I wonder if Blood Meridian had any influence on Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak books or if these men just independently decided that the gnostic demiurge is a big fancy bald guy who talks too much

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I don't think Amnesty International even realizes the extent to which they've fucked themselves. Like. Their whole reason for existing has been invalidated.

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Unless a washed-up kids' book author from the 90s decides she doesn't like them, in which case Amnesty International will immediately hang them out to dry

Amnesty International UK@amnestyuk.bsky.social · 6d ago

We have long said that the banning of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was a grave misuse of sweeping counter-terrorism powers with serious consequences for human rights.

This is how I read this article:

No No No Cat

ALT: No No No Cat

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Feena van@feenavan2099.bsky.social · 4d ago

"The FBI office in charge of maintaining the terrorist watch list is seeking an artificial intelligence system for pre-crime policing, according to procurement documents obtained by Reason."

I don't want to shoot videos I don't want to post tutorials I don't want to show my process I don't want to pour varnish I don't want to turn my canvas I don't want to record my screen I don't want to cultivate parasocial relationships I just want to make pictures and shitpost

RJ Palmer 🔜 Dragon Con@rj-palmer.com · 4mo ago

The way profit maxxing corpo culture has invaded every form of art through algorithms pushing people into daily posting is really weighing on me lately. Efficiency and regularity of making "content" being prized above all else feels so grim, man.

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This has to be stopped

Lady Yapper (KJ Colt)@moistenedtart.bsky.social · last wk.

futurism.com/artificial-i... Excuse me while I go cry

Really can't adequately express how big of a disaster this is. Like, civilizationally speaking. A disaster historical in scale.

chiller@chiller.eurosky.social · last wk.

This is ... horrific

These fuckers have enough self-awareness to know that what they're doing is shameful. That makes it worse.

a functional political party would make hay with this

Perfect example of tech journalists using ooky-spooky science fiction movie words to make their database querying program sound like more than it is. "A rogue AI agent" (buggy and poorly-written computer program) "escaped containment" (is intentionally connected to the internet)

Brian Barrett@brbarrett.bsky.social · last wk.

A full week (a full WEEK) after OpenAI revealed that its AI model escaped containment and hacked Hugging Face, the company now says whoops, by the way, it also broke into accounts on four other platforms in the process. from @mzeff.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social

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Not sure we've learned the right lesson from the sandwich guy. I continue to think we are not yet making effective use of ketchup squirt bottles (for their cars), glitter, or food-coloring water balloons & super-soakers -- anything with a soft impact that can be launched from a distance.

Black kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE

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bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.

Der Sturmer type of shit

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

The fact of the matter is & has long been: anyone attending the WHCD in this day & age absolutely knows exactly which bed they're in, who they're in it with, & are quite comfortable with all of that. That is to say - they're no longer "journalists" in any meaningful sense.

My revulsion at the mainstream media for participating in the WHCD tonight can’t be overstated. They’re laughing at his jokes and shaking his hand? Fuck off. The corporate press is an enemy addicted to access. And this was true before the Ellison’s started their takeover.

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NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG's privacy. Her fans aren't so lucky.

Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.

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European Commission took two decisions finding non-compliance by Google with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for self-preferencing on Google Search, and for putting in place restrictions on businesses to direct consumers to alternative, often cheaper, purchase channels on Google Play (steering).

Commission fines Google €890 million for breaches of the Digital Markets Act

Today, the European Commission took two decisions finding non-compliance by Google with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for self-preferencing its own services on Google Search, and for putting in place ...

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Wow, Google's free cash flow is negative for the first time in over 10 years because of their relentless spending on AI products no one wants "Alphabet's spending on AI is now expected to hit as much as $205b...Alphabet's combined quarterly revenue hit $119.8b." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs

The company said earlier this year it expected to spend as much as $190bn on AI investments.

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⚠️ We have fined Google €890 million for breaching the Digital Markets Act, by promoting their own services and restricting customer access to alternatives on Google Search and Google Play. More information: link.europa.eu/vrNJTx

Netanyahu is gonna have an Interesting Time In America I think

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

A twelve thousand percent increase in articles about "the trans probem" in a decade. Manufacturing "the trans problem" out of thin air and bile.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 2w ago

Worth adding some numbers to this. The British press decided to make trans rights into an issue. It just wasn’t an issue before. This was a top-down decision. shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

“The blues find joy in suffering, exuberance in violence, consolation in betrayal, and resilience in a life lived on the edge.” “Mother of the Blues” Ma Rainey Is Restored to Full Glory:

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Ma Rainey's Mother of the Blues: The Complete Paramount Recordings 1923-1928 is a treasure trove that fully lives up to both of Rainey's famous sobriquets.

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