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John Rogers
@johnrogers.bsky.social
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TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 1h
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It's the Anakin Padme meme. Anakin is now a smoke detector saying I don't have enough energy to tell u if there's a fire. Padme happily asks So u don't have enough energy to make a shill loud beep every minute for years? Then she looks worried, and asks again: U don't have the energy to make a shill loud beep every minute for years, right? To which Anakin the smoke detector replies BEEP
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Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 12h
Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
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It's Chaos, Be Kind @atomicovermind.bsky.social · 45m
What kind of fucking idiot builds this sort of thing and doesn't understand the copyright ramifications? JFC
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 49m
Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.
OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama
It felt “more different to images than people expected.”
www.theverge.com
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 5h
feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 5h
I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 5h
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 7h
Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.
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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 8h
#KavanaughRaid
“federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning.”
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 13h
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13h
Here’s video of the incident
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h
They believe they will never be out of power and relatedly, even if they eventually are, there will be no accountability.

Refusal to openly, credible, emphatically threaten them with it isn't just a failure on the principle of the matter for what should happen then. It worsens the situation now.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 18h
You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.
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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 12h
It took 49 years to graduate from U of G. Now it’s time for grad school

In June, Dave Burnett, 65, graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Guelph

www.guelphtoday.com/prime/it-too...
It took 49 years to graduate from U of G. Now it’s time for grad school
In June, Dave Burnett, 65, graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Guelph
www.guelphtoday.com
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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d
When your custom character appears in a cut scene
The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 13h
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 13h
Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 14h
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 13h
Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.
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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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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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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 13h
It’s not just a puzzle, it’s a meta puzzle that also delves into spooky Halloween history.
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Craig Engler @craigengler.bsky.social · 13h
Lucky 113 backers and just a hair away from being 40% funded. Want the greatest Halloween puzzle ever made? Back it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/448...
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Craig Engler @craigengler.bsky.social · 13h
Lucky 113 backers and just a hair away from being 40% funded. Want the greatest Halloween puzzle ever made? Back it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/448...
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 13h
Teslas
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Data centers

Wanting to be on fire all on their own
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 13h
Good tools reinforce flow.
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 1d
Respect
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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d
all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 16h
I can not in good conscience recommend anyone do this job. I only do it because I am unfit for all other work.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 16h
Oh lordy. I heard these stories from various people involved. If you want to work in TV, or just are curious about how thoroughly things can go wrong, definitely check this out.
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Cole Haddon @colehaddon.bsky.social · 17h
How could a straight-to-series greenlight go so wrong for the first TV series I ever created?! Today, the 5AM StoryTalk Podcast brings you Part 1 of a four-part Hollywood horror story I describe as a cautionary tale for screenwriters about what can happen when all your dreams come true.
The Horror of 'Dracula': The Unbelievable True Story of the 2013 TV Series - Part 1
Podcast Episode · 5AM StoryTalk · 10/07/2025 · 15m
podcasts.apple.com
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 16h
Abolish. Fire. Prosecute. Even for lying.
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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 19h
"The Tahoe was unmarked. You can’t charge someone under 18 USC 111 for ramming an unmarked car unless you can prove that they knew you were a Federal law enforcement officer." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/07/t...
The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting - emptywheel
The criminal charges against Marimar Martinez -- the woman shot by a Customs and Border Patrol agent on Saturday -- fail to mention that CBP was already looking for her for doxing an officer who would...
www.emptywheel.net
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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
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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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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 16h
Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 17h
Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.
Tweet from @laura_n_rod Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area. Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun
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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 17h
The Miller presidency’s goal is to make fair elections in 2026 and 2028 impossible
The Miller presidency's goal is to make fair elections in 2026 and 2028 impossible - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Here’s a gift link to Thomas Edsall’s latest piece, which as usual is a collection of comments from various academic observers of current political events, interspersed with his commentary. Rather than quote from it — there are too many insights to quote and you should just read it — I’ll summarize what Edsall and his […]
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
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