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a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.

Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

A wide-eyed emoji face commonly used to express a very interested and respectful acknowledgement that the user is absolutely looking at the image that has been posted.

Front end of a Bavaria viewed from a high angle always makes me think of:

I remember her and her bird friends. Great to see you back!

Screenshot of Bluesky post with username redacted. The post contains a photo of two DHS employees at the Seattle waterfront with the following caption (spelling errors in original): "I watched these two trundle down the Seattle waterfront glued to this guys phone for about 15 minutes before I got bored. What are these people here for if they are just going to stand around and watch til-tok totally oblivious to the world around them."

Dudes will post things like this and then block you for saying "more cops are bad, actually" when they say we need more traffic stops.

lol, dude blocked me for this.

Unless you're going full surveillance state it's not realistic to expect that every instance of speeding can be caught.

Sure, there are systems that can be improved but "more cops and more regs and more inspections" is wildly over simplistic.

It's not feasible to have enforcement stopping ever truck at every bridge for a quick measure.
Regulations already exist.
Being overheight is only relative to a particular road and wouldn't be caught with general inspection.
Like most issues, I think it comes down to (lack of) driver training.

410 over the White River, 167 in Pacific, and now I-90? What is it with overheight trucks taking out bridges in Western WA these last few months?

I've become one of the rotten ones and I like me for that.

Honestly, I'm a little annoyed that there's not a sapphic NATO reporting name aircraft to match the MIG-15.

I'm looking for something I can load up for camping, pull a little utility trailer and a u-haul motorcycle trailer from time to time, and generally use to run up forest service roads to do photography shit. I think with the right tires the 240 could do it...

My friend's "just get an old Ford pickup" is objectively better advice but...

The Volvo 240 wagon has had a hold on me ever since I was a child and my parents bought one as their first brand new car back in the '80s. It would be wholly irrational for me to buy one as a utility vehicle.

And yet...

It is beyond my ken how anyone can listen to Trump speak and not immediately think that the man has dementia. Dude is just so clearly non compos mentis.

Photo of a member of the Seattle chapter of Dykes on Bikes taken at roughly 3am. The biker has her back to the camera with the Seattle Dykes on Bikes patch clearly visible, along with a "Protect Trans Folks" patch on the side of her best. Blurred and I'm the background is the Space Needle.

Almost all of my favorite photos have come from choosing to go out and Do The Thing instead of remaining comfortable at home.

#DykesOnBikes #Photography #LGBTQ

Yup. I absolutely love my 2012 S60 (the Volvo SI6 turbo is a criminally underrated engine) but I don't think it's ever going to be a terrible restorable vehicle and someday I'll have to throw it away.

I mean, I know 20-something leftist lesbians who love Harleys but that doesn't change the overall demographic. Also, even boxy Volvos are EFI and much more difficult to find parts for than a 1950s barn find. Old D- and L-Jet electronics are often nearly unobtanium. Not as easily restorable.

I think the appliance-ization of cars plays a role here too. When a car becomes something you need for commuting because there's no viable mass transit it's difficult to romanticize it as a representation of freedom and as a result younger generations (understandably) don't care as much about them.

I was really just there to get some candid shots while the main photographer worked carefully through a roll of 120 and then that scene just landed in front of my camera as they were scouting and I had that "oh shit if this comes out it'll be fire" moment of joy and panic.

Photograph of a woman on a motorcycle at night. The woman and bike are stationary in a small pool of light from a street lamp. Behind the woman is a fishing trawler docked at a concrete pier and a cautionary sign reading "Road End"

My favorite of the midnight photos from this weekend.

Sony A7IV | Samyang 135mm f/1.8

#DykesOnBikes

@selectric.space

Photograph of two motorcyclists have a discussion on a side street during a break while on a night ride.

Always say yes to the midnight rides.

Sony A7IV | Samyang 135mm f/1.8

#DykesOnBikes

4am photograph of a motorcycle parked on a street in Seattle. The orange-red paint of the bike glows under the streetlight.

A big thanks to @victoriascott.bsky.social for drilling it into my head that, with digital, ISO isn't real. Aside from obscuring the license plate (and Bluesky compression) this is a jpg straight from the camera.

Photo of the Seattle space Needle and the Seattle skyline at just after 3 in the morning.

Occasionally I take some photos that aren't on film. Space Needle at ~3 am.

We destroyed mass transit and turned cars into a requirement for participation in society which in turn made cars into appliances as opposed to vehicles for joyful pleasure.

Scan of a medium format 6x6 image of a second generation North American Ford Escort in deep burgundy. A very '90s purple Igloo cooler sits in front of the car.

The best parts of Radwood are the mundane survivors like this '90s Ford Escort from the time when cars were available in fun colors.

Bronica EC-TL | Fuji Provia 100F

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #SlideFilm

How to turn off Copilot (pro versions):

1) Windows + R > type gpedit.msc and hit Enter

2) Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot

3) Turn off Windows Copilot > Chose "enabled" (intentionally confusing - you want to enable turning it off).

For sale. Cadbury bar. Never opened.

Have 80s Contax cameras, can confirm that I want Diesel Mercedes.

Look, all I'm saying is that if this had been legitimate fire, the man's body would've had ways of shutting the whole thing down. Besides, what did he expect wearing such a flammable outfit?