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AJ MacReady

@ajmacready.bsky.social

"You don't have to live like a refugee" - Tom Petty "yep that's why I'm over here now my dude" - me https://shorturl.at/pvQx7

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Michele Sliger@michelesliger.bsky.social · 5h ago

Vernor Vinge had a scene in his 2006 book Rainbow’s End where they were doing this to an entire library. Just placed the machines in the library, locked the doors, and off they went. The end of books, the end of libraries. Horrifying.

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 8h ago

"That final destination was an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada. Amazon employees who work at this location say all they do is receive massive shipments of printed books which they then cut the bindings off in order to scan the books more quickly. The printed book is destroyed in the process."

dustwords.bsky.social@dustwords.bsky.social · 3d ago

“You have no right to privacy in public.” Well, I should? This was fine before smartphones, surveillance infrastructure, and pervert predator glasses. Things are different now and we’re allowed to demand a better society.

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Jenny Staff Johnson@htownjenny.bsky.social · 4h ago

I think we should be talking way more about this. What she did. How it turned out. Put a statue of her somewhere, you know? 

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 6h ago

Good news. E. Jean Carroll spent a decade in court fighting one of the most powerful men in the world. She fought with tenacity and grace — and she won. She is one of my personal heroes. We owe her a debt of gratitude. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/trump-supreme-court-e-jean-carroll.html

Heatherface Wixson@thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 16h ago

Today, we learned that "Screaming Mad" George had passed away earlier this year. To celebrate his legacy, I've posted my in-depth interview with him from Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Volume 1: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/remembering-... I was able to make this post public, too. 🖤

Remembering "Screaming Mad" George

Hi, everyone. Tonight, I got word that the legendary "Screaming Mad" George had passed away back in February this year, which devastates me for so many reasons. He was an incredibly kind person who wa...

from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 11h ago

“it costs less money than what we’re doing now” is the only answer we need to push normies towards universal healthcare

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 16h ago

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

AJ MacReady@ajmacready.bsky.social · 8h ago

I always knew The Number Ones would lose it eventually, mainly because modern popular music sucks in a way older stuff usually did not, but giving 10 stars to a ten minute overindulgence is where we part ways for good

Angela Collier@acollierastro.bsky.social · 10h ago

this happened to me trying to explain how free school lunch saves money because you don't have to pay the for the software to track payments and send letters. people just want poor kids to be hungry. they want them to see other kids eating while they starve. a bunch of people are just evil.

inthefade@ihavethatonvinyl.com · 10h ago

it took me an unfortunately long time to realize they weren't against universal healthy care because they couldn't economically do it, they were just against it on principle, their principle being, everyone poorer and more in need than me can just die

AJ MacReady@ajmacready.bsky.social · 9h ago

Do NOT let me catch you out on the street you say some shit like this, that's an on-sight sort of situation

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h ago

The extent to which these companies (and the people who represent them) are actively hostile to students cannot be overstated. “Students need to write well enough to have a sense of which A.I. text suggestions to accept and which to reject” is something to articulate if profit is the *only* motive.

Jenny Maxwell, general manager for education at Superhuman, the A.I. company that makes the popular writing app Grammarly, told me that we are living through a “burn it down” moment for teaching and learning. Educators who try to withhold A.I. writing tools are essentially announcing to their students — “consumers,” she called them — that their coursework is irrelevant to the job market. She did acknowledge that some basic, human writing skills remain valuable. Students need to write well enough to have a sense of which A.I. text suggestions to accept and which to reject, she said. Ms. Maxwell also insisted that creativity in writing would persist, because people would still want to express their personal voice and style. To that end, companies like Grammarly, Google and OpenAI are creating so-called Socratic versions of their chatbots, sold to schools as writing helpers that will guide students through assignments without doing the work for them.
T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · yesterday

Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world.

AJ MacReady@ajmacready.bsky.social · 20h ago

These are the sorts of reactions to this I'm seeing – not that there aren't assholes melting down out there, but the thing is that there always are. Try to curate your feed so you only get the pure unadulterated positivity you get out of someone like Cargill here. Better than being pissed off.

C. Robert Cargill@crobertcargill.bsky.social · 20h ago

Criterion's K-POP DEMON HUNTERS release is targeting a generation just discovering the wonders of collecting physical media at a time when physical media companies need it most, while also introducing their catalogue to young movie lovers. This is a genius move. Get the kids into Criterion!

Meagan Navarro@hauntedmeg.bsky.social · 20h ago

Screaming Mad George is forever a horror legend for the Shunting alone, but also that gnarly cockroach kill in ANOES 4, goopy gory work on Bride of Re-Animator, Predator and so much more more. I get a thrill anytime I see "surreal fx by Screaming Mad George" in film credits. This one hurts. RIP 💔