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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · Aug 29

AI art does not exist. It is an oxymoron.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Aug 21

you know him

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Aug 21

Miserable man! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn

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Elizabeth: Ghost in the City @kikutowne.bsky.social · Aug 13

My gut feeling right now is that once we get past this AI LLM boom and bust cycle, the skill of knowing how to have an imagination and how to create stories with your own human skill will be even more valuable than before. I would spend this time learning how to do everything you can to nurture that

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · Aug 8

But I was told AI will replace historians

Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · Aug 8

AI-update - to avoid the confusion between image and text, I asked Google Genesis to produce the same timeline as in my original prompt (1885-1945), but this time without any words...🤷‍♂️

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Dana @danarovang.bsky.social · Aug 8

Right? Are we saving time, or losing authenticity? I mean, the answer is “both,” but where do we place the value?

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Dana @danarovang.bsky.social · Aug 7

The process of doing things - like making art or making history - is joyful. It’s messy, complicated, and frustrating, but it’s also creating something from nothing, all on your own. And it is a joy.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Aug 7

Consumer facing "A.i." is about triggering the excretion of a mediocre product. It's a rejection of PROCESS. Life itself is process, not fucking product. Push "A.i." on kids and you rob them of the joyful experience of life itself. I am not exaggerating.

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Dana @danarovang.bsky.social · Aug 5

Boosting for visibility. Once again for the back:

AI is not human and it is not good at telling human stories.

Crimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.social · Aug 5

So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.

If true, then fucking yikes.

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Anthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.social · Jan 2

Mister Rogers never misses

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why?

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Jul 8

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

~Henry David Thoreau,

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Jul 1

This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived.

We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/w...

Want to take part? 🧵 #Wayback1T

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · Jun 27

Guys, the final deadline for being shocked that Mamdani’s mom is Mira Nair is next Monday, June 30th, write it down

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Jun 25

#ANewHope

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Jun 23

How do government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, become searchable & accessible online? Now you can see it happen in real time.

🎞️⤵️ Watch it live:
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#InternetArchive #LiveStream #LiveNow

lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to

Off Hours? Watch a 2hr stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gibUecoF1bEEver wonder how government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, b...

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Jun 21

"i asked chatgpt, i asked grok" yeah well i asked frankenstein and he was like "i'm the doctor, not the monster!" and i was like "well you're kind of a monster tho also" so

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Jun 21

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Jun 19

And before someone asks, because someone always does, the solution to the "begs the question" problem is to never use the phrase at all for anything.

It's inadequate and unclear in its original sense and target practice in its new sense.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Jun 19

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

davidpham5 @davidpham5.bsky.social · Jun 19

@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.

kottke.org @kottke.org · Jun 19

A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Jun 18

I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Jun 16

buy them by the dozen

Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · Jun 15

I saw this sign in an antique shop yesterday and I can’t stop thinking about it. Books are like eggs

A sign on top of some late 19th century books that reads BOOKS ARE LIKE EGGS HANDLE WITH CARE!!!!

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Haysey_Draws (Nightmares) @haysey-draws.art · Jun 13

I kid you not, my work knows that I do drawing on the side and someone in the office told me AI could save me time and my response was "but I like drawing" and it broke them. They didn't know how to answer, they just couldn't comprehend that people make art because they like making art.

Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · Jun 13

Line drawn comic strip by Butt Poems.

Panel 1: Fig says, 'I'm telling you, this AI stuff is clutch'
Panel 2: Fig continues, 'You don't even have to be good at drawing or writing'
Panel 3: Other fig replies, 'But I want to be good at those things...'
Panel 4: Two figs in silence

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Dana @danarovang.bsky.social · Jun 8

Hard disagree. I’m rediscovering my old follows from Twitter every day in here. It’s a process of restoration and reclamation.

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Dana @danarovang.bsky.social · Jun 7

Seriously, such an agonizing pet peeve

Dana @danarovang.bsky.social · Jun 7

We need more AI for good — like a “find my pillowcase” tracker after I do laundry.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · Jun 7

I’m late to this interview with Tony Gilroy but I think his answer, about why most art is progressive, hits the nail on the head. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

Gilroy: You could say: Why has Hollywood for the last 100 years been progressive or been liberal? I think it’s much larger. I’ll go further and say: Why does almost all literature, why does almost all art that involves humans trend progressive?

Let’s stick with Hollywood. Making a living as an actor or as a writer or a director — without the higher degree of empathy that you have, the more aware you are of behavior and all kinds of behavior, the better you’re going to be at your job. We feed our families by being in an empathy business. It’s just baked in. You’re trying to pretend to be other people. The whole job is to pretend to be other, and what is it like to look from this? People may be less successful over time at portraying Nazis as humans, and that may be good writing or bad writing, and there may be people that have an ax to grind. But in general, empathy is how I feed my family. And the more finely tuned that is, the better I am at my job.

That is what actors do: I’m going on Broadway, I’m playing a villain for six months. I got to live in that. I’m playing the slave, I’m playing the fisherman, I’m playing the nurse, I’m the murderer — you have to get in there. You have to live lives through other people. I think that the simple act of that transformation and that process automatically gives you what I would describe as a more generous and progressive point of view. It just has to.

And I don’t see how you can buy, if you’re going to reissue the Hardy Boys or try to twist a knot and say that Melville or the Coen brothers made a piece of right-wing art because you see something in there — I think it really misses the larger point of the struggle that that movement is going to be up against. Does that make any sense to you?

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Dana @danarovang.bsky.social · Jun 6

When deception in wartime involved actual practical illusions.

obscurehistories.bsky.social @obscurehistories.bsky.social · Jun 6

"Tactical deceptions" — fabricated dummy platoons, "psyops", and other martial methods of misdirection — were used throughout WWII, often with stunning success. OH writer Matthew Adams closes out his three-article journey about the Allied Forces' use of deception that led to operational success.

A fake tank that is covered with cloth to make it look like a real Sherman tank.

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