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I know that’s probably chalk or spray paint on the ground behind it, but it so much looks like a leaf that disintegrates into pigment if you brush it with your hand

This is something that @erinbiba.bsky.social has said several times on here: for many white evangelicals, the rapture explicitly requires forced conversion and ethnic cleansing of Jewish people. This is why they support Israel so fervently

Box office LCD marquee of GDT’s Frankenstein at the Landmark/former Laemmle Pasadena

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Over 50 Percent of the Internet Is Now AI Slop, New Data Finds New research from the firm Graphite found that around half of all articles on the internet are AI generated.

Congratulations everyone

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CULTURE TRENDS SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown One mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as SNAP benefits face cuts By Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi • Fox News Published October 31, 2025 2:16pm EDT

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

It’s incredible how a single photo of ice cream can have an entire three-act story structure

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

google "facial recognition racial bias" and then remember that the purpose of a system is what it does.

I agree, adding that I’m very concerned about its effects on adult brains too. I think it’s much more psychologically dangerous to interact with an LLM designed to reflect your own ideas back flatteringly than to post on social media, where someone will always be ready to call you a c***

What I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October | dansinker.com

"There's noise, so much noise, but there's also signal and the signal was that they were here that they were everywhere. Smash and grab jobs happening across the city nearly simultaneously. But the things being stolen aren't jewels, they're lives." - @dansinker.com

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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

I have no idea if this creator has a film background, but if not, they have an incredible eye for composition. This, and their other works, would actually be a great teaching tool for an editing/boarding/cinematography class. Clever camera angles, strong posing, and easy to follow despite quick cuts

Note Jim Henson & Frank Oz looking down to watch their performance in a video monitor (which allows them to see what the audience will see & guide their performance to that) as they do this demonstration. Just so many layers of skill stacked on top of each other to bring these characters to life.

Jim Henson, Frank Oz, and Don Sahlin on the versatility of character options that come just from the simple arrangement of various features on a generic puppet. You see how a lot of this kind of play would birth characters on THE MUPPET SHOW, but especially on SESAME STREET...

It always feels goofy to suddenly develop executive function and the desire to deep clean my apartment after 10:30pm.

There’s a massive antique store right next to Lightbox Expo, it’s some real “selling girls scouts cookies next to a weed dispensary” energy

People casually mingle around and sit on giant yellow letters that spell LIGHTBOX outside of a Civic Center. A person sits backlit in the crook of the G eating lunch, and the letters cast dramatic shadows on the ground stretching towards us

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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

This photo.

@sfstandard.com #SFO
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The Antisemitism Post (tm) Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.

The word “Judeo-Christian” was INVENTED in the mid-19th c. as a way of referring to Jewish converts to Christianity & the attempt to convert Jews to Christianity.

To say nothing of the fact that Jews have their own 2000+ years of tradition independent of Christianity.

BIG ol’ tree towering over the others in a neighborhood. The sun is flaring through the branches, and because my phone’s lens lens was all smudgy it has a fun dreamlike effect, which is the real reason I’m posting

This enormous tree is The Raven Who Yells At Me’s favorite spot to do his favorite activity whenever I step outside.

“Learn how to restring a compound bow” is one of those unchecked things on my to-do list that’s been visibly there for so long it feels like a direct taunt at the screenwriters

Someone make a leatherbound tome full of quotes from this man

In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools.

AI is another version of colonial extraction.

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Telephone poles and trees silhouetted in front of a clear sky at dusk. The fading sunlight refracts through the atmosphere in a patchwork gradient of every color in the spectrum

Sunset over No Kings day in Los Angeles yesterday had a striking array of individual colors for being a completely cloudless sky

Israel suspends aid into Gaza and launches ‘massive wave of attacks’ – Middle East crisis live Ceasefire close to total collapse as health officials say 29 Palestinians killed in Gaza

Here it is. Trump's Gaza cease-fire deal just went up in flames.

Reported just 12 minutes ago.

Israel not only has suspended aid into Gaza but has launched a massive wave of attacks.

Time Magazine is going to have to come up with a new cover of Trump.

New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today: