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run DanAmrich.exe -verbose @danamrich.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve seen some brusque dismissals of MKLK from folks who do not feel it offers anything special. May I challenge that interpretation? 🙂

I hope this illustrates more of what we are offering and why we feel it will be of value. Trilogy is literally better than it’s ever been.

Digital Eclipse @digitaleclipse.bsky.social · 15h

When our engineers examined MK Trilogy's code, they found areas where loading time could be optimized, so we did that! In the original game, there would often be a lengthy pause whenever Shang Tsung morphed into a different character; now it's instant, thanks to our code tweaks. Exclusive to MKLK!

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Alyssa Milano @alyssamilano.bsky.social · 5h

My husband’s ballot came in the mail. Mine did not. I looked into why and…

I was purged from the voting roll.

PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 2h

Yes on Prop 50!

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2h

as others have pointed out, it also seems pretty sketch for the mayor's PAC to have access to a resume his opponent used when she applied for a job 10 years ago

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 6h

The pro-Bruce Harrell PAC sent out a mailer suggesting Katie Wilson has no experience. VERY odd that they only include her resume through 2015. Wonder if Harrell would consider it fair to exclude mayor and two council terms from his resume? Yes they included her old address for some fucking reason.

Mailer showing Katie Wilson's resumer from 20015

Current Employment:
Transit Riders Union
$500 month stipend
Admitted in debates she has only managed
"A couple of paid employees"
Dates of employment: October 2014 - Present
Position: Lead organizer
Past Employment in Seattle:
Helga Kahr, Attorney at Law
6007 Palatine Avenue N.
Seattle, WA 98103
Dates of employment: January 2012 - September 2014
Position: legal assistant (part-time)
Responsibilities: drafting legal pleadings and letters; office work.
Supervisor/employer: Helga Kahr
Contact number:
Katie Wilson has almost no management experience.
Phinney Apartments
5705 Phinney Ave N.
Seattle, WA 98103
Dates of employment, October 2006 - September 2013
Position: on-site building manager
Responsibilities: tenant-landlord communication, renting vacant units, collecting and depositing rents, light maintenance and cleaning, coordinating service appointments, building security.
Supervisor/employer
Contact number:
Julia's Bakery
403 Walingtord Ave N. Maximum budget was $247.000
Seattle, WA 98103
The city budget is $8.5 billion.
Dates of employment: June 2006 - July 2007
Position: counter person, barista, baker
Responsibilities: customer service, cash register, making coffee drinks, baking and packing
(She overspent her budget by 10 percent for the last three years)
Source: IRS Tax Returns, Form 990. Years 2022, 2023, 2024
*This is a copy of Katie Wilson's resume that she submitted when applying for a City of seattle advisory board.

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Don't Say "Enola Gay!" @aviatrixt.bsky.social · 9h

I'm extremely resentful of Louis XIV. That motherfucker had a lawn and so now everyone has a goddamn lawn and we waste so much money, land, water and poison just to have lawns. Because of Louis XIV. Fuck that guy. The French aristocracy would have fallen because of anger about lawns eventually.

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 2h

you let people *off* the subway, bus, train, etc *before* you try to get on.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10h

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 4h

#SaveSpeech

Theres an Age Verification bill in the Wisconsen senate that is aiming to force Adult websites to block VPNs

The bill is SB-130 /AB-105!

Folks in WI need to get out and yell at their state reps about this!

Wisconsin wants to force all adult sites to block VPNs – here's what we know

The bill has now landed in the Senate for consideration

www.techradar.com

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 4h

Michigan has a similar bill, House Bill 4938, that is also seeking the same goals!

VPN usage at risk in Michigan under new proposed adult content law

The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" would force internet service providers to monitor and block VPN connections

www.techradar.com

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boney🔞💖 @boneyhag.bsky.social · 2d

reminder that free speech is a privilege and not a right—those in power will challenge your right to free speech at every turn if you do not stand up for yourself and those around you

make your calls!! in the US, KOSA is back on the floor. use the 5calls app to contact your state reps!

boney🔞💖 @boneyhag.bsky.social · Aug 5

he hasn't stopped calling~ have you? 🫵

how to call: stop-paypros.neocities.org

info and resources on pay discrimination: cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...

drawing of a man laying on bed with an old school phone in hand. he has a speech bubble that says "I'm so confused~ is what i'm buying illegal?" the text on the page says "keep calling and writing until payment processor censorship is reversed. one call a day makes a difference! mastercard and visa's statements aren't good enough. let's keep up the pressure together!"

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Gray Ginther @gginther.myatproto.social · 3h

ZombieSkull-tober shambles on!

So, taking a picture of my monitor with my phone looks better than my actual renders. Definitely doing this wrong.😑
#ZombieSkulltober

A skeleton warrior peers menacingly through what appears to be mist but is actually glare on my monitor screen.

