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Furrowed Brow @furrowedbrow91.bsky.social · 14h

#NoKings #NoOligarchs #AbolishtheGOP #RejectGOPChristoFasicism #DemocracyNotTheocracy #WethePeople #PeoplePower #OurCountryNotTheirs #LibertyShallNotPerishFromtheUS

Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · 19h

#STL #NoKings despite massive thunderstorms in St.Louis, a huge crowd!

No kings protest in front of old courthouse and St. Louis arch.

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Michael Capellupo 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @mjcapellupo.bsky.social · 14h

My hometown. #NoKings

Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · 19h

#STL #NoKings despite massive thunderstorms in St.Louis, a huge crowd!

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Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · 18h

Inflatable costumes representing 🦄 #nokings #stl #stlouis #protest

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Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · 19h

Drove by a large protest on the south side of I-64 on the way here as well.

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Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · 19h

#STL #NoKings despite massive thunderstorms in St.Louis, a huge crowd!

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 21h

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 9d

That (NPR!) journalists think AI is a creative engine that can finesse iconic productions is not just context for the crap quality of writing in media but alarmingly the inability among a class of supposedly professional scrutinizers to distinguish between art and slop, good and bad, truth and lie

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 10d

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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Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · 11d

I will say, that I’ve been getting those kinds of emails since c. 2009! Long before genAI was on the scene. Back then, I assumed that someone was actually writing the copy!

Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · 26d

It’s pretty much this, but of course satire and reality are now a perfect circle. @bencollins.bsky.social knows…

youtu.be/xQyf3QgRP-c?...

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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · Sep 18

Jacobs must resign as chair of the NY Dem party if he cannot support what Dem voters have chosen. He should resign today, or continue to do very serious damage to the party.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

New York Democratic Chairman Won’t Endorse Mamdani for Mayor

www.nytimes.com

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Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · Sep 11

50€ entry fee aka “fundraising” 🙈

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Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · Sep 5

My man Mamdani is a grade A memer.

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Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · Aug 22

Reminds me of how MAGA Haberman calls everything Trump does “remarkable.”

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Aug 22

lol NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...

Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · Aug 15

Landlords can just run out the clock on tenants often if the tenants and the landlord are at odds—they just don’t file lease and then go “renovate” the apartment again after the tenants are gone.

Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · Aug 15

If politics weren’t so abysmally vapid, there would be larger discussions around how landlords basically have no consequences for these shenanigans because of how the rules work for evaluating stabilization claims and getting rent paid back through the nyshcr.

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Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · Aug 14

Beyond that, I’ve also had landlords try to trick me into signing destabilized leases after signing a stabilized lease.

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Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · Aug 14

Like others have commented, I’ve lived in an apartment that was stabilized and the landlord did not give us the rider because they were trying to illegally destabilize it. I only learned that the unit should have been stabilized from longtime tenants of the building.

Ethan Stark-Miller @estarkmiller.bsky.social · Aug 14

Cuomo says Mamdani's claim that he didn't know his apartment was rent-stabilized when he moved in is "implausible to me."

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radams @radamssmash.bsky.social · Aug 8

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

A shitty map created by ChatGPT5. it purports to be US States with an R in their name, but it's wrong and dumb and worthless just like LLMs.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 1

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...

Mellon Foundation

The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

www.mellon.org

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Aug 3

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

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Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination @dissentum.bsky.social · Jul 26

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread about the process of editing an essay collection I wrote when the book Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination (www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919184/postpolitics-and-the-aesthetic-imagination) was about to come out: bsky.app/profile/diss...

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Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · Jul 8

Just heard the #kygo remix of #tinaturner’s “What’s Love”—nothing can be new 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 fml

Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · Jul 8

In fact, the logics of it are insidious. Do we write off all folks who cannot work?

Eric Lemmon @ericlemmon.bsky.social · Jul 8

@kyla.bsky.social I think this definition of what being human is is contested 🤨

Kyla Scanlon quote in an interview with Ezra Klein. “Because to be human is to work, to have meaning and to have purpose. If we all of a sudden say: No, you don’t have meaning, and you don’t have purpose — that feels really bad.”

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 4

Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

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