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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3h

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 3d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 3d

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 5h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 16h

A photo of three people in inflatable frog suits outside an ICE detention center in Portland, overlaid with an excerpt from Exodus 8:2-6

"But if you refuse to let them go, I will
plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on
your people and on all your officials."

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 16h

What you see when you watch the livestream of the Annapolis City Council meeting: My husband participating virtually from Maine

What you don’t see: Me on the couch behind him and to the left, eating a literal wheel of brie

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 1d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent news! I didn’t think she’d be freed and I’m glad to be wrong.

But as someone from Hagerstown: the amount of folks cheering “God is good!” without the slightest introspection that they voted for this woman to be taken in the first place is too damn high.

www.thebanner.com/western-mary...

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 1d

i'm sorry WHAT

Wikipedia screenshot

Brassica oleracea, also known as wild cabbage in its uncultivated form, is a plant of the family Brassicaceae. The species originated from feral populations of related plants in the Eastern Mediterranean, where it was most likely first cultivated. It has many common cultivars used as vegetables, including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, romanesco, kale, Brussels sprout, collard, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Kamala Harris: "I don't know if we can trust what's coming out of the DOJ right now. And that pains me to say that."

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 2d

But sure, we’re all the assholes for pointing this out!

Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 2d

If someone used ChatGPT to text me about making plans for a date I would heave my phone into the sea

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 2d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 2d

@fishmanpet.bajurny.us Oh to receive a Cheese Champion award someday

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 3d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 2d

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 2d

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 3d

Not Diane Keaton! This is so unfair.

Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 3d

Hahahaha hard same! Could it be the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Could it be the abyss? Could it be @thegodpodcast.com? No one knows!

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 3d

Proselytizing is just so weird. The existence of a deity is unknowable! That’s why it’s a belief (or a lack of belief)! As long as you’re using your belief system or lack of one to help you be a good person who does good in the world, I really don’t care.

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 3d

Atheist proselytizers can do this too (communist China, Stalinist USSR) unfortunately 🙁

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 3d

As a friend of mine once said, I’ve never met an atheist who wasn’t excited to tell me all about it

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience

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