Ned Raggett

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Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.bsky.social, The Wire, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.bsky.social, Bandcamp, Pitchfork, etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social

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NYT Editor: OpenAI, I need a headline that is simultaneously corporatist, pandering to the sensibilities of the journalist class, and unconvincingly pretending to objectivity by credulously repeating the propaganda of the worst people in America. OpenAI: [becomes Skynet, starts nuclear war]

The New York Times has taken a hard line against OpenAI in the courtroom. So why was it experimenting with it in the newsroom?

The New York Times Is Suing OpenAI — and Experimenting With It for Writing Headlines and Copy Editingtheintercept.com As it sues Microsoft’s OpenAI for copyright infringement, the New York Times is building prototypes to use ChatGPT in the newsroom.

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The Fyre Fest Guy Is Connecting Trump With Rappers www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Fyre Fest Guy Is Connecting Trump With Rapperswww.rollingstone.com Trump’s Justice Department sent Fyre Fest organizer Billy McFarland to jail. Now, he’s helping arrange Trump’s meetings with rappers, sources say.

I am all about this nonsense.

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What the -- a new Wolfgang Press album?!

THE WOLFGANG PRESS - A 2nd SHAPEwww.youtube.com YouTube video by Downwards Records

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WELCOME TO BLUESKY, NEW USERS!

Just found out about a massive data leak at Twitter/X. I don't use it anymore but I keep my account alive so no one else can claim my username. I just changed my password and suggest others do too. Also use 2FA whenever you can. More: cyberpress.org/9-4gb-twitte...

9.4GB Twitter(X) Data Leaked - Over 200 Million Records Exposed Onlinecyberpress.org The Cyberpress Research Team made a significant discovery with the Massive 9.4 GB of X (Formerly the Twitter) Database.

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Briefly logged into Twitter to change the password on my dormant account because of that data hack/leak and was surprised to find that Irvine Welsh has gone full TERF, not what I expected at all:

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It is extraordinarily funny to me that the great mass of center-right political columnists don’t understand why their calls to take drastic action are being ignored when their constant exhortations not to change in any way are so regularly heeded

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The thing about Project 2025, too, is that the GOP is signaling, they’re SCREAMING, that it’s a point of weakness. They’re scared as shit that people broadly will see what they’re planning before they’ve taken power to do it.

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Also worth noting a common theme: strategic voting/unifying behind a single candidate to defeat a candidate you both don't want to win, a normal democratic practice, being redefined as "cheating," "dirty tricks," "collusion," "a coup"... thus justifying actual cheating/dirty tricks/collusion/coups.

The far right cope machine is already trying to manufacture a narrative about the massive loss the French fascists faced today. They are scared they can sense what’s coming to America and it’s not fascism. Popular fronts win and scare fascists. Keep them on the back foot they are weak and scared.

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You know it's big news if it drops on a Sunday. Also, no court battle? Straight plea? Yeah, it was baaaaad.

BREAKING: Boeing will plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from two deadly 737 Max crashes, Justice Department says

Boeing accepts a plea deal to avoid a criminal trial over 737 Max crashes, Justice Department saysapnews.com The Justice Department says Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from two deadly crashes of 737 Max jetliners.

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Just to be clear, this is Silicon Valley VC bro/Musk acolyte David Sacks coming down on the side of the Le Pen family, whose patriarch called Nazi gas chambers a "minor detail" of history and whose ex-wife alleged he nicknamed Hitler "Uncle Dolfie" while snarling "The Jews are invading France."

It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.

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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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Check out the Do Something about Climate Change starter pack from @costasamaras.bsky.social ! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Do Something About Climate Change Starter Parkbsky.app Join the conversation

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just so everybody knows what's happening here, this is Jack Posobiec—who spent the past week as a featured guest on InfoWars—speaking to the MAGA group of the wife of a Supreme Court justice

Yikes.

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This is amazing and is a serious way to start to fight back the fascist menace we as Americans face. This is just amazing and I cannot say enough good things about this kind of thing. We need more of this in other areas let’s crowd source a pro democracy movement response before the election.

awesome! i just put together a volunteer form, would you please fill it out? forms.gle/ZHw8DDX7qBb6...

Project 2025 Meme Volunteerforms.gle Hi there! Thank you SO MUCH for your interest in helping us meme our way to killing Project 2025. Please fill out the quick survey below so we can get started. We may not call on you right away but ev...

Because of course #GibbyHaynes would be leading a bunch of school-of-rock kids in a version of the #ButtholeSurfers song “Revolution” with the kids all shouting the “Garry Shandling!” bit. #MosswoodMwltdown

And we have #EgyptianLover in effect! #MosswoodMeltdown

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I am enjoying this week a lot.

To be clear: a coalition of the Left — the socialists — and the Greens were able to block the far Right in France. And there is a lesson here for the US: voters across the West want the neoliberal experiment to end. We CAN and we MUST end it to save the future & improve people's wellbeing to boot!

Made it out to #MosswoodMeltdown earlier than guessed — couldn’t miss the Space Lady.

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a political party loses elections to this

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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New reaction image just dropped.

Meantime on #RuPaulsDragRaceAllStars

Quick heads up to fellow #MosswoodMeltdown folks that seeing shows Friday and Saturday has rendered me somewhat trashed today but I’ll try to be there later in the day. In the meantime, there’s always the livestream!

Twitchwww.twitch.tv Twitch is the world

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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From @timdickinson.bsky.social and I, for Rolling Stone this weekend A look back at the past week, a tale of two presidential candidates and two (differently) extremely elderly brains 🧠 🧠

In the exact same nine day period that Biden and his White House and campaign have been flailing, Trump has offered voters a window into his own mental state and vision for term 2 It’s not great! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

QAnon Memes, F-Bombs, and Tribunals: As Biden Faltered, Trump Amped Up the Crazywww.rollingstone.com Trump quietly had his own week from hell while the media was hounding Biden

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genuinely hopeful sign that every big name GOP garbage monster is frantically trying to distance themselves from Project Say The Quiet Part Loud In an Easily-Digestible Bullet Point Format About Which There Can Be No Confusion. this means we should all absolutely continue never shutting up about it

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wish i had some insight into what's going on here but for some reason i stopped getting DM'd links once my follower count was lower than his

Ken Klip going full Glenn “the far right are my friends” Greenwald

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This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

tom nichols—of all people???—just made a good point: you have to talk about P2025 in simple real people terms. not policy wonk terms.

Only took me my entire lifetime but I’ve finally seen the B-52’s. And it ruled. #MosswoodMeltdown