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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever a businessperson says they want to “revolutionise” an industry what they mean is they want to reduce their labour costs. They don’t give a shit about quality or art or the consumer.

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 3d

Some democrats only display their humanity when it is politically convenient. For Newsom, the targets of ICE raids are (deservedly) people to fight for, but the homeless are not people they are animals whose meagre possessions are to be discarded like trash. Vile man.

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 3d

Just utterly vile. What a terrible human being. Homeless people deserve our compassion and help not our derision and brutality. I hope decent people in LA see this and punish Newsom at the polls next election. Any society with one homeless person is a failed society.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, we know

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 4d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 4d

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 7d

😂

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 7d

Why would Elon “turn things around” when the site is exactly the cesspool of stupidity, lies and hate he wants?

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine three years later thinking that Elon wants to "turn things around." Imagine staying on the platform that you admit is full of hatred. Why?

You don't have to stay there. You can go somewhere that gives you more power and control, rather than begging for Elon to fix things.

Paul Graham quote tweeting a tweet from Adnan Hussain.

Hussain's tweet: Yesterday I became a father. I shared a photo of my newborn daughter, and many of you sent beautiful messages. Thank you. But I’ve had to delete it. The vile racism and hate directed at an innocent soul less than a day old was beyond depraved.

Graham's quote tweet: There is something deeply wrong with Twitter. It has always been rough here, but in the past year it has become an even worse kind of nasty. Do you think maybe it's time to try to turn things around, Elon?

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 8d

Sounds fascinating. Keep in touch and maybe we could have someone present something at the space lunch seminars I run?

liu.se/en/research/...

Linköping Space Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences

The Research Node LSSH are doing multidisciplinary investigations of futurescapes on all aspects of space exploration and the space industry.

liu.se

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 9d

Teaching all morning, Lego Serious Play, on the urban planning masters program at @liu.se

Fun times!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11d

Literally an elderly man who watches too much Fox News and has lost his grip on reality. There are many people like him, but only one controls the most powerful military on earth.

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 11d

Just Security is a reputable and measured source of natsec legal analysis

if this FAQ weren't written by a military lawyer who teaches at Yale Law and published on JS I would write it off as the most paranoid possible take on next week's meeting but here we are

www.justsecurity.org/121421/hegse...

FAQ for Senior Military Officers at Hegseth's Quantico Meeting

Military justice expert Eugene Fidell answers crucial questions ahead of next week's senior military meeting with Secretary Hegseth.

www.justsecurity.org

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Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 12d

They keep saying this even though it is has never has been true. The academy has spent most of its history and power creating and promoting and teaching conservative views. When diversity entered the picture, in the smallest way, the right-wing backlash started.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Screenshot from the article: "Those programs share some of the blame for their own demise. They grew so opaque and politicized that they seemed irrelevant, if not hostile, to the larger society. Some things are true even though the Trump administration says they’re true—the academy has become inhospitable to conservative views. When more than half of your classmates are afraid to say what they think, there’s too much orthodoxy and not enough free expression."

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13d

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 14d

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Tesla

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 14d

Ruin a book with a car:

Cybertruck Out of Carolina

Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 14d

Ruin a book with a car:
Catcher in the Rivian

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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 14d

We've had an incredibly anxious night with wobbly baby Squiggle, but she's still with us & tentatively a bit better -- vet described her as "one hell of a fighter."

Please help us keep her fighting ❤️

gofund.me/662b94d7e

Donate to Giving little Squiggle the very best chance, organized by Holly Brockwell

In August, a tiny, fluffy powerhouse arrived at our rescue. Found in a fie… Holly Brockwell needs your support for Giving little Squiggle the very best chance

gofund.me

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 17d

Lovely 😆

Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 18d

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 17d

Don’t try to save the fascist women who prop it up, either. They made their bed.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 17d

An important read. The oppression of women goes hand in hand with fascist removal of safety nets.

Men who don’t support the freedom and equality of women should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

Claire Beauchamp MD 🇨🇦 @clairebeauchampmd.bsky.social · 17d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
@donbraid.bsky.social @calgaryherald.com

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why fascist strongmen rely on women at home

Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies

www.theguardian.com

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Anthony Albanese @albomp.bsky.social · 17d

My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

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Fuzzy Mike @fuzzymike.bsky.social · 17d

we're in a national crisis because everyone hates conservatives so much nobody will date them and their families refuse to talk to them; but also we're in a national crisis because our institutions are liberals who don't realize how out of touch they are with the overwhelmingly conservative public

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17d

Conservative men are apparently pretending to be liberal and then "coming out" to their progressive girlfriends after dating for months

Conservative Men keep LYING because no one will date them...

YouTube video by Happy Pancake

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 17d

That’s a very slow hyperspace in the background

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18d

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts.

Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 18d

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

www.msnbc.com

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jag @i-am-j.ag · 23d

What Charlie Kirk and Jesus have in common is that American Christofascists absolutely hate it when you quote them directly.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23d

An award-winning university professor got fired for posting a screenshot of a Newsweek article that directly quoted Charlie Kirk without any additional commentary on his personal social media

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23d

absolutely repugnant, gutfeld completely dismisses the assassination of melissa hortman, calls it a "bull shit" example of political violence

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Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 19d

Everyone keeps quoting Andor, which is great. Andor shows we'll never stop fascism with speeches and votes in the imperial senate. Real resistance requires sabotage, rallying allies of the rebellion at a secret base, and destroying the empire's genocidal weapons.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19d

This really is worth your time. Well done, @thedailyshow.com

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 19d

This is very funny

Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

www.youtube.com

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