vivi
@bewinsome.bsky.social
Dogs and video games and computers and research papers.
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Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.
October 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.
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People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position 👇
(Published Dec. 2024)
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position 👇
(Published Dec. 2024)
If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...
www.propublica.org
October 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position 👇
(Published Dec. 2024)
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position 👇
(Published Dec. 2024)
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Good Morning, World.
July 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Good Morning, World.
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To AI shills & capitalist institutions, writers are simultaneously not important enough to compensate while alive and so important once dead that their machine-ghosts must be resurrected to continue the work of profit-making. Vile.
The BBC has created an electric zombie Agatha Christie in order to sell writing classes. This is stomach-churningly awful, and the sooner this stupid, useless, frankly evil bubble bursts, the better. Disgusting.
April 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
To AI shills & capitalist institutions, writers are simultaneously not important enough to compensate while alive and so important once dead that their machine-ghosts must be resurrected to continue the work of profit-making. Vile.
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I painted a cat in a bookshelf! medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper
April 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I painted a cat in a bookshelf! medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper
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Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats
April 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats
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Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
There is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
April 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
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amazing how grasping this seems in response to someone doing something, how much he needs to be able to rewrite what you saw. the lesson is to do more things
Trump reacts to Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
amazing how grasping this seems in response to someone doing something, how much he needs to be able to rewrite what you saw. the lesson is to do more things
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cops are paying for AI-generated online personas designed to collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers: truly insane story by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social and @jasonkoebler.bsky.social
www.404media.co/this-college...
www.404media.co/this-college...
This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”
www.404media.co
April 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
cops are paying for AI-generated online personas designed to collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers: truly insane story by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social and @jasonkoebler.bsky.social
www.404media.co/this-college...
www.404media.co/this-college...
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April 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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I think calling literally everything AI and muddying the waters between llm slop and stuff that's real and useful is the new frontier of destroying scientific literacy
I wouldn't trust the current regime to implement it effectively, but as a reminder, understanding chemical toxicity is something AI has actually demonstrated a capacity to do: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery - Nature Machine Intelligence
An international security conference explored how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for drug discovery could be misused for de novo design of biochemical weapons. A thought experiment evolved ...
www.nature.com
April 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I think calling literally everything AI and muddying the waters between llm slop and stuff that's real and useful is the new frontier of destroying scientific literacy
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Hey cuties, don’t forget your meds, have some water and unclench your jaw
April 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Hey cuties, don’t forget your meds, have some water and unclench your jaw
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To sum up: An estimated 5 million people protested in 50 states but the stories were deliberately relegated to the back of most major newspapers.
April 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
To sum up: An estimated 5 million people protested in 50 states but the stories were deliberately relegated to the back of most major newspapers.
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In 100 years we are going to get a definite explanation for how the dawn of The Information Age resulted in the dumbest people imaginable running the country
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he plans to tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water.
April 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
In 100 years we are going to get a definite explanation for how the dawn of The Information Age resulted in the dumbest people imaginable running the country
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Periodic reminder that you need to turn off FaceID or TouchID before reentering the United States from abroad.
Especially if you haven’t genuflected to our Dear Leader.
www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Especially if you haven’t genuflected to our Dear Leader.
www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.
www.freep.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Periodic reminder that you need to turn off FaceID or TouchID before reentering the United States from abroad.
Especially if you haven’t genuflected to our Dear Leader.
www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Especially if you haven’t genuflected to our Dear Leader.
www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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Keeping porn as a form of protected speech is crucial, bc if the gov can ban porn for being too "degenerate", they can (& will) ban anything else that they deem to be degenerate as well
(Sex ed/CSA prevention, queerness, adult couples sending nudes to each other, non-sexual artistic nudity, etc)
(Sex ed/CSA prevention, queerness, adult couples sending nudes to each other, non-sexual artistic nudity, etc)
March 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Keeping porn as a form of protected speech is crucial, bc if the gov can ban porn for being too "degenerate", they can (& will) ban anything else that they deem to be degenerate as well
(Sex ed/CSA prevention, queerness, adult couples sending nudes to each other, non-sexual artistic nudity, etc)
(Sex ed/CSA prevention, queerness, adult couples sending nudes to each other, non-sexual artistic nudity, etc)
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Nintendo can get around the tariffs by using a floating barge with claw machines just outside US waters
You can take a boat and pay $450 for unlimited attempts to win a Switch 2 from a claw machine
If you win, it counts as “personal treasure,” exempt from tariffs under maritime salvage laws
You can take a boat and pay $450 for unlimited attempts to win a Switch 2 from a claw machine
If you win, it counts as “personal treasure,” exempt from tariffs under maritime salvage laws
April 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Nintendo can get around the tariffs by using a floating barge with claw machines just outside US waters
You can take a boat and pay $450 for unlimited attempts to win a Switch 2 from a claw machine
If you win, it counts as “personal treasure,” exempt from tariffs under maritime salvage laws
You can take a boat and pay $450 for unlimited attempts to win a Switch 2 from a claw machine
If you win, it counts as “personal treasure,” exempt from tariffs under maritime salvage laws
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it feels like there is a very determined effort by games media/industry people in particular, and most of the audience in general, to simply not talk about Microsoft getting added as a priority target to BDS. not hard at all to guess why but it's still shameful
www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft
www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
www.bdsmovement.net
April 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
it feels like there is a very determined effort by games media/industry people in particular, and most of the audience in general, to simply not talk about Microsoft getting added as a priority target to BDS. not hard at all to guess why but it's still shameful
www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft
www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft
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Now is the time to refresh your memory on the meaning of "Canary in a coal mine"
April 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Now is the time to refresh your memory on the meaning of "Canary in a coal mine"
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It sure looks like they’re going all in on the “the executive branch can ignore court orders if it thinks the court lacks jurisdiction” thing
April 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It sure looks like they’re going all in on the “the executive branch can ignore court orders if it thinks the court lacks jurisdiction” thing