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Dr J. Rosenbaum
@jrosenbaum.com.au
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Artist and researcher working with AI perceptions of gender. PhD, nerd, muso, they/them pronouns 🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇺
links page at minxdragon.com
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daisyfm.net
This November, I'm voting for the cut-off-one-of-your-legs party so the cut-off-both-of-your-legs party doesn't win.
January 29, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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allosaur.bsky.social
Finally we’ll see the story of how the nation of Aamerleda was founded
ai gibberish text
January 29, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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culturecrave.co
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'

• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War

• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind

• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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swordscomic.bsky.social
You should come fight giant robots with me! Let's hang out!!
big-adventure.bsky.social Dream Team Supreme 🤖 🧪 Wishlist Now! @big-adventure.bsky.social · 4d
We'll see you this Friday at the Respawn Esports Centre in Wellington, NZ!
We're looking forward to your feedback! Teamwork makes the dream work! 🤝

#Wellington
A poster for three Wellington-made indie games being showcased at the Respawn Esports Centre this Friday
January 29, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
Martin Shuster sdSreptoon1hm9t97235g2u5796glgh0435l6iaf05it1l232lc20cllf4g0 · So apparently on Sunday Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, said in a press conference that "we have got children hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside ... many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody’s gonna write that children’s story about Minnesota.” Then on Monday--one day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day--the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum tweeted in response that: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges." As someone who spent a year at the Museum as a fellow doing research, I feel embarrassed for the institution. First, it is very clear that Walz wasn't drawing an equivalence, he was drawing an analogy. So this kind of response reminds me of the atrocious positions that the ADL has started to carve out, and why it has become mostly a sycophantic joke, now seemingly mostly geared towards currying favor with MAGA. Not unrelatedly, I am noticing that a lot of--oftentimes even well-intentioned--people are spending time trying to delineate exactly which historical referent best captures what's going on now, as if we have to pick only one. There is the now well-circulated meme that says: no, ICE isn't the Gestapo, it's actually American--it's slave catchers. But this is a kind of odd distinction: the Nazis were themselves influenced by the Americans (if you're curious read the excellent book by James Whitman, _Hitler's American Model_). Nazis came here and studied American legal systems and statutes ... and remarkably a group of "liberal" Nazis decided that they couldn't make German laws as *extreme* as American ones (and this "liberal" group in fact won the day; German laws weren't as extreme as many of ours). Equally, Nazi jurists and theorists like Carl Schmitt were deeply influenced by American notions of manifest destiny. So the Nazi and American contexts were already fused. The idea of foreign/domestic is already quite complex in this context. (And this is before we even speak of the many actual Nazis that existed here and the many people who materially supported Hitler and the regime). We can complicate this picture more by noting that Nazism itself, even apart from these American influences, wasn't something that sprouted up out of thin air: it, too, had a(n experimental) history. Many of its barbaric practices and aims were developed and tested on colonial and imperial victims (as I have written elsewhere: there is a direct line from Shark Island concentration camp [called frequently simply "Death Island" where the Germans committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people] to the entire Nazi camp system). Thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Aimé Césaire drew our attention to this already in the middle of the last century. In noting this, let me be clear that this does not erase or make less relevant the centuries of European antisemitism that fed into the Nazi project. That's the whole point: these are all related phenomena. European antisemitism influenced the way in which European colonialism and imperialism operated against indigenous populations in the Americas. Strikingly, as innovations mounted in "administering" the Americas, antisemitic policies also evolved in Europe. Administrators (oppressors) would sometimes even move from one sphere to the other and back. They were all synergistic (a brilliant examination of some of this is María Elena Martínez's _Genealogical Fictions_). (And one could, btw, also tell an important story about the development of Islamophobia in this very same orbit, since policies stumbled on in the Americas came back to oppress both Jews and Muslims in Europe). This is all to say: Walz's analogy is not at all far fetched. The history of oppression doesn't move in any kind of neat or purely linear fashion. It is oftentimes recursive, shifting, necessarily granular. Neither is it a competitive history. It is, in the words of Michael Rothberg, a *multidirectional* history. Drawing these analogies in fact *helps* us understand all the involved phenomena better. At least this is what "Never Again" has meant and means to me: it does not mean only never again for me or other Jews. And it does not mean never again only something that looks exactly like the Nazi genocide. I think also, btw, that this is what it meant for Otto Frank, who spent time *editing* his daughter's diary so that it could be available to anyone, not only to Jews. For ultimately the Nazi genocide--any genocide--is a highly mediated phenomenon: it consists of many diffuse events, marshals an immense amount of people and institutions, relies on sometimes conflicting or contradictory cross-sections of society, and, indeed, emerges out of a process that does not neatly, especially as its happening, have a clear beginning, middle, and end, but rather arranges for itself a kind of constellation that harnesses a range of actors, perspectives, and also histories (this is one way to understand how German colonial projects or anti-communism or ableism were no less crucial to Nazism than European antisemitism). The genocidal outcomes emerge from the structural forms society adopts. And all of this without in any way eliding the special role that Jews played in the apocalyptic Nazi worldview.
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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gailsimone.bsky.social
Also, the worst actor in every Quentin Tarantino movie?

