Flycatcher
@propulsh.bsky.social
Studio potter, professional drone pilot, kimchi enthusiast.
rock 'n' roll
People will forget how to swallow and ingest food without asking a computer or a billionaire by 2032.
August 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
rock 'n' roll
Howabout that.
Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600
And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.
www.extremetech.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Howabout that.
It's nice to share the planet with such a majestic creature.
One of the coolest features of the Agami Heron is its gorgeous, flowing crest that flutters as it poses and preens. But I've never seen it up close before with the details and textures.
#CostaRica #herons #nature #birds
#CostaRica #herons #nature #birds
June 10, 2025 at 5:54 AM
It's nice to share the planet with such a majestic creature.
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If watching library workers resist leads you to expect us to save you, you're taking away the wrong message.
You should be viewing this as a clear indicator that YOU can and should stand up and push back, too.
We need help, not acclaim.
You should be viewing this as a clear indicator that YOU can and should stand up and push back, too.
We need help, not acclaim.
May 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
If watching library workers resist leads you to expect us to save you, you're taking away the wrong message.
You should be viewing this as a clear indicator that YOU can and should stand up and push back, too.
We need help, not acclaim.
You should be viewing this as a clear indicator that YOU can and should stand up and push back, too.
We need help, not acclaim.
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Think about how much of an entitled prick you’d have to be to think calling other human beings “peasants” when you’re the Vice President is an ok thing to do.
The world’s worst diplomat strikes again.
Also: we don’t borrow money from them. That is nonsense.
The world’s worst diplomat strikes again.
Also: we don’t borrow money from them. That is nonsense.
April 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Think about how much of an entitled prick you’d have to be to think calling other human beings “peasants” when you’re the Vice President is an ok thing to do.
The world’s worst diplomat strikes again.
Also: we don’t borrow money from them. That is nonsense.
The world’s worst diplomat strikes again.
Also: we don’t borrow money from them. That is nonsense.
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a handful of billionaires, given control of the government to "fix the economy," are ending tax collection for rich people and putting an additional 10-54% regressive sales tax on everything regular americans buy
NEW: Having Gutted the IRS, DOGE is Now Preparing to Shutter the Tax Division at the Department of Justice. For the Super-Rich Paying Taxes Will Probably Be All But Voluntary Going Forward. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...
DOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax Division
I didn’t know this until this morning. And I’m surprised it hasn’t...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
a handful of billionaires, given control of the government to "fix the economy," are ending tax collection for rich people and putting an additional 10-54% regressive sales tax on everything regular americans buy
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I don't think @shteyngart.bsky.social gets enough credit for predicting the venal idiocy of this particular timeline.
In Super Sad True Love Story (2010) Americans get mistakenly deported to gulags by a super-glitchy AI otter who calls everyone "pa'dner".
He saw it coming, down to the DOGE dog.
In Super Sad True Love Story (2010) Americans get mistakenly deported to gulags by a super-glitchy AI otter who calls everyone "pa'dner".
He saw it coming, down to the DOGE dog.
April 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I don't think @shteyngart.bsky.social gets enough credit for predicting the venal idiocy of this particular timeline.
In Super Sad True Love Story (2010) Americans get mistakenly deported to gulags by a super-glitchy AI otter who calls everyone "pa'dner".
He saw it coming, down to the DOGE dog.
In Super Sad True Love Story (2010) Americans get mistakenly deported to gulags by a super-glitchy AI otter who calls everyone "pa'dner".
He saw it coming, down to the DOGE dog.
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What the hell is this?! Now all it takes to revoke a person's legally obtained visa is for anyone in the government to arbitrarily decide your exercise of free speech constitutes "creating a ruckus." Then poof: no more visa & the masked security services can abduct you off the street? In America?!!
Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
March 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
What the hell is this?! Now all it takes to revoke a person's legally obtained visa is for anyone in the government to arbitrarily decide your exercise of free speech constitutes "creating a ruckus." Then poof: no more visa & the masked security services can abduct you off the street? In America?!!
Quite the time to be alive.
They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
March 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Quite the time to be alive.
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When I got a PhD in nineteenth-century political history, I really, truly never imagined I would have to find a way to explain to readers what an eggplant emoji means. (Wired reported more Signalgate Venmo accounts.) I yearn for the day when I can write about good, clean fun like tax policy again.
March 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
When I got a PhD in nineteenth-century political history, I really, truly never imagined I would have to find a way to explain to readers what an eggplant emoji means. (Wired reported more Signalgate Venmo accounts.) I yearn for the day when I can write about good, clean fun like tax policy again.
So much bald face lying. It is as if we are believed to have been hypnotized.
March 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
So much bald face lying. It is as if we are believed to have been hypnotized.
Shocker
The Republicans who saw that Trump was possible as a national candidate are like the zoo lions who eat a human and don't want to go back to cold meat.
New Data: Republican Voters Want Authoritarianism
Inside the World Values Survey.
www.thebulwark.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Shocker
About sums it up.
We literally do not have political parties in the United States anymore, they are structurally gone and only function to keep charging recurring donations to anyone who gave money pre-election and forgot to cancel.
March 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
About sums it up.
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Cousteau with Roman pottery recovered from the sea
February 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Cousteau with Roman pottery recovered from the sea
Cry me a river. www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/...
Janet Jones Gretzky: Criticism of Wayne 'has broken his heart'
Wayne Gretzky's wife Janet says her husband is heartbroken by the recent backlash he has received for the couple's friendship with U.S. President Donald Trump.
www.sportsnet.ca
February 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Cry me a river. www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/...
These are my sentiments.
Listen I’m probably gonna be saying “don’t panic yet” a lot the next several years but I just want to make sure you all have the ACCURATE information.
We have so much to panic about right now, it’s important to manage when and how much to panic at any given time.
We have so much to panic about right now, it’s important to manage when and how much to panic at any given time.
February 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
These are my sentiments.
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Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.
February 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.
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"Any man who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community on the injustice of the law is at that moment expressing the very highest respect for the law."
-MLK, Jr.
-MLK, Jr.
February 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
"Any man who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community on the injustice of the law is at that moment expressing the very highest respect for the law."
-MLK, Jr.
-MLK, Jr.
Yes, name the issue and explain yourself.
February 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Yes, name the issue and explain yourself.
The sort of power with lasting qualities that one can feel good about.
For what it’s worth, when I spent years in Afghanistan and Iraq, the most powerful thing I ever saw was USAID digging wells & repairing schools. The most effective power we will ever have.
February 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The sort of power with lasting qualities that one can feel good about.
What a time to be alive.
By 51-50, we now have a deeply compromised, unqualified, D-list Fox host running the US military at the command of a convicted felon who once hosted a reality show.
Just as the Founders intended.
Just as the Founders intended.
January 26, 2025 at 6:41 AM
What a time to be alive.
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When I hear people talk about deregulation, what I'm really hearing them say is: "any limitation on harming people is a limitation on profits".
December 6, 2024 at 3:38 AM
When I hear people talk about deregulation, what I'm really hearing them say is: "any limitation on harming people is a limitation on profits".