More "the wisdom of crowds":

But apart from that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

Juliet E McKenna@julietemckenna.bsky.social · 13h ago

If anyone is wondering, I don't use generative AI. It offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy as research. The environmental impact is appalling and the companies who developed it stole copyright intellectual property knowing that is illegal. GenAI is dishonest at every level.

As we all know, the only proper way to say this is “Im yirtzeh hashem”

✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 7h ago

starting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”

Hey friends, if you can take a minute and block / report this antisemite it would be a service to all of Bluesky

I've seen enough. I'm calling the Ann Arbor Mayoral Democratic Primary race for Yousef Rabhi.

This is exactly it

Seleucid Dreamer@smollusk.bsky.social · 22h ago

similarly both fuck AIPAC and I am very distrustful of almost anyone that rants about AIPAC

Update on "the wisdom of crowds". Those sudden jumps up and down -- those are basically caused by one person placing a relatively large bet in a relatively small market, right?

Michael Weiss (not that one)@profmweiss.bsky.social · 2d ago

Behold the wisdom of crowds (this is from Kalshi, for the Ann Arbor Mayoral primary, by the way)

Behold the wisdom of crowds (this is from Kalshi, for the Ann Arbor Mayoral primary, by the way)

We are living through the burning of the Library of Alexandria, but dumber

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

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.

I know we are all tired of fact-checking this stupid talking point, but I have *never* been asked to show ID to pick up a prescription from the pharmacist

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Rep. John McGuire on need for the SAVE America Act: "You can't go anywhere, you can't get medicine, you can't go to the Obama museum without a photo ID."

Has any sitting legislator ever introduced a constitutional amendment allowing Congress to overturn a presidential pardon by a 2/3 vote, the same way that they can overturn a presidential veto?

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.

FLAG: The Senate has just adopted by unanimous consent a non-binding resolution opposing a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell for any crimes related to Jeffrey Epstein.

I've always assumed the rationale for city-run grocery stores was to address urban food deserts, both to solve the availability problem & because scarcity leads to highly-inflated prices. In that context "deeply discounted prices" could just mean "prices that would be normal in the suburbs"

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.

Politics aside, do people believe city-run grocery stores with deeply discounted prices are a good POLICY idea? What are they intended to accomplish, in your view? What problem do they solve? Would you implement them if not running for election? I'm sincerely curious in people's answers here.

I'm getting a new laptop at the end of this week which means my old one (shown below) is going away. Going to need some new stickers. @maximumfun.org @radiotopia.bsky.social got any old freebies in a desk drawer somewhere?

I am so profoundly disappointed in my Michigan Senators, and despite my numerous misgivings about El-Sayed, I am probably going to vote for him because I have basically zero doubt that Stevens will follow in Peters's footsteps

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 2w ago

It is political malpractice for Democratic senators to be helping Trump fill judicial vacancies four months before the midterms. Completely unserious people.

There are 100% submarines in the Great Lakes. They are underwater research subs, there to study the freshwater whales of Lake Michigan and Superior. www.facebook.com/lakemichigan...

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

I hear they're re-doing the WHCD tonight. Does Cole Allen get a do-over, as well?

I haven't experienced this feeling since WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? came out in 1988

Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Final trailer for ‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ has been released. In theaters August 28. #CoyoteVsAcme

...Steelgrip Starkey? Is... is that *you*? (first image is from a panel in Marvel Zero #1, out this week)

Oh, the fear I’ve known That I might reap the praise of strangers And end up on my own

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago

Every time I see or hear El-Sayed say "We should keep our money here" I want someone to ask him "Do you think USAID was a good program? When DOGE shut it down, was that a good thing?" Then follow up with the same question about aid to Ukraine.

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 2w ago

That’s not what he said, though. If you’re going to get mad about leftists doing “wrecker shit” you should be mindful when someone is doing wrecker shit to you.

@shaenon.bsky.social, I just told a friend about Narbonic and tried to direct him to the Director's Cut pages, but they seem to be... gone?! Please tell me this is a temporary outage, not a permanent loss

I regret to inform you that the entire state of Michigan has been consumed by an orange Smoke Monster

the air is too dangerous to breathe AND lettuce and leafy greens are too dangerous to eat AND jackbooted government thugs are killing people in the street AND elections are under attack AND antisemitism is on the rise AND trans people are having their rights stripped AND crypto owns the govt AND

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

I think sometimes about what would have been different if Biden had nominated Sally Yates for AG instead of Merrick Garland

Athul K. Acharya@athul.acharya.cc · 3w ago

I really don’t think anyone has priced in how much appetite there is on our side for a politics of pure revenge, justice dispensed in wholesale rather than at retail

Someone is going to make a joke about being hard-hearted, but that person is not going to be me

I am almost exactly Luke Wilson's age (he was born 37 days after me) and I have four adult children, three of whom are approximately Kendall's age or older

New York Magazine@nymag.com · 4w ago

Luke Wilson, 54, and his girlfriend, Kendall Yates, 24, quietly welcomed their first baby, a daughter. The couple have been together since 2023.

"Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time" and "I don't know what to do, I'm always in the dark / We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks" are among the greatest lyrics of all-time. RIP Bonnie Tyler

I think this is exactly right -- the presumption for ANY political candidate should be that they are unworthy of holding office until they prove otherwise

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 4w ago

It’s not just that due process doesn’t apply to political candidates—it’s literally the opposite of the evidentiary standard for political candidates. The burden is entirely on *them* to prove to *us* that they possess the integrity and good sense to hold office.

You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see Mitch McConnell, he's laying on his back, belly baking in the hot sun, beating his legs trying to turn itself over, but he can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?