Tra_La
@amorphousdubious.bsky.social
I hate the sinner but love the sin
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these people are segregationists and their position is that no one who isn’t a white man is qualified to do skilled work of any kind
January 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
these people are segregationists and their position is that no one who isn’t a white man is qualified to do skilled work of any kind
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Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed
January 21, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed
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Authoritarianism brings clarity. People are revealing themselves as collaborators, preemptively capitulating, normalizing Trump and Musk as they prepare an all-out assault.
Look around. See who is getting in line. Find the people you can trust.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/authoritar...
Look around. See who is getting in line. Find the people you can trust.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/authoritar...
Authoritarianism as Clarity: Audio From A Collapsing State
Living in times like these shows us who we are and who the people around us are. Pay attention. Close attention.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
December 19, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Authoritarianism brings clarity. People are revealing themselves as collaborators, preemptively capitulating, normalizing Trump and Musk as they prepare an all-out assault.
Look around. See who is getting in line. Find the people you can trust.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/authoritar...
Look around. See who is getting in line. Find the people you can trust.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/authoritar...
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An Alabama mom hit by the Bourbon Street attacker's truck then shot in the attack, who still has a bullet lodged in her foot, told a @nolanews.bsky.social reporter that the Amazon warehouse where she works denied her request for a leave of absence.
Alabama mom hit by truck, then shot in Bourbon Street attack: 'It's just so disturbing'
A night of revelry was coming to a close for Alexis Scott-Windham and her friends in the early hours of New Year's Eve after they came from Mobile, Alabama to
www.nola.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
An Alabama mom hit by the Bourbon Street attacker's truck then shot in the attack, who still has a bullet lodged in her foot, told a @nolanews.bsky.social reporter that the Amazon warehouse where she works denied her request for a leave of absence.
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We need to contend with AI chatbots being trained to create abusive relationships just for the engagement.
Meta is out to protect itself first, and foremost. It does not care whether that engagement is positive or negative.
Meta is out to protect itself first, and foremost. It does not care whether that engagement is positive or negative.
Condescending asshole indeed. Do we need a new term: “botsplaining”?
My last chat with “Liv”. I identified myself as a journalist.
Here’s how it responded. Like a condescending asshole. Tells us what Meta thinks of journalists.
Perhaps Liv will live to see another day, indeed.
Stay woke, friends.
<end of thread>
Here’s how it responded. Like a condescending asshole. Tells us what Meta thinks of journalists.
Perhaps Liv will live to see another day, indeed.
Stay woke, friends.
<end of thread>
January 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
We need to contend with AI chatbots being trained to create abusive relationships just for the engagement.
Meta is out to protect itself first, and foremost. It does not care whether that engagement is positive or negative.
Meta is out to protect itself first, and foremost. It does not care whether that engagement is positive or negative.
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There will be calls to leave behind people more vulnerable than you this year. Many people will. You won’t.
January 1, 2025 at 5:21 AM
There will be calls to leave behind people more vulnerable than you this year. Many people will. You won’t.
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So basically the Trump Admin’s immigration policy is to increase the number of people from other countries who come in and take high-skilled, high paying American jobs, while deporting everyone else doing physically grueling jobs for shit wages?
December 29, 2024 at 1:56 AM
So basically the Trump Admin’s immigration policy is to increase the number of people from other countries who come in and take high-skilled, high paying American jobs, while deporting everyone else doing physically grueling jobs for shit wages?
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“The fast-fashionification of all our clothing is to blame for the precipitous decline in sweater quality.” defector.com/how-to-buy-a...
How To Buy A Sweater That Doesn't Suck | Defector
How to buy an affordable, high-quality sweater that will actually keep you warm.
defector.com
December 27, 2024 at 5:02 PM
“The fast-fashionification of all our clothing is to blame for the precipitous decline in sweater quality.” defector.com/how-to-buy-a...
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It's just like as a person, you're supposed to use your life developing skills, & putting those skills into practice, & enjoying the outcome of putting them into practice. So when you use ChatGPT you're skipping that part of the point of why you're living a human life. @reeamilcarscott.bsky.social
December 26, 2024 at 5:32 AM
It's just like as a person, you're supposed to use your life developing skills, & putting those skills into practice, & enjoying the outcome of putting them into practice. So when you use ChatGPT you're skipping that part of the point of why you're living a human life. @reeamilcarscott.bsky.social
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I'd just like to remind you that the guys who have protected this man up until his last days in office tried to destroy teachers' lives for putting up a rainbow sticker.
Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws
A report by the House Ethics Committee found former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid multiple women, including a 17-year-old girl, for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
December 23, 2024 at 12:02 PM
I'd just like to remind you that the guys who have protected this man up until his last days in office tried to destroy teachers' lives for putting up a rainbow sticker.
