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Matt Morrison
@senseistarman.com
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Librarian. Freelance writer/editor and comics historian. Cosplayer. General Know-It-All and Doctor of Many Things. KabOOOOOm.
SuperHeroHype. No Flying, No Tights. Opinions are my own.
He/him. https://linktr.ee/senseistarman
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Matt Morrison @senseistarman.com · Jan 20
Just cancelled all my Prime and Audible subscriptions.

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robdelaney.bsky.social
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Sanders: The wealthiest people on earth are pouring hundreds of billions into research and development for AI and robotics. You think they’re doing that because they’re thinking, “Oh man, this is going to be something that will improve life for working people, for low-income people.”?
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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senseistarman.com Matt Morrison @senseistarman.com · Jan 20
Just cancelled all my Prime and Audible subscriptions.

Trying out Libro which lets you download audio books and support local book stores.

Also, if you sign up for a Libro subscription now, you can get two free audio books. Just use the promo code SWITCH.

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November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
senseistarman.com
You know... I think a real Blue Resister wouldn't use a picture of Mel Gibson as their icon to present themselves to the world.
Screenshot of clear bot account hijacking one of my posts.
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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adamtranter.bsky.social
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:

Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
senseistarman.com
Why would Trump be warning the human traffickers if he weren't working with them?
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h
Might be kicking off.
Donald J. Trump O+ @realDonaldTrump To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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jesbattis.bsky.social
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
senseistarman.com
I read this in Werner Herzog's voice.
theisb.bsky.social Chris Sims @theisb.bsky.social · 1d
The hated Elf on a Shelf, a wretched monstrosity crafted to spite God, greed given cold, dead flesh. Hollow eyes that murder joy and call happiness a sin.
November 29, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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feenavan2099.bsky.social
"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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littlekuriboh.bsky.social
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them

A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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jgryph0n.bsky.social
Hey just so you know Amazon decided to give us an AI ENGLISH DUB of Banana Fish instead of actually hiring real voice actors
it is fucking hot garbage
#bananafish #anime
Language information for the Banana Fish anime on Amazon Prime, it lists the english dub being AI beta
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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indivisible.org
Friends don’t let friends buy from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
(next to a crossed out Home Depot logo) “Home Depot has allowed its parking lots to become ground zero for ICE raids on immigrant day laborers, and its billionaire co-founder Bernie Marcus has funneled millions into Trump's campaigns.” (next to a crossed out Target logo) “Target, which once branded itself as the friendly, inclusive big-box store, has now scrapped its DEl goals and scaled back LGBTQ+ offerings to avoid angering the regime.” (next to a crossed out Amazon logo) “Amazon didn't just shower Trump's inauguration with cash -- Jeff Bezos' company pitched facial-recognition tools to ICE and powers the Palantir systems ICE uses to track and deport immigrants, making Amazon a core contractor for the regime's deportation machine.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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neilcohn.bsky.social
It's my book's release day! The Patterns of Comics is now officially published, featuring an extended data-driven analysis of the structures used in 350+ comics from Asia, Europe, and North America analyzing diversity, regularity, and change over time www.visuallanguagelab.com/poc
The book The Patterns of Comics by Neil Cohn Interior page from The Patterns of Comics by Neil Cohn Back cover of The Patterns of Comics by Neil Cohn
December 28, 2023 at 1:18 PM
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sarahamero.bsky.social
Hi! I'm someone who has the audacity to be brown and autistic on the Internet, and I wrote this piece because I'm also too audacious to care about whether I make certain people uncomfortable. It's not about you! But if you THINK it's about you, then it most definitely is. Hope this helps!
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
Everyone needs to buy loo roll.

Might as well buy it & put 100% of profits into causes for social good, huh? 😊😊

And bonus! One of the orgs benefiting from your dry fanny will be the brilliant @migrantvoice.bsky.social 🧻🧻

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A toilet roll where 100% of the profits fund fairer housing, climate action and workers' rights
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November 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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scott1gray.bsky.social
This 1934 image of Mussolini is about as Darkseid as it gets.
#comics #JackKirby
An image of dictator Benito Mussolini from 1934 Italy.
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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greenparty.org.uk
Hope is here.

Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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caulimovirus.bsky.social
alan sokal became a folk hero for scientists when he published a gibberish paper in a non-peer reviewed humanities journal to prove the humanities lack discipline or whatever and now science journals are publishing ai slop after ai slop and the technofetishists are insisting we must use more slop
November 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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daiz.moe
After publishing this article, I've heard from many that CR seems to be using AI to produce dub CCs. Now, thanks to a slip-up CR had with episode 6 dub of The Banished Court Magician, we can say that with 100% certainty: Crunchyroll is using the AI service Ollang.com for its dub closed captions!
Screenshot from ollang.com: "The localization platform for your global expansion - Effortlessly localize your text, video, and audio content at scale with flexible agentic AI workflows."
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
senseistarman.com
So... AI is like the villains on #MST3K?
November 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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dieselbrain.bsky.social
#SaveSpeech

The call campaign is having an effect! The pressure right now is integral, if you are making calls, PLEASE KEEP CALLING. If you havent called yet or took a break, now is a GREAT time to hop on and add to the pressure!
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Multiple women came forward and their complaints were ignored.

This is the culture Hegseth wants to foster.

He doesn’t want women to be safe.

He won’t let them come forward anonymously.

Rape culture is alive and well.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Army OB-GYN accused of secretly recording women under his care
This week, the U.S. Army has been reckoning with a sexual abuse scandal that could involve the largest number of allegations in its history. An Army doctor is accused of abusing women who were under h...
www.pbs.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM