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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 3d

I get paid 7 figures a year to come up with this shit. Some stuff I have cooking up for you to look forward to: Amazon Prime changing to Amazon Plus. Paramount Plus changing to Paramount Now. HBO Max changing to just HBO. I fucking hate all of you and I will never stop.

Headline about Apple TV+ changing to Apple TV.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2h

Ten years ago today.

Tweet that reads: 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

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Frank The Kitten @frankthekitten.bsky.social · 2h

Frank Haiku Series 3
10110 - Khajiit is innocent of these crimes...

Dad, before you judge.
The toilet paper went nuts!
I had to do it!

#CatsOfBluesky #poetry

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The Red-Headed Strangler @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 3h

my god there has never been a more accurate use of this

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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See Through Canoe @seethroughcanoe.bsky.social · 2h

Rays swimming around people at the beach in Florida to avoid them. Cownose Rays aren't harmless, but they would rather avoid people than sting them.
#nature #amazing #animals #beach #ocean #wildlife #florida

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Big Merkin Bag @twrksumn.herblkstory.com · 7h

I think some folks didn’t like wearing masks cuz their own breath smelled like dookie

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4h

like basically everyone who works in software I embody this tweet and do not under any circumstances want to talk to my computer

Tweet from @PPathole

Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart.

Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 4h

A late-summer rose. These bushes are going dormant with a bang!

#garden #gardening #BloomSky

A front view of a tangerine-colored rose.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4h

cybertruck owners treat being a cybertruck owner as just as hard as being transgender in the united states it’s so awesome

WIRED @wired.com · 8h

“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it.

Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck

“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it.

wrd.cm

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 4h

This seems really bad and should be getting more attention nationally. Hundreds airlifted from storm-battered Western Alaska villages in historic evacuation, by @adn.com

Hundreds airlifted from storm-battered Western Alaska villages in historic evacuation

The Alaska Airlines Center arena at the University of Alaska Anchorage will shelter 300 displaced residents starting Wednesday evening, the American Red Cross said.

www.adn.com

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed a bill banning landlords from using algorithms to collude and raise rents.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 4h

Autumn puppy bomb!

Nyx at the park hanging out on Whiskey’s favorite rock.

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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 8h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 6h

Oh this little rat liar fuck "I had no idea when I said verified adults would get erotic content that people would run with it and not the part where I said we're limiting privacy and freedom to teens who we are still happily allowing to use our product that tells teens to kill themselves"

Sam Altman on Twitter like yesterday or idk the day before:

Ok this tweet about upcoming changes to ChatGPT blew up on the erotica point much more than I thought it was going to! It was meant to be just one example of us allowing more user freedom for adults. Here is an effort to better communicate it:

As we have said earlier, we are making a decision to prioritize safety over privacy and freedom for teenagers. And we are not loosening any policies related to mental health. This is a new and powerful technology, and we believe minors need significant protection.

We also care very much about the principle of treating adult users like adults. As Al becomes more important in people's lives, allowing a lot of freedom for people to use Al in the ways that they want is an important part of our mission.

It doesn't apply across the board of course: for example, we will still not allow things that cause harm to others, and we will treat users who are having mental health crises very different from users who are not. Without being paternalistic we will attempt to help users achieve their long-term goals.

But we are not the elected moral police of the world. In the same way that society differentiates other appropriate boundaries (R-rated movies, for example) we want to do a similar thing here.

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 5h

YOUR FOES WOULD SEE YOU SLEEPLESS: RESIST AND REST.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 10h

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏

Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.

In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

The Absolute Units art. Three giant sheep hover over the English countryside.

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 17h

The bone buddies are still having a blast outside, celebrating the fact that they're skeletons.

Here's a lovely pic of five bone buddies (small plastic skeletons). One is standing on their head, one is doing the splits with their arms up, one is dangling by their legs from an outdoor chair, one is climbing the back of the chair, and one is waving while sitting on the chair.

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 10h

Two people check tide times with ChatGPT, almost die.

uk.news.yahoo.com/restaurant-b...

Restaurant boss saw two people about to do something deadly so he grabbed his megaphone

He ran out of the restaurant and warned the pair to turn back

uk.news.yahoo.com

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 9h

Over one summer my friend Ben, who was working as a part-time lifeguard, pulled SEVENTEEN people out of the waters off a Cornish beach when they got into difficulties and that was long before ChatGPT was a thing, so I guess people are going to die.

Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 10h

Two people check tide times with ChatGPT, almost die.

uk.news.yahoo.com/restaurant-b...

Restaurant boss saw two people about to do something deadly so he grabbed his megaphone

He ran out of the restaurant and warned the pair to turn back

uk.news.yahoo.com

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 9h

ameeri mangoes, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1910

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Lisa Forte @lisaforte.bsky.social · 9h

It contained totally made up book titles and citations, it got the names of judges wrong, it attributed quotes to wrong people 😬 $440k report 🤯

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report

Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

www.theguardian.com

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 11

Carlin's daughter

My statement regarding the AI generated George Carlin special: My dad spent a lifetime perfecting his craft from his very human life, brain and imagination. No machine will ever replace his genius. These AI generated products are clever attempts at trying to recreate a mind that will never exist again. Let’s let the artist’s work speak for itself. Humans are so afraid of the void that we can’t let what has fallen into it stay there.
Here’s an idea, how about we give some actual living human comedians a listen to? But if you want to listen to the genuine George Carlin, he has 14 specials that you can find anywhere.

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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 8h

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 8h

All of this, in violation of the Constitution.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23h

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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