My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”
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So much important coverage has been deprived of oxygen. Nascent careers, evaporated.
Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · yesterdayI need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.
True Please also be aware: In the background, razor sharp T admin ppl are carrying out Project 2025 at lightning speed, trying to control state electoral systems, science, academia, media etc. & consolidating autocratic power. While almost media/SMedia focus on smaller evils T does in the foreground
Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems@upine.bsky.social · 4w agoThe public doesn't understand how these people operate. That's why every book club in the U.S. shd read @mkonnikova.bsky.social 's The Confidence Game, a history of con artists. Also Babiak's Snakes in Suits. And Hoffer's classic The True Believer And @brianklaas.bsky.social 's book
When a new turn of phrase becomes an instant classic “Magnum Slopus” I bow down before thy creator
Bouba's Delivery Service@fernmonkey.bsky.social · 4d agoI'd rather have an honest MS Paint and Comic Sans image than a magnum slopus
Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x
The reason this defense is so common is that the behavior is common: if women cut off social ties after being attacked, they risk greater danger, including (all too often) murder. They often, and reasonably, choose to try to keep the peace instead. This does not speak to Miller's innocence.
Our relationship to visual evidence is being profoundly disrupted by GenAI tools, which will impact how we know, what we can know, and what we think can be known about the world. A massive epistemological shift is upon us.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 6d agoI used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
On one side, I’d be a cutter, making bespoke clothing, suits and the like. On the other, a telephone operator, or, like generations before, a very handy Romani, fixing cars, houses, appliances, rail cars, whatever the day brought. “Tinker” isn’t a slur to me. It speaks of skill and makes me proud.
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
And when people ask "how is this legal" we have to remember that Mark paid off the Louisiana govt, got tax breaks, then made everyone sign an NDA so they couldn't talk about it.
Hobbes@flawedfacade.blacksky.app · last wk.Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.
Got the worst haircut ever this weekend. I don’t get how you can ask for one thing and a skilled professional (and this person is very skilled) does the exact opposite. The options are: cut it very short, pull it back into a tiny ponytail, or leave it as is and look like Nigel from Spinal Tap
Spinal Tap: Is This A Joke?
Alt: Nigel from Spinal Tap says “Is This A Joke?” His hair is a very round, weird shag, and I look more like him than I thought I ever could
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7. The film centers Odysseus's guilt over his war crimes, but never shows us the POV of his victims, and instead glorifies the perpetrator for feeling bad about himself. I found this unsatisfying ethically and worse, imaginatively, because Damon's character is given only one mood (Troubled).
Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".
The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups
I was really pulling for Oscar today 😿😿😿 #F1 #HungarianGP
Oscar Piastri Leomano in McLaren Gear
Alt: Oscar Piastri fades into an orange cat
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It’s basically an own goal of economic sanctions
Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2w agoTrump thinks he's winning because he uses US offensive missiles to strike Iranian drone sites, and defensive missiles to protect against drone strikes. Iran thinks it's winning because the US spends billions on missiles to fight millions in drones. Their strategy is to deplete the US. It's working.
Oh poor Oscar. Very uncharacteristic of Carlos, who is such a brainy and strategic guy 😞 #f1 #hungarianGP
My time lapse of the Gironde #fire near Bordeaux, viewed on Friday afternoon from about 20 km distance. One minute compressed into 5 seconds. #GlobalHeating
So…so is that one drone that’s sticking with cars on the straight doing like 150mph or #hungarianGP #F1 #Hungaroring 🇭🇺
![People always say cyclists need to be more afraid of cars, because in a collision, the car wins.
It doesn't have to be like that. We can _both_lose.
[picture of a propane tank on a bike]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6vxkf3dayl4uyc77vv6deraj/bafkreif3no63lco3fejpej2gb76afebbshllpkn4mt4hyg2rytwicoqdmm)
Tfw mothra gave you power of attorney
