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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 13h

listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They cited nobody, and I wondered what kind of a monstrous sociopath would welcome this. Folks,

While the Trump administration is framing the policy as “accountability” for higher education, and _some are welcoming the move_, others see it as an attack on those whose work is important regardless of salary.

Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias
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This seems like a reasonable idea with precedent from
Obama's education department.
The government shouldn't be in the business of encouraging
people to take loans they won't be able to repay.
(IN The New Republic © @newrepublic • 18h
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don't make
enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social
work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit
the hardest. trib.al/NmmAzhf
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.

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Johnny Guitar @jon2bad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Going to put a Colin Simmons decal on the back of my Silverado

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🌕🐇 Sashi 🏴🚩 @moonrabbit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

iFuck yeah, i did replacement right: it says "remove the first four letters and add Fuck" not "replace ... with Fuck". this is why i was paid for my programming capabilities prior to my defrocking for refusing to bend knee to the babbling idiot parrot god.

the meme going around at the time of post: remove the first four letters from your name and add Fuck.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There it is

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Ganser @ganserband.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

still find this so funny

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Johnny Guitar @jon2bad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Would you bring a G&T to a job interview?

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Johnny Guitar @jon2bad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can't bone saw your way out of this jam

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think it's very simple, the bosses agreed with Trump about "wokeness" and this was an excuse to purge anything associated with it bsky.app/profile/trac...

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

you could make a lot of this mania vanish by making college free. the worst parents think they're working a new market inefficiency by making their kid out-hustle the "lazy" kids. but even chill parents are holding a psychological lotto ticket that their kid puts up numbers that end in scholarships

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Johnny Guitar @jon2bad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've got Kim Fowley "bubblegum" stuck in my head. What have I find done to deserve this?

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

we have to send her back to change our future guys. she’s our only hope

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Gregory Waller @wallywx92.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Kentucky came in and intimated the Ags, probably talking about Plato and pre-teen books with rainbows and unicorns. But at least the Ags can still wear their camo unis for Arkansas.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

1/ Watching Trump radicalize the full spectrum DC press corps by threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center is quite something.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026

NEW: @amnesty.org says Ahmed Soliman & another man, Samson Birhane, had bags put on their heads, were beaten when arrested in Equatorial Guinea. They demand their immediate release. Both lived in the US since they were kids, ICE expelled them unlawfully. TAKE ACTION: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

amnesty.org

Equatorial Guinea: Risk of torture for unlawfully detained men: Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane - Amnesty International

On 11 September, the Equatorial Guinea authorities unlawfully arrested Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane, accusing them of “breaking a mirror” at a hotel in Malabo, where the two had been arbitrarily h...

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"We need a Joe Rogan of the Left" (Monkey Paw Curls)

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 17/09/2026

“Aella is fighting gyges about if ai safety is just a sex cult” You bolt awake. You are not online. It is 1415. You are Charles d’albret, and you have seen the future. It cannot come to pass. The English army must be destroyed.

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am going to become the Joker

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 15/09/2026

Chuck Grassley melancholically banging his gavel during this tirade is very funny.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 14/09/2026

everyone i talked to was like "Yeah they should be able to get a least some capacity moving within a week" and then they remembered that aramco is run by not just failsons, but saudi failsons

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i think this is the best epitaph for bin laden i have ever seen

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I bought this sign a few years later at the going out of business sale of a locally owned restaurant in, I think, North Haven CT.

metal sign with stick-on lettering reading NO FRENCH PRODUCTS SOLD HERE/"GOD BLESS AMERICA"

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My guess is that AI is potentially dangerous in many ways. On the other hand, I just asked several different chatbots to find the quote where Ahmed Chalabi said Iraq was worse off under the US than Saddam. They all denied he said this & then grumpily asked what my source was. Maybe we have time.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This article is what's called a "beat sweetener," where access journalists write a story that's extremely flattering to one of their sources in order to keep the line open www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...

nytimes.com

Behind the Scenes, Vance Gathered Unvarnished Views of the Iran War

Vice President JD Vance received sobering assessments about the war that did not line up with what he, President Trump and other top administration officials were saying publicly.

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Jimmy Two Hands (summerjimbo era) @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

*extremely dramatic Guy Picciotto voice* Chiliiiiii’s baby back ribs Chili’s baby back ribs *guttural yet melodic Ian McKaye voice* BARBECUE SAUCE

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Johnny Guitar @jon2bad.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Garbage company ever since jobs shut down clones

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

when can i put a tech bro in here and torment him

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 04/09/2026

“Education has refigured itself—and not particularly well—to serve the demands of policymakers and students demanding job-focused majors.” thebaffler.com/latest/class...

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Class Dismissed | Hannah Gais

Private liberal arts schools were never going to kickstart the revolution. But the closure of Hampshire College further narrows the political imaginary.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“then one of the firemen, tears in his eyes, said ‘sir, you now have the tallest building in New York’”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Literally every time I turn on ESPN radio there's a gambling ad. Every time. It's wild. It's either a gambling ad or the program itself which also has gambling ads read by the hosts. There's no other kinds of ads anymore. And we know this shit is destroying people. They write about it all the time

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

and I guess my thing is “was sports unprofitable”? Was ESPN losing money, was the NFL losing money, was any of your business not working? Just seems wrong to fuck it all up!

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TrekRanks =/\= EnterpriseExtra @trekranks.com · 08/09/2026

Using an image, show an episode of #StarTrek you are sure you've seen more than 10 times.

(A screen shot of all 176 episodes of TNG playing at once.)

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 08/09/2026

So, it turns out today is actually the 20 year anniversary of the Facebook "newsfeed" Australia is putting forward legislation to create an "off switch" for algorithms, allowing users to opt-out of recommended content and targeted ads on social media platforms

niemanlab.org

Twenty years into the Facebook News Feed era, Australia wants to turn back the clock

Want your favorite social media platform to just show you your friends' posts — not a bunch of unrelated things it thinks you'll like? Australia wants to make that mandatory.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

(standing in front of the "not getting a lot done" factory) i hope i get a lot done today

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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 08/09/2026

this was all preventable. even before the warning from the uae, this was preventable by treating palestinians with dignity and recognizing their human and civil rights. none of this ever had to happen.

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