feralrobots.bsky.social

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Cis straight borderline-elderly middle-class white man.
I like my screen name fine, thanks, that's why I picked it.
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I've been thinking about this post from the Claremont Institute, a Trumpist think tank, ever since the SCOTUS immunity ruling. Wonder what "unpleasant things" the Trumpists have in mind. open.substack.com/pub/joelmmat...

If your question is 'what is Biden gonna do to protect us from Republicans?' the SUFFICIENT answer is (& yes, this is very unfortunate) 'not be Trump.' We are all free to point out the problems. I'm not telling anyone to shut up. Also we need to not pretend we have a different choice.

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GORDON RAMSAY: and the eggs, they are? UGLÙK: they eggs. Taste good. Canapé. RAMSAY: no I mean, where do you get the eggs UGLÙK (gesturing towards Shelob’s lair): Get from big spider RAMSAY: from big spider. Fuck me. Canapé eggs from big spider. Fucking hell.

Narrator: Shocking conditions in the back, Ramsay has to take Shelob to the hospital for being overworked

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Also, there is no fucking shame in things saved in the edit; that's what the editing is for.

From what I've heard, Star Wars is the very definition of a film saved by the edit.

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

At this time it looks like they've been taking steps to neuter the bot, but there's some wild disinformation in here.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams has created an official chatbot to give NYC folks business advice! Let’s see how it works, shall we? chat.nyc.gov

MyCity Chatbotchat.nyc.gov

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Kevin M. Kruse

“The dissent is indulging in extreme hypotheticals” says the justice in a case of a president trying to use fraud and force to overturn an election

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What you have to remember, apart from Biden, even apart from Trump, is that the Republican party does not intend to ever relinquish power again, and for all intents and purposes their hands are no longer tied in terms of what they can do to hang onto it Those are the stakes, act accordingly

I don’t like Joe Biden, I’m furious with him, I am furious about the prospect of voting for him, but it is difficult to find the words to express how much worse Trump Presidency 2.0 would be, it’s shaping up to become a catastrophe that’s frankly hard to even imagine

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So. Google just released an internal paper about the epistemic, ethical, and sociopolitical threats of generative "AI," and golly gee whiz if that doesn't sure as shit sound familiar. 🤔🧐😒🙄 www.404media.co/google-ai-po...

Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bugwww.404media.co “While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”

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Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.

#WilhoitsLaw is the #TormentNexus of political ethics.

Brett Kavanaugh, Clinton-Lewinsky inquisitor, 1998: Bill Clinton is guilty of disgrace for making "frivolous privilege claims" at the Supreme Court

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b-boy bouiebaisse

the world in which the president is throwing his opponents in jail is not a world where you can just ask a judge to let you out

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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.

Related, if trump is summarily deporting citizens under his new mass deportation regime, citizenship and an ability to appeal to the law isn’t going to get people back in the country. The executive runs border security

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OK besides this below and DEVO coming out of the Kent State massacre, what are other facts you have about the evolution of art / music /etc that wouldn't be obvious if you didn't know but, retroactively, explain and/or illuminate a LOT ?

Reminds me of how almost all the French dadaists and surrealists were WWI veterans of the trenches seriously exploring alternatives to conventional thought and language.

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Prairie Rose Clayton

Ooh, I know exactly one American football fun fact! The huddle was started by a Deaf team, so they could all see each other signing but the other team couldn't.

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Okay, no. I'm sorry. I know he has a tough seat, but Golden's op-ed needs to be called out. Democracy might be fine IF you fit a certain demographic. The rest of us? Yeah, it's not going to be great if Trump wins. www.bangordailynews.com/2024/07/02/o...

Donald Trump is going to win the election and democracy will be just finewww.bangordailynews.com “Democrats’ post-debate hand-wringing is based on the idea that a Trump victory is not just a political loss, but a unique threat to our democracy. I reject the premise.”

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Brooke Binkowski

"So tell me," *peering at name tag* "Oliver, you look like a nice straight boy. Do you and your mates talk about kinky stuff, whips and that, the real dirty stuff? Make it a bloody half-caf this time or I'll have you fired. Anyway, what do you think about lesbians with penises?"

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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

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Hi, I'm the person Pamela Paul writes for. I'm an old school liberal who supports gay marriage, Bill Clinton's first term, and executing the homeless. My favorite hobby is kicking children out of public places and my favorite TV show is the one with the cops

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The Midnight Society

Barker: i mean, what demon would even care about that? Barker: except maybe mammon King: why mammon? Barker: dunno, he just seems like a real asshole

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The Midnight Society

She WHAT. Poor Nabokov. This was exactly what he feared would happen with his story. Okay maybe not quite the fear of JKR putting character names into her story (seriously‽) but still. For someone so obsessed with "dangerous predatory men" and "lost little girls" she sure doesn't grok Lolita.

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It doesn't really excuse stuff like this but we should probably acknowledge that big police departments could, and most would, murder sitting politicians and get away with it, and this impacts every city budget.

So Michelle Wu, Boston's Mayor, just veto'd cuts to the police department to pay for youth services and other community needs. At this point, I'm not sure if she's always been an ally to the police, and she was faking her progressive bonafides: or if she's just afraid of them.

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Remember when Deblasio considered looking in to police reform and they straight up kidnapped his daughter and issued a public ransom demand?

If pizza were a cybertruck.

Bet this is how they cut the pizza.

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Generative "AI," as presently construed, is not worth the cost. Learn to do this shit different— more sustainable, all renewables, low water use— or we're all gonna die for shirpost-fodder-as-a-service.

Google's AI Overviews must create entirely new information in response to a search query. That costs an estimated *30 times* more energy than simply extracting information from a source through a traditional search. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... by @parshallison.bsky.social

What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?www.scientificamerican.com Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches

How many of you will need to read this twice, & why?

Another thing I'm crabby about is relative dating on websites. Why use this!? I don't want to know you posted something "a month ago," put the goddamn date on it

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Ed Zitron

Since he was 19, Silicon Valley power players like Paul Graham have raved about the genius mind of Sam Altman, despite the fact that nobody appears to have a single story of something smart he's said or done- a specious hype train for a specious hype man. wheresyoured.at/false-prophet/

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The Fifth is a special case. That's bat country over there.

Folks need to get this message: Getting taken in by a cult doesn't mean you were stupid, it means you were vulnerable, & some asshole used that against you. It means they were wrong, not you.

"Tell me you’d never join a cult and I’ll tell you you’ve been lucky. That the savviest representative of the most appealing group didn’t reach you on the worst day of your life. In your thirst on your lonesome road, no one offered you water from a poisoned well." buttondown.email/theswordandt...

On Cults, Part 2: Follow the Leaderbuttondown.email Jim Jones preaching at the Peoples Temple What’s the loneliest you’ve ever felt? The most scared? The most despairing? Was it a period of depression, or...