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Robin Williams’ daughter begs fans to stop sending her AI videos of late father ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings,’ Zelda Williams says

Congrats on building the torment nexus.

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It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

Part of their plan to strip the federal government of their perceived enemies. Then they will fill vacancies with prosperity gospel adherents who think that God will pay them no matter what.

Utilizing new police misconduct and employment databases, session at 10:30 am Saturday

We’re holding two sessions this week on how to use new databases to cover law enforcement in California.

➡️ 6 pm PT Wednesday, in-person at KQED with @spj-norcal.bsky.social

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➡️ 10:30 am PT Saturday, online at AccessFest with @ire.org

Paramount Formally Hires Bari Weiss To Turn What’s Left Of CBS News Into A Soggy Right Wing Propaganda And Troll Farm It’s super curious how the folks most vocal about being cancelled or having their “Conservative viewpoints silenced” now own or control most major U.S. media companies. Almost as …

The U.S. press isn't capable of admitting this clearly, but Bari Weiss was hired to turn CBS into a right wing propaganda machine and troll operation

This goes for porn, sports, Taylor Swift, the new prestige drama everyone loves, whatever.

Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach Video game chat platform tells users that driver’s licences and passports were among the forms of data accessed via a third-party customer service provider

Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach
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Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach

GAWKER Researcher Disputes CNN's Report on Death of Cecil the Lion's Brother Brendan O'Connor Filed to: JERICHO THE LION 8/01/15 2:55pml [photo of a majestic lion] CNN reports that, according to a senior park official, Cecil the lion's brother Jericho, who is also a lion, was killed on Saturday in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park. Others have called this account into question (see updates below).

Not to be confused with our favorite photo caption of the 2010s,

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

We've always had one advantage over them: We're creative, and we're actually funny

After Columbia canceled my course on race and media, and Washington Poat fired me for speaking about race and violence,

I’m teaching about race and media anyway!

@resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight!

600+ signups.

We move!! ✊🏾

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

They are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them.

How a little-known appeal could force your insurer to pay for lifesaving care

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Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

Mars was the Roman god of war.
That’s why we say ‘martial arts,' ‘martial law,' and 'court martial.'

Marshall was the Roman god of designer fashion at discount prices.
That’s why we have Marshall’s.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

What’s the best sleep you ever had?

My new book, THE FLESH KING, will be out tomorrow and I'm trying desperately to avoid work tonight, so let's do an AMA. Shoot me your questions about anything at all.

I think people take for granted the ability to post freely on the internet. Our ability to do so is endangered. Social media isn't going away but the powers that be are hyper focused on making it an echo chamber

if I quit social media, I will train birds to fly to each of you with bespoke shitposts, I promise

A scientist in a black jacket and brown hat with binoculars in her hands looks into the distance as emperor penguin chicks hang out in the background.

When I was on the ice w Nat Geo, we visited the emperor penguins at Atka Bay which is a colony that hops up onto the ice shelf rather than staying only on sea ice. This means that when chicks fledge they have a high-dive of a jump to reach the water. Which they do. With spectacular inelegance. 🧪🌍🦑🦉

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

Yay! You know I love a good sibling nachas post - and hooray for @joshuajfriedman.com's sister!!

I’m begging you, to stop using ableist and sanist language if you actually care about fighting fascism. If you can’t see by now that the two are connected I have nothing more to say to you. If you don’t know what ableist language is, please look it up, there are countless resources out there.

TIA!

I'm leading a (free, online) craft talk on writing picture books tomorrow night through the Orange County Library System. Come listen to me climb on my soapbox about poetic scansion and common picture book pitfalls: attend.ocls.org/event/14071115

Your arts delight me

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

So to me this seems to indicate this incident might be a brigading scenario.

The alt-right has been trying to get to me for years. They orchestrate attacks on me regularly.

It’s possible the timing was coincidental.

But it still calls into question why a human mod would make this particular error

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.