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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 8h

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Hyper Mega Bummer Boy @neveronbrand.bsky.social · 9h

Dudes Rock personified

What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Saint Twiggie 🙏 🔞 @twiggietime.bsky.social · 12h

Support your local, human, erotica creators. You need chatgpt to suck your e-dick for you? You absolutely fucking LOSER

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 16h

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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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 11h

Halloween: The Return of Mykeighlah Myers

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 12h

for once I'd like to see one of these articles comment on how deeply WEIRD this desire is

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 13h

Unfortunately I don’t find your anti communism funny when anti capitalism has been designated as a terrorist activity. Sorry!

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Hyper Mega Bummer Boy @neveronbrand.bsky.social · 14h

Stealing from and replacing artists wasn't enough, so now they're looking to do the same with sex workers, another group whose work is already massively devalued by the general public.

The Verge @theverge.com · 15h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Hyper Mega Bummer Boy @neveronbrand.bsky.social · 15h

Was batting around the idea of getting another tattoo and something Struzan inspired isn't sounding like a bad call...

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15h

standing together makes us strong. standing with labor makes us strong. standing with leftists and revolutionaries and the oppressed around the world takes a billion struggling workers and makes them an army which can push the course of history toward peace and justice.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15h

we are not cannon fodder for "revolutionary fantasies" any more than sylvia rivera was cannon fodder for queer liberation. we are its beating heart. every trans person is proof that humanity can know itself better, can express its joy, can live authentically and with intent. we ARE a revolution.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15h

liberalism has no solutions, only empty rhetoric and a policy of adopting the ways and means of their nominal opponents until they themselves are an ineffective shadow of the monsters currently stripping the american carcass. it will not save you. it will not save us.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 15h

Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15h

do not listen to pundits, even trans pundits, who have given up in their hearts on the dream of liberation, who have preemptively sold out in hopes of becoming part of a world which is already dead and rotting

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15h

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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Funky Dynamite @sweavart.bsky.social · 16h

I gave my AI movie that’s just avengers Endgame but all the heroes are me and all the bad guys are my ex-wife 5 stars on Letterboxd

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The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 16h

The AI dudes do not sell a product. They sell pitch decks and headlines, for which they are compensated with credulous money. You and I have almost no part in this vaporware ecosystem

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Hyper Mega Bummer Boy @neveronbrand.bsky.social · 16h

GoT had one of the most maligned final seasons in TV history, and despite all of their bullshit promises about AI's abilities, the best improvement they could think of was "Replace the blonde lady with an even bustier blonde lady."

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

Hyper Mega Bummer Boy @neveronbrand.bsky.social · 16h

That's true, but I feel like they're starting to realize it's a decent placement for sleeper horror hits. M3gan, Split, and the 2022 Scream reboot all dropped in January.

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Hyper Mega Bummer Boy @neveronbrand.bsky.social · 16h

The trailer looks great, and I feel like the presence of Rachel McAdams as Castaway Annie Wilkes alone will make it worth seeing.

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Hyper Mega Bummer Boy @neveronbrand.bsky.social · 16h

Same here. The most recent update that added buildable ships worked to pull me back in for a while. They need to add more parts but it's still pretty rad.

Hyper Mega Bummer Boy @neveronbrand.bsky.social · 17h

One of my favorite Hollywood stories is how Drew Struzan created the legendary poster for The Thing basically overnight, after being given absolutely no info or material from the movie aside from the longline.

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Hyper Mega Bummer Boy @neveronbrand.bsky.social · 17h

Those Back to the Future posters, man. Just unimpeachably perfect, even when the movies aren't.

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Hyper Mega Bummer Boy @neveronbrand.bsky.social · 17h

Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it.

The Blob (1988). Replace Kevin Dillon with Matt Dillon. Massive improvement, movie becomes a much bigger classic.

Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it.

The Snowman (2017)
Recast: Detective Harry Hole with Michael Shannon
How it's fixed: Shannon’s unhinged intensity turns this icy mess into a psychological horror. You feel the frostbite and existential dread.

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 1d

Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it.

Mine is "The Godfather- Part 3," recasting Sophia Coppola (great director, but should not have been given this role) with Jennifer Jason Leigh.

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Hyper Mega Bummer Boy @neveronbrand.bsky.social · 17h

Anyone who uses AI for a tribute to Struzan is getting strung up. Anyone who tries to do it in his style gets a slower death.

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