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mgdietz.bsky.social
I like to make and do stuff. Living in LA and West Coast kid for last 20 years. Born and raised in the Ozarks.
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The Google AI results at the top of searches are so pointless. We have a resource (the internet!) that knows everything, and instead of going to the source, it's like you asked your stupid cousin who is trying to recall the information from a podcast he heard last week.

submitted 4 days ago • 289 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 9 days ago • 2109 comments

Just despicable and disgraceful. The US government is now indistinguishable from the mafia.

submitted 11 days ago • 1779 comments

Oh interesting! So here's his dms office number 🫡 1) chancellor.ucla.edu 2) (310) 825-2151

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This is an excellent summary of our situation, which is quite bad. It’s not just that they’re breaking laws. They’re breaking laws that are centrally important to our constitutional order and are constitutive of its identity. They are targeting the best parts of what democracy has built here.

submitted 21 days ago • 24 comments

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 4328 comments

In my self-defense classes I focus on how most people are socially conditioned to follow the norms of a civilized, polite society — and there is a MENTAL SHIFT required to use violence to defend from violence. I'm reminded of this while watching our elected officials dithering and delaying. 1/

submitted 25 days ago • 130 comments

OpenAI right now

submitted 27 days ago • 303 comments

Y’all, we’re not exaggerating when we say that the time to divest from Big Tech is NOW. They have very openly stated that they intend to use all of this AI to do state surveillance.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

The way forward is the same as it’s always been - organize your neighborhood, your household, your workplace. Nobody is coming to save us except ourselves. Look out for one another.

submitted 36 days ago • 15 comments

Asking my fav funny folks - please ask venues to prioritize sharing shows via their newsletters or here before IG - it is why I can't quit it yet. @pftompkins.bsky.social @pattonoswalt.bsky.social @vicmmic.bsky.social @jadomian.bsky.social especially Elysian & Dynasty Typewriter #losangeles #comedy

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

If you are in LA and love David Lynch you should check out the shrine to him at Big Boy before it is gone #losangeles #davidlynch

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

🚨Join @vicmmic.bsky.social and Ta'Tania Jackson (@bodycourage.bsky.social) for a very important interview on tonight's new episode of Very Important People - out now on Dropout!

submitted 40 days ago • 10 comments