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Jay Phoenix 🔶 @jayphoenix.bsky.social · Nov 25

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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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1h

Given FindOutNow polls keep making news it's worth saying a bit more about their methodology.

Unlike other online pollsters it doesn't use a panel of people who've signed up to do polls. Instead they ask a small number of Qs to people playing the Pick my Postcode lottery. (Thread)

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DatNoFact @datnofact.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

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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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d

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.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

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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RotLDanielle Ryan 🎃 @danirat.bsky.social · 2d

Look at it

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 1d

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Jay Phoenix 🔶 @jayphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

I've finished the 7th knight, so I'm now half way through!

#warhammer #oldworld

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Jay Phoenix 🔶 @jayphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! I had a lot of fun doing the horns and wood on this one.

Jay Phoenix 🔶 @jayphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

I've finished the 7th knight, so I'm now half way through!

#warhammer #oldworld

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Taran Fiddler @tfiddlerart.bsky.social · 2d

Weretober2025 Day 13 - Phoenix 🔥

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ARCxLIGHT @arcxlight.bsky.social · 3d

3 Rat Moon

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 4d

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 3d

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Jay Phoenix 🔶 @jayphoenix.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Jay Phoenix 🔶 @jayphoenix.bsky.social · 4d

I love weekend baking

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Chazero @chazero.bsky.social · Sep 5

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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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

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”.

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 4d

Genuinely think the concept of the tech tree has done a lot of damage.

Tech-Based Teaching @edutecheditor.bsky.social · 4d

“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

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Jay Phoenix 🔶 @jayphoenix.bsky.social · 4d

Spooky season, so I made pumpkin soup and pumpkin pie

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 6d

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!!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 6d

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/...

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Jay Phoenix 🔶 @jayphoenix.bsky.social · 6d

Recent red and blue knight I finished

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 6d

"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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Baba Is You @babaisyou.bsky.social · 7d

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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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 8d

Witchy crows 🐦‍⬛

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7d

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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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 8d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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