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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 1h

There were Popes and there were anti-popes. We have an anti-court

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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 2h

Trump vs. US was the final straw imo. You cannot read that ruling and continue believing they have legitimacy. It is not only against the plain text of the constitution, it is anathema to the national ethos. It is offensively, insultingly un-American and they ceded legitimacy by committing that sin.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5h

I think people seriously underestimate what it means to say that the Supreme Court is “illegitimate”, and what the consequences of saying it (and meaning it) are.

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 2h

"...and I happen to like some of his judicial nominees.”

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 2h

I just love that this is leaking *immediately*

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 5h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2h

i have never seen an AI agent-based solution to anything which actually works

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 2h

My mom was an editor. I grew up around this. I am absolutely convinced that a writer who fights their editor isn't writing, they're just larping.

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 2h

This is correct and I will die on this reef

Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 3h

I support free speech, but I also think Bluesky should ban anyone that says eating the lower half of a mermaid is not cannibalism

I don’t care if genetically it’s fish flesh not human, in my book it still counts as cannibalism and I expect this platform to uphold that fact

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 2h

I can see the obvious economic problem here.

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 3h

I suspect he’s right. If consumer is synonymous with audience when it comes to his work then yeah, they probably don’t care.

I also suspect that Martin Scorsese, for example, has never referred to his audiences as consumers, and if someone else did he’d probably spit.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 7h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 5h

Texas has messed with the don't mess treaty

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 6h

Also fuck you Texas for doing this, invading another state with armed troops; lone star Republic my ass

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 5h

Well, that's a definately problem for a lot of people

Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein’s girls. Here’s what’s in them - @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 5h

Same, I'm always glad when I get flagged

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 6h

Anytime - I always appreciate a stickler for detail, source, and fact 🫡

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 7h

I hope she didn't have a dog

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 10h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 8h

We all have priorities

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15h

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Hunter Harris ᯅ Vision Pro @hunter-spatial.bsky.social · 10h

Who wants to beta test a multiplayer drone battle game for Apple Vision Pro? Cross-device multiplayer, play with Vision Pro or iPhone using AR camera.

Real multiplayer for Vision Pro, not just SharePlay.

Comment and I’ll dm TestFlight link for very early build.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 9h

kinda wild how we're leaping straight to late Ceausescu

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 9h

also these motherfuckers are so dumb they'd make a PB&J with napalm and cut it with an arc welder

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 8h

I'm sorry but this is good content

soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 9h

love your work mrs theranos but how do you walk into this

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SimpleTwig @simpletwig.bsky.social · 9h

Uruguay has reached 98% renewable energy sources in just 20 years, investing the $1.2 trillion they used for oil subsidies into their projects, which included retraining programs. They have effectively weened themselves off the oil pacifier.

With lower demand, gasoline prices have dropped.

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 8h

San Rafael

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 8h

(checks label) you know...our democracy may not be as advanced as we think

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

this is a program of national immiseration unlike any other in the history of advanced democracies

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 17h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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