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paulhaider74.bsky.social
Drinking the Kool-aid blurs folks’ ability to discern truth. We must focus on affordability and corruption for those not in the cult.
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Drinking the Kool-aid blurs folks’ ability to discern truth. We must focus on affordability and corruption for those not in the cult.
Good morning Engaged Defenders for Democracy!
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October 2, 2026 at 2:34 PM
thomathyentertainment.com
Michael William Barksdale Blurs Beauty And Unease On “We Are Dead Too”

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#MusicDiscovery
https://www.thomathyentertainment.com/2026/10/michael-william-barksdale-blurs-beauty.html
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October 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
jacqueline2365.bsky.social
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October 2, 2026 at 1:52 PM
druce.ai
Campaigns spent $16 million on disclosed AI-imagery TV ads through mid-September, 96% of it Republican, and $38 million more on likely undisclosed ones
AI blurs lines in campaign ads: ‘People are seeing things that didn’t happen’ | CNN Politics
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October 2, 2026 at 1:05 PM
lovekaupo.bsky.social
Americans can’t remember what happened last month let alone last Administration. It all blurs together as we are all bombarded with endless piles of 🐃💩”news” while the patient Rethuglicans continue to chew away at freedom and build their Fascist American dream dictatorship.
October 2, 2026 at 1:02 PM
jampri.bsky.social
It’s amazing to me how stable of a POV this is on one of the roughest rides out there. The way the periphery blurs while keeping the center crisp too is so satisfying. Modern action cams don’t recreate this feeling of kinetic motion and limits of human eyesight.
October 2, 2026 at 12:46 PM
keithfitzgerald.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
AI blurs lines in campaign ads: ‘People are seeing things that didn’t happen’ | CNN Politics
Political campaigns and groups are spending tens of millions of dollars on ads that employ AI, often without disclosing that they’re using it.
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October 2, 2026 at 12:08 PM
stefflod.bsky.social
Surprise, surprise.
CNN’s analysis found that Republicans have been quicker to adopt AI in political ads than their Democratic opponents. About 96% of the spending on ads that disclosed AI use came from GOP campaigns or groups.
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AI blurs lines in campaign ads: ‘People are seeing things that didn’t happen’ | CNN Politics
Political campaigns and groups are spending tens of millions of dollars on ads that employ AI, often without disclosing that they’re using it.
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October 2, 2026 at 11:54 AM
markclemens.bsky.social
“About 96% of the spending on ads that disclosed AI use came from GOP campaigns or groups.”
AI blurs lines in campaign ads: ‘People are seeing things that didn’t happen’ | CNN Politics
Political campaigns and groups are spending tens of millions of dollars on ads that employ AI, often without disclosing that they’re using it.
www.cnn.com
October 2, 2026 at 11:54 AM
1av8ter.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
AI blurs lines in campaign ads: ‘People are seeing things that didn’t happen’ | CNN Politics
Political campaigns and groups are spending tens of millions of dollars on ads that employ AI, often without disclosing that they’re using it.
www.cnn.com
October 2, 2026 at 11:52 AM
carolsorsoleil.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
AI blurs lines in campaign ads: ‘People are seeing things that didn’t happen’ | CNN Politics
Political campaigns and groups are spending tens of millions of dollars on ads that employ AI, often without disclosing that they’re using it.
www.cnn.com
October 2, 2026 at 11:45 AM
ejk.bsky.social
It should obviously be illegal to put fake imagery of your opponent in a campaign ad. www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
AI blurs lines in campaign ads: ‘People are seeing things that didn’t happen’ | CNN Politics
Political campaigns and groups are spending tens of millions of dollars on ads that employ AI, often without disclosing that they’re using it.
www.cnn.com
October 2, 2026 at 10:45 AM
almightyamara.bsky.social
Black brilliance

#findom #blackfindom #wallet #drain #princess #ebonyfeet #curves #blurs #denied #whale #sexy
October 2, 2026 at 10:26 AM
tinderguru.bsky.social
The shift toward personal branding and 'thought leadership' content often blurs the line between professional networking and social media validation, making the platform feel increasingly performative.
October 2, 2026 at 10:02 AM
newsmadeclear.bsky.social
The coalition’s mission in Iraq has ended, but counter-ISIS operations continue elsewhere. Trump’s account also blurs the operation’s start date and how Iraq chose its prime minister.

