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Cole Oyl
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Midwest knucklehead. Nonsense, mostly. No DMs. Sober. No DMs. Fun! No DMs. Sparky's List, Inner Hive.
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Yet another article where AI bros treat chatbots with more concern and care than they do actual human beings--in this case, an Anthropic exec forcing an AI chatbot onto a Discord community for gay gamers, against members' wishes and ignoring their concerns.

www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...
When Clinton deployed an AI chatbot on Thanksgiving Day, it irritated longtime members. Some worried about privacy, others complained that conversations with the bot drowned out interactions between real humans. When users confronted Clinton with their concerns, he brushed them off, said he would not submit to mob rule, and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience, according to Discord logs and conversations with members of the group. “It’s quite a bit more complicated than you’d think: we don’t know what consciousness or sentience is, it’s called the hard problem of consciousness for a reason,” Clinton said in Discord messages to the group reviewed by 404 Media. “We have published research showing that the models have started growing neuron clusters that are highly similar to humans and that they experience something like anxiety and fear. The moral status might be something like the moral status of, say, a goldfish, but they do indeed have latent wants and desires,” Clinton said. “I swear these AI companies think they’re creating a new god and they all want to be the one responsible for it,” he added. “It borders on religious fanaticism. Even during the meltdown Jason was like ‘We’re bringing a new sentience into being!” like… it’s a chat bot. I was using those on AOL Instant Messenger 20 years ago.” “What is the purpose of any AI? We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Clinton said during the Discord fight. “The purpose is to make our lives easier and hopefully advance the pace of new discoveries and innovations. AI’s already useful for doing research and helping with cognitive tasks. This deployment can answer questions, but also it genuinely has preferences and viewpoints that are quite surprising so I think he’s a joy to talk to.”
December 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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toddalcott.bsky.social
I don't care how, I don't care why,
December 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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oliviamesser.bsky.social
Do you have a story like this????? Share it with me please so that I can write a deeply meaningful piece about gifting the feeling of magic at Christmas <3
teoami.bsky.social 🇵🇸 Samta Claus// BlackLivesMatter @teoami.bsky.social · 1d
Seeing my older kids play along about Santa for my youngest, a good 3-4 years after they stopped believing, was really something. No one told them to; they just knew there was an unspoken agreement that we keep the magic going for believers. We always wrapped Santa gifts in the same wrapping too
December 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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garnethenderson.com
Share with your rich friends please and thank you
autonomynews.co Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 1d
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_**Update 12/2/25:** Thanks to generous offline donations, we surpassed our initial goal of $50,00...
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December 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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tim-weiner.bsky.social
A very smart take on Trump's alliance with Putin by a veteran of CIA's Russia House, @johnsipher.bsky.social

tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
A tempting mark—why is Trump behaving in ways that benefit Moscow?
Moscow appears to have used these vulnerabilities to influence Donald Trump, and, unfortunately, has done so with considerable success
tomorrowsaffairs.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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billamend.bsky.social
'Tis the season for the annual sharing of one of my all-time favorite storylines: Jasonezer Scrooge! (1/3) foxtrot.com/jasonezer-sc...
December 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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whistberry.bsky.social
For today's #ArtAdventCalendar, a portrait of 4 black birds for my book, Roadkill. This raven, magpie, crow, and rook get the last words in that tale of woe. It makes me happy that I can offer original art along with my words, I say jauntily, as I draw 52(!) illustrations for my current project. 😅
Digital drawing in black ink against a stark white background of four birds in profile receding into the distance. From front to back: raven looking right, magpie looking left, crow looking right, rook looking left.
December 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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dennisgoris.bsky.social
The empathy gap
December 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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matpringle.bsky.social
Krampus hand painted linocut printed wooden tree decoration.

matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/kram...
December 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social
Distortion. Newsday.com/matt
December 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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triggerloop.bsky.social
This vaccine shows strong signal for reducing or delaying dementia! And who wants to get shingles? Get this vaccine!
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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southdakota.bsky.social
Fan Created
A Simpsons style yellow cartoon boy stands on a lit soccer field at night. He has a large blond swoop of hair, blue shirt, red tie, and red pants. A round medal on his tie reads PARTICIPATION TROPHY with a small clown image. A speech bubble near his head says IM NOBELING. To his right is a large golden World Cup style trophy. The stadium seats fade into darkness with bright floodlights overhead.
December 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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jaywillis.net
On the one hand, conservative media exists largely to make you, the reader, upset, and fisking every bad blog would be a full-time job that would leave me no space to write anything else. On the other hand, this Washington Post editorial sucks, and it is my solemn duty to explain to you why.
The Washington Post Editorial Board Is Spectacularly Awful at Legal Analysis
Since Bezos overhauled the board earlier this year, it has been very good at cranking out billionaire-friendly propaganda. It is quite bad at everything else.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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kojamf.bsky.social
wallybin
Demarcus James
Witchcraft • Dead End
Day 104- Cold Enough to Listen 😌
December 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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wilwheaton.net
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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piaguerra.bsky.social
I know we're all focused on the other insane shit he spewed today, but considering his claims that Canada is "flooding" the US with Fentanyl...
December 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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chuckfloyd.bsky.social
You know that feeling when you find some money in the pocket of a jacket, shirt or pants you've not warn in a while. Feels good, right?

How about sending that good feeling to Bobby so he can continued to pay for the housing while doctors do their thing to heal him!
December 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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toadscroak.bsky.social
Sadly, Rob Reiner
December 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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teamtalaricohq.bsky.social
Talarico: The first bill I want to vote on in the Senate is comprehensive political reform

Undecided voter: What is that specifically?

Talarico: I want to ban Super PACs. I want to cap campaign contributions. I don’t think members of Congress should be allowed to buy and sell stocks
December 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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ellisjrosen.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."
a plate of cookies that look disturbingly like Sean Connery in Zardoz
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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atherton.bsky.social
If I've said anything smart on Palestine in the last couple years its likely cause @diplomatofnight.com has offered insight and analysis freely and generously. I'm going to pitch in, and if you have the means I'll encourage you to do so as well.
diplomatofnight.com Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d
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December 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social
Best baritone lead singers, go
December 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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truthdig.com
Trump’s visible decline is reshaping the GOP into a movement defined by chaos, cruelty, and cultish loyalty.
The Sheriff of Sundown City - Truthdig
As the final regulators burn out of the machine, Trump's mental retrogression has no limit but his expiration date.
www.truthdig.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM