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AlmaAlexander@almaalexander.bsky.social · yesterday

Yes I saw that and immediately thought yeah pull the other one it's got bells on... but the problem is that too many people who got this would accept it at face value...

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2d ago

I just got Donald Trump spam from the social security administration and I did not fucking sign up for this. None of us did. Stop using government resources to influence a fucking election. I just want to get my SS statements in a timely manner, you ghouls.

Social Security Delivers Historic Customer Service Improvements Under President Donald J. Trump, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is transforming into a model of excellence, one that meets and exceeds customer expectations for fast, accurate, and secure service. In 2026, SSA gave Americans back 200 million hours of time they previously would have spent waiting for service, equivalent to putting 100,000 work years back into the economy.
Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️@lilylachance.com · 3d ago

The modern-day caste system... For every talented rags-to-riches artist, there are many more who would never get discovered because of this very deliberate world order.

BtchBiscuits@dilfmonger.bsky.social · 3d ago

I remember Peter Capaldi touching on this. I went to school with several talented artists, but the biggest success story was a student who had both talent and rich parents, so they were able to do a 1 yr unpaid internship followed by moving to / living in central London while looking for employment

Screenshot from the article https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/jan/14/peter-capaldi-says-posh-actors-are-smooth-confident-and-tedious In an uncompromising interview, the Scottish actor and director, best known as the BBC’s 12th Doctor Who and as foul-mouthed spin doctor, Malcolm Tucker, in The Thick of It, bemoans the lack of financial ­support for ­working- class would-be performers. He believes that the lack leaves the way clear for under-equipped, well-heeled actors to grab many of the plum roles. “It’s not their fault,” he tells The Observer Magazine. “It’s just that there’s less and less of my lot in the arts.” It is the British entertainment industry that suffers, Capaldi argues: “Art is about reaching out. So I think it’s wrong to allow one strata of society to have the most access.” The 65-year-old actor, who grew up in a Glasgow tenement building , says there is a real problem because many great potential artists and performers are being left out. “We had nothing. We had zilch,” he says. “All this highfalutin life I’ve had is because I went to art school. My parents couldn’t afford to send me. “I went because the government of the day paid for me to go and I didn’t have to pay them back. “There was a thrusting society then, a society that tried to improve itself. Yes, of course, it cost money. But so what? It allowed people from any kind of background to learn about Shakespeare, or Vermeer.” The actor, appearing opposite Cush Jumbo in the Apple TV+ crime drama Criminal Record, blames the “gatekeepers and Aztecs” who still decide who can be admitted to the acting world, ignoring the potential of those who ­cannot afford to be repeatedly knocking at culture’s door.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d ago

The starkest thing about TNG compared to most space opera today is how much it presents the eruption of violence as a total catastrophe, rather than something awesome bsky.app/profile/norm...

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 3d ago

Same. There was something that felt really radical about having a TV hero whose superpower was not just intelligence but thoughtfulness, and a kind of moral seriousness. Who showed from that first episode that you “win” by seeking to understand what seems like a threat.

Rudy Rucker@rudytheelder.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Neologism is a psychiatric syndrome where a person creates completely invented words or phrases that sound logical to them, but mean nothing to others." And that's a bad thing? I thought this is was part of being a science fiction writer!

Chris Kerr@kerrblimey.bsky.social · 6d ago

NEW: I spoke with current and former EA employees to understand how the latest layoff round played out and the realities of daily life at the U.S. publisher. The short version? EA is controlled by an executive class that "cannot fail, only be failed." Workers, then, will always pay the price.

Vertical Slice@verticalslice.news · 6d ago

"I don't want to work at this place anymore:" EA workers decry mismanagement and corporate greed after mass layoffs Current and former EA employees paint a bleak picture of daily life at one of the video game industry's most prominent publishers

AlmaAlexander@almaalexander.bsky.social · 6d ago

Headline noticed about Anthropic, an impending IPO and a Wall Street bonanza that is thought to enable a meteoric rise in the company's value ($2 trillion is mentioned...) and all I can say is, time for another lawsuit. Those from whom it stole can claim MILLIONS of that. *we made you, Anthropic. *

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 2w ago

GenAI is unethical across many axes including environmental, political, and because the industry is based on mass theft from authors and other creatives. It's also incredibly reputationally damaging for people who are being accused of its use. I don't think any publisher has the right to tarnish me.

Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️@lilylachance.com · 7d ago

1. Shaming works. 2. The folks behind that "AI" coup aren't merely sellouts, they're spineless sellouts at that. 3. This isn't over until every last person who had signed off on that charter permanently steps down. They've shown their true colours.

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 2w ago

The Society of Authors has withdrawn from the ill-conceived concession to the dark side that was the "ethical GenAI" charter because of the mass and vocal outrage of authors. Publishers need to be made afraid of this level of anger too.