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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 7m

Reminder that the Supreme Court is an anti-democratic institution dominated by liars who literally made our racist, fascist president a monarch untouchable by law so

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1h

HAPPENING SOON: SCOTUS will hear arguments in a case that could end one of the last safeguards against racial gerrymanders, and lock in GOP control of the U.S. House for generations to come. We’ll be providing real-time court updates at the blog below👇

LIVE BLOG: Supreme Court Hears Case That Could Gut the Voting Rights Act

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 17m

Punk music started in 1977. Post-punk started in 1976.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23h

California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job.

Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees.

Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 39m

Might not be around a lot today. Just saw two guys in an alley having a huge fight because one of them wouldn’t try on the other’s sunglasses. Still pretty shaken up by it.

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Arthur Wyatt with a twig tied onto him with rough twine @arthurwyatt.bsky.social · 28m

Like they were curled up asleep, suddenly woke up worrying they’d dropped their wallet, looked around for it, then realized they are a cat and went back to sleep.

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Arthur Wyatt with a twig tied onto him with rough twine @arthurwyatt.bsky.social · 33m

That thing when a cat stands up, searches around underneath itself, then lies back down in the exact same spot.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · Dec 27

ME: Hey Stephen King, what’s your book about
STEPHEN KING: There’s this extradimensional spore that takes over a small town
ME: Oh that could be interesting sure
STEPHEN KING: Humans call it Uncle Ding-Dong
ME: They…call it—
STEPHEN KING: Uncle Ding-Dong
ME: Why
STEPHEN KING: idk

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 57m

Same with journalism, everyone just fucking cooked themselves to the point of not understanding actual people with jobs. The Washington Post is going to be like “why do subscriptions keep falling even when Catturd2 is writing about the economy?”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 59m

I know the whole “every accusation is a confession” thing but it’s pretty clear this is the most elitist government that’s existed in decades. It’s just 12 billionaires in a group chat sharing banned Reddit memes

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Mc @pmcgregor.bsky.social · 2h

It says a lot about modern journalism that that woman was fired by the Washington post for repeating facts but Olivia nuzzi has no problem finding work

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 1h

not at all the point, but visually, Vance appears to be in the early-to-mid stages of turning into Darkseid

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 11h

Aside from all the obvious stuff, the NY Young Republicans are also all in their 30s

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 15h

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 11h

Conspiracy theory I believe without evidence is that the “performative male” thing is at least a little astroturfed

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Sean Phillips @seanphillips.bsky.social · 1h

Favourite face I’ve drawn today.

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La La La Llorona @marisasandlin.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not saying you can't have FB/IG accounts for your business; I'm saying don't rely on it solely. For the love of god, get a website. It doesn't have to be fancy (unless you want it to be) but it should be necessary so you can redirect folks to it if needed.

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ROSE @milkshakemotel.bsky.social · 2d

Portland art lovers and fans of unusual fish transportation MUST go see Sasha Fishman’s SHAD MODE at ILY2, there is a functional salmon cannon in the gallery with realistic weight hot pink rubber salmon you can chuck into it

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 16h

how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 3h

The problem with some of the "Vibe Coding" demos is that 90% of them could be replaced with just downloading a preexisting template.

The other 90% are caused by the ridiculous complexity of modern development stacks.

shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/06...

#AIforTheRestOfUs

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Arthur Wyatt with a twig tied onto him with rough twine @arthurwyatt.bsky.social · 1h

Pretty sure anyone associated with RFK is bad, but the point stands.

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Ing aka Tophat Artooning @ingforart.bsky.social · 1h

Time is money ppl should legit sue for damages. Job search js a requirement of unemployment benefits in many cases. This is harm

Sarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social · 3h

Just learned about a new stupid thing AI does

A series of Instagram comments:

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i recently applied to a wendys and the ai chatbot immediately gave me an interview date and time. when i got there they told me "oh we're actually not hiring it just automatically does that"
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in other news i'm now learning how to jailbreak Ilms for no particular reason
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@atbashhang that happened to me at olive garden. went in for my interview and they said they would keep my resume on file in case the position opened. fortunately i had another interview right after and wound up working there instead
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@atbashhang me with 7-11 except they cancelled it an hour before
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@atbashhang Bro I used to work at Auntie Anne's and the amount of people I had to turn away because the Al chatbot did the same thing and gave them an interview time when we weren't supposed to take any made me feel bad every time

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𝔸𝕝𝕖𝕒 𝕃𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕪 @alea.bsky.social · 1h

Wow!

If I wasn't autistic and hadn't spent years practicing literally every "subconscious" gesture and expression so that I can blend in with neurotypical people, I would worry that they would simply use the machine to deny me needed medication.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 15h

Every punk band got that one bassist who looks like the first zombie in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

The guy, kind of a long angular face and beak of a nose and raggedy teeth

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Winter🍷🦇 @cyberbully.darkwo.ke · 4d

In my experience the chance of making right wing old people cry when stating what I think of their opinions in a cold, firm voice is like… well into the double digits lol. They are made of softness and fear.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

hey georgia, early voting is happening now -- please vote out the shitty republicans who keep increasing our electricity bills for no reason and show them we can kick them to the curb if they don't work for the people!!!!!!

find your early voting precincts here:

mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

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