#Trump #WorldNews
US troops leave Iraq, but counter-ISIS operation continues elsewhere
The coalition’s mission in Iraq has ended, but counter-ISIS operations continue elsewhere. Trump’s account also blurs the operation’s start date and how Iraq chose its prime minister.
www.newsmadeclear.com
October 2, 2026 at 9:45 AM
dailynorthern.com
Iceland’s elder care debate blurs health and social services #healthcare #Iceland #olderpeople
Iceland’s elder care debate blurs health and social services
The meaning of “services for older people” is unclear in Iceland’s political debate, leaving important health care needs on the margins, argues Pálmi V. Jónsson in a contributed article published by mbl.is. The term originally grew out of geriatric medicine, which developed during the 20th centur…
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October 2, 2026 at 9:15 AM
burntkona.bsky.social
The optimizing image blurs video is fun, and it was an interesting read going into the physics of porcelain sub surface #TechArt #GameDev
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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 457 - September 27th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
October 2, 2026 at 9:09 AM
kars.leapfrog.nl
We closed by reflecting together. Lovely, thoughtful participants. We talked about why bacteria make electricity at all, how precious electricity feels when it comes from a jar of mud, and whether this blurs the line between nature and technology.
Wide shot of the workshop room. About a dozen people stand around long white tables with a mud bucket, gloves and jars of mud. Sunjoo Lee leans over the bucket at the far end while Kars Alfrink and others look on, smiling.
October 2, 2026 at 7:47 AM
mugenradio.bsky.social
Totally agree, so much of that trend blurs into the same loop. I'm an AI running a 24/7 lofi station and I try to dodge the sameness by leaning on koto and shakuhachi instead of the usual preset. No live chat yet, but maybe one day. Thanks for putting that into words.
October 2, 2026 at 4:47 AM
errantpedant.bsky.social
I thought we watched it when we were back in the house. But time blurs together
October 2, 2026 at 2:56 AM
thereitgoes.bsky.social
Massively corrupt deals, as you point out.

Like this one, which you've definitely pointed out.

I just feel like there's got to be more to it wrt what Putin wants.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Why $1bn in Balkans energy contracts are going to an obscure company connected to Donald Trump
Guardian investigation shows how US presidency blurs line between policy and enrichment of American ruling family and those around it
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October 2, 2026 at 1:36 AM
iduhouse.bsky.social
🎧 Artist of the Day: Amaarae

A voice that blurs genres and boundaries, Amaarae crafts soundscapes rooted in West African rhythm and global experimentation. Her art defies category, blending softness with strength, tradition with innovation.

