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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 2h

Hate to see a gooner down 😔

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 5h

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 5h

Hey whatever happened to the American Party are we still doing that or

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed

Blasphemous Jones @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · 2d

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."

Source:
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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 5h

This shits so fucking stupid oh my god

“Local 5 year old reports intent to become dinosaur upon reaching adulthood”

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

CEO said a thing!

Google news screenshot showing a bunch of shitty news aggregation websites parroting claims that musk's vaporware robot will end poverty and be an amazing surgeon

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h

shit looks real bleak sometimes and I don’t want to downplay how bad it is but also we had seven million people show up to protests last weekend

there are more of us than there are of them and I am simply not ready to throw in the towel

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 9h

The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 7h

The behavior of real people will always be the failure of every single centrally planned version of literally anything.

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 7h

Barring some kind of other variable like a total internet blackout or explicit abolition of free speech rights, this will happen in exactly this way. It’s already happened with FB, which is the province of boomers through elder millennials and absolutely no one else.

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 7h

Meanwhile older media formats, both online and offline, will gain steam both for informational quality and relative novelty, exactly the same way Twitter and FB did.

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 7h

Platforms themselves will be able to mask their declining user bases with AI but their failure to adapt to the audience will also make social media deeply unfashionable. It’ll lose all claim to “new media” status and just become the Lamestream Fake News Media we all know it already is.

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 7h

The reality is that “media literacy” right now means leaving certain platforms altogether. This will cause a shift in all sorts of online political economies.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 9h

Note how the Right does not deny their own agency to make normies care about things. Abortion. Immigration. "Woke." They manufactured public sentiment on all of these things. And they've relied on sophisticated strategies to do it.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18h

A very incomplete list of things we wouldn't have done if we waited for the normies to care:

- abolish slavery
- child labor laws
- votes for women
- social security
- fdic
- welfare
- medicare
- medicaid
- desegregation
- women's sports

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 8h

Things are worth what people will pay for them lol customers get to be “whiny babies” about prices as much as they want. That’s how Demand works on the graph. That’s literally what Demand is. Wtf are we doing

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 22h

I think how the term elite gets used by conservatives and some liberals and leftists has contributed to the confusion and we’re better served dealing with the elite in terms of how C. Wright Mills conceptualized it, as those in power who “occupy the strategic command posts of the social structure.”

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 22h

The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

www.npr.org

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 1d

I grew 2 small meal’s worth of black beans off 12 plants the entire season this year

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 1d

On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 1d

Get me my gaiter and sidearm I need to go full operator mode for this New York real estate billionaire obsessed with 80s popera and his new ballroom

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

This is what Republicans voted for?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

this is very satisfying to watch.

Blasphemous Jones @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · 2d

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."

Source:
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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 1d

this would sound pretty menacing if i believed he was capable of making a robot army, but he isn't so this just sounds like something a 12-year-old would say. everyone is twelve now

Jeremy White @jeremywired.bsky.social · 1d

ELON MUSK: “If we build this robot army, do I have at least a strong influence over this robot army? … I don't feel comfortable building that robot army unless I have a strong influence.” Read the full piece from @aarianmarshall.bsky.social on @wired.com www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Elon Musk Wants ‘Strong Influence’ Over the ‘Robot Army’ He’s Building

In a Tesla earnings call Wednesday, the world’s richest man pondered the future of his company’s Optimus robots—and his control over them.

www.wired.com

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

The East Wing Is On The Left If You Are Facing South, Which You Should, Because That's Where Real Americans Live, And So By Destroying It Trump Is Destroying The Left Wing, Which Is The Left Wing's Fault.

--Tomorrow in the Free Press

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

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Dr. Nneka D. Dennie @nneka.bsky.social · 4d

part of why i find the idea that certain tech is inevitable (LMS, AI, etc) to be silly is we're not far removed from the before times. we have it in recent and living memory how we function without these things. i graduated from college in 2013. we had reading packets and printed our assignments

Screenshot of Blue Sky conversation with the middle username redacted

Adrienne Massanari: I have so much grading to do, and Canvas is down because of the AWS outage.

Object lesson #1940273 that maybe forcing us all to use crappy LMS tools that are beholden to tech infrastructures controlled by Bezos et al wasn't the best idea. #acasky

Redacted: I noticed you didn't offer an alternative LMS you would rather use. I hate Besos also but unless you have a specific solution you've vetted that can scale like canvas and is impervious to downtime this comment seems like whining.

Dr. Nneka D. Dennie @nneka.bsky.social:

i wonder...how in the world did faculty teach or grade before the invention of the
LMS? i suppose there was simply no teaching or grading before the internet

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society

also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4d

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 4d

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

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