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Mai まい

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Mai まい @maichan808.bsky.social · Jan 24

This is personal. My maternal grandparents and great grandparents were all sent to internment camps. My great grandfather didn't make it out of the camps alive while my other relatives, having lost their homes in California, were forced to start over in Hawaii.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jan 23

Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.

The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.

History is repeating. Pay attention.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 1d

One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.

I never made it out of the House.

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 2d

Love you all 🥰🫶🏽🎄🎅🏽🎁

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DO NOT REPOST MY ART @ooooooootllryh.bsky.social · 3d

#1031魏無羨生誕祭
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d

If you need to explain to an idiot why Tolkien would have despised these goons, I have already grabbed a picture of the relevant passage (and I doubt I was the first):

An image of a passage from the Return of the King, in which Robin the Hobbit Shirriff explains that 'the Chief' (Saruman) has coopted the shirriffs and uses them to lock up or beat people who protest is tyranny - and he always wants more shirriffs, "with all these new rules."

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3d

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright

• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 6d

Just did this with my Drive settings, and yeah it had Gemini ticked by default without ever asking me if that was something I wanted

Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 6d

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

$Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.$

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 6d

Reposting with Alt-text:

The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be strapped for cash. She said there's very rarely anything in just before, but that they get inundated with toys in the days after.

And it really made me think about it in a way I never would have before. If you know your child is going to get lots of presents from father Christmas this year, by clearing out your cupboards a few days early you could make another child's Christmas a lot more special too.

Saw this & thought I'd repost

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Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 8d

Fuck yes. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9d

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

www.npr.org

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Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9d

I don't want to exaggerate or be controversial but it kind of seems like AI is a huge steaming shit taken on everything by techbrahs who are not fully normal or human

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 10d

I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 10d

Updating my LEGO White House

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10d

wake up babe, new Ouroboros just dropped

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11d

WEIL: “.. Circularity can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside. The deals can work fine, until they don’t.”

@wsj.com $NVDA $ORCL
@justinhendrix.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-t...

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Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 11d

It’s amazing how much we have to bend over backwards to excuse white male—and let’s be honest it’s white males—awful behavior. Nothing bad they do is their fault

The rest of us somehow managed to go through puberty and all the emotional ups and downs that come with it without becoming fucking Nazis

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 12d

i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem

The average American millennial man has been a neocon, a pacifist, a liberal, a libertarian, a communist, a nazi, and I believe now most of us are back around to liberal again. This isn't a defense of platner it's just weird how normal this shit is for guys that age.

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Eagle Fandom BNF ☕️🦬 @trenchologist.bsky.social · 11d

Something that strikes me about Platner and similar is how obvious it makes the hunger for different-and-more-progressive Dem candidates, but how we’re still the most thrilled by one who’s a white guy. Lots of good & solid progressives we could run, too bad they’re POC/ lgbtq/ ladies, or some combo.

Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 11d

Well. Well well well well well

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11d

Jewish Insider just sent out an email with an article with more Platner info. And yeah, this guy is DONE done.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 12d

Look I’m not blaming anyone I’m just asking if anyone has checked the British Museum for the Louvre’s jewels

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 13d

Meet the "Japanese snow fairy" (shima enaga), a subspecies of long-tailed tit native to Hokkaido.

It's no wonder Japanese anime characters look like they do, when actual Japanese wildlife looks like this:

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14d

I ❤️ my hometown.

Well done…

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 14d

hit him where it hurts 🫡

man with a cardboard sign saying “you sucked in home alone 2”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15d

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14d

OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.

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Karen Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 14d

My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 14d

WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime