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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 7h

(Monroe specifically attracts this attitude, because these people don't respect her as an actress or a human being, but that's a whole separate discussion.)

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 7h

One of the many things I hate about AI is how it reduces everything to an (superficial) aesthetic. You can't see "Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones," even if (big if) Sora managed to perfectly recreate her, because you're not seeing the choices she'd have made as an actress. There's no substance.

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

www.scientificamerican.com

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 6h

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10h

Walked Tomales Bay Trail today, with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social.

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T(im) Ocellus @attimowens.bsky.social · 16h

Tired of these listless piranhas. They're just poking at SPECTRE-8 like he's green melon on a fruit tray. Ugh, vendors.

T(im) Ocellus @attimowens.bsky.social · 20h

[Bored Blofeld posts]

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 8h

every once in a while I feel like I get a glimpse of what social networking would be if the platform incentives were just to give us a glimpse of normal people enjoying themselves...

What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 9h

Someone did not spend enough of his money giving Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito plane rides and it shows

Tyler Walpole - NYCC Artist Alley H-15 @tylerwalpole.bsky.social · 23h

Absolutely floored when this SCOTUS actually does the obviously right thing.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 9h

There should be one pumpkin pie for the family and one sweet potato pie for me.

David 🇵🇸 but imagine some spooky wordplay @ididtheiggy.bsky.social · 10h

There should be one pumpkin pie for the family and one for me

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10h

This seems like a job for somebody on here

Comics Jobs @comics-jobs.com · 11h

Assistant Editor, Manga at Penguin Random House

Full-time | Remote (Anywhere)

comics-jobs.com

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 10h

David Immerglück recounting working with T Bone Burnett when Counting Crows recorded Mr. Jones.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

T Bone cued me in to play my guitar behind the tempo of the drums. He said: “If you rush ahead of the drums you sound like an adolescent jacking off too quickly.” He’s got the southern accent because he’s from Texas and his advice was just to imagine that you’ve put your feet up on the mixing board and chewing gum while you’re playing.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 10h

1999: someday the internet will be a record of everything that ever happened

2025: someday the internet will be a record of everything that never happened

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 11h

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

(via Axios)

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 11h

Plus, calculators have been able to sext for decades, so they're further along than ChatGPT l.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12h

Unfortunately we have decades of fiction that have used AI rights as an allegorical stand-in for the moral treatment of disfavored groups of persons, which is probably going to make a lot of rather dim people feel very righteous about demanding the vote for calculators.

Franklin Digito Robovelt 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @fdrobovelt.bsky.social · 12h

We're going to speed run to "my AI bot is a legal person and has rights" aren't we?

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12h

Unfortunately we have decades of fiction that have used AI rights as an allegorical stand-in for the moral treatment of disfavored groups of persons, which is probably going to make a lot of rather dim people feel very righteous about demanding the vote for calculators.

Franklin Digito Robovelt 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @fdrobovelt.bsky.social · 12h

We're going to speed run to "my AI bot is a legal person and has rights" aren't we?

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 12h

"The most threatening thing I've seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there."

The truest thing he's said, but not in the way he meant it?

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 13h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 17h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 14h

Would you do a single "salsa" entrant, or make distinctions - pico de gallo, salsa verde, etc.?

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 14h

Close Awokenings of the Third Kind

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14h

I saw some references to a study showing fewer young people were trans. The author is "Director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science" who recently published "The Third Awokening: A 12-Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism."

His "science" has the credibility of a wet fart.

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 16h

The "study" is by Eric Kaufman, a DeSantis supporter who left his post at the University of London citing "cancel culture." He believes that trans identity is a social contagion.

Here's what he believes his study proves.

Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 15h

A former colleague went there on a business trip in the late 90s, early 00s, and their cab driver from the airport volunteered, unprompted, the information that Palestinians were subhuman savages who were incapable of loving their children and trained them to be terrorists from infancy.

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 15h

ban it now

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 19h

Padres manager Mike Shildt said he retired in part because of death threats from sports bettors:

Mike Shildt says decision to retire was his own, but Padres questions remain

www.nytimes.com

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 16h

He'll be packing his own lunches.

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 16h

I am once again reminding everyone not to confess your sins or share your most private desires with a company that can be subpoenaed or hacked.

The Verge @theverge.com · 19h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 17h

Those who do not learn from My Pillow Guy are doomed to repeat him.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 17h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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Ben Lamb @bennyfactor.bsky.social · 19h

the guy who nearly caused irreversible damage to our biosphere in two differing fun and unique ways also ... was paralyzed by polio... invented a system to get himself out of bed ... and was killed by it

truly learn something new every day

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

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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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

this is an opinion from someone who does not realize the vast majority of human moderation at scale is done in the Global South

it is not good for those people

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