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Went to a screening a couple months ago. As a Denver Post alum, and die-hard fan of local news, it hits really hard. A must-watch if you want to understand what's happening to newspapers across the country and why local news matters so much.

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the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain

1. In a dark police squad room, a tech sits in front of a monitor and keyboard. "Sergeant!" he says. "We have security camera footage from the crime scene!" The sergeant leans over his shoulder. "Show me," he says. 2. Close on the monitor: grainy footage of a parking garage. The sergeant points at a small, dark silhouette of a figure walking. "There's our perp," he says. "Enhance!" 3. The footage zooms in 200% on the silhouette. Not much more detail. "Enhance again!" the seargant says. 4. The footage zooms in to 400%. A little contrast in the figure, but still not enough. "Enhance using generative A.I.!" the sergeant commands. 5. The footage transforms into a purple-haired anime waifu with… a rather large chest. She winks and throws up the "peace" sign. 6. Back to the tech and the sergeant. "Nice," the sergeant says, smiling.

Enhance!

Wired is such a worthwhile subscription that it’s almost hard to believe it’s real in 2025?

YouTube video by Box Chat "Jeff Epstein" - Jim Downey on Conan

Relatedly to *gestures hands*, I have seen the meme 1 million times but never had actually watched this video and it is even funnier than I thought it would be

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKfH...

This has always been the GOP's strategy:

1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.

2) Explode deficits

3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.

4) Repeat.

I told you we’d be back

2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year The 2025 Milky Way photographer of the year. Discover the best Milky Way images taken around the world in 2025!

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Yup. That’s the one.

We need the best educated workforce in the world.

We need the best teachers in the world.

We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.

No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.

Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported

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At the Deathbed, by Edvard Munch, 1895

Barbara Kingsolver Uses ‘Demon Copperhead’ Royalties to Build Rehab Center Barbara Kingsolver has put royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to work in the region it portrayed, starting a home for women in recovery.

Barbara Kingsolver remains a real one. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

This might truly end up being the most outrageously racist February of my lifetime.

something im a little concerned about - and i admit, a lot of this may just be that I am steadily moving towards middle age - but it seems like pretty much everyone is completely bugfuck nuts now. and it seems like that might complicate things, in the future

Honestly the story I want someone to break wide open is the drug epidemic among the tech elite

Screen reading: “And then of course, Covid hits, which was a giant radicalizing moment. And at that point, we had lived through eight years of what was increasingly clearly a social revolution. Very clearly, companies are basically being hijacked to engines of social ti change, social rev tion. The employee base is going feral. here were cases in the Trump era where multiple companies I know felt like they were hours away from full-blown violent riots on their own campuses by their own employees.” The final sentence is highlighted in blue

It is *morbidly* fascinating to see the world through Marc Andreessen’s paranoid eyes, in this Q&A

Deep inside his comments is this one

the executives at *multiple* tech firms felt they were at imminent risk of “violent riots” from their staff

I … what?

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...

Arrested by AI: Police ignore standards after facial recognition matches Confident in unproven facial recognition technology, sometimes investigators skip steps; at least eight Americans have been wrongfully arrested.

I've spent the past year obsessed with how police are using facial recognition. What I found: Police in 12 states have used these tools to find and arrest suspects when they have no other evidence, leading to wrongful arrests

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🧵 what I learned from 1,000 docs & dozens of sources ->

I know we all have disaster fatigue, but the reason why historic LA fires get so much coverage is because there are more people in greater LA county than in *most US states*

The Best Movies of 2024 In a year defined by anxiety, the movies that broke through were the ones that managed to capture such a grim outlook with bizarre, bitter humor

On the best films of 2024, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2024/12/10/m...

During Trump’s last term, he made over 30,000 false or misleading claims. It’s always important to verify facts. For instance, he once stated that ‘raking the forest’ could help prevent forest fires.

My thought for this Tuesday ☕️☕️☕️

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol declares emergency martial law - live updates In a surprise late night address, Yoon Suk Yeol, who has been struggling to pass a budget bill, says the move is to protect the country from

Live coverage (and not paywalled) from the BBC on the events unfolding in South Korea.

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Ah, yes, the legendary Badlands Tweets!