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Just a guy raising some pets. Former professor of American history who loves to talk politics and Magic the Gathering. He/him.

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · Dec 23

“AIs talking to AIs, both sides trying to scam the other” is the inevitable final destination of the technology

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 2h

30 years ago today, we first heard “In the Garden of Eden” by I. Ron Butterfly. "Bart Sells His Soul," first aired October 8, 1995.

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 3h

The WaPo is dead and I honestly feel bad for the good journalists chained to the Bezos propaganda machine for their livelihood and healthcare

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 3h

This is a dark ass videogame story

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 5h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 3h

I don’t know why it took til October to get them to finally adopt this but better late than never

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 4h

Yes and this rock keeps tigers away

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 6h

You’re literally just advocating the Dem side Marge

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 6h

America sadly has a pretty long history of targeting people for being against facism too soon, as we saw during the HUAC blacklist era

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 6h

“You must exercise independent professional judgment” then what the fuck am I paying you for

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 8h

Nick: "Vibe lawyering means you can chat naturally about your legal needs and watch contracts be created or reviewed in seconds."

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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 8h

"They killed Charlie Kirk, the least you can do is give me a free Crunchwrap Supreme®"

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 9h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

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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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 10h

It’s the 80s

Do a lot of coke and vote for Ronald Reagan

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 13h

Parliamentary system. Expand representation so no more than 500000 constituents per rep, create automatic dismissal and snap election if they can’t complete a budget bill.

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah a complete overhaul to rid us of the electoral college and the Senate would be nice

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 14h

I’m sorry, the problem is that you’ve driven the people who do the work away, and your solution is to…LOWER the wages of the people who do the work to make it even less attractive

If they were trying to create an American famine, what would they do differently

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 15h

Merrick Garland deserves to live in shame as much as Bondi will

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 15h

Such a piece of shit

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 22h

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 15h

Oh, the lady who inspired the self-loathing black Neo Nazi school shooter

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 15h

Congress can stop this whenever they want but Speaker Mike has decided to go all in on king pedophile

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 16h

YouTube and Google both need monopoly busting

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 16h

Why would CNN help cover this up

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 17h

I’ll be real I’m surprised Illinois under Normal isnt considered southern based on the number of confederate flags I still see

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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