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GruntyThrst @gruntythrst.bsky.social · 7h

jesus

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

Hi hello did you know that Elon Musk's third Neuralink patient (previously nonverbal) is "getting help from Grok" to communicate

and I hope -- I REALLY HOPE -- he's not stuck in his own brain listening as a robot talks for him without his input because this, to me, would be worse than death

This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI

A patient who types with his brain thanks to a Neuralink implant is using AI chatbots to speed things up.

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unpaid shirtz dot cool brand ambassador @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 9h

Ah yes, my favorite chip flavor, simp garlic

A purple bag of lays with a giant garlic with pleading eyes and a quivering mouth

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 11h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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GruntyThrst @gruntythrst.bsky.social · 9h

Doing a giveaway, respond to this post to receive 1 free like

GruntyThrst @gruntythrst.bsky.social · 9h

It’s really generous of trans people to allow this

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 9h

cis people you too can change your name if your first one was bad

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 10h

mister rogers agrees and says it is all of our duty to go beast mode right now

Cover of the world according to mister Rogers by Fred rogers.

Text from the book: The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe.

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GruntyThrst @gruntythrst.bsky.social · 10h

Sounds kinda like the first part of the King’s Fall raid?

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Raccoons Hourly @raccoonhourly.bsky.social · 11h

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 11d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 10h

I am very tired of this, but a quick review.

In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.

How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 12h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 11h

no wonder

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SPiNDLE @aidenr0.bsky.social · 20h

holographic dress

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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🦖Teawrex🦖 @teawrex.gay · 13h

Not to contribute to the discourse on viewership *too* much, but this kinda flies in the face for how a lot of me and my friends grew our channels when first starting out.

We pushed people who had the bandwidth to watch on multi-stream sites so we'd all get a bump. Now you're punished for it!

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 2d

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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GruntyThrst @gruntythrst.bsky.social · 13h

wow I thought Stonehenge was bigger

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 13h

all of these people being like "the manager at build a bear didnt let me name my bear Charlie Kirk and wouldn't officiate a marriage between me and Charlie Kirk (bear). they must be executed" really highlights how businesses need a hard and fast "no weird shit" rule

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GruntyThrst @gruntythrst.bsky.social · 13h

you’re basically a genshin character irl so would it really be a surprise

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GruntyThrst @gruntythrst.bsky.social · 13h

a cartoon character sitting on a bus with the words i 'm in danger above him

Alt: A character from the Simpsons laughing and saying “I’m in danger!”

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14h

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 14h

Went to a Target. Lots of PS5 hardware, zero Series X hardware in stock. A billion different colored controllers for both, though. Also I didn't realize Sony was getting behind Astro Bot with toys and stuff. They had like four different Astro Bot figures and a big $50 plush Astro Bot. Kinda neat!

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Outside of Portland's ICE facility last night, Kenny from South Park got married to a unicorn.

The betrothed Portland couple said they decided to get hitched on site to bring some joy and fun to a dark time.

"People can be fun loving people and still protest."

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 19h

Game & Watch Gallery 3 contains a debug mode that displays the game's graphics. However, due to an incorrectly loaded palette and using a black background, the sprites for Yoshi in the Egg game appear inadvertently unsettling when viewed in that mode.

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