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The problem is not that the Right Wing want to make Charlie Kirk a messiah, or that they use the most stupid reasons to take massive action against ppl who express even the most minimal harmless criticism, the problem is that the Conservatives/Center/Progs/Left go along with it

#charliekirk #kimmel

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 1d

“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

www.project-syndicate.org

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Politico @politico.com · 2d

The majority of civilian staff at a key agency that helps manage the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile to be furloughed.

Top nuclear weapons agency to furlough most staff amid shutdown

House Republicans pointed to the staff reductions as a national security consequence of the shutdown, pressing Senate Democrats to yield and vote to reopen the government.

www.politico.com

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

JUST IN: Mayor Brandon Johnson Thursday delivered on his promise to “challenge the ultra-rich” and make corporations pay their fair share, proposing a $16.6 billion budget for 2026.

Mayor Johnson proposes $16.6B budget that revives corporate head tax, imposes first-ever social media tax

Mayor Brandon Johnson promised to "challenge the ultra-rich" and corporations to shoulder the burden, and his 2026 spending plan does just that. It includes $586.6 million in progressive tax and fee revenues. Along with the head tax and social media tax, it calls for ramping up the cloud computing…

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Manniac 🌈 @manniac.de · 4d

Woker Sex macht einfach mehr Spaß. Für euch getestet.

gegendinu @rettich.bsky.social · 5d

mein sohn (18) zb sperrt sich oft stunden lang in sein zimmer ein um sich 1 runter zu woken

welt+
Sexualität und Identität

"Junge Männer ,woken' lieber als dass sie vögeln"

Von Volker Corsten
Redaktion Lifestyle

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𝐀 || ᴸᵉᵃᵛᵉᴺᵒᵒⁿᵉᴮᵉʰⁱⁿᵈ @hridayy.bsky.social · 5d

mainstreaming nerd fandoms was the worst thing ever to happen.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 8d

Art by Philippe Caza for Les voies d’Anubis (The Anubis Gates) by Tim Powers (1986 French edition)

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owk @owk.bsky.social · 9d

SPD holt historisch wenig Stimmen

SPD: "wir müssen uns erneuern, neu aufstellen und wieder auf die Kernthemen konzentrieren"

SPD rückt stramm nach rechts und macht noch menschenverachtendere Politik als zuvor

SPD holt historisch wenig Stimmen

SPD: "Bro, nur noch einen Rechtsruck, nur noch 1x"

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 8d

We need something like a “Fascistpedia” to keep track of those who collaborated with the regime.

Later, they'll be scurrying to hide their cowardice and moral rot.

A permanent record will guarantee enduring shame.

Let’s give them their own museum.

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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 11d

On Sept. 27, President Trump described Portland, Ore., as a “War ravaged” city.

But here is how federal officers described the scene outside the ICE building in southwest Portland on Sept. 25: “low energy.”

The next day the same: “low energy.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’

www.nytimes.com

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 8d

TikTok doesn’t want the platform being used for journalism - even thought users expect to access it there.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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𝐀 || ᴸᵉᵃᵛᵉᴺᵒᵒⁿᵉᴮᵉʰⁱⁿᵈ @hridayy.bsky.social · 8d

Now watching:

'Pantheon' S02E03

- created by Craig Silverstein
- based on short stories by Ken Liu
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#pantheon - #nowwatching #firstwatch - #watched - #tvshow #tvseries #tvsky - #animation #anime - #cinema #cinemsky #film #filmsky #movie #moviesky - #trakt #letterboxd

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NO KINGS NO TYRANTS NO NAZIS NO FASCISTS @foolme1ns.bsky.social · 9d

The guy next to Hegseth cannot believe his luck!

QATAR has won the jackpot!!!

Just give trump what he wants and he gives you a piece of Idaho!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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stargirl1620.bsky.social @stargirl1620.bsky.social · 9d

Ahh yes Quatar accused of state sponsored terrorism.
Remember 2014 Obama wore a tan suit&the Republicans said discussing terrorism in it was unpresidenial?
Fox News said people were very shocked.

Trump 2025 gives actual Terrorist supporters a base in AMERICA...MAKE QUATAR GREAT AGAIN
MAGA for🤑

Wiki exert explaining how Republicans thought Obama wearing a tan suit while discussing terrorism was unpresidential...

