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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jan 18

So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other.

Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾

screenshot of a Tumblr post from user ecofear yelling "what is HAPPENING" in response to a screenshot of a quotetweet from user @Ovichknox reading "this is so scary to me. i recommended a book to a friend recently and she came back to me a day later saying it was really good and i asked if she finished it already and she said "yeah i got chatgpt to summarise each chapter into 3 paragraphs to it was easy to read"
which is replying to a tweet from @alz_zyd reading "Personally, I read a bunch of classics in high register in college. I guess it was fun. I recently ChatGPT'd Aristotle into readable English, finished it around 5x as fast as a translation, and felt l got the main gist of things. idk does the pain incurred…"

Followed by a a reblog from tumblr use moonglade-poetess reading "Hey guys, with so much love, and as someone with an actual English degree:

Please just use Sparknotes if you're going to do this. I get it. I do. But chatgpt or other genAl shit doesn't actually know what's important for you to know, and in some cases it might fully make shit up. Use sparknotes. Failing that, talk to someone who did read it. I'm begging.

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Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · 6h

Masahiro Sakurai shared a photo of a Game Director dinner meeting he had for Tokyo Gameshow!

Participants:
- Hideki Kamiya
- Toby Fox
- Yoko Taro
- Jiro Ishii
- Kazutaka Kodaka
- Keiichiro Toyama

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1h

they’re going to start saying tylenol makes you grow extra fingers

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

Trump launched the TrumpRX website today.

It has a photo of Trump and an AI-generated family with too many fingers and mangled toes.

TrumpRx Is a Narcissistic, AI-Generated Nightmare

AI art really has become the aesthetic of grifters and fascists.

gizmodo.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · 56m

someone who claims to be a foreign affairs journalist just posting a full ai generated video as if it was real...

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17h

A rat ran across the table at Al Jazeera during a broadcast 🐀 😬

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Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · 1h

going to screm

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 3h

I think whats gonna be the only diff between then and now is that *then* the dot com bubble bursting took out folks connected to it but this time the AI bubble bursting is gonna take out darn near everything all b/c ppl are putting their fingers in their ears and going lalalala all for a quick hit.

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 10h

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · 3h

i sure hope i won't have to pay 600 dollars in tarrifs for the $350 purchase from china i made a few days ago

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Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · 3h

guy being lined up against the wall: can you not put me next to the it/they

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Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · 3h

no but seriously how are we still on this, we could have this conversation a decade ago when they weren't actively declaring us enemies of the state??? now is not the time

🌸Gretch🌸 @whothepuck.bsky.social · 4h

Logging on and seeing trans folks trying to throw teenagers experimenting with identities and sexualities under the bus

SpongeBob meme "wait you guys actually are still having queer discourse/infighting, I thought we've already established were all maggots in the eyes of the state"

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Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · 4h

after some research: the most recent person I discovered like this is indeed using AI, but nowadays are claiming they aren't and deleting comments and harassing people that say they are!

I really hate that this is where we're at with content creation

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Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · 4h

it really sucks that now if anyone ever sounds a little weird or has a crappy microphone i just kind of assume they're using an ai voice

like i'll just auto close a video or stream

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Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · 5h

i wanna be so clear that i put up a picture of my ass online and i get 10x the amount of views in 5 minutes that a former presidential candidate WHO STILL WANTS TO RUN got on this

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Adem @adem.bsky.social · 15h

we live in an era of incredible video editing skills being using to create the most insane media

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 8h

personally if i fell for an AI fake i would simply say "oh shit oops" and then delete my post. it's way less embarassing to just take it on the chin and admit you fucked up than it is to corncob and leave the post up

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Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · 9h

a industry of clowns

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E = mily² @emily.news · 2d

Meme image in which Princess Daisy says, "Are you tired of going apeshit? Don't you just want to be nice?" Her face looks softly dejected.

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Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · 9h

finally

Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · 17h

I'm falling asleep because I'm an old lady and I'm sick but I want u to know chat that I love women and I wanna kiss many of them goodnight yall

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Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · 18h

Raph's sai has the wrong number of points, mikey has the wrong number of fingers.. wotc is getting so sloppy, man

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 18h

lmao called it

National Guard deployed to the Bass Pro pyramid

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 1d

"To Newsom I say, fuck you, eat shit and go to hell you smarmy loser."

Amen. @assignedmedia.org

TWIBS: Governor Newsom May Be a Threat to Trans Americans — Assigned

Gavin Newsom has spent a lot of time declaring himself the greatest hero of the queer community to ever live, but his words and actions rarely seem to align these days.

www.assignedmedia.org

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 18h

A good time to remind people that Clinton was gearing up to run in 2020, and the only thing that stopped her was people were so uninterested in seeing her on her tour with Bill that one of the Clintonland people got her to realize she'd lose and it'd be humiliating:

www.foxnews.com/politics/bil...

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