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Mina

@rivermets.bsky.social
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Best of luck everyone! Creator, writer, and host of Circuit Court Entertainment, still waiting for Alan and Jessie to meet (and Saga and Alex and...)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4h
remember after citizens united when everyone pretended super pacs wouldn't coordinate with politicians and would be truly independent entities? that was a fun five minutes
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 4h
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3h
We are not nearly mad enough at the state AGs who took the settlement to end the Paramount/WB merger.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 21h
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 17h
One truly awful strain of Content that I see all the time now is fake sports reels where it’s just an unassuming video of a guy reacting to football games or whatever, but if you watch long enough, you notice that they mention Kalshi every single time, and are clearly stealth ads for it.
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Mina @rivermets.bsky.social · 17h
25) Control Resonant: It's not as weird and boundary pushing as the first one, (though it does have it's moments) and some things I wish were done better, but for everything they did it is really good and strong. Great job!
Splash page for Control Resonant.  Dylan, a white man with messy long brown hair, wearing some kind of plastic covering over pants and a shirt made of similar materials, wields a very very very large hammer.  Dylan is mostly shaded in blacks and blues except for red on his back and part of the hammer that looks like blood.  Behind him is a destroyed manhattan, but it only goes up to Dylan's waist.  It has a red glow, as if on fire.  Behind everything is a cloudy sky.  A circular eclipse is behind Dylan's head, making it look like a halo.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 23h
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
forbes.com
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20h
To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try
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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 20h
A saddening look at what's happened to Shout!, from the esteemed @cranz.bsky.social. www.avclub.com/shout-factor...
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Shout! Factory put old "lost" TV directly into fans' hands—until one day it didn't
Shout! Factory put old "lost" TV directly into fans' hands—until one day it didn't
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 22h
We will need both carrot (incentives for clean energy) and stick (disincentives for fossil fuels) to follow the needed decarbonization pathway. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something — probably (directly or indirectly) fossil fuels.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
(angry goose meme) "Efficient HOW?"
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VERTICAL📼BLANKING📺INTERVAL @vertiblank.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A Hark! A Vagrant classic
Watson: Oooh, what’s that you’ve got?
Franklin: My final report
Watson: Little Rosie Franklin’s research! I bet it’s something!
Franklin: ROSALIND.
Crick: Oh, that’s a big name
W: You’re getting fancy on us! Tell me—
F: Ah. I love this game.
W: Is it a scientific breakthrough in feelings?
F: Well, I suppose I have to go into hysterics or have a baby somewhere, good day gentlemen
W: GO, GO
[W and C slip a look at F’s notes]
C: Nice
W: Quit hogging
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.
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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 22h
I've seen so many posts gleefully anticipating Jacob Geller's "why I left the left" arc. Why the fuck is any of this funny to you????
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's yet another way that men sabotage women's careers: enable networking events that are threatening, abusive, potentially catastrophically violent for women, and so women leave early. How convenient for men. Remember this when you compare career trajectories.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 05/10/2026
“Over hundreds of years, eugenics transformed into policy, practice & law, as illustrated by today’s immigration quotas, surveillance systems, detention centers & instances of modern-day slavery.” The experiences of pregnant women in ICE detention show that eugenics remains, Edith Romero reports.
prismreports.org
Pregnant women in ICE detention face policies shaped by eugenics
The experiences of detained women show that the American eugenics movement remains an integral part of the system
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 05/10/2026
Vindication for Rosalind Franklin. James Watson was a racist and sexist blowhard.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It does seem as if someone is on a mission to take every useful diagram on the internet, and produce five different AI versions of it that are all wrong, three of which are physically impossible.
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Samus But a Final Girl @samusbutagirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
file sharing was before my time, but every time i hear millennials reminisce about that era, they're always saying "yeah, it's how i got introduced to one of my favorite bands i never would've discovered otherwise, and bought their album as soon as i could afford it" streaming disincentivizes this
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The amount of constant AI resistance liberals are consuming and either consciously or unconsciously sharing is truly alarming. Graphics, memes, "writing," "songs" I don't pay that much attention but every time I check in it is just a ceaseless flood of brainrot and I think it's...a pretty big issue
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🩷Mari Calamari🩷 @maricalamari.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I swear one of my favourite things in Kingdom Hearts, that I kinda wish more long running series did, is having secret bosses that are meant to foreshadow future games & characters
Unknown from Kingdom Hearts Final MixLingering Will from Kingdom Hearts II Final MixMysterious Figure from Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop DistanceYozora from Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind
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Mina @rivermets.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Darkwing Duck: DD is has a motorcycle accident, is killed, and went to Hell. I turned it off there. I turned it back on with 1 minute left and watched Satan come out of the oven to ask for something implying the "All a dream" was fake. ... I didn't watch it again until I got the DVD years later
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.
