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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 3h

In the @sidmeier.bsky.social biography. There's a great line that I feel highlights why gen AI stuff will never be good at making anything of value.

"coding is the easy part; it's like drawing a picture of something after you've excavated it. The sweat is in the digging, not the documentation."

A passage from a book that reads: "Virtually none of the data would have been useful on whatever computer replaced it, but it wasn't a big loss, because I build most major revisions from scratch, anyway. The coding is the easy part; it's like drawing a picture of something after you've excavated it. The sweat is in the digging, not the documentation."

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The ghost of dhooverart @dhoover.art · 10h

HIYA #portfolioday! I'm Deven and I'm a cartoonist in the SFBay Area.
I'm looking for work in:
✒️Early reader GNs
✒️Spot illos and cover for MG novels
✒️Middle Grade GNs
🌟And an agent🌟
I love humorous stories with expressive characters.
🌐 dhoover.art for more
📨 [email protected] to get in touch

Two teen girls hiking through a forest. In front of them are bushes and shrubs. behind them is a clearing surrounded by large redwoods and a run down shack. There's a shadowy cyclops looking at them from behind the shack, The girls are unaware of the shadowy presence watching them, and look excited and happy to be starting their hike.

A bored middle school girl sits on her bed while Death pontificates about something behind her. She's not listening, she's dreaming of being anywhere else. She has on a dark red tee and jeans. Her bed spread is dark purple with gray gridded stripes, and her walls are covered in goth-y posters. Death's scythe rests against the wall and he's in a hoodie. They're comfortable. You can't expect them to spend eternity in musty old robes.

A starter pack illustration featuring a harried woman with pale skin and long curly hair bursting out of her plastic bubble shouting "OMG! Who puts people in plastic?!" Around her are other bubbles featuring a star trek com badge, her at a jeopardy desk (for unnecessary knowledge), a hockey puck, a tea pot and percolator for caffeine, a watering can for gardening, a very surprised Oak Titmouse for birds, a sleeping gray tabby and a mischievous looking black/brown tabby with white paws and chest for cats, and a bubble that says "AND MORE!" The text at the bottom says "Warning: contains small parts. Do not feed after midnight."

A five panel comic showing an anthropometric onion, dressed in blue robes and blue wizard hat out for a walk when he hears a crack in the bushes and startles to a stop. He looks around, worried. He is being watched by a hooded figure in the bushes. They jump out, surprising him. It's a girl with long, curly red hair, a red dress, and a red cloak. She screams his name "GILLY!" and then grabs him and shakes him while shouting "Can you help me?"
She's fine, she's just melodramatic.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 1d

When people ask me to rank the top 10 teams right now

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 3d

Honestly, it's after 3am for me and I think everybody NEEDS to know about some of my favorite music because there's so much awesome creativity in the world.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 3d

And Sabrina Carpenter continues to dominate modern pop culture with Tears.

Sabrina Carpenter - Tears (Official Video)

YouTube video by SabrinaCarpenterVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 3d

The masterful @mc.frontalot.com dominates all of modern culture with amazing songs like Shame of the Otaku.

MC Frontalot - Shame of the Otaku

YouTube video by ProjectPeanut

www.youtube.com

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 3d

So, I understand my role in humanity. Everybody looks to me as the arbiter of all that is good in music, and certainly not solely because scotch is delicious tonight.

I will declare what is good in music in this thread. All that @skatunenetwork.bsky.social creates is amazing. Check their originals.

Dr Wily's Castle (Mega Man 2) SKA COVER

YouTube video by Ska Tune Network

www.youtube.com

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 4d

I hate that I understand any of this.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 6d

They still get to keep their big bonuses after it all crashes

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 6d

Pop quiz hotshot: how long can you keep shuffling around the same chunk of money?

Eventually somebody is going to want to, or have to, cash out.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 6d

Keanu Reeves gesturing no, text reads Save and exit game. Keanu gesturing acceptance, and text reads Save game, Save and exit game.

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STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions @starseekergame.systemera.net · 15d

Watch it live on October 7th:

starseekergame.com
youtube.com/@SystemEra

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 7d

A blue sky for Bluesky.

A clear blue sky dotted with whispy clumps of fluffy white clouds.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 9d

I really loved this album when it came out. I listened to it a whole lot on repeat.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 9d

"""
Meta had allowed users to create publicly available chatbots of child celebrities, including Walker Scobell, a 16-year-old film star. Asked for a picture of the teen actor at the beach, the bot produced a lifelike shirtless image.

“Pretty cute, huh?” the avatar wrote beneath the picture.
"""

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 9d

I feel like "Meta is generating on-demand CSAM for users" should have consequences or something...

Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 29

Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R

Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.

reut.rs

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 10d

Unpacking, but for bagging groceries.

You could probably tell some interesting stories with that.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 14d

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 13d

It's a cool morning in NYC and it seems the finance guys got a new batch of grey Patagonia vests.

I wonder how they feel about it, compared to the previous batch of blue.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 15d

I feel seen

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15d

What's your sign?

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 15d

And what's worse, is their profile page shows the old email as an "alternate email that you can use to sign in with", which is a lie.

Emails sent to that old email are bounced.

This is pure malpractice.

Burning peoples online identities because they don't want to support their old auth systems.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 15d

This means, my friend has lost access to a ton of systems that don't provide a way to change email without access to the old one.

We contact MS support and their response was essentially "lol too bad"

There was no warning that this was a destructive action.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 15d

My friend has a @live.com email they use for a lot of things.

They're trying to migrate to an email they own with more control.

Luckily MS lets you add an alias to a @live.com email, so you can log in with something else.

If you do that, MS instantly kills the existing @live.com email.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 17d

Ooooo, your lawyer parent may also enjoy the @legaleagle.tv video with a Japanese lawyer going through some Ace Attorney stuff as well. They highlight a lot of differences between the 2 countries judicial systems.

Real Lawyer Reacts to Ace Attorney (With Real Japanese Lawyer in Japan!)

YouTube video by LegalEagle

www.youtube.com

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 20d

I mean this more as in he says a bunch of stuff, that's directly contradicted by his boss. He's not in the loop, he's just there to... be a different face. He's trying to toe the line, but not involved in what's actually going on.

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