George A. LaBonty
@galabonty.bsky.social
Public defender, film nerd, philosophy fan
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Shadow of the Colossus (2005)
mas é óbvio que ele iria se arriscar pra ir tirar um cochilo no melhor lugar
December 8, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Shadow of the Colossus (2005)
In the 2000s and 2010s there was a sort of philosophical public debate over whether drones are actually meaningfully different than other types of warfare or if aversion to them over boots on the ground is ultimately just so much masculine posturing/cult of the operator bs, but...
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
In the 2000s and 2010s there was a sort of philosophical public debate over whether drones are actually meaningfully different than other types of warfare or if aversion to them over boots on the ground is ultimately just so much masculine posturing/cult of the operator bs, but...
As with crypto, ai seems like essentially an attempt to "correct" for historically low energy costs, like the fact that electricity is both widely needed and extremely cheap is a market inefficiency that they want to find a way to "fix" by finding a way to eat up "excess" supply
AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.
A few important points here
- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false
- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false
- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
December 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
As with crypto, ai seems like essentially an attempt to "correct" for historically low energy costs, like the fact that electricity is both widely needed and extremely cheap is a market inefficiency that they want to find a way to "fix" by finding a way to eat up "excess" supply
Dude I was 12 in 2008 listening to racist neighbors do the hard emphasis on Obama's middle name, now I'm almost 30 and we're still doing it?
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Dude I was 12 in 2008 listening to racist neighbors do the hard emphasis on Obama's middle name, now I'm almost 30 and we're still doing it?
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You never want to hit someone with the nuclear "As stated previously" in an email but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
You never want to hit someone with the nuclear "As stated previously" in an email but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do
Well this is a nightmare
so it begins
December 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Well this is a nightmare
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i think the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is a big part of how we got where we are.
Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Review: Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Political journalist Olivia Nuzzi has dazzled the media with scandals, but her prose is less sparkling. Her much-anticipated new memoir is rife with arrogance and thin on sourcing.
www.latimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
i think the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is a big part of how we got where we are.
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Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
Anyone told Jake tapper?
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Anyone told Jake tapper?
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bummer situation but grim lol at this exception on the epic games store
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
bummer situation but grim lol at this exception on the epic games store
When Picasso saw the cave paintings at lascaux he said "we have invented nothing" that's how I feel about these prehistoric posts lol
Always love when you see that people are always just people everywhere and in every time
From the Barnard college newspaper in 1935:
December 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
When Picasso saw the cave paintings at lascaux he said "we have invented nothing" that's how I feel about these prehistoric posts lol
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The third Quake Brutalist Jam wraps up next week. One of my most-wanted FPS releases this year. A near total conversion (a mix of new and redesigned enemies) supporting a pile of one-shot adventures with only one requirement: Gotta have lots of concrete.
The results look to be shockingly varied!
The results look to be shockingly varied!
quake brutalism jam update. starting playtests now (grab it in the discord if you want to help) and then gonna squeeze in a final polish / set dressing pass before the deadline
December 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The third Quake Brutalist Jam wraps up next week. One of my most-wanted FPS releases this year. A near total conversion (a mix of new and redesigned enemies) supporting a pile of one-shot adventures with only one requirement: Gotta have lots of concrete.
The results look to be shockingly varied!
The results look to be shockingly varied!
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Piet Mondrian, Tableau I: Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray, 1926
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134997
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134997
December 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Piet Mondrian, Tableau I: Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray, 1926
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134997
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134997
Frankly I think within at least some bounds of reason, this behavior would be out of pocket even if the failing grade *wasn't* deserved at all
and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Frankly I think within at least some bounds of reason, this behavior would be out of pocket even if the failing grade *wasn't* deserved at all
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and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.
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oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes
November 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes
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Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.
MAGA legal world, man…
Gorsuch and Grassley should be so proud.
Gorsuch and Grassley should be so proud.
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.
Like... One of the first things you realize if you think seriously about nuclear proliferation is that it's not actually that hard to "design" a nuclear bomb. The knowledge of what it takes to make one is largely already available and is an inherent byproduct of basic college level physics
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Like... One of the first things you realize if you think seriously about nuclear proliferation is that it's not actually that hard to "design" a nuclear bomb. The knowledge of what it takes to make one is largely already available and is an inherent byproduct of basic college level physics
Loved the art on this bag and the concert was a blast especially the new album!!!
November 30, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Loved the art on this bag and the concert was a blast especially the new album!!!
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this movie has its moments, is well acted, etc but you will get a lot more out of Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), a stone cold classic about how a fascist justice system can itself be put on trial in times of necessity
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
this movie has its moments, is well acted, etc but you will get a lot more out of Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), a stone cold classic about how a fascist justice system can itself be put on trial in times of necessity
Excited to see the mountain goats!
November 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Excited to see the mountain goats!
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“We need members of Congress who have the guts to demand that the billionaire class start paying their fair share of taxes,” Bernie Sanders said in his endorsement of Utah state Sen. Nate Blouin.
Bernie Sanders already backing a candidate for Utah’s new Democratic-leaning congressional district
Bernie Sanders has historically received significant support among Utah Democrats. The U.S. senator now has a favorite in the race for Utah’s new blue-leaning congressional district.
www.sltrib.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“We need members of Congress who have the guts to demand that the billionaire class start paying their fair share of taxes,” Bernie Sanders said in his endorsement of Utah state Sen. Nate Blouin.
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They’re going to take anyone they can get their hands on. They’re evil, folks!
"They had submitted extensive paperwork and paid fees. The foreign spouses had been fingerprinted and passed medical exams. None had criminal records. None had entered the country illegally. They had already been granted employment authorization." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
They’re going to take anyone they can get their hands on. They’re evil, folks!
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