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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume

@andrewhickey.500songs.com

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That bloke who does that podcast your annoying friend keeps trying to get you to listen to. He/him. Posts every random thought in his head. AuDHD and not many filters. If you're only interested in my podcast you probably don't want to follow.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · Oct 17

Now we finally have pinned posts I can pin this and take it out of my profile:
Do *NOT* share screenshots of my posts to my podcast's FB fan group. This is not, for the most part, somewhere I talk about my work, and I don't like personal stuff about me being shared on platforms I'm not on.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 2h

Which is why those recently public domain character edgelord horror movies where the good, innocent hero character is a *gasp* murderer are somehow even worse than the corporate slop we were being fed before copyright expired. It’s not just lazy, it’s cashing in on old IP just like Disney is!

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 2h

IMO, the only good reason to take on a recently public domain character is to show how great they could still be if their former rights holder gave a shit about them and their legacy beyond merchandising.

David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 13h

I think the basic problem with all these low-effort horror movie adaptations of recently-public-domain cartoon characters is they always make the titular character the monster. Like, nobody gives a shit about a film where Mickey Mouse is a zombie; they want to see Mickey Mouse FIGHT the zombies!

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 11h

It’s a res publica, not a democracy, say people who support the wealthy demagogue ruling without the senate or popular assembly and suggesting paying the army from private funds.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 9h

"want to see marilyn monroe in gane of thrones?" no? no, i do not. but then again, i'm not an unimaginative little baby who confuses swapping pretty blonde women for "having ideas"

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 4h

Shit, bad luck. Hope it's as easy on you as possible (if nothing else, masking will have reduced the viral load and make it easier for you to get over it).

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 5h

My first word was apparently "hello" because everyone kept saying that to me, but there's a story of me as a baby being woken up by birds outside and my parents heard me over the baby monitor saying "Fucking birds..."

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 5h

According to my baby book, my first full sentence was “I want chicky pie.”

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 6h

I now know someone whose first words were "I want cheese"

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 5h

Ah, but the problem is remembering in the first place to put the pen in the place where pens go. If I could do *that* I would rule the world by now.

Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 6h

Honestly I think this is true of most things. By the time something has become codified as a genre to the point that people are saying "we're an X band" or "I'm a Y writer" it's essentially dead as far as interesting work in that genre goes.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · Sep 11

Make art with your friends. Organize an underground show. Buy tapes and zines from friends and strangers. Support each other. Culture is made by regular people living their lives and finding ways to connect, and capitalists can never own that.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · Sep 11

It's hard to disconnect yourself from capitalist pseudoculture, but it's more important now than ever. Spotify is replacing your playlists with corporate muzak. Harry Potter shit is being churned out by the same people who own Batman and The Sopranos. They want to kill the human capacity for art.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

I know the headline everyone's running with is "erotica" but "we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues" and "we are putting personality back in ChatGPT so it will act like a friend" are diametrically opposed statements

that's the cause of most of the mental health issues

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 12h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 6h

"your visa is contingent upon your support for this one weird podcaster" not a serious country

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 7h

The freedom of speech lovers are at it again

WSJ headline that reads "breaking news: The U.S. has revoked the visas of at least six people for their comments on the death of Charlie Kirk, the State Department said"

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 6h

I have a half formed thought that one of the reasons everything is so awful right now is specifically because the internet and tech are at the root of so much of it, and the thing that was meant to create the future has actually given us the six fingered cyberpunk version of the 1930s.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

this is true, and I also would like activists to finally figure out that Facebook hates you and works for Donald Trump

Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 14h

"The DOJ will continue engaging tech companies to *eliminate platforms* . . ."

This is your daily reminder Bondi specifically, and MAGA generally, spent the last 4 years accusing the Biden admin of jawboning tech companies to take down content in violation of the 1A.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 6h

Ah, but the problem is remembering in the first place to put the pen in the place where pens go. If I could do *that* I would rule the world by now.

Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 9h

Welcome to my life. There's a reason I've been on antihypertensives for over a decade :-/

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 9h

Would it surprise you that the owner of Scientific American's parent company, Stefan von Holtzbrinck, invested $37 million in Inkitt, an AI firm?

What a SHOCK

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 10h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 9h

it would be funny if the iambic Shakespeare plays were musicals and we just don't have the sheets so we put on a serious voice and try to make the lyrics sound like talking

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 9h

If you write a viral post that contains errors or lacks context, I *will* fact check it.

But don’t worry, no one will like or share the fact check anyway because it won’t be as exciting/funny/incendiary as the error/exaggeration/clickbait.

🤪

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 9h

I would *love* there to be a single place for stuff, but sadly my own ADHD is the kind where I know that systems just don't work for me. No matter how much I want to I'm not going to remember to do the thing that makes the system work anyway.

Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 10h

You are. You have to be, because you are significantly younger than me.

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 10h

Hi: I'm Jodie and I letter comics for basically every publisher. Said books notably include a bunch of Star Trek for IDW and the upcoming volume 2 of Galaxy for DC. Also pretty much anything @cerealpancake.bsky.social or @charliestickney.bsky.social ask me to do. longtalljodie.com #portfolioday

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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 10h

Goon Pod covered Murder By Death with @calamityjon.bsky.social

Five world-famous ‘tecs & dicks accept an invitation to stay at the crazy house of the mysterious Lionel Twain and over dinner are informed that someone will be murdered! Crikey!

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...

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