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J. Martin

@gyokusai.bsky.social

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All my snark is sincere. Writer, Ph.D., Professor of Game Design. Not necessarily in that order. JAN 2007 Twitter veteran as gyokusai, movethirtyseven, & newsoftheend. 加油 🇭🇰 🟩 🇺🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌮 🕎 ☮️ https://mastodon.social/deck/@gyokusai https://linktr.ee/gyokusai

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 3h

It's happening

Verified Accounts @verifiedusers.bsky.social · 3h

🛡️ @doritos.com has been verified by @bsky.team Track verified accounts and trusted verifiers at bverified.vercel.app!

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2h

tech companies are also getting lean to weather an economic storm that's coming, in part, due to their own self-serving and shitty choices, like supporting an erratic authoritarian with dementia who is destabilizing the climate, dismantling the legal system, and demolishing the social safety net

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 4h

so many companies say they are replacing people - laying them off - with automated systems, AI. but there has been no real auditing or regulatory approach to vetting such claims. i am deeply skeptical. think a lotta the cuts are just due to failures to sell or cut costs & prior over hiring.

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J. Martin @gyokusai.bsky.social · 5h

blogpost | justdrafts — AI Imagery and the Promise of Art

betweendrafts.com/justdrafts/2...

#AI #LLM #Art

AI Imagery and the Promise of Art

Yet let’s be quick, before the billionaire brunchlords burn everything down to ashes.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

yet another AI success story

Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

There is now something called "Grokipedia." This is from the entry on me. I have never written a single word on T.S. Eliot in my life.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

SORAYA CHEMALY HAS A NEW BOOK YOU GUYS

AND IT'S SO GOOD

EducateUS @educateusaction.bsky.social · 7d

Award winning author @sorayachemaly.bsky.social is previewing her new manifesto “All We Want is Everything” this Tuesday at our Know Means Know event on How We Dismantle Male Supremacy. Have you registered yet? Register here: buff.ly/om16MlM

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22h

isn’t there a movie that starts this way

Diseased Monkey at Large
The monkey is among several that escaped after a semi-truck crash in Mississippi while en route to a testing facility.

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 22h

Just spent 10 minutes daydreaming about how to explain to Intel 386/Motorola 68030 me that a news article was consuming one (1) gigabyte of RAM.

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 21h

“Has faced pushback” from who, you fucking hacks?

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

In the final days of New York City’s mayoral race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has faced pushback over a story he told about his aunt being afraid to wear her hijab while riding the subway after the September 11, 2001, attacks. https://cnn.it/432IAcr

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 1d

America... boy, I dunno.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 22h

Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)

(Exclusive.) Bari Weiss this week clocks up four weeks on the job as chief booker (sorry, editor-in-chief) of CBS News. Breaker hears that she has unimpressed staffers with a series of bold ideas in the 9 am call.

Last week, following the jewel heist at The Louvre, Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown. Staffers questioned what expertise in the matter Brown would provide CBS News viewers? Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code, about a murder at The Louvre.

On Tuesday’s 9 am call, Weiss suggested a story about how people who are scared of climate change aren’t having children. “She is showing her worst self,” one CBS News journalist told Breaker. “People are running to avoid her.”

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

The narrative that rabbis aren’t showing up for Mamdani— or that nobody believes that economic and labor justice are core Torah values — is false.

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 2d

We’re proud New York Rabbis for Zohran. Our movement of thousands of Jews For Zohran is growing. Join us to elect Mayor Mamdani at jfrej.org/field 🗳️

📋P.S. Remember - canvassing is a mitzvah!

Benjamin Abrams sound & edit

📷: Dan Fridman

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 1d

I do not understand how y'all use the native Gmail web client. It's like doing your email through the ocularium slit of an armored helmet.

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Der Postillon 📯 @der-postillon.com · 1d

Wer ist als nächstes dran? Witwe wirft auf Trauerfeier blind Blumenstrauß nach hinten www.der-postillon.com/2025/10/wer-...

Wer ist als nächstes dran? Witwe wirft auf Trauerfeier blind Blumenstrauß nach hinten

Essen (dpo) - Es ist eine gute alte Tradition: Auf einer Trauerfeier in der Nähe von Essen hat heute die Witwe des Verstorbenen einen Blumenstrauß bli

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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 2d

Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 1d

Y'know, it would save a lot of effort, time, and money if they cut to the chase and erected a statue of Hitler in a Klan hat wrapped in a Confederate flag.

FOX8 WGHP @myfox8.com · 1d

Gov. Landry calls on LSU to erect statue of Charlie Kirk

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) called on his state’s flagship university to honor the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk by erecting a statue of him on campus.

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 1d

Heinrich von Ofterdingen, Microsoft's Senior Vice President of Visionary Systems, explained that the initiative will roll out with Microsoft Azure Reverie. Future releases will include Copilot for Yearning and Windows Sublime, an operating environment “for those who have outgrown mere operation."

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 1d

Microsoft can now independently pursue Satori

Microsoft can now independently pursue El Dorado

Microsoft can now independently pursue the Harmony of the Spheres

Microsoft can now independently pursue The Blue Flower

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J. Martin @gyokusai.bsky.social · 1d

銀河洞 Yinhe Cave Temple, New Taipei, Taiwan

April 2025, Canon PowerShot

#Taipei #Taiwan #Photography

View at trees through an open door from the inside of a temple with lanterns at the ceiling.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1d

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Gaines: I want to challenge AOC to a debate.

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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 1d

The Wheel of Baseball turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 2d

No offense to economists*, but economists always remind me of some kid your mom made you play with who imposed a bunch of serious but arbitrary rules like “We can’t bring out the Cobra Commander while mother is in the vestibule.”

* some substantial offense

These 2 states will determine if the U.S. slips into a recession while one more enters the danger zone, top economist says | Fortune

“This state-level picture mirrors the national trend: The U.S. economy is not in recession, but it is struggling to avoid one.”

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible things are happening on X the everything app

Ricardo Duchesne & @dr_duchesne
X.com
I am not trying to be biased, but I notice that wild animals are increasingly hanging out with Whites
---- as if they are sensing that once Whites are replaced no one will care for them, play music for them, write books about them, make documentaries, take care of wild lands.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

Semafor's (Max Tani's employer) very first act as a media organization was to host a "restoring trust in news" symposium that headlined "journalist" Tucker Carlson on webcam from his Hamptons utility closet

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

lol

Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?
Anatomy of a credibility crisis
by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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