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Whamukars @whamukars.bsky.social · 7h

Hey remember when Ari Shapiro was saying stupid shit about AI and Simon David, the showrunner for The Wire, essentially called him out for being a creatively bankrupt moron and told him that he would rather blow his brains out? Thinking about that again for some odd reason

Ari Shapiro: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, I could imagine today you thinking , boy, I wish I had that tool to solve those thorny problems...

David Simon: What?

Ari Shapiro: ... Or saying....

David Simon: You imagine that?

Ari Shapiro: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.

David Simon: I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writer do at a fundamentally creative level.

Ari Shapiro: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.

David Simon: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
Ari Shapiro: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, I could imagine today you thinking , boy, I wish I had that tool to solve those thorny problems...

David Simon: What?

Ari Shapiro: ... Or saying....

David Simon: You imagine that?

Ari Shapiro: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.

David Simon: I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writer do at a fundamentally creative level.

Ari Shapiro: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.

David Simon: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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zoraal ja's psychoanalyst @zoraalja.bsky.social · 12h

PS. if a nonwhite person is communicating with you and they bring up that you are white and that this makes you prone to listening to them Less, they are right. if you think theyre "pulling the race card" i will kick the shit out of you myself. Shut Up And Listen To Them.

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Still bad at witty names @arp1033.bsky.social · 11h

Chef Mouse and Manatouille make their impassioned defense of themselves in court! Will they be let off, or will they owe Copywrite Corporation a huge amount of money?

A tan mouse and a little guy are arguing in a courtroom. Behind them is a brown mouse in a suit with an angry eyebrow. There is a judge and a bail looking at the three of them, they also have angry eyebrows. The courtroom is brown with a gray floor, and we can see a sunny landscape outside. The courtroom, judge and bailiff are all reused from a previous artwork but have been updated with some extra work so they look better.

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ᴄᴀʟᴜᴍ ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴛ @calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social · 20h

Pretty Things

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~Classic Anime Girl of the Day!~ @retroanimegirls.bsky.social · 14h

Today's Classic Anime Girl is Hitomi Kanzaki, main protagonist of "The Visions of Escaflowne" (1996)!

(Submitted by @a-ninja-magpie.bsky.social!)

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Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 14h

as a senator, obama voted to renew the USA PATRIOT Act

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 21h

obama ramped up the use of drone strikes (10x more than bush!) and deported a record number of immigrants. he helped maintain and expand the systems trump is now using to do his crimes

Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 1d

I miss the times when the worst thing a President did was wear a tan suit

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"Frankenstein" is the monster's name, Victor is MY name @victorperfecto.bsky.social · 1d

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Flash In The Pan @flashitpancast.bsky.social · 1d

We're back with a HALLOWEEN SPECIAL, now available for Flashketeers! Join today if you wanna hear it RIGHT NOW, and not wait a whole entire week! www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

Episode 126: The Wonka Industrial Complex | Flash In The Pan

www.patreon.com

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Still bad at witty names @arp1033.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no! Chef Mouse just got a summons from Copywrite Character Corp!

A mouse in the right side of the frame is turned to the left with an exclamation point over her head. She is holding a chef's hat in her hand upon which a tiny man is standing with his hands up and a tiny exclamation point over his head. On the left side of the frame is a brown mouse in a black suit, holding out a document that says Summons on it. Right mouse has angry eyebrows.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

If you were at the No Kings events, please wear a mask for the next few days.

Covid is not over.

You can infect others before you feel symptomatic.

People are losing their healthcare. They’re losing their food assistance. They’re losing housing.

We need to protect each other.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 23d

4 panel comic

Panel 1: ICE “Agent” (thug) punches protester hard in the face.
Agent: STOP

Panel 2: ICE Agent viciously snaps protester’s arm
Agent: BEING

Panel 3: ICE Agent strangles protester
Agent: POLITICALLY

Panel 4: ICE Agent stamps on protester’s head
Agent: VIOLENT

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The Town That Dreaded Sundown McMoon @sundownmcmoon.bsky.social · Oct 16

The G-Witch dub is Just Wild

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · Jun 13

PSA for everyone going to protests

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Still bad at witty names @arp1033.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no! Cook Mouse is cheating, there is a little guy in her hat controlling her, which also opens up some uncomfortable implications about this world which I will NOT be expanding upon at this time

A man in a white shirt and has a grey chef's hat is inside a larger, lighter grey chefs hat and is controlling a very large tan mouse. This is in reference to a certain Pixar/Disney movie which I will not name.

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Osaka: None/bun - A sack of nuns @osakanone.bsky.social · 5d

if you don't know what ocremix is, put it into youtube and go listen to some of the best music you've ever heard

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JoCat @twitchcon @jocat.net · 3d

Remember, just block and move on

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red 🎃 @prettypinkpansy.bsky.social · 3d

i am so tired of everyone saying "it looks like AI" at every piece of bad art. not only are you insulting the artist, you are making it really, painfully obvious you have no idea what AI art looks like or how to actually recognize it, and now every real artist has to live in fear of people like you.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 3d

"utilise"

inglorious bastards scene where he holds up three fingers incorrectly, thus giving himself away as a perfidious englishman

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Still bad at witty names @arp1033.bsky.social · 3d

What if a mouse was a chef?

An orange tan mouse sands in a white kitchen. They are holding a mixing bowl in one weirdly buff arm while they whisk with a whisk in their other, more normal arm. They are wearing a grey chef's cap. On one wall is a brown corkboard with some messages on it, and on the other is a silverware rack that has a ladle, flipper and three knives on it attached magnetically. It is unclear what is in the mixing bowl, it is just red, blue and green blobs, hopefully the mouse knows what they are doing.

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Still bad at witty names @arp1033.bsky.social · 3d

I remember when I got my dual colonoscopy/endoscopy that the prep powder/Gatorade combo was maybe the weirdest, goopiest thing I ever had

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 4d

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samus aran enjoyer @riotlinguist.bsky.social · 4d

"tool for liberation" (where "liberation" means "destroying available online corpora of at-risk languages and accelerating the global state and capitalist colonization of linguistic diversity")

(*goofy to treat this as a problem of wikipedia rather than genAI bulldozing)

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 5d

“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

www.technologyreview.com

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe a good day to unfollow Hard Drive if you had still been following them. It's no wonder they need AI to make jokes for them these days.

Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 4d

reminder that the people who made Hard Drive good were pushed out and some of us are doing our own thing here. give us a follow to support independent gaming satire and not whatever the fuck this is supposed to be

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Still bad at witty names @arp1033.bsky.social · 4d

What if a mouse was feeling ill?

A tan mouse with pale hands, feet and tail is standing with a thermometer in their mouth. The thermometer is mostly red, indicating a high temperature. There are blue squiggles around the mouse to indicate they are cold and shivering. This art piece is to reflect how the artist is also ill and very cold.

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brendon bigley @bb.wavelengths.online · 5d

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