Ted
@tedffz.bsky.social
Writer, editor, volunteer coordinator, currently hunting the Midgar Zolom
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Alright besties: we’ve got another union walkout tomorrow, timed with the Oscar noms announcement. Don’t click on any links from Vanity Fair, Vogue, Bon Appetit, GQ, Glamour, Self, Allure, Teen Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, etc: ✊ www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Condé Nast Union Members Launch 24-Hour Walkout Amid Layoff Talks
More than 400 workers at Vanity Fair, Vogue, Condé Nast Entertainment, Bon Appétit and other brands are walking out on Tuesday to protest bargaining practices the union alleges are unlawful.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
January 23, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Alright besties: we’ve got another union walkout tomorrow, timed with the Oscar noms announcement. Don’t click on any links from Vanity Fair, Vogue, Bon Appetit, GQ, Glamour, Self, Allure, Teen Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, etc: ✊ www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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This is an amazing story. Houston criminalized feeding the homeless, Food not Bombs continued to do so, the city has ticketed them dozens of times and occasionally arrested members but hasn’t been able to get a single conviction. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Food Not Bombs trial rescheduled after too many jurors objected to $500 fine for feeding homeless
Roughly 90 tickets have been issued since March to volunteers with the loosely organized Food Not Bombs, which serves meals to people in need.
www.houstonchronicle.com
January 22, 2024 at 6:54 PM
This is an amazing story. Houston criminalized feeding the homeless, Food not Bombs continued to do so, the city has ticketed them dozens of times and occasionally arrested members but hasn’t been able to get a single conviction. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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The “everything” in “everything app” is all the data they want to collect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
X Plans to Collect User Biometric Data, Job and School History
X, the social network that used to be known as Twitter, updated its privacy policy to include a new kind of user data it plans to collect: biometric.
www.bloomberg.com
August 31, 2023 at 3:33 AM
The “everything” in “everything app” is all the data they want to collect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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This is a fifteen year old cartoon and obviously from a very different internet era, but I think still relevant to the current collapse of journalism.
January 19, 2024 at 6:08 PM
This is a fifteen year old cartoon and obviously from a very different internet era, but I think still relevant to the current collapse of journalism.
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Hi! I recorded a little mini-special called “Trauma Response” with Don’t Tell Comedy! I am really proud of these jokes, and I hope you enjoy them! It would really mean a lot to me if you’d watch the set and comment share it if you like it! Watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=wTpq...
January 18, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Hi! I recorded a little mini-special called “Trauma Response” with Don’t Tell Comedy! I am really proud of these jokes, and I hope you enjoy them! It would really mean a lot to me if you’d watch the set and comment share it if you like it! Watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=wTpq...
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I was supposed to give a TED talk in early 2017 but dropped out after they said I couldn’t mention Trump, who’d just taken office. I tried to explain how you can’t really talk about futurism without mentioning the world Trump is trying to build. They said they didn’t want TED to become “political.”
This year's TED conference speaker lineup includes Bill Ackerman, Bari Weiss and Andrew Yang, if you wanted an update on how gross that organization has become.
Speakers | TED2024
View the lineup of speakers for TED2024: The Brave and the Brilliant. April 15-19, 2024 | Vancouver, Canada
conferences.ted.com
January 18, 2024 at 8:22 PM
I was supposed to give a TED talk in early 2017 but dropped out after they said I couldn’t mention Trump, who’d just taken office. I tried to explain how you can’t really talk about futurism without mentioning the world Trump is trying to build. They said they didn’t want TED to become “political.”
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Take off the table the idea that this is an empirically sound and responsible argument (it's not). Instead, let's focus on where this way of talking about universities comes from and who it serves, based on recent historical precedent.
A Thread . . . 1/10
A Thread . . . 1/10
January 12, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Take off the table the idea that this is an empirically sound and responsible argument (it's not). Instead, let's focus on where this way of talking about universities comes from and who it serves, based on recent historical precedent.
A Thread . . . 1/10
A Thread . . . 1/10
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This this this this this. If I could disillusion abled people of one idea about disability, it's the idea that when you get sick, doctors will actually help you. This is almost always an abject lie, so much so that we all pass around the names of doctors who will like they're magic spells.
Part of why healthy people aren't afraid to get sick is- they think if they do develop long-term issues, they'll be able to go & get treated by doctors who will work day and night to fix them (as it was on House, M.D.) & don't realize there's a 99% chance they'll be told they just have anxiety
January 10, 2024 at 3:14 AM
This this this this this. If I could disillusion abled people of one idea about disability, it's the idea that when you get sick, doctors will actually help you. This is almost always an abject lie, so much so that we all pass around the names of doctors who will like they're magic spells.
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The coworkers told me I have the personal style of a stoned Homer Simpson
January 11, 2024 at 2:32 AM
The coworkers told me I have the personal style of a stoned Homer Simpson
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I took this photograph in 1966 !
January 10, 2024 at 5:36 AM
I took this photograph in 1966 !
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It’s not an exaggeration. If the allegations are true this will derail the Georgia case (practically if not legally), very substantially boost Trump, and undermine the credibility of other Trump cases by association. Disastrous.
