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tristram hand shandy @dimestorewatch.bsky.social · 56m

this image is vibrating with your love for this cat, it is excellent

tristram hand shandy @dimestorewatch.bsky.social · 9d

i just knocked off work in australia and there's still baseball. it's about to be a night game in the antipodean time zone

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tristram hand shandy @dimestorewatch.bsky.social · 10d

[bowie voice] the green beanie

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tristram hand shandy @dimestorewatch.bsky.social · 14d

this site has the juice

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tristram hand shandy @dimestorewatch.bsky.social · 21d

roses are great
violets are swell

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Casey Stratotanker @cheatlines.co · Aug 9

This was what I was worried about before AI

democracy toast @toasty.cx · Jan 19

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doctor eep [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · Aug 8

this sounds way more like a person with a phd than anything sam altman is doing

Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · Aug 7

Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well:

‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’

Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments

Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."

www.businessinsider.com

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Aug 8

Certainly! Here's a simple rhyme that should break the curse:

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · Aug 7

So it's depressed and can't get a job

Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com · Aug 7

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

OpenAI Unveils GPT-5, Its Latest and Most Powerful Model, After Two-Year Wait

CEO Sam Altman said using the chatbot will be like talking with a doctorate-level expert in any topic.

www.wsj.com

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · Aug 6

I love to have an "assassination of Osama Bin Laden in the Situation Room" photo level of personnel over to the vice president's house to talk about how little there is to worry about

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · Aug 6

we didn't get an end of history so much as a private equity leveraged buyout of history that resulted in drastic costs cutting on the core product

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Aug 5

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

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original flavor Otter Poppa @peezkyweezky.bsky.social · Aug 6

Eyewitnesses say “yep, we saw the eye”

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · Aug 5

The Sphere presents great possibilities in the realm of making movies for prey animals

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tristram hand shandy @dimestorewatch.bsky.social · Aug 5

that said I agree it's way less interesting than *why* this stuff is popular and what people get out of it

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tristram hand shandy @dimestorewatch.bsky.social · Aug 5

facebook does pay people who run high-traffic pages, sometimes enough to make it worthwhile if the conversion rate of USD to your local currency is favourable. people also sell tips on how to make high-traffic pages which are a sort of subsidiary scam but increase the total amount of this stuff

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tristram hand shandy @dimestorewatch.bsky.social · Aug 5

unfortunately im gonna ignore instructions and say that the people making the posts are doing it for engagement. but via an invitation to believe in a world where comfortable, familiar things are happening (and you can chat in the comments with people and bots who remember the good times)

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tristram hand shandy @dimestorewatch.bsky.social · Aug 5

it's sort of like fanfiction

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tristram hand shandy @dimestorewatch.bsky.social · Aug 5

Noah Wont

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New Jersey Jeff @jawnpaulsarte.bsky.social · Aug 5

hour 36 of the great WifeOutage because i updated my holowife’s kernel binaries without realizing the sole maintainer of the girlmath package pulled it from the repository and now im learning what a broken dependency really means

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Jan 16

cartoon panel: a guy in bed, insomnia in his eyes: "It would take a pretty stupid robot to replace me..."

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · Aug 4

the actual story here is the AI company using a dead child’s grieving parents to create positive associations with its technology

Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · Aug 4

At 4p ET/1p PT, I’ll have a one of a kind interview with Joaquin Oliver. He died in the Parkland school shooting. But his parents have created an AI version of their son for a powerful message on gun violence. Plus TX Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social - see you soon on Substack and later on YouTube.

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tristram hand shandy @dimestorewatch.bsky.social · Aug 4

SHAPE SHED

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · Aug 4

We reiterate our position that a Family Feud can never be won and must never be fought.

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Aug 4

The American Nuclear Family is nothing compared to the American Thermonuclear Family, which allows for greater miniaturization while increasing the devastating force of its detonation.

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tristram hand shandy @dimestorewatch.bsky.social · Aug 4

yess and related: if you are a fellow small bust/large shoulder-haver and are wearing a shirt/dress with straps, pin or tie em together at the back so they run diagonal instead of vertical at the front

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · Aug 3

Virginia Sicking Kuntz

United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007

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