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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1h

A lesson I had to learn in the last couple years is that as long as the tech industry has thrown all its money behind something then laws like copyright don’t matter.

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 19h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 5h

Ron Dean, terrific Chicago actor, RIP. Dean was one of the many key components that make "The Fugitive" (1993) the masterpiece that it is.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Mark Sutter: Author @marksutterauthor.bsky.social · 6h

AI is great for the meddling studio executives who ruin good movies with terrible notes. They’ll get the exact slop they want and they’ll save money doing it.

Don’t reward them with your curiosity.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 7h

“The president should be removed from office, because he is plainly insane.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Mark Sutter: Author @marksutterauthor.bsky.social · 6h

This would have been amazing. Our country is so sensitive to truthful discussions about slavery and racism.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 8h

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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ElizabethC @econklin44.bsky.social · 8h

Trump's appointees were all screened, many with lie detectors, to confirm their absolute loyalty to him personally. Any suggestion that an action or statement from him is inappropriate will be met with punishment, usually firing sometimes worse. #ProudBlue

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 8h

He finally got the election-denying MAGA A.G. he always dreamed of. Bondi was openly partisan, scornful & highly combative, her non-answers dripping with disdain. Very telling when she was asked if she'd seen the photos of her boss "with half-naked young women." PATHETIC
#ProtectingHerPedophilePrez

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 7h

This is why I love Chicago so much. Their “we will fuck with you” reserves are BOTTOMLESS.

NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 9h

This is amazing.

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Mark Sutter: Author @marksutterauthor.bsky.social · 6h

The weirdest thing I stumbled across today. There is a right-wing victory lap happening over a clip of Sylvester Stallone walking out of a Jimmy Kimmel interview. The problem? The whole story is AI generated and there isn’t actually a clip of the supposed incident, just an AI narrated video.

a man with a beard is sitting on a couch with the words it 's so dumb behind him

Alt: a man with a beard is sitting on a couch with the words it 's so dumb behind him

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 7h

Is it good when the commander in chief is untethered to reality?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 7h

I am canceling tonight's antifa pot luck due to the tumor I got from taking the measles vaccine. I appreciate privacy during this difficult time and whatnot.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 7h

The current paradigm of "AI"— all of its, e.g., embedded values, design, cultural deployment, & structural affordances— has been repeatedly demonstrated to harm both critical skills development & the structure & maintenance of the relational social fabric.

That sounds pretty anti-pedagogical, to me

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 7h

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

WATCH— @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social : “You’re doing this for clout. You’re not gonna talk over me. You voted for the big ugly bill that cut $1 Trillion from Medicaid & gave tax cuts to your billionaire donors.”

@repmikelawler tried to ambush Jeffries, who didn’t back down

(From DC examiner)

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 9h

Lord Heseltine, "The number of people aged below 50 who think it was right for us to leave the European Union, is less than 20%

"The latest polls tells us 56% now believe it was mistake to leave the European Union"

Hands up if you are one of the 56% 🙋‍♂️

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caffeine anxiety literal death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 9h

holy hell

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 9h

That we share this planet with people brave enough to join an unarmed flotilla attempting to get aid into Gaza but also with cowards as craven as these guys is really something of a wonder to behold.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 8h

He finally got the election-denying MAGA A.G. he always dreamed of. Bondi was openly partisan, scornful & highly combative, her non-answers dripping with disdain. Very telling when she was asked if she'd seen the photos of her boss "with half-naked young women." PATHETIC
#ProtectingHerPedophilePrez

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 8h

Twitter obviously fucking sucks and is run by racists, but, also, imagine being radicalized by awful AI images that all look like spread buttcheeks.

kate conger @kateconger.com · 10h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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