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Guy Seggev @istarisilver.bsky.social · 4h

It will be a missed opportunity if they don't introduce a sandwich called "The Acquittal"

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 9h

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 13h

Wow, who knew we were gonna *need* to colonize another Earthlike planet just to raise enough popcorn...! 😏

Cold November Mar @histoftech.bsky.social · 20h

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...

OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages

Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.

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Guy Seggev @istarisilver.bsky.social · 2d

Set it up like an Role Playing Game range table.
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3' 3'-6' 6'-12' 12-24'

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Guy Seggev @istarisilver.bsky.social · 9d

Leh Sigh.

Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 9d

(OH FFS.)

The Independent @the-independent.com · 9d

BREAKING | Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10d

I have a very bad feeling about this...

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Guy Seggev @istarisilver.bsky.social · 11d

The first Female Irish President Not Named Mary.

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Guy Seggev @istarisilver.bsky.social · 11d

That was ONE of them. She was followed by Mary McAleese.

I mean, this is a wikipedia level question... which is literally how I got the answer.

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President of Ireland - Wikipedia

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Guy Seggev @istarisilver.bsky.social · 11d

Don't leave us in suspense, how did she react?!

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Guy Seggev @istarisilver.bsky.social · 11d

Don't forget "D. C. Fontana". Did you catch the callback to her in the DS9 Ep. "Somewhere, Far Beyond the Stars"?

Kay Eaton aka "K. C. Hunter". Heh. Played by Nana Visitor (Keira)

One of the best episodes of Trek ever.

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Far Beyond the Stars (episode)

Experiencing a vision from the Prophets, Sisko sees himself as Benny Russell, a science-fiction writer in the 1950s, who struggles with civil rights and inequality when he writes the story of Captain ...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14d

This is really cool: a guy found one of the original Cinemascope anamorphic adapters used to shoot 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1954), and that had been sitting in storage for 70 years, for sale on eBay bought it and shot some beautiful new footage with it www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg0f...

What Happened to Walt Disney’s Weird Cinema Lens?

YouTube video by Mathieu Stern

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 15d

From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :)

cartoon: in the style of Egyptian heiroglyhics the lyrics to the Time Warp have been phonetically translated and help illustrate characters from RHPS
Caption; Rocky Horus Picture Scroll

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Guy Seggev @istarisilver.bsky.social · 16d

Because the words they wanted to go with were unprintable in a serious journal.

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Guy Seggev @istarisilver.bsky.social · 16d

But is it just more Plastic Pollution? Or is it a locally sourced, all natural 12' Willem Dafoe?

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Guy Seggev @istarisilver.bsky.social · 16d

A photo of Gina Bellman (Sophie from Leverage) in a red beret with the caption "I absolutely- definitely- positively was not in paris yesterday #LouvreHeist."

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Guy Seggev @istarisilver.bsky.social · 16d

The NY Post is basically the Daily Bugle from the Spider-Man comics. (or more accurately, the Daily Bugle is a pastiche of the NY Post and NY Daily News).
It's a real rag. This is NOT surprising behavior for them.
Though this does have a lot of "Monkey's Paw" energy.
You're 100% on the mark.

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Guy Seggev @istarisilver.bsky.social · 18d

You can have all the slack you need. Typos happen.

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joes-spot.bsky.social @joes-spot.bsky.social · 19d

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 19d

Choose your own (research) adventure.
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A choose-your-own-adventure, cartoon composed of nine, numbered panels.

Panel 1 reads:
What do you want to research?
Free will, go to 8.
Telepathic Twins, Go to 2.
New flavours of ice cream, go to 3.
Playing chess with robots, go to 5.
Commuter jetpacks, go to 4.

However, whatever you chose you will eventually be forced to choose 'Free Will' and end up at panel 9, which reads:

Your paper is rapturously received and you are rewarded with a huge grant! Go to 1.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 20d

Short thread.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 20d

The Nation has published two essays that I wish all US health workers—and patients—would read as fascism sweeps across the country:
1) How doctors become fascists: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
2) How not to be a fascist doctor: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Rise of Medical Fascism

The US medical profession’s long history of complicity with state violence has prepared it for compliance with Trump’s authoritarian orders.

www.thenation.com

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St. Simeon the Pumpkin Spice Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 21d

J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.

MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 21d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Perkyshai @perkyshai.bsky.social · 20d

I would pay real money to watch Benjamin Franklin’s reaction to this. Or read it.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 20d

Trump’s Department of Education actively collaborates w/ Moms for Liberty. Asked “what % of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward,” Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice told ProPublica: “‘I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.’” 1/ www.propublica.org/article/educ...

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 22d

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 22d

In Mar 2020 I wrote ep 3 of Leverage: Redemption, in which Brianna mentions growing up w/ "the return of actual Nazis". It aired in July 2021, AFTER a Capitol rioter wore a "Camp Auschwitz" shirt, & reviewers on IMDb quoted the Nazi line & complained Leverage had gone woke.

And here we fucking are.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23d

deeply sick of all the goddamn nazis

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WIRED @wired.com · 23d

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

Read more: www.google.com/url?q=https:...

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