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Infra-turned-infosec. I swear at computers and sing Ronnie James Dio to houseplants.
Something pollsters still do not grasp how to contend with is the number of people who intentionally troll-respond to political polls
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · last wk.4% of americans view trump as far left
Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
[youth pastor voice] Odysseus? What you need is an "Ode *to* C.S." Here's my little song about The Screwtape Letters,
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
Mayor Mamdani is not its first victim
Widow's Bay DSA@gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3w agoFucccck they got him with the Gun That Makes You Italian
Study Finds Gen Z Telepaths Lack Attention Span To Read Even Single Mind https://theonion.com/study-finds-gen-z-telepaths-lack-attention-span-to-read-even-single-mind/
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UPDATE: A win is a win. 💪 Following widespread backlash — including SAG-AFTRA's call for members to opt out — Meta has withdrawn the feature. deadline.com/2026/07/meta...
Meta Removes AI Muse Image Feature After Backlash
Days after rolling out its Muse Image AI feature on social media, Meta has heard the overwhelming backlash from users.
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Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w agowhat a fucking asshole
Well, this is a MAJOR blow to accessibility. Fortnite has nerfed the Visual Audio wheel, which was designed for deaf and hard-of-hearing players. It makes the game almost unplayable for those players. Plus it helped a ton of other disabled players, including myself www.linkedin.com/posts/cdspow...
Fortnite sound effects wheel visualizer removed for accessibility | Christopher Power posted on the topic | LinkedIn
After investigating what I thought was a Fortnite glitch, I have found that Epic have severely changed and made nearly useless for accessibility purposes the sound effects wheel visualizer. It is not...
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one of the funniest things to me is that two separate classical composers from two different countries took Funiculì, Funiculà, an 1880s meme song about a cable car on a volcano, mistook it for an actual italian folk song, appropriated it without credit, and got their asses dragged in court
the spinning of "no tax on tips" as a pro-worker move is a real mood when the obvious intent is no reporting of tips, or stolen tip income, for employers
Will Harris@willharrisinva.bsky.social · last mo.Historically speaking, it hasn't always been a great idea for presidents to announce in advance that they're going to be in Dallas...
in addition to every other problem here, mamdani spends the vast majority of his time in the public eye speaking about hyper-local new york city governance issues. the idea that he is preoccupied with israel at all times is based on nothing other than the fact that he is muslim
brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · last mo.I hate this guy so much
another Sean Spicer in the bushes spectacle to distract from escalation around Turkey
The corporate LAN used to feel like a community. Now it's just a bunch of fucking computers
I'm not sure I've ever seen a single sentence go downhill this far and this fast
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoTherapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK’s largest children’s prison
Nobody is even asking the question what the implied threat to humanity is. What is super-intelligence supposed to save us from?
The state of AI software dev is that AI is very good at generating superficially compelling fakes of things, but ~nobody is using it to generate fake data in a way that actually accelerates engineering, only in ways that improve accuracy of guessing identities behind anonymized data
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what the world needs, instead of people talking to each other, is more Content. what's so hard to understand?
Gershom Gorenberg גרשום גורנברג@gershomg.bsky.social · 2mo agoReporter for The Free Press says there’s no point in going places yourself if you can read about them on Wikipedia. Truly, the soul of a journalist.
“Donald Trump’s vile, evil agenda is not at all aligned with what our terrifying masks represent,” frontman Corey Taylor wrote
Slipknot Orders Trump To Stop Using Their Masks During Rallies
DES MOINES, IA—Joining a long line of musicians who have threatened legal action against the commander-in-chief, nu-metal band Slipknot issued a public statement Tuesday demanding President Donald Tru...
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i think "doomscrolling" is a kind of "flow state" but like an evil version. negative flow state
One thing the whole Platner situation reveals is that a whole lot of supposedly progressive pundits and politicians would have been much better served if they actually WERE ensconced in the supposed Bluesky bubble, 'cause everyone I know on here had this clown figured out from the get-go.