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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 9h

The first person to ever cook a piece of bread for a second time: I propose a toast

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 15h

I'm celebrating Columbus Day by going to Safeway for cinnamon but insisting I'm actually at Publix and killing or enslaving most of the staff and customers.

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 18h

"Who's he? He sounds Mexican, can we deport him?" - Trump

Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 18h

ICE offering a $50k signing bonus is obviously going to make a dent in their budget, but offering to pay off the student loans of guys who apply will barely cost more than the time it takes to explain to applicants "you have no student loans because you didn't finish high school"

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 19h

Still spins me out that it was only once I was well into adulthood I learned that Columbus never set foot on North American soil

Foundational myths are some powerful nonsense that cover all manner of crimes against humanity

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 19h

The recent D+ 4 episode series from a few months back "Tucci in Italy" is so lovely, it's educational, it's beautiful, it's fascinating

Gosh I love it

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 20h

It's so bad I just gave up reading long form content

It fucking sucks, I see people devour books and New Yorker articles and I can't even read more than a few paragraphs of serious content written for adults without getting distracted to the point of frustration no matter how hard I try

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 21h

Just wrote this (myself) with you in mind, thought it might give you a giggle

My mates and I constantly share your posts critical of AI in our science and tech discord, you help us feel like we're not all going crazy with how much obvious bs it is

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 21h

OpenAI Employee Fired After HR Informed He’d Never Used ChatGPT To Write Correspondence

"The idea that people are still using their own voices in this day and age is frankly disgusting" - said Sam Altman, after a long pause to get an LLM to generate that statement

Guy in a suit holding a piece of paper pointing out of the room and looking down angrily at another guy he's standing over who is also in a suit sitting on a seat in front of a laptop holding his head in shame to indicate that he's just been fired

Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 21h

OpenAI Employee Fired After HR Informed He’d Never Used ChatGPT To Write Correspondence

"The idea that people are still using their own voices in this day and age is frankly disgusting" - said Sam Altman, after a long pause to get an LLM to generate that statement

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 22h

"Oh yeah, that's right, bounce on it JD, bounce on it" - the couch under its breath

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you for this. I'm going to try out the dictionary one tonight, and look in to a few of the others

You're a gem for sharing these with me mate, because personal recommendations these days carry so much more weight with all the chatGPT written slop articles pretending to be people out there 💖

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 22h

Nazi Germany always admired how the US went about enslaving and segregating Black folk

The US has had a lot of practice at being horrific toward people living there

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 23h

Also more leaning on a doorway half in the room to hold himself up interview style

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 23h

Nah, push away. I'm interested and subscribing to your newsletter

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 23h

I'm not one for plugins but that one is going to save me 2 steps as I often google terms to double check I'm certain on their meaning before using them. Thanks!

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 1d

it got so bad for me I gave up on reading books. But after watching some ADHD coping strategy videos (which I had to rewatch parts of because my brain wandered off) I learned it's common for ADHD adults to struggle, so go back to reading books for younger people & it'll be easier

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry I missed the deeper themes and allegories in your book, I was too busy trying keep my gremlin ND brain from wandering off and making me re-read the same sentence 5 times in a row

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Dan Wilbur @danwilbur.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance spends the government shutdown shopping for couches. @jd-vance-1.bsky.social

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 1d

"Discrimination is not discrimination! But not giving unqualified cis:het conservative white people everything they demand is absolutely discrimination of the worst kind!"

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 1d

"Why just touch grass when I can forever trap it behind an unholy chemical creation that defies the gods!"

Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 1d

On top of all of that, I'm also worried about the right wing predators who seek to capitalise on these boys alienation to recruit them into fascism

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 1d

Being half Finnish I expect all dating in Finland is difficult, but I'm surprised to learn trans dating is that much more difficult. It is the home of Linux after all

Hopefully you find some ladies soon, you deserve happiness

Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 1d

"Were you born in 1988? WERE YOU BORN IN 1988?!??" - they almost never were

Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 1d

Hah, that's terrible! Which is probably why it got a proper giggle out of me, then a long sigh and an "ahh dear"

Excellent work 💖

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 1d

After a bunch of anticipation I finally got to see The Eagles live in concert only to be disappointed to realise their vocals were actually performed by red-tailed hawks

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