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Ste Jormur@stejormur.bsky.social · 2w ago

I love this take every time I see it. Just imagining some time traveller stepping out in 1995, phoning the Rush Limbaugh show, and saying "What I love about your era's Disney is they don't care about political correctness and trying to be diverse. Why, I'm sure you love Pocahontas as much as I do!"

"The ultimate Mount Rushmore of Disney crushes" (Meg from Hercules, Pocahontas from Pocahontas, Lilo's sister from Lilo and Stitch, and Esmeralda from Hunchback of Notre Dame). The Donnie Darko verified account has faked a reply saying "It's crazy how much better Disney handled diversity when they weren't even trying". Don't ask why Donnie Darko, it's a whole thing
Ste Jormur@stejormur.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hooting at this post Facebook decided to give me, clearly written by a teen blessed with never having to live through the equally idiotic culture wars of the 90s and 00s.

"Sometimes I think Disney was more inclusive when it wasn't trying so hard to be" with screenshots from The Princess and the Frog (showing a black woman), Brother Bear (showing three native Alaskans), The Emperor's New Groove (showing a family of Incans) and Lilo and Stitch (showing two Hawaiian girls)
Racheline Maltese@racheline.bsky.social · 2w ago

The fucking literacy crisis is also a political crisis - if you can’t retain information and can’t see themes in what you read you also can’t retain information about your life or see themes in it - which is convenient for fascists and oligarchs both. You know you’re miserable and you don’t know why

Matt Pearce@mattdpearce.com · 2w ago

I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

AXIOS Al has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose. • Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books - a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane - makes it easy to lose the thread. Al can help you pick it back up without starting over. Ш I really got into using Al while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked: • "T'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?" • The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
LemonSoiree@lemonsoiree.bsky.social · 3w ago

My bike (along with several others) was stolen from a secure room that very few people have access too that has a camera in it. The police gave me a form I could submit to my insurance company and that’s the last I heard of their thorough investigation.

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 3w ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

Gabe@cwgabriel.bsky.social · 4w ago

They specifically want books before 2022 because they are uncorrupted by AI. They need books that have not been poisoned by the poison they are making. It's just like pre-war steel. They invented cultural radiation.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · 4w ago

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.

Ste Jormur@stejormur.bsky.social · 4w ago

I read Tim Whitmarsh's "Atheism in the Ancient World", which makes the point that there is virtually no surviving ancient atheist writing... but there is a large pile of anti-atheist argument and drama and laws, and they had to be responding to *someone*

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4w ago

the written record of antiquity, for reasons I hope are obvious, over represents the blinkered moral perspectives of that day's most powerful people. you should take the care with generalizing from their opinions that you'd want a foreigner to take if a tech CEO was asked about your country's morals

Brian Clevinger@bclev.bsky.social · 2mo ago

AI psychosis among the executive class stems primarily from two obsessions (1) slashing labor costs (2) searching for the next dotcom boom to make free money from nothing. But we cannot discount the deleterious effect every single “Enhance!” scene has had on an increasingly illiterate audience.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

“Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it’s only as good as the information you use to train it,” said Charles Poon, Ford’s vice president of vehicle hardware engineering.
Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

in 1905 or w/e the ppl who talked exactly like this would've been saying it about stephen miller's belarusan jewish ancestors and sam alito's southern italian ancestors. sorry i can't shut up about this but it makes me so fuckin mad

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pace Stephen Miller. nothing about the extent of one's U.S. lineage makes one person born in U.S. inherently more "qualified to carry on or capable of executing the inheritance of this country" than another person born here. "Executing the inheritance" is a political not a genealogical matter.

Miller, a key architect of President Donald Trump's national deportation policy, delivered a scorching tirade during an appearance on Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime, rejecting the ruling outright. "Just physically being on U.S. soil does not make you a citizen or qualified to carry on or capable of executing the inheritance of this country," he raged. "We have people from all over the world, from third-world nations, nations that on their own would have never invented the wheel, let alone modern technology, let alone medicine, let alone air travel. And they can just come into the country, have a baby at a hospital paid for by you and me, and then that baby is automatically a citizen? That baby can sit on a jury when he turns 18 and sit in judgment of you and sit in judgment of me and sit in judgment of our loved ones? Can decide who our mayors are? Our governors are? Our presidents are?" he said, warning that "citizenship means nothing if it is open to everyone."
jesse@jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service