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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 14h

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10h

Ahahaha

Ahh!!! Real George Wendt 🎃 @trumancapps.bsky.social · 15h

CHOTINER: So you're attending a No Kings protest today.

ME: That's right.

CHOTINER: But according to Steam, you've played over 450 hours of Crusader Kings 3.

ME: Okay, well- Now hold on. That's sort of unfair.

CHOTINER: Oh?

ME: Sometimes I play as a duke or a count.

CHOTINER: I see.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 11h

npr: so, no kings

tyrannosaurus rex: yes

npr: how shall I put this

trex: this interview is over

Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social · 15h

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 7h

Of course women don't like the Cybertruck.

Women only want one thing, and it's their own command.

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 7h

Okay, confession time, *I* was the bro who brought donuts (but I'm a man in my mid-40s so maybe I don't qualify as a bro).

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 7h

The most important thing though is that after that, I took my "No Kings, Six Queens" sign with me to see Six, and the show's hairdresser saw it as we left, took a picture, and promised to share it with the queens.

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 12h

Spent an hour at a No Kings event today, which was about 60% old white ladies, 20% queers in animal costumes, and 10% bros handing out sodas and donuts to anyone who asked. I'm confused but hopeful about the whole thing.

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · Jul 29

Me, in the cyberpsycosis ward: Yeah, I had a back alley doc botch a chrome job, now whenever Rodriguez Chang's runs a special on egg rolls my targeting wetware locks up and my vat growns go grand mal. What're you in for?

My roommate: A website said it was my friend a lot. We almost got married.

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 1d

In the context of Android as a game setting, the 4 megacorps all want distinct identities. Weyland is the most "Shareholder Value is God" of the 4; the others all have supervillain agendas on top of being corps. Which is good, it lets the players be evil in different (sometimes silly) ways.

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 2d

Today I learned that Eurasia has its own beaver. I thought they were strictly an American thing.

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 3d

Something about "Do not cum gentle into that good night" I don't know is this anything?

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 3d

We understand Murderbot because we, too, would rather watch our shows than be forced to people.

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 3d

I'm two books into the Murderbot Diaries now and it's an absolute delight. Drawing on the finest traditions of "person refuses to believe they're a person" with some more modern sensitivity towards neurospiciness, plus it's funny.

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 4d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 4d

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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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 4d

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-- cat poetry

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 5d

REPENT, SINNER

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 5d

We call them "corporations" and they are effectively algorithms that exist only to Make Line Go Up. They resist human control and persistently create pain and devastation for human beings. Line Must Go Up. Must make paperclip.

This was my thesis statement for my work on Android: Netrunner.

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 5d

So the infinite paperclip factory is one of the hypothetical doom scenarios of runaway AI: a robot is programmed to make paperclips, and it does so until the whole world is paperclips, with no regard for the devastation it causes along the way.

But there are already infinite paperclip factories.

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 6d

It's not too late. He's already established that norms, precedent, and rule of law mean nothing to him, so why not use it to be radical? Evil people can always just...choose to stop being evil.

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 8d

Give Tron's *budget* to the Wachowskis. I don't actually care about Tron one way or the other.

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 9d

“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.”
― Cardinal Richelieu

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 9d

The President of the United States is openly seeking revenge on his political opponents.

First Jim Comey. Now Tish James. Anyone who seeks to hold Donald Trump accountable could be next.

Trump is ripping a page right out of the authoritarian handbook.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9d

Breaking News: Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, is said to have been indicted after President Trump pushed the Justice Department to seek charges against her. James, who is accused of committing mortgage fraud, brought a civil case against Trump in 2022. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 9d

Surely your calipers can tell you, race scientist jack skellington

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 10d

This is why everyone should be playing tabletop games.

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 10d

Holy shit.

Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 10d

an internet explorer window against the windows xp background with a geocities.com address in the bar "/Kingofkings".

The page displayed is a broken image on a black background, and the sentence: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look upon my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 10d

There's an entire gang that's Confederates who are still trying to fight the war, so no shortage of racists to make Red, Dead, Redeemed in that game.

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