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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: People with facial differences are being shut out of essential services due to the proliferation of face recognition tech—and at best forced to experience further rejection due to technological failures. @mattburgess1.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/when-f...

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

www.wired.com

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 18h

The pivot from “I’m building god” to “I’m building a jerkoff tool” is pretty funny

Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December reut.rs/3J8NTAi

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December

OpenAI will allow mature content for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform starting in December, CEO Sam Altman said, after the chatbot was made restrictive for users in mental distress.

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 16d

Sean Penn looks like Wile E. Coyote after a TNT mishap

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 1d

So which contexts do you like it most and why?

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 1d

Can you please explain the appeal? I feel like I’m missing something.

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 1d

Who are these people who insist they need dark mode on every app? What am I missing here?

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 2d

If we really put our heads together and keep the evening of December 24 clear, I am convinced we can Christmas Carol this man.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 2d

Young folks are disillusioned with social media and I know many of us elders are too. People are hungry for something different.

Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 2d

They are actively trying to poison our information environment and I’m sure will come for this very platform if they haven’t already.

I hope smart people are thinking about new models for online community and media that they can’t infiltrate.

BronSays @bronsays.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Some people might laugh but there's something actually important in this as I have heard others talk about how a fear of dying is palpable among fascists. They carry hell with them in real life.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 2d

I have come to realize that the thoughts of those people are worth very little and mostly ignore them. Can really lead you astray and chasing the wrong things.

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 2d

Wrestling with one’s mortality is so human that it’s one of the few things able to pierce through dementia and a lifetime of pathological lying

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 2d

Talking to wife about protest next weekend and toying with care bear family theme. Care bear inflatable, anti-fascist bear, care bear stare type stuff.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3d

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I’m not convinced this was an “error”

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder if someone in the WH saw this and rushed to overturn another bad RFKrank Jr call.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 3d

“The Trump administration is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

www.theverge.com/news/798388/...

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 3d

Wife did a bunch of research and got us the Biobidet several years ago. I can never go back and hate not having it while traveling. biobidet.com/collections/...

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Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social · 3d

Paging #nolasky

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 4d

Well, I mean..

www.salesforce.com/news/press-r...

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 4d

I think my least favorite thing about this era of history is that technology and obscene wealth have synthesized in such a way that the haunted pathologies of rich men spread across the global until they warp reality itself.

We are to some extent living inside Trump and Elon’s brains.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 6d

I'm thinking about writing about the experience of being gaslit by rural and suburban family/friends who tell you that their paranoid fantasies of your city trump your lived experience.

Long way of saying share your stories in comments! I may quote them.

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