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sarahofswords.bsky.social
Sarah M.
@sarahofswords.bsky.social
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dilettante, lover of languages and books, grumpy technologist, former freelance photojournalist, occasional mini painter dyspeptic and unpopular bons mots deleted frequently
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 9h
"It is strange to note, how we have insensibly slid into this beginning of a Civil War, by one unexpected Accident after another, as Waves of the Sea, which have brought us thus far."

Bulstrode Whitelocke
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 7h
GWOT translation : sounds like they're going to torture a woman for information
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 8h
Who knew that Django Unchained (2012) was going to be a film that couldn't be made today?
a man wearing a cowboy hat and scarf stands in the snow with hot dogs flying around him
ALT: a man wearing a cowboy hat and scarf stands in the snow with hot dogs flying around him
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 9h
like a dang Space Marine. Could even have an SCBA in there with extra air filters
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 9h
"Of a potent people we shall make our selves weak, and be the Instruments of our own ruine, perditio tua exte, will be said to us; we shall burn our own houses, lay waste our own fields, pillage our own goods, open our own veins, and eat out our own bowels."
sarahofswords.bsky.social
Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 9h
"the Ignoble will rule the Noble, and Baseness will be preferred before Vertue, Profaneness before Piety."
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 9h
"We must surrender up our Laws, Liberties, Properties and Lives into the hands of insolent Mercenaries, whose rage and violence will com∣mand us, and all we have, and Reason, Honour and Justice will leave our Land;"
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 9h
"And we scarce know how, but from Paper Combates, by Declarations, Remonstrances, Protestations, Votes, Messages, Answers and Replies ..."
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 9h
"It is strange to note, how we have insensibly slid into this beginning of a Civil War, by one unexpected Accident after another, as Waves of the Sea, which have brought us thus far."

Bulstrode Whitelocke
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 16h
"There we go. Look right there." (points at guy dancing in chicken costume)
Sicario rooftop scene
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 16h
lizard brain: "what do you mean _post_ traumatic. All I see here is traumatic."
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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 21h
my lizard brain has never been more smug
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 17h
small capillary damage says heyyyy
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 19h
hahah our elf princess
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 1d
"¿Cómo hacemos para salir de ese círculo sin salida? Pues enfrentando el espejo y preguntándole cuáles de nuestros creencias nos están traicionando."

Rita Segato, _Contra-pedagogías de la crueldad_ (2018)

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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 1d
media Kremlinology is so depressing that you can be forgiven for hallucinating that Weiss was married to Sally Bowles and not Nellie Bowles
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d
an underrated part of the Bari Weiss story is that her wife is a California heiress to two different family dynasties.

www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 1d
Jiminy Cricket
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Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social · 1d
I think we should create an “empathy machine” that makes people’s minds feel the same fear and pain as the innocent people they pass judgement on.
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 1d
This is spoliation, in the WW2 meaning of terms like "la spoliation des biens."

Mostly the regime has been swiping public goods, but also tried to steal the independent nonprofit USIP's DC headquarters for Elon Musk.
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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 1d
10% tariffs (aka our extra taxes) are fine, getting zapped by Russia-level metal tariffs or broker fees from shippers are not. Glad they've got it worked out! I believe Perry also has this handled through the post.
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 1d
Taking a Waymo now is like taking an Uber a decade or more ago: an investor-subsidized experience you'd be financially irresponsible to not take advantage of
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 1d
tl;dr you don't need AI to have slop, it can be hand-crafted too.
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 1d
This is the core infrastructure of most of the changes in the last twenty years (possibly along with cell towers and oil exploration / exploitation tech).

Making it appear as a conspiracy benefits opinion substacks as well as the tech companies themselves.
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 1d
"This is all too complicated and sinister" has been a feature of discussing datacenter construction since at least the 2008(?) Harper's infographic on Google's buildings in The Dalles (OR).
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 1d
There are hundreds of experts at public and private companies who discuss what datacenters cost to build and run.

Thanks to recent layoffs, there are dozens of them who are reasonably available to talk to.
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 1d
Traditionally the gap between what the writer or the general public knows and what an expert knows is bridged through something called "journalism"
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d
Something I'm coming to realise: everybody talks about megawatts and gigawatts of data centers but there is no real consensus on what that means. Is it power? Is it compute?

Also: nobody can/will/wants to talk about what these things cost to run
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 1d
By removing the web-accessible citation they remove the ability of the laziest 95% of commentators to directly link, dunk, or screenshot. This is a social media regime.
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 1d
Now hoping that the folks at Empress have solved any issues with shipping to the USA.
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