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red 🎃 @prettypinkpansy.bsky.social · 2h

i am so tired of everyone saying "it looks like AI" at every piece of bad art. not only are you insulting the artist, you are making it really, painfully obvious you have no idea what AI art looks like or how to actually recognize it, and now every real artist has to live in fear of people like you.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 7h

"utilise"

inglorious bastards scene where he holds up three fingers incorrectly, thus giving himself away as a perfidious englishman

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Still bad at witty names @arp1033.bsky.social · 7h

What if a mouse was a chef?

An orange tan mouse sands in a white kitchen. They are holding a mixing bowl in one weirdly buff arm while they whisk with a whisk in their other, more normal arm. They are wearing a grey chef's cap. On one wall is a brown corkboard with some messages on it, and on the other is a silverware rack that has a ladle, flipper and three knives on it attached magnetically. It is unclear what is in the mixing bowl, it is just red, blue and green blobs, hopefully the mouse knows what they are doing.

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Still bad at witty names @arp1033.bsky.social · 17h

I remember when I got my dual colonoscopy/endoscopy that the prep powder/Gatorade combo was maybe the weirdest, goopiest thing I ever had

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 23h

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samus aran enjoyer @riotlinguist.bsky.social · 19h

"tool for liberation" (where "liberation" means "destroying available online corpora of at-risk languages and accelerating the global state and capitalist colonization of linguistic diversity")

(*goofy to treat this as a problem of wikipedia rather than genAI bulldozing)

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 1d

“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

www.technologyreview.com

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe a good day to unfollow Hard Drive if you had still been following them. It's no wonder they need AI to make jokes for them these days.

Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 1d

reminder that the people who made Hard Drive good were pushed out and some of us are doing our own thing here. give us a follow to support independent gaming satire and not whatever the fuck this is supposed to be

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Still bad at witty names @arp1033.bsky.social · 1d

What if a mouse was feeling ill?

A tan mouse with pale hands, feet and tail is standing with a thermometer in their mouth. The thermometer is mostly red, indicating a high temperature. There are blue squiggles around the mouse to indicate they are cold and shivering. This art piece is to reflect how the artist is also ill and very cold.

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brendon bigley @bb.wavelengths.online · 2d

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🐢 bob 📼 @bobvids.com · 1d

did you know? akira yamaoka created the silent hill series after being inspired by the story of centralia, pennsylvania and his strong feelings about circumcision

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disvain @disvain.bsky.social · Jun 17

I'VE FOUND IT AT LAST

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Giant Robot FM @giantrobotfm.bsky.social · 1d

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rows™ @ratsbastard.bsky.social · 2d

the full scope of this is, without a doubt in my mind, my favorite bois doc. cannot wait for eventual full public rollout

Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 2d

after spending all year behind the paywall, part 1 of my documentary series FOOL TIME is now unlocked and free to watch for everybody: www.patreon.com/posts/fool-t...

FOOL TIME, Part 1 of 4 | Pretty Good | Secret Base

Get more from Secret Base on Patreon

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 1d

And now the power company wants to destroy without mitigation then somehow reestablish another acre of protected wetlands because there's just no other possible way to get Google the power lines they need to operate cuz Google lied in its initially approved permit applications that it didn't need em

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Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 1d

“now that you’re trapped on windows 11, we’re rolling out the stuff you’re really gonna hate!”

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 1d

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/...