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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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ZIWE: Which is your favorite feature of ChatGPT - the people killing themselves or the plagiarism?
ALTMAN: I, uh, I, well, I wouldn’t,
ZIWE: How much money do you have in your wallet?
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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I need you to watch Ziwe’s interview with Kevin Hart to understand how good this would be youtu.be/oAkjNXS1Sbo?...
KEVIN HART IS AN ICONIC GUEST | ZIWE INTERVIEW
YouTube video by Ziwe
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November 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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I think Isaac would be great, he’s probably right there with Ziwe. But I think Ziwe would make Sam Altman spiral within 8 minutes.
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I would prefer Isaac Chotiner
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Go for it -- they miss you, too.
Shout out to all the single people traveling back to their hometown in the next day or two to visit their parents for the holiday.

Just do it. Text your high school ex. See if they want to go hit up the bar the night before Thanksgiving. What could go wrong.
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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my take on ranking the star wars movies is they aren’t good enough to bother
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Listen, AI hype is the only reason we aren't in a recession and if you aren't willing to sacrifice your child to keep those furnaces running you're letting the commies win
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I agree. I appreciate Variety’s boldness here but there’s no way the Zapruder film should be at number 1
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!

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The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
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November 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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soylent green but with muppets: thread
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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art but with a dolly parton twist: thread
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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The fuck I will, CNN
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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July 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Using a computer should not feel calm, it should feel like a fistfight most of the time. If it feels calm, the computer won
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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This mfer is running for GOVERNOR get the fuck out.
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.

OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.

I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.

www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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do you think God stays in heaven because he is scared of his creation
"Ryan Lizza was journalistically irresponsible for not previously leaking the felching poem RFK wrote to Lizza's fiancee" isn't a hill I would want to die on.
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Fun fact: November 28, 2001:

"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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movie posters featuring the muppets: thread
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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the thing about bamboo is that it's really pernicious. you dig it out of new york magazine one autumn, and a year later it's sprouting up in vanity fair.
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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WHY DON'T YOU GO ASK ERIKA. I'M SURE SHE'S GOT SOME NOBODY'S USING ANY LONGER.
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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If we can't regulate them, we should completely overhaul the tort system so that the Salt Typhoon type breaches result in lawsuits so financially devastating, the entire upper echelon of leadership at these companies get decapitated and are left penniless.
Breaking: The FCC has voted 2-1 along party lines to eliminate cybersecurity requirements for telecom companies that the commission adopted at the end of the Biden administration.

Telecoms had lobbied for the change. Democrats said it would invite another Salt Typhoon.

Story coming shortly.
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM