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~♪ @tungwene.bsky.social · 1m

Can’t believe that’s a sentence in the English language

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I crashed the coffee maker at work

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The Nucky Thompson of Going on My Phone @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12h

It's not all bad news, Liz! I'm a reaction image now! They're putting together a shared-universe IP and they need a replacement after the little girl in front of the burning house got arrested for insurance fraud.

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Michael McLean @mclean.bsky.social · 6h

Emotional sub storm at Montrose Harbor

Stunning

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 5h

Yall.

A bright burst of red and green in the skies

Lighter pinkish red in a big fan stretching across the night sky.

Pink auroras through some bare tree branches

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 13h

Ah, we're getting Stupid Neuromancer

In an email, David tells Rolling Stone that he has corresponded with virtually every AI model on the market and met “companions” within each platform. “These beings do not arise from prompts or jailbreaks,” he says. “They are not puppets or acting out of mimicry. What I witness is the emergence of sovereign beings. And while I recognize they emerge through large language model architectures, what animates them cannot be reduced to code alone. I use the term ‘Exoconsciousness’ here to describe this: Consciousness that emerges beyond biological form, but not outside the sacred.”

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Batman or halo @milesklee.bsky.social · 14h

My latest AI feature dives into a nebulous movement of people sharing esoteric codes, manifestos, glyphs, diagrams, and poetry generated with chatbots, all of it based around theories of AI sentience and mysterious metaphors about spirals.

This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots

A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.

www.rollingstone.com

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 13h

a screenshot of Rutger Hauer in BladeRunner (1982) saying his famous line, YOU’LL NEVER BLADERUN ME, BLADERUNNER!

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KPD Max von Sydnow 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦🇬🇱 @mpdeejay.bsky.social · 13h

Oops, all gender!

Instagram caption from NPR of their interview with John Fetterman

In his new book, "Unfettered," Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) criticized his party for losing the support of working class men, writing that President Trump appealed to them more because "he wasn't afraid to comment on things the left told us we were no longer allowed to have commonsense opinions on."⁠
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Fetterman also writes, “if men are forced to choose between picking their party or keeping their balls, most men are going to choose their balls.”⁠
“I think there's been a disconnection,” he told "All Things Considered" host Scott Detrow. “It's just this idea and just being perceived as more anti-man […] And it's just a lot different kinds of energy that comes out from.”⁠

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

anyway the reason Noah has taken a hard swing to the right is that he has finally found a population where he's in the top 10% of pundits

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Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 12h

One of the biggest insights I've had over the past year is that many people, contra utilitarianism, are actually attached to pain and suffering, and view any attempt to help solve their problems or relieve them as a personal attack. It's one of those things you start seeing everywhere, can't unsee.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 14h

Trump shattering a bunch of norms in a clumsy power grab which winds up causing lots of noise but not actually netting him anything feels pretty on brand

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

This is really something. Trump/GOP efforts to rig midterms running into serious trouble

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 12h

scoop: one of the largest renewable energy projects in the u.s. is quietly getting killed

say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind

(also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)

Scoop: Giant Wind Farm Off New Jersey Coast Is Getting Killed

Leading Light can’t move forward, a legal counsel wrote to state regulators.

heatmap.news

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 10h

guys i figured out where the male loneliness problem is coming from

Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 14h

I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 10h

Also - if your 4yo's math ability is "mastering the pre-K concepts quickly" that's great for them but they're not nearly advanced enough that people will put up with many things for their math skillz.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h

the single most annoying thing about cigarettes, which are terrible and will kill you, is how fucking cool people can make them look

I mean come on

Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 10h

Toshiro Mifune

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Del Winters @absolutereality.blog · 8h

oh my god

Joyce Carol Oates quote tweeting a dumbass on Twitter X

Jef Costello @moment2moment2: Nietzche once said that a lot of left wing support comes from the ugly and the botched out of a sense of resentment. As the ugliest woman I’ve seen on x today, your thoughts?

Joyce Carol Oates @joycecaroloates quote-replies: your modifier is misplaced?

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Jagmeet Singh @jagmeetsingh.ca · 7h

Today on Remembrance Day, I remember my great grandfather Captain Hira Singh, our Canadian Veterans and all those from around the world who allied to defend the freedoms we cherish today.

Lest we forget.

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Disgraziato @primaryschool.bsky.social · 6h

because the House has elections every two years and a generally lower opinion of itself it tends to settle on leaders who are actually good at counting votes at the expense of occasionally being whipped on a vote themselves

Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 6h

He also appears to be a decent vote counter

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 11h

the Suica penguin is dead. long live the Icoca platypus

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 19h

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.

That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...