David Slack

David Slack

@slack2thefuture.bsky.social

TV Writer - Person of Interest, Law & Order, Teen Titans, Jackie Chan Adventures, etc. Proud WGA Member. Pro-Democracy. Anti-Evil.

36K followers4.4K following1.8K posts

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the case for nationalizing SpaceX just keeps making itself

Paul Guinnessy@paulguinnessy.bsky.social

Space Force recently tried to book rides for three future satellite missions, but #SpaceX declined to offer its services, as it doesn't want to sell the Falcon rockets anymore. No other rocket companies offered to take them either. #EverythingIsFine

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US garment workers helped pioneer multi-ethnic labor unions, which united people across racial, religious, gender, linguistic, and cultural divides. Also native-born citizens and immigrants. I think about that sometimes when I see people suggest such divides are unbridgeable.

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BREAKING: New Mexico judge says Meta must pay $25 billion for deceiving users about data privacy. The company was found to have committed 43 million violations of New Mexico law since n this case stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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something that occurred to me is, everyone knows it’s possible to become a musician with work and practice. but you can’t work on and practice music while staring slackjawed at your phone. the real promise of generative AI is the ability to ‘make’ ‘art’ without reducing your slackjawed scroll time

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“…practices which had been long abandoned… public executions, torture to extract confessions…and the deportation of whole populations—not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.” - 1984, George Orwell

Harry Litman@harrylitman.bsky.social

searing column by @mjtoma.bsky.social pinpoints the moral abyss that Hegseth's call for a public execution condemns us to. newrepublic.com/article/2165...

I found this info, deleted everything Amazon thought they knew about me, and added some important facts. Just trying to help. #youarebeingwatched

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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Happy 20th Anniversary to Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo!🦸🏻‍♂️🇯🇵🗼 #CartoonNetwork #TeenTitans #TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo #TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo20thAnniversary #TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo20Years

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Replying to @roryblank.bsky.social

If I started using AI to generate my images, it would remove the thing that I like doing, which is the act of drawing, and make my work look like every other AI "artist's work", so my work would no longer stand out, and it would alienate my existing fans, so that's out. But what else?

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten… And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

arstechnica.comA newborn and child reportedly died of measles; CDC isn't counting themHistorically, state health departments determine cases and deaths, not the CDC.

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81 years ago today, on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped upon the city of Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States. This was 3 days after the first atomic attack on Hiroshima.

#youarebeingwatched

Truthout@truthout.org

Hundreds of local police departments are preparing to deploy autonomous, AI-driven surveillance drones. The drones are capable of following a single vehicle across an entire city, capturing footage through apartment windows, and generally recording daily life from the sky without being noticed.

#youarebeingwatched

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

#youwerebeingwatched

Feena van@feenavan2099.bsky.social

"Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation was keeping watch. In 1967, the FBI quietly unleashed a covert surveillance operation targeting “subversive” civil rights groups and Black leaders, including the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King Jr., Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and many others."