chris blue himself
@chrisrd19.bsky.social
Co-host of The Vorthos Cast, sometimes editor, accessibility professional, a general nuisance. He/Him
It appears the AI was trying to take them to a different magic school. @rainbowrowell.bsky.social
Some very confused Harry Potter-bound tourists on the train who had been informed by their AI of choice to take a Thameslink from Farringdon to Watford Junction.
December 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It appears the AI was trying to take them to a different magic school. @rainbowrowell.bsky.social
Everyone talking about cutting the cord with Spotify, may I also remind you that you can absolutely also cut Amazon out of your life. Neither Spotify nor Amazon are necessary for you to live a happy, fulfilled life!
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Everyone talking about cutting the cord with Spotify, may I also remind you that you can absolutely also cut Amazon out of your life. Neither Spotify nor Amazon are necessary for you to live a happy, fulfilled life!
I was prepared for the gay hockey show to be softcore porn levels of explicit but I was not prepared for it to actually be a good show.
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I was prepared for the gay hockey show to be softcore porn levels of explicit but I was not prepared for it to actually be a good show.
I have some insight into college courses, and I have for over 10 years now, and I can confirm: It's gotten worse.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
December 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I have some insight into college courses, and I have for over 10 years now, and I can confirm: It's gotten worse.
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The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:
I love that we live in an age of technology where software can update every single day with radical changes to both its operation and UI so that it is nearly impossible to find any sort of actual troubleshooting guide that can help you. Official websites already out of date after only a week.
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I love that we live in an age of technology where software can update every single day with radical changes to both its operation and UI so that it is nearly impossible to find any sort of actual troubleshooting guide that can help you. Official websites already out of date after only a week.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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all stanning of popes is necessarily conditional, the Church is the Church, but the man said AI won't stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God's creation so with all our conditions intact yes we stan
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
all stanning of popes is necessarily conditional, the Church is the Church, but the man said AI won't stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God's creation so with all our conditions intact yes we stan
Look, The Last Jedi should be higher, and Rogue One lower, but having TLJ in your top 5 is correct and having Revenge of the Sith higher than TFA is also, I'm sorry to say this, correct.
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Look, The Last Jedi should be higher, and Rogue One lower, but having TLJ in your top 5 is correct and having Revenge of the Sith higher than TFA is also, I'm sorry to say this, correct.
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i'm going to sound sarcastic here but genuinely one of the most interesting aspects of LLMs is that they are proving that evil is real, by which i mean if you train them to do one bad thing they start doing other bad things that you have not trained them to do
At least once a month, Anthropic puts out an alignment paper d AI behavior where, if you saw it in a science fiction film, you‘d be screaming at the idiot scientists onscreen to stop development
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
i'm going to sound sarcastic here but genuinely one of the most interesting aspects of LLMs is that they are proving that evil is real, by which i mean if you train them to do one bad thing they start doing other bad things that you have not trained them to do
I think that a key step in reversing the direction this country is headed, and the world at large, is to legislate sports betting out of existence.
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I think that a key step in reversing the direction this country is headed, and the world at large, is to legislate sports betting out of existence.
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I'm biased here but it strengthens my belief that global scale algorithmic social media is one of the worst inventions in human history. I'd delete it off the face of the earth without a second's hesitation
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I'm biased here but it strengthens my belief that global scale algorithmic social media is one of the worst inventions in human history. I'd delete it off the face of the earth without a second's hesitation
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
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Thing that rattles around in my head:
Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour."
I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.
Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour."
I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Thing that rattles around in my head:
Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour."
I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.
Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour."
I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.
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Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh
There is no reason to drive any faster than 40mph outside of an interstate highway. And even then it's dicey to go over 60mph. You are piloting an enormously heavy machine going fast enough to liquify anyone you hit and you should think about that constantly.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
There is no reason to drive any faster than 40mph outside of an interstate highway. And even then it's dicey to go over 60mph. You are piloting an enormously heavy machine going fast enough to liquify anyone you hit and you should think about that constantly.
Anyone know how to hide the Copilot icon that just suddenly appeared in the lower right corner of my Word documents on my Macbook? This is incredibly annoying when a large portion of my job includes sharing my screen while writing in Word docs.
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Anyone know how to hide the Copilot icon that just suddenly appeared in the lower right corner of my Word documents on my Macbook? This is incredibly annoying when a large portion of my job includes sharing my screen while writing in Word docs.
One way to conceptualize these numbers is that after 10 years of working a full time job, I am now estimated to be further away from buying a house than I was when I started that job.
The median age of all U.S. homebuyers is now 59 years old.
Just 15 years ago, it was 39 years old.
Just 15 years ago, it was 39 years old.
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
One way to conceptualize these numbers is that after 10 years of working a full time job, I am now estimated to be further away from buying a house than I was when I started that job.
I think this really gets to the core of my opinion re: AI in video games (and maybe in art in general?). It should never create anything. There is potential, however, in its ability to interface with what was already created by human hands. A tool, not a product.
the fuck we are *not*. not genai, anyway.
machine learning to, say, recognize what counts as a hat for categorizing. or to adjust that hat for different models, sure. or for automated testing maybe? idk maybe? there are valid uses. but literally none of them generate art, text, game systems, etc.
machine learning to, say, recognize what counts as a hat for categorizing. or to adjust that hat for different models, sure. or for automated testing maybe? idk maybe? there are valid uses. but literally none of them generate art, text, game systems, etc.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
November 12, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I think this really gets to the core of my opinion re: AI in video games (and maybe in art in general?). It should never create anything. There is potential, however, in its ability to interface with what was already created by human hands. A tool, not a product.
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“Uhhh actually Frankenstein is the doctor not the monster” yeah man go ahead and tell him that, maybe call him “the creature” Go ahead and say some more mean shit to big ol Frankie Jr and see how that shit goes for you
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“Uhhh actually Frankenstein is the doctor not the monster” yeah man go ahead and tell him that, maybe call him “the creature” Go ahead and say some more mean shit to big ol Frankie Jr and see how that shit goes for you
Watched @arsenaultrivera.bsky.social shoot an innocent woman in the face and immediately die of shame and embarrassment tonight.
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Watched @arsenaultrivera.bsky.social shoot an innocent woman in the face and immediately die of shame and embarrassment tonight.
Having access to the podcast account on here means I am often accidentally liking funny posts on behalf of the Vorthos Cast.
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Having access to the podcast account on here means I am often accidentally liking funny posts on behalf of the Vorthos Cast.
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Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
You should preorder this book and you should do it through @bookshop.org if you can! Support local bookstores, support Magic fiction, support yourself through maybe winning a pretty incredible prize.
We're excited for the upcoming Magic novel Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos by @seananmcguire.bsky.social!
If you've preordered the book, drop a reply with your receipt or a preorder screenshot below for a chance to win a spell directly from the Biblioplex itself: Demonic Tutor
(Ends 11/24)
If you've preordered the book, drop a reply with your receipt or a preorder screenshot below for a chance to win a spell directly from the Biblioplex itself: Demonic Tutor
(Ends 11/24)
November 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
You should preorder this book and you should do it through @bookshop.org if you can! Support local bookstores, support Magic fiction, support yourself through maybe winning a pretty incredible prize.
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