Rather than imagining AI being banned, I like to ponder what guys like this are going to do when it gets turned off because the VC money dried up.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 23h ago

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

My thoughts on Bluesky not being welcoming to Republicans is Trump blocks disaster relief to states voting blue, & is also legally codifying anyone who opposes him as a terrorist deserving violence, & his kidnapping brute gangs terrorize the streets, & there's much more but I'm out of characters

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d ago

"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

I think a lot about the conflict between facts and belief, about how the motivations underpinning both are often in conflict. Belief, which religion depends on, stands athwart facts, declaring itself the only truth, and everything else as heresy. It rejects contrary evidence for this very reason.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

RFK Jr: Trump wanted to end lockdowns. In Fauci's diary, he talks about how the president was calling him trying to get him to reopen the country BASH: The lockdowns were down by governors K: They cited Fauci B: Govs were hearing from hospitals that their ICUs were overrun K: That's not true

It’s much easier to lie about your polling than to do anything that might improve it.

Written a bit about the massive influx of abuse, threats and targeted harassment I've received due to The National reporting accurately on the far-right's activities and aims. TLDR: The National won't be silenced. www.thenational.scot/politics/264...

The far-right want to silence The National. We won't let them win

How many times do you need to be called a "c***", "scum", "traitor" or "stupid bitch" before it becomes…

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"Lockdowns" are when we ask anti-social assholes to be less assholish for a bit while we figure out a global pandemic. These are the same people that complain they're not "allowed" to use the n-word and the r-word. Fuck 'em.

el camino acid@sexdracula.rocks · 3d ago

Hard to imagine bigger loser shit than relitigating the “lockdowns” when there were no real lockdowns you just weren’t allowed to eat inside the burger king for a few weeks.

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Direct action is a powerful activist tool because of all the information it provides- you essentially learn to do politics while outside of power.

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

Concerns over fake phenomena cannot be held in good faith. There's no such thing as "good faith" concern over razorblades in Halloween apples or vaccines causing autism. If you still have 'concerns' about these issues you are uninformed, a bigot or being manipulated. No other option.

John Oliver will keep making ‘Last Week Tonight’ through 2027, meaning he’s been renewed past the date Paramount-Skydance is set to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. Antitrust cases notwithstanding.

Last Week Tonight Renewed Through the Prospective Paramount-Warner Merger

John Oliver will keep making ‘Last Week Tonight’ through 2027, meaning he’s been renewed past the date Paramount-Skydance is set to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. Antitrust cases notwithstanding.

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🚨URGENT! 🚨 Calls needed! Forward this to everyone you know in NC & TX! Todd Blanche is dangerous and awful. He must not be confirmed as Attorney General! We can stop him. But it’s going to take pressure on 2 undecided GOP US Senators—Cornyn in Texas and Tillis in NC. Vote is super soon!

"For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. 'Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place. I urge each one of us here to reach...

Let it be known: She was always this way. Money and power didn't make her worse, it just shined a light on the ways she was already miserable and awful.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last wk.

Projection so powerful, you could screen the Odyssey in 70MM IMAX from it.

There is a joke in here (somewhere) about machines devouring human art for profit, but I've never been good at writing jokes Maybe a parable or something... 🤔

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.

Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.

I would really like to see some analysis on why Republicans, who have consistently driven up the deficit in this country, continue to hold an edge on economic trust. 😐

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.

Analysis by Amber Phillips: President Trump is deeply unpopular, as are some of his major policies. Republicans still hold a slight edge on economic trust. But the hurdles to a GOP-controlled Congress seem to be getting higher as the elections near.

First, Voltaire never actually said this. Second, your "right to say" something is a right against the government. No one is required to HELP you say it.

jake@yetanotheruseless.com · last wk.

If we follow Voltaire’s attitude of "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”, then this is perfect: DHH *is* a Nazi, and AI shouldn’t refuse to help Nazis translate their odious garbage: speech is only free if even speech we hate is allowed.

Centrist panic over DSA is cringe. Nobody tell Bill here about what the GOP platform has done to democracy.

It is tempting to buy the “Evil Genius” narrative because it’s less humiliating to imagine your entire country was hijacked by Lex Luthor than admit you lost to Biff Tannen.

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

Too much of the political press corps is not saying what is objectively true about the authoritarian threats posed by Trump. Too many of them are also too comfortable clapping and laughing along as he makes those threats. This was my reaction to the WHCD: www.tiktok.com/@huntersfeed...

Reacting to the White House Correspondents Dinner with @Alivelshi @11th Hour MS NOW #msnbc #dc #media #washington #politics

TikTok video by Hunter Walker

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The story was reported and written by Phill Smith, a journalist who is incarcerated himself in North Carolina and has done great reporting for Bolts before — you may have read his stuff on commissary prices rising for instance.

“it should be illegal to buy sandwich meat”

ceej@ceej.online · 3w ago

we are witnessing a company who thought they invented the ham sandwich realizing in real time that they sell ham, bread, and mustard at the grocery store

One very simple way to avoid this future problem would be for the American President & his Cabinet to stop committing war crimes now

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Tom Cotton: "Ultimately, it's not about Prime Minster Netanyahu and Israel -- it's about arresting Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio in the future if they ever travel abroad."

Orwell is cited a lot these days, and yes "we have always been at war with Eastasia" applies here. But the most Orwellian thing about all this is doublethink. You are required to believe the US and Iran have been at war for 47 years AND that the US and Iran have been at war for only a few months.

I just really want a centrist, whether it's a Never Trump Republican or an establishment Democrat, to write a column that really grapples with why *their* faction lost control of *their party* that doesn't primarily blame the insurgent faction or the voters. That would be interesting.

The Atlantic pretends not to notice that British History (imperialism, patronage, aristocracy) are the driving forces behind how we got here, and exactly the things voters are rejecting in establishment candidates. 😶

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago

“Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party,” James Kirchick writes. In looking for a way to reclaim control, he argues, they could find inspiration in British history: