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

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Fuzzy Mike @fuzzymike.bsky.social · Jan 18

we might be facing a big problem in the near future in that i don't think it's societally feasible for elementary schools and grade schools to fail 75% of the class but the alternative is passing students who don't know a single thing

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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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 👍🏾

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 18h

My big conspiracy is that due to our overall systemic decline in both cultural literacy and actual literacy we have spawned a generation of people who don’t even know how to get horny anymore

TheGamersician 🎮🎶 @thegamersician.com · 1d

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Speak for yourself lol

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claire jadzia @clairerianhard.bsky.social · 16h

making them play four horsemen...

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claire jadzia @clairerianhard.bsky.social · 16h

banger

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 17h

the first thing runescape teaches you is that bronze is yuri between tin and copper

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Mercilessly Pumped for 45min @ XIV I think @initiale-mil.bsky.social · 1d

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

What’s It Gonna Take To Get You In This Woman?

You mull it over, eyeing my soft and shiny skin.
"I do like the finish...
She still runs well?"
He gestures to my exposed thighs,
Inviting a test drive.
At the touch of your long fingers
I let out a gay little moan.
"See?
Purrs like a kitten."

You're coming around.
You could use a tall blonde around for a little while.
Who couldn't?
"What kind of maintenance will she need?"
"A text once or twice a month...
It's not like you'll need to show her off Or tell your friends about her.
You're looking at bare minimum.
She's basically a houseplant."

"And when I'm done with her?"
The dealer looks apologetic.
"We don't do returns.
But resale should be no problem.
That's the great thing about used girls.
There's always someone else
Who wants to use them."

"I'll take her," you say,
Not bothering to take my hand
As I step off the platform.
I could hear it all, of course.
But I smile anyway.
I'm the prettiest girl at the used girl lot
And I got picked again.

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claire jadzia @clairerianhard.bsky.social · 22h

this one looks really good. best believe i slammed that preorder button 💪

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 1d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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claire jadzia @clairerianhard.bsky.social · 23h

proud of you & happy for you 💜 you've got this!!

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Elaine @oritart.ca · 1d

Universes Beyond: New York is the monkey's paw curling for "I wish we had blocks back"

Elaine @oritart.ca · 1d

I am a turtle and I eat slop

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claire jadzia @clairerianhard.bsky.social · 23h

fuck, it really is 😭

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 8d

most people really are terrible at assessing risk

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · Sep 5

you can't stop people from being trans and/or autistic but also anyone selling people that you can for the price of mandatory child genital inspections and/or a bunch of kids dying of measles is just a pedophile and/or a nurgle worshipper, respectively

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · Sep 5

being trans is not a negative outcome and neither is being autistic

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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claire jadzia @clairerianhard.bsky.social · 1d

yeah i have a pretty similar line drawn for potential return events so i feel ya

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claire jadzia @clairerianhard.bsky.social · 1d

girl do you not play EW yourself?? if not ill put down a reservation for one of these years 👀

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

Designed With
Gamers In Mind Designed With
Activists In Mind

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claire jadzia @clairerianhard.bsky.social · 1d

its one that i wanna come out of retirement for at some point but finding power to borrow is so 😵‍💫

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claire jadzia @clairerianhard.bsky.social · 1d

EW already?! good luck Liz!!

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claire jadzia @clairerianhard.bsky.social · 1d

*turning on my best sappy voice*

be happy that it happened not sad that its over. i think its nice to have small ways that keep in touch with who you used to be, similar to not regretting a tattoo. maybe you can keep part of the handle and change the rest 🙂‍↕️

*voice off*

otoh, go wild with names :)

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claire jadzia @clairerianhard.bsky.social · 1d

its a deep cut at this point, its chill

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