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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 20m

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 2h

Good morning from me and my babies* ❤️

*the maples in my front yard

🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 12h

It’s time 🍁

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 12h

It’s time 🍁

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

Yes, and, also, I still think it's likely an overall negative for society.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 13h

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 19h

Free shipping at bookshop.org today

Fuck prime day
Carry on

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 20h

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps.

Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice.

She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 20h

*Do* you hate to say it, tho?

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 22h

My (R) mayor just gave a press conference explicitly condemning the WH for shutting down the government and weaponizing federal agencies against Trump’s “enemies.” So I’m gonna log off now while I have this dose of sanity fresh in my veins. Later! 👋

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 22h

Addicted to Tub!

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Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social · 1d

Gavin Newsom would take a puppy from an orphan, rip the puppy apart with his bare hands and eat it while the orphan screamed if he thought it would win him one vote in Wisconsin.

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Certified Good Neighbor @jcoltkelly.bsky.social · 1d

If you think people are mad at Gavin Newsom now, just wait until he rides this strategy all the way to a crushing electoral defeat.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

bit.ly

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 1d

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna not watch this so hard

David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 1d

30 rock-ass game show www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/w...

Wordle Game Show in the Works at NBC, Savannah Guthrie Set to Host

Jimmy Fallon is among the producers of the project based on the New York Times game.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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The Lamps of Film Noir @noirlamps.bsky.social · 1d

This movie! 💥 ⁉️

Michael Sharp
PRO
THE AMERICAN
SOLDIER
The American Soldier 1970
***½
Watched Oct 7, 2025
If you don't make out in tragic slow motion with your brother's corpse on the floor of a train station locker room while your mom watches are you even noir?
Strictly for unrepentant postwar melancholics who drink their Ballantine's straight from the bottle.
[sidenote: There is an uncanny moment in this movie where a maid sits on the edge of a bed and starts telling a story and about twenty seconds in I'm like "I know this story ... this ... this is the plot of ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (a *later* Fassbinder film, what the actual fuck?)]

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 1d

Demented A.I. slop irl

HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY yard sign w/ ship sailing over “ocean” that is actually a U.S. flag 🇺🇸

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Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 2d

If there's somethin' strange in your neighborhood...

Meme image of a blue and white carton of Goats Butter, adorn with an illustration of a goat, sitting on a store shelf. Hand-written on the carton in sharpie are the words "Who you gonna call"

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 1d

One cool thing that everyone can do immediately, or, you know, soon, is stop talking about CBS in any way / shape / form. I’ve ignored them this long… please help me continue on my journey of blissful ignorance, ty

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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Adam Aaronson @aaronson.bsky.social · 1d

My second crossword for @billboard.com! Taylor Swift week continues apace

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 1d

This is stealth

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