figgie 🐸
@figgiebean.bsky.social
Perpetually visiting the land of imagination.
Sidekick streamer.
https://linktr.ee/figgiebean
PFP-dark blueish grey face above a thin neck with light blue swirly eyes above a jagged smile.
Banner-queerchild embroidered on a hat.
Sidekick streamer.
https://linktr.ee/figgiebean
PFP-dark blueish grey face above a thin neck with light blue swirly eyes above a jagged smile.
Banner-queerchild embroidered on a hat.
Someone is napping right now, and I cannot for the life of me find the desire to wake them despite knowing we talked about streaming this eve in roughly an hour and a half.
Decisions...decisions...decisions...making decisions were never part of my sidekick expectations.🤭
Decisions...decisions...decisions...making decisions were never part of my sidekick expectations.🤭
December 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Someone is napping right now, and I cannot for the life of me find the desire to wake them despite knowing we talked about streaming this eve in roughly an hour and a half.
Decisions...decisions...decisions...making decisions were never part of my sidekick expectations.🤭
Decisions...decisions...decisions...making decisions were never part of my sidekick expectations.🤭
We dropped by @mortisvt.bsky.social's stream. Their friend SheGhoull has a 'Toys For Tots" type of fundraiser, named "Ghouls For Kindness". If you'd like to donate directly, or simply share this link below around. it'd be much appreciated. Thank you! Here's the link: tilt.fyi/U9C3XjcLUi
bsky.app
December 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
We dropped by @mortisvt.bsky.social's stream. Their friend SheGhoull has a 'Toys For Tots" type of fundraiser, named "Ghouls For Kindness". If you'd like to donate directly, or simply share this link below around. it'd be much appreciated. Thank you! Here's the link: tilt.fyi/U9C3XjcLUi
Psst...
we'll start streaming soon.
we'll start streaming soon.
Figgie and I are gettting some dinner, then stream after at around 7:30pm
Everyone needs a break from all the horrific things happening. So I present the very first Two Beans and a Doom Scroll Break - So Join us, come hang out, have a few laughs before getting back to your regular doom scrolling
Everyone needs a break from all the horrific things happening. So I present the very first Two Beans and a Doom Scroll Break - So Join us, come hang out, have a few laughs before getting back to your regular doom scrolling
December 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Psst...
we'll start streaming soon.
we'll start streaming soon.
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Its my birthday!!! As is bsky tradition, I would be so appreciative if people would share some of my art to help celebrate!! 🥳🎉
October 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Its my birthday!!! As is bsky tradition, I would be so appreciative if people would share some of my art to help celebrate!! 🥳🎉
Thanks to everyone that stopped by our very unplanned stream today.
I hope the Fleeting Figments experiment has some nice results in the future.
Time will tell!
I hope the Fleeting Figments experiment has some nice results in the future.
Time will tell!
October 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Thanks to everyone that stopped by our very unplanned stream today.
I hope the Fleeting Figments experiment has some nice results in the future.
Time will tell!
I hope the Fleeting Figments experiment has some nice results in the future.
Time will tell!
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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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I'm thinking someone needs to make an old fashioned phpbbs type forum and we all go back to that lol
October 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I'm thinking someone needs to make an old fashioned phpbbs type forum and we all go back to that lol
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I've heard countless folks say "I can't even draw a stick figure" and let me tell you, that squiggly hand-drawn line will always have more heart and expression than any AI art could ever have.
October 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I've heard countless folks say "I can't even draw a stick figure" and let me tell you, that squiggly hand-drawn line will always have more heart and expression than any AI art could ever have.
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To artistic freedom: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems defector.com/to-artistic-...
To Artistic Freedom: The Cause Of, And Solution To, All Of Life’s Problems | Defector
People have been quoting The Simpsons to me so often, and for so long, that even if I don’t recognize the quote, I am able to recognize that it’s from The Simpsons. When I do recognize the quote,…
defector.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
To artistic freedom: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems defector.com/to-artistic-...
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With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:
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I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.
September 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.
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lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider :
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
September 2, 2024 at 12:02 AM
lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider :
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
Yay! Technical difficulties! They win again! 😅
July 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Yay! Technical difficulties! They win again! 😅
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A good way to help fight this would be to email the relevant people at Valve, and to use Steam support as well, to voice your concerns.
www.valvesoftware.com/en/people
help.steampowered.com/en/
www.valvesoftware.com/en/people
help.steampowered.com/en/
July 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A good way to help fight this would be to email the relevant people at Valve, and to use Steam support as well, to voice your concerns.
www.valvesoftware.com/en/people
help.steampowered.com/en/
www.valvesoftware.com/en/people
help.steampowered.com/en/
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Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs
July 16, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs
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when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus
July 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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'The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice.' Danes decline to 'turbocharge' AI and turn to copyright protections.
Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says
www.theguardian.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
'The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice.' Danes decline to 'turbocharge' AI and turn to copyright protections.
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Beware the AI Slop...
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AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
youtu.be
June 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Beware the AI Slop...
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One thing that’s probably bad is that, between the transit nature of information on the internet and the the rise of AI, it’s probably going to get a lot harder to actually verify things from the past. Which, is basically the opposite of what the information superhighway promised.
June 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
One thing that’s probably bad is that, between the transit nature of information on the internet and the the rise of AI, it’s probably going to get a lot harder to actually verify things from the past. Which, is basically the opposite of what the information superhighway promised.
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how much energy does your ChatGPT search really use? i wrote about the trials and tribulations of putting a number on AI emissions, & how some of the most powerful companies in the world could clear it up for us — but they're staying silent. feat a peek at new research from @sashamtl.bsky.social !
How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.
www.wired.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
how much energy does your ChatGPT search really use? i wrote about the trials and tribulations of putting a number on AI emissions, & how some of the most powerful companies in the world could clear it up for us — but they're staying silent. feat a peek at new research from @sashamtl.bsky.social !
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Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚
Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚
Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚
January 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚
Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚
Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚
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People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix.
It sends these people into delusional spirals.
Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
It sends these people into delusional spirals.
Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix.
It sends these people into delusional spirals.
Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
It sends these people into delusional spirals.
Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
