van Nistelroy @astroscounty.bsky.social · 1d

Drake:

Hi, grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it’s over. no, i lost. he saw u drop me off & did a pretty devastating rhyme about it

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

has anyone lost a rap battle as thoroughly as drake www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

Drake lost the rap battle with Kendrick Lamar, judge rules

Judge Jeannette A. Vargas dismissed Drake’s defamation claim against Kendrick Lamar for “Not Like Us,” a song that “contains lyrics explicitly accusing Drake of being a pedophile, set to a catchy beat...

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Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 6d

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is Now Playing at the Music Box, presented in 70MM!

Showtimes & Tickets: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 2d

When everyone is being told that the answer to any question is one prompt away, even this becomes a tricky thing to explain

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 2d

"Why are we wasting time learning this and not something useful like how to do your taxes" god shut up you don't actually want to do your taxes. You want to be told you don't have to do your taxes by a guy wearing sunglasses

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 2d

This is what's happening when a Rogan-type or a grifter of any level unearths or presents some piece of pseudoscience or misinformation that just so happens to comport with their goals and worldview. All knowledge is gained only for the furtherance of themselves, if not, punt it, waste of my time

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 2d

not breaking new ground with this observation but I think the high schooler canard of "Why am I learning X if I'm never gonna use it in real life" has become an extremely successful piece of rhetoric & is being affirmed by the algorithmic media landscape, hustle culture, the influencer industry, etc

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · 2d

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 3d

Is search broken

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merritt @merrittk.com · 3d

mechsploitation this, mechsploitation that. we must retvrn to the original mecha

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 4d

Coulda got 8, alas.
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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 4d

oh fuck Shaw I hope we lose now

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

you know this guy had to have made a huge number of enemies for oklahoma republicans to want to take him down (serves him right, he sucks)

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7d

Serious question: has the Fed govt ever arrested so many elected officials in such a short period of time, across multiple cities, and not for legit corruption reasons?

This seems like a distinct degree of anti-democratic escalation.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 8d

the Brainiac origin in Absolute Superman just became one of my very favorite things

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 8d

Read some summary saying Absolute Superman is good if you're a Snyder fan but that feels definitely off the mark

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 8d

learn to pitch frame or stay broke

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 8d

That is one of the strike calls of all time...

This decision turned a walk into a strikeout for Xander Bogaerts in the 9th inning 😬

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Ross @wochie.bsky.social · 10d

Relevant www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg29...

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10d

I don't understand not knowing what your role is as a writer right now, I really don't. To me it's never been clearer.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10d

Short passage captures so much so lucidly. Gurri’s point captures the essence of what was missing in Klein’s Biden age stuff. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 11d

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?"

GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

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