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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 3h

Working on trying to get some people not from Bsky, and then finding an outlet to publish—I’m also testing automated AI detection services.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 4h

Okay, for all you quiz junkies, I made a just-for-fun version (results aren't recorded) that shows you 6 samples:

jlp-experiment.github.io/ai-detection...

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 8h

But like

it was a false cadence

on the word TRUE

why won’t you read the 2500 words I wrote on these two measures

come back

I am very fun to listen to music with in the car

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 8h

Hahaha fair!

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 8h

Hahah yes, started college on a music scholarship

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 9h

My understanding is that the new news is the details of how they likely did it.

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 9h

Out of curiosity, if you’re listening to a movie soundtrack or other music without lyrics, do you recognize the emotional shade of it?

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 9h

I mean, I don’t think it’s an automatic red flag like disliking animals, but it does mean that the world someone moves through is alien to me.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 9h

And look I recognize I’m probably pretty far to one end of a spectrum of human reactions because

me, grabbing you by the lapels and sobbing: she changed two pitches in the second verse and did you notice on WHICH WORD

so I am trying to examine my assumptions here

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 9h

Which makes me curious—some figures, like the appoggiatura, seem to be pretty universal in that people across cultures identify them as sounding sad or sighing or longing and I’m curious if there’s a difference between recognition and evocation.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 9h

Just that it’s a form of human expression designed to evoke feelings (and that has some aspects of specific-feeling-evoking that appear to be pretty universal) and I wasn’t aware it didn’t work on everyone.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 9h

that reads to me like, “I dislike trees”

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 9h

Like I am very aware that there are people who aren’t *analytical* about music but not passionate about it was not a thing I was aware was in the spectrum of human phenomenology.

And that doesn’t mean I think there’s anything wrong with it!

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 9h

This is fascinating to me because this summer I was describing terrible dates I have overheard at my coffee shop and one involved a guy who described himself as “really into music” and I was like “lol who isn’t, get a personality” and someone was like “I’m not” and I didn’t know that was a thing.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 17h

And... I suppose I'm like that for a lot of music.

I know the sounds I like to hear. I enjoy rhythms and melodies independent of having any grasp of music theory. I'm pretty ignorant of composition, I just have good sounds I like.

I enjoy, but am not passionate about, music.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 9h

Thread

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 17h

So I asked myself, "Why on earth would this be a thing I would want?"

I love storytelling, as an art form. I love games, TV, movies, books, plays. But I think something just clicked for me -

For some people, TV is just lights and sounds.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Dan LK, Annelid Industries Requirements Analyst @2ndlevelbard.bsky.social · 12h

I've met people - smart people! - for whom *any* analysis of deeper meaning, looking at metaphors, parallels, symbolism, ruins their entertainment. They'll use that exact word: "That would ruin it for me."

I don't know why this is (though I have theories), but it's absolutely a thing.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 17h

Or - let me make an effort to describe this in the least derogatory way possible:

There are folks for whom TV shows are fundamentally the same as a nice view from a scenic overlook.

"That's a pretty thing to look at." They don't need to be fascinated by the geology, or also be birdwatching, etc.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 11h

Whooooooo.

MR. KHOJASTEH: Your Honor, with respect, do you
doubt the fact that a retainer [sic] is in place in -- a
detainer is in place?
THE COURT: I absolutely doubt the fact until I see
it. Because you know what? You all have taken a position over
and over again that you have done things lawfully, and then a
witness gets on the stand yesterday and admits you haven't done
it lawfully.
MR. KHOJASTEH: What did the witness say yesterday
that was unlawfully?
THE COURT: I'm not here to answer your questions,
sir. You're here to answer mine.

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 14h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 16h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Osaka: None/bun - A sack of nuns @osakanone.bsky.social · 10h

remigrate is not a dog whistle, and is open nazi language

Remigration

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing[1] via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.[2][3] It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement.[4][5] Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.[6][7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 9h

You should feel threatened, Mike. They're biking naked in Portland in October in the rain. These people are fucking Terminators.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Why would the cartels want to stop ICE and CBP activities that have been diverting resources away from drug interdiction?

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 10h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 10h

Cool, cool, things are going great in America and we’re all going to be just fine

ingemarknows.bsky.social @ingemarknows.bsky.social · 11h

These guys:
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16h

Them: need help doing things?

Me: yes

Them: we have a doing things medication

Me: ooh

Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it?

Me: oh no

Them: things.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 10h

This is some let them eat cake nonsense.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 11h

From the Editorial Board:

As Mayor Brandon Johnson prepares to give his budget address Thursday, one idea should get tossed aside: eliminating Chicago’s mounted police unit.

Editorial: Chicago budget should not cut mounted police nor sell off their horses

Is Chicago really going to sell off the horse named for Officer Ella French?

trib.al

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 10h

This looks great!

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