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Sarah Wampler
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Why yes the massive speculative bubble built directly by my personal lies about what AI is or can even do is in fact about to crash the economy that Trump is already driving into a ditch.
OpenAl CEO Sam Altman has acknowledged what many economists have suspected for months: the artificial intelligence sector is in a bubble fueled by overexcited investors. In a dinner interview with reporters in San Francisco, the ChatGPT chief compared today's Al investment frenzy to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s - a rare moment of candor from a leader whose company sits at the center of the boom. https://www.techspot.com/news/109090-sam-altman-investors-acting-irrational-booming-ai-bubble.html
August 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
April 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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One of the best godamn female protagonists in any media in years.

If you slept on Apothecary Diaries you’re missing out
Image of Maomao from the Anime Apothicary Diaries. Beautifully made up young woman holds a Handkerchief to her lips as she looks seductively straight to camera.
January 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Idiosyncratic language development is actually the best case scenario there
Makaton: beyond the appropriation of intellectual property from a marginalized community and taking money from ill-informed families, the true cost of Makaton is that it limits one's language, which takes away that person's ability to think beyond the bounds of the words they know. Ableist prophecies that a disabled person might not be able to use complex language are fulfilled when that person never gets a chance. Makaton's claims that its system helps those with intellectual disabilities regardless of hearing status develop their receptive language skills are refuted by the limited vocabulary for sale. The best-case scenario is that a hearing disabled person will be able to fill in receptive gaps left by Makaton via the spoken English with which it's paired; however, nonspeaking folks' expressive language will still be limited to the 450 words selected for them. The most likely scenario is a diminished capacity for language fluency for all users. How will a person learn a new vocabulary word or grammatical nuance if they never see the word or sentence modeled by a fluent signer?
December 30, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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#FilmSky #Movies
Blue ray Cover for the films the LORD of the RINGS THE MOTION PICTURE TRILOGY EXTENDED EDITIONS A gold ring with a glowing script etched in the internal r floats over a black map with white writing the LORD of the RINGS THE MOTION PICTURE TRILOGY EXTENDED EDITIONS
December 30, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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The movie poster for the Film Wall-E A tiny beat up looking robot stands atop an enormous pile of trash and looks wonderingly at a vast sky of stars above him AFTER 700 YEARS • OF DOING WHAT HE WAS BUILT FOR, HELL DISCOVER WHAT. HE WAS MEANT FOR. DisNEp • PIXAR WALL•E IN CINEMAS 2008 FROM THE CREATORS OF "FINDING NEMO"
December 29, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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Movie poster for the Film Rogue One Bottom third is a beach with storm troopers and imperial walkers patrolling it Top two thirds are dominated by a 3/4 waist up image of the main heroine looking determinedly into the distance she is dressed all in black and her black close bend with over laid smaller images of supporting characters. The left of her face is illuminated by a stark white image of the Death Star the left is in shadows where the image of earth Vader’s helmet hides
December 28, 2024 at 1:03 AM
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Movie poster of the film The Truman Show Photo mosaic image of Jim Carrey bright eyed smiling looking up is framed below the words JIM CARREY the TRUMAN show
December 27, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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The movie poster for the film Howls Moving Castle depicting a large black feathered creature with the face of a man wrapped around a white haired frightened looking girl in a blue dress.
December 25, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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The movie poster for the film The Usual Suspects showing a group of eccentrically dressed men staring in a police line up.
December 25, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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Movie Poster of the claymation film ParaNorman The back of the head of a young boy with big ears and spiky hair who is looking into the woods is haloed by an eerie yellow light that is spilling out between the trees YOU DON'T BECOME A HERO BY BEING NORMAL PARANORMAN AUGUST 2012 LAIKA
December 23, 2024 at 3:32 AM
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Name a non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.

It couldn’t possibly be worse than Kurama
Frankly it depends on what world they end up in
Naruto in LOTOR the journey takes 3 days max
Ring and Sauron in Naruto and Naruto makes a new buddy
100% 😂
Image of Naruto from the Anime Naruto. You g blond boy stands in 3/4 pose arms crossed earring and organs and black tracksuit looking confidently straight at you.
December 22, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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Movie poster for the Film Philadelphia Tom hanks and Denzel Washington face away from each other one at top left the other at bottom right of the frame a gavel in the middle TOM HANKS DENZEL WASHINGTON NO ONE WOULD TAKE ON HIS CASE... UNTIL ONE MAN WAS WILLING TO TAKE ON THE SYSTEM. FROM THE DIRECTOR OF-THE SILENCE OR THE LAMBS* PHILADELPHIA
December 21, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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So basically if it wasn’t for rich old white men they ripped it out. Delightful
@samstein Items in 1st bill that didn't make it to 3rd * Act to ensure providers rural internet weren't ripping folks off * Anti deepfake porn bill * $ for research on premature labor * $ for treatment of sickle cell * $ for breast and cervical cancer early detection * program for down syndrome research * Hotel Fees Transparency Act 5:20 PM • 12/20/24 • 62K Views Screenshot from Twitter
December 21, 2024 at 4:27 AM
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Yale took infrared images of its peaceful student protesters during its spring encampment.

