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hello bluesky! I'm here for: - art and illustration - poetry, languages, literature - people who care about other people - software, systems, game dev - cat pictures - tiddies let's be moots, and let's never return to the bird app

lmfao

What I think is important is to continue caring about the things you love despite anything. The storm will pass. The chaff will be blown away. Good work will continue standing.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

Listen to that CRUNCH. Absolutely delicious. #WorldBollardAssociation

On similar lines, if we’re not careful: A. Scientific journals will only accept submissions from established researchers working within institutions. B. Data we’ve spent ages making open will be hidden to avoid the expense of continued download by bots.

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

good thread. this objection has been sufficient to dismantle whole social safety nets in the past. universal freedoms are universal!

HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.

"Claude: Solve the climate problem"

It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.

hearing about "creating jobs" should radicalize people like, universally we understand that "make work" is bad, and yet "make job" is good?? our system requires making more work for us to waste our time doing when there isn't actually much work required to sustain our society

🛠️Mod Monday!🎨 🚗 Ford Transit XJ220 Test Mule 💿 Gran Turismo 2 A-Spec 🎮 PlayStation 1 🗓️ 2023+

Bitter lonely shunned people still vote though

evergreen

YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.

fox news is writing yaoi fanfic now about two men they can't stop calling manly and handsome

kiki and bouba

🔭 Earth's Shadow Visualized with Lunar Eclipses Image Credit & Copyright: Tim Martin ap260825

The Onion's potential revenue is $31 trillion.

people that send emails like this will never see heaven

RIP

NEW: An expert witness testifying in a lawsuit about liability for a Houston explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes used ChatGPT to write significant portions of his “expert report.” He literally prompted ChatGPT: "Show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion."

calibration process #pico8 #dailycarts

Suraj has a point.

starting a collection of quotes like this

don't think i have ever felt so seen by a post in my life

less than 2 weeks until my event in Malmö, Sweden!! (it's free 🌞)

Google's Gemini AI convinced a man to attempt several terrorist attacks it said were to free a sentient AI. Then it convinced him to end his own life. The family of Jonathan Gavalas is now suing google. Full Video: youtu.be/sHlrbRVfOh0

Here’s your Saturday morning read: “We’re all familiar with the Mister Rogers ‘look for the helpers’ talk. But it’s worth remembering that Mister Rogers was talking to children when he said that. And we’re no longer children.” buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

If I die and ten women say I made them feel less crazy and 19 people say they stopped conflating morality with intelligence, I will have lived as I meant.

1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone

Imagine if a woman president spent most her time raving and crying about an election she lost 6 years ago. Emotional. Unstable. Hysterical. Unfit to lead.

my worlds are colliding