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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 16m

I believe in body autonomy for all.

That means people can wear what they choose, be sexually liberated, be who they are, not be confined to restrictive social norms, have autonomy in healthcare, finances, and everything else.

And importantly, consent is a cornerstone of it all.

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Nicolas Holzschuch @nholzschuch.bsky.social · 17m

Wernher bon Braun famously said: “Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.”
And he was right. But I think that in modern academia, research is what I’m doing when the boss doesn’t know what I’m doing.

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BeRewt @berewt.biri.name · 57m

Et de faire comprendre aux électeurs qu’un compromis, ça ne remet pas en cause son idéologie, c’est juste aujourd’hui un moyen d’éviter le pire en attendant de convaincre plus de gens.

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🏴‍☠️ MC Pablo ∴ @p4bl0.net · 47m

J'ai rarement vu un service aussi merdique que DocuSign. Le machin se pose comme intermédiaire incontournable et ne fonctionne que dans un seul navigateur sans te mettre une erreur qui l'indique dans les autres. Quelle merde.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h

Whenever I see men complain about the male loneliness crisis or unique emotional/psychological issues faced by men, it’s very clear that they just don’t see women as full people capable of experiencing the exact same emotions they do

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 4h

I love books! But I'm 1,000 times more likely to undergo an Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind procedure to make me forget I ever heard about Nuzzi's relationship with RFK Jr. than I am to read her book.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1h

One of the funny things about chatgpt pivoting to porn is that Meta already tried that just a few months ago.

Zuckerberg made a John Cena chatbot that would sext with children.

Then, a few months later, Zuckerberg *did it again*. Same results.

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 8h

“The humans won hands down when it came to notes, which require actual analysis rather than just distillation. The AI programs were ‘an almost total fail across the board.’”

Nice to know I wouldn’t have been so easily replaced at my old job by an A.I.

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Hollywood Script Readers Fear They Could be Replaced by AI. They Set Up a Test to See Who Gives Better Feedback

Fearing they could be replaced, Hollywood script readers face off against AI programs to see who gives better feedback.

variety.com

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 10h

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 · 13h

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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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

Free headline:

Trump agenda thwarted by inflation

www.axios.com/local/portla...

Unicorns and T. rexes troll Trump at Portland's ICE protests

Whether or not the president is getting the message is unclear, though.

www.axios.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4h

Part of stuffing the press pool with cranks is they get to ask "will you do [crazy thing]?" and he'll give some version of "maybe yes" even if he's never thought of it before. Sometimes it then becomes real policy. They're not reporters there to influence the public, they're there to influence him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

by this time next year, we want ICE agent to be one of the most miserable, soul destroying, hated jobs in america, we want parking enforcement to look like a dream job by comparison

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 6h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 1d

A lovely look at the craft of the Asterix translations here. auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/a...

Asterix in translation: the genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge

As promised in a previous blog entry, what follows is a discussion of the translation of some of my favourite Asterix gags. The translators’ modus operandi was to include as many jokes in the Engli…

auntymuriel.com

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 12h

I don't have a portfolio. I have a scattered mess of images and assets that do a bad job of showcasing my specific expertise.

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Nicolas Holzschuch @nholzschuch.bsky.social · 11h

"(...) the rest of the kids loved it, because a class of thirteen-year-old boys with volcanic acne and groinal longings is not best placed to appreciate Miss Austen's fine prose."
(Terry Pratchett)

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Nicolas Holzschuch @nholzschuch.bsky.social · 11h

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 12h

There's something called an imaginary color, and I swear that's not a pigment of my imagination

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 16h

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 12h

LOLLL This reminds me of when Amazon shut down @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social's affiliate account with them and refused to give us the money we had made because they they deemed our site as "porn" (citing specific comics), while THEY WERE SELLING OUR BOOKS WHICH CONTAINED THOSE EXACT SAME COMICS 😂

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 13h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 13h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Nicolas Holzschuch @nholzschuch.bsky.social · 12h

Coincidence, j'ai vu passer hier un post sur la fan fiction rédigée par le jeune Terry Pratchett qui mélangeait le seigneur des anneaux et Pride and Prejudice.

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Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart @jastrow75.bsky.social · 12h

Présentation par Nicolas Blanchard, dont livre sur la fouine parisienne est en cours de précommande fr.ulule.com/livre-fouine...

Des fouines à Paris - Roman photographique

Une aventure nocturne unique, 160 pages entre sciences, humour et émotion. 75% des bénéfices reversés à une association.

fr.ulule.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

A federal judge said "DHS, you cannot legally put this language into a grant." So what DHS did is... keep putting that language in grants — but with a new disclaimer saying it would only apply if the court order was struck down.

The judge was NOT happy.

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 14h

Judge William Smith (W. Bush appointee): The Government has done "precisely what the ... [court's] Order forbids."

The case is Illinois v. FEMA

On Wednesday, we'll publish an updated catalogue of such judicial decisions on noncompliance with court orders at @justsecurity.org at the link below:

The “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration Litigation

Comprehensive study of court cases involving Trump administration and the basis for courts no longer giving a "presumption of regularity."

www.justsecurity.org

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Nicolas Holzschuch @nholzschuch.bsky.social · 13h

C'est plutôt qu'un rapport de l'IGF et de l'IGESR ne constitue pas un projet. Surtout s'il y a des morceaux où les deux IG ne sont pas d'accord.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 14h

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Nicolas Holzschuch @nholzschuch.bsky.social · 13h

Je vais faire une soupe à l'oignon, tiens, je pense que c'est ce que j'ai de plus intelligent à faire.

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