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Trying my best. Casual spy. vfx artist. https://duck.haus/@powerllama he/him. avatar from https://bsky.app/profile/pantspants.bsky.social

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austin @powerllama.com · Jul 1

dudes just want one thing and it's weird keyboard layouts

austin @powerllama.com · 10h

someone should FOIA his dm's

austin @powerllama.com · 14h

what!

austin @powerllama.com · 15h

Howdy

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 18h

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 18h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 18h

“Among the evidence that was collected from his digital devices was an image he generated on ChatGPT depicting a burning city”

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 18h

Authorities arrested an Uber driver suspected of intentionally starting the fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades and killed 12 people.

Read more www.latimes.com/california/s...

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austin @powerllama.com · 19h

according to SFA, out of the 6000 bills that have passed his desk only 2 have been pocket signed. And they think those were probably accidents. so it doesn’t happen very often!

austin @powerllama.com · 1d

whadda a we got there mike

austin @powerllama.com · 1d

yakety sax song is appropriate here

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

austin @powerllama.com · 1d

i think a new front in this battle is the trump admin pulling funding for all 7 hydrogen hubs in the country. at one point these hydrogen trains could be seen as supporting american industry, but no more heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

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austin @powerllama.com · 1d

happened like two days ago

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austin @powerllama.com · 1d

excited to be flying to PDX on Thursday

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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The 2020 Census was a fraud. The Biden admin used a shady "privacy" formula that scrambled the data and miscounted 14 states.
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Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and l'm fighting to fix it.
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Consus data plays a crucial role in allocating political roprescntation and goverment funding
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austin @powerllama.com · 1d

@damientypes.bsky.social correct if i'm wrong, but i think if the gov doesn't act on the law it's a pocket signing, not a pocket veto californiaglobe.com/fr/what-can-...

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

every time you read a story about how no-strings-attached direct payments to vulnerable, marginalized or otherwise needy people are a big net profit to the society disbursing them, and you ask "why doesn't america do that?", please know that this is the answer why

mac from always sunny saying "but who versus? who are we doing it versus?" because he cannot understand a plan that does not have a victim

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austin @powerllama.com · 2d

Grim Reaper: hell yeah

austin @powerllama.com · 2d

for some reason garbage collection dumped a bunch of extra new bins at our complex and we called for them to pick them up. "we'll get them on friday" like a month ago. now people are dumping all of their trash in there

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Max Read @maxread.info · 5d

genuinely think OBAA is the best major-studio car movie in years maxread.substack.com/p/the-oscar-...

One Battle After Another is a political thriller, an action movie, and a family melodrama. It is also, unexpectedly but importantly, a car movie. By this I mean, on the simplest level, that it is a great movie through which to Remember Some Cars. I was thrilled, for example, at the sudden appearance of a 2005 Toyota Yaris1, driven by Willa Ferguson’s friends to pick her up for the dance:

But obviously the car choices in O.B.A.A. are meaningful beyond the simple pleasure of seeing semi-forgotten, enjoyably non-iconic cars like the XP90 Yaris or the tenth-generation T-Bird on-screen. Unlike most major-studio Hollywood movies, where the budgetary relief promised by automotive product placement generally results in prominently displayed late-model carslop, the cars in O.B.A.A. are deliberately chosen, specific and textually rich, vehicles (no pun intended) for characterization, texture, and meaning. A 20-year-old beater hatchback packed full of teenagers is, of course, precisely the car in which Willa should get picked up. But more than that, the subcompact Yaris, a car notoriously popular everywhere in the world except the U.S., where its size makes it a harder sell, stands in distinct contrast to the shiny Ford F-250 we see Captain Stephen Lockjaw driving--by himself--toward the end of the first act.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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austin @powerllama.com · 2d

ah well shit, this was the one i was using. your link works tho, thanks! ezproxy.lapl.org/login?url=ht...

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 2d

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austin @powerllama.com · 2d

as usual, @edzitron.com called it

austin @powerllama.com · 2d

hype up people with bodycam footage of pikachu getting arrested, put in "guardrails" that could have been there from the beginning because you're burning way too much on compute and losing money. what revenue is there to share here exactly? copyrightlately.com/openai-backt...

austin @powerllama.com · 2d

what revenue is there to share, exactly?

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3d

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · Sep 6

“The senior administration official, as well as other Trump officials, note that it is a priority of the president’s that these kinds of military deployments — in L.A., and now D.C., in times of relative calm — become normalized in American political culture”

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

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