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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 22m

PLEASE DON’T GET MAD AT ME HONEY BUT I PUT ALL OUR LIFE SAVINGS INTO THE PLAGIARISM MACHINE THAT NEEDS AN EXTRA SUN TO POWER IT

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 58m

[spraying a mouth-mist of john smith’s at the long-suffering barmaid] did you hear? the national trust has put vegan tampons in men’s toilets. hang on a minute, [calling phone, it goes to voicemail] hey son, did you hear? the national trust has put vegan tampons in men’s toilets,

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Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 1h

in the first hours after the ceasefire was started and people walked over to their destroyed houses over 100 skeletal remains were found just lying in the streets.

the skeletal remains of a Palestinian lying in the streets of gaza, found in the hours following the ceasefire

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Grave Dirt Boy @gordbrush.bsky.social · 1h

haters and losers will call this “blatant and open corruption” but smart sensible politics knowers like me understand this is just good business

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a private dinner earlier this year at which a select group of technology entrepreneurs were given access to a key minister, official documents have revealed. The former prime minister, who is a champion of the tech industry, held the dinner in an upmarket London hotel in his capacity as the head of the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) political consultancy. Continue reading...

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 1h

15 hours left ⚠️ Six families still don’t have anything to eat ⚠️ One family still needs a tent for elderly family members who could die in the cold ⚠️ Toddlers still in famine ⚠️ Pregnant mom needing healthcare ⚠️

We’re SO short on this week’s goal, which finishes TONIGHT. New week tomorrow yall. 7/879

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Damiano Gerli @damiano.bsky.social · 1d

The first console to appear in Italian cinema was (probably) the Seleco-Zanussi Gun-o-tronic, showing up in 1976 Il Signor Robinson (Mr. Robinson).
The Gun-o-tronic was the official gun accessory for the Ping-o-tronic, an early Italian Odyssey clone released around early 1975.

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 1h

hate that “self-driving cars cause less accidents than humans actually 😏” argument. yes, loads of human drivers are fucking liabilities! but as a society we should be ~far~ more proactive about removing their access to cars, not supplementing them with an army of glitchy robots

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 19h

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 21h

EVERY COMPANY: with this new AI assistant we’re deploying and fucking begging you to use, you can work faster… and smarter!
EVERY EMPLOYEE: wow that sounds so cool… if we’re all saving so much time does that mean we can move to a 4-day week?
EVERY COMPANY: hahaha of course not

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 21h

oh wow, with this new AI assistant i can do the work of three people! if you don’t mind it all being a bit shit obviously [company makes two of your colleagues redundant] ah well, at least i still have my trusty AI assistant [AI assistant freaks out and goes down] nevertheless,

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Mikey C @amazingmikeyc.bsky.social · 1d

During the night one of our cats has got into this pack of cheese topped bread rolls and eaten the cheese off the top

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 1d

very good to know! was so happy when the adult turned up and tried to scare me off

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 1d

When matte paintings go hard.

A matte painting of an impossibly intricate labyrinth from the 1990 film Hellbound: Hellraiser 2. The effects were by Cliff Culley from what I can find.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 1d

work work

Tumblr post:

video games are all about meeting a little elf
outside the city gates that says 'ah... the pernicious
weed!' when you give him a healing herb and then
finding yourself fifteen years later saying "ah... the
pernicious weed!" to yourself in the shower

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 1d

George Miller, 80, easily able to coast out the rest of his life and affirm his legacy as an old school filmmaker who stayed relevant and made shit that lasted in and compelled the culture for the better part of 50 years, absolute optimal goals for any artist, is getting into the slop game

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 1d

i believe he actually can do this though

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 1d

went back 15 mins later and it hadn’t moved, but suddenly a big squirrel ran down a branch and started kicking off so i assume that was mam. just went back to check a few hours later and it was gone! feels like the best outcome i could have hoped for, hope the little guy makes it

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 1d

on the school run this morning we found a dazed young squirrel motionless on the pavement, likely fallen from a tree. no others around we could see or hear. picked it up, tried to warm it and in time it opened its eyes, yelped and started moving. left it in a secluded spot nearby

a young grey squirrel sits in a cloth bag with eyes closed

a young grey squirrel sits in a cloth bag with eyes open

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 6d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 2d

Very much the dead internet. All those comics marvel did with ugly great big AR symbols on top of gorgeous art, evey qr code on the back of every book. All now filled with the equivalent of digital landfill.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Yikes. Just got a message from my child’s school: some children’s books by Andrew Cope (inc. Spy Dogs, Spy Cats, and Spy Pups series) have a printed URL at the back. This used to go to the author’s website, but now goes to an “adult content” site.

So, yeah… be careful with that URL 😳

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d

I think of this image a lot

Elon Musk wielding a chainsaw, celebrating the starvation of human beings due to DOGE's coup of the U.S. government

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2d

And the -transition period- from 'we trust video because that's what our eyeballs and brains are trained to do' to 'anything that appears on a screen, moving or not, static or not, interactive or not, is a potential scam or agitprop' s going to be hellacious

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👻45 SECOND UNSKIPPABLE YOUTUBE AD👻 @lowqualityregen.bsky.social · 2d

Having this person doing some work in your house and trying to find common ground by explaining that you're not sold on digital ID either

Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2d

See yer da’s got a new car.

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 2d

to be clear: you can drive a souped-up uninsured car with a fake numberplate at over 130mph while evading police, hit-and-run someone who later has his leg amputated, concoct an elaborate lie about it all, and be allowed to drive again in less than 6 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Merthyr Tydfil hit-and-run driver caught by Ring doorbell - BBC News

Anthony Tregonning reported his car stolen in an attempted cover-up before admitting he hit a worker.

www.bbc.co.uk

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