are we back in medieval times cause everything sure is mid and evil illustration of a goblin on a snail

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I Am So Inspired

this is a fantastic thread, not just about how bluesky's turning into a vibecoded empty warehouse of bullshit, but how the mods of this website have all embraced outsourcing their entire jobs and more to claude, an AI for those trying to shirk the bad PR associated with AI usage

We fucking warned y’all that this was the goddamned end goal for those smart glasses.

Where's @ladyvalkyrie.bsky.social

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🪶 🤖 WEEKLY SCHEDULE 👕 ✨

It's an extra-special week as Sam Riegel's epic 24-hour charity LIVE stream kicks off this Wednesday, before a BRAND NEW Darrington Brigade one-shot arrives this Thursday evening as part of our 24 hours of chaos for a cause!

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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy! Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

#oopsie
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

Loewe Artichoke bag
#fashionsky

A VERY LARGE pinkish tardigrade on green mossy surface, all from cake.

Another shot of the cake, plus info tags.

Gotta show you this tardigrade cake I saw at the American Museum of Natural History.

I study racist politicians from the Jim Crow era and this is on par with anything that John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo, or Cotton Ed Smith ever said in public

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

I think it’s understandable to emphasize how bad Platner is, and I have fallen into this trap myself, but she is absolutely correct. gotta get this Message out

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Daisy Ridley’s Instagram Story: “The death sentences of 12,000 Palestinian prisoners have been approved. 4,000 of them are children. For wanting to live in their homeland and for defending their occupied territories, a total of 400,000 Palestinians have been martyred over the past 78 years. Now, 12,000 more people will be executed in full view of the world. The executions will take place within 90 days. Please don't be silent. If humanity doesn't rise up today, when will it? If we don't show our humanity today, when will we? Please don't stay silent. Share. Oppose these executions...”

Daisy Ridley 🫡🫡🫡🫡

the thing that's so unbelievably weird about this is that it's a dogwhistle against the culture that invented algebra

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Very poor rural women are not a terrible demo for Democrats. Trouble is, there aren't very many of them. Georgia is being won in the Atlanta suburbs, not the sticks, because that's where the people are. Outreach is good but let's not pretend 30 minutes to extract a "maybe" is a revolution.

“I just don’t see the point in memorizing a number that I basically never use,” said the 39 year old man, who can recite his Trainer ID for every Pokémon game he’s played since the release of Blue Version in 1998.
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This is a boringly accurate, purely factual description of events.

And again, this is simply not receiving the same breathless BIDEN FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN type of coverage, even though this is orders of magnitude worse on every dimension. The two parties simply are not held to the same standards.

I’ll be honest, Disney firing the entire visdev team at Marvel is making me hope Doomsday is a flop. And I hate thinking that way cause the only people who would really lose are the people still working there.

I only mention this cause every new piece of Doomsday news is like anti-hype to me.

Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants.

He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🎉🎉🎉🎉
*Does a T-pose*

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com #ArtificialIntelligence systems increasingly shape and permeate our mentality and social environments. Like every great historical transformation, this too calls not only for technical competence, but also for a humanistic formation capable of making visible the logic behind economics, embedded biases and forms of power that shape our perception of reality. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 91K Views

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons! Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 209K Views

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 696K Views

Pope Leo on AI:

“Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses.”

This short thread is worth reading:

related to tim curry’s birthday, but i happened to be thinking about this meme heavily the past couple days already

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

The Pokémon universe goes hard on ecology and climate science The Pokémon franchise, including its recent game Pokémon Pokopia, is inspired by real animals and their ecology. It’s no surprise that so many scientists love to try and “catch ’em all”

My latest for @sciam.bsky.social is all about the real biology, ecology, and climate science that is used to create the world of Pokémon, and how scientists use it to teach science in the real world.

This is just about the most fun I’ve ever had interviewing anyone, and I hope you enjoy! 🧪🌎

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

the warplanes must be silent”

- Marwan Makhoul

I remember all too well.