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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 11h

This was nice

Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 13h

ALSO TODAY: @mariabustillos.com and the great @ftrain.bsky.social talk about fixing the equally wretched AI problem flaminghydra.com/podcast-how-...

PODCAST! How to Fix AI, with Paul Ford

Special guest, writer, editor, technologist, and entrepreneur Paul Ford talks with Maria Bustillos about, in Paul’s words, “the thing, which is they launched Frankenstein’s Monster, but inside of Fran...

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 13h

So @ftrain.bsky.social came and sorted out how to fix AI on the latest @flaminghydra.com podcast. Whew! we should have asked him on sooner

AND @sirosenbaum.bsky.social breaks down the worst anti-trans amicus brief you ever heard of in your life, you won't believe it

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Base meddling / Machine learning

S.I. Rosenbaum on a wretched amicus brief; Paul Ford and Maria Bustillos sort out the AI thing

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 13h

AND ALSO: Please play HYDRANYM number 20! It's good for you!
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Base meddling / Machine learning

S.I. Rosenbaum on a wretched amicus brief; Paul Ford and Maria Bustillos sort out the AI thing

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 13h

ALSO TODAY: @mariabustillos.com and the great @ftrain.bsky.social talk about fixing the equally wretched AI problem flaminghydra.com/podcast-how-...

PODCAST! How to Fix AI, with Paul Ford

Special guest, writer, editor, technologist, and entrepreneur Paul Ford talks with Maria Bustillos about, in Paul’s words, “the thing, which is they launched Frankenstein’s Monster, but inside of Fran...

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 13h

TODAY: @sirosenbaum.bsky.social on a wretched little amicus brief filed by a bunch of philosophers on a court case involving trans girls in sports, and which does "not consider or even mention any real, flesh-and-blood women and girls or the lives they lead" flaminghydra.com/purity-tests/

Purity Tests

Among the cornucopia of horrors pouring out in our daily news, you may have missed this one. It’s an amicus brief, though not it’s not at all friendly, arguing that trans girls shouldn’t play sports o...

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 1d

Yemisi Aribisala is always spectacular; this time she has redesigned not just the Nigerian currency, but ways of thinking about history and women and labor more generally; who does money belong to?

at @flaminghydra.com

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Better banknotes

Yemisi Aribisala reimagines money

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Patrick Sauer @pjsauer.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, @flaminghydra.com!

(Yes 11/6 tix are on sale: www.eventbrite.com/e/squawkin-s...

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 1d

ALSO TODAY: Please BEHOLD the victors of HYDRANYM 19! flaminghydra.com/issue-417/#v...

Better banknotes

Yemisi Aribisala reimagines money

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 1d

TODAY: Yemisi Aribisala on the chaotic history of Nigerian money. "The Nigerian government has forgotten that the Naira belongs to us" flaminghydra.com/issue-417/#t...

Better banknotes

Yemisi Aribisala reimagines money

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 4d

"It will be clear that I am not offering a self-care tip by the time you finish reading this sentence, but when things started getting dark for me around the beginning of this year I started watching movies from the 1970s." @davidjroth.bsky.social @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-416/

Struggle cinema

David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 3d

It has essentially nothing to do with the article, which is great, as always, but the description of Ezra Klein as "catastrophically sophisticated" is just so damn good

Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 4d

TODAY: @davidjroth.bsky.social on addressing existential malaise by watching a string of ‘70s movies. “The blocks around Times Square were caked in a damp neon film, but I could still identify what has since become a Shake Shack.” flaminghydra.com/winning-isnt...

Winning Isn’t Everything

It will be clear that I am not offering a self-care tip by the time you finish reading this sentence, but when things started getting dark for me around the beginning of this year I started watching m...

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 4d

HELL yeah you did, thank you!!!

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owen j michael @owenjmichael.bsky.social · 4d

Finally subscribed to @flaminghydra.com

reactionaries still skulk and leer at each other in fancy hotel suites and secret conference rooms, but their dirty work is also done violently and in public, by men in uniform smashing and grabbing under color of law in city streets. Only their enemies feel compelled to sneak around at all; the secret society of white supremacist elites in the film hides behind their kitsch and their code seemingly mostly for yuks.

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 4d

ALSO TODAY: Please VOTE for HYDRANYM volume 19! flaminghydra.com/r/ba8bc740?m...

