Mina
@rivermets.bsky.social
Best of luck everyone! Creator, writer, and host of Circuit Court Entertainment, still waiting for Alan and Jessie to meet (and Saga and Alex and...)
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Mina
@rivermets.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Circuit Court Entertainment
Where we examine all forms of entertainment through the lens of law and history. Twitter: @CCEPod, Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/circuitcourtentertainment Reddit: r/CCEPOD/ Art by @empresscirque on...
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Hello! My side gig is a podcast where I discuss how laws and history effect media. I've covered theme parks, dolls, movies, Ratings, newspapers, and a lot more. If you are looking for something new to listen to, please try it!
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now that knifes out 3 is out proper i am reiterating my belief that there should be like 50 benoit blanc movies. they should have a columbo-esque legacy of running on sunday afternoons when their millennial audience all starts hitting 60.
November 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
now that knifes out 3 is out proper i am reiterating my belief that there should be like 50 benoit blanc movies. they should have a columbo-esque legacy of running on sunday afternoons when their millennial audience all starts hitting 60.
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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All of my games are on sale for a week but additionally itchio's not taking their cut for the next 24 hours, so check out my games and other projects here as they're all half off!
cannibalinteractive.itch.io
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November 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
All of my games are on sale for a week but additionally itchio's not taking their cut for the next 24 hours, so check out my games and other projects here as they're all half off!
cannibalinteractive.itch.io
cannibalinteractive.itch.io
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Stop saying, "They'll never impeach him." Low expectations grant them permission to continue to do nothing. (Which is a relief to them.)
Demand integrity. Expect better of them. Require them to do their jobs and honor the oaths they swore.
Stop giving them permission.
THEY. ARE. LISTENING.
Demand integrity. Expect better of them. Require them to do their jobs and honor the oaths they swore.
Stop giving them permission.
THEY. ARE. LISTENING.
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Stop saying, "They'll never impeach him." Low expectations grant them permission to continue to do nothing. (Which is a relief to them.)
Demand integrity. Expect better of them. Require them to do their jobs and honor the oaths they swore.
Stop giving them permission.
THEY. ARE. LISTENING.
Demand integrity. Expect better of them. Require them to do their jobs and honor the oaths they swore.
Stop giving them permission.
THEY. ARE. LISTENING.
question for people who have heart/blood related service dogs: how do you get them to not react when dealing with "scheduled" aberrations that would effect your heart? (exercise, scary movies, sex, preparing for certain medical tests, etc)
November 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
question for people who have heart/blood related service dogs: how do you get them to not react when dealing with "scheduled" aberrations that would effect your heart? (exercise, scary movies, sex, preparing for certain medical tests, etc)
Doing research for my podcast and looking at the history of AI in fiction is now MUCH more difficult due to the reason why I'm looking at it's history.
(sigh)
Anyone got examples of benevolent, competent, servile AI pre JARVIS? Like they can talk and reason not just do tasks.
(sigh)
Anyone got examples of benevolent, competent, servile AI pre JARVIS? Like they can talk and reason not just do tasks.
November 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Doing research for my podcast and looking at the history of AI in fiction is now MUCH more difficult due to the reason why I'm looking at it's history.
(sigh)
Anyone got examples of benevolent, competent, servile AI pre JARVIS? Like they can talk and reason not just do tasks.
(sigh)
Anyone got examples of benevolent, competent, servile AI pre JARVIS? Like they can talk and reason not just do tasks.
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Private equityyyyyyyyyyyyyy
November 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Private equityyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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if you are a news professional - msm, trade or indie- you have the power to fix this. and don’t let the fact that they paint all of us with a broad brushstroke stop you from rising above…
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
if you are a news professional - msm, trade or indie- you have the power to fix this. and don’t let the fact that they paint all of us with a broad brushstroke stop you from rising above…
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As the parent of a kid applying to colleges right now, I’m just gonna highlight that he’s tracking who is capitulating and CROSSING THEM OFF HIS LIST.
We can’t be the only family thinking like this.
(Northwestern, Cornell, Brown & Columbia are on his ‘have capitulated’ list; Harvard’s on ‘watch’).
We can’t be the only family thinking like this.
(Northwestern, Cornell, Brown & Columbia are on his ‘have capitulated’ list; Harvard’s on ‘watch’).
👀 when it comes to "harassment" and student protest, northwestern has given the trump administration what appears to be a veto over changes in policy: "Northwestern shall not revise or modify these policies and procedures without the consent of the Assistant Attorney General".
horrible.
horrible.
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
November 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
As the parent of a kid applying to colleges right now, I’m just gonna highlight that he’s tracking who is capitulating and CROSSING THEM OFF HIS LIST.
We can’t be the only family thinking like this.
(Northwestern, Cornell, Brown & Columbia are on his ‘have capitulated’ list; Harvard’s on ‘watch’).
