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weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

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Jonathan Hilburg @chillburg.bsky.social · 9d

At a Tor Nightfire event with a great slate of authors

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Jonathan Hilburg @chillburg.bsky.social · 9d

You know they tried this at least once in the Infinity Pool country

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 9d

Average Fortnite lobby

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 10d

Portland is showing the way. Hail Portland

FOX 12 Oregon facebook post screenshot. Headline reads "Latest Updates: 2 more arrested near Portland ICE facility Saturday." Picture shows people outsid the ICE facility in blow-up costumes, L-R: Squidward, Mr. Potato Head, not sure but it's a diapered person in a trucker hat, Garfield, again not sure, banana, lobster

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · Sep 18

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Sep 18

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 11d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Jonathan Hilburg @chillburg.bsky.social · 12d

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 13d

Don’t have to know anything about streamers. If a guy lives in youtube that’s his problem

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Jonathan Hilburg @chillburg.bsky.social · 13d

Kid Rock is going to finish performing then put a helmet on and get back on the field

Jonathan Hilburg @chillburg.bsky.social · 13d

Where we're going, we won't need pay to work

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 13d

of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 13d

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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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 14d

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 · 14d

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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