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Craig 'VI' Slee: VALIS, right? @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 2h

"[Current design] cannot be removed from the fact that these are some of the most extractive & oppressive companies to ever exist...If you look at what may be the positive use-cases...or the benefits of these things, it can't be removed from the current situation, & the history of these companies."

Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 13h

Meta and Google want to free you from screens — by putting one in front of your eyes at all times.

This week @hypervisible.blacksky.app joins @parismarx.com to discuss the anti-social world they’re trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...

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Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 3h

Capitalists and their supporters often say “communism and fascism are the same” to obscure the fact that fascism is related to capitalism.

Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 3h

Fascism, in fact, is no peculiar, independent doctrine and system arising in opposition to existing capitalist society.
Fascism, on the contrary, is the most complete and consistent working out, in certain conditions of extreme decay, of the most typical tendencies and policies of modern capitalism

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

Almost $12 billion for cops... sadly

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 4h

I like how $700M for buses is pie-in-the-sky and $1B on cops is just practical 🙃🙃🙃🙃

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Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 3h

Big dumb doofus alert

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 5h

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3h

dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h

Legit laughed out loud.

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 8h

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Matt Emmons @secondatbest.bsky.social · 10h

Crashed satellites, nascent termite-people, and crystal growth abound in one of the new stories. Only a few hours left to back the book!

This panel will take me approximately thirty years to color, but I can’t help showing it as is

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

even if this were somehow true — which it *emphatically* is not — you’re telling me this aide has not been on a single teams call, where it would have been noticed, all year?

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9h

lol, now they're saying the Nazi flag is an "optical illusion"

Swastika” Flag In Office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) May Be An “optical illusion” and “easy to miss”

The weird story about an aide to Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) having a flag in his Capitol Hill office with a swastika on it, has just gotten weirder.

Multiple sources tell Fox – including those investigating the issue – the flag in question is an American flag – but with a swastika embedded into the ink or weaving. And here’s the strange part: the swastika is not obvious to the naked eye. But is more visible when captured on video or by a still photo.

One source described this as an “optical illusion.” Another said the swastika was “easy to miss.”

Fox has learned that dozens of Congressional offices received these American flags from an undetermined group who brought them around Capitol Hill early in the year. One office tells Fox that the swastika on their flag was clear, so they tossed it out. But the flag in the office of Taylor was not visible until captured on camera.

It is not known what group brought the flags around. That is under investigation. The US Capitol Police are also conducting an inquiry. Fox is told that that the group brought the flags to multiple offices. At issues is if the group knew the swastika was embedded into the flag. It is also unclear if this was an effort to covertly deliver American flags to lawmakers with swastikas on them. Or, if this was an effort to deliberately embarrass offices by bringing them an American flag – which featured a swastika which wasn’t obvious to the naked eye.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 9h

Where on earth does the Trump administration get off talking about half of the country this way? What a sick way to talk about the political opposition.

Democrat, Republican, whatever—we are ALL Americans.

We need to show Trump what WE think with our voices and our votes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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🔞Althea Dread, Orc Apologist 🔞 @quintialmondi.bsky.social · 13h

Now's the time to call up Visa/MC to ask 'hey, how come you guys will pay for ChatGPT and Twitter subs but I can't buy certain games off of Steam?' Because I frankly would LOVE an answer to that...

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Sam Altman suggests ChatGPT is cannibalizing your fanfic and erotica to make its own clanker porn, rolling out this December.

ChatGPT just got filthy after new update lets it talk dirty to you

'You won't get it unless you ask for it.'

metro.co.uk

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 9h

I’ve seen some people suggest Apple Music as an alternative but they’ve also given significant support to the Trump administration.

I’ve also heard good things about Qobuz, though. Does anyone have experience with it? Is it a good Spotify replacement?

SFGATE @sfgate.com · 2d

Spotify responded that the ads do not violate its policies.

Spotify is running ICE hiring ads boasting wild signing bonuses

Spotify responded that the ads do not violate its policies.

bit.ly

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 9h

The police department is the largest department in the city by a huge margin and they move money around internally all the time. "We can't afford it" was also the reason they gave for eliminating the job of a specific person who worked on DEI (the position is funded again in this budget).

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 10h

it is so fucking embarrassing seeing someone like Grant talk this way about a word prediction machine

Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · 14h

Morrison invoking AI alike to "God" indicates a severe misunderstanding of how AI appropriates the work of thousands, including their own, and someone needs to rectify their understanding ASAP.

But also it's a severe disservice to their colleagues anyway to use it and justify it like this.

Reddit comment from comic writer Grant Morrison explaining why they use AI

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Stein Makes Games ➡️ #GodotFest @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 1d

Making a settings menu and got an idea:

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