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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 19

Sam Altman: yeah so data centers, well you know they take a lot of power to run. And I figure, what is more powerful than Goku?

Interviewer: Goku is pretty powerful.

Altman: Goku will power our data centers.

Interviewer: yeah

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 41m

Sora is a paper machete. It is low-quality, impossible to make consistent or reliable, while also being incredibly expensive to run. Every single “good” video you’ve seen is cherrypicked from dozens of terrible ones to make you feel scared that this can create entire movies’ worth of content.

Dustin @hareandthere.bsky.social · 1h

Curious to hear your perspective on Sora. It seems to be the only real (and terrifying) AI product to hit the market lately. How much mileage are they going to get out of this thing that needs to be regulated out of existence?

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 29m

lowkey nothing hurts more than seeing all your paycheck go to a giant bill

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Korlis @korl.is · 1h

this is why I won't have children. imagine exposing one to excel.

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 2h

the baby caught a glimpse of microsoft teams on her dad’s phone. you hope to shelter them from things like this until they’re older. naturally she’s inconsolable

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1h

Anyway this changes little about the fact that capitalism must be destroyed and socialism must be built. Thank you

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1h

pokemon: heres a sort of sexual ballerina monster. heres a rabbit someone might want to fuck

digimon: this monster is a female member of the human race with her tits out. you can see the shape of her pussy under her leather pants

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peej @katabasis.bsky.social · 1h

It’s standard liberal logic: “All of the failures of the country are attributable to the Other Team. My Team only does good things. If My Team *seems* like they’re doing a bad thing, it’s actually a good thing.”

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peej @katabasis.bsky.social · 1h

“please put your full legal name and personal information into this handy sign-up page! No don’t worry about plainclothes officers trying to ply information out of you - that is all made up by Online Leftists. But fascism is very dangerous!“

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peej @katabasis.bsky.social · 2h

Fascism is a system of human organization you midwit.

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 3h

As long as the capitalist system remains intact, the natural tendency of capitalist economies to concentrate wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands inevitably leads to those people being able to destroy what little democracy liberalism can offer us.

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peej @katabasis.bsky.social · 2h

Did you join bluesky specifically to beef with Talib Kweli

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peej @katabasis.bsky.social · 2h

I’m sure you abused plenty of people!

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peej @katabasis.bsky.social · 2h

This exact mentality is why the Democrat party are perennial losers. They’re addicted to losing.
And you love them for it.

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peej @katabasis.bsky.social · 2h

Measurably better* in every way

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peej @katabasis.bsky.social · 2h

What do you think a “society” is

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peej @katabasis.bsky.social · 2h

Weren’t they burning and hanging effigies of Obama

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peej @katabasis.bsky.social · 2h

How many people did you “mistreat and abuse” when you were on deployment

Be honest

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3h

Mom can you come pick me up, they invented “technically it’s ephebophilia” for torture

Pat Flickner 🐉 @patflickner.bsky.social · 3h

Stop saying she was tortured. You are the only one saying it. She was mistreated and abused. That does not meet the legal definition. Just stop spreading lies

Did Israeli authorities mistreat Greta Thunberg after flotilla arrest? Here's what we know

Israeli authorities arrested Thunberg and more than 400 other activists who were part of the Global Sumud Flotilla in early October 2025.

www.snopes.com

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 2h

the obama era republican strategy of "prevent obama from doing anything and then belittle his failures" seems to have been a more effective strategy than the trump era democratic strategy of "let trump do whatever he wants with no problem and hope people notice it's bad enough to vote for us again"

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 2h

The bush era Nazis signed up to kill and torture people in the Middle East with great zeal. The anime Nazis wouldn’t. Is that the difference

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peej @katabasis.bsky.social · 2h

She blocked me like a True Logician lol

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peej @katabasis.bsky.social · 3h

Hilarious to do this but again ignore any actual material policy outcomes as if the party platforms and target voter populations have not shifted at all in 50 years. The democrats of 2024 are indistinguishable from Republicans in 2008.

peej @katabasis.bsky.social · 3h

You don’t even need to scratch a liberal to find a fascist anymore. Just give them fascist policy but make it paperwork and they eat that shit right up

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peej @katabasis.bsky.social · 3h

all of it has everything to do with what is going on now. Your inability to see politics and history as contiguous events, and aversion to “dredge up the past”, means that you are incapable of identifying cause and effect. Or even see the broader arc of the US’s political trajectory.

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peej @katabasis.bsky.social · 3h

Ok great so you admit that mass deportation is good and fine as long as its done bureaucratically.

Thank you for clarifying!

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