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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2h

Ok everyone, I’m assigning you your resistance homework for the week.

Everyone ready?

Do something silly that makes you smile. I just waved at a dog that had its head out the car window because it made me happy. Don’t let the assholes take your joy.

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Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 2h

Jim Lee promises that DC will never use AI, saying "AI doesn't dream, feel, or make art."

Iconic Artist Jim Lee Takes Firm Anti-AI Stance at DC Comics

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 2h

This one has two former EC artists, Reed Crandall & George Evans.

The Twilight Zone #21 (1967). The cover shows two men in a small boat. One is rowing and the other is holding a boy and a lantern. It is night and there is a lighthouse in the background. There is also a small photo of Rod Serling.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2h

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 · 12h

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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Barb @spicedrum.bsky.social · 2h

Yaaaaay extremely happy for you!!!!!!!!!!

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 2h

fraggle rock coordinates

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12d

3. In the age of authoritarianism, think about how this much fusing of information is a ticking time bomb (that's probably already gone off) for retribution against people for their First Amendment protected activities, not to mention retroactive prosecutions for things not criminalized yet.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12d

2. No mention of the harms this can cause. Like policing generally, this tech is only being deployed a fraction of the time to address serious crime. What does it do the other 22 hours of the day and how will marginalized communities suffer for it?

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12d

A few found cars is enough to appease folks that mass surveillance is OK for those small wins but here are the important takeaways: 1. Police are so shockingly cozy with the multi-billion dollar companies that sell surveillance tech that you have to ask who is actually making policy.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12d

Big takeaway here is a mass erosion of barriers between governmental and corporate data collection/surveillance--and the idea that the one-off surveillance of walking past a single CCTV camera is over, the consolidation of ALL data means true mass surveillance from 100 redundant pieces of data.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 1d

Please don’t say he is not trained. Border Patrol agents do this on the border all the time. Agents at my station used to throw rocks into car windows that sometimes made them crash. They think it us funny. It’s not training in the academy, but in the field.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Barb @spicedrum.bsky.social · 3h

(ruh-VAN-uh)

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4h

Pretty sure Eleanor Roosevelt is dead

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 5h

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Barb @spicedrum.bsky.social · 3h

LOLOL

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 4h

"Willis Tower."

It's pronounced "Sears."

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Barb @spicedrum.bsky.social · 3h

Ravenna

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 5h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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PJR23 @stixx23.bsky.social · 3h

I hear she has supported school bands as well: www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...

Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'

Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

Me: You don’t have Columbus Day off?
Wife: No.
13yo: What’s Columbus Day?
Wife: Indigenous people day.
13yo: oh, we have that off. Sorry you don’t mommy. Daddy, did you know Christopher Columbus sucked?
Me: :).

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RevDaniel 🇨🇦 @revdaniel.bsky.social · 13h

This is why I deleted my Facebook account.

Yes I can be friends with people who I disagree with politically. But that means disagreements like “should more or less tax money go to this department or that one?”

It doesn’t mean “are these people human, or not?”

Meme saying: It depressed the hell out of me that people I used to consider friends have turned into people I wouldn’t tell where Anne Frank was hiding.”

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Barb @spicedrum.bsky.social · 3h

Seeing this video is a relief.

RevDaniel 🇨🇦 @revdaniel.bsky.social · 3h

“I’m not dying. God isn’t done with me.”

Awww. God bless and keep you, Dolly 🙏🏼❤️

I ain’t dead yet!

YouTube video by Dolly Parton

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RevDaniel 🇨🇦 @revdaniel.bsky.social · 3h

“I’m not dying. God isn’t done with me.”

Awww. God bless and keep you, Dolly 🙏🏼❤️

I ain’t dead yet!

YouTube video by Dolly Parton

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Barb @spicedrum.bsky.social · 3h

Have always liked knowing she specifically invested some of the money Whitney made her into a Black community.

Dolly Invested Royalties From Whitney's 'I Will Always Love You' In A Black Community

"It was mostly just Black families and people that lived around there," Dolly Parton said. "And I thought, 'This is the perfect place for me to be, considering it was Whitney.' "

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3h

I remember reading about her buying one of her collaborator/friend's music collections from a record label and then just gifting it to him

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4h

Dolly Parton has been a good person all her life. She does so many kind things for people. Compare that to someone like JK Rowling who wakes up every day and decides to be an absolute asshole.

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Barb @spicedrum.bsky.social · 3h

Almost didn't want to post it because now the secret is out.

Happy to be the Matthew Lillard of the flick, tho.

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