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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 12h

I mean, it’s not between the *rooftops* specifically, but….

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 16h

Interviewer literally responded to Altman proposing the construction of a Dyson sphere around the *entire solar system* with, “Yeah.”

My eyes cannot actually roll hard enough at this point.

A snippet of an interview in which Sam Altman of Open AI fame casually pitches building a Dyson sphere around our entire solar system.

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 16h

The way I gleefully await the catastrophic implosion of the ai bubble cannot for overstated

Grinning maniacally and steepling my fingers like a danged supervillain over here

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 17h

This isn’t on the author either, to be clear. We typically get little to no say in this sort of language when a piece goes live, as many folks know

Doesn’t change this lamentable state of affairs though

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 18h

Based formal governmental request

Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 18h

“ChatGPT is about to get flirty” is the biggest slug fumble I’ve seen since I last scrolled by a NYT article in my discover feed, at least

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 18h

Wish these headlines were written with an ounce of context and awareness informing them.

Like, “Desperate LLM Technologist Looks To Avoid Industry Bubble Burst By Promising Sad, Lonely ‘Erotic’ Feature Update” was sitting right there, and yet.

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 19h

*especially* gross using Monroe as an example in this manner, as many others have pointed out.

Enjoy the hard-earned ratio, then delete this garbage post pls and thnx

Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t think anyone has ever actually asked to see Marilyn Monroe in GOT, though?

Also, wtf are y’all doing @sciam.bsky.social, schilling for corpo ai? Gross behavior, do better

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 20h

Like, are we SURE it isn’t deliberate, willful sabotage at this point?

Because istfg

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 1d

My dude — fair point, there’s *loads* of great new lit out there.

But all-caps shouting about how any and every book written prior to 1946 is “ALL WORSE” than more modern stuff is an extremely weird and indefensible stance for a writer to take??

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 2d

Using fascist tactics against fascists only makes you a different flavor of fascist.

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 2d

This is correct in every detail.

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 2d

Picture of Batman breaking a gun in half. The gun says “AI” on it. Batman is saying, “This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it.

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 3d

So glad trump’s in charge now and we don’t have to worry about people getting jobs they don’t deserve because of dei or whatever 💪

Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 5d

John Darnielle. You’ve also got Thom Yorke, Bjork, Fiona Apple, etc, but Darnielle is the goat.

Taylor Swift is a lot of things, but I feel like anyone who unironically shouts out “Hey kids, spelling is fun!” mid-song removes themselves from contention for Greatest Living Lyricist unfortunately 🤷‍♂️

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 5d

That might be the case in BC, I wouldn’t know; but here in AB, the charter/private system is being built to very deliberately squeeze the life out of public education.

The petition put forward by that teacher is brave and necessary and it’s a mischaracterization to suggest otherwise, in my opinion.

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 6d

So now, I’m paying to subsidize the tuition for a bunch of wealthy parents and line the pockets of these schools’ CEOs (yes, they have CEOs) rather than my public tax dollars going to fund the public education system that my own kid and half a million other kids are a part of.

See the problem?

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 6d

Now they have their own pie *and* a bunch of the pie that I actually helped pay for with *my* tax dollars that wasn’t intended for them in the first place.

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 6d

So, let’s pretend I have a pie, and that it represents the AB govt’s funding for public schools.

Then, pretend someone starts carving out big pieces of that pie and handing it to someone else — charter and private schools — even though they already have their own pie sitting right in front of them!

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 7d

We’re gonna stomp our feet and be so mad over here though, you don’t even know

Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 8d

Cannot *wait* for the ai bubble to burst and hopefully take all these grifters down the drain with it.

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 8d

Hell yeah, can’t wait for this totally real thing that will absolutely for sure happen

Screenshot of a National Geographic article featuring the headline “SpaceX plans to send spacecraft to mars in 2018”

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 10d

How’s that ratio treating you, @fortune.com? Clear sign that y’all really have your finger on the pulse 🙄

Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 10d

HAHAHAHHAA fuck that dumb bullshit, actually

Source: me, a goddamn millennial

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