It's important for ppl to realize that Fani Willis just handed Trump a huge political victory out of sheer power-mad selfishness.
If these allegations are true (and that seems quite likely given the evidence attached), then Willis is as twisted a person as any of Trump's most evil lawyers.
If these allegations are true (and that seems quite likely given the evidence attached), then Willis is as twisted a person as any of Trump's most evil lawyers.
I think it’s a practical realization that (1) this means someone Republican will take over and reevaluate the case and (2) the case will be tainted in a way that will immediately cause things to start going badly.
January 9, 2024 at 1:48 AM
It’s not an exaggeration. If the allegations are true this will derail the Georgia case (practically if not legally), very substantially boost Trump, and undermine the credibility of other Trump cases by association. Disastrous.
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So wait, did Musk steal Cybertruck design from the 1980 Citroën Karin concept?
January 8, 2024 at 4:10 AM
So wait, did Musk steal Cybertruck design from the 1980 Citroën Karin concept?
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Disney still trying to copyright strike Steamboat Willie was inevitable, given their bullying ways.
This kind of behavior will, hopefully, make it more difficult to Sonny Bono themselves another copyright extension but they’re going to fight like hell for 1937
mashable.com/article/disn...
This kind of behavior will, hopefully, make it more difficult to Sonny Bono themselves another copyright extension but they’re going to fight like hell for 1937
mashable.com/article/disn...
Disney backs down from 'Steamboat Willie' YouTube copyright claim
The company tacitly acknowledges that 'Steamboat Willie' is in the public domain.
mashable.com
January 7, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Disney still trying to copyright strike Steamboat Willie was inevitable, given their bullying ways.
This kind of behavior will, hopefully, make it more difficult to Sonny Bono themselves another copyright extension but they’re going to fight like hell for 1937
mashable.com/article/disn...
This kind of behavior will, hopefully, make it more difficult to Sonny Bono themselves another copyright extension but they’re going to fight like hell for 1937
mashable.com/article/disn...
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Tesla has now tacitly admitted to fraud twice in the last 30 days, first with regard to its Autopilot safety claims (in the form of a recall) and now with regard to its inflated range claims.
Somehow there have been neither civil nor criminal penalties for either. Hope that changes!
Somehow there have been neither civil nor criminal penalties for either. Hope that changes!
Tesla lowers Model Y, S, and X range estimations following exaggeration complaints
The estimated mileage on some trims has dropped by 37 miles.
www.theverge.com
January 5, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Tesla has now tacitly admitted to fraud twice in the last 30 days, first with regard to its Autopilot safety claims (in the form of a recall) and now with regard to its inflated range claims.
Somehow there have been neither civil nor criminal penalties for either. Hope that changes!
Somehow there have been neither civil nor criminal penalties for either. Hope that changes!
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My Horses? Slow
My Reacher? Jack’d
my foos? fought
January 5, 2024 at 8:21 PM
My Horses? Slow
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Happy New Year! Attached is the customary greeting of my people:
January 2, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Happy New Year! Attached is the customary greeting of my people:
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Happy new year! And happy public domain day with a major new entry: the original design of Mickey Mouse!
For the occasion I’m releasing Mickey-1928 a model on Hugging Face that can generate pictures of Mickey, Minnie and Pete from 1928. huggingface.co/Pclanglais/M...
For the occasion I’m releasing Mickey-1928 a model on Hugging Face that can generate pictures of Mickey, Minnie and Pete from 1928. huggingface.co/Pclanglais/M...
January 1, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Happy new year! And happy public domain day with a major new entry: the original design of Mickey Mouse!
For the occasion I’m releasing Mickey-1928 a model on Hugging Face that can generate pictures of Mickey, Minnie and Pete from 1928. huggingface.co/Pclanglais/M...
For the occasion I’m releasing Mickey-1928 a model on Hugging Face that can generate pictures of Mickey, Minnie and Pete from 1928. huggingface.co/Pclanglais/M...
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Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! archive.org/details/Stea...
January 1, 2024 at 6:43 AM
Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! archive.org/details/Stea...
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I hope you are having/have had a wonderful holiday!
December 24, 2023 at 10:27 PM
I hope you are having/have had a wonderful holiday!
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It was already the logo at the time, as in this picture from Simone Giertz at the launch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCKj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCKj...
December 29, 2023 at 5:04 PM
It was already the logo at the time, as in this picture from Simone Giertz at the launch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCKj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCKj...
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Well, hey hey! A good review of a story I wrote! spiraltowerpress.blogspot.com/2023/12/spir...
(if you're curious, you can read the story via jessnevins.com/blog/?p=1006)
(if you're curious, you can read the story via jessnevins.com/blog/?p=1006)
December 22, 2023 at 2:37 PM
Well, hey hey! A good review of a story I wrote! spiraltowerpress.blogspot.com/2023/12/spir...
(if you're curious, you can read the story via jessnevins.com/blog/?p=1006)
(if you're curious, you can read the story via jessnevins.com/blog/?p=1006)