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Abe Stein @morenothings.bsky.social · 18h

Damn these people suck at mancala

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Abe Stein @morenothings.bsky.social · 1d

23-6 losing 2 mirrors otd, never dropped a match to red.

This cauldron deck kinda good.

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Abe Stein @morenothings.bsky.social · 1d

Been a while since I played this much constructed, but losing to @jkyu06.bsky.social in the finals like I did in my last RCQ is unacceptable and so I got into the mines.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Abe Stein @morenothings.bsky.social · 3d

No other social media platform has that many ms paint red circles per capita

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Feb 16

tfw you are reminded it is a holiday monday tomorrow

sunday scary skeleton fucking owned by holiday monday

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 5d

the reporter going “so just to be clear, you guys are frogs now because of the other frog? there’s no other significance to the frog thing?? I would love for there to be more to it than that” and the frogs are just like “nah man we’re here to support the original frog”

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · Sep 5

being trans is not a negative outcome and neither is being autistic

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Nick Schirillo @bobinchese.bsky.social · 6d

Wish I had solidified this thought last week when people kept messaging me "but UB doesn't have to be bad for organized play, look at all the extra people!".

Nick Schirillo @bobinchese.bsky.social · 6d

Comp play is overwhelmingly defined by the worst cards, biggest design mistakes and power level outliers. Which makes the shotgun approach really bad. But when you're focusing on casual play that doesn't matter cause the bad stuff just won't show up very much and everyone gets their special thing.

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stephanie 💽 @whoastanderson.bsky.social · 6d

@morenothings.bsky.social and i made a friend today

a white cat with a black head meowing at @morenothings’s leg

the same cat, curled up in stephanie’s lap as she sits on the sidewalk

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Combat from Baltimore @combatbaltimore.bsky.social · 8d

In case my bluesky warriors missed it we’re going on tour this spring w Joyce Manor and militarie gun and teen mortgage love ya

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Abe Stein @morenothings.bsky.social · 7d

Hell yes

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 10d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10d

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 10d

Quoted post by user @ dystopiabreaker dot xyz reads:
"i'm completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron"

Quote post from bsky engineer @hailey.at reads:
"an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you'd agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing "dna" with "bits" doesn't make it ok"

follow up post from hailey reads:
"if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go 'oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person' (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that"

classic tweet from @sumbitches reading "I bet this shit hits so hard if you're stupid"

classic tweet from @chloscialism reading:
"'i hate cigs' now replace cigs with women. not so funn, is it?"

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 10d

I don't really buy the zero sum comp/casual nonsense; the words written in the text boxes these days are completely fine.

Magic isn't worse because of Commander, it's worse because there are twice as many cards and they all cost twice as much and half of them are a shitty reference to a TV show.

Amy the Amazonian @amytheamazonian.bsky.social · 11d

Jake's post from Twitter is really good. You should read it.

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laina 𓆣 @laina.bsky.social · 11d

You can also submit a written comment here! I just did and you should too!

gov.illinois.gov/contact-us/v...

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Abe Stein @morenothings.bsky.social · 12d

This is amazing, congratulations, and here's to 10 more 10 year anniversaries for the two of you 🎉

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Abe Stein @morenothings.bsky.social · 13d

Can’t wait for the Midwest emo cover of this one.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 14d

Val and I checked repeatedly because we simply couldn't believe no national or local news organizations covered this letter from 18 AGs in support of trans youth care and against FTC overreach.

If you find any stories, let us know, but it seems to be our exclusive.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 14d

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned

Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 14d

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Abe Stein @morenothings.bsky.social · 14d

It's joined the elite company of cavalier of thorns as a card that probably just won the game by being cast in most fair games, *especially* because it will not die.

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Abe Stein @morenothings.bsky.social · 14d

whoever gave the 6th point of toughness to quantum riddler, I just wanna talk

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