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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1h

ah well, the important thing is to learn from history

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 6h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 6h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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.

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1h

hey, so we're going to have to hang a lot more than 12 people at nuremberg 2.0 if we ever want to uproot this shit

Darragh Mc Kenna @darraghmckenna.bsky.social · 8h

This does not fill me with joy

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Bru.ib⭐ @bruib.bsky.social · 3d

Annealing the tips.
#Art #DarArt

an abstract image of a hand, reaching for a glowing force. blurred, monotoned.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 11h

I need you all to remember this as well...that bluesky actively assisted in ethnically cleansing Palestinians

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 11h

Just saw 2 Palestinian accounts vanish right after asking me for help--one a mother grieving her baby daughter who just died of starvation, another begging for help to keep her little sick, starving baby daughter alive. I cannot say what I think of Bluesky admin.

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John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social · 1d

Don't forget, if you're enjoying my #DailyGhost posting, you'd probably also like this book

John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social · 12d

If you're interested in ghosts and monsters and folklore, @pauljholden.com and I did a book which you should probably buy
moorereppion.bigcartel.com/product/fasc...

Fascinating Folklore

- A compendium of comics and essays - Crafted by the masterful minds of two comic world luminaries, John Reppion and PJ Holden, Fascinating...

moorereppion.bigcartel.com

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 10h

"hey i did a crime but the culpability is masked so i'm gonna gloat about how this is the future also please by my book which is just coincidentally about my massive boner for genslop AI"

Deni Ellis Béchard @denibechard.bsky.social · 4d

Could Sora 2 lead to AI-generated TV on demand? New article up about this @sciam.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...

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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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 13h

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 13h

cyclops was right

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Crisping Lover @crispinglover.bsky.social · 14h

Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943 Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid

#filmsky #moviesky

DVD cover. Screenprint style image of Maya Deren in glasses holding knife. Green, orange and brown.

Still image. Mirror face cloak person leaning over a bed with a flower on it.

Still image. Two Maya Derens in a sitting room.

Still image. Two Maya Derens sitting at a table.

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 17h

Halloween Radio: THE STONE TAPE (BBC 4, 2015)
Filmmaker Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio) adapts the Nigel Kneale-scripted TV movie as a radio play. Features music from James Cargill of the band Broadcast and is in binaural sound (???) and is apparently best listened to w/headphones. Creepy.

BBC Radio Drama: The Stone Tape (3D Sound)

YouTube video by Evenson Ian

www.youtube.com

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 16h

it was a lousy attempt at muckraking that he sidestepped pretty well

Polanski apologises over claim he can increase women’s breast sizes with his mind

Several Labour MPs have criticised the new Green Party leader over the claims, with one describing them as ‘grim’

www.independent.co.uk

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Tom Sulston @tom.sulston.net · 1d

It's galling to see the Albo government paint the U16 social media ban as a great success when there are expert organisations working with vulnerable children queuing up to demonstrate how it will make young people less safe online.

Children will suffer as a result of the social media ban.

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samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 19h

lmao after watching successive governments do absolutely nothing meaningful about the data broker industry nor targeted marketing, I’m not above laughing at them for this

Anthony Albanese, Sussan Ley and Scott Morrison’s private phone numbers exposed on US marketing databases

Richard Marles says investigation under way into how the prime minister and other senior government staff’s phone numbers appeared in the databases

www.theguardian.com

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David S. Pumpkins @dphrygian.com · 18h

I forget now who it was that compared our game to Battle Chess, but I hadn't made that connection myself until I read it, and then I was like YESSS we're making a new weirder Battle Chess. "Robert Eggers' Battle Chess" you might say. They don't let me be the spokesperson for our games, for a reason.

David S. Pumpkins @dphrygian.com · 23h

The demo of our folk horror card strategy game The Killing Stone is live!

We gots creepy characters and furry friends and so many animated figurines with sweet VFX. Also the enemy AI is pretty diabolical, that's on me.

Please check it out and leave a review!

store.steampowered.com/app/3987180/...

The Killing Stone Demo on Steam

Beat the Devil at his own game. The Killing Stone Demo lets you try out the deckbuilding card battler wrapped in a 17th century folk horror narrative. Clean the sins of a cursed family by bargaining a...

store.steampowered.com

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 19h

if you're the system lead then your answer to basic fucking questions shouldn't be "uh...um...maybe?"

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 19h

it's been a fucking year now and i haven't had a single interaction that has left me with more certainty about how things worked

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 19h

the most maddening interaction i have with other developers is where i show them an error and explain the context, then spend the next 20 minutes answering vague, high-level questions that eventually result in my being asked to provide the error and explain the context

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子畑/kohata @kohatazuke.bsky.social · 1d

#三連休はフォロワーが増えるらしい
絵を見て作品も見に来て！

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 22h

everyone else is "oh well i'm sure they'll sort it out eventually haha" and i'm all "bitch that is my money"

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 22h

so apparently this is due to some layout changes to the payroll slip

a five day delay on my monthly salary over fucking formatting

alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1d

my monthly pay date is meant to happen on a fixed date but can slide as much as _five fucking days_ depending on holidays and shit, this is totally fucking unacceptable