Devin, Again
@doctorteeth.bsky.social
Devin R Bruce. Singer, speech-language pathologist, citizen, curmudgeon. If you have AI art as your profile picture, I will block you.
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Devin, Again
@doctorteeth.bsky.social
· Jan 5
I am seeing some AI-generated Liberal boomer memes in my feed and I’m feeling guilty about blocking those users.
But not too guilty! I don’t care if you’re a 70-year-old Facebook grandma: don’t use the tools of the fucking enemy.
But not too guilty! I don’t care if you’re a 70-year-old Facebook grandma: don’t use the tools of the fucking enemy.
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They're not trying to get you hooked, they're banking on the NEXT generation getting hooked, or being born into a world where they don't know any different. AI is a long-term gamble.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
They're not trying to get you hooked, they're banking on the NEXT generation getting hooked, or being born into a world where they don't know any different. AI is a long-term gamble.
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This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
Feels awkward to care publicly about things but I am trying, so here comes #Hindicember again. Day 1 is EK THA TIGER, which I haven't seen since it came out but I bought for like four bucks on an iTunes sale. (A lot of this year's selections come from those kinds of sales.) I hope it's still fun!
December 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Feels awkward to care publicly about things but I am trying, so here comes #Hindicember again. Day 1 is EK THA TIGER, which I haven't seen since it came out but I bought for like four bucks on an iTunes sale. (A lot of this year's selections come from those kinds of sales.) I hope it's still fun!
#MusicAdvent Day 1: A is for Afro-Cuban All Stars. "Pío Mentiroso" always gets my head bobbing and my toe tapping.
Afro Cuban All Stars - Pío Mentiroso (Official Audio)
YouTube video by World Circuit Records
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December 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
#MusicAdvent Day 1: A is for Afro-Cuban All Stars. "Pío Mentiroso" always gets my head bobbing and my toe tapping.
Lots of wonderful and unexpected #MusicAdvent entries came through today, which was a fun surprise! I'm excited to catch up with as many of them as I can tomorrow, looks like I'm in for a good keyboard work playlist.
December 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Lots of wonderful and unexpected #MusicAdvent entries came through today, which was a fun surprise! I'm excited to catch up with as many of them as I can tomorrow, looks like I'm in for a good keyboard work playlist.
Due to how time works, "tomorrow" means today! Right now even!
Hi! Hello! #MusicAdvent starts tomorrow, which all about sharing songs with your social media friends. This year's no-pressure, low-stress theme, is: Alphabetical Order By Band Name. You can go ABBA, Bach, CCR or you can go Apples in Stereo, Beastie Boys, Sabrina Carpenter. Or a secret third way!
December 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Due to how time works, "tomorrow" means today! Right now even!
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Hi! Hello! #MusicAdvent starts tomorrow, which all about sharing songs with your social media friends. This year's no-pressure, low-stress theme, is: Alphabetical Order By Band Name. You can go ABBA, Bach, CCR or you can go Apples in Stereo, Beastie Boys, Sabrina Carpenter. Or a secret third way!
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Hi! Hello! #MusicAdvent starts tomorrow, which all about sharing songs with your social media friends. This year's no-pressure, low-stress theme, is: Alphabetical Order By Band Name. You can go ABBA, Bach, CCR or you can go Apples in Stereo, Beastie Boys, Sabrina Carpenter. Or a secret third way!
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When the two-part miniseries Anne of Green Gables debuted on CBC on Dec. 1, 1985, nearly six million Canadians tuned in. It went on to win 10 Geminis, an Emmy and a Peabody.
To this day, the miniseries is studied in film schools.
This is the story of that miniseries.
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To this day, the miniseries is studied in film schools.
This is the story of that miniseries.
🧵 1/12
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the two-part miniseries Anne of Green Gables debuted on CBC on Dec. 1, 1985, nearly six million Canadians tuned in. It went on to win 10 Geminis, an Emmy and a Peabody.
To this day, the miniseries is studied in film schools.
This is the story of that miniseries.
🧵 1/12
To this day, the miniseries is studied in film schools.
This is the story of that miniseries.
🧵 1/12
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"Sometimes I worry about a society shaped by superheroes rather than muppets" is a sentence I just found in my book draft.
December 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"Sometimes I worry about a society shaped by superheroes rather than muppets" is a sentence I just found in my book draft.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
Hi! Hello! #MusicAdvent starts tomorrow, which all about sharing songs with your social media friends. This year's no-pressure, low-stress theme, is: Alphabetical Order By Band Name. You can go ABBA, Bach, CCR or you can go Apples in Stereo, Beastie Boys, Sabrina Carpenter. Or a secret third way!
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Hi! Hello! #MusicAdvent starts tomorrow, which all about sharing songs with your social media friends. This year's no-pressure, low-stress theme, is: Alphabetical Order By Band Name. You can go ABBA, Bach, CCR or you can go Apples in Stereo, Beastie Boys, Sabrina Carpenter. Or a secret third way!
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life
BOSTON—Prematurely assuming he had reached the end of the 1977 rock masterpiece, local man Peter Verran, who thought Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” was over, was reportedly in for the thrill of his fucki...
theonion.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life
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is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend
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"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
I for one need a third season of TWITCH CITY.
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I for one need a third season of TWITCH CITY.
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its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
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November 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
when its definitely not a hostage situation
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Poor people apparently don’t have enough money for a dollar store box of pencils + sketchbook but they do have money for a Midjourney subscription, apparently.
AI bros already grabbed people with disabilities and children as shields, I guess this was inevitable
AI bros already grabbed people with disabilities and children as shields, I guess this was inevitable
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Poor people apparently don’t have enough money for a dollar store box of pencils + sketchbook but they do have money for a Midjourney subscription, apparently.
AI bros already grabbed people with disabilities and children as shields, I guess this was inevitable
AI bros already grabbed people with disabilities and children as shields, I guess this was inevitable
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I'm always going to look at types like this & feel like Heather Graham in Bowfinger, "They're all aliens worshipping their false gods," & again, WHY DO YOU CARE, you won. You have everything except endless admiration & love & I guess that's the part that's killing you & please, I insist, go die.
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I'm always going to look at types like this & feel like Heather Graham in Bowfinger, "They're all aliens worshipping their false gods," & again, WHY DO YOU CARE, you won. You have everything except endless admiration & love & I guess that's the part that's killing you & please, I insist, go die.
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Some tech type angry about ayyyy-eiii detractors is the main character today & just, what do you even want from the rest of us? You won. You have a total stranglehold on financial markets. You're eating education, publishing, the arts & the electrical grid alive. You don't get kisses on top of that.
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Some tech type angry about ayyyy-eiii detractors is the main character today & just, what do you even want from the rest of us? You won. You have a total stranglehold on financial markets. You're eating education, publishing, the arts & the electrical grid alive. You don't get kisses on top of that.