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academic. filmmaker. straight-presenting-bi. nyc asshole in toronto. she/her/auntiefa. acab. www.screeningsurveillance.com amuse|muse|use|us|u pfp: me holding up both my middle fingers banner: jealous gf meme with Marx, & Rom & Quark from ds9 iykyk

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · Aug 1

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 59m

shit I’ve been forgetting to include #freelink is there an update on that I’m traveling and not as online at the moment

rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 1h

lovely canals and bridges all true but they do not tell you about the stairs lol my knees

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 1h

yes ok Venice is delightful

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 3h

I’m on a train! to Venice!

rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 3h

letting a non-person tell you how to be a person is so pathetic omg

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 10h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 5h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 10h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 3h

this is year 4 of me teaching in a mask!

rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 3h

a woman walking by was coughing and I gave her a look and she was like, “you’re wearing masks!” and I said, “you’re not!”, and she said, “I’m not sick I have allergies!”, and I was like

a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' .

Alt: gif of one of the Osmond’s (the blonde young one i’m a red shirt I don’t remember lol) saying “Sure, Jan.” sarcastically.

media.tenor.com

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 5h

surrounded by unmasked and sick people on this very fast train 😭

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 5h

The soft opening for this was telling teachers to necromance chatbots out of Anne Frank. There’s a historical parallel to this I’ve been chewing on, a bit of gristle stuck in my teeth since I wrote this footnote about a public debate in Weimar Germany on the educative potential of replicas. 🧵

The use of copies to fill lacunae in collections was by no means always hitched to a progressive cause, as it was in this debate. For example, the Nazi-sponsored traveling exhibition Deutsche Größe of the early 1940s comprised replicas entirely. See Diebold
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6h

Being such a responsible company, I’m sure they’ve gamed out the potential societal harms and have a plan for mitigating them. 💀

Are deepfakes of dead people rewriting the past?

While OpenAI's Sora has some guardrails around the likenesses of living people, protections around the likenesses of those who have died appear to be an afterthought.

www.nbcnews.com

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 1d

enjoying roma

a photo of a tote bag with AI slop picture of a grey tabby cat and a brown tabby cat eating from a plate of spaghetti with the Coliseum in the background, with ROMA under the picture. the grey cat is also eating a melty fork that’s coming out of the spaghetti on the plate — a classic AI slop tell. on the top left is a yellow spiky speech bubble sticker that says “OFFERTS €5.00”

a closeup of the grey tabby cat eating a melty fork that’s coming out of the spaghetti on the plate — a classic AI slop tell.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Oh what’s that? They will depreciate at roughly 3 times the rate previously touted and require constant replacement and 2-3x the revenue to match initial expenditure?

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

More. Of. This. Any city that allows a corporation to build a data center will be unlivable within a year of construction.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 1d

haha yes

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 1d

my body has no concept of time right now it’s like ok we’re awake let’s pound some coffee

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 1d

AI “summaries” are not summaries but slop

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 1d

I had the same reaction when I read people were specifically using LLMs to write the abstracts of their papers. This is the *last* place you should trust the bot to do your work for you! findthethread.blog/Abstracted-I...

Abstracted Intelligence

As with any new technology, social norms around the use of GenAI are still evolving. One of the concerns is the misuse of this technology in domains such as academia, which place a premium on the publ...

findthethread.blog

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 1d

to cross the street in rome you basically fling yourself into the street and hope not to die

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 2d

hi Rome

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 2d

I’ve never been and I’m excited! recos welcome if you have any :)

rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 2d

seriously!!

rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 2d

Milan for the conference, but Rome a couple days and also Venice for like a day because I had to

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