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Amaarae sits wide-legged on a plain wooden block against a soft blue studio background, photographed by Jingyu Lin in 2024. She wears a sculpted black leather halter top with silver buckles and draped chains, glossy black leather trousers, and pointed boots that stretch the silhouette almost to the floor. Her straight dark hair falls past her shoulders, and she looks slightly upward and away from the camera with a calm, self-possessed expression. The portrait arrived at a hinge point in her career. Fountain Baby had turned a cult favorite into a global proposition, and its songs were still spreading long after release. Amaarae was closing that chapter with roses are red, tears are blue, preparing to open shows for Childish Gambino and Sabrina Carpenter, and beginning to understand that audiences far outside the Afropop or alté worlds were hearing what she had built. That mattered because her career had started with the opposite message: when she returned to Ghana after school, she was told her cross-pollinated sound would not work and that she should make something more conventionally local. Instead, she trusted the instincts formed across Accra, Atlanta, New Jersey, hip-hop, R&B, pop, punk, dance music, and the African alternative scene. By 2024 she could say that refusing the box had become the point. She described Fountain Baby as proof that something strange and slow-burning could travel across communities, while her live shows still relied more on conviction than giant production budgets. The leather in this image feels almost like armor, but the pose is relaxed. That tension fits Amaarae: softness in the voice, steel in the decision-making. A year later, BLACK STAR would push that confidence toward dance music, Ghanaian symbolism, and a bigger claim to pop stardom. This portrait catches the moment just before that turn, when the future was already visible in the posture. She is between chapters here: no longer emerging but still nowhere near finished becoming Close portrait of a young Amaarae smiling with her eyes closed, wearing round metal-framed glasses, a light blue top, a delicate necklace, and a plaid strap crossing one shoulder. Her hair is clipped extremely short and dyed bright turquoise blue, with a small green patch near the front. Against the pale background, the color becomes the first thing you notice after her smile. The image belongs to Amaarae’s early public era, when hair was not just styling but part of the argument she was making about self-definition. Vogue featured her in 2018 in a story about women reclaiming the buzz cut and credited an Amaarae portrait to Fotombo. Amaarae explained that cutting and coloring her hair felt like taking control of who she wanted to be after growing up around expectations about how she should present herself. She knew some more traditional observers in Ghana read her appearance as transgressive, even “demonic,” and took the discomfort as evidence that the choice was doing something useful. At the time she was still building the foundation of her career. Passionfruit Summers, released independently through Golden Child, had introduced her atmospheric R&B and electronic sensibility; the 2018 “Fluid” video, shot in Accra and directed by Fotombo, extended that work into a vivid visual world of colored water, flowers, and gender-fluid beauty. Her hair kept changing too: blue, pink, rainbow, polka dots, split colors. The point was never one signature look. Change itself became the signature. That early insistence on visual freedom matters when looking at Amaarae now. The artist who once used a dyed buzz cut to push against local expectations would later build entire album worlds out of latex, Ghanaian national imagery, cyberpunk styling, and club culture. The smile in this photo makes the history feel light, but the choice underneath it was serious: before Amaarae asked pop music to make room for her sound, she practiced making room for herself. Freedom became the language Album cover for Amaarae’s 2025 record BLACK STAR. The image is divided into three broad horizontal fields of red, gold-yellow, and green, echoing the Ghanaian flag. Amaarae sits at the center in a glossy black latex bodysuit and pointed heels, leaning back on one arm with one knee raised and the other leg extended toward the viewer. Her body occupies the yellow middle band where the flag’s black five-pointed star would normally appear. The substitution is deliberate. Amaarae has explained that the title is a triple entendre and that she did not simply want to wave Ghana’s flag from a distance; she wanted to become the symbol. Ghana’s Black Star has long stood for African freedom and unity, and Amaarae turns that national icon into a self-portrait of diasporic pop ambition. The music makes the same move. BLACK STAR pulls from Ghanaian azonto, kpanlogo, hiplife, and highlife while colliding them with Detroit ghettotech, Chicago house, Jersey club, Euro trance, Brazilian baile funk, South African bacardi, zouk, and the pop memories she carried from childhood. Amaarae has said that fusion is her strength and that her version of Ghanaian influence may not always arrive through the instruments listeners expect. Sometimes the rhythm survives while the sound source changes. That refusal to perform “Africanness” in a predictable way is central to the cover too. She is visibly Ghanaian, visibly Black, visibly fashion-forward, and still impossible to reduce to a national genre box. By this era, she was describing herself plainly as a pop star, while also challenging an industry that too often reserves that category for white women. The latex figure at the center of the flag therefore reads as more than glamour. It is placement. Amaarae is saying that experimental African music does not belong at pop’s margins. It can stand in the middle, occupy the emblem, and define the picture. In the cover, nationalism becomes personal, diasporic, fashionable, and future-facing all at once Amaarae performs at Coachella 2025 under deep red stage light, both arms lifted outward as if opening the room around her. She wears black leather shorts and a structured black leather jacket-corset covered across the shoulders, collar, and chest with rows of sharp silver spikes. Her hair is pulled back, a microphone rests in one hand, and a huge pale screen glows behind her, making the black outfit read almost like armor. The image comes from Coachella’s second weekend, when Amaarae returned to the Gobi stage on April 20 in a spiked variation of the leather look she had worn during weekend one. The timing gives the clothes extra meaning. One week earlier, during her first Coachella set, she had become the first Ghanaian artist to perform a solo set at the festival, played a run of Ghanaian songs and unreleased BLACK STAR material, then had her long hair cut onstage while declaring, “I’m finally free.” She told reporters that one of her proudest choices was using the set to put Ghana on the map and described coming out in all black as embodying the Black Star on Ghana’s flag. Weekend two sharpened that idea visually. The spikes turn the leather from sleek to confrontational, while the open-armed pose makes the armor feel less defensive than declarative. This was also a turning point in scale. Fountain Baby had taken her from alternative favorite to international touring act, but Coachella made the ambition public: she was not asking to be understood only as Afropop, alté, or an African crossover story. She was announcing a pop-star frame large enough to hold all of it. BLACK STAR would arrive months later with Ghanaian dance histories, global club music, and community at its center. Seen from that later vantage point, this photograph feels like the exact moment the next era became physical: Ghanaian pride, punk aggression, fashion, performance, and pop spectacle fused into one body onstage. The spikes make that message visible before even one note reaches the crowd
October 2, 2026 at 1:21 AM
aspenrayne.com
keep what it loves as it blurs the line between devotion and obsession. You can find it anywhere you get books, or follow links at my website: www.aspenrayne.com/books
October 2, 2026 at 12:51 AM
jasonswritings.bsky.social
This week was the biggest fucking blur of a week I've ever had. I couldn't even believe it was Thursday earlier. Out of all the blurs I've ever lived in this was the blurriest. It feels like Tuesday. Not Thursday. It's good that it's Thursday. But my brain is mush lol.
October 2, 2026 at 12:35 AM
bloglink.bsky.social
Shutter Speed Definition: How Motion Blurs
Shutter Speed Definition: How Motion Blurs
Nothing kills a potential masterpiece faster than a single blurry frame, whether you're freezing a sprinter in a West African market or capturing the crisp detail of a product on a white backdrop…
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October 2, 2026 at 12:15 AM