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Sam VdS @anxiousfishclub.bsky.social · 1d

Side note: it seems like a great time to be in the inflatable mascot costume business

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 1d

hands: the original tortilla press

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 5d

i want computer to make movie for me. i want computer to talk to me. i want computer to take my job. i want to fuck computer. i want computer to mock and devalue the very spark of ingenuity and creativity that makes us human

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 7d

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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Sam VdS @anxiousfishclub.bsky.social · 7d

a close up of a barbie doll with a surprised look on her face ..

Alt: a zoom in of a barbie doll with a disgusted/surprised look on her face ..

media.tenor.com

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ceej @ceej.online · 7d

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

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tama @tama00001234.bsky.social · 8d

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Sam VdS @anxiousfishclub.bsky.social · 10d

How rfk jr seems to think this works

Soldier protecting sleeping child Meme where the weapons and fire are labeled “autism cells” and the soldier is labeled “foreskin”

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 13d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15d

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

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Sam VdS @anxiousfishclub.bsky.social · 15d

Close enough

TikTok comment reading “this album is supposed to be a joke. actual swifties understand this”

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 15d

(guy about to invent the wedge salad) i ain't taking all those leaves apart

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Sam VdS @anxiousfishclub.bsky.social · 15d

Have the feeling some T Swift fans will start claiming her new album is actually a meta parody of pop music, so really it’s bad on purpose and that’s what makes it super deep

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explore.org @explore.org · 19d

Meet your FAT BEAR WEEK 2025 champion.

Chunk the Hunk. The Chunkster. 32 Chunk.

All hail the new king of Brooks River 👑

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lor gislason @lormaggot.ca · 21d

lets go ghouls

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Sam VdS @anxiousfishclub.bsky.social · 27d

Democracy isn’t dead

Fat bear week match 2
You voted!
Here are the results

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Sam VdS @anxiousfishclub.bsky.social · 27d

a clown fish is swimming in the ocean with the words an an-ne-me-ne-mo-nem-ee on the bottom

Alt: Nemo trying to say anemone like an-ne-me-ne-mo-nem-ee

media.tenor.com

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Sam VdS @anxiousfishclub.bsky.social · 27d

Can I just say, I hate how people say “drone” and either mean a little flying camera robot used by YouTubers, or a deadly unmanned military aircraft?
“Drone spotted” WHAT KIND??
Start using a different word for them please??
It’s like using the word to describe a kid’s toy plane and also an F-22

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ceej @ceej.online · 29d

telling my boss I’m going to fuck up roughly 30% of the time and it’s math’s fault

Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 29d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Sam VdS @anxiousfishclub.bsky.social · 28d

Funniest thing about this is that they’ll all have moved on and will stop ordering a drink as ‘protest’ once there’s something new to fixate on (especially with evangelical Halloween outrage just around the corner)

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