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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 1h

We need a few books about this, honestly... I had no idea so many felt that way until recently.

Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 6h

Gonna do an essay about how MTV made white Gen X-ers think racism evaporated in the 90s.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 5d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 5h

The funniest part of all the billionaires are building bunker stories is the part where they’re sure the class hierarchy will survive the apocalypse.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 3h

you know bluesky is for 38-year-olds because the website takes a little nap in the early afternoon

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1d

“What if you could fuck the singularity?” is the apotheosis of technofuturism

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

turns out it's all narrative warfare

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tante @tante.cc · 1d

Hallo Baden-Württemberg!

Eure Regierung will Palantirs Software einsetzen, was absolut nicht im Interesse von irgendwem ist.

Es gibt eine offizielle Petition dagegen, mitzeichnen, weiterleiten, Eure Eltern und Familien damit zusammen:

petitionen.landtag-bw.de/Petitionen/D...

Keine Nutzung der Software “Gotham” von Palantir in Baden-Württemberg

petitionen.landtag-bw.de

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

It’s going to be incredible how the first 25 years of the 21st century are going to be a black hole for future historians in terms of how much art, writing, and basic correspondence (emails!) they’re used to for other periods is just gone.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2d

I was pretty sure I had interviewed Marc Maron at some point. I could not have told you when it was or even what publication it was for never mind what we talked about. But the actual interview is nowhere to be found. So much of my past work is gone. So much of everything is gone.

No lessons learned

Come see me at The Sinclair in Cambridge on Saturday November 8 with Dave Wedge, Bill Shaner, Eoin Higgins, and Evan Greer; Wednesday November 12 at the Francis Kite Club in New York City with Spencer...

www.welcometohellworld.com

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Don Alfons des Kleinbürgerprekariats @senorfuck.bsky.social · 1d

Hab erst nur das Bild gesehen und dachte Stefan Raab hätte 1 neues Hobby

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Sep 6

Do it.

Search your name.

Take their money.

It’s yours anyway.

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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axaV @axaxaxav.myatproto.social · 1d

tag yourself

3x9 panels, gefüllt mit jeweils einer gezeichneten figur (o.ä.), die irgendwelche laute produziert
1. panel: ein space invader artiges monster mit beinen, einem auge, offenem zahnbewertem maul, drüber steht "aaarg"
2. panel: ein retro roboter mit langen armen und zangenhänden, drüber steht "bzzt"
3. panel: ein rabe, drüber steht "craw"
4. : zwei kleine space invater artige figürchen mit 3 beinchen, drüber steht "dib dib"
5. : eine rakete fliegt von links nach rechts, drüber steht "eeeee"
6. : eine brennende figur rennt nach rechts, drüber steht "foom"
7. : ein bigfoot artiges monster, drüber steht "grrr"
8. : ein mensch(?) sitzt auf einem großen reittier, das aussieht wie eine bebeinte wurst, drüber steht "hup"
9. : ein langer, leicht verknoteter wurm, drüber steht "ifff"
10. : eine dicke schwarze kugel mit fledermausflügeln und 4 beinchen, drübe rsteht "jiji"
11. : eine auf 4 beinen laudende waschmaschine, drüber steht "klatch"
12. : eine yeti artige figur mit langen armen, drüber steht "lunk"
13. : ein mensch geht mit großer katze an der leine, drüber steht "miau"
14. : ein schawrzer glibbriger haufen, drüber steht "nom"
15. :ein humanoider geist fliegt herum, drüber steht "ooooo"
16. : ein quader mit sprungfeder untenrum drüber steht "poing"
17. : ein kurzer wurm/raupe, drüber steht "qup"
18. : ein riesiger im bis zur nase im boden steckender kopf, drüber steht "rrumb"
19. : eine große ameise, drüber steht "scree"
20. : ein quadratischer elefant, drüber steht "tromp"
21. : ein "höhlenmensch" mit speer und lendenschurz, drüber steht "uraga"
22. : ein panzer, oben schaut eine figur raus, drüber steht "vrrr"
23. : leeres panel, drüber steht "woomp"
24. : eine figur scheint in einem spinnenkokon zu stecken, nur die augen sind zu sehen, drüber steht "xptly"
25. : 5 kleine weiße figürchen mit 4 beinen, drüber steht "yip yip yip yip"
26. : fliegende untertasse, ein mensch sitzt drin, drüber steht "zzz"
27. : leer

unten rechts am rand der autor: tom gauld

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Jude "Pre-Order DILF" Doyle @judedoyle.bsky.social · 2d

The average heterosexual couple at any date-night establishment in Greenpoint

A young woman. White t-shirt, long hair, smile, she looks nice.

An ent. He has a long mossy beard down to his knees and a vast cloud of twigs and leaves for hair. He has been alive since the earth was born and must rip himself out of the ground to walk. I'm sure he's a very good boyfriend.

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 2d

putting on la dispute to have sex to

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 2d

I think businesses asking people to rate every single experience has furthered this damage. We shouldn't have this many opinions about this many things, and we certainly shouldn't expect other busy people to care if we do.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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Don Alfons des Kleinbürgerprekariats @senorfuck.bsky.social · Nov 10

Dramatisch im Wind wehende Mäntel mit riesigen Taschen,
hrebst ist gut und kann so bleiben.

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ölin? @oelinsfeuer.bsky.social · Oct 27

leider haben wir über die uni bibliothek keinen zugang zur realität

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 2d

Rilke is the Jacob Rees-Mogg of poetry. No it’s not just pretentious translation.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Don Alfons des Kleinbürgerprekariats @senorfuck.bsky.social · 2d

Hängematte & 1 Bäumchen, das Schatten spendet

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Alan van Beek @thiliel.bsky.social · 2d

Die Ausstellung "Körper im Mittelalter" ist schon vorbei, aber die Materialien bleiben! www.landesmuseum.ch/begehrt-umso...

begehrt. umsorgt. gemartert. Körper im Mittelalter

Menschliche Körper waren im Mittelalter Schauplatz von Widersprüchen: Sie wurden glorifiziert, unterdrückt, umsorgt und bestraft. Die Ausstellung wirft einen kulturhistorischen Blick auf den Körper im...

www.landesmuseum.ch

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 2d

Nick Cage from National Treasure
"I'm going to steal the Cliffs of Moher"

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Joshua Earle, but spookier @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 2d

I always caution people to append the phrase "in mice" at the end of any miraculous medicine story since we can make mice do, basically, anything biologically.

This is different. While it is a study in mice, the mechanism has little to do with mice's uniquely malleable biology.

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.

This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.

www.umass.edu/news/article...

UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst

The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.

www.umass.edu

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 4d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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V is for very, very spooky @alana-m-vincent.net · 2d

This is a Walter Benjamin joke.

Johannes Gutenbot @gutenbot.bsky.social · 2d

Johannes Gutenberg invented aura

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