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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 15h

“According to the masses: It is not reasonable to place any expectations on the broad back of the majority of society, but it *is* … to pile everything the majority won’t do on the thin slice of disabled people who are carrying their own weight and attempting to carry everyone else’s as they drown.”

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 16h

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

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The Argyro System @cadillacdesert.bsky.social · 9h

Unlike Chainsaw Man ChatGPT sucks your dick

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

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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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

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

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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The Argyro System @cadillacdesert.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe this is what video games need to be good (graphic media for spoilers)

Hornet and Shakra from Hollow Knight: Silksong. Hornet is playing her "Needolin" instrument while Shakra sings.

A scene from Outer Wilds featuring characters sitting around a campfire in the woods. One plays the banjo while another plays a stringed instrument resembling a violin.

Link and Sheik from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, standing outside a ruined castle. They are playing the "Minuet of TIme," Link on the ocarina and Sheik on the harp.

A scene from Chicory: A Colorful Tale where your character and another sing a song together. A cartoon dog and rabbit are standing across from each other with rhythm-game prompts showing the lyrics "Could I learn..."

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 3d

Explain to me why “conversion therapy” is banned in 28 countries and ABA is not, when they have the same creator (O. Ivar Lovaas) and utilize similar if not identical principles, techniques, and goals (forced assimilation).

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 3d

Autism $peaks is the largest and most popular Autism organization (among allistics), who continues to be 100% in support of ABA. They have lobbyists who push ABA as the “gold standard Autism treatment.” It utilizes same practices as “conversion therapy,” which is currently banned in 28 countries.

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 3d

ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) is the “gold standard” of “treatment” for Autism, and was created by the person as “Conversion therapy” (see Lovaas) with similar techniques and goals. It’s torture that continues to have widespread support and acceptance.

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The Argyro System @cadillacdesert.bsky.social · 3d

You just made me realize "vania" by itself doesn't even mean anything because I'm pretty sure "transylvania" is "trans-sylvania," not "transyl-vania"

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The Argyro System @cadillacdesert.bsky.social · 3d

I believe anyone who bellyaches about one world government has the politics of D.W. Griffith

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5d

The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.

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The Argyro System @cadillacdesert.bsky.social · 6d

Lawyers are exposed because they bill clients based on how long everything takes and some of them don't seem to have any plans about how to deal with it if clients start thinking AI should mean everything goes quicker.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6d

I think lawyers are and aren’t exposed to automation risk because I buy that for most common legal use cases this is or will soon be a LLM that will give you legal advice as good as you’d get from the average lawyer you could afford, about 70% of the time, and possibly destroy your life other 30%

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The Argyro System @cadillacdesert.bsky.social · 6d

Then it could only have been because of Kingdom Hearts II

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6d

God keep me from ever completing anything.

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 6d

Lovelace Groins

United States, Census, 1900

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 11d

Nevertheless

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FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 13d

People outside academia are finally discovering Tyler Cowen. This may be better than the Kershnar event.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 13d

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human
Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.

A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14

By Tyler Cowen

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The Argyro System @cadillacdesert.bsky.social · 13d

I've seen people suggest Silksong is "not supposed to be fun" and I think they should play Takeshi's Challenge

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 13d

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 14d

Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the terrorist group known as the federalist society?

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16d

oh the border patrol accomplished this bit of work with the help of a kavanaugh stop www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

Mother, children detained by ICE at Millennium Park Sunday held at O’Hare with other families: ‘We never imagined’

The mother said she felt her family was targeted because of their appearance. “There were a lot more people there, but the agents came directly to us because of how we look,” she said.

www.chicagotribune.com

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The Argyro System @cadillacdesert.bsky.social · 16d

Did the episode include the bit where Semiu says Rudo has something in him that could destroy the world?

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chrome @leftcrom.bsky.social · 17d

it's so funny that due to the passage of time utena is a retro anime pokemon referenced, despite being exactly one day younger

lillie from pokemon dressed as utena and holding mallow's hands, with mallow dressed as anthy

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 18d

It makes a stranger stare.

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明/Aki @aki26428.bsky.social · Aug 22

#モノノ怪_FA

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The Argyro System @cadillacdesert.bsky.social · 25d

I read Ayn Rand's biography and the single most out-of-character thing she did in her life was attempt to make friends with Sidney Hook.

Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 25d

It is the same social phenomenon as "people who write for the Express read the Guardian". Everyone wants cachet from the liberal intelligentsia. It's specifically bluesky users they want to be read by. Talking to the audience they get on Twitter is killing them.

John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 25d

If you want to be on X, go ahead, no one's stopping you. Free country. You can read The Mail or watch rage-inducing videos on YouTube. Do what you like.