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Shaf-EEK 👻🎃

@shafiqi.bsky.social

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34. MD ➡️ AL ➡️ NY ➡️ AL ➡️ MD Live music and sports are fun Published author with grad degrees and certs in Health Informatics (MSHI), Management Information Systems (MSMIS), and Project Management (PMP). Should probably have a PhD in the band Phish.

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Shaf-EEK 👻🎃 @shafiqi.bsky.social · Jun 23

A thread of all the lists and labels I subscribe to for blocking and muting:

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Shaf-EEK 👻🎃 @shafiqi.bsky.social · 2m

Sorry @gavinnewsom.bsky.social FUCKING SUCKS

Shaf-EEK 👻🎃 @shafiqi.bsky.social · 3m

GAVIN NEWSOM FUCKING SUCKS

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 24m

CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.

Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete

The tech lobby kills off two key California AI bills, and why it matters. Plus: How Sam Altman played Hollywood with Sora 2, organized mass social media deletions, and more.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

Shaf-EEK 👻🎃 @shafiqi.bsky.social · 51m

Is this an AI article? wtf lol

Shaf-EEK 👻🎃 @shafiqi.bsky.social · 5h

😂😂 for sure man.

Also to be clear I think we’re on the same page. I would probably only go see them once live and be content. I’ve heard their music for over 20 years now and have never been compelled to see them

Shaf-EEK 👻🎃 @shafiqi.bsky.social · 5h

Find me a millennial who doesn’t know the words to Change Your Mind and I’ll find you a liar

Shaf-EEK 👻🎃 @shafiqi.bsky.social · 5h

Hot Fuss came out when I was in middle school and the OC was the show everyone was watching. It’s like millennial tier Blood on the Tracks by Dylan 😂

Shaf-EEK 👻🎃 @shafiqi.bsky.social · 5h

For you I’d recommend starting here. This was for the movie Control about Ian Curtis. Great cover. I would then point you to the album they put this cover on called Sawdust. It’s my favorite when the rest are more Las Vegas pop rock

The Killers - Shadowplay

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Shaf-EEK 👻🎃 @shafiqi.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone remembers the first time they heard the dragonfly lyric

Shaf-EEK 👻🎃 @shafiqi.bsky.social · 5h

Am way overdue for a re-listen of this album. Will do this today.

Shaf-EEK 👻🎃 @shafiqi.bsky.social · 5h

Up From the Skies > Spanish Castle Magic is a god tier 1-2 opening punch

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19h

No, but news media that bend over backwards to blame anyone other than the wannabe-fascists in the White House? They most definitely are.

The Age of Unhinged-Professor Art.

Universities are under attack. Is Hollywood part of the problem?

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Shaf-EEK 👻🎃 @shafiqi.bsky.social · 19h

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FAST 52 - Ocarina of Time All Dungeons Speedrun in 1:16:34 by ZFG

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Shaf-EEK 👻🎃 @shafiqi.bsky.social · 19h

How has there been no Zelda reference

merritt @merrittk.com · 20h

[pushes you down the lake berryessa glory hole spillway]

Shaf-EEK 👻🎃 @shafiqi.bsky.social · 21h

But healthcare.gov rollout was an unforgivable disaster

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 22h

New: Trump officials unveiled a tool intended to help millions of Medicare patients pick their plans, as open enrollment begins today.

But the tool — a directory that was intended to match providers with their plans — was rife with errors, The Post found.

More here w/Akilah Johnson