R.H.Slansky
@rhslansky.bsky.social
Word-arranger, quicksand survivor, spider relocation service, imaginary friend, Shirley Temple from Hell. she/her
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periodic reminder that the crusade against MSG was just racism and it is actually just magical science salt that gets you More Yummy for Less Sodium
December 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
periodic reminder that the crusade against MSG was just racism and it is actually just magical science salt that gets you More Yummy for Less Sodium
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This is why I go nuts when people compare AI water use to agriculture or something. Do we need an overhaul of our systems? Sure! But humans need to eat and we don't need Garfield robbing sexy Pikachu at gunpoint. You're comparing apples to rubber chickens.
> People who don’t think twice about eating a burger or buying a new T-shirt are angry about LLMs and water because they are rejecting the entire premise that AI is worth the price of its water use.
i think this is what @anthonymoser.com commented on in another post & i agree
i think this is what @anthonymoser.com commented on in another post & i agree
December 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is why I go nuts when people compare AI water use to agriculture or something. Do we need an overhaul of our systems? Sure! But humans need to eat and we don't need Garfield robbing sexy Pikachu at gunpoint. You're comparing apples to rubber chickens.
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how much water does it take to disrupt the careers of millions of people? how much water does it take to make deepfakes of underage kids? how much water does it take to exacerbate people's mental health crises? is there a good number? is there an acceptable number?
December 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
how much water does it take to disrupt the careers of millions of people? how much water does it take to make deepfakes of underage kids? how much water does it take to exacerbate people's mental health crises? is there a good number? is there an acceptable number?
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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my next question... Why didn't Wilsey consider that she was a single mother whose wages feed a child? Why did she pivot immediately to abuse? There is something unwell there
this is actually one of the major disconnects that Bernie Sanders has in his analysis of race and class
this is actually one of the major disconnects that Bernie Sanders has in his analysis of race and class
December 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
my next question... Why didn't Wilsey consider that she was a single mother whose wages feed a child? Why did she pivot immediately to abuse? There is something unwell there
this is actually one of the major disconnects that Bernie Sanders has in his analysis of race and class
this is actually one of the major disconnects that Bernie Sanders has in his analysis of race and class
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Texture/mood experiments
December 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Texture/mood experiments
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I’m not a huge fan of taking away people’s livelihoods just because they did or said something stupid but someone in a customer facing position getting fired for calling customers racial slurs is actually a perfect example of when a person should absolutely be fired
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I’m not a huge fan of taking away people’s livelihoods just because they did or said something stupid but someone in a customer facing position getting fired for calling customers racial slurs is actually a perfect example of when a person should absolutely be fired
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The idea of framing this vainglorious billionaire lot as modern day versions of the gritty, hard-bitten, working class, manual laborers who, for a pittance of wages, risked their lives and used their hands to make real the skyscraper dreams of the wealthy and middle classes is….lunacy.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The idea of framing this vainglorious billionaire lot as modern day versions of the gritty, hard-bitten, working class, manual laborers who, for a pittance of wages, risked their lives and used their hands to make real the skyscraper dreams of the wealthy and middle classes is….lunacy.
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*taps sign* www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...
December 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
*taps sign* www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...
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Oh & one more thing: outsourcing creative work to AI means outsourcing your curation of the universe to algorithms, pre-curated to make your work less unique, less expansive, less thrilling. You have the whole universe to choose from. Don't let nihilistic billionaire assholes choose for you.
December 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Oh & one more thing: outsourcing creative work to AI means outsourcing your curation of the universe to algorithms, pre-curated to make your work less unique, less expansive, less thrilling. You have the whole universe to choose from. Don't let nihilistic billionaire assholes choose for you.
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Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid
December 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid
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Here's JRR Tolkien on today's Time Magazine People of the Year and Disney's deal with OpenAI
![from a letter by JRR Tolkien to his son Michael:
[here is] the tragedy and despair of all machinery laid bare. Unlike art which is content to create a new secondary world in the mind, it attempts to actualize desire, and so to create power in this World; and that cannot really be done with any real satisfaction. Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour. And in addition to this fundamental disability of a creature, is added the Fall, which makes our devices not only fail of their desire but turn to new and horrible evil. So we come inevitably from Daedalus and Icarus to the Giant Bomber. It is not an advance in wisdom! This terrible truth, glimpsed long ago by Sam Butler, sticks out so plainly and is so horrifyingly exhibited in our time, with its even worse menace for the future, that it seems almost a world wide mental disease that only a tiny minority perceive it. Even if people have ever heard the legends (which is getting rarer) they have no inkling of their portent. How could a maker of motorbikes name his product Ixion cycles! Ixion, who was bound for ever in hell on a perpetually revolving wheel! Well, I have got over 2 thousand words onto this little flimsy airletter; and I will forgive the Mordor-gadgets some of their sins, if they will bring it quickly to you](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eawrzkefxggvqbrmagkhsmcc/bafkreiehclqi7gi5ioox33zjtsvsk3aid326opn3ix6a2cadj3morubefq@jpeg)
December 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Here's JRR Tolkien on today's Time Magazine People of the Year and Disney's deal with OpenAI
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Umm guys.. Its happening. Its finally happening..
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Umm guys.. Its happening. Its finally happening..
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You’re locked in a room with a single button that reduces your income by 8% but gives you free healthcare forever and prevents millions of people from experiencing needless suffering and death. Wow what a moral conundrum.
December 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
You’re locked in a room with a single button that reduces your income by 8% but gives you free healthcare forever and prevents millions of people from experiencing needless suffering and death. Wow what a moral conundrum.
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I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
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What could possibly go wrong with these guys controlling 80 percent of the film industry x.com/cbsnews/stat...
December 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
What could possibly go wrong with these guys controlling 80 percent of the film industry x.com/cbsnews/stat...
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Looking to spread some yuletide cheer with my new song “Big Nick Christmas”
December 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Looking to spread some yuletide cheer with my new song “Big Nick Christmas”
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This is like giving your teen daughter’s Instagram to Jeffrey Epstein
BREAKING: Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI, and will allow its iconic characters to be on the company's Sora AI video generator.
December 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is like giving your teen daughter’s Instagram to Jeffrey Epstein
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Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
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When Hunter S. Thompson ran for sheriff of Aspen — this will always be one of my favorite political anecdotes
May 11, 2023 at 12:26 AM
When Hunter S. Thompson ran for sheriff of Aspen — this will always be one of my favorite political anecdotes
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It was the omg of times, it was the Jfc of times
September 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It was the omg of times, it was the Jfc of times
just did a face scan to verify my age on bluesky
December 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
just did a face scan to verify my age on bluesky
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I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
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This kind of thing absolutely kills most of the book sales that one might have from someone browsing the site. Every book now has to contend with the glut of AI slop and rip-offs that drown it.
On this page you'll find nine clearly AI James Gandolfini biographies that were published after mine.
It's absolute madness and authors have no power. Don't buy books from Amazon. Buy them from @mzspress.bsky.social or @bookshop.org or your local bookstore or even fucking B&N but not goddamn Amazon
It's absolute madness and authors have no power. Don't buy books from Amazon. Buy them from @mzspress.bsky.social or @bookshop.org or your local bookstore or even fucking B&N but not goddamn Amazon
December 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This kind of thing absolutely kills most of the book sales that one might have from someone browsing the site. Every book now has to contend with the glut of AI slop and rip-offs that drown it.