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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 5h

Don't feel stupid, but also, if someone helpfully tells you "that's fake," the correct response is "oh shit, let me delete this" not doubling down and disabling comments.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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padoo @quimeshine.bsky.social · 5h

why isn't every single synchronica original song in taiko no tatsujin already holy shit. godly fucking lineup

padoo @quimeshine.bsky.social · 10h

preferrably ones that aren't mostly black too

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padoo @quimeshine.bsky.social · 10h

i need more bemani shirts...

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The Prince Of Void @drpepperphd.bsky.social · 13h

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19h

i've got over 70k kills in the "meeting buddha on the road" minigame. it's tough at first but once you master the spin kick you can get the hammer you need to break the wheel of samsara pretty quick

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 19h

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18h

These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!

One answer is to look at the data. After the launch of GPT-5 in August, some thought that A.I. had hit a plateau. Expert analysis suggests this isn’t true. GPT-5 can do things no other A.I. can do. It can hack into a web server. It can design novel forms of life. It can even build its own A.I. (albeit a much simpler one) from scratch.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 16h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 1d

Every once in a while you can still find something good on Facebook

A Tom of Finland drawing of a well-endowed leather daddy accompanied by text that says "AI art? Sorry I prefer gay guy art."

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🌌🏳️‍⚧️cowsmic brownie🐄🌌 @nebulaeshapes.bsky.social · 21h

okay i recreated it as best as i can

additional context: it wasnt some designer clothing brand, it was being sold at the grocery store next to the avocados. it was avocado merch.

a black & white sweater with a geometric art pattern and stripes, one sleeve is black with white text that reads "Avocado"

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 1d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Bean @bbain.bsky.social · 1d

Me in 2005: I hope no one thinks I'm gay...

Me in 2025: I hope no one thinks I'm straight 😤

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padoo @quimeshine.bsky.social · 1d

or if it didnt take like 30 minutes in total to boot on this dipshit old computer

padoo @quimeshine.bsky.social · 1d

i was playing some rlcraft last night and i think it could be fun for me if there wasn't like a giant bloodthirsty monster every 100 feet from me

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padoo @quimeshine.bsky.social · 1d

my boyfriend put two and two together...

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

OH they're *all* frying their brains on AI-generated videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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phylan @phylan.website · 1d

I don't think they should be allowed to do that

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 1d

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 1d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

There are now one or two of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every single day.

According to Smithsonian astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, that figure is only going to keep climbing.

futurism.com/space/elon-m...