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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3h

Yes. The appeal is never having to grow up or accommodate yourself to the needs or interests of others. It is enormously appealing, apparently. And not just to young people.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 4h

It truly appears that the desire to say this sort of stuff without being socially ostracized and so on has been a main driver of one side of our politics from the "anti-PC" 1990s all the way through the "anti-woke" / "anti-DEI" present.

A true political juggernaut, this desire certain people have.

Politico @politico.com · 13h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 4h

Pitch: A podcast where a celebrity interviews a different ordinary person no one’s ever heard of every week.

At least it’d be more creative than the current crop of podcasts where celebrities have the world’s least interesting conversations with their other famous friends.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 6h

Very fascinated with the actor-driven podcast ecosystem. Ted Danson has one where he interviews other famous people
He works for Conan’s podcast company which…interviews other famous people. The Smartless guys of Bateman, Arnett, Hayes interview famous people, as does Amy Pohlers podcast. &c

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 11h

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Andrew @andrewcyberkop.bsky.social · 2d

If you buy an NFT of a stock in OpenAI you should have to wear a big bell like a goat for the rest of your life.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 9h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 11h

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 10h

I felt really bad when I learned that Hugh Hefner arranged to be buried next to Marilyn Monroe; even in death, she couldn't just be a person, free of creep-ass sex pests projecting their weird shit onto her. Anyway-

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 12h

Inflatable animals and eucharistic processions do different things and reach different audiences and communicate different messages and it's all important. This feels like one of those moments where people need to remember not everything is for them, specifically.

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 13h

He literally saw his own neck and spiraled lol. It could happen to any of us but we wouldn’t post it.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 13h

So like, is the manosphere just one giant slimepool of lead psychosis?

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14h

nearly all the plant-based products we tested had elevated lead levels: vegan powders had 9x as much lead as dairy and 2x as much as beef

though dairy-based powders had the lowest levels, half were still too contaminated for safe daily use

you may be asking: how could this be? well...

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 15h

now with chat gpt, anyone is a copywriter

screenshot of a blue apron ad featuring an AI slop image that reads

"WHAT IS [GIBBERISH LETTER] LE & BAKE"

"One-pan meals with minimal mrup: Just minutes, hand bak and ooot 5."

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 15h

Guardrails are good and we should build and maintain them, but they guard against traffic that’s trying to drive correctly and messes up a little. The fundamental problem is you can’t build a guardrail that can withstand a tractor trailer loaded with bricks bearing straight down on it at 80mph.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 15h

The thing is there are no guardrails that can withstand the full force of 45% of the electorate polarized into either accepting authoritarianism or not finding it a dealbreaker. Whatever system you design, if you don’t figure out how to push that number down, your guardrails can’t meet tolerances.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

Old time SF might still have the edge over 2020s where blurbs are concerned. I'll take HE KNEW THE MARTIAN LOVE SECRET over LORD OF THE FLIES MEETS ANNE OF GREEN GABLES IN THIS FRIENDS TO ENEMIES FOUND FAMILY ACCIDENTAL WISH ROMANTASY.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 16h

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 16h

Hot take apparently that "no kings" has a motivating meaning in this country that is rooted in its own history and specific understanding of monarchy, not those of another time and place.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16h

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 17h

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 19h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 16h

We can't problematize everything. No Kings is fine.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 17h

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 19h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 17h

Caught the Bari Weiss episode of Last Week Tonight finally and my biggest takeaway is that those weirdos seem to think lateral reading counts as journalism. You're not being a reporter by just opening a new tab and googling someone's name. That's what my high school students do, you dorks.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19h

since that Monroe post is now reaching people, and men (it’s always fucking men) are coming out saying they can’t see why it’s wrong to create weirdly sexual videos of deceased movie stars who had been exploited by many men in life, you can fuck right off.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

The list of terrible things genAI has either caused or exacerbated is 10 miles long and yet every day more and more educators and administrators are deciding none of it matters because genAI is mildly convenient for them personally. Retconing learning objectives to find an excuse to use genAI.

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 13d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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