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Ezekiel Bones

Ezekiel Bones

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Ezekiel Bones @jjofbc.bsky.social · Mar 7

I do not give donations to people making unsolicited requests in my mentions.

I give as much as I can each month to people I know. If I have extra to give away it goes to requests I see in my timeline from people I actually follow.

Quote posting me for donations is an excellent way to get blocked.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h

getting my 3 year old nephew a die cast USPS truck to begin his appreciation of government services early

Ezekiel Bones @jjofbc.bsky.social · 3h

I really love this cherry coke image ngl it's beautiful brand work

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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4h

Federal Judges have ruled a) that the President does have the authority to release emergency SNAP funds during the shutdown & b) that Trump *Must* do so.

That means if payments don't go out, it's because Trump & the republicans defied the Judiciary to refuse to use their authority to send them out.

Ezekiel Bones @jjofbc.bsky.social · 3h

yeah it's an interesting question either way. I am super very interested in the archeology of the datasets. But why it extracts what it does is equally interesting

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Ezekiel Bones @jjofbc.bsky.social · 4h

honestly so many of this firm's ads have this look I have to wonder if their stuff is really crammed in the training data

cherry 7-up illustration showing wet can with cherries beside it. Everything is wet, with exaggerated droplets

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Ezekiel Bones @jjofbc.bsky.social · 4h

Am I out of line here? the vibe feels really similar to baseline LLM output

three ad illustrations all in a highly glossy oversaturated realistic style

one half size ad is across the top - it shows a glossy looking old white man holding a packet of mrs paul's crispy crunchy breaded natural fish filets. the filets are white with reddish brown breading

in the bottom left are some children on the beach near a rocky outcropping. three of them are dressed girly, in bathing suits near one child wearing shorts is bent over looking at something. They have a little yellow bucket.

The last one on bottom right is in a circle - an old person wearing a skirt and carrying a purse is bent over looking at a bright red car, she protrudes out of the circular frame. behind the car is a tackily dressed salesperson with plaid pants and a bright spotted tie and a baggy tan suit jacket gesturing toward the car. a sign says ron's used rods. there are red green and yellow pennants flying over the lot

Ezekiel Bones @jjofbc.bsky.social · 4h

Like they stole ebooks to train text models but would uploads of magazines etc be high enough resolution to form the basis of their training data? usually pirated digitizations of print material are pretty grainy and low rez

Ezekiel Bones @jjofbc.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah as someone else noted it is really prevelent in late early and early 90s advertising. It makes me wonder where they got the materials to scrape to build their models. like would they be scanning stuff themselves to get crisp images at a high resolution? (does resolution matter?)

Ezekiel Bones @jjofbc.bsky.social · 4h

yeah I know these are genuinely not LLM art, I have the book from 1991 in my hand.

I am just curious if maybe this stuff makes up an outsized portion of the training data

Ezekiel Bones @jjofbc.bsky.social · 4h

Am I out of line here? the vibe feels really similar to baseline LLM output

three ad illustrations all in a highly glossy oversaturated realistic style

one half size ad is across the top - it shows a glossy looking old white man holding a packet of mrs paul's crispy crunchy breaded natural fish filets. the filets are white with reddish brown breading

in the bottom left are some children on the beach near a rocky outcropping. three of them are dressed girly, in bathing suits near one child wearing shorts is bent over looking at something. They have a little yellow bucket.

The last one on bottom right is in a circle - an old person wearing a skirt and carrying a purse is bent over looking at a bright red car, she protrudes out of the circular frame. behind the car is a tackily dressed salesperson with plaid pants and a bright spotted tie and a baggy tan suit jacket gesturing toward the car. a sign says ron's used rods. there are red green and yellow pennants flying over the lot

Ezekiel Bones @jjofbc.bsky.social · 4h

honestly so many of this firm's ads have this look I have to wonder if their stuff is really crammed in the training data

cherry 7-up illustration showing wet can with cherries beside it. Everything is wet, with exaggerated droplets

Ezekiel Bones @jjofbc.bsky.social · 4h

this is the most LLM-looking non-LLM illustration I have come across

It has that unreal glossiness that I see as one of the major hallmarks of LLM imagery, especially that trying to be "art"

(Advertisement by Bernstein and Andriulli Inc Representatives, from the "Creative Illustration Book, 1991"

Three images on a page, all with lots of glossy curves and highly saturated colours. The top one, taking up half the space, is a space shuttle hovering over a blue planet, probably the earth, beside a round orb that has an astronaut connected to the shovel hovering above it

the one in the bottom left is of a bright blue classic car seen head on with a bright orange and yellow and purple sunset in fhe background

the last one at the bottom right is of someone wearing a white helmet and aviator glasses. the helmet says US Navy

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 5h

ICYMI, I wrote a feature for the MIT Technology Review on my journey of surviving the Eaton Fire while also reporting on and dealing with its myriad scams and conspiracy theories.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...

What it’s like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspiracy theory expert)

Mike Rothschild has spent years studying the rise of QAnon and antivaccine conspiracism. After his house in Altadena, California, burned down, he found himself mired in similarly sticky webs of misinf...

www.technologyreview.com

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 24d

Don't give me your wishy-washy 'Happy Halloween'. Say 'Hail Satan' like you mean it.

A red pentagram over which is floating a tangle of antler like shapes. Under the pentagram are two black goats rearing up to follow the curve of the circle. They appear to be conjoined at the rear quarters and each has a red flame floating above its head. Entwined around the goats' legs is a red flowing banner on which is written the words 'HAIL SATAN'

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rudetuesday @rudetuesday.bsky.social · 5h

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

There was an old man you could gaze
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Jan 6

Bottom line: This analysis confirms for me that Bluesky is a more reliable platform for seeing the content you want, especially on climate topics. Its lack of algorithm means that engagement here depends on YOU!

What’s it been like for you on these platforms? Does ⬆️ track with your experience?

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 14h

The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.
Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.

Sylvia Plath

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 5h

!!!!!

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

BOSTON (AP) — Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.

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Spoopy Penpal Psycho 🎃 @sippycuppsycho.bsky.social · 5h

Modern medicine seeks to remove the patient from the diagnostic process despite the fact that self report is still the largest source of medical data on how a patient is "feeling".

Ezekiel Bones @jjofbc.bsky.social · 5h

the world is scary enough to justify it

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KIMBOOLY👻💕✨ @k1m.bsky.social · 5h

i think we should get to keep halloween going for the rest of 2025

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 21h

Oh, you mean when a city councillor said they heard that a company, that she wouldn't name, was denied a loan, by a financial institution, which she also wouldn't name, she didn't have all the facts? Wild

Ezekiel Bones @jjofbc.bsky.social · 5h

I wish I was shocked that anti-Indigenous racism is so bad that absolute horseshit is being spread about the Cowichan decision but alas, I am not shocked in the slightest

Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 21h

In 100 per cent unsurprising news, the bank that supposedly pulled funding from a Richmond project because of the Cowichan court decision says it definitely did not pull funding because of the Cowichan court decision

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/cou...

Councillor says $100M project denied loan over Cowichan case, bank says not a factor

A Richmond, B.C., councillor says a company based in the city has been refused financing for what she says is a $100 million project because of uncertainty over their site

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12h

*raises hand* I would like good union jobs, not measles and Ai slop, thank you.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 5h

The most frightening thing happening today is that 42 million people, including 16 million children, will be losing access to food assistance from the US government.