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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 2h

In this self-portrait by Pieter Van Laer (known as Il Bamboccio), ca. 1635–37, the artist portrays himself performing a magic ritual and, to his own horror, having summoned up some kind of demon. The sheet music has his signature and the words “il diavolo non burla” (“the devil doesn’t jest”)

"In one of the most remarkable self-portraits ever created, Pieter van Laer reacts with horror to the frightening claws of the devil that have suddenly come to claim him. Dressed in the black cloak and cap of a magician, the artist, with bulging eyes and open mouth, has witnessed this apparition while standing behind a table filled with books, some with alchemical notations, a variety of vessels, a snuffed-out candle, and a skull resting on hot coals" (Leiden Collection) https://www.theleidencollection.com/artwork/self-portrait-with-magic-scene/

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Klaproth @klaproth.bsky.social · 3d

SWIFT: Trav, honey?
KELCE: (looks up from first edition Krazsnahorkai in original Hungarian) (pauses rare Steve Reich LP, Japanese pressing) Yes?
SWIFT: What rhymes with "thighs"?
KELCE: Hmm. "Belies," perhaps?
SWIFT: (under her breath) Oh for fuck's sake

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stolen mi|f valor @dankdarkdreams.bsky.social · 1h

libertarianism is a conservative ideology

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 14d

i was looking at the list of frankenstein movies on wikipedia and it's MASSIVE, like 5-10 a year pretty much every year since the 30s!!! and anyways so i'm scrolling down and then i hit LILO AND STITCH and i'm just like

wait

SHIT

HOLY SHIT

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stolen mi|f valor @dankdarkdreams.bsky.social · 1h

Allow me to respond with this plate I saw on campus a few weeks ago

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stolen mi|f valor @dankdarkdreams.bsky.social · 1h

stealing this username for later

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Spirit Halloween Dani 🎃 @djamiempls.meatjacker.social · 2h

Need to get toothpaste and see if I can find some cheaper lighter jackets for the kids with it getting chilly in the AM. None of their stuff fits from last year.

0/80

$danirockasota
V: djamiempls

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stolen mi|f valor @dankdarkdreams.bsky.social · 1h

the need to watch the limited edition special color graded 4k version of The Guest has reached critical levels

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 4h

AI is a tool built by people who want to eliminate all labor costs and have spent trillions building bunkers across the world to hide in as we all die.

It’s proponents like Peter Thiel literally talk about AI eliminating human life as a positive. They see it replacing humanity as their mission.

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Sandy B. @nebulousmenace.bsky.social · 3h

I don't know if "And also" is useful, but my field [energy engineering] is full of technologies that didn't take off- didn't work, didn't work well enough, weren't cost-effective. Aside from the very common self-delusion and scams. Long list available upon request. Anyway, lotta tools suck.

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Nona Jabiznez @nonajabiznez.bsky.social · 2h

15+ years ago the superintendent of the vocational high school I worked at said at a meeting "I need you all to remember we are a business first." Less than a year later I left teaching. I think I'd have gotten fired by now for my vehement objections to AI if I was still working in education.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3h

Accepting this as an argument means accepting that, as an educator, your primary commitment is not to educating your students, or to propagating knowledge of your subject, but to finding and securing new markets for products in whose success your employers (or their bosses) have some kind of stake.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3h

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4h

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4h

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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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 2h

i wrote about chris brown www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Uncanceling of Chris Brown

The singer claims he’s been overlooked, but his blockbuster stadium tour suggests otherwise.

www.vulture.com

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 18h

Still, the insistence that interrupting is always impolite doesn’t leave room for the nuances of banter, cadence, or the tendency of some people to monologue until they’re interrupted because they can’t break the chain of their own thought and need the conversation partner to do so.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2h

It absolutely *is* polite! Cooperative overlap is a supportive and loving way of talking. There are only, like.. one or two cultures where it's _not_ considered polite, and they can go fuck themselves if they think the rest of us have to conform lol www.anildash.com/2021/09/26/c...

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stolen mi|f valor @dankdarkdreams.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone just block this sadistic ghoul, zionists have zero morality or compassion you can appeal to

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 5h

honestly fu** you if you think gazans are only allowed to ask for help to cover their very basic necessities when they’re starving or being killed, calling a gazan a grifter for trying to secure her education proves that you don’t see gazans as humans who deserve to live equally.

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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 2h

the new thing that girls are into is tesseracts. if you’re trying to impress women in 2025 you need to up your tesseract game, player

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stolen mi|f valor @dankdarkdreams.bsky.social · 2h

It’s a good thing CloverPit isn’t on the switch but also, it should be on the switch

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Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · 3h

BROADCASTER: [Voice shaking] They killed him. The Phillies killed Clayton Kershaw. All he's got now is his ring, millions of dollars, and some personal beliefs no one wants to talk about. Oh god the Phanatic is unhinging his snoot and devouring him like a boa. Why is he even here

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 4h

58 years ago Che was executed

Take some time to learn about him and read him today

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War

www.marxists.org/archive/guev...

"The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated."
Che Guevara

Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.
Che Guevara
(GUERRILLA WARFARE - CHAPTER 1. 1960)

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Sam Raimi & The Midnight Sons @rochardscott.bsky.social · 4h

I said it before:

It’s funny that Hayley Williams is writing the songs and albums people want Taylor Swift to make.

Sam Raimi & The Midnight Sons @rochardscott.bsky.social · 7h

“They pose in Christmas cards with guns as big as all their children

They say that Jesus is the way but then they gave him a white face

So they don't have to pray to
someone they deem lesser than them

The South will not rise again
Til it's paid for every sin”

Hayley Williams: True Believer | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

youtu.be

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