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ana street rat @uldahstreetrat.bsky.social · 4h

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

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Brian R., AKA Meck, the Slightly Bionic Bun @brianrenadette.bsky.social · 5m

*crowd goes wild*

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Ultima @ultimashadow.bsky.social · 6h

The tragedy of Tango Gameworks being caught in all this aside, what does "AI-centric HR" even entail? Like what, you're gonna have to consult ChatGPT if you're experiencing workplace harassment? Be so fucking for real, this bubble needs to pop NOW.

Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 10h

Krafton (PUBG, Subnautica, Tango Gameworks) says it is now an "AI first" company, with automated work, AI-centric HR, management systems, and workflows, in-game AI, and a full company-wide AI infrastructure.

(Krafton press release)

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 6h

Tapping the sign

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 18h

Hey so I think if we want to exist as a society we need to regulate the fuck out of GenAI and I think a big easy first step is keeping it a country mile away from political ads.

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

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

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KoboldShop.com 🗡🦎 @koboldshop.com · 10h

📢 FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY

👕 available in tee form here:
www.koboldshop.com/shop/p/kobol...

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 19h

AI as a window into the soul of a campaign. If you’d tried to film this in real life multiple people would have stopped you and said “absolutely not” but with AI you can go from bad idea to campaign video without a single outside opinion getting in your way

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

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

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Hope For The Planet @h4tp.bsky.social · 1d

Australia's humpback whales are doing so well that their population is expected to reach carrying capacity and plateau in the near future--they have not just reached but exceeded pre-whaling numbers. For this to happen with such a long-lived, slow-reproducing species is near miraculous. #goodnews

These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.

www.abc.net.au

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Aura @aura.derg.love · 16h

It appears that this has been done for several furry conventions, including @goblfc.org, @furality.org, @megaplexcon.org, @furrydelphia.org, and many others.

If you are on a convention board, I recommend looking into this and seeing if your organization has been scraped and respond accordingly.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 4d

WARNING: GoFundMe is "growth hacking" - it's created 1.4 million "donation pages" for nonprofits without their consent and without any prior warning or contact. Now, this is conventionally regarded as charity fraud. Beware.

mastodon.social/@gvwilson/11...

news story: abc7news.com/post/gofundm...

Greg Wilson (@[email protected])

GoFundMe has created 1.4 million "donation pages" for nonprofits *without their consent and without any prior warning or contact*. You can go to https://www.gofundme.com/s?nonprofits= to check if they...

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 21h

Bay Area folks, get ready for ICE sweeps this weekend, look for actions to join if you're able. will post actions as quotes on this post.

oaklandside.org/2025/10/22/m...

Major federal immigration operation will begin tomorrow in the Bay Area

Customs and Border Protection agents are headed to the Bay Area for an operation, the agency has confirmed.

oaklandside.org

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The Ghost of Mario @tomatograndpa.bsky.social · 18h

Down in Pumpkin Hill Zone so I'm just gonna creep.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 13h

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

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ΛTLΛS @atlasbun.bsky.social · 2d

Trans speedrunners be like "okay we got bad rng on the character creation but if we spam E repeatedly a chest will appear"

Tele-Piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 4d

maxknightley
(angry video game nerd voice) two genders? that's it? and you just get given one at random, you don't even get to decide which one you want? what a shitload of fuck

flowergirlmiwa
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!

noragesimus: *photo of AVGN screaming*

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AND IF YOU WANNA CHANGE, YOU CAN'T JUST SWITCH?? YOU GOTTA DO A WHOLE QUESTLINE JUST TO TRANSITION? WHY DIDN'T THE DEVS TRANSITION TO A BETTER FUCKIN' GAME??

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 6d

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 1d

Several months ago, actors made it clear that they were withholding work from Genshin Impact because of a lack of basic AI protections

Hoyo fans told them it would/could never be an issue

Last night, Hoyo posted several official videos promoting Genshin's new mode

Here's what the VO sounds like.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 22h

The bloodbath is global. Everyone hears about layoffs at English-speaking sites like Polygon, but every other language just gets reported locally.

Jovem Nerd is big enough to get a cameo NPC & quest in Cyberpunk 2077. When they fired their game journalists, only Brazilians heard about that... :/

Andy Robinson @andyrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

More than 1,200 video game journalists have left major publications in the past two years, and not returned to the media, according to data supplied to VGC.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/more-th...

More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC

According to Press Engine data, the global pool of games journalists has shrunk by 25%

www.videogameschronicle.com

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red 🎃 @prettypinkpansy.bsky.social · 20h

you know what. the current trend of nostalgia remaking everything has a lot wrong with it but they should remake Plok just to fix everything that was wrong with that fucking game. #RemakePlok

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Areku | Tail-Loving Fox Vtuber 🦊 @foxyareku.live · 1d

These kitties unexpectedly being born has seriously been the best thing to happen to me in years. They make me so happy and I love them so much.

I wish we could keep them all, but going to do my best to find them good homes.

Contact if you’re in texas and interested.

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Zito(Coms Reopen Nov) @zitoisneato.com · 1d

I have plans, content and the drive to create.

I just don't have the funds. Thats where you come in!

With your fiscal backing I can safely dedicate myself to making more things you guys like.

www.patreon.com/ZitoisNeato

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 4d

WARNING: GoFundMe is "growth hacking" - it's created 1.4 million "donation pages" for nonprofits without their consent and without any prior warning or contact. Now, this is conventionally regarded as charity fraud. Beware.

mastodon.social/@gvwilson/11...

news story: abc7news.com/post/gofundm...

Greg Wilson (@[email protected])

GoFundMe has created 1.4 million "donation pages" for nonprofits *without their consent and without any prior warning or contact*. You can go to https://www.gofundme.com/s?nonprofits= to check if they...

mastodon.social

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𝕸𝖔𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖎𝖙 𝕺𝖓𝖎⛧(RayneYoruka) @rayneyoruka.yorukasworld.org · 2d

Twitch thinking about implementing AI clipping tool, this means yalls voice is gonna be scraped.

You better vote against it.

twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92471...

#twitch

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Sean Chiplock 🟡 🔜 AkiCon (East Peoria, IL) @sonicmega.bsky.social · 1d

So anyway, maybe voice actors aren't crazy, greedy bastards for wanting protections against their voices being used to train AI after all

LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 1d

Reposting this with different phrasing

Multiple promotional videos for the new Genshin Miliastra Wonderland mode have been posted

A lot of fans believe it to be narrated by AI voice over

You be the judge

youtu.be/B_hxFC_Rrck?...

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Brian R., AKA Meck, the Slightly Bionic Bun @brianrenadette.bsky.social · 1d

So brave (and so lucky)

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David S Pupkins @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 1d

okay who ordered the delivery of a heavy-handed visual metaphor

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Brian R., AKA Meck, the Slightly Bionic Bun @brianrenadette.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no, I hope my bed doesn't cook me alive.

MY FAMILY!!

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