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Edward Banatt @armavirumque.bsky.social · 39m

"That is schoolhouse rock. And that is how things should be."

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 43m

AOC: When one party wants the votes of another party. You negotiate, you come to a compromise and you pass a bill. That is schoolhouse rock. And that is how things should be

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Jason Byrne @geekwithsoul.bsky.social · 47m

Yeah, seems back up now! Was just particularly amused by ads working and videos not.

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Jason Byrne @geekwithsoul.bsky.social · 1h

So evidently the only thing work on YouTube right now for a bunch of people is the ads. Literally an ad will play just fine and then the video just goes "Oops, an error was reported". Bug or YouTube's master plan come to fruition?

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Jason Byrne @geekwithsoul.bsky.social · 7h

"I don’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now,” the Amazon and Blue Origin founder said"

I went into this article expecting the space thing to be the most unhinged thing Bezos said. But nope, it was the above quote. #InsaneWealthIsAHelluvaDrug

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says ‘millions of people’ will be living in space by 2045—and robots will commute on our behalf to the moon | Fortune

No one enjoys the dreaded commute to work, and by 2045, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicts we’ll have robots to do that for us. After all, in the billionaire's vision we’ll be venturing to other plane...

fortune.com

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 9h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10h

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 10h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Jason Byrne @geekwithsoul.bsky.social · 9h

"The results were consistent and shocking. Across this diverse sample, the average level of fake traffic was 73%. This was a systemic issue, a phantom epidemic haunting the digital storefronts of countless entrepreneurs."

If we're not at Dead Internet yet, we're at least in Zombieland.

How 73% of Your E-commerce Visitors Could Be Fake

A conversion rate of less than 0.1%. That was the moment I realized something was fundamentally broken with the way we measure success on the internet.

joindatacops.com

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Scott Murray :neurodiversity: @scott.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h

Oh, snap, sick burn 🤦‍♂️😂
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115377850900768941

JA Westenberg (@[email protected])

If I genuinely believed I was 18 months away from superintelligence that could solve cancer, I would probably not be pivoting to horny chatbots, but that's just me (a person with priorities)

mastodon.social

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Jason Byrne @geekwithsoul.bsky.social · 11h

I've been using Windows since Windows 2.0, and I can authoritatively say it's because Windows is three OSes in a trench coat. It's less an operating system and more a collection of quirks that's not entirely unlike an OS. The fact any of it ever works as expected is a bit of a miracle.

Why old Windows screenshots sometimes played video in Paint

: Raymond Chen says the OS used green-screen overlays to fake video playback – with curious side effects

www.theregister.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12h

I think the idea of "cancel culture" persists mainly because it conveniently is some outside force acting on someone rather than them torching their reputation all on their own

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Jason Byrne @geekwithsoul.bsky.social · 23h

It was someone who really likes hot air balloons

Trump photo cropped and photo edited to make his head a hot air balloon

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Will Kerslake @wkerslake.bsky.social · 1d

After 40 years of broadcasting MTV is shutting down most of it's channels.

Thanks for 20 years of music MTV.

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Jason Byrne @geekwithsoul.bsky.social · 1d

"The 2,900 pages of chats, shared among a dozen millennial and Gen Z Republicans between early January and mid-August, chronicle their campaign to seize control of the national Young Republican organization on a hardline pro-Donald Trump platform"

Surprising no one…

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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weinberg @weinberg.social · 1d

Rest in peace, Drew Struzan. His movie posters are much more than marketing. They're some of the finest pop art you'll ever see. Look at this masterpiece:

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The Ones Who Walk Away From the Torment Nexus @thechrispaduan.bsky.social · 1d

What a disgrace.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announces that it will cut around 550 jobs — around 10% of its staff.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory lays off 550 workers

The director of the California lab said the layoffs — around 10% of the JPL workforce — aren't a result of the government shutdown.

nbcnews.to

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Edward Banatt @armavirumque.bsky.social · 1d

[An MIT Media Lab report calls this 'workslop': “AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.”]

Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 1d

"we should not assume that technological revolutions are productivity revolutions. The rate of productivity growth has been in sharp decline since 2003, and today sits where it stood before the widespread adoption of the personal computer"

www.techpolicy.press/generative-a...

Generative AI’s Productivity Myth | TechPolicy.Press

People may be using artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

www.techpolicy.press

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Jason Byrne @geekwithsoul.bsky.social · 3d

"This piece has been updated because, following publication, many fired employees began receiving emails communicating that despite the earlier notice, they would no longer be terminated."

Would they be more or less scary if they showed any sign of competency or intelligence? Honestly don't know.

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Phylosoma™ @phylosoma.bsky.social · 4d

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Jason Byrne @geekwithsoul.bsky.social · 5d

Amazing shot! ❤️

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 5d

Really happy with this shot #sqrlpix
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Dr. Travis Langley @drtravislangley.bsky.social · 5d

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Rob Pegoraro @robpegoraro.com · 5d

The rapid progress of Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind must enrage the fossil-fuel fetishists in the White House. Have they considered trying to self-soothe by snorting some coal dust? #CVOW

America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in six months

Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026.

www.canarymedia.com

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 5d

No words 😑

Military and police Halloween costumes for children

Princess dresses Halloween costumes for children

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Jason Byrne @geekwithsoul.bsky.social · 5d

See, stuff like that is why we had to move the capital 😉

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