Struggle cinema

David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 4d

TODAY: @davidjroth.bsky.social on addressing existential malaise by watching a string of ‘70s movies. “The blocks around Times Square were caked in a damp neon film, but I could still identify what has since become a Shake Shack.” flaminghydra.com/winning-isnt...

Winning Isn’t Everything

It will be clear that I am not offering a self-care tip by the time you finish reading this sentence, but when things started getting dark for me around the beginning of this year I started watching m...

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 4d

I made an extremely belated return to @flaminghydra.com with this bit about my long winter of depressing '70s cinema and the righteous and unreasonable defiance of One Battle After Another. flaminghydra.com/issue-416/

Struggle cinema

David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 5d

Absorbing talk between @lesbrains.bsky.social and author Wendy C. Ortiz, incl. stunning insights on what qualifies as 'true crime' writing

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Sleeping and waking

Myriam Gurba and author Wendy C. Ortiz on dreams, gender violence, true crime, and a hex

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 5d

TODAY: @lesbrains.bsky.social in conversation with author and psychotherapist Wendy C. Ortiz. “I started asking myself where the anger, grief, and rage affecting my heart came from and that led me to consider my early politicization.” flaminghydra.com/r/c8ed24da?m...

Sleeping and waking

Myriam Gurba and author Wendy C. Ortiz on dreams, gender violence, true crime, and a hex

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 6d

Okay well here it is flaminghydra.com/some-choices/

Some Choices

Clorth The clorth is an eight-legged creature with an ovoid thorax and smaller, humanoid head segment, in appearance reminiscent of the Terran spider (much larger, of course). It is both endoskeletal...

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 6d

ALSO TODAY: @samthielman.com with some offerings from a futuristic dystopian SkyMall catalogue. “Cyborg meat is strictly prohibited by interstellar law with only a handful of rare exceptions, and Some Choices is delighted to offer you a selection of them.” flaminghydra.com/some-choices/

Some Choices

Clorth The clorth is an eight-legged creature with an ovoid thorax and smaller, humanoid head segment, in appearance reminiscent of the Terran spider (much larger, of course). It is both endoskeletal...

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 6d

TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates the stoic, delightfully flawed heroes of noir detective fiction. “He consumes a decent amount of cocaine daily, apparently more out of boredom than for euphoric effect.” flaminghydra.com/being-a-dete...

Being a Detective Is a Job

Milo Milodragovitch, private investigator, is more washed up than hardboiled. The protagonist of Dancing Bear, by cult favorite author James Crumley, is a third-generation Montanan in his forties with...

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 6d

check out this interview I did with @flaminghydra.com about the work I am doing to defend democracy in an age of fascist gangsters.
Lessons from an education at Punk Rock University.

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Canada’s Charlie Angus Defends Democracy

The punk rock artist, former member of Canadian parliament, author, and activist Charlie Angus came out swinging against American authoritarianism in the earliest days of Donald Trump’s catastrophic s...

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 7d

ALSO TODAY: please play HYDRANYM, volume 19! flaminghydra.com/hydranym-no-...

HYDRANYM No. 19

by The Editors Subscribe to Flaming Hydra to play HYDRANYM! It’s a fun Creative Writing game. This game will close on Thursday at midnight PST. [countdown to 2025-10-03 12:00am PDT] YOU HAVE ...

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 7d

ALSO TODAY: please play HYDRANYM, volume 19! flaminghydra.com/hydranym-no-...

HYDRANYM No. 19

by The Editors Subscribe to Flaming Hydra to play HYDRANYM! It’s a fun Creative Writing game. This game will close on Thursday at midnight PST. [countdown to 2025-10-03 12:00am PDT] YOU HAVE ...

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 7d

TODAY: Nathan Munn in conversation with punk rock former MP @charlieangus104.bsky.social. “There was never any question for me about where I stood. I never had any existential long dark nights of the soul. It was like yeah, shit’s gotta get done, so let’s get to it.” flaminghydra.com/canadas-char...

Canada’s Charlie Angus Defends Democracy

The punk rock artist, former member of Canadian parliament, author, and activist Charlie Angus came out swinging against American authoritarianism in the earliest days of Donald Trump’s catastrophic s...

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