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DaddyJew @daddyjew.bsky.social · 26d

they should make a reality that isn’t a living nightmare

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 4h

OpenAI using DRM to block you from recording the content that they plagiarized from other people is just 😘👌

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4h

I'd show you the kind of garbage that fills the default timeline, but they've made the app so you can't record the screen while using it.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 19h

we have got to start killing billionaires. is the first line that the villain speaks in the novel im writing. really though, in the real world, we have to kill these people. he continues

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 4h

Hahaha we’re fucked

Army promotion boards will use AI to 'augment' selection process

Officials said safeguards will protect against "bias" in the computer reviews. While AI will help cut down pools of candidates, officials said, "only humans can make a good judgment call."

taskandpurpose.com

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 3h

Love my neighbors in Evanston, rising to the occasion in a seasonally keyed in way.

Hallowe’en skeleton outside a wood frame house, seated, with a sign in front of it reading “OUR ANCESTORS DOED FIGHTING KINGS AND FASCISM” in blue and red letters on a white posterboard.

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 3h

this tweet turns 10 today 🎂🥳

Tweet from Adrian Bott @Cavalorn

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4h

I got access to the Sora AI app the other day. It's weird. It's unsettling. It's set up like TikTok, but for AI slop videos. It's bad.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 7h

For @spitfirenews.com, I found that increasingly realistic AI-generated videos are being deployed to harass, smear, and create endless offensive content of influencers, whose likenesses are already readily available online. It’s happening to private figures, too.
spitfirenews.com/p/ai-generat...

AI-generated influencer scandals are here

Now anyone can play with the hyperrealistic likenesses of public figures.

spitfirenews.com

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 6h

A photo of a building with a long row of identical large posters on the wall. The posters say "DON'T OBEY" with a drawing of the Portland inflatable frog's face.

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Greatest American Hero @spicypeanutsauce.bsky.social · 4h

Oh my god. If I don't agree with you I must not know anything, thanks daddy for offering your wisdom.

JFC. The only people making money off AI aren't the AI companies, they're consultants explaining how AI is so helpful, which they wouldn't need to do if AI were helpful.

Per evidence, it doesn't

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Carl Hudson @watchingpreacher.bsky.social · 4h

That makes a whole lot of sense.

New York Post @nypost.com · 9h

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

Maj. Gen. William "Hank" Taylor told reporters that he's been using ChatGPT to refine how he makes choices affecting thousands of troops.

nypost.com

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 9h

Imagine being this person’s Aide de Camp - a job you competed to win - and being dumped like this.

“I’m letting my microwave do my financial planning”-ass take

New York Post @nypost.com · 9h

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

Maj. Gen. William "Hank" Taylor told reporters that he's been using ChatGPT to refine how he makes choices affecting thousands of troops.

nypost.com

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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 8h

this should be the story every time his name is mentioned, and should be at the beginning of any article about him or OpenAI.

It should also be included how his coworkers rallied to defend him when this all surfaced and he was fired

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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 8h

Altman molested his child sister for years and later used his massive wealth to try to silence her.

He is a rapist with zero morals or ethics even if it were his job to have them

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h

Altman is weakening the already flimsy ethical guardrails on their unregulated bullshit machine to goose engagement

he lied, claimed it was really because they'd fixed ChatGPT's mental health issues, then when he gets pushback he's like "it's not my job to have morals and ethics"

Sam Altman says OpenAI isn't 'moral police of the world' after erotica ChatGPT post blows up

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said his company is "not the elected moral police of the world" after receiving backlash over his decision to allow erotica on ChatGPT.

www.cnbc.com

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 9h

ergot. contributors Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog and Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social with new work in 'WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER'

Carson Winter @carsonwinter.bsky.social · 10h

COVER REVEAL AND RELEASE

WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a tribute anthology of stories inspired by Thomas Ligotti’s “The Red Tower” and it’s out NOW: dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 5h

The exodus continues. Two more people contacting me to unsubscribe and complain that my newsletter is “different” because it’s not on Substack. It’s literally identical, and identically frequent. It just doesn’t have “Substack” anywhere on it and is now under 1/3 of the price to read everything.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11h

I've had to rebuild this a bit - & my following - since moving away from Substack & losing a lot of oddly Substack-loyal people, but I relish the challenge as it means I have to work hard & write well. Huge archive of work on there. All of it can be read for £2 a month/£20 a year: www.tom-cox.com

Tom Cox

New writing by bestselling author Tom Cox.

www.tom-cox.com

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Carl Hudson @watchingpreacher.bsky.social · 5h

Kynisk penger før mennesker-tankegang. Ren mammon hylling, og kunnskapsløst som bare det.

Hater disse menneskene ass.

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Onkel Idiot med opprykk @schish76.bsky.social · 5h

Kutter i ungdomspsykiatrien for å spare penger.
Foreslår samtidig å tredoble antall plasser i ungdomsfengsler.
You just can't make this shit up.

www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/dRxK...

Helt fulle ungdomsfengsler. Kriminalomsorgen venter dobling av barn i fengsel

Kapasiteten i landets ungdomsfengsler er sprengt. Nå er det ikke plass til å fengsle mindreårige. Justisministeren vil tredoble antall plasser for unge kriminelle.

www.aftenposten.no

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Forsberg™ @magnusforsberg.no · 7d

Eviggrønn tweet, bare å lagre denne til neste gang.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah that tracks

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Carl Hudson @watchingpreacher.bsky.social · 5h

Are there... unknown hordes of 80 year old elite athletes somewhere?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5h

Are you as fit as an 80-year-old elite athlete? The answer might be a mortifying surprise.

Measure your strength, power and coordination with these two simple fitness checks.

These 2 quick tests can tell you if you’re as fit as an 80-year-old elite athlete

Measure your strength, power and coordination with these two simple fitness checks.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 5h

DOES NO ONE ELSE REMEMBER THAT ONE X-FILES EPISODE WITH THE COMPUTER, I SWEAR TO GOD

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 12h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 5h

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is “among Silicon Valley veterans putting in more than $100M” into a “network” of PACs that will oppose strict AI regulations in the midterm elections. A16z was previously “part of a push to implement a 10-year freeze on states’ rights to create their own AI regulations.”

Andreessen Horowitz spends $1.49 million in federal lobbying

Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) ramps up federal lobbying to $1.49M in 2025, outspending rivals as it pushes influence on AI, defense, and regulation.

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 11h

“Artists have to disturb the peace. Otherwise, chaos.”

--James Baldwin, to Studs Terkel.

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 11h

uncle oscar ❤️

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 11h

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