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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · Aug 23

If you show me anything A.I. generated, a ghost kills you within a week.

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Clord TC, Comics Guy @clordtc.bsky.social · 4h

The us govt weaponising starvation against its own citizens is pretty goddamn barbaric.

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 17h

Post a film you've seen more than 7 times with a gif.

Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 2d

I've been working on comics and not posting art online. I gotta get a series of posts together about all my little books

Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 2d

Haven't these ghouls made more money than anyone else ever? Wtf? They can't pay their employees well?

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · Jun 19

A digital illustration in a fairly loose painterly style of a street pigeon tailing flight with a slice of pizza clapped in their little grabbers. Hand drawn typewriter-style lettering around the pigeon reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4d

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down

Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

www.404media.co

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Danger Dog @real-danger.bsky.social · 3d

Eddy Burback both destroyed ChatGPT and polished up his age regression skills in one video and it sure is something!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRjg...

ChatGPT made me delusional

YouTube video by Eddy Burback

www.youtube.com

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3d

We now have multiple visualizations of this phenomenon from various news organizations. Which one is the best?

New York Times graphic depicting circular nature of OpenAI investments and business relationships.

WSJ graphic depicting circular nature of OpenAI investments and business relationships.

FT graphic depicting circular nature of OpenAI investments and business relationships.

Bloomberg graphic depicting circular nature of OpenAI investments and business relationships.

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 3d

Khachapuri could be fun to paint. Pie is always an interesting subject. You could do a big cinnamon roll.

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 3d

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I'd love to see him get to do a Warhammer someday. Cavill is often a lot of fun to watch in stuff.

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 3d

I think it had something to do with WB jumping the gun and announcing him as Superman going forward just as the James Gunn deal was going through.

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 3d

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

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Fleo Fynx 🔜 DenFur @fleofynx.bsky.social · 16d

What if some day we became revered as the last era of real human artists, creators of the source material from which AI creates everything that comes after? Possessors of the lost arts? (I do not want this to happen.)

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 4d

Is this a joke? Is this stupid robot and this stupid WSJ video a fucking joke?

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 5d

Artists behind some of the most popular films of all time are also forging one of the most powerful organized resistances to AI.

With solidarity, class action lawsuits and strong legislation, they're fighting to protect their livelihoods, and pop culture, from big tech.

My latest:

How artists behind Marvel, Alien, and the Matrix movies are fighting AI

With solidarity, legislation, class action lawsuits, and a little help from Guillermo del Toro. Plus, the Luddite Renaissance continues, and I open the mailbag.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.writes.news · 5d

Scoop: In digging into the AI slopification of the White House, I’ve learned that the president of the United States is capable, from time to time, of posting generative AI videos on his own, per a senior WH official.

More in this week’s Inner Loop @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/donald...

Donald Trump Is the First AI Slop President

How do AI videos end up on Donald Trump’s social media accounts? WIRED investigates.

www.wired.com

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Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 5d

Tech bros: “a.i. is the inevitable future of all human endeavors!”
Crowd: (cricket noises)

Emma Thompson: “a.i. sucks shit, I hate it.”
Crowd: (goes apeshit! Cheering! throwing flowers!)

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 6d

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 6d

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 7d

“Generative AI is nothing more than a form of social suicide that must be reined in before it’s too late. It cannot be allowed to reach the level of proliferation that social media has achieved”

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 10d

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.

But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

Generative AI is a societal disaster

Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society

disconnect.blog

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 7d

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

$Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.$

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 7d

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 7d

Sure is great that big tech can only come up with exploitative scammy trash these days.

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Michel Dinel @padder.bsky.social · 8d

No one's born with pro-level talent.
That's years of dedication, effort & sacrifice, no matter the initial talent one's born with.
Those who still dedicate themselves to it may keep improving while others, even talented ones, may plateau.
The APPEAL of their skill is another matter entirely
screw AI

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Rayne Grimm Vulpes Zer-Duh @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 10d

As a person that works in a store that sells toys/nerd shit all I can think Is absolutely yes

Easiest one to point to is pokemon cards. Even if the cards themselves are still roughly the same the way people act have made them effectively Unobtainable for the average kid

Instill get grown ass men

Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 10d

real talk "kids have been priced out of toys" is a really fucked up sentence that I think speaks to a sickness deep in our society, this should not be a thing that happens

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 8d

Welp

The dead internet theory is feeling pretty smug right now

What's happening: Elon
Musk confirmed that X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. In other words, the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear.
In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts and videos every day to decide what users see. At the same time, X is testing a new interface that keeps users inside the app even when they open external links.

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