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academic. filmmaker. straight-presenting-bi. nyc asshole in toronto. she/her/auntiefa. acab. www.screeningsurveillance.com amuse|muse|use|us|u pfp: me holding up both my middle fingers banner: jealous gf meme with Marx, & Rom & Quark from ds9 iykyk

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · Aug 1

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 26m

there are at least 3 sneezers and coughers in this room at this conference and I am glad my colleague/friend and I are masked but we are the only ones who are. sigh.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 9h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 14h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 2h

when white lady tears show up they must be acknowledged and appeased! even the kindest “no” is a personal affront! there’s an entitlement that whiteness has that is sometimes wild to witness, and any challenge to it is met with weaponized tears or anger or cop shit aka karening

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 12h

Here's a recording of the pilot of C-GZPT, a Cirrus SR22, tracing the Jays logo over Nova Scotia

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 11h

it’s so inhumane to all who might take comfort in a bench!

rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 11h

I’m going to have to start carrying my own little stool I think

rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 11h

ugggh that sucks I’m sorry :(

rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 11h

I like it

rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 11h

that works for the background stuff but maybe not for the makeup part?

rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 11h

I like that

rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 11h

almost said “mamma mia tesla!” to the cabbie lol

rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 11h

first and only time I’ll do that

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 12h

Unfortunately I don’t find your anti communism funny when anti capitalism has been designated as a terrorist activity. Sorry!

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 16h

(I’m conferencing but if folks have Milan recs I’ll take ‘em)

rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 16h

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 16h

hi Milano

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 16h

I have already noticed that almost everyone I talk to on zoom has some sort of filter on. this is like a different version of the uncanny valley — do we have a term for it

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h

From the company that brought you “identifying photos of Black people as gorillas” and “paying contractors to record dark skinned unhoused people in order to train facial recognition.”

Google Meet launches an AI-powered makeup feature | TechCrunch

Google Meet finally has a makeup filter for those days when you don't feel like applying lipstick.

techcrunch.com

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 16h

ugggggh this cab is a tesla 😫

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

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

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Brandon Barker @astrobarker.bsky.social · 18h

Time and time again, universities prove that their primary responsibility is not to their students but to themselves and the endowment

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 19h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 18h

ugh I’m sorry. it’s really gross! this one place had a metal bar along the bottom of their glass store front and I couldn’t figure out why and I wonder if it’s to stop people from sitting on the floor and leaning against the glass??

rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 19h

(I say this as someone who deals with a fair amount of pain in my legs and feet, and after walking around all day (in pain!), having to stand on the hard floor waiting for the screens to tell me which platform I have to go to was agony. my feet are throbbing right now!)

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 20h

that they don’t have benches all over train stations because maybe a person might sleep there is disgusting, cruel, and ableist

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 1d

John Oliver is what liberals imagine Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert to be — a genuine critic of America’s systemic failures who stands up for trans people and other marginalized groups, while actually offering real actions and hopeful solutions.

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 1d

interesting that his greed for a Nobel resulted in this “ceasefire”