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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 15h

Jim Lee openly disparaging AI in no way guarantees anything, no one knows what the future of AI is and no one knows who will be in charge at DC Comics down the line. But I think it's important that a popular artist publicly shot AI down. Fans and artists ignorant of or using AI need to hear this.

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Dan Bednarski @danb.missdream.org · 18h

Did we obtain an issue of Nakayoshi magazine just for these drawings that take up less than a quarter of a single page? Yes

Advertisement page in the Nakayoshi June 2004 issue of the 2nd edition Sailor Moon manga, and merchandise for the live action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon series. Drawings by Naoko Takeuchi of Sailor Luna are also on this page.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 1d

Taylor Swift does physical airgap network segregation. You work in cybersecurity and sext your followers on Discord.

Who is the real professional here?

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Kaelan Ramos @kaelanramos.bsky.social · 5d

I was disappointed with Obama's presidential terms. Didn't live up to the hype and he could've fought harder for the people who believed in him; however, he's literally the only president in my adult life who was well-respected among the rest of the world. Everyone else has been a walking punchline.

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18d

In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.

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Gespenst @ Home @callgespenst.bsky.social · 6d

I think the biggest difference between The Internet Then and The Internet Now is how Being Mad Online used to be the one thing you could never admit to, under pain of death, and now, Being Mad Online is a whole career path with a skill tree and an ever-expanding variety of debuffs.

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Settei Dreams @setteidreams.bsky.social · 6d

Some new Sailor Moon postcard scans!

#SailorMoon #anime

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Brady Hartel @ashuraou.bsky.social · 6d

The race to be edgy and memetic to secure clicks (and stay in business I suppose) has eroded almost all journalism to the point a lot of it has become unreadable at best or ai slop at worst.

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 8d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Paulina Ganucheau @paulinaganucheau.bsky.social · 7d

💀

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9d

i'm sorry, the funds will go towards what?

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING

YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle the lawsuit brought by President Trump against the company for suspending his account.

Most of the funds will go towards the fund the president setup for the White House ballroom.

Full Story: on.wsj.com/46IT4P1

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 10d

tired: it's always DNS

inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 12d

Well, that sounds like a THEM problem.

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 13d

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market.

Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers.

How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.

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Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 12d

Me be like

"C'mon, collapse" meme but pointing at a group of logos of well known AI companies in the shape of a butt

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Kaelan Ramos @kaelanramos.bsky.social · 15d

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Jeff Harris @nemalki.bsky.social · 15d

Hey look. While you were distracted by the dangling keys, Disney raised the price of their streaming platforms.

Again.

TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 15d

It's happening: A long-expected annual price hike at Disney+, Hulu, and Hulu with Live TV will kick in next month. Bad timing, but follows recent patterns + industry trends. Details from @ericvb.bsky.social up first at @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/disn...

Disney Sure Picked a Great Week for a Big Streaming Price Hike

www.vulture.com

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boo. 🎃 @sailorsoapbox.bsky.social · 15d

Took me a while to post these, but some 600DPI scans of ADV's Sailor Moon box set & the PC-Engine game are now available on my website:

sailorsoapbox.com/scans-adv-sa...

sailorsoapbox.com/scans-pc-eng...

Scans: ADV Sailor Moon Classic Box Set

600 DPI scans of ADV’s DVD box set of Sailor Moon’s first season

sailorsoapbox.com

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Jeremy Parish, imperial aerosol kid @jparish.bsky.social · 16d

DID YOU KNOW: the R.O.B. amiibo works with four times as many games as the actual R.O.B. does

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 16d

R.O.B. amiibo is $5.99 at GameStop buff.ly/TaFQgXE #ad

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meg 🦋 @studentofsound.bsky.social · 19d

i’d rather be watching a company with an incredibly awkward nerdy owner who people think does coke than the company with a sex trafficking lawsuit, ring boy sexual abuse case, 7 ICE commercials during NXT, mania in saudi, and a performance center that could double as a qanon recruitment territory.

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Miss Dream @missdream.org · 20d

Introducing the Miss Dream Discord

Thanks to the efforts of ShiningVenus, I am pleased to announce that we now have a Discord server! Please join us for discussions of all things Sailor Moon or about the site itself. We are also planning to host karaoke sessions via this server in the future, so…

Introducing the Miss Dream Discord

Thanks to the efforts of ShiningVenus, I am pleased to announce that we now have a Discord server! Please join us for discussions of all things Sailor Moon or about the site itself. We are also planning to host karaoke sessions via this server in the future, so if you love Sailor Moon music, please join us. I know I'll be checking out our lyrics section to jog my memory... See you there!

missdream.org

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Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social · 21d

The weakest, most cowardly, spineless shit, just every single goddamn day.

TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 21d

Update: It's not just Nexstar

“Jimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted indefinitely” - per an ABC spokesperson

TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 21d

This is...something

Nexstar, one of largest owners of TV stations in the country, is pre-empting JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE "for the foreseeable future":

"Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming."

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Jeff Harris @nemalki.bsky.social · 21d

Thinking of @anntelnaes.bsky.social tonight.

For reasons.

Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes' rough illustration of tech barons and Mickey Mouse (representing Disney) bowing in fealty to a grossly obese figure representing TFG in slovenly clothing and an overhanging necktie atop a pedestal.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 21d

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

As the man who made All the
President’s Men, how did you feel
when Nixon died?

I had no remorse. I did not think he
deserved the kudos he got in death
— there was this weird revisionism
that went on. You feel for the
family. There’s some sympathy for
that. But for me it was not the
passing of a great man. He was a
man who dealt us some pretty
undignified blows. He did not
symbolize the better part of
ourselves at all.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 21d

Just to clarify - the main thing the Trump administration is making cheaper is....cocaine?

Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 21d

The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today.

www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Oseguera caught another break from the Trump administration. The president’s campaign to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally has taken federal agents away from drug-traffic interdiction. In Arizona, two Customs and Border Protection checkpoints along a main fentanyl-smuggling corridor from Mexico have been left unstaffed. Officers stationed there were sent to process detained migrants. A senior administration official said the U.S. border is more secure than it has ever been.

Colombia is producing records amounts of cocaine, and the volume of the drug arriving in the U.S. is driving down prices, the people familiar with cartel operations said.

Cocaine prices have fallen by nearly half to around $60 to $75 a gram compared with five years ago, said Morgan Godvin, a researcher with the community organization Drug Checking Los Angeles. “The price of pure cocaine has plummeted,” Godvin said.

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Jeff Harris @nemalki.bsky.social · 23d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

The Late Jess Matthews 🏳️‍⚧️ @jessmatthewsproductions.com · 23d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 23d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

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Allan @allancheapshot.bsky.social · 25d

WrestleMania to Riyadh changes the bargain.

Site fees replace gate risk. “Progress” becomes a picture on demand. And the travelling crowd turns into scenery.

I wrote about fans, money, soft power, and the runway night that still hangs over this.

open.substack.com/pub/allanche...

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