We can’t be the only family thinking like this.
(Northwestern, Cornell, Brown & Columbia are on his ‘have capitulated’ list; Harvard’s on ‘watch’).
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Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running. This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running. This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Not worry about using credit cards to pay for food.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Not worry about using credit cards to pay for food.
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If someone hits him with sugar next they’ll have cookies by the end of the week
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
French far-right leader hit on the head with an egg
Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
If someone hits him with sugar next they’ll have cookies by the end of the week
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More and more convinced that an unexpected effect of AI in education is changing evidentiary practices in edu policy. "Testbeds" and live pilot tests are replacing "evidence-based" policy. This means schools are treated as "wild" sites that are modified to produce evidence for policy. >>
How come the policy obsession with "evidence-based" policy and technology in education of at least the last 20 years has completely evaporated with "AI"? ...
November 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
More and more convinced that an unexpected effect of AI in education is changing evidentiary practices in edu policy. "Testbeds" and live pilot tests are replacing "evidence-based" policy. This means schools are treated as "wild" sites that are modified to produce evidence for policy. >>
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In a new leaked memo, the FDA outlined plans to make it much harder to get new vaccines approved, claiming, without sharing evidence, that the COVID vaccines have killed at least 10 children.
This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.
This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
In a new leaked memo, the FDA outlined plans to make it much harder to get new vaccines approved, claiming, without sharing evidence, that the COVID vaccines have killed at least 10 children.
This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.
This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.
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reading about hospitals and personally I think it’s cool that they can basically hold you hostage, give you no updates about what is happening or when, and then charge you hundreds of thousands of dollars whenever they finally let you leave
November 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
reading about hospitals and personally I think it’s cool that they can basically hold you hostage, give you no updates about what is happening or when, and then charge you hundreds of thousands of dollars whenever they finally let you leave
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November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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In a conversation with ChatGPT, I told my AI 'therapist' I was crashing out after seeing my ex. No matter what I said, it told me I was right.
ChatGPT-induced 'AI psychosis' is a real problem. I talked to the chatbot to figure out why.
In a conversation with ChatGPT, I told my AI 'therapist' I was crashing out after seeing my ex. No matter what I said, it told me I was right.
bit.ly
November 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
In a conversation with ChatGPT, I told my AI 'therapist' I was crashing out after seeing my ex. No matter what I said, it told me I was right.
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evangelicals have historically not been down with catholics of any stripe and will 100% be modding the choir music out
November 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
evangelicals have historically not been down with catholics of any stripe and will 100% be modding the choir music out
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Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
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Most famously, fixed the Last Crusade
Stoppard also had a huge (and largely unchronicled) film legacy. Obviously, just the work for which he was credited--Shakespeare in Love, Empire of the Sun, Brazil--is major, but he was also one of the most in-demand rewriters, fixers, and polishers in movies. We still don't know everything he did.
November 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Most famously, fixed the Last Crusade
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They’re burying the weirdest part of this story, which is that this congressman’s twin brother keeps trying and failing to replace him in various jobs and is now hoping to replace him in this one
November 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
They’re burying the weirdest part of this story, which is that this congressman’s twin brother keeps trying and failing to replace him in various jobs and is now hoping to replace him in this one
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This also extends to window shopping. No one knows the stores in their town anymore (quick, name a place you can get a belt or an electric mixer from that isn’t a big box store)
(No seriously I need a new belt)
We need 15 min cities so people are in touch with where they live again.
(No seriously I need a new belt)
We need 15 min cities so people are in touch with where they live again.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This also extends to window shopping. No one knows the stores in their town anymore (quick, name a place you can get a belt or an electric mixer from that isn’t a big box store)
(No seriously I need a new belt)
We need 15 min cities so people are in touch with where they live again.
(No seriously I need a new belt)
We need 15 min cities so people are in touch with where they live again.
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watching Miracle on 34th Street with the kids and — we all see it, right? That the real villain of the movie is this fuckin guy?
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
watching Miracle on 34th Street with the kids and — we all see it, right? That the real villain of the movie is this fuckin guy?
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-Proposes to a woman who has shown no interest in him, then gets really whiny about how nice he’s been to her and her kid when she says no
-Enlists the help of a powerful fae to entrap her in marriage anyway
-Urges a US court to prioritize faith over… law?
This is one messy man
-Enlists the help of a powerful fae to entrap her in marriage anyway
-Urges a US court to prioritize faith over… law?
This is one messy man
November 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
-Proposes to a woman who has shown no interest in him, then gets really whiny about how nice he’s been to her and her kid when she says no
-Enlists the help of a powerful fae to entrap her in marriage anyway
-Urges a US court to prioritize faith over… law?
This is one messy man
-Enlists the help of a powerful fae to entrap her in marriage anyway
-Urges a US court to prioritize faith over… law?
This is one messy man