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Fiddler. Programmer in Recovery. Free-range Nerd. e/lud Compared to Bach, we all suck. Pat Metheny Never trust anyone who has a gibbon as their avatar.
@gruebeard.bsky.social Happy Chairteenth! May all of Alabama take pride in this demonstration of community spirit.
TW@twesq.bsky.social · 13h agoOn this day 3 years ago a man sent up a call for aid and his neighbors answered, giving us the greatest video of the decade. Happy Chairteenth to all who celebrate.
This will get a fraction of the attention that Zohran Mamdani got for calling Netanyahu a war criminal.
Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterdayDepicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/
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In the United States, about 20 percent of trans kids attempted suicide. 0.00005 percent of high school athletes are trans
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Is enlightenment merely aligning on the shared goal of raising shareholder value?
Some motherfuckers need to read Winner. Like, it’s been clear from the jump that AI adoption has been a political project or in service too political projects and those projects have been universally shitty extensions of white supremacy and other structures of oppression.
vortex_egg@vortexegg.com · 4d agoFor me, LLMs are clearly powerful machines, but everything about their construction and deployment in society by the people constructing them appears oriented around achieving a political project that deeply conflicts with my values or a vision of a future I want to live in and dont have a choice in
I’ve been thinking a lot about this storey, combined with the news that Elon Musk helped cut funding for wildfire prevention, combined with the news that the Trump administration only sends emergency aid to Republican states.
Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d agoI can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.
Like the hypocrisy and the open corruption, the naked, brazen lying is itself aspiring authoritarianism. They aren't lying to cover anything up. They're saying, "We know we're lying. You know we're lying. And we know you know we're lying. And there's nothing you can do about it."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it
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Pope Leo received singer and songwriter Patti Smith in private audience this morning. The Pope and Smith are both Chicago natives. She was accompanied by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social, undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education.
a future D administration should make an easy pathway to citizenship specifically for foreign students
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 6d agoOne weird trick to literally destroy America www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Here's a great early 20th-century inspired poster, Empty Bowls!. If you like my work follow me here for more and visit my print shop at nathannunart.etsy.com Thank you, Cats of Yore, for the show!
Ah yes, the traditional Labor Day Giant Skeleton, a cutting satire on the exploitation of capitalism and the hidden power of the workers.
Sorry for not being active on here, our Gov has been busy brokering a peace deal between Antarctic shrimp species (benthic and fairy). It seems we haven’t missed much, judging by world news headlines of ancient, power hungry men compensating for various self-esteem issues. Tale as old as time!
Liz Stein is an Epstein survivor and an anti-trafficking advocate. Her message couldn't be clearer: "A vote for Todd Blanche is a vote against victims of crime everywhere."
Oh, my God. Nicest guy. Was on the Pogues bill at Carnegie with him. His love of music was palpable, infectious, radiant. I’ve seldom seen a musician as connected to the moment of the song as he was that night, in deep communion with the song & the people playing it. So many felt it. Hard loss.
Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash at age 56
As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/
Once more: Mamdani understands that you can't just do things in politics and expect voters will notice on their own and thank you for it. You've got to work just as hard selling yourself to voters once you're in office as you did selling yourself to them to get into office. This is the way.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.Now serving: a new era for small business.
renowned classicists can be Comic Book Guy as much as anyone else
