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Michael Bazemore

@deepwatermike.bsky.social

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Technical trainer and occasional historian. Erstwhile medievalist. Now practicing the Wudang 108 form of Taijiquan and delivering sizzling takes. Walking the elements and holding the gates in North Carolina.

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 13h

Now do old Republicans. And middle-aged Republicans. And...

wesin-🎃a spooky version of 🎃-japan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 13h

Oh wow, Young Republicans are racist?! Huh, wow

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 13h

Checks out

innes @innes.bsky.social · 16h

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 13h

They make a desert and call it content.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

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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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine not only participating in the surveillance state, but paying to do so.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26d

of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 18h

I've been a little busy. Has Justice Balls-and-Strikes pronounced the end of the Voting Rights Act from the bench?

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

More of this! The answer to every such demand ought to be, "Make me, motherfucker."

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown. trib.al/tw3Hd3X

Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem’s Shutdown Propaganda

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

This is true of SO MANY THINGS.

Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 1d

Books aren't just what the writer puts in. They're what the reader puts in, too. And some readers are assholes.

Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

Justice Ofjesse is adopting the Mar-a-Lago aesthetic, it seems. I'd much rather be commenting on the substance of her consequential rulings but, well...

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings.

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

Right. Only 10 for long-distance. Now there are so many phones, we need 10 all the time. What's weirder to me is portability. No matter where I move, if I keep my number, you'll always register me as calling from NC. When my wife calls me, it's "from" LA.