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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 1d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

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Brad Shoemaker @bradshoemaker.bsky.social · 1d

Haven't finished Keeper yet but so far it completely rules, feels like Double Fine took a modern engine and a budget and made a sumptuous, lightly interactive surrealist animated film. A superb use of Microsoft's money.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 10h

There will be no humans elsewhere. Only here. Only on this small planet. We are a rare as well as an endangered species. Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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HAYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @dirtcupart.bsky.social · 2d

like no you don't need to have empathy for AI as it is right now bc the type of AI where it is indistinguishable from a real person and genuinely feels things is still entirely fictional and probably will
be for a while if not forever

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 5d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Sover115 @sovereign115.bsky.social · 15h

Moloch is the personification of the forces that coerce competing individuals to take actions which, although locally optimal, ultimately lead to situations where everyone is worse off. No individual is able to unilaterally break out of the dynamic. The situation is a bad Nash equilibrium. A trap.

Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 6d

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New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic

Stanford scientists unleashed AI bots in different environments, including social media, and they started behaving unethically.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 5d

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”

-Charles Mackay

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 1d

As a kid I always wondered why the default celebrity personality character in The Simpsons was a clown

As I've grown up, it makes a lot more sense.

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Mari 🏳️‍⚧️ @mari-paige.bsky.social · 1d

My therapist sent me these anti-capitalist affirmations today. Based. Going to try to remember this every day.

Daily anti-capitalist affirmations
* I am tired because capitalism feeds + thrives on exhaustion, not because I’m weak.
* My debt is not a moral failure, it’s the cost of a rigged system.
* My productivity does not define my humanity or self worth.
* Rest does not dismantle capitalism, but it disrupts its grip on me.
* Poverty is manufactured & my struggle is not proof of laziness.
* I do not need to monetize every passion to justify my existence.
* Capitalism makes me feel disposable, community reminds me I am not.
* Saying “no” is not selfish, it’s reclaiming my life from exploitation.

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Ryu Pradana @bsky.best · 2d

Everyone remember to take a rest! Do not glorifies burnout and calls it ambition.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 1d

Part of the appeal of parasocial relationships i've never seen anyone mention before is how you never have to be anxious of what the other person thinks about you, because they don't even know you exist. It's like having a friend but without the mortifying ideal of being known.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

u should post however u like
respond to whoever u want

just remember some people come here desperate for the trolling engagement it is not your duty to provide them with it

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

"Klingons refer to these ships as birds of prey because they really understand the fierce warrior soul that inhibits an angry goose

honk honk Qa'pla"

a space ship is flying through a dark space with stars in the background

ALT: a space ship is flying through a dark space with stars in the background

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 1d

Allow yourself to celebrate even the smallest of victories in the face of adversity. Don't snuff out a light because it is not bright enough. Nurture it, and fight to make it grow until the shadows retreat. Even the greatest beacons may be lit with the smallest spark.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 1d

new pokemon game tells me that people literally yearn for 'game where you can wear a lot of outfits in a dense city and there is a story to follow'

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ShawnAAAH! @mitsubishe.bsky.social · 1d

had to chant "kali ma" as I was picking it

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A mutant tomato that is shaped kinda halfway between an anatomical heart and the symbol/emoji for a heart being held in my hand

I've written an "I" above it and a "tomatoes!" below so it reads i heart tomatoes!

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Tyero @tyero.bsky.social · 2d

I got the Switch 1 copy of Pokémon Legends Z because I really don’t like the Switch 2 cases lol. Not only does it obstruct the cover art, but I hate how inside the S2 cases they have translucent red plastic so you can’t appreciate the colorful inserts.

Pokémon Legends Z for the Switch, cover art with the starters and trainers

Inside the Legends Z case, an insert showing a map and key locations in Lumiose City

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 1d

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Black and White Spider Crochet Kit.
This is the best way to overcome your arachnophobia. It is impossible to fear something that you've created out of yarn. I used to have a crippling fear of flying until I crocheted a Boeing 747.
collabs.shop/ztcobc

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 1d

BREAKING: We've recieved a letter from @leepetty.bksy.social, to all players of Keeper!

www.doublefine.com/news/dear-pl...

Dear Players of Keeper

Hi there, my name is Lee Petty, and I’m a Creative Lead here at Double Fine Productions. My new game, Keeper , was inspired by the events of the last few…

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David Amador @djlink.bsky.social · 2d

CASIO is releasing a limited edition Back to the Future inspired watch and it looks pretty good hypebeast.com/2025/1...

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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 1d

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right

I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed

This is fine dog meme

Am orangish brown dog sits on a red chair wearing a hat that matches his fur color. A circular table in front of him has a coffee cup on it. Around him, flames roar and smoke covers the ceiling. His speech bubble says "this is fine"

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A🌷 @spilledpixel.bsky.social · 22d

im so funny
#pixelart #ドット絵

pixelart nut- writing on top saying "me in a nutshell" and a speachbubble coming from the nut saying "help"

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R k r n (Shiva) @rkrn.me · 1d

People assigning personhood/intent/conscience to a chatbot because it can mimic speech but not to animals that actually communicate an inner world speaks a LOT about how they also view fellow humans that don't share their characteristics (spectrum, upbringing, expression)

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2d

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

― Oscar Wilde #botd, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

When you see the suffering and pain that it brings, you’d have to be blind, mad, or a coward to resign yourself to the plague.

ALBERT CAMUS, The Plague

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