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Star @babystar.bsky.social · 6h

When I think of A.I. I think of asbestos. To begin with everyone thought Asbestos was amazing, folk used it in everything. Then they started learning it was dangerous, research was done, they stopped using it, thou for some the damage was already done. Stop using A.I and limit the damage it's doing.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 23h

remember that article that explained why this was happening?

www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 7h

I understand why people don't do it, it's scary, it risks finding out that you were wrong, it's time consuming and tiring, etc. But like... you get one shot at this, why would you not want to understand? Spend every waking second wondering and searching and finding out?

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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 7h

MAKE IT SADDER

*crowd cheers*

SADDER THAN THAT

*crowd goes into hysterics*

EVEN SADDER

*crowd begins rioting, tearing own clothes, speaking in tongues*

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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 8h

get his ass Doc

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 8h

i spend a lot of time thinking about the saddest possible heroic sacrifice sequence starring a catgirl mech pilot that i can

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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 8h

The Yoko Taro method of storytelling

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 10h

yes. yes absolutely. there are so many people who are simply incurious and i want nothing to do with them. fully agreed

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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 10h

In my personal life I have moved away from thinking of people as stupid. Instead I just think of people as "incurious," where the Doing of learning has become something they are too tired, scared, or proud to pursue. Curiosity is, I think, the greatest human virtue, the Doing of learning.

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 12d

to me, Doing is a knife that must be continually honed, however small the grind wheel available to you is, because to me it's not about how sharp the knife actually is it's about the process of honing itself. if you are Doing then you are living. there are always opportunities to Do if you seek them

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Nicole Saltesi @nacl.sh · 11h

*nods knowingly* jihad

"I UNDERSTAND THERE'S A GUY INSIDE ME WHO WANTS TO LAY IN BED, SMOKE WEED ALL DAY, AND WATCH CARTOONS AND OLD MOVIES. MY WHOLE LIFE IS A SERIES OF STRATAGEMS TO AVOID, AND OUTWIT, THAT GUY." — Anthony Bourdain

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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 11h

children in the US are being taught to read from materials written by someone who believes dyslexia doesn't exist

holy fucking shit

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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 15h

This goes a long way to explain why so many folks show up in replies having not actually read what they are replying to, though. So that's one mystery solved.

somf @somfin.bsky.social · 15h

I have never once been more grateful for my own education than I was after reading that this is how kids are taught elsewhere, what the actual living fuck is this shit

We are about to enter a much, much worse world than I thought we were

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 23h

remember that article that explained why this was happening?

www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 19h

That's what I'm saying- it's a belief, and an incorrect belief, but one that might cause harm by convincing people to do nothing out of doubt

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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 20h

I wonder how much harm has been caused the belief that doing good deeds for their own sake is "virtue signalling"

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CurvilinearCube @curvilinearcube.bsky.social · 1d

*scribbles note* "cabbage is plant dog"

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 1d

Importantly, it never manifests as a filling plant of any sort, in all its forms it can be eaten in vast quantities without giving a sensation of fullness

it wants to be consumed

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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 2d

Katy Perry is effective, but it's Katy Counter that dishes out the real damage. Katy Dodge is a better option if you're struggling with the timing window.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2d

> When AI Became a Force Multiplier for Incompetence

but it started well before AI

techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

techtrenches.substack.com

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 3d

If I see you posting AI slop, it's an instant block. Even if you think it's cute or says a lot about society. If you are purporting that some AI slop is real news, I will report you for misinformation, and then block you. Sloppers should be marginalised.

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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 3d

It is worth mourning something that was once a big part of you

There's something cruel happening here, the intrusion of brand managed IP into a game that was previously defined by a world that *produced* that kind of IP, and it's fascinating in a decade long car crash sort of way

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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 3d

We know this from the live shows, Devon gets the big applause

somf @somfin.bsky.social · 3d

The pitch isn't buying an up to date card fresh from the supplier, it's buying a 1070 that was used in a Bitcoin mining rig for multiple years. You'd have to pay me to take it.

somf @somfin.bsky.social · 3d

The lifespan of these cards is 3 to 5 years, with most warranties ending at 3. Do you want to buy a year 4, no warranty, post-AI, 4-versions-out-of-date server card right now, even at an incredible discount? Does anyone?

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