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Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

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The world is being torched by a guy who can't even be trusted with a basic level of parental responsibility.

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We didn’t just ban AI this year we made t-shirts about it. This is a LIMITED run. Pre-order ends April 5th or sooner if we sell out. Link and statement BELOW:

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The egg juggling scene in THE FIRST AUTO hits differently these days

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 9 days ago • 523 comments

The first president in modern times who refused to release his tax returns as a candidate wants to give Elon Musk and his goons access to yours. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 10 days ago • 310 comments

Please enjoy this mind-bogglingly large collection of what are likely terrible movies of B quality or less. archive.org/details/vide...

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

submitted 13 days ago • 161 comments

1/10 What are Genai astroturf orgs like the “Foundation of American “Innovation” up to? Pushing to take your hard work, property and creative innovation for free by destroying the few protections in our constitution. They know laws are not in their favor so making theft legal is their answer.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

submitted 17 days ago • 1765 comments

Has anyone who makes the arguments that literary writers "must embrace AI because new tech always wins" ever addressed the long failed history of tech that was supposed to change literature? Hypercard novels. Enhanced ebooks. NFTs. etc. I'd be interested in reading that.

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

Ok man, I’ll tell them

submitted 19 days ago • 224 comments

What especially irks me about that pathetic post from Damien Leone is apparently it was his response to morons complaining to him about Art The Clown's actor being vocally supportive for LGBTQ rights. Wow, dude. Can't even stand up for your own cast and crew.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

This shit makes me so angry. Like, have a basic understanding of how your chosen field of art functions, dipshit: whether you consciously want to be political or not, nothing - not even horror films - are made in a vacuum. Everything, somehow, will always reflect the context within which it is made

submitted 19 days ago • 29 comments

Need something to escape into and lift your mood for a brief (but restorative) respite from the turmoil currently surrounding us? I can confidently state the most excellent ‘Hundreds of Beavers’ (@hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social)is very much worth your while!

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I have literally been on the ground with USAID, implemented by the WFP, in South Sudan and other places. I've seen it save lives on a massive scale in famine and war zones. This is fucking insane. Musk is reaching Stalin levels of lies and propaganda.

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Gordon Ramsay: You put no effort into your food, it's disgusting me, knocking back a handful of Cheez-its: That's right, Gordon, you tell em

submitted 21 days ago • 56 comments

I will say that while I'm enjoying BlueSky after almost two years away from the other place, that's really only if I'm looking at my Following list. Discover is a shitshow. A DIFFERENT shitshow than the other place, but still a shitshow.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

People today watching movies on their phones! It's the death of cinema! We need to bring movies back to their roots, which were... coin-operated peepshows with communal earbuds

submitted 22 days ago • 19 comments

OpenAI right now

submitted 24 days ago • 303 comments

RFK JR promotes drinking raw milk which the CDC & FDA warn against. Watch @insideedition.bsky.social TODAY as I interview the man who runs the farm he gets his raw milk from. HIGH CONCERNTATIONS OF BIRD FLU VIRUS IN THE RAW MILK OF INFECTED DAIRY CATTLE WERE FOUND AT THAT FARM IN DECEMBER.

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

submitted 25 days ago • 3342 comments

Four years ago, I was trying out a weekly release of audiobook-style narration, using short pieces from the public domain. One of them, shockingly relevant then and scarily relevant now, was Ur Fascism, written by Umberto Ecco. It is, sadly, time to repost it. soundcloud.com/wil-wheaton-...

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

Excellent post

submitted 27 days ago • 2082 comments

"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..." Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...

submitted 28 days ago • 276 comments

the supposed benefit of AI is having an algo micromanage your daily life at a level that would get most human beings punched in the face if they tried it with you, like who is the target audience here, people who wanted to be in prison but couldn't make the cut?

submitted 27 days ago • 32 comments

Guys like joe rogan are funny because they still think smoking weed that they buy legally from places that look like an apple store makes them hunter s thompson

submitted 27 days ago • 311 comments

I can't help feeling a "game-changing" technology that's going to "transform" the way we work wouldn't need to be sneaked into products without the user's consent. All I see is posts asking "How do I switch this f**king thing off?" Copilot's the U2 album nobody asked for, except it's not free.

submitted 28 days ago • 73 comments

Here's my thought on Hegseth. No one should ever even need to bring up his sex life, drinking, or affairs: HE'S NOT QUALIFIED FOR THE JOB. That...should be more than enough.

submitted 29 days ago • 905 comments

Reporting like this is so fueled by misinformation that it is just stoking obsolescence paranoia for no good reason. Sony is not ceasing commercial production of Blu-rays. This is solely for BD-Rs, which you can still readily buy from Verbatim. www.gearpatrol.com/audio/sony-b...

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

It came to me earlier this week that a lot of people all over the United States, and possibly the world, believe the fiction that the reason why the Palisades and Eaton fires were so bad was because there was no water, instead of the real reason: the 99 MPH winds.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

ChatGPT is down? Huh. Crazy how that doesn't affect my life in literally any way at all

submitted 30 days ago • 402 comments

The reason A.I. is being shoved down our throats is shareholders want a return on their investment. Every company that integrates this crappy tech into their products knows you don't want it, but they've sunk too much money into it and don't care. Turn it off, don't use it, don't look back.

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Mmm. The Democrats playing on my phone asking for money today. Interesting choice.

submitted 33 days ago • 46 comments

AOC: I don’t celebrate RAPISTS, so no, I’m not going to the inauguration tomorrow

submitted 34 days ago • 570 comments

The market for apps that are basically "This existing software, but how it was 5-8 years ago" is functionally infinite at this point. Every Office app. The entire Adobe suite. It's open season. Hell, ATP tech babble aside, 95 % of Bluesky users are here because it's Twitter with less bullshit

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This cover is absolutely incredible! I can’t wait for this book!

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Can someone explain why TikTok is a bigger national security concern than a social media platform run by a South African technofeudal oligarch actively interfering in our elections and sabotaging our national interests here and abroad?

submitted 37 days ago • 2357 comments

Live your life so that when you die, some joyless schmuck is annoyed that his entire social media feed is a wall of people's posts talking about how much you and your work meant to them

submitted 37 days ago • 226 comments