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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 14h

Dolly Parton called a press conference to clarify formally that no weapon formed against her will prosper

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13h

Because customer service chatbots are famously beloved by all. This definitely won’t devolve into dying people yelling “REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENTATIVE” and jamming the 0 button

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 1d

For 911 calls of the future, AI is on the line

AI might answer your 911 calls

By the end of next year, Montgomery County’s call center hopes to use artificial intelligence to answer nonemergency phone calls. The goal is to lighten the workload for a chronically understaffed center.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17h

Hey by the way, if you're into peer pressure, this person signed up for my newsletter. Doesn't it make you want to sign up for my newsletter too?

Of course it does!

This week you'll get a recipe for a lovely fall soup.

Please sign up! Make this Black Lady—and her editor—happy!

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Scare-ah Grave @sarahlynngrey.bsky.social · 17h

This 100% worked on me, thanks for mentioning! I had no idea you had a newsletter, and the soup is a very tempting bonus

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 19h

See, people think AI is useless, but without it this dude would have had to imagine burning down an entire neighborhood all by himself

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19h

The suspect accused of igniting the fire that destroyed LA's Pacific Palisades neighborhood allegedly used a ChatGPT prompt to show "a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it," months prior, officials say

Man arrested, faces federal charge in connection with Palisades Fire: DOJ

The fire caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles County and killed a dozen people earlier this year.

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Robert King @robertking.bsky.social · 22h

For what it’s worth:

Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.

The Ankler @theankler.com · 1d

The “GPT-5 pass” has gone from curiosity to mandate. Scripts, trailers, pitch decks are all being filtered through an AI model that remembers every draft and forgets what originality looks like. @erikbarmack.bsky.social on Hollywood’s uneasy reset:
theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 2d

You would have enjoyed the blind butter tasting party i threw earlier this year. 45 different butters tried and rated in one day.

People standing arohnd two tables covered in butter.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard

Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

www.vanityfair.com

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 1d

You could doomscroll, or you could literally go take a shower and then go to bed earlier than usual. One of those options will make you feel better than the other. You still deserve time to rest and recover.

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Scare-ah Grave @sarahlynngrey.bsky.social · 1d

I laughed so hard at this 😂 what a legend

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

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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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhere, the hair on Ben Wyatt’s neck just stood up

🫧 Kay Hanley 🫧 @kayhanley.bsky.social · 1d

Working on a full length Letters To Cleo album for the first time in almost 20 years and I'm glad it took this long. I love and appreciate this part of the job so much more now ♡

come see us w/ the cavedogs
11.19 Bowery Ballroom NYC
11.21-22Paradise Rock Club Boston

tix --> www.letterstocleo.net

concert poster with a green and yellow flowered hand grenade
letters to cleo w/ special guests The Cavedogs Nov 19 Bowery Ballroom NYC Nov 21 The Paradise Rock Club Nov 22 The Paradise Rock Club Boston

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Alexandra Rowland @alexandrarowland.bsky.social · 2d

There's a lot of received wisdom about what motivates readers to preorder, but I've been wondering if cold hard data can back that up -- so I'm doing SCIENCE!

Got ~20 minutes to do a survey on your preorder habits (or non-habits)? forms.gle/RhfegAyrAWcM...
Please signal boost for sample size! 📖✨

Reader Survey: What Drives Preorders?

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to participate in this survey! As an author, I've heard a lot of “received wisdom” about how preorders work for readers, what motivates someone to preorder, an...

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 1d

My disdain for authority was chastised a lot in my youth and now look at us lol

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Scare-ah Grave @sarahlynngrey.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite subtle moments in Severance is when we hear a line from a terrible self-help book asserting that the word "camaraderie" comes from the Latin word for "camera." Incredible, 10/10, obsessed

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

You can get my column emailed to you directly (no paywall!) by signing up here www.newyorker.com/newsletter/f...

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 3d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 2d

:V very kind summation and recc for my very normal space diving story!

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 2d

“Freediver” by @isabel.kim introduces a weird alternate world and a dangerous job, but its biggest questions are the personal ones—why sign up for danger, and can you trust others to let them put themselves at risk? reactormag.com/freediver-is...

Freediver - Reactor

A two-man team must risk a spacewalk when meteoroids threaten crucial portal-spanning telecommunications cables that hang a hundred meters beneath the ocean...and forty-five billion light years away.

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Scare-ah Grave @sarahlynngrey.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry that y'all are having to figure all of this out on the fly, with all the increasing shittiness that is happening on here. But I must admit that I am ecstatic at the idea of a Discord server maybe happening someday! And I'm relieved there will be other ways to keep up with y'all 💜

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 2d

He looks like he can hear you

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 2d

haha his little cardigan. lil picardi-cardi. picardigan.

jean-luc picard from TNG wearing a starfleet uniform in cardigan form

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Scare-ah Grave @sarahlynngrey.bsky.social · 3d

I thought you meant literally and for one moment I was absolutely like "hell yes I'll go get the cushions, can we have some cookies and a jewelry making party in there too?"

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

This week at an event for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, a reader asked in a gracious and cheeky way what I would hope white readers in particular would get out of the book. Or more directly, what I would TELL white readers. And this was basically my answer:

African-Americans are experts on America.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3d

America should listen to Black people

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