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Casey Explosion

@caseyexplosion.bsky.social

I've often gotten crap from people in the past over holding to my stance that I won't stream or recommend games with predatory monetization practices, but I'm glad I've stuck to my principles, because my god this is bad. This never should've gotten normalized in gaming.

Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 5h

In case you were wondering what it’s like to boot a free to play mobile game in 2025

December 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM

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lasha3D

@lasha3d.bsky.social

if you want support me, you can buy all my full blender scenes on my artstation store 🙏🙏🙏

1. artstation.com/lasha/store?...
2. ko-fi.com/lasha3d/goal...

November 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM

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Bukuku

@bukuku.bsky.social

Por un lado yo estoy a topísimo con explicar así muy despacio y como con marionetas lo que significa privatizar la gestión de un servicio público. Por el otro, me alucina verdaderamente que haya que explicarlo, en plan, ¿nos estamos cayendo ahora del guindo? ¿De verdad la gente no lo sabe?

EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 13h

Isabel González, exgerente del Hospital de Alzira: “Lo de Torrejón no es aislado. Es el ‘modus operandi’ de las concesiones sanitarias privadas. Si tu fin es obtener beneficio, no puede ser lo mismo que la sanidad pública”

Isabel González, exgerente del Hospital de Alzira: “Lo de Torrejón no es aislado. Es el ‘modus operandi’ de las concesiones sanitarias privadas”

Los responsables sanitarios que revirtieron la primera concesión del mismo modelo que opera en el hospital madrileño se encontraron almacenes casi vacíos y equipos obsoletos, y tuvieron que afrontar denuncias penales y campañas de desinformación

elpais.com

December 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM

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James Vincent

@jjvincent.bsky.social

if you want an overview of where humanoid robots are at right now — what's hype and what's real — then check out my long read for @harpers.bsky.social. here's me teleopping a humanoid, and yes i was told MANY times "do not take off the headset until you've disconnected"

harpers.org/archive/2025...

December 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM

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James Vincent

@jjvincent.bsky.social

it's also such a perfect gesture to symbolize resignation, "i'm out," etc, I bet it gets adopted by humans. kids miming taking their headset off when particularly exasperated, occasionally falling over for extra emphasis

December 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM

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James Vincent

@jjvincent.bsky.social

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM

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Sean Morrow

@snmrrw.bsky.social

One piece of this story that's often buried is that having prior authorization on Medicare AT ALL is new. That's in addition to AI being used for it.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 6h

A new Medicare pilot program is about to launch that will let private companies use AI to review requests for certain medical care — and reward companies when they deny claims.

stateline.org/2025/12/04/m...

Medicare’s new AI experiment sparks alarm among doctors, lawmakers • Stateline

A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.

stateline.org

December 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM

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Jamie McKelvie

@mckelvie.bsky.social

Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

pete_wharmby_books &
•••
HADLEY FREEMAN
Wes Streeting must stand up to the
ADHD activists
I can help with the minister's review: some people are just confused by life
Hadley Freeman
pete_wharmby_books Ah, as expected the right wing press (and Freeman's pipeline from the Guardian op-Ed pages to the Times is worth looking into) is now piling on, suggesting that these scary ADHD activists are just trying to ruin things for everyone.
Not, like, try to improve people's self esteem and sense of what is going on.
2025 is so horrifyingly, predictably *boring*

December 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM

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post malone ergo propter malone

@proptermalone.bsky.social

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 7h

Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM

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Geek Furioso de la Literatura 🇵🇸

@geekfurioso.bsky.social

Aaaaaaaah, así que por esto el Mustio ha empezado a rajar con que hay que desmantelar la Unión Europea. Porque le han puesto una multa que para alguien tan podrido de dinero como él es apenas calderilla.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 1d

The European Commission has lost access to its control panel for buying and tracking ads on Elon Musk’s X — after fining the social media platform €120 million for violating EU transparency rules.

X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine

Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.”…

www.politico.eu

December 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM

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Spanish Revolution

@spanishrevolution.bsky.social

Israel ha destruido la Gran Mezquita Omari en Gaza: año 636. Más antigua que cualquier Estado moderno… y muchísimo más antigua que Israel.

Porque esto no va solo de matar. Va de borrar. De destruir mezquitas, archivos, poemas y ruinas para poder decir mañana: “Aquí no había nadie”.

December 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM

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Jesús Gómez

@isomaxx03.bsky.social

Que le tenga que decir eso el ministro de asuntos exteriores polaco, un país donde gobierna la extrema derecha, da una idea bastante aproximada del sitio ideológico donde se situa Musk

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱

December 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM

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Meg Elison

@megelison.bsky.social

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM

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Tréveron

@trevvieaamb.bsky.social

Esto sinceramente me ha alegrado la mañana.

Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 1d

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

December 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM

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Pwnallthethings

@pwnallthethings.bsky.social

Turns out it didn't have legs

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B

The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead

(via WSJ)

December 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM

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Gav Thorpe

@gavthorpe.bsky.social

Gotta admit, I’m confused as to why e-sports have gendered competitions at all?

The Advocate @advocate.com · 2d

Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.

Women gamers boycott global esports tournament over trans ban

Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.

bit.ly

December 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM

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Hampus Viklander

@spookystirfry.bsky.social

And just the art standalone!

Coloured digital drawing of a sylph warmage. Their hair is like smoke flowing in long streak. Within the smoke the text "War Mage" is spelled out They are clad in armour and covered in different odd knick knacks and weaponry. Over their shoulder they have slung a large warhammer.
Above them they can be seen clad in a beak like helmet in a sideview. Smoke flows out of small holes in the beak.

December 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM

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𝖘𝖆𝖎𝖓𝖙 𝖛𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊

@stvulture.bsky.social

Discover the secrets of alchemical processes, the hidden secrets of world and even deeper secrets hidden within us…

All Living Things has a steampage, wishlist to be notified for the upcoming early demo!

store.steampowered.com/app/3681340

May 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM

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🍂 Ela chonky fae of all trades✨

@huffleburrito.bsky.social

A Stan le dije por algo parecido: si no sabes respetar los límites nos vamos a un abogado y que los ponga un juez.

Desde entonces lo que me tiene que decir me lo dice o en persona o llamando a la tienda cuando estoy en mi turno.

Que miren los trabajadores cuánto se implican los jefes con la ley.

Don Javier de Parla @eljaviparla.bsky.social · 1d

Siendo mi jefe me llamas un sábado a las once de la noche y lo más probable es que ni te coja el teléfono.

December 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM

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Andrés Trasado

@andrestrasado.bsky.social

No sé si será una unpopular opinión de esas que dicen los modernos, pero...

December 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM

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Writers Guild of America West

@wgawest.bsky.social

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

The world’s largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.

December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM

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Richard Kadrey

@richardkadrey.bsky.social

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

The Salvation Army is not a charity. They are an evangelical church that uses donated money to actively oppress gay rights. They've been especially cruel to trans people.

December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM

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Brandon Friedman

@brandonfriedman.bsky.social

Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.