Jay Phoenix 🔶
@jayphoenix.bsky.social
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jayphoenix.bsky.social
Figured I'd move over my pinned message now I'm using pretty much just Bluesky.

Ref sheet by @chillybons.bsky.social from 2021
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datnofact.bsky.social
This has always been the goal of AI companies. Shove AI into as many products as people to make people completely dependent on them, and thus give companies as much leverage as possible to crank up payment dials. Generative AI has more in common with a parasitic infection than a piece of technology.
mattround.com
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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robmacwolf.thevoice.dog
When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
mattburgess1.bsky.social
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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jayphoenix.bsky.social
I've finished the 7th knight, so I'm now half way through!

#warhammer #oldworld
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techpriest.bsky.social
On a lighter note before taking a break from here...

The Death of Stalin is one of my all time favourite films, but I always find this behind-the-scenes still hilarious because there's just something about a pose that looks like "Marshall Zhukov takes a selfie with the lads" that's inherently funny
jayphoenix.bsky.social
Thank you! I had a lot of fun doing the horns and wood on this one.
jayphoenix.bsky.social
I've finished the 7th knight, so I'm now half way through!

#warhammer #oldworld
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tfiddlerart.bsky.social
Weretober2025 Day 13 - Phoenix 🔥
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danmckee.bsky.social
“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”
jayphoenix.bsky.social
I feel like there's this myth that authoritarian regimes are somehow more decisive than democracies - And then you read about that time that Hitler had jaundice, so that meant nobody could do anything for two days.
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chazero.bsky.social
Finding out you use ChatGPT or other generative AI, for any reason, makes this symbol hover above my head every time you mention it.
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stephenkb.bsky.social
Completely agree with this - there is a lot of terrible policymaking where you can see the direct echo of “this guy played a lot of Civ as a child and teen”.
duncanweldon.bsky.social
Genuinely think the concept of the tech tree has done a lot of damage.
edutecheditor.bsky.social
“Since 1991, the video game Civilization, now in its seventh installment, has become one of the most successful game franchises ever. That means millions of kids have grown up with Civ as one of their formative ways of thinking about history.” (via @jstor.bsky.social) #AcademicSky
jayphoenix.bsky.social
Spooky season, so I made pumpkin soup and pumpkin pie
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nicterhorst.com
This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again.

Literally the least you can do!!
gamesmarkt.bsky.social
UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...
jayphoenix.bsky.social
Recent red and blue knight I finished
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timbale.bsky.social
"The wealth tax debate shouldn’t be separate from the one about how we tax property and pensions – that’s where most of the country’s wealth sits."  c/o @resfoundation.bsky.social Bet it will continue to be, though. 🙄
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babaisyou.bsky.social
Fox has been added into the game, and with this we're about ready to upload the new build for betatesting!
#babaisyou
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volts.wtf
It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.
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weratedogs.com
This is Boksil. She is reaching levels of cozy previously unheard of. 12/10 a trailblazer (IG: with_bokdanji)
a  small cream colored dog stares up at us. this is Boksil, swaddled in a grey robe, and tucked underneath a thick blanket on a bed. her little paws poke out of the robe's sleeves, and her toe beans are in full view. her tiny pink tongue mlems from her grinning mouth. a higher angle of Boksil. a small yellow pillow rests beside her for scale, and her eyes are closed peacefully as she rests swaddled under a white blanket, looking very cozy.