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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 1h

It’s a cocoa and buttered toast kind of a morning. Gray and colder. >.<

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1h

I made a list of Native songs by Native artists on tidal. It has punk, throat singer, R&B, pop, a little bit of everything.

Related, I noticed that a bunch of the artists don't have their albums on Tidal anymore, anyone know what's up with that? Did I miss something?

tidal.com/playlist/e2a...

Natives

Playlist - Natives - 58 items

tidal.com

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 4h

sociology and anthropology are dangerous to them, because those fields help us understand the power dynamics, ethics, and human cost of what the industries they like better are doing.
Performing arts is hugely important for the economy, but it doesn't benefit them directly.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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cootie cavanagh @katie.hipopener.com · 11h

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Dolly Parton's sister Freida is asking for prayers for the country music icon amid the singer's string of health issues.
"Last night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn't been feeling her best lately," Freida wrote via Facebook alongside a photo of Dolly on Tuesday.
"I truly believe in the power of prayer, and I have been lead to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me."

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 11h

I wish I could say it was an original idea but I’ve seen a story of someone doing just that on… tumblr, I think. So it came to mind. 😂

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Ana Visneski @oceanbound.bsky.social · 13h

As a comms pro- bravo on this thread. This is how you communicate this sort of thing.

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 14h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 13h

So, checked the records back to May. A single session of 47 minutes, all less than 37 otherwise, some as low as 15 minutes, all billed at the full hour per aetna.

We got a shitshow on our hands.

FFS.

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 14h

Confirmed, he's been billing for a full hour.

Jesus Christ.

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 13h

I am going to be so pissed off if NOW is when we lose Dolly Parton.

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 13h

USE THE CHICKEN PAPER. USE THE CHICKEN PAPER. isotropic.org/papers/chick...

isotropic.org

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 15h

Could you twist it shut and use a bread clip to close it?

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 16h

You know that quote that says "The only piece of technology I have in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize"?

Don't trust printers.

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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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 16h

And one they should teach in tech programs. So programmers and developers can work with QA and each other if nothing else.

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 16h

I came to tech from an education in the humanities and a long-standing hobby of fucking around with computer languages, and I don't think I properly appreciated how much tech folks don't get trained in How To Talk And Write About What I'm Doing until I started teching professionally.

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 17h

I think what he means is they don't contribute to the dataset the AI uses, but what he's actually saying is "Tech People Take Some Goddamn Communications Courses Fucking Hell."

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 17h

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 1d

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 2d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 17h

What a waste of several good fortunes.

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 17h

... someone MARRIED her?

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 2d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19h

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 21h

this is so fucking gross i don’t even have words to process how fucking gross it is

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 21h

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22h

I wonder if history has any lessons about what happens when large concentrations of armed soldiery stop getting paid.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22h

Okay so you have the National Guard deployed to several American cities and plan on sending them to more, so is the plan to actually not pay these people and just find out what happens?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 22h

US House Speaker Johnson: Some legal analysts don't believe in shutdown backpay.

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 23h

Not in the least bit kidding, that headline's been pissing me off for a week.

On a background of someone holding Amazon branded packages, a headline: "Prime Day Is Back. And even if you don't need more stuff, these deals are hard to skip."

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 23h

Meanwhile, in another headline: "You May Not Need More Stuff But Here's How You Can Buy A Bunch Of Shit You Don't Need From Amazon And Contribute To Unnecessary Shipping Waste And Climate Killing Carbon"

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 1d

Retrieval operations necessary?

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