Omaha Sternberg

Omaha Sternberg

@omahas.bsky.social

Spouse and parent. Podcaster and political advocate. Pagan, Bi, Poly. Centrist Democrat. Volunteer for Stand Up For Science-WA!

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I miss the days when "purity test" on the Internet meant a 500 entry questionnaire cataloging a long list of sexual acts, recreational chemicals, and miscellaneous petty crimes and outrages, with the objective of revealing to your peers just how much of a pervert you were.

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social

It's one of the biggest positive signs that you are talking to a morally and intellectually lazy asshole, or somebody acting in bad faith to pose as morally and intellectually lazy in order to disguise the worse thing they actually are.

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RIP to an incredible actor, Alfred Bester is one of my all time favorite Lawful Evil villains

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

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I'm hardly surprised. I've watched a few of the Chinese AI-generated shorts. They're soulless and uninteresting "action" pieces. They have a tendency to veer into non-sequitur. I can't really see the audience getting into them.

Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrew.bsky.social

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

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The Family Research Council tells its followers, "Vote according to your Biblical Values." Gotta wonder which values they hew to.: Feed the hungry, Give water to the thirsty, Clothe the naked, Shelter the homeless, Welcome the stranger, Visit the imprisoned, Comfort the widow, ...

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... Teach the orphan, Ransom the captive, Heal the ill, Bury the dead. These the Lord thy God command you. (Deut 11, Isaiah 58, Matthew 25)

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Hot on the heels of Microsoft's mind-bogglingly racist Copilot commercial about using AI in the office, the investment firm Apollo Global Management issues shareholder guidance that "outside of programming, there is no sign AI spend has any return on investment." www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

apollo.comNo Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector | The Daily SparkDespite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Subscribe for daily updates.

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Elizabeth Warren is front and center of an effort to hold companies accountable for the deliberate acts of cruel confusion they press on customers in order to make us overpay or trap us in recurring fees, which is why she gets so much hate from the right.

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Before the Brazilian election where progressive Lula beat right-wing Bolsonaro, Meta is accused of disrupting Lula's Insta and WhatsApp accounts Meta blamed "technical difficulties" That would be more believable if similar incidents had not happened recently in the US Tech billionaires are evil

bloomberg.comMeta Unseats Musk as Tech Villain for Lula in Brazil’s ElectionA new villain is emerging in the closing stretch of Brazil’s bitterly contested presidential election: Meta Platforms Inc.

The problem we have now is two-fold. 1. Republicans had decided in the late 70's that they were going to take over and created a long-term plan for it (NOT Project 2025). 2. Most Democrats sat on their butts, deciding they were still working across the aisle like normal. Now we have a war.

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🚨BREAKING: Democratic candidate Mary Peltola and her party asked a federal court in Alaska to throw out DOJ's unprecedented lawsuit that seeks to preemptively block certification of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race if the Republican incumbent loses. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comDemocrats ask judge to toss DOJ’s 'wholly baseless' bid to block Alaska election if GOP loses"This case never should have been filed,” the Democrats argued.

"Trump went on to claim that Americans were "paying lower than Biden and Obama and they don't have nuclear weapons..."" If you're a Republican, ask yourself this: if Iran had nuclear weapons during Obama's & Biden's terms (that's 12 YEARS), why didn't they use them? And why would they use them now?

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#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth Former NFL player DeAngelo Williams lost his mother and 4 aunts to breast cancer. Instead of letting that pain stop him, he turned it into purpose. Thru DeAngelo Williams Foundation, he helps provide free mammograms to women who might not otherwise be able to afford it

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📊 A new poll reveals voters overwhelmingly reject Trump’s election-meddling tactics. Voters were given potential scenarios outlining how federal or state officials might respond to the 2026 election process. Overwhelming majorities disapproved of every tactic: https://demdock.com/4yIGP19

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🔥KULINSKI: “Who’s more responsible for your life being hell: trans people, Muslims, immigrants or billionaires? You know... 2 years of an anti-immigrant regime, is your life better? As @jamestalarico says the minority destroying 🇺🇸 are billionaires.” (H/T @marco.foster)

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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The techbro "LLMs can supercharge your ADHD superpowers" meme will collide with the DHS stance "ADHD medications are overprescribed and do more harm than good," leading to your being deprived of your medication and prescribed a government-approved Claude Max account instead.

Elf M. Sternberg@elfsternberg.bsky.social

There is this HORRIBLE bro-meme going around that "AI plus ADHD is supercharged productivity. The places where ADHD creates weakness is exactly where AI excels." FUCK OFF with that. LLMs are ADHD magnifiers. Not the skills, the symptoms. It forces you into time snacks and destroys your cadence.

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Mamdani has released a video on how to deal with ICE, spoken entirely in Spanish. The right is labeling it "seditious," emphasizing the saying that racism is so deeply embedded in America that if you oppose racism, conservatives believe you oppose America. www.latintimes.com/mamdanis-spa...

latintimes.comMamdani's Spanish-language ICE rights video sparks praise from immigrant advocates and backlash from RepublicansNYC Mayor Mamdani's Oct. 23 Spanish-language video explains ICE rights for immigrants — from judicial warrants to public stops. Here's what it says.

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OBAMA: "Trump is focused on enriching himself & his family/friends. A Venezuelan billionaire wanted a pardon, so he paid a Trump lawyers $50 million — and lo & behold! The pardon falls out of the sky... We’ve never seen a president straight-up grifting on your dime like this."

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“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

“The Antichrist probably presents as a great humanitarian, it's redistributive, it's an extremely great philanthropist, as an effective altruist, all of those kinds of things. - Peter Thiel" Thiel has just described Jesus as the Anticrist. forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/hGwAoh...

forum.effectivealtruism.orgEA as Antichrist: Understanding Peter Thiel“The Antichrist probably presents as a great humanitarian, it's redistributive, it's an extremely great philanthropist, as an effective altruist, all…

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Ossoff says his campaign is for everybody who craves sanity and decency in their politics

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The Department of Health and Human Services wants you to know that its legal filings against vaccination and trans care are completely legit, despite 75%(!) of the footnotes and 83%(!) of the cases referenced in recent filings are pure AI hallucinations. www.washingtonsun.com/agencies/hhs...

washingtonsun.comHHS Was Caught With Erroneous Legal CitationsA filing from the Department of Health and Human Services had "entirely fictitious" citations, and a federal labor agency suggested AI was used.