His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This thing was doing Michael Jordan numbers
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Mina @rivermets.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I wouldn't be surprised if the "Score" played a part. First Silent I saw was Phantom of the Opera (25) fantastic movie, but just 2 classical pieces played over and over and at one point they switch mid scene. Saw one with a live Organ and had a GREAT time. Backing choices matter.
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think it's weird a critic I muted for being a generally bad, "doesn't actually say much meaningful" writer with good presentation skills is getting defended for doing something heinous as if his work was even good enough to justify "let's just smooth this over so my consumption is comfortable"
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Mina @rivermets.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So, I do collect dolls, mostly playline and it's... a bit frustrating. Monster High and some MGA playline dolls are FANTASTIC, but most of the budget goes to collector lines. Which doesn't always match the playline of the 90's. It's a problem. Dolls are toys and meant for all ages and budgets.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ah so this is what's going to make me very angry today
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...
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I Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In
erkeley, California
SE GYGES
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These people shouldn’t make policy.
There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety
discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi
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translator of the highest-rated game of all time @yukinogatari.moe · 02/10/2026
despite it looking like normal CR work something went horribly wrong somewhere in the pipeline bc the subtitles cut out anytime there's a sign lol
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Jinxtor @jintor.itch.io · 03/10/2026
Heard complaints about the latest maomao...
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Mina @rivermets.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
GET TO HIM so he can get some catharsis involving how humanity is cruel and how an entire species is now extinct due to incredibly unintended effects of his actions. It's pretty good for a show aimed at 10 year old girls.
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Cure Nyammy Yuki Nekoyashiki
Alt: Cure Nyammy Yuki Nekoyashiki - a girl with white hair and a white and blue dress, dodging pink lasers before landing on some kind of large black crow.
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Mina @rivermets.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pretty Cure gets overlooked for fights sometimes but Soaring Sky did well but the last bit of Wonderful is FANTASTIC, especially since a constraint of the series is the Cure's just use nets, shields, and animal transformations so they are less trying to beat the big bad, but instead trying to
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Mina @rivermets.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Overlooked Winter Soldier fight sequence is when TWS first appears. Everyone talks about the elevator. What about the physicality and knives and active shield use there with the droning sound track them just BARELY winning, if you can call it that.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The sheer number of insiders pointing out that security culture at AI companies is broken combined with the number of incidents would, usually, translate into enormos punitive damages awards. Yet, so far, nothing www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology
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Elizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Rory aka Mrs. Asina 🧪 ❄️🐦‍⬛ @guttersnipe.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Happy October 3rd no matter which version you celebrate
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
Reason n+1 not to post things about children
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 03/10/2026
Congress should also make clear that Anti-Deficiency Act violations (moving /spending taxpayer money for something not authorized by Congress) will be vigorously investigated.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 03/10/2026
This is why folks should not waste time designing the perfect and optimized system of higher education and R&D investment. That’s unnecessary when an underinvested system is under attack. We should start by setting core guiding objectives and tripling the investment, and adjust as needed.
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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gonna be honest, gang. The moment you convince people you can make a machine who is conscious and capable of suffering, that is the moment you should be introduced to John Brown's blade for thinking you can sell that person.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Man when this shit bottoms out in a year and all these shit services get cancelled I just wonder what's going to happen to all these people who got too reliant on them
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
See, this is the thing They don't give a fuck about the art of animation, they don't care about the process or anything. They see a thing that people enjoy, and insert themselves in and take it over, to colonize it. They want to be loved like people love artists. That's all
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
seriously, the number of publishers who've said "i'm sorry, you want to pay people a living wage? no, that's far too much. we'll take half all profit to post about you" is like, that's not a publisher, that's a parasite. you can hire a PR firm for a fraction of that and they'll do better
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P.A. Bastien @pabastien.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It is. The data economy of silicon valley went to major corporations and produced a series of reports saying that advertisements have a HARD CAP of how many buyers brought in per dollar spent, and since then its been a game of trying to min max results based on a pivot to video style scam
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Uncomfortable Creatures @lewdcreatures.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Shit like this has fueled my conspiracy theory that mass data theft/harvesting for the purposes of tracking people to create more effective advertising is one of the biggest, longest running grifts in the history of the internet. Where is it? Its been decades since they started doing it!
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i literally only found out that reacher season 4, one of my most anticipated shows, was out about half way through its run. I saw the Neagley trailer first!
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𝚂𝙿𝙾𝚁𝙺𝙱𝙾𝙾𝚃 @sporkboot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
you can just make new characters. like move on. all new guys. no skywalkers, or palpatine, you know. like expand out a bit.
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