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Alec Popescu 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇩 @alecowl.bsky.social · 20h

a man wearing glasses and a tie looks serious

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a tie looks serious

media.tenor.com

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skele-tuna 💀‼️ @artbytuna.bsky.social · May 27

This is the money Flapjack. Repost for ten years good luck ✨ 🐈

A cute orange cat lounges on Canadian bills, a colourful array of blues greens purples and more.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 3d

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 3d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Alec Popescu 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇩 @alecowl.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re still looking, highly recommend @abicadabriva.bsky.social @voice-quills.com @senabryer.com and @chichiai.bsky.social 🙌🙌🙌

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Alec Popescu 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇩 @alecowl.bsky.social · 2d

Yes!!!! Its such an inspiration and the soundtrack is a banger! 🤩🤩🤩 If mappa don’t want it, pls let another like Studio Orange do season 2! 🙌🙌🙌😍

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 3d

LRT about the Taito photo goes hand in hand with this video by Kurzgesagt, talking about how AI posted by official sources will creep back into the datasets as legit information until it will be impossible to verify what is real and what’s not

Mahmud Asrar 🪲 @mahmudasrar.bsky.social · 4d

AI slop is ruining our lives. Do not be a part of the problem.

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

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

www.youtube.com

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 5d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Franubis (comms open check pinned) @franubis.bsky.social · 4d

Spotify has the WORST audio quality out of every other streaming platform

It is also the most expensive

They support Joe Rogan

Apple and amazon let you upload your own files to the library.

Tidal and Apple have spatial audio even on PC (need atmos+AC3)

There is no reason to use spotify

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 5d

Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis

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TheCongressman @thecongressman.bsky.social · 7d

bsky ceo's crashout shows they can not handle simple criticism, so keep doing it. bsky wants the marginalized people that built this site to shut up or leave, don't give them an easy way out

LeeTaeRyeo @leetaeryeo.com · 20d

BlueSky does not currently have advertising or any real monetization. Doing a boycott/blackout will have absolutely no impact on them due to this, other than users who would be impacted by the censoring doing the work for them.

The real way to impact would be to post more. Trend. Make them moderate

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 7d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 12d

You wanna know why we're trying to get Bluesky mods' attention though comments, feedbacks, and App store ratings over their new policy? This is why. Even with media that's not even for adults, they label it for adults anyway. This will affect a lot of people, not just nsfw art. #bskycensorship

Spooky Zolo @studiozolo.bsky.social · 12d

I can't even look at Captain Underpants anymore. Why must you take that from me?

A Captain Underpants post has been flagged for adult content with no option to view it.

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Mikk Dado @mikkusushi.bsky.social · 11d

LMAO
No shit
It's literally a waste of time and resources

CNN @cnn.com · 11d

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a recent report.

Most companies aren’t seeing a return on AI investments. This tech CEO wants to change that | CNN Business

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last month. O...

www.cnn.com

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 15d

A Twitter-style Community Notes tag on a post that says:

Readers added context
"Elon Musk did NOT go to Pedophile Island. Due to the classification of Little Saint James as an “islet” by the US Geographic Survey, it would be more accurate to say he went to “Pedophile Islet.”

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Saint_J..."

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15d

People are so ready to come up with a way that these freaks win, how this egregious nonsense gets pushed up the hill, versus standing firm and looking at the actual numbers. "They'll print more money" no they won't "they'll bail them out" they can't

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15d

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15d

I spoke with analyst Gil Luria at D.A. Davidson, asking if the capital existed to build OpenAI's promised 17GW of data centers.

He said "of course there isn't enough capital for all of this," but "enough capital to do this for a at least a little while longer."

www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetr...

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 18d

I haven’t seen a lot of cis people I usually see pushing for calls, etc. doing so about these rules provisions, which would devastate trans people nationally.

Calls need to be made to all electeds and a firm stance taken ASAP, with ten times the fervor of the Kimmel/D+ event

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18d

1. Trump has dug in on anti-trans provisions in the shutdown fight this morning, cancelling a meeting with Dems unless they cave on trans people.

His post to Truth Social is a clear indication that Republicans are making targeting trans people a priority.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Trump Digs In On Anti-Trans Provisions In Shutdown Fight Message

The provisions are becoming a key sticking point in the ongoing fight to keep the government open.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Cupid's Molotov @cupidsmolotov.bsky.social · 20d

This is unironically a lot worse than Jimmy Kimmel but you won't see 1/1000 of the outrage

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20d

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time

“While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'”

www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

Alex O'Keefe, Award-Winning Black Screenwriter, Pulled From Train After White Woman Objects To How He Was Sitting

Alex O'Keefe, an award-winning Black screenwriter, was pulled from a train by the police after a white woman objected to his posture.

www.blackenterprise.com

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 25d

Screenshot of text, written by me, which reads:

“A message to any early-career creatives, wondering if things have always been this tough:

No. No they haven’t. I’ve been doing this for 30 yrs, through recessions, financial crashes, pandemics and wars. It has *NEVER* been this tough, not even close.

But please, PLEASE keep going if you can.
Your work has never been more needed or more important.”

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Rick Schmitz @rickschmitz.bsky.social · 22d

“Tech leaders at WSJ’s Technology Council Summit said it’s nearly impossible to measure the impact of AI on business productivity.” Except that MIT already has.

m.economictimes.com/magazines/pa...

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 23d

#SaveSpeech

US legislators are pushing harder to pass KOSA and repeal section 230.

Call your representatives ASAP and make your voice heard! Advocate for protecting section 230, and demand your reps oppose KOSA!

Bipartisan Push in Congress to Weaken Section 230, Expand Online Surveillance, and Increase Platform Liability

Calls for platform accountability came with few answers about who decides what speech is acceptable.

reclaimthenet.org

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 22d

This is the cost of casual legitimization of genai. The blood of this kind of suffering is on the hands of everyone who uses it for all the kind of stuff Giger has pointed out. Because you've been told for at least two years now what the cost of it is and to stop doing it.

GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · 23d

Fuck me this is bleak.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

‘Children's book illustrator isn't a job anymore.’
I've been out of work for a while now. I made children's book illustrations, stock art, and took various art commissions.

Now I have several maxed out credit cards and use a donation bin for food. I haven't had a steady contract in over a year. two weeks ago, when a client who has switched to AI found out about this he gave me $50 out of "a sense of guilt." Basically pity for the fact that Illustrator, as a job, does not exist anymore.

It was my birthday recently and I sincerely considered not living anymore.
The worst part of all is that the parents who once supported me fully in being an artist sent me an AI generated picture of a caricature of themselves holding a birthday cake with my name spelled incorrectly.

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Alec Popescu 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇩 @alecowl.bsky.social · Nov 30

Lion and Triss’s ship dynamic would definitely be shy genius and confident dumbass. 😂🏳️‍🌈😳😎

Artwork made by the amazing @ameetoe.bsky.social !

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Alec Popescu 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇩 @alecowl.bsky.social · May 31

Things have taken a dark turn...

New pilot sneak peak!
Featuring @marisaduran.bsky.social as Lion and the animation by the amazing @kcisor.bsky.social 🍎🧛‍♀️

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Kil(l)i @kilinah.bsky.social · 26d

The petition is nearly at 10k - just a little bit more of a push is needed!

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · Sep 6

U.K. residents, could this be your chance to stop paypro censorship in the country? Please sign this petition

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition
Ban payment processors stopping services based on objections to legal content
Government should legislate that payment processing companies may not place stipulations on use of their services regarding sales of otherwise legal content and, if they do so, must face legal penalties and must remunerate platforms and individuals for lost income until service is restored.
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