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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 12m

yeah i think i'll keep ignoring voda telling me to get a folding phone

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Pixel 10 Pro Fold explodes during durability test and isn't dustproof: Google doesn't learn

It's the weakest foldable he has ever encountered, claims durability tester Zack Nelson after the first battery explosion during his bend tests. Following the catastrophic performance of the first two...

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Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 16h

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Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’

Ex-OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever’s new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to release any product at all until SSI has develop…

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Foxdie @foxdie.bsky.social · 1h

Whats super infuriating is that until 60s our drugs policy was pretty good (heroin was available on prescription) and our addiction rates extremely low and health complications as a result of heroin very little issue. After pressure from US it was banned and rates + illness from addiction increased

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Noah @smellycandle42.bsky.social · 1h

Nobody seems willing to admit it but I really don't think you can separate the increasing coverage of gambling on video game websites from the mainstreaming of gacha and loot boxes.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1h

you simply do not "have to hand it to" any generation of the young republicans, and if you're a reformed former young republican the appropriate place to discuss your feelings about it is a therapist's office

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Winter🍷🦇 @cyberbully.darkwo.ke · 4d

In my experience the chance of making right wing old people cry when stating what I think of their opinions in a cold, firm voice is like… well into the double digits lol. They are made of softness and fear.

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pretty bug @inyourculture.bsky.social · 4d

faggots and lefties need to be so annoying and in-your-face that every institution in the world has no choice but to go "ugh fine" and cede cultural power to us

pretty bug @inyourculture.bsky.social · 4d

something i've discovered after a week or so on threads: right-wingers shut the fuck down when we troll them on their own turf. we gotta be getting westboro baptist on them. i'm talking protesting military funerals holding "god hates straight people" signs. i'm talking about making truth social gay

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 1d

Bluesky is broken because the main Link is missing

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 22h

'Sora cost $20 a month & subscribers can generate an unlimited number of AI videos... this costs (Sora owners) OpenAI "at least $5 per 10-second video"'.

Journalists, please ask more questions about how this tech could ever in a million years make a profit?

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 22h

studio execs & major outlets claim AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over Hollywood. the reality is much different. i spoke with filmmakers, producers, and editors about how AI is actually showing up in productions – and what it still can't do:

Hollywood Has a Major AI Hype Problem

Studio execs and major media outlets claim that AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over film and TV. The reality is much different.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13h

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 13h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 2h

I really do not understand how rightwing minorities do not understand that this Nazi shit is coming for them too

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2h

It’s not that fucking complicated. No one can make you care about people who have a different risk model than you have (or think you have…).

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2h

I would rather get a daily push notification from whoever it is you think is the most annoying person making you feel the worst about not masking than ever having to deal with long Covid, which I’m still recovering from.

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 11h

what about pivot-to-ai.com ?

Pivot to AI

It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2h

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 2h

Finishing a STEM degree while neurodivergent is like congrats you have a rare and in-demand skillset now BUT!!! Everyone who's hiring expects you to do those skills naked in a glass box at the worst possible hours, and will not consider any other arrangement for employing you.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2h

If you gave up masking long ago, you can start anytime. “But none of my friends do.” Think back: did some of your friends “just disappear” in 2021 and stop planning hang outs with you?

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Symphony Hardwicke - Fastiff @kaminara.bsky.social · 15h

Jokes aside, I will be short on money for a while so if you have enjoyed anything I've done or just my pictures consider supporting me 🫶
Either links below or just reposting this

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2h

AI video generators. Note that Sora 2 seems to be about as bad as Google Veo.

You get impressive demo clips out of these things by generating a *zillion* clips and only putting up your few successes. "I meant to do that." And never share your prompt, else others might try too and go "wtf."

BEAT @beatskelton.bsky.social · 3h

THE PART THAT REALLY STUCK WITH ME WAS WHEN HE POINTED OUT THAT THE PEOPLE POSTING CLIPS AND GOING "WOW SO AMAZING" NEVER SHARE THEIR PROMPTS, BECAUSE THAT WOULD REVEAL THAT THE USELESS MACHINE FUCKED UP VERY BASIC DIRECTIONS.
IT CAN ONLY CREATE CLIPS THAT LOOK IMPRESSIVE IN COMPLETE ISOLATION.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2h

AI video generators

honkhonkhonkhonkho.bsky.social @honkhonkhonkhonkho.bsky.social · 3h

Don't forget that you only ever get CLIPS. You never get coherent *scenes*. Like give me five minutes with recognizably the same characters in recognizably the same area? It can't fucking do that.

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BEAT @beatskelton.bsky.social · 3h

EVERY TIME I SEE A TERRIBLE BULLSHIT POST LIKE THIS ONE, I THINK ABOUT DAVID GERARD'S EXCELLENT SERIES OF VIDEOS ON HOW BAD AI VIDEO IS AT ACTUALLY FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS AND HOW EVERYTHING IT SPITS OUT IS LESS THAN USELESS FOR THE CREATION OF ACTUAL FILM.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

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

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BEAT @beatskelton.bsky.social · 3h

IT REALLY IS REQUIRED VIEWING. EYE OPENING STUFF. bsky.app/profile/davi...

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · Jul 23

here is the playlist of all four of our Google Veo 3 failure videos, for your delight and horror

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDkk...

We test Google Veo 3: impressive demo, unusable results

YouTube video by Pivot to AI

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honkhonkhonkhonkho.bsky.social @honkhonkhonkhonkho.bsky.social · 3h

But look I only want pushback from people who are nice and respectful and where we can agree to disagree. When they tell me that my AI plans for racist/classist crimes are "moron dogshit" and "unethical" and that I should be "killed with hammers for being so stupid" it hurts my feelings.

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Oscar Zeta Gundam @lmfsilva.bsky.social · 12h

He wants to hear Swisher talk to Sammy for two hours on how this *might* seem a bubble but actually it's all financially sound once cost of inference comes down after the aliens appear and build the first handful of Terawatt data centers completely free.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 6h

I really dislike this posting technique of chucking out a couple of insults, then pretending that you are looking for reasonable responses and scolding anyone who takes their cue from the tone of the original post.

Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 1d

are there AI critics or sceptics out there worth reading? (Not Ed Zitron types who just do a whole THIS IS VERY BAD shouty, largely substance-free schtick)

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