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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 22h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 11h

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 3h

40 years ago today.

The opening panel of Watchmen, with an entry from Rorschach's journal dated October 12, 1985. "Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face."

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

the problem isn't the money. it's the power. and also they used the money to get the power but that's not important

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Quick, someone poll the 4 things in this scary, scary agenda.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

remember david pumpkins? that was like 10 years ago

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 2d

I never tire of executives who do absolutely nothing and contribute a sum total of zero to a company asking the actual workers to justify how they spend every minute of the day

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans hate immigrants because immigrants exploit the USA’s secret free healthcare system that doesn’t exist.

pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 2d

uhhhh no one told me tony diterlizzi is on here

Tony DiTerlizzi @diterlizzi.bsky.social · 2d

Inktober, Day 9, "Heavy": This is the heaviest character I could think of. It is a revisit to one of the first color prints I offered way back in 1993 at my first Gen Con Art Show, on the heels of the release of the AD&D "Monstrous Manual". 🎨

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 3d

just gonna toss out this article for everyone to read, no reason theins.ru/en/history/2...

“Good Germans”: Resistance inside Nazi Germany

While Soviet and Hollywood narratives pay little attention to how Germans resisted Nazism, in reality, Hitler had millions of opponents both within and outside Germany, and anti-fascist Germans who em...

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 3d

well gee i wonder if spending two years bombarding gaza into ash and dust has contributed to israel's inability to locate their dead hostages

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 3d

I mean we do need to do something about social media poisoning everyone's brain but like cigarettes, alcohol, and nearly all drugs, I don't think simply "banning" it for people under a certain age is gonna do much, if anything. Like how does one propose to even enforce such a law?

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

Denmark will move to ban social media for children under 15, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said, saying the online platforms are “stealing our children’s childhood.”

Denmark plans to ban social media for users under 15, as PM says platforms are ‘stealing childhood’ | CNN Business

Denmark will move to ban social media for children under 15, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Tuesday, saying the online platforms are “stealing our children’s childhood.”

www.cnn.com

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 4d

It's fascinating how every trial run of a government-run "give money to people whose problems can be solved by simply giving them money" scheme turns out to have a tremendous return on investment on TOP of benefiting the recipients, and still it's like "ohhhh we don't know about this!! scary!!!"

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 4d

sighing as i read my daily state-mandated 3,000 Yglesias essay about why, more than ever, we need to make bullying cool again

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merritt @merrittk.com · 4d

it is 2030. bari weiss is in charge of all major hollywood studios. movies are exclusively about brave truthtelling women who are universally lauded for their courage of convictions to say you should be allowed to kill brown children if you want

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 4d

Murph just gets hotter and hotter each year that goes by.

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 5d

“actual residents of chicago”? fascist dipshits living in a fantasy world of magical enemies and even more imaginary supporters

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Rep. Riley Moore: "I think the actual residents of Washington DC are very happy with the outcome. And I think the actual residents of Chicago and our other great cities here in America would actually like to have safe streets and not people murdered every night."

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 5d

i don't think they should reopen the government. it's funny that they're already talking about figuring out how to pay the soldiery. your majesty the mercenaries are beginning to grumble about their wages but im sure it will be fine

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 5d

Stephen Miller is a dangerous madman living in a world of his own making. I really can’t believe there isn’t more discourse around the madness we are witnessing each day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 6d

The cover for the 1994 Cyberpunk sourcebook NeoTribes which introduces/expands upon the Nomad character class, the in-world history of Nomads, and what they get up to in the present day so you can get an idea of life outside of the big cities and play as a Nomad or a whole group of them.

The cover features a rather rough and tumble crew and their modified vehicles. The overall vibe is like Mad Max filtered through more sci-fi detritus.

In the setting, Nomad clans or tribes or families (I think the terminology has changed over various editions? Or maybe it depends on the scale of the particular Nomad group in question?) are folks who brave the vast wilds and wastelands between the major cities of North America delivering goods and personnel and contraband.

We tend to find a higher than expected number of Native Americans among the Nomads possibly because many of them come from rural communities particularly the Southwest. It’s nice they made an effort to include more Native representation in their setting, but I worry this would have suffered from the kinda embarrassing ‘90s fascination with Native culture that often went no deeper than some throwing around some superficial aesthetics.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

i think anyone taught by ilan wurman ought to ask the university of minnesota law school for their money back

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 7d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 8d

“Stop calling us fascists!! It’s insensitive!!”

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 9d

reddit occupied government

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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 9d

I’m a girlboss gaslight gatekeeper but Taylor’s album is the musical version of the girls who live in NYC off their parents’ money and try to be literary It Girls writing essays about shaving their pussies before going to get extra dirty martinis with blue cheese olives at a bar they saw on TikTok

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 9d

Mr. President, sir, it’s vital that you have ICE attempt to detain Bad Bunny during the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Everyone is saying it — it would own the libs so bad, if you very publicly attempted to arrest to one of the most popular musicians alive.

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