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Roko 💞 Comms open! @roko-wt.bsky.social · Oct 21

since people liked this on twitter #utena #rgu #art

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 2h

YOU - “The people who built this world intended it to be better for you, but they failed. It is easier to live in their failure with this by your side.” (Tap on the tape recorder.)

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 2h

Timeline cleanse and reminder of US citizens trying their best amidst fascism.

Just amazing.

Before Macon Blair’s The Toxic Avenger released in theaters back in August, the Cineverse marketing team came up with a wonderful idea. They took the remainder of their marketing budget for the film and donated it to the non-profit Undue Medical Debt, using that money to literally clear $5 million in real-life medical debt for those who need the help the most.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 5h

And it's actually true.

Immigrants make all cities Great.

Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 9h

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 10h

Like, if there is a better depiction about the actual relationship between American Christian Nationalism and actual faith in God and Christ, I don't know it. These people would have bombed Bethlehem.

onion person @junlper.beer · 12h

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 15h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12h

alright then, chuck! somebody ate their wheaties

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 14h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 13h

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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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 13h

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

Oscar Issac looking at some kind of electronic tablet.

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Devindra Hardawar @devindra.bsky.social · 14h

Nah please don’t!

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 14h

Important article for anyone following AI and AI policy.

"In the process, [NVIDIA and OpenAI are] now seen as playing a key role in ratcheting up the risks of a possible AI bubble by inflating the market and binding the fates of numerous companies together. "

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Devindra Hardawar @devindra.bsky.social · 14h

So Happy Feet is in the Mad Max universe, right?

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 16h

Picture of text on top and image meme on bottom.

Top: "Hey man, you wanna eat 6 boiled eggs in a row?"

"Nah, I'm good."

"We'll mix the yolks with mayo and mustard and put them back into the boiled egg whites and then cover it with paprika."

Bottom: Image of animated cartoon character in yellow shirt. He's saying, "You son of a bitch. I'm in."

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Darren Mooney @darrenmooney.bsky.social · 22h

With #Peacemaker wrapping this week, it's a good time to look at what makes James Gunn such a distinctive superhero filmmaker.

How Gunn puts himself in his work, how "Superman" & "Peacemaker" are about the internet, and what Gunn gets about superheroes as a genre.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DieY...

How Peacemaker (and Superman) Are About the Internet | The Backdrop

YouTube video by Second Wind

www.youtube.com

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 16h

Obviously not the main point here, but it's interesting how this is framed as content rather than policy.

"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 20h

truly an amazing joke that Raoul Peck reprises his crappy AI pop song—the one about how AI will make your life better and safer—over the closing credits like it’s a Diane Warren ballad they crammed in to snag another Oscar nomination

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 20h

I wrote about the movie that finally figured out the right reason to use generative A.I. in documentary film: it's the only thing that looks as bad as the world feels.

A New Movie About George Orwell and 1984 Has a Unique Way of Telling Its Story. It May Haunt You.

Orwell: 2+2=5 takes on the Orwellian quality of A.I.—and uses the technology to do it.

slate.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 20h

It's amazing how everyone supporting her seems to forget she wasn't cancelled at all. She quit. And almost immediately was able to launch this new publication. How the hell was she cancelled?

Some people criticized shitty takes. That's not being cancelled.

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 20h

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Inverse @inverse.com · 20h

Without one of the most influential RPGs ever, Final Fantasy Tactics might not exist, and it's worth playing on its own merits even without that connection. www.inverse.com/gaming/tacti...

30 Years Ago, One Of The Most Influential Tactics Games Ever Changed RPG Storytelling Forever

Without one of the most influential RPGs ever, 'Final Fantasy Tactics' might not exist, and it's worth playing on its own merits even without that connection.

www.inverse.com

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 21h

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21h

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 20h

You said sideways, I say "what did you frickin' expect?"

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 20h

OpenAI is facing copyright blowback after releasing updated AI video generator Sora 2, which poses an increased disinformation risk and energy demand.

Read our breakdown: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20h

I just…I can’t believe we haven’t made stronger norms around this stuff

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw a care home employee post a video of one of her charges dancing when she thought she was alone and care providers, you really need to…well, CARE about your patients’ privacy! My grandma would have been mortified.

Kids, elders, and disabled people aren’t your content.

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