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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 14h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

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

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

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

www.scientificamerican.com

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 14h

Yes! I’m such a fan of this one!

km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 14h

It’s a gem of a book and what a good time to read it

Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 1d

Anyway I keep forgetting to yell about this book when it is 🍂seasonal 🍂 but THE APPLE-TREE THRONE (a little vanity project I self-pubbed in 2018) is also available on Kobo and in audio!

A young soldier returned from war is haunted by the ghost of his commanding officer (a posh git)

The Apple-Tree Throne

Buy The Apple-Tree Throne: Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com

www.amazon.com

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 14h

Would it surprise you that the owner of Scientific American's parent company, Stefan von Holtzbrinck, invested $37 million in Inkitt, an AI firm?

What a SHOCK

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

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

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

www.scientificamerican.com

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 1d

we don’t need more books set in London or NYC

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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junkyard ambrose @caninebrainz.bsky.social · 1d

authors need to start beefing with each other via long-winded letters & essays published in "serious" magazines again

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 2d

Achille Mbembe

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 2d

They are, but they’re so worth the result!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 2d

No consequences to being transphobic, in fact you’ll be praised for looking the other way if not full on going anti trans bigot

Alex Ries @alexries.com · 2d

What are your theories as to why nominally 'liberal' people like Simon Pegg and Matt Berry are willing to work with Rowling?

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 2d

Ooofff. Good to know though, thank you!

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 2d

I was thinking of old computers initially, but yeah it might be the time to move onto Linux at last

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 2d

My laptop is nearly a decade old. My e-reader is in its teens and as low-tech as possible. My phone is just a few years old, but thankfully can't handle many of the AI features. Is there yet a market for old electronics to opt out of this crap

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 2d

you know what rules? film cameras

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 2d

Can we trick them somehow into thinking it’s started, so they go into their bunkers and leave us alone

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

Which they are doing their best to accelerate.

Numerous Billionaires Preparing for End of Society

Billionaires are (still) doomsday prepping. AI — the tech many of them are building — has them more paranoid than ever.

futurism.com

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 3d

Who knew the future would adapt Cyrano de Bergerac as dystopian nonfiction.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3d

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 3d

“If it makes you laugh, who cares if it’s AI?” Well, I care because my laughter and aesthetic pleasure is not how I determine whether a thing is ethical or good for society. I like how the sun bounces off of oil slicks in parking lots, does not mean I want oil spills everywhere.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

This is basically how AI took over the workplace.

Sure, there was some push (Microsoft baking it into Office) but the "use AI for everything or be fired" dorks are do-nothing managers, using their free time to become TESCREAL-pilled, and posturing in front of each other about how agentic they are.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever you hear a tech CEO spinning out *absolute fucking nonsense* using star trek language, some of what you're hearing is a screeching positive feedback loop between him and the crackpots he's spending all of his time listening to.

Some of whom he literally created.

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 4d

A few of the moths that live on my land. Taken from my #1000postcards artwork; depicting what biodiversity looks like when land is managed predominantly for nature. Painted in watercolour & displayed in a way that echos museum specimen cabinets. Butterflies of the night

A cabinet of 25 hand painted watercolour postcards of various moths that live on my land in west wales

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 4d

Wishing your family a swift recovery!

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 4d

Rats are the best, that’s a scientific fact

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 4d

Anyway, things are dire, have a Salmiakki

Photo of a rat with a dark brown fur on her back and white belly, standing on her hind legs and leaning her front paws on the wooden backrest of the sofa. Her whiskers are spread out in curiosity.

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 4d

Followed you back - now it should work!