Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 14m

It's not just musicians either. Michael K. Williams and Lance Reddick come to mind as actors of a similar age dying from similar causes. It's devastating.

2 1

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 25m

The democrat gerontocracy is going to kill us all. I don't even particularly trust Platner, he's Palantir associated and sucks. We just can't have an opposition party that randomly drops dead and can't relate to people under 60.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

1

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 26m

Unrelated to the clip, but I think a lot about how poisoning deaths fell drastically due to feminisms successes, and how I suspect they'll be coming back in a major way and maybe that's a good thing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 30m

I don't care about your fandom infighting, I'm in my 30s, grow up, go away.

1

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 38m

No, you fucking idiot.

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 41m

I cannot wait for every TV show finale to have a legion of the ugliest, most worthless dweebs going "SORA CHANGE THIS EPISODE TO MAKE IT HOW I WANTED".

Death of art. Death of culture.

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 43m

People are clowning on this for many reasons but it's worth noting that this is a direct war on the concept of published literature. Erotica is a HUGE chunk of book revenue these days (and that's fine! Let people read smut!) and this is an effort to crush that sector.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 48m

It's the duality of man, in a way. Kirkman is engaging with it (in part so he can drop "watch season 4 of my show!").

Meanwhile anytime someone asks Alan Moore this he says "the world is burning because adults care about this. These are stories for babies. I hate you all".

1 1

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 2h

I read it as 'his feelings that apartheid is a bad thing'.

It seems like the bias she dislikes is a bias that jim crow and apartheid south Africa are de facto bad things, rather than relitigating their morality.

Patently absurd

2

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 3h

She see's disliking apartheid as a bias. She thinks objective people need to evaluate each apartheid on it's merits.

In other words, she's just kinda evil

2

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, this was a paid post, right? Like the pac that funnels you money to punch left sent you a few grand to spew this trash?

1 12

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 12h

What the fuck are you talking about dude. The Left hates him. Meanwhile y'all are hanging out with Richie Torres and saying how "MTG is sounding pretty sane".

1 20

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 15h

Yes and it makes trending completely unusable.

1

Reposted by The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

420 510 2K

Reposted by The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 23h

Barack Obama had this and used it to defund ACORN

To pass your agenda a Dem will need 60 votes in the Senate & a majority in the house. In every battleground state voters need to show up to give a Dem President the power to deliver without negotiating. If we fail to do that, we cant complain when what's delivered is watered down

22 220 1.2K

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 22h

Tear Gas is REALLY bad for you in general, but it's really bad for women in unique ways. It's an abortifacient and it dysregulated women's cycles in unpleasant ways.

Flooding people's homes with it is horrific and these people are terrorist scum.

alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 23h

Another good time to remind people that “tear gas” is a term of copaganda that police, the military, and its manufacturers use to obscure that it is a dangerous chemical weapon internationally banned for use even in warfare.

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 23h

This is an incentive problem (based on knowing people who have contributed to it).

People want promos/bonuses. People perceive that this will get promos/bonuses. People do it for the promos/bonuses.

I know a few very senior folks just doing good boring shit, but junior folks lack that confidence.

1

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 1d

I love the John Oliver effect (my normie friends going "Oh I thought you were just being a hater but it seems like she does suck").

I gotta hand it to the man, he is uniquely good at bringing normie libs up to speed.

2 8 65

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 1d

This bit is also a Jewish woman making fun of Italian Americans on COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND! We all know what this really is!

two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` it 's anti italian discrimination ''

Alt: two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` it 's anti italian discrimination ''

media.tenor.com

1 2 34

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 1d

Oh john oliver is going in on Bari Weiss, this will be interesting.

I fucking hate her so much.

3

Reposted by The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin

Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 2d

yeah

Ghost of Yōtei screenshot

A warrior named The Oni, dressed in a shattered white demon mask and big horned helmet with white wig, asks “Do you think I enjoy setting fire to children?”

5 1 81

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 1d

Trump sends the troops to disappear immigrants, Newsom does the same for the homeless.

The end result is the troops running around harassing poor brown people.

They're just the same people with different aesthetics.

Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 1d

having a hard time understanding the difference between Newsom and Trump these days!!!

Governor Newsom Launches New Operation to Improve Public Safety and Target Fentanyl Trafficking Rings in San Francisco
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Building on a new partnership to combat fentanyl trafficking in San Francisco, today Governor Newsom is launching a multi-agency enforcement operation and assigning California Highway Patrol and California National Guard personnel to improve public safety in the city.

3 7

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 1d

Conflating someone venting or defending themselves with systemic harassment accounts is just weirdo behavior.

3

The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I think the sane seed of this idea is that, particularly on twitter there are large accounts who specifically sought to dog pile people (eg. LOTT kinda started that way) and that's a bad thing because it's actively malicious.

But "large accounts must only lick small accounts boots" is insane

1 5

Reposted by The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

570 5.5K 21K