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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 9h

Mmmm hmmm.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d

One of the blissful things about being in Canada was the lack of pharmaceutical ads. It’s amazing how many other products exist in the world- chocolate! Laundry detergent! - that you can hear about if you’re not being told about medullary thyroid cancer

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 2d

Time for the yearly reminder for hockey play-by-play guys: if a shot goes off the post or crossbar, it ipso facto didn’t “beat the goalie”.

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 4d

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 4d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote an episode of television in 18 hours, taking into consideration actor availability, daylight shooting hours, standing sets, turnaround times, unit moves, weather cover, budget shortfalls, oh and block shooting with another episode which had already started prep. GenAI can gargle my balls.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 6d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 5d

And a cheap betrayal at that.

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 7d

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 8d

If anyone in your life doesn’t get the big deal of AI in movies or art, ask them if they would watch an AI football game or AI tennis match and if not, why not?

It will get them using their thinking-meat.

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 8d

And Durham knows a thing or two about forcing a loser case

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8d

NEW: "No career prosecutor was willing to present the case to a grand jury on Halligan's behalf." lol WONDER WHY! abcnews.go.com/US/special-c...

Ex-special counsel John Durham undercut case against James Comey in interview with prosecutors: Sources

John Durham, who investigated the Russia probe, told prosecutors probing James Comey that had been unable to uncover evidence supporting charges against him, sources say.

abcnews.go.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9d

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 9d

I bet these two geniuses didn’t need the college loan forgiveness when they were recruited.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 9d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 9d

The admiration, the bat flip, the zoom to Fried 🫡

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10d

“All of this feels ridiculous because that’s exactly what it is. But the larger goal is to inure you to the strangeness of it all so that when these products — be they movies, shows, or TikToks — finally come to market, your reaction is ‘Sure, why not?’”

Tilly Norwood is a gen AI psyop

The point is to normalize generative AI in your mind.

www.theverge.com

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 12d

The question I’m asking is when will she be put in charge of CBS News?

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 12d

Tilly Norwood raises the question of who will be the first to win an Oscar for best AI in a leading role

Tilly Norwood Is Expensive, Even for Hollywood

The “synthetic actress” may be cheaper to cast than Leonardo DiCaprio, but AI’s footprint carries major economic and environmental costs.

bloom.bg

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 12d

So another shitty condo with a room in the basement to house the books he didn’t finish coloring.

Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 12d

The property Donald Trump’s foundation got from the state for free is a developer’s dream, zoning experts said.

What’s next for Trump’s Miami high-rise presidential library?

The property Donald Trump’s foundation got from the state for free is a developer’s dream, zoning experts said.

bit.ly

Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 12d

I’ve been using @fadeinpro.com for over a decade on seven different computers and it never crashed once. Screw FD

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 12d

When did flat mid-grey become the goto color for new cars? Slap some Helvetica on that shit and we are in 80s Berlin

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 12d

Burr should do Mandel’s baby routine from the 80s if he really wants to infantilize himself for money

Howie Manuel’s baby routine from the 80s

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 12d

The majority of Americans don’t give a shit enough to vote

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12d

Americans have less faith in the ability of the country’s political system to solve problems than they had five years ago, with a large majority now believing that the U.S. is incapable of overcoming its deep divisions, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena University. nyti.ms/476StrS

A line graph titled "Most Americans Think the Country's Divisions Cannot Be Overcome, Poll Says." It shows 64% of respondents saying that America's political system is too politically divided to solve the nation's problems, and 33% saying the system can still address the nation's problems.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...