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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 14m

*long, Tina Belcher-esque groan* www.theverge.com/news/799312/...

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

www.theverge.com

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 21m

D'Angelo's death has been the first I've seen elicit a wave of "oh no, please no"'s in a while

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 52m

why are so many conservatives bad at opsec, and why do they never shut up

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 1h

i'm not convinced they don't just wash their face and hair and call it there

Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 1h

Content warnings abound in that politico story, but also everyone mentioned in this chat talks like a bunch of overgrown teenagers, but they're like 24 or whatever. rancid vibes, must smell like assssssssssss in there

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, if that ain't how it goes: "Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway."

Politico @politico.com · 3h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 3h

Boy, it feels good to fight in this.

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 4h

The people would love to see Rachel McAdams get tired of being nice and take her anger out on a man who done fucked around too many times

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, this looks like it’s gonna be a good time youtu.be/R4wiXj9NmEE?...

Send Help | Official Trailer | In Theaters Jan 30

YouTube video by 20th Century Studios

youtu.be

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 4h

What can you do but laugh, man

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 4h

“They were really grilling me about this” yeah dude, why do you think that is?

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 5h

I just…

Fueled by depression, the man meant to back up his collection and create a base for training AI to make better “robot pornography” but he uploaded it to the government computer by accident. He didn’t realize what he’d done until DOE investigators came calling six months later to ask why their servers were now filled with thousands of pornographic pictures.

“The Individual ‘thought that even though his personal drives were connected to [his employer’s], they were somehow partitioned, and his personal material would not contaminate his [government-issued computer],” a DOE report said.

According to the report, the man was using his cellphone to look at AI-generated porn images, but the screen wasn’t big enough so he moved the pictures to his government computer. “He also reported that, since the 1990s, he had maintained a ‘giant compressed file with several directories of pornographic images,’ which he moved to his personal cloud storage drive so he could use them to make generative images,” he said. “It was this directory of sexually explicit images that was ultimately uploaded to his employer’s network when he performed a back-up procedure on March 23, 2023.”

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 5h

What did that have to do with *anything*

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 5h

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 7h

“Going to the movies…a-a-alone?! Why, I couldn’t bear the thought! *hand over head* To do such a social activity in solitary…Society must think me a freak, an outcast, a—“

“Can you move, you’re holding up the line”

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 7h

Endless and everlasting, it is

Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 15h

*loud fart noise*

Axios @axios.com · 18h

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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Meek (Spooky) 👻 @themeekwarrior.bsky.social · 18h

Hey, Alaska's been hit by a typhoon and no one is talking about it. Indigenous towns are in need of aid. People are missing and the gov't is still shut down.

If any creators here are in affected areas, please drop links for aid.

#mutualaid #crisis #alaska #typhoonhalong #helpourcountrymen

Rescue and recovery efforts underway as remnants of Typhoon Halong hit western Alaska | Alaska Beacon

Rescue and recovery efforts began Sunday in western Alaska as a major storm caused by remnants of Typhoon Halong hit coastal communities with massive storm surge, flooding and hurricane-force winds up...

alaskabeacon.com

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 1d

democrats pretend winning elections is this Herculean task when all they have to do is follow the blueprint of the guy who won so hard they changed the rule to "you can only be president for 8 years"

logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 2d

Step 1: disband ICE
Step 2: give ICE's entire bloated budget to the IRS
Step 3: record white collar crime task force kicking in penthouse doors and macing unresisting billionaires
Step 4: one hundred years of Dem reign

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 22h

Part of why the movie works in animation because the women get to move and express themselves in ways animated women do not, a thing Kang specifically said spurred her to make this
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Creator Rejects Live-Action Movie: ‘It Would Feel Too Grounded. It Wouldn’t Work for Me’

'KPop Demon Hunters' creator Maggie Kang does not want the hit Netflix movie to be turned into a live-action film.

variety.com

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 23h

The lion becomes a pinocchio every steam next fest as they add a bunch of demos to their library that they're totally gonna all play, honest,

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 23h

For a man who nearly got ousted from his company until the last few minutes, he's got a lotta nerve

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

futurism.com

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Rem(She/They) @remspeedwagon.bsky.social · 1d

Posting my ko-fi again because I'm struggling under a lot of work related expenses this month and am worried about rent. Also it's my birthday soon please help me stop having money related panic attacks

ko-fi.com/remspeedwagon

Support Rem

ko-fi.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 1d

Lord help us when that starting wave of cross-gen titles hits through 2028/9

VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 1d

Both PS6 and the next Xbox are planned for a 2027 release, according to separate reports.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ps6-and...

PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC

Both companies are reportedly planning to release their next-gen consoles within two years…

www.videogameschronicle.com

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