Incredible double feature idea courtesy of Criterion’s November slate:
— Oscar Goff (@theoscargoff.bsky.social) August 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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This isn't isolated. Bass has a pattern:
— Tahra Hoops (@TahraHoops) August 19, 2025
-Suspended SB 9 (duplex law) in Pacific Palisades after wildfires
-Only 7 duplex applications out of 400+ rebuild permits, but still treated it as a "grave threat"
-Sided with homeowners over housing pic.twitter.com/kRXJ3tsBcK
When the LA city council opposed our first transit oriented upzoning bill on local control grounds in 2018, LA’s HUD Fair Market Rent was $1,663. They have opposed every subsequent bill with the same rationale: trust us, we will fix this ourselves. Now rent is $2,625. Enough is enough. Pass SB 79.
— California YIMBY (@cayimby.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I voted no against a resolution to unilaterally oppose SB79 today, not because I am in total agreement with the design of SB79, but because our housing crisis is too dire for us not to engage constructively with this bill and its goals: to build more housing near transit in LA. pic.twitter.com/4ETuW2p6UI
— Councilmember Nithya Raman (@cd4losangeles) August 20, 2025
("after snapping up more than $100 million in properties in the area in recent years, the Monaco billionaire has grown increasingly infuriated by delays on his development projects...the scion of a powerful real estate family that built much of mega-rich Monaco, a dense, one-square-mile nation on the French Riviera. His defenders in Carmel-by-the-Sea have questioned whether he has been discriminated against because he is too rich.")Monaco billionaire developer says he is leaving Carmel-by-the-Sea - Los Angeles Times https://t.co/l5kJS7UnXf
— Hector Becerra (@hbecerraLATimes) August 16, 2025
A write-upWhile on my morning walk in the Mueller neighborhood, my DPS escort, who was forced upon me to track my every movement, threatened to arrest me. He lost me on the trail, got angry about it, and made a scene in front of my constituents on the trail. #txlege
— Sheryl Cole (@SherylCole1) August 19, 2025
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The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
— Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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(Another lawyer got in trouble for using it)I actually want more of this. I want ai companies to land all sorts of highly visible contracts with low stakes that they publicly flub. I want everyone to understand this shit doesn't work before it's integrated into something life threatening, like, say, hospital scheduling.
— Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 (@emilylorange.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Game developers got a preview of Meta's unique style when they decided to "create the Metaverse", bragged about a budget larger than the entire gaming industry, and released a VR chat client with much, much worse graphics and performance than Second Life, which came out 25 years ago.
— Lum (@brokentoys.social) August 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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(Like reading the plot of Godfather 3, which I like, a lot.)NEW: The late Pope Francis opposed the Mafia but failed to get them excommunicated, highlighting organized crime’s historical relationship with the Vatican and the limits of papal infallibility, writes Floriana Bulfon for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
— New Lines Magazine (@newlinesmag.bsky.social) August 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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("paid influencers to undermine Are We Dating the Same Guy and created competing Facebook groups with nearly identical names. 404 Media also identified a number of seemingly hijacked Facebook accounts that spammed the real Are We Dating The Same Guy groups with links to Tea app...took over the persona and communicated with other Tea users as if he was Tara")Incredible, must-read investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social into how Tea's founder got women to join the app, how its founding story changed, how it spammed Are We Dating the Same Guy Facebook groups, how it hired an influencer marketing firm to promote it www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...
— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Pushed by Germany’s most influential conservative-right tabloid publisher Axel Springer: Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal https://t.co/h10tPEyztc
— marc hofer (@marchofer) August 19, 2025
Seventeen cartoonists have filed a lawsuit against Cadence Comic Art and its owner Paolo Belfiore claiming the gallery and art dealer of defrauding them of hundreds of thousands of dollars and refusing to return their artwork. www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...
— The Daily Cartoonist (@dailycartoonist.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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"girlfriend simulator sends you push notifs" seems like such a slam dunk torment nexus case I'm surprised it was built and launched with no outcry https://t.co/8kMzfMgDoa
— severe engineer (@severeengineer) August 17, 2025
Job opportunity for an historian at Monticello. This is the 4th time they've tried to fill the role this year (they seem to have given up trying to find a senior person and have dropped the PhD requirement). DM me if you want to know what it's like to work there. www.monticello.org/thomas-jeffe...
— Frank Cogliano (@frankcogliano.bsky.social) August 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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“They want to do something not staring at a screen and relatively inexpensive, and once people start collecting books they just buy more,” Daunt says. “BookTok is an easy label to put on it, but this is about people wanting to read and talk about books.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
— María Ramírez (@mariaramirez.bsky.social) August 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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— Usili (Sage) 🏳️⚧️ (@usili.bsky.social) August 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
@mrsalyssabueno Give me a challenge and i commit 💪🏽 #cabosanlucas #couple #momsoftiktok ♬ Originalton - @easy_edit415
@scottvisits She’s have a great time… #holiday #holidays #resort #hotels #hotelpool #resorts #hotelpool ♬ Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine
@daiseygibson I think I’ve found my new calling in life 🚤🍦 #sicily #sicilytravel #travel #italytravel ♬ original sound - Kate Hutchins
@gallodrogado Se llevaron la birria :c #goat ♬ XCUSE ME - Henny Fay
@birdeenyc Just another chill day at birdee ☂️
♬ Almost forgot that this was the whole point - Take my Hand Instrumental - AntonioVivald
@coffeeinalens Caught her mid chill. Literally. #catsoftiktok #orangecat #cats #orangecatbehavior #orangecatsoftiktok #fyp #heatwave ♬ Nice and Easy - Louis Adrien
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