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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Solipsism as a service. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

With Sora, you can do exactly that, in 10-second increments. Soon, your phone might be filled with hundreds of fond memories of things that never happened and places you never went, moments you can sit back and “relive” when there’s nobody else around except your AI pals.

Generative AI already has the power to put us in little boxes, isolated from one another. Why wait for a friend to answer your text when ChatGPT will cheerfully answer right away? Why go through the trouble of making a new friend when you can turn to digital companions embedded in apps like Instagram or X?
These new forms of entertainment are becoming the lake to our Narcissus: You can gaze into your phone and see yourself staring back, having all kinds of thrills, spills and chills.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

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Brendan Sullivan @stayhungry23.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know guys. This Gaza peace deal seems kinda sus.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Brendan Sullivan @stayhungry23.bsky.social · 2d

Seems pretty obvious

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 3d

Normally when an economy collapses it's one giant bubble that pops all of the related bubbles but right now we have the giant AI bubble functioning as a normal collapse bubble and also there's an about 1 in 100 chance every day the President blows up the economy

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 5d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Brendan Sullivan @stayhungry23.bsky.social · 6d

Carpenter Branch Library
1927
Architect: Wilbur T. Trueblood
3309 South Grand Boulevard
St Louis, Missouri
#stlouis #photography

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Brendan Sullivan @stayhungry23.bsky.social · 6d

But you’re right on BOTH COUNTS

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 7d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Lucas Brown Eyes @lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social · 11d

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10.

Windows 7 use is surging 5x now.

AI is product poison.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 11d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Brendan Sullivan @stayhungry23.bsky.social · 12d

The reporter had to blink away the absurdities

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BluesterB @bluesterb.bsky.social · 15d

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Brendan Sullivan @stayhungry23.bsky.social · 15d

Okay. That makes a lot more sense. Less cool, but more logical.

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Brendan Sullivan @stayhungry23.bsky.social · 15d

Is that a spike in that barf bucket? So you barf on the spike? That seems pretty metal tbh

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Brendan Sullivan @stayhungry23.bsky.social · 15d

I really underestimated how dumb we are.

Brendan Sullivan @stayhungry23.bsky.social · 15d

Grazie, rock star!

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16d

It’s hard to convey the insanity of a thirty-something White House staffer getting an interim US Attorney appointment and marching into the grand jury room alone four days later to indict the former Deputy Attorney General and Director of the FBI