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@hypersthene.bsky.social

All I wanna do is to thank you, even tho I don’t know who you are

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Birdie, Barghest Bae
@srslymagenta.bsky.social

There are 3 stages of life: 1: Ugh, Grandma is watching a show with some ancient old lady 2: Oh, that's Angela Lansbury. I loved her in Bedknobs and Broomsticks. 3: Sweet, there's a whole Murder She Wrote channel. These are so soothing. She's only like 60. I'll tell you if I find a 4th

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@hypersthene.bsky.social

Wanna bet Safeway is following suit

SEIU_ORG@seiu.org

Thousands of Kroger employees are set to lose their livelihoods. We must stop centering corporations and #GreedyCEOs and start focusing on everyday, working people’s right to good jobs and a living wage. This is not a healthy economy. It’s built on corporate greed.

seiu.coKroger to lay off 3,000 corporate employees over 3 years as it leans into artificial intelligenceIn a memo to Kroger employees, CEO Greg Foran said the company needs to take advantage of recent advances in technology.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster
@chriswarcraft.bsky.social

AI execs: “Our product is going to kill you 🥰😘” the general populace: “we don’t think you should do that” AI execs, dancing on a yacht powered by orphans: “Yooouuurre gonnnaaa diiiieee🎶🎵” everyone else: “i really don’t like this” AI execs, frolicking atop a mountain of skulls: “Why so hostile??”

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Micah
@rincewind.run

it turns out that “optimize for engagement” and “optimize for societal best outcomes” are opposing goals and if you look at the entire history of the tech industry you can see which of those two wins out

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social

Facebook back in 2021 temporarily turned off the “drive people insane” setting and it completely changed what people were seeing. They turned it back on when engagement dipped by like 1 percent.

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Ilhan Omar
@ilhanmn.bsky.social

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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@hypersthene.bsky.social

Saying you “don’t do art” in that grown-upy cop out way just makes me want to egg you on even harder to make a shitty little drawing.

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@hypersthene.bsky.social

The outlawing of this in my state happened at such a formative time in my life I mistakenly thought that things like quality of life in society improved by default

Gretchen@wokkax3.bsky.social

Watching a movie where someone is smoking inside of a restaurant and feeling nostalgia pangs