Matt
@mrrenn.bsky.social
Ocean stater. Koozie aficionado. Nascent purveyor of Old Books. Buffalonian. Bills. Sabres. City. Sox. State. Bonas. Celtics. Alty. RIFC. A life on the coast is a thing you can boast, my friend.
"So he can feel a bit more manly by making an AI video" is a direct callback to this image that deserves a second life in this campaign
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 2h agoDr. Abdul El-Sayed: Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can feel a bit more manly by making an AI video. If you want a senator who's gonna lick some boots, go vote for Rogers. But if you want a senator who's going to stand up to Trump, you've got your option.
I'm working on my slides for tomorrow's AI-and-misinformation talk in Narragansett, and I'm going to open with what I'm calling "The Parable of the Ferry Cat."
![A snopes headline from June 4, 2026 that reads "Fact Check
Story about cat named Marty with designated seat on daily ferry commute should give you pause
Readers asked us to investigate. We'd like to apologize for being killjoys."
The slide features the pull quote from the Snopes article: "“After investigating, we regret to inform readers that the image is fake. It was generated using artificial intelligence tools…[W]e found posts claiming that Marty had been riding ferries in Maui, Hawaii; Galveston, Texas; Savannah, Georgia; Mobile, Alabama; Mackinac Island, Michigan; Boston; and Apache Junction, Arizona. (That last one was particularly egregious: There is no river in Apache Junction.)
The strategy at play here is pretty common: People post a variety of AI slop in an attempt to make money from advertising revenue or from the social media platforms. The more posts, the better, and introducing slight differences between them allows the poster to target specific demographics of people.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qihxhxlsmo7gak74npeoy3ct/bafkreif3cbim6hscz2n2cwif2yzs66ibcaogresb2glowj5f76y3wmtl4a)
Stephen A Smith? The guy who said he didn’t care that Floyd Mayweather beat his wife? He cares about protecting women?
Look all he did was break his baby's bones, nothing really nefarious like a pornhub session
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h agoMike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.
$30M to lose embarrassingly to a Michigan grad? Who is she Ryan Da [shot in the head]
I really do hate talking about primaries in places I haven’t visited let alone lived on main but now that we’re at the day of reckoning in MI- I never saw a single line from stevens that seemed remotely appealing to anyone from this time and planet, unless they had evil tendencies.
In this house we appreciate the finger lakes
Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 18h ago"Get in the Box for Israel' Seen in Ithaca, New York
I’m at the town’s violence propaganda fete (national night out) and there’s a guy in a custom cowboys/Red Sox shirt
Just thinkin' about the best film ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_M...
Sesame Street: Making Crayons
YouTube video by Sesame Street
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Kinda funny to realize nearly four years later there's a term for what the therapist deployed during my greatest MH crisis, also clarifies why that worked after "talking it out" had had diminishing returns in the past
Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · 2d agoTODAY: @katewagner.wehwalt.net on the life-changing power of skills-based therapy. "A lot of this stuff has saved my life and the thing it’s saved my life from is not capitalism, or any other form of adversity, but myself." flaminghydra.com/issue-620/?a...
Love seeing bad faith shitheads relitigating the pandemic, which I wrote about on a near daily basis for a year and a half until I had 360,000 words that are too raw to revisit for more than a couple paragraphs at a time
These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
The @pressherald.com breaking out the Breaking News banner on its homepage for @heartsofpine.bsky.social's stadium plan announcement. Very big deal for a #USL-1 club that's done everything right as it approaches the third anniversary of its launch in early September.
It's grim how Wannabe Executive Brain has so thoroughly poisoned baseball discourse that the Red Sox feel like they have to make excuses for swapping a bum catcher for an All-Star catcher because they also threw in a bunch of mostly unranked A-ball prospects
"The Education Department intends to use IRS data to determine students’ salaries four years after they graduate and compare them to those of people similar in age who just have high school diplomas". via @gsoh31.bsky.social
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Right as RFK Jr and Republicans spread COVID disinformation on national TV and public hearings, Meta decides to roll back its COVID-19 misinformation rules.
Meta to roll back Covid-19 misinformation measures
Meta is revising its policies to take a regional approach towards countries that still have public health emergency declarations.
mashable.com
Love to read the platforms of people running in the democratic primary around here
Just gonna imagine Mitch trubisky accidently getting looped in here
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2d agoA senior officer in US Central Command’s (CENTCOM) intelligence branch emailed a broad group of military analysts seeking “new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran.” A second source indicated a similar request went out the prior week.
And the ones that did stay behind home plate are yukking it up with marlins man
Matt@mrrenn.bsky.social · 3d agoKinda funny to see the stadium emptying out a few innings after hersheiser yammered on and on about how the fans never leave
not just the right-wing media, half of centrist punditry was convinced that this was somehow going to be game-changing, out of a combination of affinity, idiocy, and their deep desire to surrender to perceived power.
Zoomer Antimillenarian@surcomplicated.bsky.social · 3d agoI think the aftermath of the Kirk shooting really proves just how desensitized ordinary Americans have gotten to low-intensity gun violence, which to be fair is in part his own damn fault. To the right-wing media, though, the fact one of their own could get cut down like this was a genuine trauma.
Kinda funny to see the stadium emptying out a few innings after hersheiser yammered on and on about how the fans never leave
Very early in the pandemic, I spent 2 terrible weeks in isolation, unable to breathe or walk across the room. Waiting my temp. to spike. Worrying about my kids. Fighting against dying. In the middle of this covid revisionist, anti-vax bullshit, it was worth saying what that felt like:
