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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 1d

Selling AI-generated books is effectively saying:

"We don't know why books are good, and we're betting you don't either."

Marco Rinaldi @marcorinaldi.bsky.social · Nov 25

Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.

Bookseller article with the headline "New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone" 🤮🤮🤮

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 2d

Two things can be true at the same time.

1) I can be a sensitive man who has generally rid himself of toxic masculine ideas

2) Every time Nate from Baby Steps falls and immediately goes full limp, I can dream about someone sending him to Maury Povitch drill instructor camp for disobedient teens.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 2d

Last minute QA MF

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 2d

Every time I web-swing in these games, I'm swinging for two: me, and the ten year old me that still lives inside me.

Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 2d

I feel obligated to get every incarnation of modern Spider-Man because when I was a kid, this was the best I had access to.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 3d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 3d

I beg the reporters of this nation to ask Trump whether he thinks the elderly folk singers are the dangerous ones, or if the real threat is the person in the plushy frog costume.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 3d

How does this make any of us safer?

How did we let aggressive asshats redefine a paperwork infraction into "probably a violent criminal"?

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 3d

The report from outside the culture:

Someone won a big baseball.

It might have been a seafarer or sailor of some kind.

Whichever one has the big butt.

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max 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 4d

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 5d

From the folks who brought you "we paywall the information industry experts gave us for free."

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 6d

A New Era Awaits!

bit.ly/3KKYUIq

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 5d

@pentadact.com Replaying through TBW and this line is still a banger.

"I'm in this image and I don't like it."

A still image of a dialogue scene from a video game, where a character is talking to the dream version of herself.

Character: I like my insights with a little more compassion and a little less accuracy.

Dream version: I can't give you that. I'm the only person you have no compassion for.

Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 6d

This is the most Portland thing I can imagine.

dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 6d

I always knew the Furries would be the ones to save us

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 8d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 6d

God, I would have played the shit out of that game though.

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 8d

Wait, is this the course? or an introduction to the course?

I'd rather just a link to the course. :D

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 9d

I’m tempted to dunk, but ok, let’s engage seriously.

Putting Japanese-Americans in concentration camps was a fascist activity.

(And I think that if you were Japanese-American at the time, you were experiencing the US as a fascist country.)

Does that mean the US was fascist?

Wrong question.

Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 10d

So I guess the US was also a fascist country when FDR was putting Japanese Americans in internment camps, right?

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 9d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 9d

This is a twelve minute advertisement for a product I will never buy and I've watched it twice.

youtu.be/hbO1z13WP8o?...

"How to Orchid" by Telepathic Instruments

YouTube video by Telepathic Instruments

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 10d

"Either I'm stealing your wallet or - more frequently - I'm not."

would not leave you with a lot of confidence about me around your wallet.

Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 10d

Technobabylon is a banger in a catalog of bangers, don't sleep on it

Hampus 🎃 @hampus.bsky.social · 11d

I'm playing this at the moment and it's a really good time

Wadjet Eye of Sauron @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social · 11d

Cyberpunk adventure Technobabylon by is 70% off during the Steam Autumn Sale!

Hit the blue-neon streets of Newton to follow the trail of a serial killer known as The Mindjacker!

Discover why "there's nothing like being in Trance."

Jack in here: store.steampowered.com/app/307580/T...

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 10d

Listing the absolute least common thing first is misleading.

So is saying "at least one" when you mean "exactly one.'

Here's an example:

"I'm married to a woman."

vs

"I'm married to at least one woman."

It's misleading.

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 12d

I think I got it now, thank you.

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 12d

From just that screen cap alone, it would seem you were suggesting "re-identifying with their natal sex" was the majority of the 18%, and that would be very misleading.

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