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So DOGE used crappy AI to “munch” VA contracts. We got the code. Killed contracts included: -support for nurses -a gene sequencing to improve cancer treatment -blood analysis Story by @bxroberts.org @vernalcoleman.bsky.social and me. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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meta is spying on android users' browsing data in an even sleazier and sneakier way than previously known this is the stuff you get when you live in a country that's too corrupt to pass a modern privacy law

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If you've ever used ACX to produce an audiobook, they sent out a survey today. Please let them know how much you hate AI. I know I did 😏

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In this generative class, we’ll analyze your favorite TV shows and use them to inspire our writing. Whether you’ve got a work in progress or are starting something totally new, you’ll leave this class with fresh words, momentum, and a map to having more fun! Sign-up: tinhouse.com/product/spri...

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PORTLAND: BwPCon is THIS SATURDAY June 7 at Books With Pictures! @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social 1401 SE Division. Guests include @dylanmeconis.bsky.social @xtop.bsky.social @oneofthejohns.bsky.social bookswithpictures.com/bwpcon/ #pdxcomics Portfolio reviews from me, 4:30-6, too! Please share!

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The immigration pipeline that takes those with H1B visas through to the green card process six years later is broken. @alecmac.bsky.social explores it in his latest for @propublica.org: propub.li/4ku9gtn

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Porcine Air Force alert!

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Remember when NFTs were inevitable? The plagiarism bot has more and louder rubes, but it’s just as much a grift, and we don’t have to agree to it.

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An accidental discovery at a planetarium opens a window into the universe's inner workings

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#TodayILearned that Portland has a Sleestak Factory. https://dot.cards/portland_sleestak_

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Any suggestions where I can find a karaoke (instrumentals only) version of this delightful song? (I don't know if Al Stewart composed the tune or not.) https://youtu.be/0adAIO2tiDo?si=C4LM5AIIiguB90er

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If you visit this major corporate news site with an ad blocker, you see the first image below. If you turn your ad blocker off, you see the second image, in which there is LITERALLY NO VISIBLE CONTENT -- it's all obscured by ads and pop-ups. No wonder people are ill-informed.

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@support.bsky.team In the iOS app, if you tap on a post that contains a video—to copy a word from the post text or look up the definition of a word—after you select text, the pop-up immediately dismisses. Probably related to the video causing the screen to auto-refresh several times per second.

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ernest hemmingway story about you dropped

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Satisfying to realize that back when Trump and JD were ambushing Zelensky in the Oval and vowing to sell him out to Putin, the Ukrainian president was hiding this intel from them the whole time.

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This long thread from the CEO of Kobo has paused my finger from pressing the "delete all my books from Kobo" button. If they actually are doing what he says they're doing… well, they still have a serious communication problem about it, and the devil's in the details. But I'm willing to listen.

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'Actually it's just some guys' strikes again. www.ibtimes.co.uk/builderai-co...

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1. So I have a few thoughts on Elon Musk, ketamine, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, opium, Hitler's meth habit, William F. Buckley and the most pathetic acid trip in history, W. H. Auden, cocaine, Aldous Huxley, the CIA, and Silicon Valley, as well as other related matters.

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Me standing on the porch of my uterus with a shotgun “I’ll give you to the count of three to GIT”

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Just got this update from Kobo which says it's going to use AI to read my works to "enhance" discoverability and marketing, and determine the "suitability" of the works and "adherence to Kobo’s Terms of Service" among other things. Which is why I'm immediately pulling my books from Kobo.

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I don't remember that New Yorker piece?

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Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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We spoke to 15 teachers about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives. "Honestly, if we ejected all the genAI tools into the sun, I would be quite pleased." www.404media.co/teachers-are...

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LOUDER I STILL CAN'T HEAR YOU

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🚨BREAKING: Leader Schumer promises to "fight tooth and nail to strike" provision in GOP budget bill making it harder for judges to hold Trump administration in contempt of court. "Republican’s naked subservience to a lawless President is gravely dangerous and Senate Democrats won’t stand for it."

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Already massively more expensive than Saturn V, but that’s ok, it’s projected to be much less efficient, if (ha!) they can get past the 100 percent failure rate. NASA kicked their ass more than 50 years ago. www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-d...

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Trump bragged about spending $1B bombing Houthis while getting Reaper drones shot down and losing two fighter jets to the bottom of the Red Sea while accomplishing nothing and leaking it in Signal, while “you don’t have the cards” Zelensky wipes out 40 bombers deep inside Russia.

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Chicago Steampunk Exposition, Day 3 (3): Steampunk Hamster Wars!

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Chicago Steampunk Exposition, Day 3 (2)

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Chicago Steampunk Exposition, Day 3 (1)

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Your key takeaway from the brilliant Ukraine attack with small drones into Russia shouldn’t be “wow, small drones make it so easy to score huge hits,” it should be “wow, Ukrainians are insanely good at covertly planning and executing extraordinarily difficult missions of which drones are one part”.

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Anecdotal backup: Recently we were at a small regional airport with vast, Sahara-scale extra parking. Parking areas on the order of a pro-football venue were full, wall to wall, with unsold Teslas. As in the photo below. And these were "normal" Teslas, not the ludicrous Cybertrucks.

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This is the tail of an important thread. Click through and scroll back to the beginning to read it.

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Chicago Steampunk Exposition, Day 2 (3)

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Chicago Steampunk Exposition, Day 2 (2)

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Chicago Steampunk Exposition, Day 2 (1)

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XII.XII.MMXXV on Netflix. More to come…

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The fact that Disney is pulling the same stunt doesn't excuse Unbound's behavior. #DisneyMustPay

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Important thread on the early days of the now-bankrupt publisher Unbound, from someone who was there.

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A visit to the Elephant Graveyard of West Bloomfield, Michigan: unsold Cybertrucks piling up in the parking lot of a closed Bed, Bath, & Beyond about a mile south of the Tesla dealer. May 30, 2025. #Tesla #Michigan #cybertruck

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I always tell up-and-coming novelists to use Locus to make sure they're up on the latest SFF news -- deals and deliveries, which agents are worth your time, forthcoming blockbusters, etc. Essential for writers and anyone else who needs to know. Check out their fundraiser and donate if you can!

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Last chance to vote! The Seattle Worldcon 2025 Consultative Vote closes tonight at midnight (Pacific Time)! Review the two topics and cast your vote by logging into the membership portal and clicking "Login to Vote." Get all the details here: seattlein2025.org/wsfs/busines...

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Back from social media hiatus with a new mantra: "I call bullshit" is my evergreen response to generative AI evangelism, now in essay form. Here's the first of these I Call Bullshit essays: Writing lessons from my toddler, who teaches me why AI can never replace us. suyidavies.com/essays/i-cal...

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