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Bram van Gendt@bramvangendt.eurosky.social · 2d ago

De voorman van VNO-NCW zei het wederom: Korten op uitkeringen is niet nodig als we de arbeidsmarkt vitaliseren en als we economische groei realiseren. Waarom zou de VVD deze lijn niet kunnen volgen, onbegrijpelijk. En waarom vermogenden overcompenseren als je elke euro keihard nodig hebt.

Dolf Jansen@dolfjansen.bsky.social · last wk.

Ik herhaal t nog maar eens: W. Duk (in dienst van de T.) verspreidt Russische propaganda en andere lelijkheid. En, het is helaas niet anders, de oorlog die Rusland voert is oorlog ook tegen ons, tegen onze vrijheden, tegen Europa. W. Duk (van WNL) heeft n kant gekozen. Ik vind t angstaanjagend.

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gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · last wk.

The story of Dolly giving Brigette Bandit a guitar is so cool: www.kxan.com/news/local/a...

Dolly Parton sends signed, bejeweled guitar to Austin drag performer Brigitte Bandit

The year ended on a high note for one local performer after unwrapping a gift sent from one queen to another.

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okie (they/them)@okie.gay · last wk.

Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar

Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · last wk.

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Jesse Klaver@jesseklaver.groenlinkspvda.nl · last wk.

“Had Hitler gelijk in zijn strijd tegen het globalisme?” Weerzinwekkend. En maar lachen. ON uit het omroepbestel had allang moeten gebeuren, maar nu is het klaar. Wanneer wordt hier eindelijk eens ingegrepen door de minister?

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Bram van Gendt@bramvangendt.eurosky.social · 2w ago

Ik ben bijna klaar met studeren en zoek daarom voor de komende periode een leerzame bijbaan die (enigszins) aansluit bij mijn studieachtergrond. Kent u iets interessants of heeft u een tip? Laat het me vooral weten!

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iucounu@iucounu.bsky.social · 2w ago

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

Isa Yusibov@isayusibov.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gorbatsjov: "Ik heb nog nooit met iemand gesproken over NAVO uitbreiding. Nooit ter sprake gekomen. De kwestie van "not one inch" behelsde enkel Duits grondgebied na unificatie" Poetins useful idiots in NL: "NAVO beloofde Gorbatsjov zich niet uit te breiden richting het Oosten"

Willem Hilhorst@whilhorst.bsky.social · 2w ago

My session "Preserving Your Games in Europe" on behalf of @efgamp.bsky.social at Gamescom Dev is now confirmed for Monday August 24th at 15:45-16:45 at Stage 8. I have a full hour (!) and am very excited for it. Hope to see you there! bizcommunity.gamescom.global/event/gamesc...

Saving in Progress - Preserving Your Games in Europe

Preserving video games is a new field, but archives and museums are hard at work to make sure that your legacy can be accessed in the future. In this panel you will learn how to prepare for working wi...

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Willem Hilhorst@whilhorst.bsky.social · 4w ago

While I do dig the "professional" template for Gamescom Business week, the "Join Me!" text has a threatening aura.

A picture of a laughing man in a white blouse with a pin saying: Games Are Art. Underneath is a purple border listing that they Will Be At Gamescom Business Aeek between august 24th and august 30th in Köln/Cologne, Germany.
Alanah Pearce@alanahpearce.bsky.social · 3w ago

A certain AAA studio told employees that their internal gen AI was trained only on local data, but whenever said employees tried to generate an image of a woman holding a gun, it generated Lara Croft. The studio was not Crystal Dynamics, and had never worked on the Tomb Raider IP in any capacity.

jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social · 3w ago

I just want to mention: Even if your AI somehow runs locally and you think it's okay, it's still using trained data from a pre-existing dataset which is still full of stolen work. The sheer amount of data gen AI needs is in the hundreds of thousands, you can only get that by scraping

Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 2w ago

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w ago

Well, it's not like Ohio voters will be mad about this -- I'm sure they love Big Pharma billionaires and hate people who suffer from Alzheimer's.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 3w ago

New reporting reveals Ohio Republican Gov. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy hired his mother to manipulate clinical trial data for an Alzheimer's drug he owned the rights to. This scheme boosted Ramaswamy's company stock price and generated a $1.4 B IPO, where he then cashed out before the stock tanked.

Roos Vonk@roosvonk.bsky.social · 3w ago

Australisch onderzoek: Meta betaalt neonazi’s en een antivaxxer om content te plaatsen via het monetization programma, terwijl de berichten strijdig zijn met het eigen beleid (dat ze voor de bühne en de EU hebben gemaakt). www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Facebook pays controversial creators to produce rage-bait content

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.

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