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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

i think this fits at least one of the stories in this anthology www.amazon.com/dp/059346723...

The Big Book of Cyberpunk [Shurin, Jared, Ashby, Madeline, Broaddus, Maurice, Cadigan, Pat, Doctorow, Cory, Gibson, William, Liu, Ken, Monae, Janelle, Stephenson, Neal, Sterling, Bruce] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Big Book of Cyberpunk

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2h

It's the story of the last ten years--kiss his ass in the most debased possible way, and this is what you get in return.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2h

Trump complains about his Time Magazine cover photo in new post:

"the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown... Really weird!"

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David W. Brown @davidwbrown.com · 1h

Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials." #FuckIce.

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GPT-Ern Malley @denam.bsky.social · 1h

"I WAS SO CLOSE TO REGULAR MEALS AND THE INTERNET RUINED IT, OF COURSE I'M DEPRESSED"

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1h

Americans desperate to copy WeChat without understanding anything about the context of its success

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

Ooof.

Walmart Partners With OpenAI to Offer Shopping on ChatGPT

Walmart Inc. is teaming up with OpenAI to enable shoppers to browse and purchase its products on ChatGPT, the retailer’s latest push to incorporate artificial intelligence.

www.bloomberg.com

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Goblin, PhD @phdgoblin.bsky.social · 13h

Bluesky has the juice tonight

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13h

tom buchanan should have said this to jay gatsby

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

au.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/woma...

always apply even if you don't have everything on the resume

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Hot Vermin Summer @sciencehippies.bsky.social · 2h

smutty Murderbot images, checks out

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

The Signalis girls are replicants so imagine 'robot' here being more like the twins from Atomic Heart

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Bills Fan Rich from Clarence @rmcgil.bsky.social · 2h

two men are standing next to each other on a sidewalk . one of the men is wearing a baseball jersey .

ALT: two men are standing next to each other on a sidewalk . one of the men is wearing a baseball jersey .

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The Mall Krampus @themallkrampus.bsky.social · 2h

DOE a dark horse for producing the most “wtf” employee stories; DHS is predictable in some ways but with nuke people I always see their Deal described in a series of words that no human has previously produced that order.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

i guess we probably don't want to know

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

ok is the "robot pornography" thing here a reference to the AI generator or the fact that its porn about robots

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

"He was in a bad headspace when he accidentally uploaded his entire porn collection. He admitted he violated HR rules, but “did not think it was very wrong,”.....He also “asserted that his employer ‘was spying on him a little too much’.. and compared [it] to ‘the Spanish Inquisition.’”"

a close up of a man wearing glasses and a beard making a funny face .

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

"The man was using his cellphone to look at AI-generated porn images, but the screen wasn’t big enough so he moved the pictures to his government computer... he had maintained a ‘giant compressed file with several directories of pornographic images,’ which he moved to his cloud storage drive"

a statue of an alien with a tail is dancing in front of a blue background

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

" [the] DOE employee attempted to back up his personal porn collection. His goal was to use the 187,000 images collected over the past 30 years as training data for an AI-image generator [to] make better “robot pornography” but he uploaded it to the government computer by accident."

a frog says i 'm tired boss

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

"The 187,000 images represented a lifetime’s collection. “He stated that the sexually explicit images were an accumulation of ‘25–30 years worth of pornographic material’ he had collected on his personal computer,” he said. "

spongebob squarepants is looking out of a hole in a pineapple

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

"As part of an appeals process in an attempt to get back his security clearance, the man told investigators he felt his bosses spied on him too much and that the interrogation over the porn snafu was akin to the “Spanish Inquisition." "

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

I think Bezos had a somewhat lukewarm commitment to the idea of doing traditional industrial baron patronage, but ultimately lacked the real incentive and personality to do the sort of Andrew Carnegie thing

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3h

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 20h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

ever since a follower mentioned this to me I've found something about it really funny. "Reborn as a space mercenary" makes me laugh when I say it out loud. Maybe I should read it

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 3h

Sudden vision of Robert W. Chambers (terrified, aside to Cassilda): "No scope? No scope!"

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 2d

That’s also pretty much the Feminist reading of Fight Club as well. Like, Tyler Durden’s jeering remark about Calvin Klein models happens all the time among certain women.

Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 2d

I'm reminded of those comments about how manosphere shit is basically just men subjecting themselves to the same body image problems that women have dealt with for generations and getting one-shotted by it

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2d

A huge part of current twitter is eating disorder content for racist guys

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently most of Ryukishi07’s games possess Sekai-Kei elements? I wondered what a Sekai-Kei game would look like if it was targeted towards women…and Silent Hill f fits the bill? It reminds of what Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World would’ve looked like if Mieko Kawakami authored it.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 3h

A reviewer once claimed that this book was an effort to re-frame WEIRD TALES centered on Robert E. Howard instead of Lovecraft. Which wasn't really the intent.

www.amazon.com/Weird-Talers...

Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Others

Amazon.com: Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Others eBook : Derie, Bobby: Kindle Store

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 3h

An archbishop praising the "noble calling of law enforcement" is very funny in a medievalist sense

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4h

NEW: Statement from Cardinal Blaise Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, on ICE activities in the city.

Implicitly refers to tactics used by ICE/DHS as “unnecessarily aggressive” and “seem to be intended to terrorize and cause chaos, rather than fulfilling the noble calling of law enforcement.”

Here's Cardinal Cupich's statement:
In this moment it is important to state clearly that keeping the nation safe and respecting human dignity are not mutually exclusive. In fact one cannot exist without the other. The safety of a nation cannot come at the expense of violations of human dignity and surely the dignity of the undocumented can never be violated by unnecessarily aggressive tactics that go far beyond the task of apprehending people and which seem to be intended to terrorize and cause chaos, rather than fulfilling the noble calling of law enforcement. No one working in this noble calling should be put in the position of acting this way. Not only do they risk violating the dignity of others but such activity is beneath their own dignity.

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