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Flash In The Pan @flashitpancast.bsky.social · 19d

This episode's LISTENER PROMPT: Email in to flashinthepancast[at]gmail.com and tell us about ANIMATIONS THAT INSPIRED YOU!

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Flash In The Pan @flashitpancast.bsky.social · 19d

We put Connor Nyberg in the hotseat in our INTERLOCUTORY 125th EPISODE! Talking about his upcoming documentary ONCE UPON A TIME ON THE INTERNET (@newgroundsdoc.newgrounds.com), and revisiting KNOX'S KLAY WORLD!

Enjoy! Rate & review us! Tell your friends! w00t!

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Episode 125: You Have To Suck (feat. Conner Nyberg)

Tom and Alex do a proper grown-up interview with Conner Nyberg (aka littlbox), director of upcoming Newgrounds documentary ONCE UPON A TIME ON THE INTERNET! But not before revisiting the wacky worl…

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Once Upon A Time On The Internet @newgroundsdoc.newgrounds.com · 18d

It was a real blast talking to these peeps about Newgrounds and old Flashes! Check it out! :D

Flash In The Pan @flashitpancast.bsky.social · 19d

We put Connor Nyberg in the hotseat in our INTERLOCUTORY 125th EPISODE! Talking about his upcoming documentary ONCE UPON A TIME ON THE INTERNET (@newgroundsdoc.newgrounds.com), and revisiting KNOX'S KLAY WORLD!

Enjoy! Rate & review us! Tell your friends! w00t!

flashinthepancast.com/2025/09/27/e...

Episode 125: You Have To Suck (feat. Conner Nyberg)

Tom and Alex do a proper grown-up interview with Conner Nyberg (aka littlbox), director of upcoming Newgrounds documentary ONCE UPON A TIME ON THE INTERNET! But not before revisiting the wacky worl…

flashinthepancast.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

The purpose of a system is what it does.

People Are Using OpenAI's Sora to Mock the Dead

Thanks to OpenAI's Sora 2, it's never been easier to generate photorealistic AI slop videos puppeting the likenesses of deceased celebrities.

futurism.com

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Gravetrude Dirtkins @gertrudeprkns.bsky.social · 2h

Someday soon, perhaps. When the dust has settled with my everpresent tech issues.

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Gravetrude Dirtkins @gertrudeprkns.bsky.social · 2h

As amazing as their work is, Morrison buying into LLM-consciousness feels sadly inevitable given their dedicated apophenia. There's a whole passage in 'Supergods' about how embracing Chaos Magic helped heal their cat. They are, unfortunately, a perfect mark.

Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · 4h

Morrison invoking AI alike to "God" indicates a severe misunderstanding of how AI appropriates the work of thousands, including their own, and someone needs to rectify their understanding ASAP.

But also it's a severe disservice to their colleagues anyway to use it and justify it like this.

Reddit comment from comic writer Grant Morrison explaining why they use AI

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Gravetrude Dirtkins @gertrudeprkns.bsky.social · 2h

Butlerian Jihad NOW

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 7h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 4d

Screenshot of the iOS version of the Final Fantasy IV 3D Remake. Cecil the dark knight has been turned to a frog. He thinks to himself “Can this mountain truly wash away my bloodstained past?”

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 1d

Those kids are going to have the weirdest case of Mandela effect in 15 years.

rock robster @plounce.bsky.social · 1d

today's coworker had kindergarteners watch 15 minutes of kingdom hearts cutscenes bc she typed in "toy story 3 full movie". she cleaned the entire classroom with no reaction to sora being on the tv and only switched it once she was done. which was also right after the word 'xehanort' was said

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 14h

With the EHRC acting like it is. It shows that it is really important to keep trying to get in contact with your MP.

We have seen that this is working.

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 3d

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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morning sensibilia 🔆 @loveshy.icu · 5d

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Genderflux Superfluid @rewhan.bsky.social · 2d

Me Teaching An American To Escape Samsara: Imagine a burger as hard as you can

piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 2d

A decade ahead of schedule, actually.

A magic card called “Guy in the Chair,” and it’s a guy in a chair.

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Gravetrude Dirtkins @gertrudeprkns.bsky.social · 1d

Not a shred of doubt in my mind that the same is true for "Young Conservatives" in pretty much every country. These are shared values on the far right.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 2d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

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#SaveSpeech

If you're like me and you are struggling to contact your senators re: KOSA via their phone lines this week, I recommend attempting to send physical letters or emails in the meantime.

Here is a script you can use to contact your reps!

www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [LOCATION]
I'm messaging to demand [SENATOR] oppose S. 1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, also known as KOSA. This broad legislation does not protect anyone and instead will be used to block any speech that the Trump administration’s partisan FTC disagrees with. It pushes the “duty of care” onto websites and social media platforms to remove content that is “harmful to children”. It would lead to overcompliance, mass censorship, and remove access to crucial information re: everything from mental health, LGBT topics, substance abuse, eating disorders and more.
Additionally, while large, corporate platforms like X can shoulder the weight of “duty of care”, smaller websites cannot, leading to greater and greater concentrations of power online into giant corporate platforms rather than small and medium sized businesses.
KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
IF SENATOR COSPONSORED KOSA: Additionally, I want to remark on [SENATOR]’s cosponsorship of this bill. I think it is shameful that [SENATOR] has backed a bill as transparently bad as KOSA. This will not keep kids safe, it is an excuse to censor the free and open internet. I will not be voting for nor donating to [SENATOR] in any future campaigns if they do not drop their co-sponsorship of this bill, and I will encourage everyone in my life to do the same.
Do the right thing.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 2d

"It's good our new PM is a banker because bankers are practical and technocratic. We'll get someone focused on making things work and working well— especially on the economic front."

Saleem @seemo.bsky.social · 2d

Shot | Chaser

Bluesky post: AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 3d

The members of Goblin. This would be a much better country if we celebrated Goblin Day every October rather than Columbus Day.

youtu.be/esUBqxsiJ-s?...

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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 3d

Newgrounds has a very helpful guide for detecting AI audio over at www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-in... for anyone interested in catching AI-generated music. Don't rely on any service that uses AI for detection, that's just using slop to find slop and you'll get false positives/missed catches.

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peniscreepy.bsky.social @peniscreepy.bsky.social · 6d

Master! This is rough. Like, really rough. I can't believe it myself. The king is trapped in the puzzle dungeon. What order to pull the pins in? I'll let you play for free. In the name of Harman...

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 4d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 4d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Gravetrude Dirtkins @gertrudeprkns.bsky.social · 4d

Like I and many others have said: this technology is anti-education, anti-learning.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 5d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Keith Stack @keithstack.com · 4d

Imagine being invited to this dinner and using the bathroom and accidentally clogging the toilet, and you try to unclog it but the toilet starts overflowing onto the floor, and you have to explain to Sakurai in front of everyone but you’re not good at Japanese so you have to pantomime it

Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · 5d

Masahiro Sakurai shared a photo of a Game Director dinner meeting he had for Tokyo Gameshow!

Participants:
- Hideki Kamiya
- Toby Fox
- Yoko Taro
- Jiro Ishii
- Kazutaka Kodaka
- Keiichiro Toyama

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Gravetrude Dirtkins @gertrudeprkns.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe it's the 00s pop culture nostalgia!