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⁷⁰⁷ ᵏⁱⁿ ᵍᵒⁿᵉ ʳᵒᵍᵘᵉ A full-stack Dev here to enjoy beautiful art and upload my own creations occasionally. { Cᴜʀʀᴇɴᴛʟʏ } 👀 Jibatsu-Shounen Hanako-Kun 👾 #MakeRoom 🪫Social Battery 🔑 Clipforth #Datarights #PrivacyMatters

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · Jun 8

Open knowledge sharing AND copyright are both under siege. Whether you are for one or the other doesn't matter.

This is a shared issue that's hitting "both sides". They are taking away YOUR choice, replacing it with regurgitation & centralisation while the open internet withers away.

📌 Instance🧵

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · Mar 19

They are making it impossible to host information online and drying up resources. Stop defending and supporting these malicious entities.

Whether it’s cryptocurrency scammers mining with FOSS compute resources or Google engineers too lazy to design their software properly or Silicon Valley ripping off all the data they can get their hands on at everyone else’s expense… I am sick and tired of having all of these costs externalized directly into my fucking face. Do something productive for society or get the hell away from my servers. Put all of those billions and billions of dollars towards the common good before sysadmins collectively start a revolution to do it for you.

Please stop legitimizing LLMs or AI image generators or GitHub Copilot or any of this garbage. I am begging you to stop using them, stop talking about them, stop making new ones, just stop. If blasting CO2 into the air and ruining all of our freshwater and traumatizing cheap laborers and making every sysadmin you know miserable and ripping off code and books and art at scale and ruining our fucking democracy isn’t enough for you to leave this shit alone, what is?

If you personally work on developing LLMs et al, know this: I will never work with you again, and I will remember which side you picked when the bubble bursts.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 12h

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 8h

I’m not anti-AI.

I am, however, anti the rapacious tech bros who selfishly hype AI for the purpose of increasing their wealth and power at the expense of our humanity.

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 1d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 9h

Ah fair. This is what it showed.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly, when the financial press starts printing diagrams like this, isn't it time for a regulator to step in?

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 9h

Are you saying that Bsky people deleted this?

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 10h

You might very well have. :)

I posted the game he is from below and he has also made cameos in some of team 17s other games.

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 13h

Superfrog Longplay (Amiga) [50 FPS]

YouTube video by AL82 Retrogaming Longplays

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 13h

The whole frog thing made my mind go back and remember a childhood game that made a huge impression on me and I'd think the developers would have a good chance of reviving it if Team 17 still owns it.

Superfrog: Fights Fascism

cover of Superfrog game from 1993 for the Amiga 32.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

I don't want to discourage anyone but sometimes, not always, but just sometimes, I worry or have doubts if contrary to the book and film adaptation of ready player one my considerable knowledge of 80s-90s consumer nerd nostalgia may not actually be enough to save society from evil corporate takeover

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 13h

This had me and my partner have a good laugh. Thank you. 😂

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 14h

Also proven by the fact that this was funded by money that could have gone to developing and building sustainable technology and systems helping, rather than the money sink it's been burning up GPUs for slop that is poisoning the commons and everything else.

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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 15h

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 15h

Lars and I have connected last year after his article about parasite SEO and Forbes - you should read it if you’ve missed it as it’s excellent larslofgren.com/forbes-marke...

Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host

Are you sick of Forbes appearing in search results? For topics that Forbes doesn’t have any expertise in? Here’s the organic rankings for “best pet insurance”: Forbes ranks #2. Not sure a business web...

larslofgren.com

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 15h

Ah, that makes sense! Thank you for letting me know. I will read this. :)

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Devin Elle Kurtz @devinellekurtz.bsky.social · 1d

My Ninja Turtles card from Magic the Gathering was revealed!

Art from the Magic Card “Turtles Forever”
The four teenage mutant ninja turtles appear in a multiverse crossover. Donatello appears to be from the old live action movie, Raphael from the Fred Wolf TV cartoon, Leonardo from the Magic the Gathering TMNT universe, and Michelangelo from the Mirage comics. They are fist bumping and noogie-ing each other in front of a bright cityscape background. Ninjas lay scattered and defeated behind them.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

“When an allistic person demands eye contact from an autistic person, they are asking for something that only benefits them. Why should we experience discomfort for you?” @doodlebeth.com, republished with permission at TPGA:

thinkingautismguide.com/2018/01/eye-... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity

Eye Contact — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM

"If we try and make eye contact, it can distract us from what is being said because of how horrible it can feel and the effort involved.”

thinkingautismguide.com

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Patrick Hermann @phdesk.bsky.social · 2d

Creativity is not a problem we need to solve. #noai

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16h

WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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The Artbook Collector @theartbookguy.bsky.social · 1d

My position on A.I art is that I will not be promoting it or sharing it, as it is the death of creativity and entire industries. The books I share and talk about showcase the talent of real people, for those that enjoy it and are inspired by it.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 3d

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 23h

Sometimes you just can't tell people things. You just have to sit back and let them find out for themselves. Usually those people are children.

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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 1d

Big Tech Is Faking Revenue

YouTube video by Sasha Yanshin

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