Hello, universities are a linchpin of democracy and a sine qua non of civilized society, not a profit center

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 10h ago

Universities cannot make money teaching home undergrads or doing funded research. Indeed, those run at a large loss. Only teaching international students make sense in any way. The logical endpoint is taking only international students, reducing research and moving many ops out of the UK altogether.

Damn, it's out and about. I wonder where you could find this book? Hopefully most everywhere books are friggin' sold. It's a little guy, so look in the little guy sections (but not the kids section)

kc green@kcg.bsky.social · yesterday

My book “This is Fine: Life Lessons for a World on Fire” is out today. Online and at select retailers.

Elon Musk is one of the most small-minded, least creative people I've had the misfortune to have heard of, which speaks VOLUMES about Jim Cramer

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h ago

Jim Cramer just now on Elon Musk and why you should buy SpaceX: “Because our minds are small and his mind is big.”

Rape is the central pillar of the right-wing agenda, the right to terrorize other people in the most intimate way possible.

Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterday

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2

Literally every banker ever will tell you it's cheaper to buy than to rent in the long run, this is just that theory on a more micro (but no less true) level

katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · yesterday

okay now he's gone too far

buddy i have never used it. i don't know how to use it. i don't know if it's an app or what. i will never use it. if it disappeared today i'd go out and celebrate because it being gone would be instantly great for the planet and humanity

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 21h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

It will be worse than this! Most websites will be forced to ask you to send your ID to a third party surveillance service, adding a credit card won't be enough for most. Bluesky asks for your *social security number* if you live in Texas now, due to this shit. Call in, and kill it.

Eromancer@eromancer.bsky.social · 3d ago

This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

Gonna be blunt, the reason I complain about AI so much is because it's made so much extra work for me, as I'm inundated with AI slopware games that I have to sort through and filter out, if this garbage tech ceased to exist tomorrow, it would be an immediate ease of that workload.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 21h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Not only was she loudly right about everything and reviled for it, in 2017 O'Connor donated 30 years worth of clothes and makeup to trans girls in Ireland.

Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor

Ken Jennings claims to support trans rights but how supportive can you possibly be if you won't even give up Wordle

I honestly didn’t think that EA could get any worse. Little did I know. I feel very bad for the gaming industry to be honest 

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 24h ago

Well, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666

Ride on shooting star

Love starting every morning with an allergy attack of varying degrees of severity. Today's was a horking-and-coughing-for-a-half-hour day. The best ever.

If I had a canary fursuit, she would be a miner and would have a Barbie doll in one of these

Shawn@chalkbeard.bsky.social · 2d ago

I’d be more inclined to believe this if anyone’s fursona was a canary

Furries are an indicator species. If they start disappearing, your online ecosystem is not healthy.

Technically, the last time America was at war was 1945. Since then, we've just been refining "OK, but if we don't file the paperwork to declare war, a whole lot of rules don't apply" and here we are.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Sen. Rand Paul: "I've had the debate with this administration ... they told me this isn't a war. I said, why isn't it a war? They said, 'Well, a constitutional war has to have significant casualties' ... initiation or declaration of war is *before* the casualties."

One of the things I find so off-putting about AI generated imagery is just how overgreebled it is, it always adds too much detail, and when it comes to trying to depict food, it ends up looking like it's crawling with insects or triggering trypophobia, it's extremely off-putting.

🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪@murderxbryan.bsky.social · yesterday

Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.

The long awaited sequel. #art #comic #sphynx #sphinx #mythicalcreature #kaijufluffsart

KaijuFluffs | Kaiju VTuber@kaijufluffs.bsky.social · last mo.

She's being so big and brave. #art #comic #sphynx #mythicalcreature #kaijufluffsart

Another thing that pisses me off about the endless “BlueSky needs to be more welcoming to far-right Nazis” takes is, they are free to join. It seems BlueSky won’t take their posts down unless they contain a pic of an ass. What they want is an algorithm to force their rage-bait shit onto your feed.

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · yesterday

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care

Bumping this because Diana now being charged in relation to this.

Sarah Clarke - Not your doll@damselindystopia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is for a couple of friends of mine, I personally witnessed some of the events described. Both women are in a pretty shit situation as a result of this bullshit and could really do with some help. www.gofundme.com/f/help-diana...

I HAVE BEEN SUBSIDIZING WALMART AND AMAZON STARVING THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

#terriblecomicday we all have regrets

Evidence of the great benefits of AI: it used to take a huge amount of time and effort to make yourself look this stupid; now AI allows you to humiliate yourself almost instantly.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d ago

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

Look who arrived tonight!

A different kind of disney princess (animation)

I am sympathetic to the fact that he needs help. But he's also in the cult and he's using his platform to advertise it to other people. My sympathies are secondary to the threat.

“Why/How do people deny the Holocaust happened? There were literally people who lived through it???” Well, interesting news! You’re watching that same process develop again in real time!

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>