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in every city in every nation from lake geneva to the finland station. he/him
Spotify, already the bane of many podcasters' existence, has decided to amp things up: Now it's scouring podcasts to see if any infringe on "literary content." It's already flagged one podcast I host, which reviews/critiques an author's books one by one, for "infringing" on the book. This is dire.
i wonder how many people realize this is a real problem or just assume the party in power just always uses government money for campaign ads
Mike Levin@mikelevin.org · 18h agoThis week the Trump administration ran a 30-second campaign spot on Fox News and Newsmax, labeled "Paid for by the U.S. Government." This kind of propaganda using taxpayer dollars is unacceptable and very likely illegal.
Hey, folks, this quiz that's circulating? The guy who made it is Emil Kirkegaard, a pretty prominent "race-realist" aka white supremacist who's also virulently misogynist. I really recommend not giving it any of your attention.
Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 13h agoI noped out on the first question. I CAN'T ANSWER THIS IN A FUCKING VACUUM Is the regulation something like "you should not pollute"? I like it. Is the regulation something like "should we be able to strip all your rights away and hold you in a concentration camp for months over this? I'm a no.
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · 2d agoFilmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk that Rolling Stone called “a nonfiction horror movie” following its film festival debut earlier this month. Watch ↓
The guy promising to clean up City Hall is getting millions from the worst billionaires in the planet to run his anti-democracy package. “Mayor Lurie's three charter measures have raised a mind-boggling $11 million so far” Only thing missing is a Trump cameo promising to help Lurie drain the swamp
Mayor Lurie’s charter measures raise stunning $11M, more than all others combined
Fundraising for the ballot measures is staggering: Over $19 million is going toward the 10 measures on the ballot.
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Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.
Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · 23h agoI’m sorry, but if you bring an iced coffee - or any damn beverage at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.
A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:
Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid
“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”
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Scamming you is the main goal of the scam machine run by the scammers but you think they're making it for spreadsheets
"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 22h ago
Cannot believe this place is still getting softball coverage, or that people are paying 55k a year.
New Chicago private school using lesson plans generated by AI as debate over tech continues
A new private school in Chicago is embracing artificial intelligence as part of its educational model, even as debate over AI use continues nationwide.
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It's disgusting watching people buying into the "Tucker Carlson is making sense?!" bullshit and it's probably time to wrap our heads around the fact that the people susceptible to this are unconsciously fascist curious and just need the ugly delivered to them in an "acceptable" package
Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.
If a politician takes money from weapons manufacturers, don't be surprised when they back weapons contracts. If a politician takes money from Big Pharma, don't be surprised when they try to stop guaranteed healthcare. That's why I don't take ANY corporate money. None.
What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation
Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.
Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 22h ago🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.
Wu on redistricting if Dems get control: "You do the exact same thing that they did to you until they say mercy" and agree to national, bipartisan reform.
Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · 2d agoTexas dem minority leader Gene Wu at Texas Tribune Fest: "I think we can take the (Texas) House."
This is what I keep saying! Defining gender by chromosomes is *the* most radical redefining of gender *ever*. Literally no society in all of human history has ever done that! None! Ever!
Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 21h agoIt's worth saying that the actual definition of women being insisted upon by these people in relation to, for example, Caster Semenya or Imane Khelif is one that would have been completely unintelligible to the vast majority of people throughout history.
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
“We are gathered here as American Jews, Israelis, New Yorkers, to say: You are not welcome here,” said Margo Hughes-Robinson, who heads New York Jewish Agenda, JP reported. T’ruah, J Street, New Jewish Narrative, New Israel Fund, Smol Emuni and Partners for Progressive Israel also participated.
Liberal Jewish groups rally against Benjamin Netanyahu during UN visit | The Jerusalem Post
Liberal, left-wing Jewish groups and Israeli expatriates protested Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrival in New York for his UN General Assembly address, while supporters held counterdemonstrations.
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DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2d agoPerhaps you’ve ditched algorithmically curated playlists for vinyl and enjoy DVDs rather than streaming
One thing about being a business law professor with a PhD in political theory during These Times (tm) is that once you realize that Silicon Valley has become a vanguardist (fascist) political project, you see its fingerprints *everywhere.* From dual class shareholding to repealing 14a-8, from
This puts mainstream Democrats in a real pickle. Should they support their incredibly popular mayor or a foreign leader who is best friends with Trump and works overtime to get Republicans elected. No easy answer here
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d agoNetanyahu directly attacks Zohran Mamdani (and his wife) from the UNGA podium, calling him the "antisemitic mayor of New York City," parroting The Free Press's stories about Rama Duwaji, tying Mamdani to Hasan Piker, and claiming the mayor is "buddies" with Hamas.
When I say Butlerian, you say Jihad. Butlerian! Jihad! Butlerian! Jihad!
Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 2d agoThe cybersecurity threat from agents is increasingly more likely to come from a massed swarm of AIs whose only goal is to penetrate your system to figure out how much you paid for your company t-shirts as part of a research effort to "find good t-shirt prices" as it is from bad actor attacks.
