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Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 13h

OpenAI expects to require more energy within 8 years than India, a country of 1.5 billion people.

Maybe the Trump admin shouldn't be canceling all these renewable energy projects?

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Morgan Fahey @morganfahey.bsky.social · 14h

Hi, @variety.com. Is it your editorial stance that "a show consumed by middle-class Resistance moms" is acceptable unattributed and undefined journalistic language? Do you think you might at least want to present the actual data on that, AS A TRADE JOURNAL FOR THE MEDIA? variety.com/2025/biz/new...

Inside Bari Weiss’ $150 Million Journey From Rejected ‘View’ Host to CBS News Editor-in-Chief: ‘She’s Just Gaming the System’

How Bari Weiss sold The Free Press for $150 Million, charmed the superrich and became CBS News editor-in-chief.

variety.com

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Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 15h

great, thanks for clarifying.

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Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 17h

"Professional" is the original "woke." It originally meant something concrete to someone, but eventually it just became this word for people to complain about stuff they don't like.

My first place I worked, someone complained about the smell of microwave popcorn being unprofessional.

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Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 1d

Where is that data from?

I see this on uscourts.gov.

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Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 1d

The leaves don't change in October here, the temperature doesn't drop. This is the only sign that it's fall.

Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 1d

It's time.

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Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 1d

Me, a dumb person: "Investing is really just gambling."

You, a financial genius: "That is overly simplistic. Investing is nothing like gambling. You are so dumb."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NYSE Owner to Invest $2 Billion in Betting Platform Polymarket

Intercontinental Exchange Inc., owner of the New York Stock Exchange, plans to invest as much as $2 billion in cash in Polymarket, a crypto-based betting platform.

www.bloomberg.com

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 3d

My kid just this morning asked me why there's so much stuff named after Hoover even tho he sucked ass

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke

this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

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Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 4d

Go Bears

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Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 4d

Now comedians need their own "I ain't going to play Sun City" super group music video.

Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 5d

What if I burn a magazine that has a photo of an American flag in it?

What if I bleach an American flag and rip it to pieces?

What other objects are exceptions to our First Amendment rights?

These were questions we pondered as *children*.

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Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 5d

When I was 16, I wrote a paper for class against the flag burning amendment that President Bush wanted by asking, "If I make a flag but it only has 10 stripes and 29 stars, and then I burn that, have I broken the law?"

None of these people in power have the sense of a 16-year-old.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 5d

Oh he can just unilaterally pass unconstitutional laws now huh ok

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Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 5d

Puffy gets pardoned between Christmas Eve and New Year's.

Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 6d

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Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 6d

Most of this is probably people just sick of the ads.

John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 6d

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

www.pewresearch.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 6d

Every day, the Riyadh Comedy Festival feels more and more like when Shein brought those credulous fashion TikTokkers to China to tour a fake showcase factory, and then they made videos like "I wish we could all work in Shein factories."

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

CHAPELLE, in Riyadh: “It’s easier to talk here than it is in America.”

@thr.com
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

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Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 6d

The President is handing out hats that say "TRUMP 2028" on them.

This is Trump pledging to remain in office *after his term ends*.

It's not a "third term." Stop calling it that! It's the end of terms as a concept. It's the end of the constitutional republic.

Photo posted to Truth Social by @realDonaldTrump that includes a TRUMP 2028 hat on his desk

Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 7d

Yep! That's also been the argument for CSAM 3d art and even drawings for years.

I have not had reason to look into the case law on this.

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Emey of the fog monsters @meyerson.bsky.social · 7d

And I have already unintentionally seen my first "leaked n00ds" of Ms. Norwood, so it's all happening at a blistering pace.

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