Always, always Quentin Tarantino.
January 29, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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bodegacats.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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thegodpodcast.com
They won’t reveal who Alex Pretti’s murderer is because he’s probably a pardoned J6 proud boy.
January 29, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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parismarx.com
don’t let chatgpt in the shire
Bilbo asking ChatGPT whether he should keep the ring. After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right - you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.
January 30, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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riana.bsky.social
This is huge news. I have spent the past 6 months wondering wtf was up with Amazon: they filed 380,000 AI-related CyberTipline reports to NCMEC in the first half of 2025.

Turns out ALL of it was known CSAM they found by screening their AI training data. It's NOT AI-generated or AI-morphed CSAM.
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
I know everyone is wondering so

YES, I married him for his billions of comedy newspaper dollars, and

YES, I am disappointed!!!
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h
Congrats to me. Apparently I’m married now! Not sure when this happened but I’m positive the reception was fuckin lit.
An article saying I’m married to Kat.
January 29, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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techcrunch.com
One intrepid Morgan Stanley analyst dared to ask how Apple will make money on its AI investments. The answer will not shock you.
Guys, I don't think Tim Cook knows how to monetize AI | TechCrunch
One intrepid Morgan Stanley analyst dared to ask how Apple will make money on its AI investments. The answer will not shock you.
techcrunch.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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shelleybwoke.bsky.social
Maybe the real cucks were the congresscritters we met along the way.
January 29, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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atrupar.com
I am so excited to not watch Melania's movie that I'm not watching it right now and will be not watching it all weekend!
January 29, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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dylantus.bsky.social
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Just a little cuttlefish having cuttlefish thoughts
a cuttlefish is smoking a cigarette with a tentacle holding his forehead saying "if the government shuts down again does the evil shit cause or only the good stuff
January 29, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
A Minnesota man allegedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail in New York by claiming to be an FBI agent with a court order to release him, authorities said
Man allegedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail by impersonating FBI agent: Sources
A Minnesota man allegedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail in New York, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
abcnews.go.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:57 PM
jrosenbaum.com.au
Not a day goes by that I don't think of @adamtots.bsky.social and his comic about this.
Red hat maga guy to a guy wearing an LGB without the T tshirt and a GAYS AGAINST DRAG QUEENS sign: We did it! We finally outlawed all the trans people and drag queens! Thanks for your help! Bigoted gay guy says: "So, who are we going after next? I said who's next? Who..." the smile on the maga guy gets wider and more knowing in each panel as the gay guy realizes.
January 30, 2026 at 12:15 AM
jrosenbaum.com.au
I never got to see it. We live in a very light polluted area sadly.
January 30, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE.

They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.
January 29, 2026 at 8:28 PM
jrosenbaum.com.au
Woof, just did a fact check on a video on x shared by a racist account. As part of my check I do briefly look at the comments, and the sheer racism in display was disgusting. I shouldn't be surprised on the nazi social media network and yet.
Yes it was AI.
January 30, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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jazzmyth.bsky.social
"How does Minneapolis’s immigrant community feel about receiving aid from a sex shop? Lehman explains that no one looks at the dildos on the walls when their baby needs diapers."
January 29, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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ziibiing.com
the sluts WILL save us.
The Sluts Will Save Us: The Minneapolis Sex Shop Resisting ICE
Smitten Kitten, a sex shop in Minneapolis, has become an unlikely community hub for people protesting ICE.
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January 29, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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damnyouwillis.bsky.social
okay who wished for Kpop Demon Hunters toys on the monkeys paw
January 27, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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kianamai.bsky.social
🌟"PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE I DON'T WANT TO BE A MAGICAL GIRL" EPISODE 2 🌟
"I Want to be a Normal Girl"

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31ST @ 11AM PST!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 28, 2026 at 8:30 AM