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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 1h

he is. perfect

Rowan MacColl @skulkingfoxes.bsky.social · 1h

Also I love going to second hand bookstores because sometimes I find things like this endearingly goofy version of one of my favorite books. Also I love these pulp paperbacks, the perfect book size imo.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 10h

However, the obvious glitches reveal how genAI works. Rather than simulating a world, it visualizes concepts based on patterns found in existing content: a reporter is a person with a mic & a detainee is a person with their hands cuffed behind their back. Combine the two, and you get three arms
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

Her three arms/hands are the big tell in this case...

Screenshot from a TikTok video with red circles around the person's three hands and arms

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 4h

There are a number of accounts on Tiktok and IG that do extremely important work walking viewers through AI-generated slop videos like this and help them think critically about what they are seeing, how to spot it, etc. It’s a new era of critical media literacy instruction and I am happy to see it

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
• Contains: Bad Boys (The...

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 5h

I think it would be a huge public service if major media outlets interviewed people given RIF notices and let them explain in detail what their jobs are so that people can judge for themselves whether these positions are wasteful like Trump and Vought claim or whether they help the country prosper.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5h

in my humble opinion it is journalistic malpractice for a verified account to be sharing garbage AI-generated news videos because they're too stupid and lazy to verify their sources

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 7h

we're all dead here #halloween #art

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 15h

This boy got double vaccines today and is feeling ROUGH

A brown tabby relaxing, peets out, on a cable knit gray blanket.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 15h

Illegally firing the CDC experts while he gets the latest COVID vaccine is really beyond the pale.
Marie Antoinette level of vibes.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 21h

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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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 19h

We love you Chicago 🫶

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19h

A tow truck is bringing an ICE/CBP vehicle back to the facility—and its back window has been completely smashed out.

Front driver's side window is cracked, too.

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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · 18h

Sending this back around because it's so dang good.

Do yourself a favor and enjoy this queer musician who played a pro trans song at a straight pride festival in Boise over the summer.

Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · Jun 21

Hetero Awesome Fest - Guerrilla Performance - Boise, Idaho - Boy

🚨 A QUEER PERSON HAS SNUCK ONTO THE STAGE AT HETERO PRIDE THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 18h

frogblocfrogblocfrogblocfrogbloc

Mair Dundon @quietaction.bsky.social · 1d

With #AltText

Illustration of a hand pointing a finger at a cute green frog clutched in the other fist. “behave” is written above the finger. “no” in a bubble above the frog.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 20h

Psychiatrists/NPs/therapists who could provide off-the-books, no-fee, Zoom-based care for individuals in crisis in ICE-targeted Chicago communities, please email me: [email protected]. Include whether you can prescribe, speak Spanish (or other languages), and available hours per week/month.

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 2d

cats are second only to skeletons in these sketchbooks #halloween #art

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

"A restaurant owner in Orlando came up with a creative, community-oriented response to the state order removing rainbow crosswalks and other street murals last month."

www.wfla.com/news/florida...

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 1d

I came by and I said, “I love how you’re using the scribbles to find the shape. I do that too. I make a mess and then I find the right line.” And her huge eyes told me no one had ever told her a messy drawing could be a good drawing.

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 1d

I also will never forget the student this week who seemed to lean into her struggle with the Do Now drawing. She was having trouble with Jack Skelkington’s egg shaped head so she just circled the pencil around and around and around and around into a scribbled orb

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Betami @betami.bsky.social · 1d

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 1d

Now with #AltText

A black background has white text at the top that says “amphifa.” Two flags over each other, common antifa flags, have a black flag and a green one. An image of a green frog facing left with a blue ascot sits on the black flag. Circling the flags is the text, “amphibians against fascism.”

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 1d

So I can’t wait to get health insurance and also inflict the growth mindset on impressionable young people. But also not excited to be under fluorescent lights for 36 weeks a year or whatever

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 1d

the thing is, the reason I love art and want to share it is because it CAN help you grow and thrive! The point isn’t to become an artist. The point is to become someone who isn’t afraid to make mistakes, who understands progress comes through practice, who is confident dealing with abstract ideas!

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 1d

Last night prof said, “You people going into secondary are the worst because you care about your subject matter too much. You are helping kids become whole adults. Not teaching them to be historians or writers.”

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 1d

I said, “Do you like playing football? Video games?” They said, “Yeah.” I asked, “Well were you good at your favorite game the first time you played it?” They think for a minute. “…No.” I say, “Cool, drawing is the same. It’s hand-eye coordination and you have to play more to get good at it.”

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 1d

A student asked, “why do you want to be a teacher?” And I bit back the honest response, “I need health insurance.” But I do love it. This week I talked with several students who bemoaned, “I can’t drawwwww!” when they were tasked with a Do Now activity of copying a drawing on the projector

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