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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

the heart wants what it wants

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 3d

sherman, for the love of god!

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 4d

This is the aesthetic of the future

Kyle wolf
@CRXSSF4DE
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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated

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dan @amoeba.com.au · 4d

whatever version the new android home screen just dropped in an ota is, it's very nice. everything feels tight and put together in a way it hasn't for a long time. black icons are great too.

dan @amoeba.com.au · 4d

when you know they're cooking

a connections result showing one box from each category

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Kiyone @kiyonescarlet.bsky.social · 8d

lol

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dan @amoeba.com.au · 8d

been feelin' this

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dan @amoeba.com.au · 9d

buy now hummus and a wow! extra large falafel meal for 2

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 11d

This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks

Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and started over. His new life unraveled in a way nobody could have predicted.

www.rollingstone.com

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dan @amoeba.com.au · 13d

I love short stories of the genre unspeakable medical horror

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dan @amoeba.com.au · 13d

everyone's in the clown car and the clown car is on fire

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13d

You should read the whole piece from @edzitron.com but if you only read one paragraph, make it this one: OpenAI has burned so much money that there is no more money.

Read that again: it's not just OpenAI that's broke. All of VC is broke.

www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Venture Capital Will Run Out At The Current Rate of Investment In Six Quarters, And OpenAI Needs More Investment Than Ever: The Information recently published some worrying data from venture capitalist Jon Sakoda — that “at today’s clip, the industry would run out of money in six quarters,” adding that the money wouldn’t run out until the end of 2028 if it wasn’t for Anthropic and OpenAI. In a very real sense, OpenAI threatens the future of available capital for the tech industry.

dan @amoeba.com.au · 13d

ooof

Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 13d

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

dan @amoeba.com.au · 13d

lmao linkedin. social impact means what exactly?

a job posting showing a job for northrop grumman as social impact

dan @amoeba.com.au · 13d

al gore, hanging chads, supreme court, florida dads
twin towers, lehman brothers, palin's looking, kerry's cooking

we didn't start the jackpot,
it's just unfolding, and we can't stop watching etc.

dan @amoeba.com.au · 13d

tbh I reckon a public shame board is an innovation we could use more of at the precise moment in time

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dan @amoeba.com.au · 13d

yes well, you would say that wouldn't you

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 14d

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

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dan @amoeba.com.au · 13d

I love this thing. The one that labels all the US politicians with their donors is fun* too.

*ymmv

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dan @amoeba.com.au · 13d

"Would Have Liked To Have Run Tests On Seashells..."

IGN @ign.com · 13d

EA goes private in $55 billion deal, Andrew Wilson to remain as CEO. https://bit.ly/3WaGqnc

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13d

I do not want the video. I will never watch the video. I usually won’t even give the video the effort of complaint.

I just want to read the news story. Give me the text. This would be my Ted Talk but that would be text too.

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dan @amoeba.com.au · 13d

my thinking is because it's really highly polished as far presentation goes it's just the content is completely inane. like it's not wrong perse just fucking pointless

dan @amoeba.com.au · 13d

it's wild Strava's AI guff made it to the live app, it's worse than unhelpful

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dan @amoeba.com.au · 14d

I thought the Adelaide food court photo was the thing that was going to outlast his other achievements

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dan @amoeba.com.au · 14d

If you see this post a bridge!

Canberra, Australia

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dan @amoeba.com.au · 17d

living in America is just resigning yourself to ever increasing amounts of sugar in stuff until you stop looking at the labels. cereal, sure! bread, why not? yoghurt, just whack it in there

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 24d

can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about

James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 24d

good video hands-on with meta's smart glasses. i've been skeptical on smart glasses for a while, but it looks like the hardware side of this is finally becoming feasible? plus, in a world where kids list "creator" as their dream job, POV video recording is v attractive youtu.be/5cVGKvl7Oek?...

Meta Ray-Ban Display hands-on: best smart glasses I’ve ever tried

YouTube video by The Verge

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