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I spend my time doing gothy things, drinking green tea, drawing, reading, & developing taxonomies. Background in Library studies, Museum studies, Japanese studies, & Art history. https://visualculturecaffe.com
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"The bill mandates the disposal of public lands across 11 states... Wilderness Study Areas, Areas of Critical Environmental Concern, roadless areas and critical habitat are all eligible to be sold to 'any interested party'".

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🖋️ “Halt Further Airstrikes, Reassert Congressional Authority on War Powers” hit 100 signers! 💬 Text SIGN PIZTJH to 50409

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Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online

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Gross. Striking these things off the list right now I guess.

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Why do the characters in JAWS not simply defeat the shark in the marketplace of ideas?

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It's rare to get real-time data on the criminal histories of immigrants arrested by ICE. Cato got access to some of these data, showing that only 7 percent of people arrested by ICE & booked into detention this fiscal year had a violent conviction. www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

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So much for MAHA.

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Substack forces revenue sharing with Nazis? How does that work?

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Alright #Tacoma ready to start spinning promptly at 7pm at BUSY BODY on 6th Ave! #punk #postpunk #gothrock #deathrock #darkwave #industrial #ebm #synthpop #newwave #weirdshitonwax #postrock #hardcore #heavymetal #thrash #deathmetal #doommetal #blackmetal #dj #djnight #Tacomanightlife #etc

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Turntables at VIOLENT GOTH goin' bye-bye for the moment... So, while I figure out how to obtain some new gear to spin wax, we're shaking up the ole approach to things by using the trusty laptop to live mix to old silent horror films! First film at 7 with "normal" laptop aided DJ sets before & after.

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Happening tomorrow at Busy Body up here in Tacoma, Wash! First hour will contain (after a G!YBE intro) a buncha #punk music from L.A. 'cuz that's the kinda mood I'm in! #postpunk #hardcore #gothrock #darkwave #industrial #ebm #heavymetal #thrash #blackmetal #deathmetal #weirdshit #etc

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Reading The Art of Darkness by John Robb. The writing style reminds me of mine in '90 when I wrote music reviews, goth essays, & vampire fic for Jr college journalism/creative writing. They said it was crap. Either they were right about this style or they were wrong & I should have stuck with it.

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Ok but just asking - could an "ICE agent" take people from the other ICE agents and release them. Like who would know?

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www.techpolicy.press/the-black-bo... "LLMs do not make morally informed choices. They mimic language based on prompts, training, and reinforcement learning." “We must be able to examine data, trace it to its sources, and evaluate the socially harmful biases that emerge."

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People using Meta as their therapist are in for a shock.

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I called this a while ago. When you've got growth at all costs and that means as much input as you can find, you're going to end up feeding the models chopped up output of other models much like feeding cattle prion-infested cow leftovers.

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AI can be useful as a grammatical guide when structuring verifiable content....but it doesn't understand what it changes, and it does frequently change things. It requires deep oversight from human users. That doesn't always occur.

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We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

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WE HAVE QUESTIONS… This is a kidnapping. No uniform, no badge, civilian car. Who are they? ICE? Sanctioned bounty hunters? Either way, they’re grabbing people without warrants. How often is this happening, and why aren’t more people talking about it? Congress?

submitted 6 days ago • 2689 comments

why would anyone anywhere in the world trust anything one american government promises when this can happen to them a few years later

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

finally started reading Ghost, Trolls and Hidden people (icelandic folk legends)

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🚨 [AI BOOK CLUB] "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" by @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social is a GREAT read for everyone interested in AI, and it's our 🎉 23rd selected book:

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Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.

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#Missing #AmberAlert Tacoma, Washington #PNW

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When you show up to protest on Saturday be sure to bring your Doug flag to show solidarity. Please share and reskeet this for every cascadian on Bluesky. #Cascadia #Nokings

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They are targeting blue states. When is enough enough? Break off from this fascist regime. #Cascadia now!

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Breaking: Gov. Tim Walz says that State Representative Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, was assassinated. Her husband Mark was also killed.

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

If you can, try to fill your life with curiosity, kindness, and wonder. Also, haunted bookstores, twilight blimp rides, and boozy milkshakes with the old forest gods are pretty good too.

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

They have no authority to press charges on a US citizen for assault. They could have filed a report with LAPD. Instead they committed a kidnapping, a hit and run with a deadly vehicle, and endangered and assaulted minors with chemical weapons.

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