O’Bearyn Martell

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I care mostly about socialism and cute bears

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Been here. We went into crisis in 2016, when McConnell stole a 5-4 liberal majority and threatened Obama with making warnings about Russian interference partisan. Everything since then has been dominoes falling.

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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear

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“How do you want your truck bumper decorated?” “Like I’m about to make a cameo in Final Destination.”

It's been a couple days now, and I still can't get #ISawTheTVGlow out of my head. It's a wild and magical (and difficult) feeling to watch a movie and see how a group of artists can just stare into your damn soul and knock it all around boxd.it/6FU4xR

Review of ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ (2024) ★★★★★boxd.it It is a tough thing to be shown aspects of yourself that you are reticent to accept. We feel this way all the time in probably every argument that we have with people we are close to. Usually, those…

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X-Men '97 should have an episode where Bishop tells Jubilee what happens to malls in the future, and she and the others do whatever they can in the present to stop that timeline from becoming a reality

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The list of people who are angrier at Jonathan Glazer than at Benjamin Netanyahu is, if nothing else, instructive.

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Cool how if you want to install an ADA-mandated elevator inside a subway station you have to do years of community input and environmental reviews justifying it, but if you want to fill the same subway station with guys holding M16s doing constitutionally-dubious searches its just "i've got a hunch"

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“Cancel culture” doesn’t exist, and if you’re a white male, most of the time, consequence culture doesn’t either. Shane Gillis, dropped as SNL cast member for his racist, homophobic and misogynist jokes, is bigger than ever and now going to host the show. deadline.com/2024/02/shan...

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Denethor: No tomb for Denethor and Faramir. No long, slow sleep of death embalmed. We shall burn, like the heathen kings of old. Bring wood and oil. NYT: Denethor, Master Orator, Fires Up Crowd at Latest Rally

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IQ actually is a good measure of intelligence but it's because if someone legitimately believes that it's a magical number that tells you how smart someone is, that person is a fucking imbecile

Every day, Elon gifts us a new and beautiful piece of the luminous spectrum of traits that give him the diagnosis of Fucking Piece of Shit

@hollyanderson.bsky.social @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social It’s time for Alabama to take a bullet for America & get Tommy Tuberville off those stupid senatorial benches and back on the sideline. We honor our success through sacrifice by absorbing the Tuberville and keeping it concentrated in one spot

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I get conflicting information about my payment status at least 2-3 times a month, I’ve already had 1 late payment despite having set up automatic payments, and my PSLF payment count has changed 3x to the point where I’m not even sure I actually am supposed to still have student loans anymore

To almost no one’s surprise, student loan servicers have been incompetent in handling the end of the pandemic-era repayment pause. @ryanlcooper.com reports:

CFPB Report Finds Long-Predicted Student Loan Servicer Problemsprospect.org Everyone thought these companies couldn’t handle the end of the repayment pause. Everyone was right.

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20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI sayswww.theguardian.com Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...

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Seeing a lot of discourse RE: younger millennials bemoaning that they're Old and Cringe now and I just want to reach out and reassure today's youth that the best strategy for remaining relevant in a fast-paced world is to simply NEVER be even faintly cool or on-trend, at all, ever

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Andre Braugher was a giant, as capable of being the most intense dramatic actor TV had ever seen as he was of being among its most sublimely silly comic performers. I wrote about Frank Pembleton, Raymond Holt, and everything in beween:

Andre Braugher Played Two of TV’s Greatest Cops. But His Family Came Firstwww.rollingstone.com Star of ‘Homicide’ and ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine,’ who passed away at the age of 61, could do it all, and would then race home to his loved ones.

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The people I know panicking most about Trump possibly winning in 2024? Not white liberals. Immigrants. Iranian. Chilean. Argentinian. People who know that governments can turn on a dime, go from a democracy to a dictatorship in a day. They’ve seen this happen before, and they know the signs.

If it seems unimaginable that the US is heading towards and dictatorship, it once seemed unimaginable that Trump would be President, or return after seeking to overturn the 2020 election. We suffer from a normalcy bias, the sense that it can't happen here. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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elon is doing a stellar job making the entire case for the argument that you’re not smart just because you’re wealthy

Everyone's quoting Elon's "Go fuck yourself," but the lines just after it were also something x.com/AlexThomp/st...

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No one will believe that as the world was burning, the men rich enough to stop it were trying to make computers more racist. They’ll think that was a bit of color we made up, like Depression-era stockbrokers leaping from skyscrapers.

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HELL IS A WORLD WITHOUT YOU, my debut novel All my preorder proceeds will go to the Trevor Project after 2/12/2024 payhip.com/shutdownfull... and elsewhere

@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social I have an OTA antenna cable running through my living room right and creating an enormous tripping hazard right now because I know the only channel that matters is the CW

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unless the server spits in my food in front of me the tipping starts at 20%, rounded up, and goes up from there if you routinely tip under 15% in this country you should not eat out

From a recent Pew Research report: “A majority of Americans say they would tip 15% or less for an average meal at a sit-down restaurant.” 2% say they tip nothing. Quality of service is a major factor in most Americans’ tipping practices. [pewresearch.org]

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I’m just saying, maybe don’t fire him, just reassign him. The Qatar campus has sports…

Really rude of the big ten west for trying to make me aroused in public.

We endanger the future of an entire section of the country so we can walk into grocery stores and pretend we don’t have seasons and always have plenty of meat on the shelves. An unnecessary waste.

The 20 Farming Families Who Use More Water From the Colorado River Than Some Western States Tens of millions of people — and millions of acres of farmland — rely on the Colorado River’s water. But as its supply shrinks, these farmers get more water from the river than entire states.

The 20 Farming Families Who Use More Water From the Colorado River Than Some Western Statesprojects.propublica.org Tens of millions of people — and millions of acres of farmland — rely on the Colorado River’s water. But as its supply shrinks, these farmers get more water from the river than entire states.

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Also, I’ve had it with people shitting on other people’s joy. If you’re an adult who likes collecting baseball cards or playing Pokémon go or dressing up for Taylor Swift shows or going to Disneyland, you do you. It’s not hurting anyone. Follow your bliss!

People are like “wow why are women so obsessed with Taylor swift???” Maybe because literally everything else in the world is a fucking nightmare

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oh my fucking god. does he think it’s called blade runner cuz the guy’s name is blade runner

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Chandler Bing was my favorite. Matthew Perry was a genius at knowing exactly how to deliver a line to generate the most possible laughs. I hate that he's gone, and tried to capture what made him great:

Matthew Perry Was the Sarcastic Soul of ‘Friends’www.rollingstone.com Comedy actor, who passed away at the age of 54, could deliver a one-liner like no other and proved a crucial ingredient to the sitcom’s comedy stew.