Bilwise

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Whelp, my run of not having seen a Cyber truck in the wild ended today and I am lesser for it. 😔 What a ridiculous vehicle.

Spend the weekend goofing off in Star Trek Online. Got my Klingon to level 30. Really appreciating the space combat. It feels like the combat in the show and movies look: constantly doing damage while swerving to make sure an active shield is always facing the enemy.

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“Nobody seems to have language to say: We abhor, reject, repudiate, and punish all political violence, even as we maintain that Trump remains himself a promoter of such violence, a subverter of American institutions, and the very opposite of everything decent and patriotic.“ #giftarticle

The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictatorwww.theatlantic.com Violence stalks the president who has rejoiced in violence to others.

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Now that people are starting to be aware of the right wing horrors in Project 2025, Facebook, Instagram and Threads have started tagging posts about it as “partly false information,” citing right wing propaganda site The Dispatch as a “fact checker.”

I plan on voting for whomever the Dems put up this go around. Mainly to stop this garbage. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A Guide to Project 2025, the Right’s Terrifying Plan to Remake Americawww.rollingstone.com Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's plan to reshape America, is a terrifying vision for the nation's future that Donald Trump is poised to enact.

So much friggin this:

I have spent my career at Tech companies, and I reckon this: Innovation for innovation's sake is sexy but useless. No code is magical enough to be worth a damn if it doesn't do something real human people want or need. If you're spending billions without centering humans, you're wasting your life.

Bleak stuff

Well this is grim

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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:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

Snacklebox 😝

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Why am I subscribing to the NYT and not these folks? www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

Terminator appears in a flash of light and rises naked from the crater to hunt down Sarah Connor. Terminator gets wet and bursts into flame. Then gets bricked by a partial software update. Fin.

dont freak out about the dystopian technology. they cant even make a computer do internet search good anymore

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I’ll be frank: Biden could have shat himself live on air and he’s still be a less onerous choice than the convicted rapist, 34-count felon who botched an emergency response so bad it killed millions of Americans.

Every LOTRO concert. 🙂 🎶 💃🕺💃🏾🕺💃🏻🕺🏿🕺🎵

Operation Delta Alpha November Charlie Echo

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Bribery isn't actually a thing, the bribery court explains.

The final SCOTUS decision today is Snyder v. US. Kavanaugh has the court's 6-3 decision on ideological grounds, holding that the Section 666 bribery statute does not apply to "gratuities" given for public officials' *past* acts. Jackson writes the liberals' dissent.

SNACK ALERT: THERE IS AN ICE CREAM TRUCK IN MY APARTMENT COMPLEX. REPEAT: THERE IS AN ICE CREAM TRUCK IN MY APARTMENT COMPLEX. 🚨 🍦 🍨 🚨

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GEN X never stopped mocking Gen X. If you want to mock us, be prepared for us to be all, like, "You call THAT snark? Step aside, amateur" and then riff self-loathingly on ourselves for a solid hour

If it's any consolation, I never stopped mocking Gen X.

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ChatGPT already has “Ph.D.-level intelligence,” in that once you remove it from its extremely narrow field of expertise (assembling words into credible-sounding passages) it is wildly out of its depth, but people vastly overestimate its authority because they don’t understand what “intelligence” is.

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Every academic article has a corresponding author whose email address is listed on the first page. If an article is paywalled, just send a short, polite email requesting a PDF from the author. 95% of the time you’ll receive it within a day. People like knowing their work is being read!

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.

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Hate how relevant this is to multiple world-shifting societal problems we’ve decided to mostly ignore

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I’ve seen online communities you noobs wouldn’t believe. Attacking comments in the forums of Usenet. I’ve seen Geocities blinking under a million construction GIFS, and threaded flame wars spanning hundreds of LiveJournals. These memories will be lost…like tears in rain…

This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on. They've outlived dozens of ships.

Well, crap. 😕

Damn, man deadline.com/2024/06/dona...

Donald Sutherland Dies: Revered Actor In ‘Klute’, ‘Ordinary People’, ‘Hunger Games’ & Scores Of Others Was 88deadline.com Donald Sutherland, the revered actor who starred in scores of films and TV shows, died June 20 in Miami after a long illness. He was 88.

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petition to make this the official bird of bluesky

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Ohioans, today is a good day to check to see if you are still registered to vote in our state. And if you are not, or if you haven't registered yet, today is also a very good day to do so. www.axios.com/local/columb...

Ohio is purging its voter rolls before November electionwww.axios.com See if you're on the list of more than 158,000 people.