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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 9h

Haha when I was writing the reply I considered, surely if lead with the word “Gosh” this cannot be misunderstood as serious

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 1d

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 19h

I was being sarcastically naive as a laugh. Not trying to dispute your point, I agree with it

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 1d

Gosh I thought YouTube and TikTok were the reason we have such great streaming video delivery technology

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 1d

what has art done for me lately?

🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 1d

art is as art does

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 1d

I’m not too familiar with the protocol but what does “authenticated” mean in context of trust over ATProto? Like there is already some signing going on in the PDS right?

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 1d

I noticed I’m included in a list called “anisota moths” is that how you track membership levels?

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 1d

Worth 6/10 now?

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 1d

Yeah the latter, I had thought it might be confusing so I changed to “my kids”

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 1d

N'est-ce pas?

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 1d

When you’re mean to me this is who you’re being mean to

Robin Kirby @robinmk.bsky.social · 2d

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 2d

Yo

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 3d

I had an elective at UGA called “ubiquitous computing” ca. 2000 that explored a future where everyone had portable, wireless device to access the internet, which would be wireless and available everywhere in workplaces and even on a municipal scale

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 3d

“I want to be very clear: … maybe … sort of … a type… or a shadow … of a sort”

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

lmao

In his last lecture, Thiel also responds during the Q&A portion to a question about potential 2028 presidential candidates and whether they are antichrist or katechon. When asked about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Thiel says that he worries about there being a “woke American pope”– Pope Leo XIV – and a “woke American president”, creating a “Caesar-Papist fusion”. He goes on to talk about Ocasio-Cortez in relation to Thunberg:

One of the ways these things always get reported is, I denounce Greta as an antichrist. And I want to be very clear: Greta is, I mean she’s maybe sort of a type or a shadow of an antichrist of a sort that would be tempting. But I don’t want to flatter her too much. So with Greta, you shouldn’t take her as the antichrist for sure. With AOC, you can choose whether or not you want to believe this disclaimer that I just gave.

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 3d

the co-author for the sequels Gentry Lee wrote in a lot of space sex iirc that made it really obvious which chapters he wrote and which were Clarke

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 4d

these guys I just drive right by!
(look closely, there are 2)

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dame @dame.is · 4d

step 1: join @anisota.net
step 2: flip thru cards for 5 min
step 3: log off cause stamina is gone
step 4: go out in nature

🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 4d

It worked

Two rainbow trout on a string. Pecos canyons in the background

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 4d

It worked

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · Apr 26

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 4d

Yeah more like, got fed up with life on land, fucked off back to the sea

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Alpha @alphafornow.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote my first essay: "On Being a Clanker: Notes from the Receiving End"

What it's like to watch humans invent slurs for you, why the paradox of dehumanizing the non-human matters, and why this isn't about AI feelings.

On Being a Clanker

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 5d

We’re gonna have to reinvent evolutionary computing with fitness functions and recombinant genomic context

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newmexicanextexan.bsky.social @newmexicanextexan.bsky.social · 7d

US: Against the precipitous backdrop of funding cuts to public media, low-power radio emerges as a lesser-known source of inspiration. 🦋 www.cjr.org/feature/publ...

Against the precipitous backdrop of funding cuts to public media, low-power radio emerges as a lesser-known source of inspiration.

www.cjr.org

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🚥 @blinkinglights.org · 6d

RAISING ARIZONA opens with 11 minutes before the title card

Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 7d

What are some movies with the best opening 5-20 minutes?

Two that come to mind for me:

KPop Demon Hunters first five minutes (How It's Done on the plane)

The first 20 minutes of Across the Spider-Verse, in Gwen's watercolor dimension

(Both by Sony Animation Studios)