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Artist, crafter, laser wielding candlestick maker INFJ, rogue magic user NO AI 🚫abolish all LLMs no war but class war just wanted to be an artisan but seeing the state of the world can't just stand by and ignore it https://linktr.ee/saturnoddities

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aetherclaw.bsky.social @aetherclaw.bsky.social · 13d

my grandmother just died, we spent more money than we have trying to take care of her too and for a number of years the only way my family has survived is pooling our resources.

please help.

if you can donate it would be much appreciated, if not if you can share this maybe someone else might.
#sos

Donate to Ramp Needed for Mom's Recovery at Home, organized by Evelyn Cammarano

Help Us Install a ramp for Mom's Safe Return Home … Evelyn Cammarano needs your support for Ramp Needed for Mom's Recovery at Home

gofund.me

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 8m

This is why the costumes are honestly brilliant. Ngo, who has never said a truthful thing in his entire life (remember the concrete milkshake?) now has to convince people inflatable Sesame Street and animal costumes are violent terrorists.

Sometimes you just need an image too silly to demonize.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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𝔹𝕣𝕦𝕤𝕙𝕗𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 🔜 Furpoc @A14 @brushfeather.art · 1h

After so many years of trial and error, the pigeon hats are finally ready! To be debuted at furpoc, then will be available online for the holiday season in November. 🎁

#pigeon #hat #embroidery #beanie #merch #dealersDen #birb #avian #bird

A light blue hat with a pigeon face embroidered on it with purple, teal and blue feathers. The eyes are bright orange and yellow.

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 3h

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride in Portland, OR—getting ready to go.

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about this that's worth recalling is that it *wouldn't* even offend most Americans: just the group of reactionary grifters who make money by being professionally offended online.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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aetherclaw.bsky.social @aetherclaw.bsky.social · 2h

this absolutely must include the total eradication of and a universal ban on all LLMs

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Slam Cunningham ☭ @slamcunningham.bsky.social · 2h

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aetherclaw.bsky.social @aetherclaw.bsky.social · 2h

Aaaaack Ack Ack, Aaack Ack ACK!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 3h

“Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors ***
The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat [alleged] antisemitism” 1/7/25 … 1/ forward.com/news/686797/...

Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors

The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.

forward.com

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aetherclaw.bsky.social @aetherclaw.bsky.social · 3h

that it's AI actually discredits the truth it mocks, and yes it is a mockery of it. some of the sources posting this slop pretty much outright state they find it funny.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

aetherclaw.bsky.social @aetherclaw.bsky.social · 3h

Ya know what I really want to know?
Do the brain chips come in ranch?

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Candi (No DMs). @acabchick.bsky.social · 10h

Sweet Peeps;
Let's help Ahmad if we can.
By donating and/or sharing.
#FreePalestine #MutualAid

Ahmad Saber🍉 @ahmadsaber202020.bsky.social · 10h

💔 My home and neighborhood were destroyed, and now my family (11 people) and I are without shelter.
I need your help to raise $500 to rent a simple place to live with dignity.
Every small donation makes a big difference 🙏
Donation link:
gofund.me/5bf27f07

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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 10h

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Doug Rutherford @dougrutherford.bsky.social · 10h

Among the aspens.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2057.

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aetherclaw.bsky.social @aetherclaw.bsky.social · 10h

if it's "AI assisted" then that's art theft

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11h

This is good and you should watch it.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 11h

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Art SilverGlass ~ Sophie Grunnet @silverglass.bsky.social · 11h

Cry of Destruction

#traditionalart #spellbooksunday #pathfinder

Illustration made with watercolours and ink pen.
A screaming mouth, a shattered clay pot and a shattered skull.

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Michael Ramstead @michaelramstead.bsky.social · 6d

Fall Forever : Can I pet your cat?

In an orange lit room, a strange, long, dark arm reaches through the blinds of a sliding door to pet a black cat that walks up to greet it. String lights line the door and a decorative jack o lantern paper cut out is taped to the wall above the cat.

