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Australian-American lefty still building amps & making music with vacuum tubes in the 21st Century. America needs a new constitution. curiousaudio.us https://one28.us https://sleep-ins.one28.us
the world we're getting from billionaires and tech bros pretty much sucks in all the ways it can suck
Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 13h agoNEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."
how many years have Republicans been saying out loud that Democrats are evil, aren't real Americans, are traitors... Republicans are haters, liars and defilers of everything good in our society, and the major media have gone out of their way for my entire life to avoid saying that plainly
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 17h agoAs of last night, there are now *7* pastors, former pastors and seminarians who've become Democratic nominees running for Congress. Some have already won safe Dem seats, and several are in hotly contested races. In multiple cases, the GOP has attacked their faith. religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p...
but is there any other group of Democrats who really didn't get the election night they wanted and is making every effort to deepen divisions over the future of the party this angle is an agenda, it's not journalism
Politico@politico.com · 23h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
we really have to do as much as we can to convince everyone we know to stop pretending billionaires are positive in any way for our society
Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 22h agoWe're literally just letting the richest man in the world commit vandalism on an extraplanetary scale.
why do tech bros only know how to make things worse
lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d agothis is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol
There are maybe a few politicians left in America who aren't in complete grifter mode. None of them are Republicans, but most of them aren't Democrats either.
Jessy Edwards@jessyedwards.bsky.social · 3d agoA video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.
it's because national public broadcasting is a failed institute support your locals but tell NPR and PBS to fuck off
hiksmash@hiksmash.blacksky.app · 3d agoWhat is PBS Kids doing telling 3rd graders to use Ai to write a poem???
"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
theguardian.com
if you live in a blue state and it gets attacked by a foreign entity, Trump is going to blame the blue state Trump is making human shields out of blue 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.
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
perhaps the worst thing about our society right now is that a person will get really rich and then reveal themselves to be completely horrible, and our society will just go, "but they're rich! 🤷♀️" as if that's now a viable excuse for being horrible
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
news.com.au
can't sidestep the damage it will do and I don't think these techbro narcissists want to
Reuters@reuters.com · last wk.EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws reut.rs/3RzNU4A
perhaps others will disagree but I would much prefer to be an atheist and believe Jesus was a real person who said important things about being good and having morals than whatever the hell this is
Matt Murphy@mjosmurphy.bsky.social · 2w agoChristianity is whatever the followers say it is. Rod of Iron Ministries, e.g., is a valid expression of those beliefs.
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
techcrunch.com
every time I see James Clyburn he's standing for the Democratic Party we don't want
Howard Mortman@howardmortman.bsky.social · 2w ago"Cool kids on the Internet. They're doing the cool kid chatter. Some of 'em might be the coastal elites, making fun of how I talk. But let's be real. They're making fun of Michigan. They're thinking they're better than us. Their jokes, their criticism, only make me fight harder." -- Haley Stevens
the media stop sucking billionaire dick challenge
Tube Amps for Justice@curiousaudio.us · 2w agothat's a weird thing to report when he still posts nazi shit all the time you fucking idiots
that's a weird thing to report when he still posts nazi shit all the time you fucking idiots
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit
these assholes were always fascists and just waiting for the time they'd get to show us again
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2w agoThe vibes may be exciting, but if Democrats are going to win this year and in 2028, they must reject the DSA. If you’re tempted by a democratic socialist this year, think of what use Republicans will make of these victories, and ask whether you want to do favors for fascists.
“A Florida pastor sued OpenAI on Wednesday, claiming that its chatbot, ChatGPT, had offered him “extremely dangerous medical recommendations” that led to delayed care for a life-threatening pulmonary embolism last year. The lawsuit claims that ChatGPT …had dissuaded him from seeking medical advice”
OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT’s ‘Dangerous’ Health Advice
The case appears to be the first to argue that a chatbot’s advice harmed someone seeking guidance about a medical condition.
nytimes.com
>tried to deceive my date about being a rightwing chud loser >somehow she saw through it and discovered I was a rightwing chud loser
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 2w agothe new right makes men *undisguiseably* repellent then frames that as women's fault
I don't want to ruin The Odyssey for anyone but just so you know in advance, everyone in that film is an actor
could not be more done with the center left fail parties in America and UK
appropriate, a symbol of fascism becomes a home for fascists
Reuters@reuters.com · 2w agoHitler's birthplace begins new life as a police station reut.rs/4wjcrdi
Trump is using the federal government to wage war against blue states, does the constitution say this should happen
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago* U.S. HHS SECRETARY SAYS CMS IS PAUSING MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO CALIFORNIA AND MINNESOTA @reuters.com
I honestly don't know what has to happen for the general populous to get their collective heads out of their asses about AI. If Teddy Ruxpin was telling alcoholics to do a power hour in 1985 they would have taken that shit off the shelves immediately
Molly White@molly.wiki · 2w agoalcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it. it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.
