Ryan James Dee

Ryan James Dee

@ryanjamesdee.bsky.social

Creative, cinephile, tech lover, Disney geek, pop culture junkie, gamer, car singer, thinker, dreamer, and doer. ENTJ (he/him/his) 🏳️‍🌈

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This is fishy as hell when AI companies are buying up rare books to feed to their machines 🔎

Dan Mandell@dhistoryman.bsky.social

Univ. New Hampshire's library will destroy 300,000 books (supposedly) not checked out in the last decade, gutting a key resource. The head of the library has decided that actual books are no longer essential. Is Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" on the burn list? www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-e...

The most philanthropic thing Anthropic (and all AI companies) could do is to just close up shop. Better for the environment, better for society.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com

From Carnegie to Claude: AI wealth could reshape philanthropy. Anthropic says it will commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a stake that could be worth around $100 billion if the company reaches the $2 trillion valuation expected at its stock market debut u.afp.com/SyJB

Just got home from seeing Wildwood. Best animated picture I’ve seen in years. And the best stop-motion animated picture, period. Definitely getting Best Animated Feature at the Oscars next year. A masterful, hand-crafted spectacle. It’s also an emphatic, grand “fuck you” to AI slop. Go see it 💙

A year ago, the electric delivery fee was about half the amount that I actually used. This year it has been equal to the energy used. And now it’s double. I know it’s data centers. I just don’t see how it’s legal to make citizens pay that. Make the AI companies pay that. Fuck AI.

Feeling gross while being sick is dumb. Your body gets invaded so it goes haywire producing gallons of mucus, heating your body up, etc. I get that it’s to kill the virus but why couldn’t the fight be something nice? Insult to injury. You’re sick so the body’s response is to make you pay for it.

Disney orders a Glee revival that no one wants but is silent on The Muppet Show revival that everyone wants

Pop Base@popbase.tv

🚨 A ‘GLEE’ revival has been officially ordered at Disney+ and Hulu. No cast members are currently announced to return.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Katie Zacharia was in the middle of an interview with WSJ when she was ousted. She was telling The Journal about her plans for the role. Then Jason Miller knocked on her door. 'JD wanted to chat with us real quick.' Zacharia never returned — to the interview, or the job.

More proof Mitch McConnell is a tortoise

404 Media@404media.co

Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, was born before the Civil War. Scientists have now sequenced his genome to reveal what’s behind his extreme longevity, so we can live longer too. www.404media.co/oldest-livin...

The way I would become an Amish hermit were I Katie. Like I can’t handle a minor embarrassing moment at work but hers was televised for the world and will be referenced for years to come

Not this lady making Leavitt and McEnany look competent by comparison

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

holy shit, now a stammering Zacharia is struggling through a puff interview with Hannity. Even Hannity is clearly not impressed

It’s giving “I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as…”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

OMG she is brutally bad at this

With AI and the death of print, this doesn’t surprise me. I have a Getty sub through work but I rarely source through them because they’re really expensive compared to Shutterstock and Adobe Stock. There’s also a lot of great royalty free resources too like Pexels and Unsplash.

Jon Ossoff 2028

CalMatters@calmatters.org

Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

The ICE escalation in Southern California, the hate-filled rhetoric against Somalis in Minnesota, he’s trying to incite riots to invoke the Insurrection Act before the midterms.

His wife is Indian and his kids are half. How he looks them in the eye after he says shit like this is crazy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Vance: "Some of America's most elite universities bring in foreigners to undercut wages of American residents. There are 9 universities in particular we believe merit an investigation. Those are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburg, UC Davis, Cal Tech, Arizona State, and MIT."

Amazon has caught on that I’m a witch

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social

Amazon users are discovering a bizarre "About You" page that reveals what the company thinks it knows about them One woman found Amazon had determined she "has flat buttocks"