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Jim
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ revivalist. new in berlin, looking forward to becoming a cliche
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pure-jim.bsky.social
it's never good to see your club doing the rounds of as an incisive deep read
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
West Ham tumble in modern football’s vortex, with home now a distant memory | Jonathan Liew
A feeling of loss and dislocation surrounds the East End club, which has never been part of tourist or establishment London
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
pure-jim.bsky.social
autumn is the most jazz coded of seasons
September 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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cara.city
technical Bsky question: for all the bans that happened yesterday, are they on the level of the Relay or AppView?
September 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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jcoglan.com
has It happened. is It happening
September 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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snufkinlib.bsky.social
He’s managed to do an exact beat for beat copy of this cartoon
August 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
pure-jim.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM8Q...
I'm like pizza hut you're like pizza gogo
CORTEIZ X BBK
YouTube video by ManBetterKnow
www.youtube.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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taxjustice.net
If the news is making wild claims about millionaires fleeing, who you gonna call?
#TaxTheSuperRich
taxjustice.net/2025/07/24/t...
July 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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jcoglan.com
"the actions of industry render your own choices meaningless" is a narrative cooked up to rid you of hope and give in to nihilism
July 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
pure-jim.bsky.social
some of these plays will be fake, but the sad truth at the heart of AI art is that people really do like slop
janus.bsky.social The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · Jul 8
an AI band was surfaced by the spotify algorithm and got millions of plays and when people called it out a grifter pretending to be the band was like “no we are human” and a bunch of media outlets fell for it.

in case you somehow needed another reason to get tf off spotify.
The Velvet Sundown’s AI saga is 2025’s weirdest music story
What is going on with The Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated country band with one million Spotify listeners and a very complicated backstory?
www.thefader.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
pure-jim.bsky.social
maybe it's all the time I spent living in Glasgow, but this is a suspicious fire
June 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.

Well said.
June 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
pure-jim.bsky.social
banning pal action sets a terrifying precedent for what Reform will do when they are in charge. Instead of shoring up the foundations of our freedoms, the UK is stripping them away
June 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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theonion.com
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.
theonion.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
pure-jim.bsky.social
decided I'm having a minor identity crisis, I think most people do that before they move to Berlin
June 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
pure-jim.bsky.social
sad news about liverpool. Hope some day people will realise just how dangerous cars are and why we can't let them near pedestrians
May 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
pure-jim.bsky.social
shit's fucked
May 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
pure-jim.bsky.social
the new pope will still be a pope
May 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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astrokatie.com
Bleak.

nymag.com/intelligence...
Text from article: It’ll be years before we can fully account for what all of this is doing to students’ brains. Some early research shows that when students off-load cognitive duties onto chatbots, their capacity for memory, problem-solving, and creativity could suffer. Multiple studies published within the past year have linked AI usage with a deterioration in critical-thinking skills; one found the effect to be more pronounced in younger participants. In February, Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University published a study that found a person’s confidence in generative AI correlates with reduced critical-thinking effort. The net effect seems, if not quite Wall-E, at least a dramatic reorganization of a person’s efforts and abilities, away from high-effort inquiry and fact-gathering and toward integration and verification. This is all especially unnerving if you add in the reality that AI is imperfect — it might rely on something that is factually inaccurate or just make something up entirely — with the ruinous effect social media has had on Gen Z’s ability to tell fact from fiction. The problem may be much larger than generative AI. The so-called Flynn effect refers to the consistent rise in IQ scores from generation to generation going back to at least the 1930s. That rise started to slow, and in some cases reverse, around 2006. “The greatest worry in these times of generative AI is not that it may compromise human creativity or intelligence,” Robert Sternberg, a psychology professor at Cornell University, told The Guardian, “but that it already has.” (Katie's added note: the sentences about reorganization of abilities and telling fact from fiction have been highlighted.)
May 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
pure-jim.bsky.social
new guardian layout is bad

@ journalists
May 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
pure-jim.bsky.social
building something extraordinarily ambitious, but hoping to learn a lot while doing so
May 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
pure-jim.bsky.social
would really like Berlin to do this
April 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
pure-jim.bsky.social
I got it wrong, my bad. Just wasn't logged into X. Why do you have replies turned off? I feel like quotes are much more combative
darthputinkgb.bsky.social Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · Apr 1
He did. Link below.

Your apology is accepted.
April 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
pure-jim.bsky.social
getting a really good feeling about summer this year
March 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM