Desultory Desserts

Desultory Desserts

@chucktownrob.bsky.social

I aspire to be a Reply Guy in the new frontier. Engineer with a historian heart. Husband/father of two.

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This is hella fucked-up

404 Media@404media.co

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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I get that most ppl won't know this, but this website is a News Corp site and this journalist in particular is a really really nasty piece of work. Please share the original @404media.co that NC is copying for clicks www.404media.co/ai-companies...

404media.coAI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI SlopISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Yup.

Micah@rincewind.run

the Trump-Hormuz cycle: 1. Open it right now 2. It’s open because I said it’s open in a social media post 3. I mean it, open it or I will commit war crimes 4. It’s not important and we never needed it anyway (we are here) rinse, repeat

One thing that has been gnawing at me about Ken Martin, the DNC Chair, is that he gives off real Marshall Applewhite (from Heaven's Gate cult) vibes.

Pod Save America@podsaveamerica.crooked.com

Jon Favreau questions DNC Chair Ken Martin on why he won't release the DNC's autopsy on the 2024 election.

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Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Get ready for a lot of stuff to happen for “purely financial reasons”

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

"Unlike Netflix’s bid, Paramount wants all of Warner’s operations, including networks like CNN and Discovery. That would put CNN under the same roof as Paramount’s CBS and combine two of Hollywood’s last five remaining studios."

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Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far. In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.

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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

This really, really sucks. Such a good writer and (by all accounts of those that knew him) a solid, good dude. Now we're down one in a time when we could really use all the good dudes we can get.

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Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

USA TODAY@usatoday.com

The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.

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From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

This is so fucked. My wife and I were in this situation late in Trump's first term. Luckily they hadn't figured out max cruelty, and her temp green card lasted 1.5 yrs, just into Biden's term. She got her perm GC a month after he took office. Citizen, sworn in during the last months of Biden term.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

If you are married to a US spouse, your temporary visa (usually for 3 months) will lapse before your case is processed. The government allowed you could stay in the US while awaiting case processing. Now the Trump admin is saying that is a visa overstay and arresting the spouses.

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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

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Pretty chill that half the US ruling-class and political establishment are hiding the Epstein files. Just a reminder, the senate quietly voted 51-49 in favor of keeping the Epstein records sealed while the media wasn't paying attention after Charlie Kirk's death