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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 12h

2021, MSFT claimed a Teams app could read emotional affect & I's like "holy shit this will fuck over so many Black & autistic & otherwise neurodivergent & women & non-binary ppl & ppl w/ chronic pain & … like Everybody at any of those intersections."

This PainChek thing is that, but a doctors' tool

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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blushpup 💫🐾 @fluxblush.bsky.social · 1d

doodle of flux I got carried away with and ended up rendering ehehe.. been having more fun with shibari lately, real inspiring stuff!!

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Basil 🌿 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 5d

Keep furry freaky

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Tron's evil twin brother Troff @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes the most obvious clip is obvious for a reason.

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · Feb 11

a feverish skies of arcadia obsession lurks deep in my bones, waiting merely for the activation phrase

A piece I did of Vyse from Skies of Arcadia, leaping into action!

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haunted chan ⛈️😱👻 @arcadechan.bsky.social · Jun 24

big blue yonder 🏴‍☠️ || #SkiesofArcadia #fanart #art

A drawing of Vyse from the waist up, from the videogame Skies of Arcadia. He's holding his sword in front of him, up at his chest. His expression is confident as he looks down at the camera. The Blue Rogue pirate flag flies behind him. His outfit is blue, the background is skyblue. In the upper right corner in the background is a bright pink X.

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R.Case @rcase.bsky.social · Mar 24

I said I wanted to draw Aika and I did. Come on @sega-west.bsky.social we want a port of Skies of Arcadia on modern consoles.

#fanart #art #skiesofarcadia

Aika from "Skies of Arcadia" in a jumping pose, holding her large boomerang over one shoulder and holding a gold coin in her other hand. Sega should really port the game to modern consoles someday.

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Rii Abrego @riibrego.bsky.social · Sep 15

blue rogues #art

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 8d

What. The fuck.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9d

ICE/DHS put out a completely false story to justify shooting a civilian in Chicago.

Many social media accounts were only too happy to repeat the narrative, going as far as to say ICE engaged in self defence.

Thank god for the body cam footage, but this shows why we don’t trust anything DHS says

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 9d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 11d

We did not weather nigh two decades of “lazy millennials are destroying every single industry” to turn around and do this to Gen Z!!!

Fortune @fortune.com · 11d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

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punkitt ‼️💞 @punkitt.bsky.social · 17d

its tough out there but so am i

a perturbed looking wolf girl with an arrow pointing to her and a caption that reads: (more than a little frustrated at how people
see her kindness and optimism as a sign of
naivete rather than the result of consistently
having her anxiety spirals and doomsayer
thoughts proven wrong by many genuine
people over the last two and a half decades
of her life and that this is not the tactic of a
fool but one of someone who has seen the
effects that believing in the future and in
other people can have on those around you)

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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 18d

This guy's the best the Democrats have right now, and it isn't even close. If the Party used him and his campaign as a template, they'd sweep from dog catcher to senate in 2026.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19d

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2

When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline.

109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

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Big Natural Resources @dagnificent.bsky.social · 18d

Heart to like autism.
Repost to fight for autistic people.

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Sierra | Toraccel @toraccel.bsky.social · 20d

Always a good time to stand up for the queer and poc artists and creators in this community

coolga @coolga.bsky.social · 21d

rofl, Zeztz has caught the attention of those rightoid culture war vultures. Toku discourse is gonna become unbearable for the next few months

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PSX Bunlith 🪄 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 20d

boycotts work. anyone who says otherwise is spreading pro corporate, pro government propaganda

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20d

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿 @ commissions open! @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 25d

the ridiculous bsky censorship situation is making me want to try my hand at nsfw art and i thrive on spite 👀

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🏳️‍⚧️June, Your Slasher Wife🏳️‍⚧️ @yourhotclowngf.bsky.social · 26d

Repost if you like Gundam or huge boobs

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Arcane Moon @arcmoon.bsky.social · 23d

I love autistic people because I love myself. And they are lovable.

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Big Natural Resources @dagnificent.bsky.social · 23d

Tell me why you love autistic people.

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Pat Stares At Clown World @patstaresat.bsky.social · 28d

Borderlands 2 came out in 2012 and 3 came out in 2019. Tastes significantly changed between those two periods. That's why.

Zoe @zoeleet.bsky.social · 28d

It also blows my mind that people hate Borderlands 3 for the writing but praise 2. They're both awful and unfunny. They're like watching a crappy stand up comedian die on stage and you're completely sober.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 28d

SAG-AFTRA, WGA, DGA, IATSE???

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 28d

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.

Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.

Collective boycott.

Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 28d

ah, well

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Jan 23

a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 28d

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments.

that fox news host still has his job.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 13

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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carlos whisper @mae.seal.observer · 29d

Apparently this is false, the article that cites this information was translated from a Korean article that doesn’t mention ChatGPT at all. The song was also written 8 years ago. I think Sherwin Wu just lied to try and drum up excitement using a popular thing

beatrice ☾ .⁺⋆ @beawiitch.bsky.social · Sep 15

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

We launched the OpenAl Korea office yesterday!

Fav moment from the launch celebration was hearing singer/songwriter Vince share that ChatGPT helped him write
"Soda Pop" from KPop Demon Hunters!
It apparently gave him ideas to make it sound "more bubbly"

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