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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers

@colinaut.bsky.social

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(he/him) Artist, designer (print/web/branding/XD/games), front-of-the-full-stack-ish developer, and shenaniganizer. My friends are rad! I also am long-time volunteer staff at the best con ever Big Bad Con. You can find my games at mirthpeddlers.com.

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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 15d

Hi! My Bluesky is just me talking about stuff I care about… Clearly politics is on the menu right now — because I have empathy. But also music! I love hitting concerts. And last but not least, ttrpgs! You can find my game blog and the games I've designed on my site here: www.mirthpeddlers.com

Mirth Peddlers

Games, LARPs and mirthful shenanigans!

www.mirthpeddlers.com

Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 3h

The tech broliarch motto for everyone below them seems to be "Let them eat slop."

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 7h

let me note that one of the actual tests here is going to be 'what do people pushing these ideas want for their own children' and I will bet you a lot of money that the answer is 'the elite university model of Harvard et al' not 'learning through AI slop'

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 21h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 3h

It's not just visual talking to a computer allows for script dialogue. When do they show someone typing away it is often with two people watching over their shoulder asking what they are doing, which allows for dialogue to take place.

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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 3h

The future of AI doctors

2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 3h

Ron Smith

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 15d

Daily bunny no.3094 has been caught red-handed

A bunny helps two raccoons drag a trashbag away. The bunny has a black mask, like an old-timey burglar in a film. It is the dead of night on a grimy city street. A light shines on the three of them, from a flashlight or spotlight, surprising them all. The bunny and raccoon put their hands up: They've been caught!

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 17h

Daily bunny no.3109's seafaring days are behind him

A bunny, dressed like a sea captain, smokes a pipe as he sits on the roof of his tavern in a town by the sea. The tavern is called "The Birb & Bun", and there are a few seagulls on the roof with him, relaxing. At the entrance to the tavern, younger sailor bunnies are on shore leave.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 6h

“The most effective means of helping the American people is for the government to actually defend their labor rights, their ability to have healthy communities and environments, and share in the prosperity they help to build.”

If that alienates monopolies, billionaires, big business - so be it.

Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: A Third Way fellow claimed in the Wall Street Journal's editorial pages that Democrats “alienated” Big Business into allying with Trump, and that our organization deserves some of the blame.

Our full response in today’s newsletter:

Big Business Will Not Save Us

Scrutinizing the “ideological warfare” a business community mouthpiece says drove Corporate America into the arms of a fascist.

open.substack.com

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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 22h

It's a bucket of grifter crabs, which would be funny if they weren't also destroying the country

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. This is the first thing I can say I like about Windows 10

Jonty @fairless.xyz · 1d

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 1d

Calling it a “long game” I think gives them too much credit. It feels to me more like just a bunch of mediocre white dudes with trash opinions failing upwards. Instead of facing public backlash for their irony poisoned bigotry, they were coddled—and eventually embraced and funded by the right wing.

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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. It began to escape containment during gamergate

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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 1d

AI is trained on our biases so when we offload everything to machines we create a world locked into those same biases, without an open door to variety of human experience.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

“There are few things more dehumanizing than being told by a machine that you’re not real because of your face"

For the last month, I've been speaking to people living with facial differences and disfigurements about how face verification tech is failing them. Spoiler: things aren't going well

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

www.wired.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps

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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 2d

A friend of mine has a new book out on how to balance activism and relationships without burning out. She is having her book release in store event this Thursday! www.eventbrite.com/e/kitty-stry...

Kitty Stryker's LOVE REBELS In Store Event and Book Signing

Local author and activist Stryker presents her new book, an exploration of how to balance activism and relationships without burning out.

www.eventbrite.com

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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 2d

Listened to PWEI’s new album and it’s a solid one. Hard to beat “Dos Deso Mos Amigos” but it’s good and I like that it has great the punk anger of that one. Fav tracks: Disco Misfits, Their Law, Never Mind the Botox, Built For Fun, Play a Fast ‘Un

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2d

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 3d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 2d

What!!?!?!! My brain has them clocked as that awesome band from the before times. It’s gonna take a bit to reset that as a band making new music. I still get jazzed up just thinking about the awesomeness of when I saw them in concert in 1994.

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matthew @pahuski.com · 3d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Lord Chris Hanrahan (He/Him) @chrishanrahan.bsky.social · 3d

I really wish I had hired Bigfoot to help me sell my house. I would have done way better.

www.zillow.com

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 3d

If you wondered why farmers are fine with crackdowns on undocumented labor. It's because Trump has rolled back worker protections for H2A visas allowing farmers to underpay and mistreat their workers and create slavery-like work conditions www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdWr...

ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

www.youtube.com

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Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 3d

50% of US consumer spending originates from the top 10%. As more work is automated or off shored, we’ve now hit a point where the rich don’t need us for anything, even as consumers. If middle class Americans go to war with each other, it’s just going to clear land for the rich to expand into.

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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 3d

What’s this world coming to?

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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 4d

This video hammers home something I’ve been saying—the rich figured out how to make money while everyone else suffers. The economy no longer relies on consumer spending of the masses. The top 10% is the only consumer that matters now. They don’t care if we don’t have jobs. youtu.be/T2OHjHPkUzM?...

Why You Don't Matter Anymore ........... (Economically Speaking)

YouTube video by How Money Works

youtu.be

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