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Annabeth Syndulla Janeway(She/Her/Hers) @cybrpnkvalksg1rl.bsky.social · 9d

This is the first time since America was founded as an independent nation, as far as I know, that a foreign nation will have a military base in the Americas especially one that is known to fund terrorist attacks across the globe.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 9d

Genius. I just awarded myself 42 Oskars.

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𝐀 || ᴸᵉᵃᵛᵉᴺᵒᵒⁿᵉᴮᵉʰⁱⁿᵈ @hridayy.bsky.social · 9d

.. and maybe something even greater gets created, or not, whatever, the ultimate thing about creativity is: You never know. - 4/4

𝐀 || ᴸᵉᵃᵛᵉᴺᵒᵒⁿᵉᴮᵉʰⁱⁿᵈ @hridayy.bsky.social · 9d

.. you still learned something, you have more experience now, you evolved. Ideas can still flow into other works later, or they get passed on and picked up by others, maybe you collaborate on it.. 3/4

𝐀 || ᴸᵉᵃᵛᵉᴺᵒᵒⁿᵉᴮᵉʰⁱⁿᵈ @hridayy.bsky.social · 9d

.. but that struggle is what creates whatever you get in the end, and it's never 100% what you thought of at the beginning. What if you can't get unstuck? That's part of it too.. But even if you don't get unstuck and give up? So what? That doesnt mean all is lost.. 2/4

𝐀 || ᴸᵉᵃᵛᵉᴺᵒᵒⁿᵉᴮᵉʰⁱⁿᵈ @hridayy.bsky.social · 9d

#ai #davidsimon #thewire

What people don't seem to grasp, intentionally or not, is that when it comes to creativity, “getting stuck” is ultimately a part of the process. Obv you dont want to stay stuck forever and get through it at some point, but.. 1/4

𝐀 || ᴸᵉᵃᵛᵉᴺᵒᵒⁿᵉᴮᵉʰⁱⁿᵈ @hridayy.bsky.social · 9d

#ai #davidsimon #thewire #wga

“David Simon, Creator Of The Wire, On AI, Television and the WGA Strike (2007)” - interviewed in 2023 by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

- Link to the podcast: www.npr.org/transcripts/...

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems, or saying...

SIMON: You mentioned that.

SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.

SIMON: I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.

SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from Scene 5 to Scene 6 and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition.

SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

SHAPIRO: You would rather put a gun in your mouth.

SIMON: I mean, what you're saying to me effectively is there's no original way to do anything, and...

SHAPIRO: No.

SIMON: Yes, you are.

SHAPIRO: That seems like a kind of absolutist take.

SIMON: Not only, I think, is it a fundamental violation of the integrity of writers and also of copyright - you know, when I sold all the scripts I sold - you know, 150 to HBO and, you know, maybe another 50 to NBC - I didn't sell them so that they could be thrown into a computer with other people's and be used again by a corporation.

SHAPIRO: So would you ever agree to a contract that saw any role for AI at all?

SIMON: No, I would not. If that's where this industry is going, it's going to infantilize itself. We're all going to be watching stuff we've watched before, only worse.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 9d

Christopher Columbus was a murderous rapist piece of shit who is only remembered as anything other than a genocidal monster because he was also incompetent as an "explorer" and got lost.

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Christian Jakob @chrjkb.bsky.social · 10d

Erst Anfang Oktober hatte das Auswärtige Amt @diplo.de uns ggü. erklärt, dass 🇩🇪 wegen der Menschenrechtsverstoesse (u.a. Schüsse auf NGO-Schiffe) weiterhin nicht mit der libyschen Küstenwache kooperiert. Nun scheint sich das geändert zu haben. Warum @aussenminister.diplo.de?

taz.de/Seenotrettun...

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Campact e.V. @campact.de · 11d

Die EU will jede einzelne Whatsapp-Nachricht in Echtzeit scannen lassen. Das wars dann mit Privatsphäre.
Und Unschuldige geraten so massenhaft in den Fokus der Sicherheitsbehörden.

Schließ dich den Gegenstimmen an: campact.org/wc3c6

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DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social · 11d

How do you improve on perfection? A terrific and terrifying experience that redefines the boundaries of animation, in Satoshi Kon’s identity crisis psycho thriller

Dirty Japanese classic returns to UK cinemas on Friday:

dmovies.org/2017/10/25/p...

Perfect Blue - DMovies

A dirtylicious experience that redefines the boundaries of animation, Satoshi Kon’s identity crisis psycho thriller returns to UK cinemas

dmovies.org

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