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Anthony Hurd @anthonyhurd.bsky.social · 16d

Dancing thru grief - 30x40” acrylic on canvas. Available.

Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 17d

Spent all my euros on tuxes and weird clothes / I party with weirdos / fuck hashtags and retweets / 140 characters in these streets / pardon my laughing, I happen to think you sweet

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 17d

-30v FTW

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 17d

Would someone please build a bot that replies to every T* and E* tweet with "lol."

Yeah they're evil and gross and dangerous, they're also stupid af, but you know my generation grew up watching Ghostbusters so we're used to Zuul manifesting this way.

Cross the streams.

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 17d

Man I wish Fervid's were real.

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Lou Inglese @chaos440.bsky.social · 17d

Got my performance review.

Old floppy drive with printed label 'Works, but makes Sad Noises'

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 18d

At this very moment things look pretty damn grim in the tech industry but: 1. You only need one job (and design is useful outside tech) and 2. As tech collapses I believe we're going to see a massive backlash to this nonsense, followed by a deep and long-term need for humans who know things. Maybe.

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Cashew @mintcashew.bsky.social · Jan 21

midnight grocery run

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 18d

I wasn’t expecting scorched earth this soon though. Hoping we live to see a post-shittification world (really no other option at this point) www.wired.com/story/enshit...

The Enshittification of American Power

First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

www.wired.com

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 18d

I mean this is typical and cyclical: no company has a graphic design department anymore (except Facebook, which keeps a propaganda office (Analog Lab) as a pet).

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 18d

Someone asked me recently why all UX tutorials online seem to be about NFT marketplaces, and I’m pretty sure the reason is that’s the final year it was possible to work in UX as a commercial designer. It’s a weird record of the obliteration of the industry, like being a Vault-Tec salesman.

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 18d

Lie / cheat / steal / kill (everybody’s doin’ it) 👉🏼✊🏼

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 18d

“As a force for devastation and harm, “AI” is a wild success; but as a viable product it is a failure. And yet despite all of this, “AI” feels like it’s just, like, _everywhere-“ ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/agains...

Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com

“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.

ethanmarcotte.com

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Scruff Cheetah @scruff.bsky.social · 28d

Fox! #fox www.bbc.com/news/article...

Cornwall gardens turn storm-felled tree into pouncing fox sculpture

About 600 pieces of wood were hand-split by The Lost Gardens of Heligan staff to create the animal's fur.

www.bbc.com

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Raliv @raliv.bsky.social · 28d

@naelstrof.bsky.social and I have our first stable version of our new multithreaded version of Jiggle Physics for Unity!

I am excited to be able to offer this free and open source under the MIT license. If you use it to make something cool I'd love to see!

#unity3d #indiedev #gamedev #opensource

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 28d

I'm loving your marker work so much

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Kaz Coyotl - Moon Thief 𓃦 @mow.bsky.social · Sep 11

Whatever happened, or happens in the future, if you over-stress and have it impact your life, that probably does more damage than whatever you or others can say over the internet.

If you're reading this, you're probably progressive and queer.
You smiling less frequently makes the world worse.

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · Aug 14

CATS watch party was ridiculous and fun and I was not the only one sitting in the theatre alone singing Memories. small victories.

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · Aug 12

That is so cute 🩷

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Mako-Miir @void.bird.gay · Aug 11

Typefucking a corporate slop machine isnt queer. It barely even qualifies for transhumanist thought at this stage.

If you want post-gender romance, or something even remotely queer, find a therian or someone with neopronouns and do ERP with them. You will be infinitely better for it than this shit.

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · Aug 10

Anyone in a relationship with an AI companion is already having a post-gender romance

Will AI companions usher in a new age of queer courtship? | Xtra Magazine

Anyone in a relationship with an AI companion is already having a post-gender romance

xtramagazine.com

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · Aug 11

“There is absolutely nothing wrong with AI,” Gawdat said. “There is a lot wrong with the value set of humanity at the age of the rise of the machines.”

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · Aug 11

Mostly what we're seeing is Complete Fucking Stupidity as A Service, the Peter Principle as industry standard, repudiation of expertise ushering in a decade or more of completely avoidable failure. Fun times. gizmodo.com/the-world-wi...

The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says

Mo Gawdat thinks the next 12-15 years will be dark, not because of robots but because of our own “stupidity.”

gizmodo.com

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · Aug 11

(Which is probably why AI dreck is *preferable* to expertise for most managers - and therefore why Altman said it - but that's a different conversation)

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · Aug 11

We don't have doctorates, nor are we pushing the outer limits of a field of study, nor are we deeply investigating the world in order to dispense trivia to middle-management. lol.

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · Aug 11

Besides the fact that my personal backchannel made of humans (and therians. and others.) is more useful and knowledgable than any algo, Sam's "like a panel of Ph.D. experts" comment completely misunderstands what a Ph.D is, why you'd have one and what you do with it.

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