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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aetherclaw.bsky.social @aetherclaw.bsky.social · 11h

lost one vending event when the organizer had to cancel due to a family emergency, somehow managed to gain another on the same day in under a day's notice. guess i'll be vending at the Mad Soul collective today.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2d

important on LLMs for academics:

1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems

2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism

3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills

4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution

5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI

6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense

5 Ghostwriter in the Machine
A unique selling point of these systems is conversing and writing in a human-like way. This is imminently understandable, although wrong-headed, when one realises these are systems that
essentially function as lossy2
content-addressable memory: when
input is given, the output generated by the model is text that
stochastically matches the input text. The reason text at the output looks novel is because by design the AI product performs
an automated version of what is known as mosaic or patchwork
plagiarism (Baždarić, 2013) — due to the nature of input masking and next token prediction, the output essentially uses similar words in similar orders to what it has been exposed to. This
makes the automated flagging of plagiarism unlikely, which is
also true when students or colleagues perform this type of copypaste and then thesaurus trick, and true when so-called AI plagiarism detectors falsely claim to detect AI-produced text (Edwards, 2023a). This aspect of LLM-based AI products can be
seen as an automation of plagiarism and especially of the research paper mill (Guest, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; van
Rooij, 2022): the “churn[ing] out [of] fake or poor-quality journal papers” (Sanderson, 2024; Committee on Publication Ethics,

Either way, even if
the courts decide in the favour of companies, we should not allow
these companies with vested interests to write our papers (Fisher
et al., 2025), or to filter what we include in our papers. Because
it is not the case that we only operate based on legal precedents,
but also on our own ethical values and scientific integrity codes
(ALLEA, 2023; KNAW et al., 2018), and we have a direct duty to
protect, as with previous crises and in general, the literature from
pollution. In other words, the same issues as in previous sections
play out here, where essentially now every paper produced using
chatbot output must declare a conflict of interest, since the output text can be biased in subtle or direct ways by the company
who owns the bot (see Table 2).
Seen in the right light — AI products understood as contentaddressable systems — we see that framing the user, the academic
in this case, as the creator of the bot’s output is misplaced. The
input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like
input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles
and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors
wrote those, not the search query!

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aetherclaw.bsky.social @aetherclaw.bsky.social · 11h

there's also a long history of women as videogame protagonists many of whom where not sexualized at all in the game and they where great games dating back to at least the early 90's if not longer.

aetherclaw.bsky.social @aetherclaw.bsky.social · 11h

anyone complaining Ciri doesn't look like some glossy bimbo in the Witcher 4 probably didn't play the Witcher 3.
also Ciri is a fucking badass and if you really want to go there hot as hell scars and all though sex appeal really isn't suppose to be the point.

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Busterlovania @bustercorp.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago based comic artist Daniel Warren Johnson recently drew this cathartic and inspiring piece of Absolute Batman getting brutal on a ICE agent in response to the current invasion ICE is attempting on the Chicago.

Stand tall, we will win!

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MaskTogetherAmerica @togetherwemask.bsky.social · 1d

“I try to normalize masking: first, because we’re still in a pandemic, and second...”—Greg Pak, writer & filmmaker best known for comic books like Planet Hulk & Mech Cadat Yu, was interviewed by @msjulieslam.bsky.social from #MaskTogetherAmerica at #NYCC25 @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social

ALT: Greg Pak, weaing a black KN95, holding “Who Belongs?” a graphic novel he wrote in 2023 for NYC Department of Social Studies & Civics @nycschools, was tabling at his booth at the New York Comic Con #NYCC2025. Behind him were posters showing graphic novels he authored, including Mech Cadat Yu and Planet Hulk.

Why does Greg Pak mask up?
Read interview by @MsJulieLam
https://www.instagram.com/share/BBHLGTPQnW

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14MssWrVBEZ/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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