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Talks and writes about fans and tech (sachajudd.com). Letterboxd’s Senior Harry Styles Correspondent.

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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 13d

I challenged myself to explain atproto in a way that wouldn't put you to sleep, or make you hate me or yourself. Let me know if I succeeded.

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nothin' but blue skies from now on

Some of you know that I work part-time with the team at Graze Social. It seems gauche to talk about a day job in your passion project newsletter, but in this...

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3h

Mandatory age verification to "protect children" is not to protect children. It is to deanonymize every adult speaker and consumer of speech online so the government can retaliate against speakers and speech they don't approve of. For instance: apnews.com/article/trum...

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 7h

It's amazing how incredibly explicitly OpenAI seems to be admitting that they have no idea how to actually monetize their automated lying machine.

The Verge @theverge.com · 11h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 10h

I've been mourning our loss of web events in AoNZ lately (rip Webstock, Gather, Codemania, KiwiFOO et al) and this gets at why. I'm so looking forward to @beyondtellerrand.com and @ffconf.org next month.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 1d

Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on.

These philistines need to hear from you all.

Thank you

petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

Edvard Munch's 'Scream' but with the text 'I can't believe they're cancelling Art History' in a speech bubble

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 21h

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 17h

Humans of New York has taken over all of Grand Central Terminal for a huge art installation called Dear New York. “For the first time possibly ever, there is not a single ad to be seen in Grand Central Terminal.” [news.artnet.com]

‘Humans of New York’ Transforms Grand Central Into a Monumental Photo Show

Brandon Stanton, creator of “Humans of New York,” has launched New York’s largest public art installation since “The Gates” at Grand Central.

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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 10h

lol MARC why are we blurry??

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Elizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 11h

Reading beyond the headline, I'm mostly struck by how much the purported wide-open horizons here resemble the way people outside of fanfiction describe it, e.g., "Fan fiction writers put Batman on the bridge of the Enterprise." The shallow wacky mashup or what-if that basically stops there.

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

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 11h

"users with no mental health problems" is a WILD phrase.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 11h

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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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 11h

Come and give it a try! We've built a great migration tool -- and I've written a guide to it here. You do a test feed first, so there's no risk to your existing setup. We've also got a fab community in the Discord waiting to help :) help.graze.social/en/article/m...

Migrating a Feed

How to migrate a feed built elsewhere to Graze

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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 1d

welp guess i'll be steering clear of keira knightley for a while. what a ludicrous response.

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Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social · 1d

I've put a sign on my front door that says "no burglars". Works a treat.

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Graze Social @graze.social · 1d

ATProto is a team sport - we build better together. That's why, effective today, we're opening up access to the enriched archive we use to power Graze, so anyone can build great services on top of ATProto without reinventing the wheel. Read more in the @leaflet.pub post below for details!

Announcing the Graze Archives

A brief tour of the S3 requestor-pays archives of the Graze turbostream and freshly-announced megastream

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kottke.org @kottke.org · Sep 4

Lucasfilm recently released an official interactive map of the Star Wars galaxy. It’s *massive* and very cool to explore. [kottke.org]

The Official Map of the Star Wars Galaxy

Lucasfilm recently released an official map of the galaxy that Star Wars takes place in. And it’s huge. The map is slightly interactive; you can zoom and scroll it, but you can’t search or, say, click to highlight all

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Virginia Murdoch @virginia.alertbutnotalarmed.com · 3d

I made something! Monomarks.at is an open social bookmarking tool along the lines of Pinboard or Delicious, and it's based on ATProto, because I was inspired by @danabra.mov's widely-read post. Log in with your Bluesky account to save bookmarks and browse links posted by the people you follow. 😎

Monomarks: open social bookmarking

Open social bookmarks

Monomarks.at

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 4d

this video is AI generated. the reporter has three arms and people in the background phase in and out of each other, and it comes from an AI sharing account

be cautious with what you share these days, friends

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Carly Lane-Perry @carlylane.bsky.social · 4d

Crying screaming throwing up

Extended First Look at The Vampire Lestat ft. Sam Reid | Premieres 2026 | AMC+

YouTube video by amc+

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 4d

i see thiel’s fascination with the antichrist is making headlines. here’s me two week’s ago breaking this down for the average reader going “wtf?”

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god in the machine

This week if you’ve spent any time on socials you’ve probably encountered the idea that many US evangelical Christians had suddenly decided that the Rapture...

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 5d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 5d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 5d

Or one phrase that sounds snappy & clever. There's no way to save the overall piece of work, you'd spend more time trying to fix it (winding up with a hodgepodge of tone) than just writing it yourself. But I get why people fall for that one phrase. shityoushouldcareabout.substack.com/p/ai-is-sooo...

AI is soooo good at everything - except MY job, of course x

Expertise bias: when we give AI a free pass outside our own lane, because we don’t know enough to spot the mistakes

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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 5d

I write a lot, and I like to keep an open mind, so I often check in on an LLM to see what it would have done with the same task (a long difficult email, outline of a newsletter, a way to explain a concept simply). In every 1000 words of text there will be about one sentence that sounds like me. 1/2

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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