Dr. Vytautas Malesh but Spooky for October
Dr. Vytautas Malesh but Spooky for October
@vytau.bsky.social
Writer, professor, dungeon master, PROFESSIONAL bass player* (and guitar but lol not that good**), displaced Detroiter, pizza lover, D&D, DCTID, Turbo Team*** *I got fifty bucks one time ** Nobody has paid me for this *** Auxiliary, strictly volunteer
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I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.
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Replying to @brunodias.dev
The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.
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Thanks to a post by @ebonyteach.blacksky.app, I finally looked up who is behind the heinous anti-Abdul mailer we just got, Empowering Black Americans PAC. Unsurprisingly it’s AIPAC. But as a bonus they apparently helped Wesley Bell win in my old district in St. Louis. Appalling
What's really shocking about this is: who could have foreseen that the digital equivalent of having someone who has never done your job and doesn't know the job and has only heard of the job coming in and trying to do the job would in fact make the job harder and worse?
not only does this report confirm morbidly wealthy shitbags are massively inflating AI firms' value/import but it also explodes the lie that "AI makes us more efficient"
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Our economy is running on a pure sugar-high at this point. Just wisps of cotton candy that completely evaporates in our mouth so we gobble up more and more. Stop electing conservatives and that includes neoliberal Dems. We need socialism and massive regulation on capitalists.
This analyst's report from Apollo about AI uses the term "S&P 493" to refer to the "S&P 500 minus the Mag 7" - because if you take out the AI companies, the S&P 500 is tanking. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...
Dr. Vytautas Malesh but Spooky for October reposted
This analyst's report from Apollo about AI uses the term "S&P 493" to refer to the "S&P 500 minus the Mag 7" - because if you take out the AI companies, the S&P 500 is tanking. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...
A notice to any familiars from the @detcityfc.com / @ngsdetroit.bsky.social crowd: Thanks to my extremely awesome friends, I will see you all this week for Playoff round 1! Will also debut the new City-themed artwork / apparel piece I meant to show off this summer but couldn't due to illness.
Car safety, Internet access / WWW invention, vegetarian food options, no public smoking, better booze but also better NA drinks, coffee...and while things are bad right now I believe a lot of this is the backlash of a dying old order. History is having a setback, but it's on the right road.
Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
"Zero coercion - She is free to make her own choice! She can do exactly what I say when I say and enjoy my continued financial support, OR she is free to do as she likes, leave and discover that her trad upbringing has made her completely dependent upon men like me. Her call!"
Democrats should really feature these creeps their extensive ties to this administration.
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I've utterly failed to get America to take Elon Musk's threat to buy a second election seriously. But it's not too late. We must rise up as a nation to say, with a clear voice: FUCK THIS SHIT.
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Dr. Vytautas Malesh but Spooky for October reposted
Dr. Vytautas Malesh but Spooky for October reposted
I went with @abdulelsayed.bsky.social and @maxwellfrost.bsky.social yesterday to the Trump-Epstein Reading Room in Detroit, a traveling exhibit which displays all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files. I’m so grateful for the hard work to make this exhibit happen.
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Dr. Vytautas Malesh but Spooky for October reposted
Dr. Vytautas Malesh but Spooky for October reposted
the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality
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The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
My most sincerely held and completely unnecessary take is that B.O.B. still fucks impossibly hard
One that actually worked so that my mother could get to work & pick up groceries. One that didn't leak blue smoke into the back seat. One that had a working heater. One that didn't catch fire. One that didn't cost its purchase price in repairs every two months.
What was the first car you ever dreamed of owning, and do you still want one today?
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I see a news headline like this and I immediately think "okay, but what did he *really* do? Ban gender affirming care? Criminalize abortion even further? Outlaw being gay?"
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing a Women’s Health Division within the National Institutes of Health. https://ow.ly/FY5o50ZZ4p2