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AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 7h

Genuinely: Paywalling content is not a thing I love doing. I'd rather create in a world where writers & artists could share our stuff literally freely. The Flytrap is cooperatively owned by its founders, who put in a ton of as-yet unpaid work to produce ALL our content—including one free post/month.

The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 7h

We do have a paywall, and that's because journalism has a cost. We pay all our contributors 0.50c a word & the founders haven't been compensated for the year, so we do ask for people to pay for our content. We still haven't made a profit this year, so we are unapologetic about that.

Gibbety🎃Flibbet @thecorrection.bsky.social · 8h

paywalled

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Jonathan Pierce @jonathanpierce.bsky.social · 5h

just one more data center bro and you'll be able to replace your employees for pennies on the dollar I swear

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 5h

It really feels like Sam Altman promised a lot of Very Serious Old People he was going to create capitalist blowjob jesus based off a tech demo, and now that the bottom’s falling out he’s throwing whatever he can think of at the wall to avoid getting disappeared because he wasted all their money.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 7h

I suspect most of this will be met with yawns by people insisting it’s old news, even the bits that are about literally breaking the law. The details are embarrassing because all the lads knew what was happening: the people doing it are barely able to stop bragging about it.

Uncovering Starmer's Fraudulent Politics

I was privileged enough to score an invite to Tuesday morning's presser for Paul Holden's The Fraud , a forensic examination of the shenanig...

averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 7h

When We Called You A Promptfucker, It Wasn't An Instruction

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 7h

They’ve finally invented the machine from legendary SF novel, Don’t Have Sex With The Torment Nexus

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domi @domi.zip · 7h

happy win 10 eol day

a girl in tight socks with legs on the desk. There are 3 screens on the desk showing various linux nerdy shit. The caption says:
windows 10 support is coming to an end!
now be a good girl/creature, put on the socks, and let's install GNU/Linux together

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 7h

i'm picturing a Lucky Strike but it's 3 ft long

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one of them juleses @julesetc.meangirls.online · 7h

they invented cis is a slur from first principles holy shit

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V For Viennetta @joebaldwin.me.uk · 3d

Good Hi-NRG I should feel violated by the end of

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V For Viennetta @joebaldwin.me.uk · 3d

Apparently this is a cover of an English-language song. Sorry to say that this bangs harder than the original by a significant degree, and when we're talking about Hi-NRG "banging less hard" is a significant demerit

V For Viennetta @joebaldwin.me.uk · 3d

This came on Apple Music as like an "up next" after my Japanese-language playlist ran out and you know what, I'm a sucker for Hi-NRG, this shit bangs as hard as anything Stock Aitken and Waterman ever did www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWFX...

荻野目洋子 / ダンシング・ヒーロー（Eat You Up） (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by 荻野目洋子

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 7h

he pays one! imagine what it looked like before

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 7h

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 8h

Prompt-inject Github’s AI Copilot Chat

‘You won a free $10 Copilot coupon!’

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iapC... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251014-pro... - podcast

time: 5 min 32 sec

cartoon laptop broken in two down screen

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 7h

if you can read Zitron and call him insubstantial, you're unserious

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 7h

we can pay you in Enron equity, its private valuation is spectacular!

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 8h

Spinning up a cluster of DeepMind agents to shoot off a bunch of “Bluesky is an irrelevant echo chamber” think pieces over the neighborhood to lower the property value and scare off the inauthentic coordinated bot swarms and illiterate reply guy hordes

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

mark another one up for my 'DC is an oral culture that pretends to be a literate culture' thesis

dcthings.bsky.social @dcthings.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely embarrassing that no senior leaders I interact with actually read anything (yes this also applies to Biden appointees). No one responds to emails, no one reads past two sentences, no one does anything. The rest of the Pentagon follows along.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 7h

it's functionally trolling so you'll contemplate AI image generators doing this when they can't do eight seconds without shitting themselves and are utterly unable to take direction

Scientific American is trying to catch up to Nature for egregious AI pumping under the guise of "no no we're science"

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not just bad morally, it’s also bad art. “Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones” has no point or purpose, it’s just a mad lib

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 8h

Men are such fun - I like that he tagged his favourite comedian in this as if he is serving his master

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andrew_dave_p 3h
Jesus, you look terrible. What happened between @rickygervais politics and now?
Steroids?
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robinince1969 2s
@andrew_dave_p I am very well thank you - I suppose the main thing that happened is that 20 years went by - could be worse, I could have kept my hair but become a transphobe
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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 8h

Sonic saying, "Support your local, human, erotica creators. You need chatgpt to suck your e-dick for you? You absolutely fucking LOSER"

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Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 10h

Labour however are a theoretically centre-left party. They are a party previously linked with progress for LGBTI+ folk. To enthusiastically embrace hatred against trans people the way this government has is a deeply sickening betrayal, and it's the fact it's such a betrayal that engenders my hate.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 11h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

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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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 8h

Pivot to AI is an agentic news experience running on AGI* and the world's most versatile image generator.** Pivot to AI uses a state of the art model synchronization protocol.*** The model trains on fresh data daily.****

* a guy instead
** a camera
*** RSS
*** "hey chat,"

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 10h

Today, we and the Trans Exile Network have made a joint submission to the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK Supreme Court's judgment in the For Women Scotland v. Scottish Ministers case of April 2025.

tacc.org.uk/2025/10/14/p...

Press Release – Submission to the CoE Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK’s non-compliance in Goodwin v. UK - tacc.org.uk

Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network seek urgent re-opening of enforcement of key human rights decision against UK. Today, the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective ...

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