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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 16h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 16h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 20h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 23h

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.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 22h

Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps

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Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 23h

I didn't know there was a plus.
I have only ever heard people talk about Apple TV. I have never had it. No one says the "plus."

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Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 1d

Both the Full House theme and Step by Step theme seem to work for X-Men.

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Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 1d

I have to wonder, would the ACA be their plan if it did not already exist?
Are they obligated to pretend it is bad to satisfy racists?

Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 1d

I think I may have misunderstood what pedantry is.
Because whining about details and white nationalism seem to be not the sake thing to me.
Sorry for the engagement.

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Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 2d

Would you prefer the white nationalism replies?

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 3d

Too much truth in one meme

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 4d

Trying to make themselves too big to fail?
They will want a bailout.

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Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 4d

Nice.

Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 4d

Just like when President Cleveland hid that he had cancer in his mouth.

Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 4d

Why be mad?
Because they aren't funding some hypothetical better movie instead? Because the medium change is not enough reason for a remake?
People watch some stuff and they watch other stuff. I can barely feel anything for the movies let alone mad that people watch them.

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Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 4d

As my friend Eddy says,
"Citizen Kane is a boring story with camera angles."

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Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 4d

"Here is you $170 million. You will find Alan Tudyk waiting for you in the lobby, should already have the mo-cap suit on. Try to put Tom Holland in the second lead. And get one of the clones of Margo Robbie for the singer role."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 5d

I am not getting thru it as fast as I thought I would.
Strange Weather and Heart Shaped Box were to my tastes, but Fireman is just not catching me.
Maybe if I had read it during Covid when I read a few dystopia novels I would have gotten into it?

Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 5d

I think the GOP has vastly overestimated how much the general public cares about one dead racist.
People stopped caring about him getting murdered before that farce of a memorial had finished setting off the sparklers.

Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 5d

The long tail of the internet/marketing that allows for ever more niche interests to be humored as shelf space ceases to be an issue.

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Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 5d

You know, this shutdown might be the last time they get a win?
Leverage healthcare to not release the files?

Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 5d

Good?
All of these valuations are over inflated to the point of parody anyway.
Tax them till they stop being billionaires.

Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 5d

He recently did the Odyssey as the fourth book in the series.

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Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 5d

I think fear of consequences might spur them to victory or death.