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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 8h

the rule of law is a system meant to maintain white innocence

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16h

🤗 to see @timothyaschuler.bsky.social on the work of Reimagine the Canals (+ my friend Angelyn!), who, in revitalizing the Erie Canal, "hope [to] serve as a model for how public agencies might approach aging infrastructure at vast scales, marrying... basic maintenance with... public access"

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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 14h

All political parties seem to hate the Knowledge Economy that is the consequence of deindustrialisation. The jobs are wrong. The education system is wrong. The requirement for more skilled people is wrong.

Nothing is right for Labour or Tories as they can’t stand the future they made.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 13h

Once again, during my life as a teenager and beyond, the places dominated by one ethnicity where I have felt most unsafe, threatened and vulnerable have *always* been those dominated by white people. Or white blokes, to be precise.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15h

"You go to some places like Handsworth.. parts of Dewsbury, Bradford, Leicester, where you see.. a single ethnicity.. we don't think that's healthy thing"

Kevin Hollinrake is MP for Thirsk and Malton, which according to the 2021 census is 98% white.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 14h

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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fran barton @ludictechnologies.bsky.social · 1d

I thought he looks like Mark Williams, the snooker player

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody help me, my electoral system, he is very sick

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

New YouGov Westminster poll:

RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

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fran barton @ludictechnologies.bsky.social · 1d

Spelin miftakes aside, they're such wimps, wanting power but always whining whenever someone criticises them.

fran barton @ludictechnologies.bsky.social · 1d

Today would be such a good day for it to happen

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 1d

I find it very difficult to breakdance under these conditions.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

passed a church sign with “jesus was the original aura farmer” and I’m not sure I’ve seen more of a “how do you do, fellow kids” in quite some time

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 2d

lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it

bluesky post from
@knilirabaj.bsky.social that says

It's pretty cool you're using that alt text accessibility feature. It's not cool that you're not really describing the image though. Nice and simple is a good start. Descriptive and accurate is the way to go. You'll get the hang of it. Try pretending you're describing the picture over the phone.

July 1, 2023 at 10:33 PM Everybody can reply

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2d

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 18

i'm so excited to tell you about what we're working on. it's the most important thing human beings have ever done or could ever do. it's going to transform our lives in a plausibly deniable period of years. i just need another 100 billion dollars and immunity from prosecution

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 18

How are we not already calling him Scam Altman

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

Anything but thinking of women as human beings

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d

Is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic a chatbot designed by the world's richest pervert

Elon Musk Gambles on Sexy A.I. Companions

www.nytimes.com

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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s make hope normal again.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social

youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

youtu.be

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hayden johnson @haydenjohnsonn.bsky.social · 13d

every AI ad is like

“hey gemini, what would i have for lunch?”

and then the phone is like

“sandwich”

and the guy is like

“wow”

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fran barton @ludictechnologies.bsky.social · 2d

I do so hate this kind of use of 'amid' in (sub)heads. I'm not saying it's wrong, it just feels yucky.

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Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 3d

For this week's #TidyTuesday, crane migration at Lake Hornborga, Sweden, from 2002 to 2024

Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t...

#RStats #dataviz

A set of bar charts showing the number of cranes observed at Lake Hornborga in Sweden from 2002 to 2024. The left panel displays daily counts for March and April, revealing a clear seasonal peak in crane numbers in late March and early April each year, followed by a decline. The right panel shows weekly counts for August to October, with lower and more variable numbers, indicating that most cranes have already migrated by this period. The data include the date, number of observations, comments, and indicators for weather disruptions. A map highlights the location of Lake Hornborga and Sweden

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fran barton @ludictechnologies.bsky.social · 2d

This is really tragic news

fran barton @ludictechnologies.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sure nobody is really going to listen to him, but I'm glad he's in there saying it.
Tbh I'd forgotten about TT already, I'm glad at least there's someone sane still in the party even if I might generally disagree with him.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

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fran barton @ludictechnologies.bsky.social · 2d

Her bravery and dignity are astonishing

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 9d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 2d

LOL THEY’VE USED HIM BEFORE

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