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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 1h

My publisher, Tachyon Publications, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. To celebrate, myself and a bunch of Tachyon authors did some short readings of our books. I'm around the 32 minute mark, but listen to all of it if you've time--they're all great!

youtu.be/gVaU9F1OtBg?...

Tachyon's 30th Anniverary Reading and Q&A

YouTube video by CSECooney

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 1h

Hey, I've hit a 1000 followers!

This is how it works, right? I get 1-2 followers every couple days or so until I have 50K, right?

(looks at other randome, non-famous people's profiles with 70K)
What the...hell?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 3h

sooner or later we are going to have to get to grips with cognitive decline, and start taking seriously the idea that lots of old people need as much or more protection young people, in both cases whether they want it or not.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 3h

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 12h

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 6h

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 7h

When a law enforcement officer aims a weapon at someone wielding a camera, it is procedurally unsound and unprofessional in two fundamental ways:
1) It is disproportional to any actual threat and is instead an unprovoked threat against a citizen.
2) The officer is a crazed, untrained asshole.

Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 20h

Call me a libtard but this doesn't seem like something that should be happening in the United States of America.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 11h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 11h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 7h

Also Games Workshop Is worth a lot

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 11h

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 11h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 9h

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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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 9h

I think there's a lot of truth in this.

You have a few stubborn mules like Larry Kudlow, still insisting against all evidence that trickle-down economics actually works.

The rest of them move further right, because admitting the left might have had a point is inconceivable.

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 12h

This is my basic theory for a lot of what is going on with the centre right atm

The ideas failed utterly and now there is a total crisis of intellectual confidence

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 2d

It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 19h

Here’s video of the incident

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 9h

Sweet! No downside!

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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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 19h

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, cool! I loved Hench!

Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 1d

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 1d

Social media post by Josh Crowley (sp?): If I build a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 1d

everybody knows a direct confrontation is necessary and inevitable and nobody wants to admit it out loud, as if avoiding saying it will prevent it from being true

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

The old Concorde joke was:

Fly British Airways! Breakfast in London. Dinner in New York. Luggage in Bombay.

Looking forward to a new version of that for the first airline that "uses AI" to manage luggage.

Seth Miller @wandrme.paxex.aero · 1d

"We won't even think about luggage. It will just get there."

One of the many questionable claims about how AI will change the travel world here at #AviationFest this morning.

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 1d

Hey look, it's that article written by people trying to kill me. Comes around every so often.

Anything to keep dudes driving their massive stupid pickups around the city.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 1d

Actually it did begin with a parade of tanks

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The militarization of American cities isn’t happening with a parade of tanks. It’s a slow drip of troop deployments that are probing courts’ willingness to give unlimited deference to the commander in chief — and testing workarounds when they don’t.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

👇🎯 This is how governing works in literally every actual democracy around the world. If you don’t have the votes, it’s up to you to make concessions to the minority parties. It’s not their job to save you from your responsibility to govern by giving you things you don’t have the votes for already.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

I would rather put in the newspaper that I had several different STDs than admit this

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d

“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man

Tweet from Daily Mail Celebrity @DailyMailCeleb
How Nicole Kidman's 'bottomless need for sexual attention' led to the end of her marriage to country music star Keith Urban: Nashville insiders open up to
ALISON BOSHOFF

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

I used to get a chuckle out of the Third Amendment, ha ha what quaint 18th century tricornered hat problems to have, not so much anymore

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

area dort unaware of the fact that the founders didn't *want* soldiers in the streets

I never thought I’d live to see the day when some Americans would recoil at the sight of Soldiers guarding them.

All seemed to be well when the National Guard was in bareknuckle brawls during GWOT though.

Do you know how weird it was for us on active duty seeing them there? With us? Fighting?

I always wondered how we got to that point. Where the Guard of a state was fighting off ambushes in some foreign land.

Now they get to guard their own neighbors. Their own countrymen.

But those same Americans would shed a tear seeing those Guardsmen come home in caskets from a war nobody cared about.

Further proof that for some Americans and the media, they only love Soldiers when they’re dead.

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U.S. century of BOO-miliation! @johnperich.com · Aug 22

*camera pans slowly over rooftops of St Canard*

Hi! I'm Darkwing Duck. You may remember me as "the terror that flaps in the night" from The Disney Afternoon. But today, I'm here to talk about a REAL terror: family court. Did you know that fewer than one-third of all fathers receive custody of their

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 2d

If you're still pursuing a creative outlet alongside a more mundane day job, don't give up on it. It may not get you anywhere, but you'll have some good memories and a sense of satisfaction that money can't buy.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for thinking of me!

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