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Rebel scum, independent author. he/him grantpiercy.com

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heathen king @heathenking.bsky.social · Apr 16

An intro for new people on Bluesky:

• I'm Grant (hi 👋)

• I'm from Columbus, transplant from IL.

• I’m an indie author of 6 books. Visit my author site! www.grantpiercy.com

• I am a dad & a wife guy.

• I have one dog, Riley.

• I am obsessed with nine inch nails and Bowie, you have been warned.

Grant Piercy - Author

www.grantpiercy.com

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 5h

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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heathen king @heathenking.bsky.social · 3h

the world we’ve made is so stupid

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 6d

“[AI is] not a good knockoff. The ultimate goal is never to be as good as the art — the goal is to be good enough to get on the page, get the consumer to use it, and get rid of the worker.” —Molly Crabapple, artist

Can Artists Stop the AI Slop Machine?

A recent workshop in Manhattan's Lower East Side challenged the notion that the takeover of machine learning is inevitable.

hyperallergic.com

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 3h

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heathen king @heathenking.bsky.social · 5h

so it goes

heathen king @heathenking.bsky.social · 5h

I think the best books change you. You’re the person you were before reading Slaughterhouse V, and then you’re the person you’ve become after. That there’s something profound in the words shared with you, tracking the journey, becoming unstuck in time. Living through death, & then you go on living.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 12h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 6h

the books outlast the tyrants, always will. Milton lives, the Stuarts are gone. Lorca lives, Franco is gone. Isaac Babel lives, Stalin is gone. Bolano lives, Pinochet is gone. & onward

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 12h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 10h

RIP Drew Struzan

Star Trek TOS art, featuring floating heads of Kirk, Spock, and Bones.

Poster for Blade Runner, featuring floating heads of the characters.

Poster for Back to the Future Part II, with Doc and Marty both lifting shades to look at their watches with the Delorean nearby.

Poster for ET, with ET in the woods reaching for a floating UFO, with the lights of a city grid in the background.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 8h

Trump says a lot of weird and concerning stuff that people just kind of shrug at but right now I’m stuck on how he keeps insisting he’s going to hell

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 8h

a ceasefire is quite literally the best thing Israel could’ve hoped for at this point and they’re going to ruin this one in less than a week because they can’t stop killing civilians for a single second

Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 9h

LIVE: Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli soldiers kill at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis

‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

these people know how extreme they are

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heathen king @heathenking.bsky.social · 7h

"You know what freedom is?"
"No fear. Just like Tom Fucking Cruise"

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 11h

as per Donny McCaslin, Bowie was listening to "Black Messiah" during the making of Blackstar (it had come out a month or so before sessions began), and you really hear it in many corners of that record.

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NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 23h

Two families are suing AI companies after they say chatbots contributed to their children's suicides.

‘He would be here if not for ChatGPT': Grieving parents sue AI companies

It has become a trusted companion for millions of teens. But it’s not a person. It’s an algorithm powered by artificial intelligence – one that’s trained to generate human-like responses. And some fea...

www.nbcwashington.com

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 13h

Ohhhh he’s gonna get so red

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion judgment for calling Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1d

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.

...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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heathen king @heathenking.bsky.social · 16h

this is from a short that’s part of a work in progress. I published it as short story on my website. “The Gita as Literature” www.grantpiercy.com/the-gita-as-...

The Gita as Literature — Grant Piercy - Author

www.grantpiercy.com

heathen king @heathenking.bsky.social · 16h

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts

I look around at all the kids in the hallways, heads raising to meet my gaze with a certain level of pity. Ultimately they wouldn't care.

I look around at all the kids in the hallways, heads raising to meet my gaze with a certain level of pity. Ultimately they wouldn't care. It's simply a more efficient way of delivering the information, regardless of if it was correct or incorrect, if it hallucinated facts or provided accuracy. Regardless of perspective or nuance. Eventually, no one would even know it had ever been any different, for that's the nature of time and progress.
You never think it will come for you until
it does.

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heathen king @heathenking.bsky.social · 1d

maybe soon my misery will be at an end

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Aaron @ SW Legends Lounge @swlegendslounge.bsky.social · 1d

Heads up @heathenking.bsky.social

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Ohio Begins Executing Random People In Hopes They’re Criminals https://theonion.com/ohio-begins-executing-random-people-in-hopes-they-re-cr-1851218315/

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heathen king @heathenking.bsky.social · 1d

somebody really needs to sic the three ghosts of Christmas on his ass

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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heathen king @heathenking.bsky.social · 1d

a man says " you know that 's right " while sitting at a table

Alt: a man says " you know that 's right " while sitting at a table

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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