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@ae2501maeth.bsky.social
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tara "tara wrist" hillegeist. i dabble. (once, i moonlighted as a dragon golem vtuber for a time. one day i shall do so again.) if you're here you're here for 1 of 3 things: media criticism, dialectical materialism, or unhinged reposts of what i like.
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ae2501maeth.bsky.social
ae/2501/maeth. do you know what the difference is between someone society treats as real and someone they treat as fictional? it's whether they experience consequences for how they use them. they can do anything they want to you if they know you don't really exist. so: do you know if you're real?
a doll's hand pointing: "aemaeth". the doll's hand taken away: "2501". a place of safety, of certainty. the doll's hand, pointing now, again: "maeth."
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glassbottommeg.bsky.social
What's this? An actually reasonable, explanatory, clearly understandable take on what AI can and can't be reasonably expected to do (and how the "AI" that works has actually been in tools for years already)?

GOSH

Anyways this is real good
britthates.bsky.social
studio execs & major outlets claim AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over Hollywood. the reality is much different. i spoke with filmmakers, producers, and editors about how AI is actually showing up in productions – and what it still can't do:
Hollywood Has a Major AI Hype Problem
Studio execs and major media outlets claim that AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over film and TV. The reality is much different.
movieweb.com
ae2501maeth.bsky.social
baby's first chavurah. i think i like it
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transfeminazgul.bsky.social
Nice harbinger dipshit, is it of things to come???
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
abcnews.go.com
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wattle.bsky.social
this is, without hyperbole or satire, exactly where we are at now
nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.
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stonerbutchblues.bsky.social
🚨 URGENT 🚨

my best friend was denied unemployment and could do with some help to stay on their feet for a while. they’re a disabled nonbinary femme lesbian and they’ve helped me so much both online and irl that i literally cannot even state it. please repost/send funds

v/nmo: deviantdyke
p/ypal:
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Go to paypal.me/xenonarrior and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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bloomfilters.bsky.social
the uma does not concern herself with the speed limit
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monsterpotion.bsky.social
this is what arknights is about.
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zachrabiroff.com
Jack Kirby: "I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness."
MARK: So the capacity for great good and evil is inherent in everyone?
JACK: Of course. I was dating my wife at the time Hitler was coming on, and I did this editorial cartoon which showed Neville Chamberlain patting a boa con-strictor, and the boa had a bulge called Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain had just given Czechoslovakia to Hitler, okay.
And the boa had Hitler's mustache. I showed it to my boss at the syndicate and he says, "How dare a 19-year-old like you do a cartoon like that? What do you know?" I says "Well, I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness." And Hitler wanted more and more until there was a face-off.
ae2501maeth.bsky.social
i mean, the two go hand in hand, *these days* ...! i'll probably feel my hackles go down the sooner it falls out of common parlance
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
In the U.S., Tuskegee is the most famous example, but you have to understand that before IRB, it was very, very, very common for scientists to run experiments on vulnerable populations, including orphans, prisoners, and institutionalized individuals.
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pizzasuplex.bsky.social
Many of you would cast a glance at this “Elvira,” with her shock of messy black hair and tattered dress, and dismiss her as some dirty hag. But those who dare look longer might find that she has a certain allure.

And I do dare!
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st1ka.bsky.social
I am covering EVERY First Person Shooter EVER made in Japan.

From 1985 to 2025, that's over 40 years and 70 games of gaming history.

Link: youtu.be/F80Cl6WzBNo?...

This was without a doubt the most ambitious video I've ever made.
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nochorus.bsky.social
silly thing to remmber but I really like this story
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marisakabas.bsky.social
"a test"? you mean...a violation?
AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire
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dryad.technology
"It's good our new PM is a banker because bankers are practical and technocratic. We'll get someone focused on making things work and working well— especially on the economic front."
ae2501maeth.bsky.social
was not expecting to get hit by an irigaray mention wrt chainsawman even though it might be the only manga of its type where i could believe its author is actually familiar with irigaray bitching about the castrating shame-void that is the core patriarchal interaction with any essence of femaleness
bloomfilters.bsky.social
chainsaw man basically lends itself to a psychoanalysis reading of literally everything happening (freud, lacan, irigaray even) in both part 1 and 2 you could probably write the definitive literary analysis through but that is a job for when this monster of a work finishes
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freyjavalentine.bsky.social
It came along because the people who contribute most to all those problems on purpose made it. It's a straightforward continuation of their agenda.
slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social
GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.
thevoidencore.bsky.social
The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem
ae2501maeth.bsky.social
understandingbthey could not outpace SLAVES and THE MUSLIMS, they opted to outrun the competition in inanity instead
tomewing.bsky.social
I don’t get many PR emails any more but I’m excited to now know that there’s a band called CULTURE WARS who are - inevitably - 5 white guys and who say that they didn’t mean the name in a political way
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designroom.bsky.social
For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.
Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).
www.designroom.site
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rossignol.bsky.social
We recoil from taxing the rich, yet they tax us.
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babyboymonaghan.bsky.social
The Gemara asks if Moses was ever mistaken. Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus answers that Moses once supposed his noses was roses. What does this mean? Rabbi Yehoshua ben Ḥananya answers that when that happened, Moses supposed erroneously.