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I'm here for the humans. Expect to be blocked if you're a crawler. Big Boy No. 4014.
Zines appeal to artists and organizers because they sidestep digital surveillance and reach people in real life. https://bit.ly/4fUv6Fk
Can zines help us resist the slop overtaking the Internet? - Chicago Reader
Zines appeal to artists and organizers because they sidestep digital surveillance and reach people in real life.
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Forget "Don't be evil"; Google's true motto is a form of vulgar spidermanism: "With great power comes no responsibility." The internet's *de facto* boss is an absentee landlord. 1/
Since UCLA illegally fired me over Charlie Kirk, I have $32 in my checking, including a generous $25 donation from yesterday. Please consider helping: venmo.com/u/JohnathanPerk I know the lawyer trying to access to the person who recently died inside Delaney Hall but don’t have the $ to get there.
Johnathan P | @JohnathanPerk
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honestly, the fact that we have made it through the atomic age *without* another use of nuclear weapons since 1945 is a miracle we don't fully appreciate
Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · yesterdayToday is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
Because I am actively researching and writing about the FAA practically every day, I spend a lot of time reading about accidents from the 1970s and 80s. You have no idea how incredibly dangerous it was back then. No idea at all. Just read the commercial crash stats for AK in the '90s. Good grief.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 22h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Todd Blanche’s nomination has advanced to the full Senate and everyone who helped make this happen should be ashamed. The AG’s job is to pursue justice for the American people, not cover up human trafficking or serve as the president’s personal attorney. What a sad day in history
I know the whole BDS list is kinda overwhelming, but this brand directly supports the Israeli military. The company also owns POM Wonderful, Fiji Water, Teleflora and several other companies. bdscoalition.ca/2025/02/26/t...
Nature Climate Change has an online collection of reviews, opinion pieces, and research on climate change communication.
Climate change communication
Effective climate change communication enhances public climate mitigation and adaptive behaviour, building resilience against intensifying climate hazards.
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I wish my lying-ass brain didn't paralyze me so.
I would say "that just about sums it up" on the AI bubble. Except this thread is actually a long (and very astute, insightful and interesting) set of observations. And not remotely a summary. Maybe "that just about covers it all" is a better description. Hat tip to @doctorow.pluralistic.net
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3d agoThe greatest magic trick of them all is *lying*. The reason you can't figure out that coin vanish even after the conjurer performs it three times in a row is that they *didn't* do the same trick three times in a row! 1/
People pointing to nature and "survival of the fittest" and so on focus on the competitive aspects. But they miss how important the cooperative aspects of nature are.
Watching: Blood Red Sky on netflux. I knew that kid's mom was damned by her flashback. 📽️ #horror
Doctor here-Story time: I received a call today from a sick friend in another state, & I recognized it as a neurological emergency sent him to ER. Likely diagnosis: Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis, which can cause blindness. 1 of the authors of original 1990 diagnostic criteria: Anthony Fauci MD🙌🏻🫡
Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia
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senator bernie moreno finally makes a statement about the allegations of abuse by rep. max miller against his daughter and granddaughter after miller went live on X this morning to deny everything.
Perplexity AI loses bid to toss Reddit lawsuit over data scraping reut.rs/4yLuCK9
Perplexity AI loses bid to toss Reddit lawsuit over data scraping
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday rejected most of Perplexity AI's bid to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Reddit accusing it of violating U.S. copyright law by scraping the online discussion platform's data to train Perplexity's AI-powered search engine.
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Tencent set out to take on Grand Theft Auto. After six years, hundreds of millions of dollars, and a whole lot of big promises, they "rebooted" (most likely canceled) "Last Sentinel" this week and laid off 80 people. This is the story behind what happened: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Inside Tencent’s Failed Attempt to Take On ‘Grand Theft Auto’
Lightspeed’s Last Sentinel burnt through six years of development and hundreds of millions of dollars
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Another huge incursion into Earth 1 by the forces of Earth 2. Epistemic terrorism.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
"If your neighbor thinks some kooky things about communists, it might make them kind of an intolerable jerk, but they don’t have the power to do anything. But when the FBI or CIA or other institutions that have power think this way, then it starts to have real implications” — @sethcotlar.bsky.social
Seth Cotlar on historical roots of the new Red Scare
"If you look at the 1956 GOP platform, it reads like a center-left policy platform in a contemporary context."
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The real antisemitism is Zionism, not opposition to Israel. Zionism says, all Jewish people must support mass slaughter to be authentically Jewish, many who practice the faith reject it outright, me too as someone who respects the faith. Christian Zionists act like they know Israel's best for Jews.
eric shamow@botmatrix.myatproto.social · 5d agoto me it is opposed to everything I learned about what it means to be a Jew and about my reason for being on the earth and it happens from the left as much as the right - I get plenty from Christians who are Democrats telling me about what's good for Jews and that we should support Israel.
I can say from observation, a whole lot of actual Jewish folks are incredibly pissed about Zionists, many of them actually Christians, claiming Israel & genocide are supposed to represent them when they want nothing to do with it & it has zero to do with how they think of themselves as Jewish.
IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
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