Lance Heiskell

Lance Heiskell

@lanceheiskell.bsky.social

On the never-ending quest to live an interesting life. Ye' Old school FUNimation guy. Music videos, memes, progressive ideas, puns, permaculture and other p's and m's My time capsule of US anime fandom: animenostalgiabomb.com (I swear more is coming)

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Trump White House misspells “United” on the official “super intelligence” document with AI executives. Instead of “President of the United States,” it reads: “President of the Unites States.” Nothing says “super intelligence” quite like misspelling the name of the country.

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I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care.

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So as the NYTimes is blocked from AI scraping, Meta will now be getting news from Newsmax. What could possibly go wrong?

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

AYFKM “Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.” ir.newsmax.com/news/news-de...

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If you’d told me on January 7th 2021 that everyone in this picture would be pardoned and be paid $1 million each for reparations, I’d have said you were insane. It turns out that it’s American voters that are insane.

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Mamdani is going to start an arms race of elected officials actually doing good things for their constituents. It's going to infuriate most Democrats who prefer to tell their voters to fuck off while texting for dollars.

espn.comMamdani's $50 World Cup ticket lottery fuels feud with N.J.New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday that 1,000 tickets costing just $50 will be made available to residents of the city of more than 8 million for the World Cup.

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Last night, a giant of broadcasting left the air, leaving many bereft but grateful for his long career. I refer of course to Bill Kurtis, our judge and scorekeeper for the last 12 years. Here’s part of his farewell to the audience after his last taping.

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JUST TELL ME THE FUCKING POST OFFICE HOURS JESUS CHRIST

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

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I’m sure it doesn’t help that Trump withdrew the U.S. from the WHO on day one. Then his administration laid off 2,400 CDC workers, including all the civilian staff in the Vessel Sanitation Program, the exact team responsible for inspecting cruise ships and responding to outbreaks.

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Evangelical Christian leaders literally gathering around a gold statue of the president and celebrating it, all while raging against any accusation of idolatry. This is what idol worship looks like.

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*Dead media studies, often enlightening in unusual, politicized ways

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

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Aracelis Leon is the first woman to ever be president of the Venezuelan Baseball Federation. She and her team just captured Venezuela’s first championship in any international sports competition since 1945. Now and forever, she is a baseball legend. 📸: @aleon_fvboficial on Instagram

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RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

My Firefly March 15th guesses: 1: Firefly audio plays similar to Doctor Who by Big Finish 2: Documentary on the fandom that's kept this show alive 3: Behind the Scenes Retrospective Podcast 4: Please don't let this be a Kickstarter project...

Everything changes. New tech is always a disruptor. You can still have feelings even when you know this is all cyclical and will happen again in the next technology cycle.

Anime News Network@animenewsnetwork.com

Media Do International has acquired the manga and novel publisher Seven Seas Entertainment for US$80 million:

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"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government. “God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision... www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

dallasnews.comWarehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention centerThe owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or...

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People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.