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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote.

zohranfornyc.com/register

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 7d

The Birch Aquarium put a giant skeleton in their kelp tank.

Two divers assemble a 12 foot tall human skeleton.

Two divers and an assembled 12 foot tall human skeleton.

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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 7d

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

Opinion | The moment I knew the world would try to move on from Jamal Khashoggi

I could see it coming at Time’s 2018 Person of the Year celebration.

wapo.st

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 7d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

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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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 7d

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.

Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 7d

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 7d

A thing that genuinely makes me angry is Europeans who don’t tip when they visit America even though they know about tips in America and then are just like “oh well we don’t have a tipping culture because we pay our servers so well”

First- do you?? And Second- rude and exploitative

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7d

Trump's FCC yesterday voted to kill a program that provided free Wi-Fi to rural school kids at no cost to taxpayers, falsely claiming the program was "illegal" and was being used to "censor Conservative ideology."

FCC moves to end discounts for Wi-Fi hotspot lending and school bus connectivity

The Federal Communications Commission voted to end discounts for library and school Wi-Fi hotspot lending programs on Tuesday, drawing criticism from lawmakers and librarians who say the move will mak...

apnews.com

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 7d

If the federal government is going to withhold funding from the country’s most prosperous city for nakedly political reasons, why should that city still pay federal taxes? It’s a question we’re going to have to wrestle with.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 7d

LET'S GET READY TO LITIGATE

*US PAUSES $18B IN NYC INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING: VOUGHT
*US PAUSES HUDSON TUNNEL, SECOND AVE SUBWAY FUNDING: VOUGHT
*US PAUSES NYC PROJECT FUNDING BECAUSE OF DEI CONCERNS: VOUGHT

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d

maybe the single worst thing about aging is that as they get older most people grow much more circumspect about crushes. excited chatter about crushes has dropped off every year since i turned 30. where are people finding all this restraint?!

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 8d

Since it clearly needs to be said:

If you used an AI cover for your handcrafted selfpub novel, it's not too late to change it! Please do!

We all want to read your work - and that won't happen while you use AI.

You can find 1000s of free stock images online.

Consider this an industry PSA.

a gnome with a sign that says ai images are not art

Alt: a gnome with a sign that says ai images are not art

media.tenor.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7d

Really. Keep in mind AT&T makes a TON of money both ripping off rural communities with expensive cellular (often the only connection anybody can get), but ALSO ripping off school subsidy programs.

Free government Wi-Fi is a threat to them in multiple ways.

‘There has to be an accounting’: Former AT&T lawyer says company systemically overcharged neediest schools

www.washingtonpost.com

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 8d

yes

"soft wood" bitch mahogany™ @dommedeluise.bsky.social · 8d

i dont think i can be moved from my position that the vast majority of post-, like, 2003 tech has been a massive net negative on humanity

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botanical barbie @hemingwaymuse.bsky.social · 8d

hello goblins buy some of my art

botanical barbie @hemingwaymuse.bsky.social · Aug 28

if you think my paintings only glow during the day as the sun hits them you're in for a pleasant surprise

let them haunt your walls day and night ✨

The longhorn painting set up on an easel in my dark dining room, it catches the warm glow from the room next to it's twinkle lights reflecting back the beautiful golden longhorn and shimmery Spanish moss

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9d

Content creators tend to think any spectacle is defensible if they can say health and safety concerns have been attended to behind the scenes, but that’s not really it imho. Mr. Beast’s whole thing is that his subjects’ desperation for cash allows him—a wealthier person—to indulge his sadism.

@KillaKreww
MrBeast had a contestant TRAPPED inside a BURNING house to win $500,000 in his new video [link]

@MrBeast
This blew up, if you're curious obviously we had ventilation for the smoke and a kill switch to cut off the fires. We had professionals test this extensively and the guy in the video as stated is a professional stunt man. I take safety more serious than you could ever imagine.

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✨void screaming🪐 @orchidtreks.bsky.social · 8d

Don’t like the sound of that

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 8d

At least everyone’s electric bills are going up for the good cause of letting a handful of creeps run an art stealing business

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 8d

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers.

In Virginia, it’s 37%.

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

AI Data Centers Use a Lot of Energy. You May Be Paying for It

AI data centers are pushing up energy costs all over the US. On today’s Big Take podcast: an investigation into who's footing the bill.

www.bloomberg.com

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Grumpy Old Nord @grumpyoldnord.bsky.social · 8d

www.paypal.me/grumpyoldnord

Pay Grumpy Old Nord using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/grumpyoldnord and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

www.paypal.me

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Grumpy Old Nord @grumpyoldnord.bsky.social · 8d

In roughly 6.5 hours, my internet will be shut off for failure to make payment. I am only about $10 short of being able to pay the bill. Please, if you can help at all, I could really use your aid. Links to contribute below.🙏

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9d

In four days, we could be seeing an unhinged event every eight hours, until they are coming every four minutes. darth, we should witness a double event within seven days.

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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · 9d

ko-fi.com/dreamingnoct...

Hiiiii
Still trying to meet my goal. Rent is due soon, and I forgot that the payment arrangement for my phone is due today, as is my contribution to the internet bill…

Anything at all helps. Thanks so much~