parsnip & star machine
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parsnip & star machine
@soowrites.bsky.social
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bilingual(🇬🇧🇰🇷) cellist/writer/lawyer poetry as contemporaneous reflection, contemplating such topics as expression, sensory inspiration, power and its abuse, community, healing & agency. sometimes painting I worked on this book: tinyurl.com/3kjjxabv
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From my parsnip soils I slowly rose
Small as gnats or just specs of dust or dirt itself
But in the fresh air and open space
Free to move, easily stunned

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Bill Gates is on BlueSky. Just .. in case you want to say something to him…
Climate change is one of the most serious challenges we face, and I’m committed as ever to supporting breakthroughs that will help the world reach net-zero. ​
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Hey look, YouTube is doing a thing that no one asked for, benefits no one, wastes resources, reduces functionality, destroys original content, burdens infrastructure, and worsens the user experience all so they can push a false narrative about tech that fundamentally doesn't work the way they want.
Youtube has announced that all low-res videos (i.e. older ones) are to be automatically AI upscaled to HD.
Creators can opt-out on a per video basis (but the channel may be long abandoned).

When researching props or behind the scenes, old videos are useful, but not if upscaling produces artefacts.
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these fuckin ass hats and going to destroy everything about the internet because they see it as a playground for their money and shitty ideas and not a place where we all escape the pain of life to create silly stuff
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Who was asking for this? This isn't a thing anyone needs or wants.
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Why oh why is this being forced on us everywhere? It's insane.
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I can almost guarantee that this is an excuse to “collect data” (steal) from videos to train a new generative video model to compete with OpenAI
My death would feel peaceful

but to contend with the weight of the death of a beloved

two, even

is such a punishing grief

I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone

So I will live

#grief #poetry #vss #death
Having had to leave a path I had been on since I was a child under excruciating circumstances

And now rejoining but after dealing with two deaths in the past six months
To feel that you must turn your back on the value of something you’ve believed in all your life

To feel forced to do so

Breaks your sense of what is and is not

#break
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You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ.

We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights.

Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal
Defend Kat Against Unjust Charges
Show your support with a contribution.
katforillinois.com
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Note: This is me — I asked this question.

You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.
Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
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So the president took a dementia test, and then they administered an MRI. Where’s the media on this?
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This isn’t a game. Some middle class families in Connecticut are going to get a $25,000 increase in health care premiums in a week. Democrats shouldn’t support a budget that does that to people - just as a means to pay for a giant tax cut for billionaires and corporations.
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One week after Trump pardoned Binance’s owner (for a stunning array of crimes related to terrorist and sex predator financing), Binance starts promoting Trump crypto.

The White House is a full time, 24/7 corruption machine.
Simple solution!
I just introduced a major bipartisan bill with Senators Hawley, Blumenthal, and Britt to stop AI companies from preying on our kids with friendship chat bots that push kids to self harm and self loathing.

What we propose is simple: ban friendship chat bots for kids under 18.
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People aren't as dumb as Republicans think. He's on an ego-tour of Asia, boycotting talks to end the shutdown, and cutting people off SNAP benefits even though there's $5B left in the contingency fund.
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There is evidence the UAE backed RSF is engaged in mass murder in El-Fashar in Darfur.

Why is the U.S. allowing the UAE - which we fund militarily - help the brutal RSF engage in mass atrocity?

FYI - this isn't just about Trump - the Biden Admin was letting this happen too.
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NPR @npr.org · 2d
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces claim they've seized the Sudanese army's last base in El Fasher, Darfur - trapping hundreds of thousands and stoking fears the country could split in two.
'Trapped and terrified': Genocide warnings after RSF's Darfur advance
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces claim they've seized the Sudanese army's last base in El Fasher, Darfur - trapping hundreds of thousands and stoking fears the country could split in two.
n.pr
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UAE backed RSF terrorist units have taken over the city of El Fasher and its airport in Darfur, Sudan. At least 260,000 people at risk of being harmed, starved, massacred and raped. The terrorists have been executing aid workers, doctors, refugees and other civilians.
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The hurricane was bad. The failure of the levees was worse. The abandonment of the people was a complete travesty. And even now people cannot return home - there are no homes to return to, no money to rebuild them.
I cried as I watched it in "real time." I will cry again.
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The self-prescribed medication from humanity to fight the existential dread of being meaningless and insignificant.
L o L

no
get a load of Trump's brain flitting from topic to topic as the troops stand there silently