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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 2h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 10h

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 2h

which everyone just sorta agreed was a more credible threat on account of how his kids were black, and it's just well-established that sometimes bad things happen to black kids when the cops touch them

hmm hmm

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 2h

remember that time it sounded like de blasio might do some light police reform so the cops spent all their time threatening to abduct and possibly murder his kids

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 1d

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.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2h

One of the best things you can do for yourself is embrace the fact that some things you like aren't very good and may even be trash

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2h

Her notes for the Senate Judiciary Committee had nothing to do with leading the DOJ, or even the embattled border czar. Rather, Bondi had collected screenshots of social media posts, prewritten comebacks, and handwritten notes she hoped could give her a good “gotcha” moment.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 2h

does a standard harem protagonist little run that pisses you off

a screenshot of the 2019 sakura wars game that tells you how to move the main character, kamiyama, around

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 2h

Enormous amounts of Breaking Bad in the training data

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Unsurpassed Travesty @travestyhat.bsky.social · 3h

Does anyone know *why* ai slop imagery biases to this weird beige color?

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 3h

i think that's also why the middle guy is just some kind of professor

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 3h

imagining a scenario where you've been playing D&D for three months and you finally learn that this is how everyone else has been imagining each other's characters the whole time

Der Waffle Mous, but Spooky. @derwafflemous.bsky.social · 3h

Like you'd figure that using ai art for a 5e adventure is already a real low bar for lazyness but "yeah lets just leave the piss filter in for the picture we're using the promote the project" makes it go subterranean.

kickstarter for the great creme-atorium caper, a 5e module. Project image is of an angry gnome with crossed arms, a clean cut purplish elf with glasses and a vest reading a book, and a ninja standing in front of a building with an ice cream cone on top called "the creme-atorium"

everything is filtered piss yellow.

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Der Waffle Mous, but Spooky. @derwafflemous.bsky.social · 3h

Like you'd figure that using ai art for a 5e adventure is already a real low bar for lazyness but "yeah lets just leave the piss filter in for the picture we're using the promote the project" makes it go subterranean.

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 3h

south korea had a failed coup attempt where the right-wing shitbag president actually sent troops to seize the legislature, and people stopped it and now there's a whole legal thing

in the u.s. the auto-coup failed much more readily and yet the supposed adults in the room decided to "move on"

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 3h

so what that looks like is you charge the president for a bunch of crimes he committed, and if the supreme court says "silly billy, the president can't commit crimes" you just kinda have to call their bluff and do it anyway

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 4h

A mistake to see the Republican majorities in Congress as “abdicating.” They want the same things, the same substantive political agenda, as the executive and their acquiescence to the president’s leadership is a form of _action_, not passivity

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

Per WSJ, the Trump regime and Bannon are bragging they’re “ruling Congress with an iron fist” and that it is “largely ceremonial” like the Russian Duma.

Shameful. Not what the founders intended. 🇺🇸 @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 4h

Has anyone in history almost been certainly killed more than this dude, simultaneously the most targeted and luckiest man in the world

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 6h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 6h

lol liars, every one. Chicago cops threatened to quit if Brandon Johnson was elected mayor. Police union leader LITERALLY threatened "blood in the streets," saying between 800 to 1,000 would walk.

Guess what never happened.

And even if they'd made good on that threat... OK??? BYE????

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5h

the spice extends life, expands consciousness

Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 5h

Enjoying your catnip there, little buddy?

Calico rolling in catnip set out on a paper plate. Eyes wide. She is soooo stoned.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13h

They like him and want to help him.

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Silo64 @silo64.bsky.social · 8h

This is fucking demented these big tech companies are just completely out of their fucking minds.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14h

"Slashdot: What's the reason OneDrive tells users this setting can only be turned off 3 times a year?

[Microsoft's publicist chose not to answer this question.]"

Microsoft's OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users) - Slashdot

I uploaded a photo on my phone to Microsoft's "OneDrive" file-hosting app — and there was a surprise waiting under Privacy and Permissions. "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos.....

slashdot.org

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 10d

Advertisers know that what your friends think is far more important to your purchasing decisions than ads are. No wonder they're trying to substitute bots for your friends

Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 11d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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haunted mentions @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 6h

i don’t know. the ideas he was getting from his circle about how to get to heaven can’t have been good ones either. there’s a credible argument that it’s best he stop trying

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