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gatos fazendo gatices @gatinarios.bsky.social · 1h

ficou maneiro

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Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 7h

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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David Mullin @rdmullin.bsky.social · 7h

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

www.theatlantic.com

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Draculaura E. Hall 🎃 @lauraehall.bsky.social · 5h

Still the greatest endorsement of all time

A sign reading "I have not read this Katamari book, and also I don't remember 100% what I told to L.E. Hall in the interviews. But I would recommend this book irresponsibly." -Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy

The cover of Katamari Damacy by L.E. Hall, from Boss Fight Books. It shows a penguin being menaced by a giant sticky ball of tape

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Mom @milph.mom · 4h

Kids in hyperrealistic modern triple-A video games continues to be the funniest hurdle.

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 13h

Where can I buy this, chat?

Photo of a cap with the text: hello, 1am fleeing the American century of humiliation. Can you show me where to buy White Monster Energy Drinks?

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I.G.Y. Azalea @steelydad.bsky.social · 5h

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14h

The thing about these grindset lifestyle posts is that they're all fake. None of it is real.

crypto bro pretending he's rich and that a woman can tolerate him for likes on the X platform formerly known as Twitter

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 10h

we are in a self-awareness crisis

Quote post from X by "OscarAI":
Never do this:

Passing off someone else’s work as your own.

This Grok Imagine effect with the day-to-night transition was created by me — and I’m pretty sure that person knows it.

To make things worse, their copy has more impressions than my original post.

Not cool 👎
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Prashant @Prashant_1722
Oct 15
Grok Imagine trick:

Add "day to night transition" to your prompt.

In shots like this, you’ll see a beautiful, harmonious effect as the day turns int...
(AI slop animation video)

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downchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 14h

this is clearly NTSC-J

台羽正 @tadashidaiba.bsky.social · 14h

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伊藤暢達/Masahiro Ito @adsk4.bsky.social · 1d

A shot from the opening of a PlayStation2 title, Silent Hill 3. The effect of the blinds shadow overlays was by the lead programmer Norihito Hatakeda and Fukushima. If they hadn't been in the team, the Heather's narrative would have been a mediocre one.

Heather, the protagonist of a Playstation 2 title called Silent Hill 3, she is in a restaurant. She has a look at something in her hands while being reflected in the setting sun. Also her body is overlaid with blind shadows.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 14h

Anytime you ask “why did the Times cover it this way?” or whatever corporate media it is, remember that influential moderates are the tool of the wealth class and are there to normalize whatever the wealthy want and create doubt regarding reform and change.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 14h

Part 1

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SpeckObst @speckobst.bsky.social · 14h

Wenn ich sehe, wie gerade Nintendo Jagd auf Rom-Seiten macht, würde ich einen Übersetzungsfehler eher ausschließen.

Hoffen wir jedenfalls, dass sie niemals das Internet Archive entdecken.

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SpeckObst @speckobst.bsky.social · 15h

Locking 4x speed behind the paywall is crazy though

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SpeckObst @speckobst.bsky.social · 15h

youtube enabling my worst habits

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nick @24thframe.bsky.social · 16h

they’re doing racist Pokemon posts on Facebook like you’ve never seen before

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Videogame Beaches 🏳️‍⚧️ @videogamebeach.bsky.social · 1d

The game is quite fun and original. In the future (2014), people race with exoskeletons that enhance their physical abilities. And it has unlockables like Baby. It also has unlockables like Baby, with babies racing at 250 km/h.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 1d

"A beloved family-run grocery store in Florida may have to close its doors after 43 years because of tariffs." www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...

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oath @ no. 1 haseul stan @oathkeeper56.bsky.social · 18h

and who set that system up?

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 18h

It's incredible just how on the ball trans people were about those US think tanks influencing British politics, going to great length to detail all these links and connections, only for it to fall on deaf ears because of how aggressively trans people were frozen out and disenfranchised.

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 1d

bittersweet seeing parts of the lethargic british press sluggishly get around to wondering if US far-right religious think tanks are working to influence british politics. they are, yes! it is not secret! do your jobs better!

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Sean Seanson @seanseanson.bsky.social · 17h

I've been radicalised into hating Kier Starmer by lemme check my notes...

Kier Starmer!?!

Now could he do this to me (and trans people, the disabled, the poor, peaceful protestors, old people getting taken away by the police, etc. etc. etc. etc.)

mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 20h

I think Starmer has been a huge disappointment. He’s been passive & cowardly. He’s not politically savvy either.

I also think he is a decent person and really wants to fix the country.

However, the hatred for him, almost universal in the country, is nothing short of radicalisation. It’s batshit!

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 1d

Man what I wouldn’t give to see how historians contextualize this in a hundred years

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 1d

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

TERFs pretending to freak out about the “transgender propaganda” of “unknown gender” in pokemon that was in the series since gen 2 released in 1999

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

This is what they have now. There are no ideas, only "oh you don't like that? Then I'll do it more." That's the sum total of the right's brain trust now

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 1d

The meme is a text exchange with one person saying"I saw this and it made me think of us"
There isn't a picture of an animated Sonic wedding scene"

The second person says "sigh"

First person "is that a dreamy sigh?"

Second person "you know it's not"

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