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Steve B

@stevebasnett.bsky.social

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Repost/reskeet other people's funny, pro comedians' jokes, and sometimes my own tat. Regular new stuff every day. Also support outstanding investigative journalists and their work. #jokes #comedy #funny #laughs #satire #humour #pottymouth #serious

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · Jul 3

An apology from me to ALT text users.

I usually add descriptions which include humour to pics I upload, but I got some basics wrong:

It should NOT include:

"picture of"
"image of"

Screen readers announce an image as an image. “Image of a cat” would be read aloud as “image, Image of a cat”.

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IFJ- International Federation of Journalists @ifjglobal.bsky.social · 10h

#Malta: On the eve of the anniversary of the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, press freedom and journalists' groups call on national authorities to set up a National Action Plan on Media Freedom and Journalist Safety.

Malta: Press freedom groups call for National Action Plan in memory of Daphne Caruana / IFJ

On the eve of the anniversary of the murder of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia on 16 October, press freedom and journalists’ groups, including the IFJ, are calling on the natio...

www.ifj.org

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 1h

Not reposting this for the link, rather to show that the IFJ itself recognises problems and dangers with the use of AI in journalism, while at the same time so many of its members have blindly ploughed ahead with AI regardless.
IFJ, please take a stronger position on the use of AI in news provision.

IFJ- International Federation of Journalists @ifjglobal.bsky.social · 8h

#Journalism💡: The use of AI increases the risk of misinformation and weakens democratic life. In a world where it’s increasingly easy to question our own ability to distinguish truth from falsehood, the most appropriate response is informed citizenship.

La mentira viral, el desafío de la confianza y el futuro del periodismo

La IA permite producir noticias falsas en masa, difíciles de distinguir de las reales

elpais.com

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 7h

Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen shared his economic wisdom at the Tory conference. The Conservative party, he said, must be the party of “sound money”.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 7h

Could this be the same regional mayor who has presided over the vast transfer of levelling up funds into the pockets of local businessmen, delivering more hot air than investment and, in the process, leaving the regional bodies he has chaired in a parlous financial state?

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 7h

It certainly could, as our eight-page SPECIAL REPORT sets out in full, financially unsound detail in the new Private Eye, out now.

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IFJ- International Federation of Journalists @ifjglobal.bsky.social · 6h

#USA: Have you heard of Digital Democracy platform set up by @calmatters.org? It’s a useful tool that provides videos, quotes, background information, linking transcripts, financial information, reports and entries from legislative records.
Find out more⤵️

CalMatters: digital journalism as a safeguard for democracy

How a California-based digital investigative platform is using AI to support – and explain – democracy.

www.swissinfo.ch

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 1h

You have bested me, Champire. Good work.

(3) achingly
(6) fucking

and

(7) clitorises

I think we're there between us and can almost go public?

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Marsha Coupé @marshacoupe.bsky.social · 16h

Why is no one surprised that AI, like the internet, is pandering to the lowest of our species?

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18h

So much for all the noble missions and transformations; Altman's AI is down to talking dirty now. Pretty sure it's a massive lie that they've "mitigated the serious mental health issues" and seems likely this new porn feature will generate lots more of them. Bubble, please pop.

Sam Altman

@sama
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We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

Christopher Hale
@chrisjollyhale
I'm asking in good faith here as a premium user — what's the difference between adult erotica and the sexbots you said you wouldn't introduce to the platform this past July?

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Marsha Coupé @marshacoupe.bsky.social · 15h

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Marsha Coupé @marshacoupe.bsky.social · 12h

Our planned nationwide protest for #NoKingsDay this Saturday 18 October 2025 is encouraging people to come in costumes and/or wear optimistic yellow.

Frogs are all the rage.

Antifa CEO @antifa.bsky.social · 15h

Your country needs you!

In Antifa 🐸 uniform. Join us.

#NoKings

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Marsha Coupé @marshacoupe.bsky.social · 12h

Both LA and Chicago are declaring a state-of-emergency because of America's unhinged federal government.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Marsha Coupé @marshacoupe.bsky.social · 15h

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Champire @champierth.bsky.social · 8h

If I could be serious for a moment, that would be a miracle.

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 1h

This could lead to a pie chart of folks who get it, folks who don't get it, and folks who don't get it but say they do.

Why? Because, well, that wouldn't work as a Venn diagram.

Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 8h

You don't need to have read it to get the joke

www.worldofmoose.com/products/tri...