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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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marisa @marginalmarisa.bsky.social · 13d

beep boop boop beep

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marisa @marginalmarisa.bsky.social · 14d

TONIGHT! I’m tabling at the first and then popping over to the second one! You can go to one, both, or neither, but you deserve the RIGHT to CHOOSE 😤

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14d

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Dozens of delegates from multiple nations walk out of UN hall as Israeli prime minister prepares to speak.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 15d

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 16d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 19d

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable.

This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.

From me for @rollingstone.com:

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

www.rollingstone.com

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 21d

i think the reason i find relatively well-heeled american people’s doomerism hard to bear is that it’s no less self important than evangelicals’ assertions that these just happen to be the end of days. and compared to people in e.g. the global south most of us ARE relatively well-heeled

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 22d

repair your sanity and piss off the fascists with this one weird trick

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 22d

they’d really hate it if you stayed focused on helping people in need

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 25d

People are longing for art that’s true, and tangible, and alive in a digital age, and Prytania Theatre is the only remaining New Orleans movie house with the equipment to screen movies on film, writes Senior Editor Marisa Clogher (@marginalmarisa.bsky.social)

Get Reel

On April 24, my boyfriend texted me that I needed to go see Sinners in theaters. Seized by desperation, I immediately sent a distress call to my friend asking if we could go to the late show that…

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marisa @marginalmarisa.bsky.social · 26d

local politics gf national politics bf

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 28d

Jason's hearing is on Tuesday, and he's asking folks to write nofdpio at NOLA dot gov with the subject line "Do Not Fire Jason Affolder."

He's been a firefighter in New Orleans for 20 years and now faces termination for a joke on Instagram.

Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 29d

Apparently my friend, filmmaker Jason Affholder is the target of an online campaign to get him fired from the NOFD for comments he made. Not sure if it was X or not.

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marisa @marginalmarisa.bsky.social · 27d

I feel what I most often need when writing is for someone to sit on top of me so I focus and sit still. unfortunately, I almost never receive this

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 29d

9/11 is a great time to remember that the imperial power will seize on any opportunity to do what it was going to do anyway, especially if it gets to do it under the gaudy pagentry of being the Aggrieved

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marisa @marginalmarisa.bsky.social · Sep 11

In bed by 9:30. Goodnight moon

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marisa @marginalmarisa.bsky.social · Sep 11

Been catching so many romantic glances at the moon this week, she’s especially gorgeous

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · Sep 9

Despite things being wildly unstable right now, I feel that we’re on the front end of learning how to figure out the new world.

So I can’t abide by "Why bother?", writes Senior Editor Marisa Clogher (@marginalmarisa.bsky.social).

antigravitymagazine.com/column/lette...

LETTER FROM AN EDITOR - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

As is custom, traversing my 20s has meant trying on many hats and seeing which ones stick. And while I am generally uncomfortable when lots of eyes are on me, I find myself in a rallying position more...

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · Sep 6

In the same way you can draw a straight line from the confederacy to the third reich,you can draw a line from someone organizing for free healthcare in Maine to some future freedom that will be won in Mississippi. Not to be cliche buts it’s always been just one war

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · Sep 6

“the south” doesn’t really have to be abandoned or defended. That’s mostly just cope or posturing. It needs to be liberated from the boot of capital. And anyone fighting to de-commodify survival anywhere is helping to do that. They are my brother and sister

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · Sep 6

And many of the same liberals disgusted with the horrors down here benefit financially from the environmental racism, prison labor, gentrification, etc that white supremacy provides. We aren’t separate regions as much as different organs of a body.

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · Sep 6

I do understand the frustration with how cruel and paranoid white southerners are as a whole. But the south also functions as an extraction colony for the capitalist class of the north.

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marisa @marginalmarisa.bsky.social · Sep 5

last night someone was actively getting into my car while they were telling me to “move, move, move”

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marisa @marginalmarisa.bsky.social · Sep 5

It seems like the people who direct traffic at the airport don’t understand that stopping IS actually one step in the process of picking someone up

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marisa @marginalmarisa.bsky.social · Sep 4

I think it’s good that there are no longer viable search engines