Please someone get me in touch with the people who designed the sets/props on #snowwhite2025 #snowwhite I desperately want to know the origin of the GOOSE DRUM , and if I can have it

Amazon is "investing" $20 billion in data centers to create around 1000 jobs. What sort of investment is this? $16 million for one job (minus all the jobs the data centers will automate away). If the state is putting literally any money into this it's theft.

These people are psychopaths

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Strip District. Penn Ave. A cop just got on the air and said that a lady walked up to him and handed him a live rabbit. She then walked away. PD would like someone to come get the rabbit.

If I were the owner of the @washingtonpost.com, I would not do a deal with the people who dismembered my columnist. Seems like a low bar, but Bezos managed to not clear yet another one. The world is awash in capital and that this is the choice should tell you all. He’s so poor, all he has is money.

Approval ratings only matter if we still have elections and functioning systems going forward, neither of which should be an assumption

Elon Musk's DOGE reportedly: - Took sensitive data that should not leave the agency - Turned off monitoring tools - Deleted any records of their access Cybersecurity experts are not mincing words - this is not normal, and it's dangerous.

This article shamefully misses the point. We can have greenfield development that provides tons of housing AND is not a sprawl development pattern. Thats far better for municipalities fiscally, and far better for human beings and the planet. So why isn't that an option mentioned here?

Lutnick: "Foreign goods may become a little more expensive, but domestic goods do not. So if you're looking at Poland Springs water vs Fiji Water, the Poland Springs is not gonna be more expensive. For the first time in your lives you're gonna actually think about Americans who make the products."

they really need to invent a second type of money these guys can play around with separate from the money I need to buy food. Business Money. Money 2

Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!

Off-roading... #pittsburgh

Are you joking me

Spring is starting to arrive in #Pittsburgh and as always the North Shore is one of the first places to see some blossoms. This morning they looked incredible glowing in the early sunlight, and I think my favorite is the one of the shadow of the trees.

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

i don't think people really understand where we already are with AI video generators. whatever nightmare you imagine, we're already there www.404media.co/chinese-ai-v...

This is certainly one the tech ghouls are salivating over -- weather reporting and forecasting being replaced by for-profit AI is 100% on their minds.

Instagram ‘error’ turned Reels into a literal, nonstop death scroll of violence and murder. 🔗 www.404media.co/instagram-er...

Strip District. Smallman Street. Caller owns an auto repair shop. He said he had a dispute with a customer over payment for services. In response, the customer arrived with a tow truck and towed away a random car from the lot.

"invest" Eat up a bunch of land and resources to build a big room to house servers. Create hardly any new permanent jobs, probably on net eliminate many others. These companies are not gods, we need to stop treating them with this sort of uncritical adulation.

In loving memory of the Humane AI Pin a $700 Brick of E-waste (April 2024-Feb 2025). 🔗 www.404media.co/the-humane-a...

dwell in it a little

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Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺 Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾

Passion and information flowed at a Pittsburgh City Planning Commission meeting on inclusionary zoning this week. Now competing proposals go to City Council - one needing 5 votes to pass, the other needing 7. Here’s all the info:

We've been to 100s of antique shops and we can no longer ignore the glassware crisis. Noone wants exotic candy dishes anymore. Paperweight market has died. Nobody wants a sorta peacockish glass thing for some table or shelf. Everyone used to have these. Now people just throw their candy on the floor

The proposal to eliminate the tax deduction on student loan and mortgage interest, but add a deduction on car loans (???) is making me head spin

Frick

I'm really not sure the best way to go about this. I intend to do some writing, but for now, I really do just want to impress my admiration and congrats to @scavstudio.bsky.social team for making Season. I think this is a singular piece of art, like nothing else out there.

Mifflin Ave Church #pittsburgh #wilkinsburg

There's something uniquely perverse about utility companies trying to justify huge price spikes for normal families because, "well, we need to serve the big AI data centers. You LOVE AI, right? We all do! 😇 won't someone think of the AI data centers? 😭We all need to make sacrifices 🥺"

A couple views from the Duquesne Incline in #Pittsburgh yesterday morning as the heaviest of the snow was moving through the city. The second image looks like a scene straight out of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

Meta abdicating any role in policing its platform whatsoever while simultaneously going Mach 10 on shoving as much AI deepfake slop into our brains as possible is, of course, so logical it's hard to understand why anyone ever could be surprised

Pittsburgh @ Frick Park

One of the reporters put it bluntly in an older article: You pour everything into your work hoping to convince a few people to subscribe. Takes time to build trust. Then one admin move tanked the paper's reputation + dumped 200K subs down the toilet in a few hours. Who faces the consequences?

Vending machines these days smh smh smh smh smh smh smh (smh)

We really are just willing to bend our entire culture and society to please tech companies. We've let these entities become the most powerful organizations in human history. They tell us what to do and we swallow the boot like it's fine caviar. When does it stop?

Hello strangers, I played banjo in my first (real) performance in public tonight 🪕 it was nice and I hope you also had a nice Saturday

In case you want to make sure the innards of your remote control generate pro-Steelers energy

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NEW: Meta tells me that it is deleting the AI profiles that are currently going viral, and that there is "confusion" about these versus what is to come in the future. A few of them are being deleted as we speak: www.404media.co/metas-ai-pro...

Cool to see one of my photographs on permanent display at the Columbus Museum

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