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Carl Frie

@pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Random Shanghai. #shanghai #china #streetphotography
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I ate these Chengdu dumplings a few nights ago and can't stop thinking about them. Cost about 3 dollars. Shanghai's food scene is pretty amazing when you get away from the tourist traps. #shanghai
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Random Shanghai. #shanghai #china #streetphotography
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Random Shanghai. #shanghai #streetphotography
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
When I have to wait for coffee.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
After dinner chill. #booksky
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
March treats arrived. #booksky
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Hello from south Shanghai.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Someone please alert Jeff Mills.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Used to love books like these when I was a kid, generally just for the covers, but still.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Mogwai is playing in #Shanghai this Spring, along with a boatload of other #post-rock bands. Check out the lineups:
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
#booksky I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. --Flannery O'Connor
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Official Taiwanese poster for "Nausicaa" (in cinemas there on March 6). www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fuR...
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
When I wake up tomorrow morning I would like to not be embarrassed to be American, if only for a few hours.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Torture is a day in Bangkok with no desire to eat.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Sludgy Sunday soundtrack. open.spotify.com/album/0UZ4hi...
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Down With the Crown
Acid King · Single · 2014 · 3 songs
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Brain rot out in the wild: family of 5 sitting in a cafe, three kids each watching a different video on a different phone without earbuds, mom on a video call without earbuds, dad scrolling a feed on a phone and talking overall it all to no one in particular.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Random #bangkok.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Maybe it's time to go to church...
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
www.them.us/story/thaila...
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Thailand’s Public Health Ministry Will Allocate More Than $4 Million for Trans Health Care
According to the The Bangkok Post, these health services are expected to provide care for around 200,000 trans people.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Enjoy this sunset from Ao Phrao on Koh Samet #thailand.
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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
redesign of the piece that has gotten me restricted/suspended at least 4 times 😇
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Told myself I wouldn't buy books in Bangkok... #booksky #books
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Random #Bangkok.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Starting Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison with the @lifeonbooks.bsky.social bookclub.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Due to visit Mom in the US in June, really wondering what will be left by then. Legit wondering if I'll even be able to enter and leave again.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I'm on day 10 of a generic #Ozempic available and affordable here on Thailand, and I have to say this is an absolutely amazing drug. While I haven't weighed myself, I have visibly lost fat. The amazing thing is that I absolutely do not even think about food, not even coffee.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Enjoy that splash of color on the horizon. #bangkok
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Tonight's sunset at Ao Phrao on Koh Samet, Thailand. #thailand #kohsamet
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Today's distraction. #thailand #kohsamet
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The Frog Mage @thefrogmage.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Another amazing sunset on Koh Samet. #thailand
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Amazon joins Facebook, Instagram, McDonalds, Walmart, Stanley Black & Decker, Ford and Harley Davidson in the cowardly act of removing terms supporting race and LGBT+ equality from their public-facing policy documents. There's a reason the poem doesn't start "First they came for the multinationals".
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Amazon Erases LGBTQ Rights Support from Website
Shipping giant Amazon has removed statements expressing support for pro-LGBTQ policies and pro-diversity initiatives from its website.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Starting One Man's Bible by Gao Xingjian in the shade. Spoiler: it's not that Bible. #booksky
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I go from Chaotic Good to Chaotic Evil -- by any means necessary, my place shall not be lost.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Sounds like a rejected Bond plot. Unfortunately, it's reality.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Me in 4 albums.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Booksky 20 book challenge 3/20 The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis #booksky #bookskychallenge #20daybookchallenge
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/01/2025
I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks. www.ft.com/content/a0df...
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theftOpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.
The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost.
OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Be an absolute shame if his Masculine Energy powered rocket just went all the way into the great unknown. Take one for the team Elon!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025
I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Me in 4 movies.
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
#booksky #bookskychallenge Day 2 of the booksky challenge The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Just an FYI for people who may be new to the book banning stuff, when your books are banned it does not mean you’re on “the right side.” It means that your art (and probably you too) is being targeted by right wing extremists for erasure. It means you are being silenced. It’s NOT GOOD.
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Shanna Swendson @shannaswendson.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
If you like the "all you can read" idea of Kindle Unlimited but don't want to give money to Amazon, Kobo Plus is similar but more author-friendly. Here are some cozy mysteries you can get on Kobo Plus. books.bookfunnel.com/KoboPlusCozy...
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Kobo Plus Cozy Mystery Books
Searching for your next favorite story? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.
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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 26/01/2025
i can see how you would come to this conclusion if your job didn't require you to ever be correct
Nate Silver: "Thinking ChatGPT is useless is midwit. It's a magic box that answers any question you ask it from levels ranging from modestly coherent to extremely proficient. If you haven't bothered to figure it out to derive some utility out of it then you're just being lazy tbh."
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Welp. There's EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU and LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, marked as "remove from all libraries" as of October. 🙃
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world
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Carl Frie @pleasereadyourbook.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Had a really nice sunset tonight on Samet, despite it being an overcast day.
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