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Steel A Jeeg @dogbarkingbees.bsky.social · 5m

Which - to be clear - even if George Miller was making nothing but AI dreck, it wouldn't be as bad as Bill Burr cashing that blood soaked check.

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Steel A Jeeg @dogbarkingbees.bsky.social · 6m

It still sucks, and it reads like an endorsement - but it's far from the moral catastrophe of comedians showing up at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in the way people are treating it.

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Steel A Jeeg @dogbarkingbees.bsky.social · 12m

Please read the article and not just the headline

Miller isn't making AI movies, or using AI to generate anything (yet; but hopefully never)
He accepted an invitation to be a judge at an Australian AI film festival "out of intense curiosity" and a desire to see what the technology is capable of.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 21h

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 13h

One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs

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Saint Riot @saintriot.bsky.social · 1d

In Final Fantasy Tactics if a unit gains too much faith they leave your party to go find God. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you had Beast Tongue and got a monster unit to maximum faith? Of course you haven't. No one has.

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Rob From Flailthroughs @robflails.bsky.social · 2h

I've built all of them except Nika, who is on the pile. All quite nice!

I feel like it's important information to have out there for everyone that there is a model kit available of Chuchu Panlunch, Bigot Puncher.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 4h

Using Crunchyroll be like:

wheany @wheany.bsky.social · 4h

The difference between good software and bad software is that when good software gets an update, you get excited. "oh, what did they improve?"
When bad software gets an update, you feel dread. "oh no, what did they fuck up this time?"

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Isobel_Starling @isobelstarling.bsky.social · 20h

Shout this from the fucking rooftops, people!! #fuckAI

A meme that says 'petition to add this button to literally every app right now: Exclude AI
meme by @FLScience

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Ben Paddon @benpaddon.net · 6h

As I've been seeing more and more people sharing AI videos that they don't realize are AI, I'm going to share this again. And again. And I'll keep sharing it until people realize what's happening.

(Fine details = hair movement, flooring, fencing, tattoos, any repeating textures or patterns)

Ben Paddon @benpaddon.net · 1d

1. Is the video cropped?
2. Is it blurry?
3. Have they blurred or obscured a watermark?
4. Do the fine details remain consistent?
5. Is it actually believable, or do you just want to believe it?

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14h

I didn't know Mamdani's wife was a comics nerd! New York, you have to vote for him now because I need at least one person in comics to have good health insurance.

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Jun 25

This is Zoran Mamdami’s wife’s portfolio site and she is very good

HOME | Rama Duwaji

Rama Duwaji is a Syrian illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn, NYC.

www.ramaduwaji.com

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 11h

Thinking about my great uncle and how about a month before he passed away he covered his back in lard.

After that… man, he went downhill fast.

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Liam Jeffries @sorathecyclist.bsky.social · 8h

This is the absolute dream challenger to Jeffries. Please, please, please let this happen.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 11h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Rob From Flailthroughs @robflails.bsky.social · 6h

Even if the Supreme Court says it, it's still not true. It just means the Supreme Court is illegitimate and need not be obeyed any longer.

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gundampixel @gundampixel.bsky.social · 6h

It’s a little bit of a sad day, as Gundam.Info JP is ending its run as a separate site. 🥹 The site has been running for ~18 years and has been an incredible source of Japanese Gundam news by a team that clearly loves what they do.

Moving forward, news will be folded into gundam-official.com

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Rob From Flailthroughs @robflails.bsky.social · 6h

The number of people on Reddit claiming Miller "admitted" or "revealed" that Trump has absolute power is depressing.

What he "revealed" is that this is an argument the Nazis will be making in the near future that has no basis in fact or law, and we're not helped AT ALL by pretending it's real.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18h

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

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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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 18h

one thing I learned during 2020 is that "less than lethal" munitions are explicitly designed to be shot into the ground so they lose velocity and bounce up into people and the reason I didn't know that before is literally NO ONE has ever deployed them that way.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18h

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 7h

Bless the humble character actor, without whom none of the stories you dearly love would have been nearly as rich or cohesive.

Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 8h

RIP actor & Chicago native Ron Dean.

He interrogated Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, he dropped Andy off at detention in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, he was shot by Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT, he was Marty Crane's poker buddy on FRASIER, and so much more.

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Rob From Flailthroughs @robflails.bsky.social · 7h

Without looking up any footage after too many years of not playing DWG, I'm going to hazard a guess that there needed to be a joint there for the animation that the design itself was not really made for.

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Rob From Flailthroughs @robflails.bsky.social · 8h

I keep looking at the people in the goofy animal costumes at the protests and all I can think of is Alan Moore saying "V for Vendetta is explicitly about England and British fascism, Americans would be better off making their own story instead of adapting it."

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James Swift @jamesxswift86.bsky.social · 8h

One of the many #FreddyvsJason scripts that never got made would've been a PROCEDURAL COURTROOM DRAMA and I literally lament that every single day of my life

#MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn #TLDI #Shudder #JoeBobBriggs #ElmStreet #FearFest

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NEVER TRUMPER @jennyfmtheblock.bsky.social · 16h

Regarding Stephen Miller~

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 14h

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 20h

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Chuckanutter @speciatedtwit.bsky.social · 11h

I love that the local news station interviewed this hero while he was still in the frog suit.

www.youtube.com/shorts/g0kt6...

'Frog' protester recounts being pepper-sprayed at protest outside Portland ICE facility

YouTube video by KATU News

www.youtube.com

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 19h

Reminder as the Senate is set to vote again on re-opening the government that it is *entirely* within Republican ability to do so with zero Democratic votes.

The threshold is 50 votes, and they can simply set aside the filibuster for this vote if they so choose. They've done it before. Recently.

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