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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 5h

The science fiction version of this story was overdone 30 years ago

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

I wonder: over time what is the effect of the machine inaccurately reporting to you your daily activities?

When my husband left the house carrying a shotgun, the alert said he was carrying a garden tool. It’s unclear whether this is intentional (I’ve reached out to Google), but not identifying weapons seems like a significant oversight for a security-focused system. I would like to know if there is a person with a gun on my porch or wielding a knife in my home.
However, the daily Home Briefs is where it got weird. Around 8:30 each night, the Google Home app presents its interpretation of the day’s events in a new Activity Tab. You can customize this to focus on things you’re most interested in; for me, that’s animals and teenagers arriving home past curfew.
The summaries were about 80 percent correct, with a few less concerning confusions — it said a pizza oven was delivered when I was actually taking it away. But my main issue was with the heavy-handed editorializing in the summaries. Gemini took accurate real-time descriptions of events and turned them into a narrative full of declarative sentences that were simply incorrect.
For example, on Halloween, the summary said “Jenni and R were seen interacting with the trick-or-treaters and enjoying the festive atmosphere.” While I did pass out candy, my daughter R wasn’t home. Another summary detailed how my husband and I had spent an enjoyable evening relaxing on the couch along with others. We were home alone.

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metal dot txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 6h

that thing everyone said was going to happen is happening

dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 6h

On August 7, according to the FBI, three men in black vests entered a New York restaurant
claiming to be ICE agents. Inside, they tied a worker's hands and pulled a garbage bag over the person's head. Another, believing the burglars' story, surrendered themselves, only to be kicked to the ground and tied up as the intruders robbed an ATM.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 5h

Oh boy, pablumatic verbiage extruders will be schlorping so much water for this chorus of whining

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 8h

i'm glad I have a lymphatic massage appointment today

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 10h

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.

How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 17h

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social):

As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead."

But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that"

Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 12h

So it’s just me? Okay now i get to play is this a technical problem or

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 12h

No but really. Is this function broken for everyone on Blacksky? Or just me?

C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 13h

I still can’t subscribe to @stechlab-labels.bsky.social‘s labeler. is this normsl for blacksky users, to not be able to subscribe to labelers?

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 12h

It works on bluesky just fine. First thing i tested.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 13h

i really don’t know what is going on here. Something feels very wrong.

C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 13h

I still can’t subscribe to @stechlab-labels.bsky.social‘s labeler. is this normsl for blacksky users, to not be able to subscribe to labelers?

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 13h

I still can’t subscribe to @stechlab-labels.bsky.social‘s labeler. is this normsl for blacksky users, to not be able to subscribe to labelers?

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 1d

I have to separate it regardless. I'm very picky about what fabric I let touch me and a lot of it has to be in a net bag or it can't go in the dryer or it can't be dried all the way to dry or i have to hand wash it or I have to press it a certain way before it can hang up

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 1d

my first draft really wanted danceable late 20th industrial and my rewrite really wants gloomy dark postpunk, so that's how it's going I guess

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Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social · 1d

zerowriter.ink

obsessed with this tbh i wrote 2k on it this morning

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 1d

I would make a from scratch Caesar salad in that bowl and be so happy.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 1d

i just don't buy white shirts. i know what will happen. I'm a good laundress but I am also a lazy one

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Basenotes @basenotes.com · 1d

Basenotes Guide to: Who is behind all your perfumes (2025 Edition)

L'Oréal's acquisition of Kering Beauté last month - securing future control of Gucci Beauty and luxury fragrance houses including Creed, Bottega Veneta, and Balenciaga - cemented its position as the world's leading beauty... Basenotes Guide to: Who is behind all your perfumes (2025 Edition)

dlvr.it

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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

Is that true or do you just want to believe it?

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 1d

This made me laugh. did he really botfarm streams on spotify? oh my gosh.

C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 1d

you can absolutely be the mayor, i just wanted a feed about bread that would collect posts the way talking about a certain kind of pen does

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

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🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 1d

This is what happens when you put corporations in charge of the govt and you turn govt into a business. The govt is to *control* business, not be business.

Mara Dolan @maradolan.bsky.social · 1d

$698 Billion. That’s how much more wealth the 10 wealthiest Americans have just this year, as SNAP funds remain frozen. #unconscionable www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report

Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap

www.theguardian.com

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2d

Really don’t think it can be emphasized enough what an INSANELY promising technology mRNA vaccination has proved itself to be and it’s beyond infuriating that it is under active and sustained attack by the most powerful people on earth

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 2d

I hate this. There is a setting so you can’t forget to add alt txt!

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 2d

There is a book out called “The Sin of Empathy,” which is written by a white Christian nationalist cult leader out in Idaho. The idea that the left is “weaponizing empathy against Christians” is an EXTREMELY popular & growing sentiment being bolstered by the church. And we all need to be aware of it

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