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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 10h

I know that when I like a piece of journalism, I have to preemptively yell at the readers so they appreciate how good it is.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

yeah this has been stuck in my head for weeks

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you just hate innovation

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

Houston is lucky to have you.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

is you for yourself or for the nation

NASTY ( OFFICIAL VISUALIZER)

YouTube video by KIRBY

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 2d

American Meritocracy

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

done

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

It's kind of the reverse tbh

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

it's the guys

Photo of two cats, brothers: one orange and white and one grey tiger striped

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

no, deep down he's a broken sad man with what I guarantee is some very interesting sex fetishes

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

I'm not sure I've ever ran into someone who is overly sensitive about defining "Nazi" who didn't have some broad sympathies for problematic right wing ideologies (usually of the race and gender variety)

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Katy Glenn Bass @katygb.bsky.social · 2d

If you’ve never been to a big protest like No Kings before: It feels great to be part of a big gathering of people who want to change things. It sparks joy, and resolve for the long fight ahead. Sometimes there are dance parties. You could be the one who starts the dance party! Just show up!

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 2d

If you can show up on October 18, you should. The country is shifting. The battleship is turning. And while, yes, usually mass street protests don't do much, there are exceptions.

And sometimes those exceptions go down in history.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that they are still doing the "Soros-paid protestors" bit is just an incredible testimony to the durability of certain tropes to negate the popular will, regardless of the lack of evidence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

the bubble will pop sometime next year and they'll all pretend they didn't play a role

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

It's hard to blame people with the way the press covers this stuff

If you're only getting your understanding of AI from U.S. tech media, you are in deep shit

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

it's all a cute little innovative race to the bottom to these guys

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 2d

profrogteering

The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 2d

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

yeah the guy who actively funded and encouraged turning Palestine into a genocidal crater "brokered peace" by doing fucking nothing personally useful to anyone

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

my whole professional career

it's not working out well for them

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

I'm rich and will be sheltered from the harm I cause!

and it helps me sleep better to believe that if I hadn't destroyed informed consensus via unregulated and energy inefficient automation, somebody else would have

No big!

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

From the tech bro gospel: “someone was going to coarsen society and further immiserate people, it may as well be me.”

"We're already at the point where we can't tell what's real and what's not online, and OpenAI and other tech companies will have to solve around that," said the former OpenAI engineer, using tech lingo for finding a solution to a problem. "But that's not an argument for not trying to dominate this market. You can't stop progress. If OpenAI didn't release Sora, someone else would have."

In fact, Meta is also trying to, with its recent introduction of Vibes, a platform where people can make and share short AI-generated deepfakes. In July, Google introduced Veo 3, an AI video tool. But it wasn't until OpenAI's release of the Sora app that personalized AI slop really took off.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

guy with fake job tells people to do something impossible

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 2d

Memo: Vishal Shah, Meta's VP of Metaverse, tells his team to use AI to "go 5X faster" and expects 80% of them to integrate AI into their day-to-day by Q4 (Jason Koebler/Wired)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

“Another former OpenAI employee who also was not authorized to speak publicly argued that releasing a deepfake AI social media platform was the right business decision, even if it contributes to the collapse of everyone's shared sense of reality.” 💀

Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet

OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?

www.npr.org

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