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A speculative writer. merveilles.town/@halcek šŸ‡µšŸ‡ø

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I agree that he should have enough curiosity to learn, but as things stand, this actually shows some humility from him. Itā€™s not about the fact that writing some simple female characters would be impossible, but I give him credit from saying heā€™d rather not do it at all, before he can do it right.

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H.D. Gregg's avatar H.D. Gregg @hdgregg.bsky.social
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"A hostile military alliance, now including even Sweden and Finland, is at the very borders of Russia. How are Russian leaders ā€” whose country was almost destroyed by Western invasion twice in the 20th century ā€” supposed to react to this?"

consortiumnews.com/2024/07/09/d...

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther's avatar Dr. Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive.bsky.social
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Today is pub day for *THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS*!

MIT philosopher Kieran Setiya says: "If you want to understand the climate crisis and you only have time to read one book, this should be it."

Buy it herešŸ‘‡or wherever books are sold šŸ’š
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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Biden is an imbecile. He wouldnā€™t listen anywayā€¦

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Maria šŸ‰šŸŒˆšŸš©Animal Rights Activist šŸŒ±āš›ļøā™»ļø's avatar Maria šŸ‰šŸŒˆšŸš©Animal Rights Activist šŸŒ±āš›ļøā™»ļø @mariavegana.bsky.social
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"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
~ Hippolyte

šŸ˜» SofiašŸ˜»

#cats #photography #photographer

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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Classic America: Distracted by personality drama instead of focusing on issues and substance.

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The Washington Post's avatar The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com
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Milwaukee police are looking into the death of a Black man in an incident drawing comparisons to the killing of George Floyd, after footage emerged that appears to show hotel guards pinning the man to the ground as he called for help.

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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This is so tragically comical, but somehow very much accurate.

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Toxidrone's avatar Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social
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Isn't it funny how no evidence is needed to start a genocide or commit any number of atrocities, but we need to be very careful and allow a slow investigation in order to condemn atrocities like bombing hospitals or aid convoys?

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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This one feels most appropriate.

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Melanie Dā€™Arrigo's avatar Melanie Dā€™Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social
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If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison. When health insurance companies steal $50,000,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while the people they steal from die or go into debt. But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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It is bad news. But they wonā€™t spin it. Keir Starmer is not a leftist. He purged all the leftists from the party. So the press loves him, actually.

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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The UK news isnā€™t all that great. Keir Starmer is center-right. Heā€™s nowhere near a socialist. It isnā€™t Jeremy Corbynā€™s Labour unfortunately.

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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Is the left coalition actually economically left, or is that just a name?

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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This provides a good illustrative example of how both parties are just two sides of the same coin.

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Avi Henriques's avatar Avi Henriques @legalizegoblins.bsky.social
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Screaming with rage this afternoon over the supposedly eco-friendly Biden administration deciding to allow culling of wolves and brown bears on federal land in Alaska. This is supposedly to protect the caribou population. The caribou are under threat from CLIMATE CHANGE, not bears!

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they/them might be giants ā˜­'s avatar they/them might be giants ā˜­ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social
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For the time it takes to create a human life the world has stood by unable to stop the bombing of hospitals, refugee camps, family homes, tent cities in so-called ā€œsafe zones.ā€ Kids losing their legs before they can walk, babies conceived, born and killed under genocidal bombardmentā€¦ So much death.

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Scott Feeney's avatar Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social
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As people react to the horrible crime of someone getting pushed in front of a BART train, worth noting platform screen doors prevent this and are standard in subways around the world.

BART decided against them because $24m was too expensive.

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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The Tweedy Mutant's avatar The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social
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Ok but is it really "a dark chapter in US history" if the whole book is like that?

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Monterey Bay Aquarium's avatar Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereyaq.bsky.social
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Itā€™s always tough going back to work after a holidayā€¦

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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Yeah. It's weird, but actual usefulness doesn't often attract the most capital either, most often because it doesn't scale well, or quickly enough. Whereas these LLMs are all about deploying at scale, so it doesn't matter that the actual, individual results are shit, they still attract capital.

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The Onion's avatar The Onion @theonion.com
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Carlo Acutis, a devout 15-year-old who died of leukemia in 2006, has been officially recognized by Pope Francis as a saint, becoming the first of the millennial generation to be given the title. What do you think? www.theonion.com/pope-francis...

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Fifty Shades of Whey's avatar Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social
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a cop shot himself and this is the headline they went with

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I havenā€™t believed this for a while. Other than ā€œI prefer to be alive and not deadā€ and ā€œI like pudding,ā€ I do not share values with these people.

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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I suppose the aim is not really accuracy, but you feeding it data points by trying to be more and more specific in order to attempt to narrow down the answer.

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Karl Bode's avatar Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social
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on the plus side my computer tells me to eat rocks and glue now

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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I keep wondering why the thought of a third party never enters the mind though. A rancid ham sandwich may stink, but itā€™s static, passive. Biden isnā€™t passive tho, in his approval of genocide, approval and support for police brutality and refusal to implement even a public option. Trump is just same

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Karl Bode's avatar Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social
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the 40+ year goal is to bog every regulatory reform effort down in legal muck and turn U.S. regulators into the policy equivalent of decorative gourds I see several cocksure people stating "the threat of this is being overstated" and I have absolutely no idea what planet they're living on

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Judith Butlerian Jihad's avatar Judith Butlerian Jihad @xanindigo.bsky.social
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Everyone knows Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine, but people don't talk as much about how 7 Up used to contain lithium as a mood stabiliser.

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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In my mind, a Dementia Meat Puppet and a Reality TV Oligarch are both perfectly suitable symbols for representing the US empire. And thatā€™s all a #US #president is: a symbolic representative with no real power anyway. The US is being run by unelected empire managers.

ā€” Caitlin Johnstone

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Premee Mohamed's avatar Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com
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Yo it's Ishmael, this one's all about going to sea, click like and subscribe

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Cats of Yore's avatar Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social
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I just want to cry when I see viral photos and videos of those super-sized Maine Coons. The bigger they get, the more likely they are to develop a painful condition called hip dysplasia. "But they look cool" is not a valid reason to make animals suffer. www.catster.com/cat-health-c...

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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It wasnā€™t a bad system tho.

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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Thatā€™s not futurism tho, thatā€™s socialism. As someone living in a former communist country in Eastern Europe, this is what we already had here decades ago and itā€™s only now being slowly dedeveloped away.

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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This was a setup my uncle had at home c. 2004

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. Results showed that close to half of the participants secured housing, and nearly $600K saved in public service costs due to fewer ER visits & jail stays. They also saw improved mental health.

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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here is the dirty secret about promotions past a certain point: they suck itā€™s a ton more responsibility, itā€™s a ton more pressure, it might be functionally a completely different job, and - mostly - the pay delta isnā€™t worth it thereā€™s a reason Iā€™ve stayed at my current level (senior) for ages

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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The ability to self moderate is a good one, but only if you then also own your data, like on mastodon.social. If Bluesky owns the user data, then they should also take on the role of moderation.

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Steve Klabnik's avatar Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com
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I really, truly, wish Rust leadership would just stop trying to create more designs for radical changes in the language. And instead work on finishing things that were half started.

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Kameron Hurley's avatar Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.bsky.social
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Subtitles on #PIMeena translating: "No time for chitty-chitty-bang-bang" as "No time for wham, bam, thank you ma'am." šŸ¤£

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Leah Stokes's avatar Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social
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Lately, journalists have asked if scientists didn't warn us enough, or didn't know how bad climate change would be.

Scientists did their jobs. It's fossil fuel companies who lied about climate impacts FOR DECADES. They're to blame for these heat waves.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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Halcek's avatar Halcek @halcek.bsky.social
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That's why there should have been strong regulations in place, because one simply must expect that capitalists would be lying for profit from the outset.

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