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@chrisker

Old dad who watches too many movies Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/lw5Z Movies, politics, Indianapolis, baseball (usually Cardinals related), other stuff (not a real city planner, just have some ideas for the White City of Gondor)

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Not a fan of when two people I follow have similar avatars. Person is picture. Name not register.

09.03.2026 02:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

AI could/would never come up with the intro to Good Days

09.03.2026 02:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Leaving the intent aside, this is a prime example of β€œit would be so easy to not say this specific thing”

09.03.2026 02:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The fact that he's able to get this ball to first in time - running away, throwing back across his body - is crazy.

07.03.2026 23:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just caught up with this and it's one of the best debates I've heard on 230. I'm kind of a hardliner on it like Masnick, but Brian and Sam made some good points I hadn't thought about before.

Also shows you can have debates on these shows when the guests are interested in having a real discussion

07.03.2026 23:31 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He also had one of the worst losses in recent POTUS elections because people hate his guts so much they set a record for turnout. And yet that wasn't sustained for the following election.

07.03.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also I've only stayed there for two weeks, but my impression of Mainers is not that they'd be terribly interested in what pundits are saying

06.03.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Rivers Cuomo voice:
🎡Ooo Weee Oooo, Secretary Markwayne Mullin
Oh-Oh, is replacing Kristi Noem🎡

05.03.2026 22:57 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Markwayne Mullin sounds like a Righteous Gemstones character.

05.03.2026 23:10 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just occurred to me this would've been a great Jerry story on Parks and Rec

06.03.2026 20:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, they remodeled. The rooms on the tv commercials looked like something from an old Penthouse.

06.03.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

they used to run commercials!

06.03.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Watercolour drawing of Green Street, Cambridge with the figure of a young woman in a green dress striding along and a few lightly-sketched bicycles.

Watercolour drawing of Green Street, Cambridge with the figure of a young woman in a green dress striding along and a few lightly-sketched bicycles.

I have produced quite a few paintings and drawings of Green Street in Cambridge over the years. Here's a watercolour and ink sketch showing the western end as it goes into Trinity Street. Not sure if I still have this one.
#Cambridge #watercolour #streetscene

06.03.2026 06:44 πŸ‘ 4860 πŸ” 354 πŸ’¬ 85 πŸ“Œ 9

I can blame many things at once

06.03.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#stlcards

06.03.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The weird thing about this is going "i don't shake hands due to competiveness, but we're cool bro". Shit or get off the pot.

06.03.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And really, my kingdom for a normal sized burrito from Chipotle

06.03.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/maxi...

06.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This.

Regardless of whatever whiz-bam cool "feature" is touted, these military ghouls don't actually care if it does a better job at finding targets.

The real utility of a tool like Claude in this situation is *accountability dodging*.

"The computer told me to do it."

06.03.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/chri...

06.03.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'd love to hear literally anything about this stunt

bsky.app/profile/chri...

06.03.2026 18:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Sean O’Brien sold workers and unions out to Trumpβ€”these Teamsters are running to oust him. β€œAs a labor leader, [O’Brien] should be disqualified…. Donald Trump has done nothing to help the working class, only the people in the Epstein class.”

🚨 New from me @therealnews.com

Sean O'Brien sold workers & unions out to Trumpβ€”these Teamsters are running to oust him

I speak w/ Richard Hooker Jr. & John Palmer, who are running against the O'Brien administration in this year’s Teamsters elections
therealnews.com/sean-obrien-...

04.03.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 326 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 8
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We need to stop blaming a technology for the decisions being made by humans to exploit that technology for profit.

Generative artificial intelligence can't "exhibit anxiety." It isn't embodied. It has no persistent psychological state.

It's not intelligent. It's roleplaying.
Like Kristi Noem.

06.03.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 100 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

This. Stop anthropomorphizing the tech.

06.03.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 258 πŸ” 92 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

What a tepid answer

06.03.2026 18:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It isn't anxious in any sense though, which is what he actually says

06.03.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Having read the interview it's really a bad paraphrase by Polymarket

06.03.2026 18:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Of ideologies, there are only two

06.03.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines

Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines

Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines

Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines

Black ink drawing of an old timey payphone on a wall

Black ink drawing of an old timey payphone on a wall

Black ink drawing of an early 1980s CRT television

Black ink drawing of an early 1980s CRT television

Now up at my art store, I am selling originals and prints of my Power Lines Drawings, and original drawings from my Objects From Films series:

marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com

06.03.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

ok that's ridiculous

06.03.2026 17:54 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0