They bought a military grade drone from Skydio, a military weapons manufacturer, that has been one of the primary suppliers of drones to Israel since October 7th.

jewishcurrents.org/inside-yale-...
Black and white infrared overhead image of a peaceful protest camp on Yale’s Campus
December 20, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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Movie Poster for the Film Princess Mononoke. Young woman wearing a fur cloak clasped with claws holding a tribal mask and a knife her mouth pained with blood stands in front of a giant white wolf.
December 20, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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Movie poster for the film Ghost in the Shell. A woman android with wires coming from her neck is center frame shown from the clavicle up, wearing sunglasses and holding a gun. A city skyline lines the bottom of the frame
December 20, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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If the voice of the people is the voice of God…
God hates Elon
Overall public support for Musk is negative, with 34% holding positive views and 45% negative views, according to the poll. That's the worst result for Musk in four separate NBC News polls that have asked about him over three years.
December 19, 2024 at 4:37 AM
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Movie poster for Everything everywhere all at once. Michelle Yeoh is center frame on a swirling red background in a martial arts pose with other characters posed behind and above her.
December 18, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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Movie poster for the film Grave of the Fireflies Animated film. Two children dirty and ragged, the younger sitting piggyback on the older stand in a war torn field with only the protection of a tattered paper umbrella. Fireflies surround them
December 17, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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Since I missed the first day
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Poster for the film and the band played on. A man in a blue scale with color scenes inside puzzle piece shaped boxes scattered across the poster. Movie title And the Band Played on with the tagline “Strength, Friendship, Courage, Sometimes that’s all you have”
December 16, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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The movie poster for the Killing Fields Man standing on an elevated platform with a eerie flame yellow/orange sky behind him
December 16, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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The Nancy Mace getting “attacked” story is even wilder then I though.
I knew it would be some sort of aggrieved entitled victimhood thing. That’s her entire raison d’etre at this point but this…
"I want to express deep disappointment in the fact that Congresswoman Nancy Mace came to a national foster youth event, told participating youth that it was a safe space - and literally had one of them arrested by Capital police for simply shaking her hand and asking about trans rights," said Lisa Dickson, a veteran advocate for foster youth from Ohio, in a Facebook post.
December 12, 2024 at 6:09 AM
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The Eternal September, also Called the September that never ended, is an object lesson in what happens when you don’t/can’t stay on top of community moderation.
September that never ended All time since September 1993. One of the seasonal rhythms of the Usenet used to be the annual September influx of clueless newbies who, lacking any sense of netiquette, made a general nuisance of themselves. This coincided with people starting college, getting their first internet accounts, and plunging in without bothering to learn what was acceptable. These relatively small drafts of newbies could be assimilated within a few months. But in September 1993, AOL users became able to post to Usenet, nearly overwhelming the old-timers' capacity to acculturate them; to those who nostalgically recall the period before, this triggered an inexorable decline in the quality of discussions on newsgroups. Syn. eternal September. See also AOL!.
November 25, 2024 at 4:25 AM
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Since the bottom feeders at Autism Speaks have found their way to BlueSky here is the heads up for those unaware that they are *loathed* in the Autism community for good reason
Before you donate to Autism Speaks, Consider the facts: Very little money donated to Autism Speaks goes toward helping autistic people and families. Only 1% of Autism Speaks' budget goes towards the "Family Service" grants that are the organization's means of funding services. Autism Speaks spends 20x as much—20%-on fundraising. Although Autism Speaks has not prioritized services with a practical impact for families and individuals in its budget, its rates of executive pay are the highest in the autism world: some salaries exceed $600,000 a year. Autism Speaks talks about us without us. Autism Speaks has only 1 autistic person out of a total of 28 individuals on its Board of Directors. By contrast, 23 out of 28 board members represent major corporations, including current and former CEOs and senior executives of PayPal, Goldman Sachs, White Castle, FX Networks, Virgin Mobile, e Bay, AMC Networks, L'Oreal, CBS, SiriusXM, American Express, S.C. Johnson, and Royal Bank of Scotland. Autism Speaks' fundraising strategies promote fear, stigma, and prejudice against autistic people. Autism Speaks uses its platform and advertising budget to portray autism and autistic people as mysterious and frightening. Their fundraising tactics increase stigma and create barriers to the inclusion of autistic people in our communities. See next Alt txt for more Autism Speaks' Budget source: Autism Speaks 990 Non-Profit Tax Exemption Form, 2018 27%Research 48% Awareness and Lobbying 20% Fundraising 4%Miscellaneous 1% Family Services Instead, donate to organizations that help autistic people: Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) provides support, community, and public policy advocacy, by and for people on the autism spectrum. autisticadvocacy.org Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN) seeks to share information which works to build acceptance and understanding of disability, while dispelling stereotypes and misinformation which perpetuate unnecessary fears surrounding an autism diagnosis. awnnetwork.org Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE) works to ensure that people with disabilities are treated as equals and are given the same decisions, choices, rights, responsibilities, and chance to speak up to empower themselves as everyone else. sabeusa.org Source: https://autisticadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/AutismSpeaksFlyer2020.pdf
November 25, 2024 at 4:16 AM