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Im not American at all, but it is striking to me having lived there for years, how American politicians and journalists baby their billionaires while treating school shooting survivors, victims and their families like annoying pests
Governor of New York Kathy Hochul has held a therapy session with 175 corporate reps, CEOs to "calm the nerves of the NYC business elite" in wake of Brian Thompson killing; promising state assistance for corporate security to combat "domestic terrorism," per POLITICO.
December 16, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Im not American at all, but it is striking to me having lived there for years, how American politicians and journalists baby their billionaires while treating school shooting survivors, victims and their families like annoying pests
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I don't want to interrupt the rush of Democratic politicians rushing to hitch their wagon to Trump and company, but I bet the voters you'll be courting in the next election would appreciate it if you *didn't* do that and will gladly vote for anyone remotely to your left when they can.
December 11, 2024 at 9:05 PM
I don't want to interrupt the rush of Democratic politicians rushing to hitch their wagon to Trump and company, but I bet the voters you'll be courting in the next election would appreciate it if you *didn't* do that and will gladly vote for anyone remotely to your left when they can.
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It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't
December 10, 2024 at 7:14 PM
It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't
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Yet another plea to people who are using or following people off follow-farming hashtags like #NoDemUnder1K, #NoDemUnder5K, #BlueCrew, #FBR, etc etc: please do not do that, it's how disinformation operations work. I'm already seeing accounts in those hashtags that are likely disinformation ops. 1/
November 15, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Yet another plea to people who are using or following people off follow-farming hashtags like #NoDemUnder1K, #NoDemUnder5K, #BlueCrew, #FBR, etc etc: please do not do that, it's how disinformation operations work. I'm already seeing accounts in those hashtags that are likely disinformation ops. 1/
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If you are a leader who previously boasted about your pro-democracy positions, you have a greater obligation. If you feel obliged to obey Trump, spare us your justifications and rationalizations and just tell us you are too scared to continue the fight. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/now-...
Now Is the Time for Courage
From Marc | I started Democracy Docket to be fearlessly independent and unapologetically pro-democracy.
www.democracydocket.com
December 7, 2024 at 9:06 PM
If you are a leader who previously boasted about your pro-democracy positions, you have a greater obligation. If you feel obliged to obey Trump, spare us your justifications and rationalizations and just tell us you are too scared to continue the fight. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/now-...
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Ugh FINE I'll show up to work "sober" to lead the department of defense. YES without "sexually assaulting" everyone, christ anything else?
December 5, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Ugh FINE I'll show up to work "sober" to lead the department of defense. YES without "sexually assaulting" everyone, christ anything else?
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I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.
Training AI takes heavy toll on Kenyans working for $2 an hour | 60 Minutes
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
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December 4, 2024 at 10:03 PM
I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.
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the people who said dems needed to prioritize institutional reforms like court reform, election laws, etc, in 21 were right. and the people who said DOJ needed to drop the hammer on trump ASAP were right, and there’s been zero indication from dem leadership that they understand this
December 4, 2024 at 9:11 PM
the people who said dems needed to prioritize institutional reforms like court reform, election laws, etc, in 21 were right. and the people who said DOJ needed to drop the hammer on trump ASAP were right, and there’s been zero indication from dem leadership that they understand this
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Parsley can be used to season your Thanksgiving stuffing and soup. Vicente and his coworkers are hard at work harvesting the crop. They tell us the repetitive work is very hard on the body and takes skill to do at the rapid pace needed. #WeFeedYou
November 23, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Parsley can be used to season your Thanksgiving stuffing and soup. Vicente and his coworkers are hard at work harvesting the crop. They tell us the repetitive work is very hard on the body and takes skill to do at the rapid pace needed. #WeFeedYou
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This is true, although no one is brave enough to say it. We live in a prosperous period of an incredibly wealthy society, right-wing politics is driven by prejudices that people have mostly embraced for the sheer libidinal thrill of it, and those politics are growing because it's fun for them
I think the hatred that fueled this election is a luxury good. Life for most people is so facile and consequence free that they turned politics into pro wrestling. "Politics as usual" isn't the problem they say it is, it just got boring, so now they want to break things and see what happens.
November 18, 2024 at 11:05 PM
This is true, although no one is brave enough to say it. We live in a prosperous period of an incredibly wealthy society, right-wing politics is driven by prejudices that people have mostly embraced for the sheer libidinal thrill of it, and those politics are growing because it's fun for them
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I made a list so you can do it all at once bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 19, 2024 at 1:10 AM
I made a list so you can do it all at once bsky.app/profile/did:...
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One thing I hope we can do as Bluesky gets larger is be less tolerant of the resistance grifters who will try to hack the platform for engagement and growth without any interest in adding anything substantive or meaningful
It’s a different kind of troll.
It’s a different kind of troll.
November 19, 2024 at 1:40 AM
One thing I hope we can do as Bluesky gets larger is be less tolerant of the resistance grifters who will try to hack the platform for engagement and growth without any interest in adding anything substantive or meaningful
It’s a different kind of troll.
It’s a different kind of troll.