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Remember, Kash Patel wants you to know that if you hit a cop you WILL go to jail. Unless you're the right type of assailant, in which case you WILL get a pardon and a trip to Mar-a-Lago.

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I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT IN AMERICA HAVE AGAIN AND AGAIN TOLD YOU WHAT SCARES THEM AND IT IS NOT ONE BIG PROTEST, IT IS MANY SMALLER ONES

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WA tribe buys controversial Uncle Sam billboard off I-5

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A few thoughts on Trump nationalize state nat guard in LA talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/break...

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Another good thread. First few comments are also worthwhile.

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Good thread.

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“Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.”

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We are halfway to our $5K goal! Any donations or signal boosts appreciated! 💜

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You can demagogue on immigration by saying you’re going after people who “didn’t follow the rules.” But you can’t demagogue on immigration by saying “They followed all the rules, but now we’re CHANGING the rules.” That only appeals to full-on, explicit, Stephen-Miller-type white supremacists.

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These brave civilians stood up for their fellow humans. They said “No” to the Gestapo. An entire community banded together to fight back. And ICE rammed the crowd. They escalated. They chose even more violence. ICE is the problem. Not migrants. My god.

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TODAY! #PDXComics!

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Happy 12 Years of Oh Joy Sex Toy! Join our Birthday Pledge Drive for bonus comics and to keep the site afloat for the rest of the year because- real talk- we're looking at reducing our comic production/wrapping up around the end of the year. www.patreon.com/OhJoySexToy

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Unbound was not incompetent. They deliberately and intentionally stole from authors.

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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.

Remember, Kash Patel wants you to know that if you hit a cop you WILL go to jail. Unless you're the right type of assailant, in which case you WILL get a pardon and a trip to Mar-a-Lago.

I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT IN AMERICA HAVE AGAIN AND AGAIN TOLD YOU WHAT SCARES THEM AND IT IS NOT ONE BIG PROTEST, IT IS MANY SMALLER ONES

WA tribe buys controversial Uncle Sam billboard off I-5

A few thoughts on Trump nationalize state nat guard in LA talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/break...

Another good thread. First few comments are also worthwhile.

Good thread.

“Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.”

We are halfway to our $5K goal! Any donations or signal boosts appreciated! 💜

These brave civilians stood up for their fellow humans. They said “No” to the Gestapo. An entire community banded together to fight back. And ICE rammed the crowd. They escalated. They chose even more violence. ICE is the problem. Not migrants. My god.

TODAY! #PDXComics!

Happy 12 Years of Oh Joy Sex Toy! Join our Birthday Pledge Drive for bonus comics and to keep the site afloat for the rest of the year because- real talk- we're looking at reducing our comic production/wrapping up around the end of the year. www.patreon.com/OhJoySexToy

Unbound was not incompetent. They deliberately and intentionally stole from authors.

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...

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

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 😏

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!

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

Porcine Air Force alert!

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.

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

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

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

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.

@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.

ernest hemmingway story about you dropped

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I don't remember that New Yorker piece?

Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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...

LOUDER I STILL CAN'T HEAR YOU

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...

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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