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Sinister Golden Bear 🎃 @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 3h

Techbros: Dead women can't say no

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14h

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

October 10, 2025

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 4h

Also acting isn’t just putting the costume on someone. This will never be able to show you how they would play the part. The best they’ll ever be able to do is how some techbro would play it with her face & why would you want that

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14h

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 4h

I think sometimes of a public art exhibition I went past this year of an artist’s collection of found photos. Each photo was of someone with their hand in front of their face, wishing to not be photographed. Blown up to huge size by a stranger, shown in public. We’ve become so uncaring of consent.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14h

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 3h

With respect, the reason people are assuming you'll cut corners by not checking is because you're already cutting corners by not doing the reading yourself and instead asking an LLM to do it for you.

Using LLMs for one part of a project undermines confidence in the integrity of the whole thing.

A post from a respected professor saying (with reference to her LLM usage) "Oh crikey of course I'm going to check it. How interesting that everyone on here seems to assume I wouldn't!"

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 11h

Oh dear, no thank you.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/s...

Plastic Surgery Comes for the Waist

www.nytimes.com

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 11h

Couple of thoughts:
(1) I miss Cora Harrington's presence, because she would have a thing or three to say about that header image
(2) Some of those historical illustrations of women with tiny corseted waists are actually fetish images

Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 11h

Oh dear, no thank you.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/s...

Plastic Surgery Comes for the Waist

www.nytimes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 12h

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

www.cnn.com

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applesnuff.bsky.social @applesnuff.bsky.social · 10h

Mailer, Oates, and that wretched Blonde movie all got their time in to use her abuse as launching points for their assumed virtuosity. This piece is a new low, even less regard for her life,abusing her after her death

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10h

By their own teachers, professors, schools and universities.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

gene kelly is antifa

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10h

I actually wrote this!
A fuck the haters section.
Sadly, I dont think the University of Illinois Press will let me publish it

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 11h

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 1d

I am in a Facebook group where people ridicule AI slop. Someone shared a Sora video in which Hitler was giving a TED Talk about how he was forced into World War II by the Poles & the Brits. I reported it & FB said it was not "hateful." Also, Sora apparently has no qualms producing vids with Hitler.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10h

This is, of course, only the beginning.
Neither OpenAI nor Meta care what kind of damage their tech will do as long as they get clicks and shares.

David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 1d

I am in a Facebook group where people ridicule AI slop. Someone shared a Sora video in which Hitler was giving a TED Talk about how he was forced into World War II by the Poles & the Brits. I reported it & FB said it was not "hateful." Also, Sora apparently has no qualms producing vids with Hitler.

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 20h

The CDC updates COVID vaccine guidance and stirs controversy over childhood immunizations. And global health experts warn of rising child malnutrition in Gaza.

2025 Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine, Physics and Chemistry Explained

The CDC updates COVID vaccine guidance and stirs controversy over childhood immunizations. And global health experts warn of rising child malnutrition in Gaza.

www.scientificamerican.com

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 20h

Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to destroy a near-priceless American treasure,” one historian says

The Strange Saga of the Great Texas Space Shuttle Heist

Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to destroy a near-priceless American treasure,” one historian says

www.scientificamerican.com

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 12h

In a just world, the tech companies who have told people that this sort of thing will work would be convicted of fraud.

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Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 13h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12h

When they keep emailing you that the VIP tickets for a band you’ve never heard of are going fast

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 13h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

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Camden @camdenluxford.bsky.social · 12h

This one leaves a particularly foul taste in my mouth because Monroe’s exploitation DIDN’T end w death.

Richard Poncher demanded to be buried face-down in the crypt above her. Hugh Hefner, who exploited her images in life, dropped
75K to “spend eternity” next to her.

Let this woman REST!

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14h

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12h

I mean it’s clear they don’t engage so I don’t see the point of bringing it up

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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 13h

It's so important to keep the "non-consensual" part of generative AI front and center.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14h

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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WeLoveYouQueenCarlotta @chucklebot314.bsky.social · 13h

This is so self-evidently wrong and vile and a violation that not to register it as such smacks of psychopathology.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14h

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 14h

No literally how you having a computer read for you. Ok so, when you read, what’s written goes in your head. And that’s how you know what you read. So you need to put the words in your head, not a machine.

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine admitting that you didn’t do your own work and that you’re basing your claims to epistemic authority on the computational equivalent of a game of snap.

No, I already have the papers. I want it to read the papers.

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 14h

Camus once said that a single sentence could describe modern man: "he fornicates and reads the paper" but now we must say "he refuses to read and does not even seem to care to fornicate"

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine admitting that you didn’t do your own work and that you’re basing your claims to epistemic authority on the computational equivalent of a game of snap.

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