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Joshua Jenkins
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Maine. Literature, film, and philosophy teacher. Film collector, physical media forever. I'm tall. ☭ kinonik.org
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jamesxmyall.bsky.social
Particularly odd piece of Rep Golden’s latest news letter defending the SAVE Act. He says Maine already requires proof of citizenship to vote (true) — so why should we add another layer of bureaucracy to prove the same thing? It’s obviously easier to give your SSN than dust off your birth cert
April 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
stateofbeing.bsky.social
Anyone got a lead on why blu-ray.com is down?
April 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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kinonikmaine.bsky.social
🗞️ We're famous, thanks to Ray Routhier and the @pressherald.bsky.social - come see great films on film in Portland, Maine! www.pressherald.com/2025/03/21/p...
Portland film group is devoted to preserving, sharing movie history
The nonprofit organization Kinonik has collected some 1,800 movie film prints, showing many of them at its Cassidy Point screening room.
www.pressherald.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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lexialex.bsky.social
Americans pretending they don't have time to stand up for Palestine anymore because their own house is on fire now still don't understand that it's all connected. Your houses are on fire because their houses were bombed on your dime.

"Our liberation is bound together."
March 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
stateofbeing.bsky.social
It is the dog, and only the dog, that could get me to even remotely fathom that the Earth has any value to the cosmos
March 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
stateofbeing.bsky.social
Ain't a soul that knows me and I'll die real quiet. When they dig me up that's when I'll get loud
March 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
still losing it over this old PowerPoint presentation slide that I stumbled on a few years ago
screenshot reads: 'The Anti-hero - An anti-hero is a protagonist who lacks the traditional heroic attributes and qualities. Instead, this character is riddled with weaknesses and confusion. His lack of courage, honesty, or social grace reflects “modern man’s ambivalence toward traditional moral and social virtues.” Famous examples would include... • Scooby Doo' and pictured beside this is a very cheerful-looking illustration of Scooby Doo
February 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
happy 20th birthday to Constantine, one of my favorite movies ever. here's a little something I wrote about it for Polygon back in 2021.
The haunted heart of Constantine
Looking back at the underestimated 2005 occult noir
www.polygon.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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aridrennen.bsky.social
Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now
A screenshot of a text excerpt from a court proceeding, showing a conversation between Judge Reyes and Jason C. Lynch about an executive order that defines “sex” strictly as male or female. Judge Reyes challenges this definition, noting that there are roughly 30 different intersex variations and citing examples such as XXX chromosomes, androgen insensitivity, and five-alpha reductase deficiency. Judge Reyes emphasizes that not everyone fits neatly into an XX or XY pattern, concluding that the executive order’s premise—that there are only two sexes—is biologically incorrect.
February 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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ashtonpittman.bsky.social
Journalists should report the truth the way this judge laid it out.
aridrennen.bsky.social Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · Feb 19
Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now
A screenshot of a text excerpt from a court proceeding, showing a conversation between Judge Reyes and Jason C. Lynch about an executive order that defines “sex” strictly as male or female. Judge Reyes challenges this definition, noting that there are roughly 30 different intersex variations and citing examples such as XXX chromosomes, androgen insensitivity, and five-alpha reductase deficiency. Judge Reyes emphasizes that not everyone fits neatly into an XX or XY pattern, concluding that the executive order’s premise—that there are only two sexes—is biologically incorrect.
February 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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crushbort.bsky.social
I think writing this stuff should get you a trip to a cornfield
February 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
Ok man, I’ll tell them
schumer.senate.gov Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · Feb 3
Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.
February 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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2damntrans.bsky.social
Three years ago, Judith Butler predicted in a Guardian interview that “gender-critical” feminists would not be part of the fight against fascism. This caused a massive “GC” backlash, prompting The Guardian to censor the interview. And yet here they now are, definitively proving Butler correct.
The Terfs (trans exclusionary radical feminists) and the so-called gender critical writers have also rejected the important work in feminist philosophy of science showing how culture and nature interact (such as Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, EM Hammonds or Anne Fausto-Sterling) in favor of a regressive and spurious form of biological essentialism. So they will not be part of the coalition that seeks to fight the anti-gender movement. The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times. So the Terfs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which include high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people.
February 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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edzitron.com
I've watched this video maybe 20 times in the last day
January 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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lexialex.bsky.social
If I was a loud Democrat who was wrong about every single thing for the past year I would sit down, shut up and reflect.
January 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
American liberalism summed up is that a certain amount of punishment and suffering is just the cost of doing business but when it comes for us…
lukeoneil47.bsky.social Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · Jan 27
Oh man they're doing it to people with the proper papers? Now it's bad.
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Jan 26
Media orgs are paying too much attention to televised ICE raids and deportation flights. These are not new. They were happening under Biden too, with fewer cameras and less pageantry.
They are designed to distract the public from the real Trump agenda, which is to kick out legal immigrants.
January 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
"I have one message. We the Palestinians are the rightful owners of this land, we will not budge. Our resolve will not be dented. We sacrificed 50,000 lives & 110,000 wounded... we sacrificed our homes, schools, hospitals, and entire infrastructure. But we will not budge"
January 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
Ahh, a fresh round of “the Democrats cannot fail, they can only be failed” just broke out. Gotta find the nearest volcano and throw my phone in.
January 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. flaminghydra.com/issue-243/
I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. A total bloodbath. The referee would have stepped in by now but they had knocked him out with a steel chair. The only others watching were either fascists themselves or the people trying to fight fascism with the power of love and kindness and they weren’t having a great go of it either. I kept trying to explain in between haymakers that we were better than this and on top of that it wasn’t likely to be ruled on favorably as far as the courts. None of it helped. I was on my knees now bleeding profusely from the mouth and nose. It spilled out of me onto the snow in a pattern that if you sort of squinted at it just so from the right vantage looked like a heart. See that I pointed. Look how beautiful the world can be I tried to say through my broken teeth. Alright well now he was pulling out a gun. I didn’t think we were allowed do that.
January 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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whiteroseafa.bsky.social
10/10
lukeoneil47.bsky.social Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · Jan 25
I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. flaminghydra.com/issue-243/
I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. A total bloodbath. The referee would have stepped in by now but they had knocked him out with a steel chair. The only others watching were either fascists themselves or the people trying to fight fascism with the power of love and kindness and they weren’t having a great go of it either. I kept trying to explain in between haymakers that we were better than this and on top of that it wasn’t likely to be ruled on favorably as far as the courts. None of it helped. I was on my knees now bleeding profusely from the mouth and nose. It spilled out of me onto the snow in a pattern that if you sort of squinted at it just so from the right vantage looked like a heart. See that I pointed. Look how beautiful the world can be I tried to say through my broken teeth. Alright well now he was pulling out a gun. I didn’t think we were allowed do that.
January 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
How dare you judge an autistic man for openly endorsing an ultra right wing political party in Germany and telling them to let go of any lingering shame they have of the Holocaust and not allow Germanic blood to be diluted by multi-culturalism
January 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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ninametz.bsky.social
Heads up Chicago: The film will screen here! It opens at the Music Box Feb 7

musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
Screenshot of the Music Box’s web page for the documentary “No Other Land,” which is 96 minutes long and in Arabic, Hebrew and English (the film has English subtitles)
January 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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edzitron.com
I am going insane. This company will lose $10bn this year! Generative AI has peaked! There isn't a sustainable business model, and the products are mediocre and error prone and don't even do anything cool despite costing billions and accelerating climate change and stealing everybody's artwork!
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jan 23
I'm old enough to remember the last time OpenAI was pledging to build a big stupid supercomputer called Stargate. Nobody wanna talk about this? How stupid this shit is? How absolutely stupid all of this god damn generative AI shit is?

www.wheresyoured.at/bubble-troub...
I've been hesitant to outright say that we're in an artificial intelligence bubble, or at least I was until I read that Microsoft and OpenAI are currently planning to build a $100 billion supercomputer dubbed "Stargate." The six-year-long project is contingent on "OpenAI's ability to meaningfully improve the capabilities of its AI" according to The Information's sources, and would require "as much as five gigawatts of power." To give context, one gigawatt is enough to power 750,000 homes. The Information's story is vague about the progress required to launch Stargate — it's a multi-phase operation, currently "in the middle" of its third phase, adding that the datacenter would potentially cost $10 billion to build, and that half of the $100 billion total cost could be made up of specialist AI chips. The article is vague, likely because building Stargate is at this point somewhat theoretical. Microsoft allegedly has to find new ways to fit more GPUs (the graphics process unit that is used in AI compute) in a single rack (the way that servers are mounted in a datacenter), and find an entirely new way of cooling them to make Stargate run. It would also need to source enough energy to power an entire city.
January 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM