Bologna Amputation
@bolognaamputation.bsky.social
Reader, writer, indie game dev. He/Him. The greater good is made up of countless smaller goods that must not be forgotten.
No patience for bigots, techbros, or transphobes.
No patience for bigots, techbros, or transphobes.
Pinned
I am not giving up. I won't pretend I don't hurt, but I've spent too long fighting my depressed brain telling me 'give up' to give up hope due to outside circumstances.
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Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
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I expect people who have used their industry status to hurt other people to go the fuck away
Yet it seems to be a constant cycle of "hasn't the person who hurt people suffered enough? what more do you want?"
I want them to show actual fucking remorse, not fulfil a checklist of duties they made up.
Yet it seems to be a constant cycle of "hasn't the person who hurt people suffered enough? what more do you want?"
I want them to show actual fucking remorse, not fulfil a checklist of duties they made up.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I expect people who have used their industry status to hurt other people to go the fuck away
Yet it seems to be a constant cycle of "hasn't the person who hurt people suffered enough? what more do you want?"
I want them to show actual fucking remorse, not fulfil a checklist of duties they made up.
Yet it seems to be a constant cycle of "hasn't the person who hurt people suffered enough? what more do you want?"
I want them to show actual fucking remorse, not fulfil a checklist of duties they made up.
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There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
American police can openly steal the property of people living vaguely nearby potential criminals with no obligation to return them. You cannot fucking tell me that, when this shit is done with, America doesn't have the ability to seize the assets of actual enemies of the state.
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
American police can openly steal the property of people living vaguely nearby potential criminals with no obligation to return them. You cannot fucking tell me that, when this shit is done with, America doesn't have the ability to seize the assets of actual enemies of the state.
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RT if you called mastercard / visa / a paypro over censorship today
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
RT if you called mastercard / visa / a paypro over censorship today
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some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
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Premium: This is Vol 2 of the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, an 18k word guide to the major public/private players in AI, with bits on why ads won't save OpenAI, why vibe coding is a scam, and how we must hold every booster accountable once the bubble bursts.
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Premium: The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble Vol. 2
We’re approaching the most ridiculous part of the AI bubble, with each day bringing us a new, disgraceful and weird headline. As I reported earlier in the week, OpenAI spent $12.4 billion on inference...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Premium: This is Vol 2 of the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, an 18k word guide to the major public/private players in AI, with bits on why ads won't save OpenAI, why vibe coding is a scam, and how we must hold every booster accountable once the bubble bursts.
www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
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NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts.
www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts.
www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
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ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”
There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”
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Hey, friendly reminder that Scott Cawthon's donations to the GOP literally contributed to SNAP suspension and you shouldn't buy or stream Five Nights at Freddy's anything.
New poster for ‘FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS 2’ featuring the Withered Animatronics.
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Hey, friendly reminder that Scott Cawthon's donations to the GOP literally contributed to SNAP suspension and you shouldn't buy or stream Five Nights at Freddy's anything.
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In case everything I typed doesn’t make any sense:
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
In case everything I typed doesn’t make any sense:
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As you celebrate Mamdani’s victory, I want to take in that it was not a victory for the Democratic Party. He won in spite of the party.
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
As you celebrate Mamdani’s victory, I want to take in that it was not a victory for the Democratic Party. He won in spite of the party.
Dick Cheney's death came about 30 years too late to prevent most of the harm he caused in his life, but I'll take him being dead over not.
November 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Dick Cheney's death came about 30 years too late to prevent most of the harm he caused in his life, but I'll take him being dead over not.
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Short version because people aren't reading the blog
- "dislikes", essentially just a "not interested" button, private, doesn't effect anyone but yourself
- "Social proximity", puts people you know at the top of comments
- "Reply context", shows people full thread before they reply
- "dislikes", essentially just a "not interested" button, private, doesn't effect anyone but yourself
- "Social proximity", puts people you know at the top of comments
- "Reply context", shows people full thread before they reply
Threads on Bluesky should feel more like conversations you’d have IRL.
We’re testing new systems to improve reply quality. See what’s coming: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
We’re testing new systems to improve reply quality. See what’s coming: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
Progress Update: Building Healthier Social Media - Bluesky
Over the next few months, we’ll be iterating on the systems that make Bluesky a better place for healthy conversations. Some experiments will stick, others will evolve, and we’ll share what we learn a...
bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Short version because people aren't reading the blog
- "dislikes", essentially just a "not interested" button, private, doesn't effect anyone but yourself
- "Social proximity", puts people you know at the top of comments
- "Reply context", shows people full thread before they reply
- "dislikes", essentially just a "not interested" button, private, doesn't effect anyone but yourself
- "Social proximity", puts people you know at the top of comments
- "Reply context", shows people full thread before they reply
"I need scissors, sixty-two"
November 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"I need scissors, sixty-two"
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idk about yall but I'm REALLY good at being annoying 🥰 can't wait to pull out a list of 1000 different games and anime and go through each one individually with the poor innocent call worker on the line to find out what's "illegal" according to MasterCard
Source familiar with MasterCard‘s internal workings: The company finds the censorship focus from consumers “profoundly irritating“ amid larger political issues — they want the controversy around paypros censorship to quietly disappear
October 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
idk about yall but I'm REALLY good at being annoying 🥰 can't wait to pull out a list of 1000 different games and anime and go through each one individually with the poor innocent call worker on the line to find out what's "illegal" according to MasterCard
I am so very tired of the dooming. I'm not talking about people expressing despair. I'm not talking about people helping to prepare others for fascist tactics. I'm talking about the people who slap down a comment like "Nobody is ever going to be brought to justice for this" and smugly sit back.
October 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I am so very tired of the dooming. I'm not talking about people expressing despair. I'm not talking about people helping to prepare others for fascist tactics. I'm talking about the people who slap down a comment like "Nobody is ever going to be brought to justice for this" and smugly sit back.
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i made a helpful reference
September 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
i made a helpful reference
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Fell asleep on the couch and had a dream about some D&D-y party fighting a wizard who cast REMOVE SPECIEAL MATTER on the rogue and yoinked out any organs that had any evolutionary ties to pigs so the rogue immediately collapses, blood everywhere, yelling "HE TOOK MY PIG BITS" at the frantic cleric
October 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Fell asleep on the couch and had a dream about some D&D-y party fighting a wizard who cast REMOVE SPECIEAL MATTER on the rogue and yoinked out any organs that had any evolutionary ties to pigs so the rogue immediately collapses, blood everywhere, yelling "HE TOOK MY PIG BITS" at the frantic cleric
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Chesterton, maddeningly, had it right and people like that one have it completely wrong.
bsky.app/profile/uber...
bsky.app/profile/uber...
G.K. Chesterton had a line about this in “The Man Who Was Thursday”:
October 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Chesterton, maddeningly, had it right and people like that one have it completely wrong.
bsky.app/profile/uber...
bsky.app/profile/uber...
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If anyone who was laid off from TheGamer today has a piece they were working on and need a home for, Skybox wants to hear from you, and we pay pretty well.
We can't make up for you being laid off, but we'll do what we can.
We can't make up for you being laid off, but we'll do what we can.
Valnet unfortunately let go of the entire TheGamer features team today alongside several other staff members.
Many incredibly talented and hard working writers I've had the pleasure of working with over the past several years.
Many incredibly talented and hard working writers I've had the pleasure of working with over the past several years.
October 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
If anyone who was laid off from TheGamer today has a piece they were working on and need a home for, Skybox wants to hear from you, and we pay pretty well.
We can't make up for you being laid off, but we'll do what we can.
We can't make up for you being laid off, but we'll do what we can.
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No Kings events around the country for October 18, 2025.
A thread.
Miami, Florida.
1/
A thread.
Miami, Florida.
1/
October 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
No Kings events around the country for October 18, 2025.
A thread.
Miami, Florida.
1/
A thread.
Miami, Florida.
1/
So, is Quora straight-up owned by Russia, or is it just packed to the gills with people lubelessly jerking off to the idea of mass violence, and the idea that Russia is somehow not militarily incompetent?
October 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
So, is Quora straight-up owned by Russia, or is it just packed to the gills with people lubelessly jerking off to the idea of mass violence, and the idea that Russia is somehow not militarily incompetent?