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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1h

A very simple thing would be to make it illegal to use the image of anyone who hasn't opted in to their image being used in AI.

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

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 8h

In her journal, Octavia E. Butler wrote, "My pen and my paper, they comfort me—at least a little. They allow me to scream into utter silence. They focus my thoughts, they permit me to act when no other action is possible.” Keep writing.

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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 12h

So — forget the mental health issues. This turns chatgpt into a blackmail machine.

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 16h

If you have ever used the word "woke" in a pejorative manner...and I mean this sincerely...you were part of the onboarding process for making open bigotry ok again.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 19h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 19h

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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Nina Marie⁷ @ninafantime.bsky.social · 14h

I miss bts so much but I feel like I'm also so not ready for whatever they're working on! I hope they are having a good time working on it. I'm so excited but also somehow not emotionally ready (or financially, actually)!

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Nina Marie⁷ @ninafantime.bsky.social · 1d

Jimin jimin jimin *loving, happy sigh* I adore you so!

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Taylor Bradley @taylororo.bsky.social · 2d

I gave a speech a few weeks ago about Korean lit from the publishers perspective and one of my points was "These guys help sell books!"

Because they do!

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 2d

I had a dream where I met RM in person and, I kid you not, the first thing I did was thank him for supporting Korean literature

IN MY DREAM

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Benjamin A. Engel @benjaminaengel.bsky.social · 2d

North Korea has a law to try and keep English loan words from being used. Meanwhile, South Korea is leading a cultural explosion that is now forcing Korean loan words into the English language.

english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

From ‘kimbap’ to ‘maknae,’ Oxford English Dictionary sees explosion of Korean loanwords

The lion’s share of terms of Korean origin have been added within the last four years, with a total of 48 Korean loanwords now listed in the OED

english.hani.co.kr

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b⁷.⋆ @daegukboyz.bsky.social · 2d

jimin: existing

the other members: omfg he's the cutest thing i've ever seen, so fucking cute, come on do a cute pose, oh my GOD he's so cu-

Anika⁷ ⟭⟬🐋💜 @abusra16.bsky.social · 2d

when Jimin got his infamous dooly haircut and Bangtan (especially Namjoon) couldn't stop getting cuteness aggression from how adorable he looks😭

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Nina Marie⁷ @ninafantime.bsky.social · 2d

I guess a lot of people didn't like season three, but I was actually pleasantly surprised by it. i had low expectations since it felt like an add-on/epilogue, but i really enjoyed it! I think i interpreted a lot of it (characters, themes, plot, etc) pretty differently than many people did though.

Nina Marie⁷ @ninafantime.bsky.social · 2d

It was different but I really enjoyed it and thought it added really nicely to the full story.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · Jul 18

These are some of the most odious people alive.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know him or his music but I want to thank him for not allowing himself from being intimidated by the regime. It matters and might give a few others more courage.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Zach Bryan, thank you for being on the good side of history.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 2d

Dude I’m calling it, Thiel is cooked. He accidentally dropped a Tangible Detail. Most people didn’t know he existed and now he’s The Billionaire Who Thinks That One Piece Is Jesus.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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laur ♡⁷ semi ia @joonlens.bsky.social · Jan 27

still plagued by this

one of jimin’s ly tear concept photo’s, he’s wearing a black shirt, grey sweater with gold and red stars on it, black hair, an arm behind his head, a peak of his hip showing (please save me), silver ear rings in his ear

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JennyT⁷⁼¹ @jennyt-ok.bsky.social · 3d

Now playing

Happy Jimtober. •᷄ʚ•᷅

#JIMIN

youtu.be/DMDJt9x8LlI?...

지민 (Jimin) '편지 (Dear. ARMY)' Live Clip #2023BTSFESTA

YouTube video by BANGTANTV

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laur ♡⁷ semi ia @joonlens.bsky.social · Jul 1

jiminie so pretty

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laur ♡⁷ semi ia @joonlens.bsky.social · Jun 16

oh wow

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bts loops @btsonfilm.bsky.social · 19d

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bts loops @btsonfilm.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Bangtan Greenhouse⁷ @btsgreenhouse.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Birthday Jimin!

Jimin’s birth flower is Bridalwreath spirea/Spiraea prunifolia var. simpliciflora. They have cascades of delicate flowers and symbolize neat and tidy love, perfect for our muse.

A slender branch with small white flowers with 5 petals running all along the branch.

A photo of Jimin wearing all white standing against a blue and white wall.

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Rosie⁷ ~ Piece of Peace (Emotional Trash Can 🗑) @theredarmyrose.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Jimin Day!

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