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Fancy Sandwiches @fancysandwiches.bsky.social · 6d

Logged onto BlueSky just to say I appreciate every episode of JJGO that Mary Roach is on. She's an all time best guest.

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🐘 @[email protected] @robin.riley.pub · 28d

I understand the wretched T&S calculus Bluesky PBC is making, even as I disagree with it and the results.

We must keep putting our chips into supporting things that are open AND decentralized.

Within ATProto, that means supporting efforts like @blackskyweb.xyz and @transrights.northsky.social.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 29d

great advice going around for turning off autoplay videos but might i suggest

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Fancy Sandwiches @fancysandwiches.bsky.social · Sep 9

I am not a lawyer, but I believe you would need to sue them to force them to provide proof. You would need to be prepared to pay their legal fees if you are wrong.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Sep 9

archive.ph/2025.09.09-0...

Woman speaking but she's saying "OpenAI Executives Rattled by Campaigns to Derail For-Profit Restructuring
Startup's leaders have discussed last-ditch prospect of leaving California if regulators complicate transition to for-profit company" - a man opens a calendar to see the smiling man's smile

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Fancy Sandwiches @fancysandwiches.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yes they can buy and scan the books. They have already done that, and Judge Alsup declared it to be fair use. I am not a lawyer but I highly doubt putting a "no AI training" clause in your book would do anything, because it's considered fair use.

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…

arstechnica.com

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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · Sep 3

New It Could Happen Here 🌀🌲🌀

Garrison talks with Jack from AltWatcher about a viral social media account posing as dissent Park Service employees sending coded messages on the internet.

@bishonentype.bsky.social @altwatcher.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

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Jordan, Jesse, Go! @jordanjessego.bsky.social · Sep 4

On this week’s episode, we welcome Less Than Jake’s Chris DeMakes to chat about airport showers, Labubu and squishmallow lore, his podcast (Chris DeMakes A Podcast), and so much more. Listen on @maximumfun.org or:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Alexandria Neonakis @beavs.bsky.social · Aug 25

I just wanted to see how bad it really was. perfect, adobe. no notes. great tech.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Aug 21

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.

This is how AI is killing translation work:

AI Killed My Job: Translators

Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Fancy Sandwiches @fancysandwiches.bsky.social · Jun 17

He's a journalist you fucking idiot

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · May 7

Working on a CEO speak translator. So far I’ve got

1. We’re ending remote work and returning to office to improve collaboration = stealth layoffs

2. We are an AI first company and you don’t get more resources until you can show why you can’t do the job with automation = hiring freeze

Any others?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Apr 29

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · Apr 14

How are people claiming they bought their cybertruck before Musk went MAGA and being repeated by reporters; Elon endorsed election deniers in November 2022, the first cybertruck was delivered November 2023

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Apr 14

“At the second annual Cybertruck Rodeo in Central Texas, the EV owners said they’re confused that the public doesn’t appear to separate Elon Musk’s divisive politics from his company’s products.”

Cybertruck Drivers Don’t Understand the Hate

At the second annual Cybertruck Rodeo in Central Texas, the EV owners said they’re confused that the public doesn’t appear to separate Elon Musk’s divisive politics from his company’s products.

www.texasmonthly.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Apr 6

it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · Apr 6

I’m 100% for coalitional movements but I am still blocking the Obsessively Posting the Same Four Sneery Nicknames 16 Hours a Day wing on here

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Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · Apr 3

I have a plan

Leonardo DiCaprio from Wolf of Wall Street. He’s got a great idea: COVID-19, but everyone loses all their money, their businesses, and livelihoods for no reason whatsoever.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Apr 4

The past year of tech stock gains erased.

A small price to pay as long as government workers don’t have to put pronouns in their email signatures anymore.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Apr 4

you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · Mar 26

Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · Mar 26

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Fancy Sandwiches @fancysandwiches.bsky.social · Mar 23

I'm not saying it's sound logic. I'm just saying that I think that's what people are trying to say when they say this kind of thing. I think what actually happened is that Disney sucks shit and is incapable of creating anything new.

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Fancy Sandwiches @fancysandwiches.bsky.social · Mar 23

I *think* what people are trying to say is that they're spending 250M to create a new version that *is* copyrighted. Just like how only a very specific variation of Mickey is in the public domain.

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Eileen/Rinneil (COMMS OPEN) @rinneil.bsky.social · Mar 19

Everybody say thank you selfie monkey for setting the precedent

Photograph of a black macaque monkey smiling. The photo was the subject of a copyright dispute that ultimately ruled the photo to be copyright-free since it was taken by the monkey.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · Mar 18

If you don't know what Roko's Basilisk is, it's basically Pascal's Wager for people who fall for online phishing scams

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · Mar 17

well, i finally cracked and looked up wtf roko’s basilisk is and somehow, unbelievably, a lot of very wealthy men are about a thousand times more pathetic than i previously assessed.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · Mar 18

thank you domain registrar, i pay you in the domain extortion racket, i do not deal with you so i can "Discover how AI can transform the way you do business"

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