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“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys
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Hi
ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday
Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere
If you have any national platform at all
Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday
Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere
If you have any national platform at all
Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
September 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Hi
ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday
Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere
If you have any national platform at all
Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday
Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere
If you have any national platform at all
Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
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20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
The law only ever serves capital.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM
20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
The law only ever serves capital.
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7. The wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation sweeping the United States is not rooted in science or public health—it is driven by a well-funded network of religious fundamentalists seeking to impose Christian nationalist ideals on public policy
May 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
7. The wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation sweeping the United States is not rooted in science or public health—it is driven by a well-funded network of religious fundamentalists seeking to impose Christian nationalist ideals on public policy
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you want me to “get that bread”? the thing that got Jean Valjean imprisoned?
May 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
you want me to “get that bread”? the thing that got Jean Valjean imprisoned?
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we should abolish credit scores and replace them with a new system where everyone is given a library card and you receive prizes for checking out a certain number of books. please hire me to run the economy
April 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
we should abolish credit scores and replace them with a new system where everyone is given a library card and you receive prizes for checking out a certain number of books. please hire me to run the economy
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Splicing part 2 of Dune to the end of A Complete Unknown so I can find out how Bob Dylan ended up careerwise.
March 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Splicing part 2 of Dune to the end of A Complete Unknown so I can find out how Bob Dylan ended up careerwise.
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at this point I’m convinced that we live in the satire universe, wherein some onion editor in an alternate universe is writing headlines that become our reality
THEY ARE LITERALLY UNDOING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED
www.ft.com/content/8b1f...
MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED
www.ft.com/content/8b1f...
Trump says he would be happy for US to become ‘associate’ Commonwealth member
US president posted Sun news story that referred to a supposed ‘secret offer’ King Charles is due to extend
www.ft.com
March 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
at this point I’m convinced that we live in the satire universe, wherein some onion editor in an alternate universe is writing headlines that become our reality
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“The Great Gatsby is dated and irrelevant.” You’re right. What could a novel about a generation of young men becoming hustlers and white nationalists because they were sold a lie about the American Dream possibly have to say about our current moment?
![[quoting a tweet from bad novelist Brad Torgersen complaining about the teaching of The Great Gatsby in schools]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreiapylpwptfor5gjebc4agjxss4nhvmmos75rkahvqn7zcu4wgevp4@jpeg)
March 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
“The Great Gatsby is dated and irrelevant.” You’re right. What could a novel about a generation of young men becoming hustlers and white nationalists because they were sold a lie about the American Dream possibly have to say about our current moment?
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“The ‘great books’ are for everyone; autodidactism is something to celebrate, no matter what one’s education level or social status; it would help heal our world if we made an effort to foster a generation of Library Kids and Library Adults.” — Rachel Murphy (my wife)
March 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“The ‘great books’ are for everyone; autodidactism is something to celebrate, no matter what one’s education level or social status; it would help heal our world if we made an effort to foster a generation of Library Kids and Library Adults.” — Rachel Murphy (my wife)
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tonight i hope every Oscar goes to the facial expression Ralph Fiennes made near the end of Conclave when the new Pope announced his Pope name
March 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
tonight i hope every Oscar goes to the facial expression Ralph Fiennes made near the end of Conclave when the new Pope announced his Pope name
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Alright, it's time for a break.
Let's see your best lichens.
These are from a national park in northern Finland where I spent entirely too much time laying on rocks photographing these fascinating lichens while everyone else was gazing poetically at the view.
Let's see your best lichens.
These are from a national park in northern Finland where I spent entirely too much time laying on rocks photographing these fascinating lichens while everyone else was gazing poetically at the view.
February 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Alright, it's time for a break.
Let's see your best lichens.
These are from a national park in northern Finland where I spent entirely too much time laying on rocks photographing these fascinating lichens while everyone else was gazing poetically at the view.
Let's see your best lichens.
These are from a national park in northern Finland where I spent entirely too much time laying on rocks photographing these fascinating lichens while everyone else was gazing poetically at the view.
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Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]
Pedro Pascal calls out “vile and pathetic” transphobic trolls after defending trans rights
Pedro Pascal, whose sister Lux is a trans woman, is a prominent trans ally and he has no time for transphobia.
www.capitalfm.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]
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hang in there everyone, we're almost through it
February 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
hang in there everyone, we're almost through it
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Nope, just a lot of the emerging literature telling us they're jerks. I wrote to that. They're jerks BUT ALSO they are correct about the power of collective bargaining! Even jerks can have an excellent point.
You made the dolphins in Starter Villain sound exactly like they do in my head (and I’m a marine biologist). Was there a particular dolphin incident that made you write them this way?
February 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Nope, just a lot of the emerging literature telling us they're jerks. I wrote to that. They're jerks BUT ALSO they are correct about the power of collective bargaining! Even jerks can have an excellent point.
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Reminder that whenever someone says "gender ideology," they're referring to the mere existence of trans people, not an ideology. This is eliminationist garbage.
The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.
'Chilling effect': Arts organizations react to end of DEI initiatives from fed agency
The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.
www.npr.org
February 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Reminder that whenever someone says "gender ideology," they're referring to the mere existence of trans people, not an ideology. This is eliminationist garbage.
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It's great that my fellow white people are breaking down Kendrick Lamar's use of symbolism in his half time show. Sadly, a lot of them are missing the fact that a black man got brutalized and arrested by white men for waving the flags of people being genocided right now while Lamar was performing.
February 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It's great that my fellow white people are breaking down Kendrick Lamar's use of symbolism in his half time show. Sadly, a lot of them are missing the fact that a black man got brutalized and arrested by white men for waving the flags of people being genocided right now while Lamar was performing.
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"Home defense troops are left in drag as their Christmas charity performance was interrupted by a coastal alert near Gravesend" 1940 ©John Topham / TopFoto
Location: Gravesend, Kent, Great Britain
This is a colorized version of the original black and white. More information in the comments.
Location: Gravesend, Kent, Great Britain
This is a colorized version of the original black and white. More information in the comments.
February 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"Home defense troops are left in drag as their Christmas charity performance was interrupted by a coastal alert near Gravesend" 1940 ©John Topham / TopFoto
Location: Gravesend, Kent, Great Britain
This is a colorized version of the original black and white. More information in the comments.
Location: Gravesend, Kent, Great Britain
This is a colorized version of the original black and white. More information in the comments.
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Lots of reasons to only have indoor cats. Now, possibly, another one...
Wow. So not only were several bird flu studies left out of today’s CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, some data on bird flu briefly appeared in the online report and then was quickly removed.
February 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Lots of reasons to only have indoor cats. Now, possibly, another one...
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For 500 years people have been coming up with technology after technology to replace, alter or disrupt books and they have all failed because business geniuses are somehow incapable of understanding that people really like reading
February 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
For 500 years people have been coming up with technology after technology to replace, alter or disrupt books and they have all failed because business geniuses are somehow incapable of understanding that people really like reading
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Trump just said he’s calling for the full forcible transfer of all 1.8 million Gazans out of the strip and says “The US will take over the Gaza Strip”
February 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Trump just said he’s calling for the full forcible transfer of all 1.8 million Gazans out of the strip and says “The US will take over the Gaza Strip”