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Alison Preston
@alisonserene.bsky.social
“We are the luckiest bastards alive. We can’t also be the most self-interested bastards alive. They can’t be the same thing.” —David Modica AI sucks, we don’t need to debate it or anything. "Come down off the cross, we can use the wood." —T. Waits
I don't know how effective a viewer boycott of the show could be--I guess we'll see--but I do think a media boycott would have some impact. If all the websites that would ordinarily cover this from every angle just greet it with oceans of silence...maybe it'd mean something.
Sam Adams@samadams.bsky.social · 14h agoWorth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.
these guys are just out of control animals
Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 18h agoVideo of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
I’m surprised by how little attention this case has gotten. Even I didn’t really register it for a while. This entire family of three permanent residents were summarily detained without even the option of bond, all as collective punishment for one one of them being the son of an Iranian official
Jack Mirkinson@jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 23h agoToday in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The continued flagellation of Marco Rubio, who has to go to work in weird Trump shoes and listen to stone-cold craziness every day of his life and now finds out he was put on a plane that may have been targeted by a missile is the Wile E. Coyote Looney-Tunes karma that some days keeps me bouncing.
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 21h agoISRAEL WARNED U.S. OF IRANIAN PLOT TO TARGET TRUMP AND AIR FORCE ONE WITH SHOULDER-FIRED MISSILES; TRUMP SECRETLY MOVED TO MILITARY JET AS RUBIO AND STAFF REMAINED ABOARD AS DECOY — WSJ
Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women.
what a fucking washed out loser piece of shit
Sarah Spain ✨@sarahspain.com · 5d agoFuck these fucking fucks
Groypers, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis sympathizers have infiltrated every level of the Trump administration. They work in DHS. They work in the White House. The ADL has done very little to identify and target these individuals. And yet, they target individual Mamdani staffers. It’s insane.
The federal government may be disappearing minorities, executing enemies of the state on the street, and creating death camps—but at least the ADL is doing Canary Mission for New York City officials! I’ve never felt safer as a Jew. Thank you
Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 2d agoThe ADL has a website dedicated to attacking Mamdani staffers—including my friend Waleed Shahid. The ADL is applying a level of scrutiny to him they aren’t applying to literal neo-Nazis working in the federal government. Waleed has a Jewish wife and child. The ADL is a disgrace.
I find it funny (sad, not haha) that the east coast got smoke from Canada and it was the end of the world according to the news. Meanwhile, around 20% of Spokane is displaced due to fires. The entire town of Malden is being evacuated. 136k acres burning on tribal land. Just 🤷 from national news.
The Atlantic has done excellent work on the literacy crisis, the decline of attention, the collapse of reading, the rise of AI etc. How can that be squared with a social media post describing a novel as “a long book to read that contains hundreds of pages of interesting material”?
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 3d agoIf you’re looking for a long book to read that contains hundreds of pages of interesting material to keep you enthralled, @sophiegilbert.bsky.social recommends “The Circle.” See The Atlantic’s full summer reading guide: theatln.tc/aOo6jjjn
if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi
Cliff Stoll (kooky scientist, Cold War era hacker, klein bottles) published a 1995 essay and then a book claiming the web was overhyped and apparently it became known for being so wrong. But overall I think he really nailed it!!!!!
Pretty soon the FDA is going to put out an alert saying: “We’re just gonna need everyone to stop eating for a week or two while we figure this stuff out.”
Seems relevant: Canada is creating jobs at a rate that is roughly 4x that in the United States.
Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
I find it fascinating that in the 1990s, the US managed to re-create early twentieth-century Vienna café culture only to have it gradually decay over the first quarter of the twenty-first century such that now most coffee shops are closed by six PM.
My husband thinks the Ferrante novels are genius. Talks about them all the time. He made ME read them.
Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol@yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 5d agoEXCUSE ME?
Pedestrian safety is important. Getting people to slow down should be a goal. Also, if you just hand waive mass surveillance given everything that's going on right now, go fuck yourself
I just need to share: querying my novel is SO hard. I was not built for this.
A teenager in North Carolina has been arrested for assault with a "deadly weapon" after taking abortion medication. @kylietcheung.bsky.social has been doing such an incredible job with these pieces on post-Dobbs criminalization
North Carolina Teen Arrested for Using Abortion Pills As “Deadly Weapon”
The 18-year-old faces criminal charges for trying to self-manage an abortion
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As with everything with the AI, I just don't understand why we would need or want this? Like in what way is this cool/needed/not ushering in early death?
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 6d agoBreaking news: Scientists in the US have for the first time used artificial intelligence to create viruses unknown in nature, a milestone that promises advances in healthcare but also raises important biosafety and biosecurity concerns. ft.trib.al/Uk6VCRG
