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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 1d

Crazy how with these people it's always AI that's "here to stay like it or not" and never like gender affirming medical procedures or something

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Ian @iancorrigible.bsky.social · 1d

And less than a month after Dresden, the USAAF firebombed Tokyo in a nighttime raid that is still the single most destructive air attack in history, with only the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki even competitive. There was nothing "tactical" about any of those attacks.

Ian @iancorrigible.bsky.social · 1d

The Americans participated in the bombing of Dresden, including multiple runs blind-bombing through cloud cover, with a similar mix of incendiary bombs to the British. I totally agree it wasn't justified, but let's not pretend the American bombing campaign was special or different.

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 10d

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

A model of the first level from Mario 64.

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 17d

This only happens to you once

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 22d

Reminds me of this classic fella who wound up searching for himself

A missing man in Turkey accidentally joined his own search party for hours before realising he was the person they were looking for, local media reports.

Beyhan Mutlu had been drinking with friends on Tuesday when he wandered into a forest in Bursa province.

When he failed to return, his wife and friends alerted local authorities and a search party was sent out.

Mr Mutlu, 50, then stumbled across the search party and decided to join them, NTV reported.

But when members of the search party began calling out his name, he replied: "I am here."

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · Oct 16

to survival

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sea shanty stan account ⛵️ @anarchoshanties.bsky.social · Sep 11

This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times.

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mylordshesacactus

Carpathia received Titanic's distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian's exact position at the time is... controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic's distress rockets. It's uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia's Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic's aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia's lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her.

He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don't know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out.

By this time, many of the passengers were awake-prepping a ship for disaster relief isn't quiet-and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here's the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms-which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors.

He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she'd done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can't push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless-it's difficult to maneuver-but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can't do it. It can't be done.

Carpathia's absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can't-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn't expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 29d

Here is some non-satire for you:

Trans rights forever.

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Joanna Kobierska @joannakobierska.bsky.social · 28d

Pyroraptor stare

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Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · Sep 1

DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."

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James Youngman @jyoungman.bsky.social · Sep 1

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.

There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 31

Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks

www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...

AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers

Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.

www.axios.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · Aug 26

If you can't come up with a winning message about how the power mad dunce emperor marching federal troops into peaceful cities is bad, you should not have a job in politics

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · Aug 25

This memo is being sent to Democratic leaders/elites,
arguing that directly attacking Trump's deployment of the National Guard in DC is politically unwise. It encourages the use of terms like distraction and stunt. (I am not endorsing this kind of thinking at all. ) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bz9d8...

www.dropbox.com

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Rachel Tonks Hill (they/them) @captainraz.bsky.social · Aug 26

If people actually cared about art and artists, they'd be fighting for Universal Basic Income. That's what would actually stop us all getting burnt out.

Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · Aug 26

No, authors aren't burnt out because "writing without AI is slow"

We're burnt out because we're paid dirt so we need day jobs to survive

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · Aug 23

And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use

The tool's creators are seeking to make it so that AI model developers must pay artists to train on data from them that is uncorrupted.

venturebeat.com

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Nic McConnell @mcconnell.bsky.social · Aug 20

This is a pretty good bit

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Ian @iancorrigible.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's just the first time in forever that I've seen a tech company even pretend to solve an established problem, instead of doing "Here's an existing service but extra exploitative & now you pay me" (see: Uber) or "We don't know what this is good for but you need to buy it" (see: blockchain, genAI).

Ian @iancorrigible.bsky.social · Aug 19

Private equity capture of housing seriously exacerbates the problem in the US though, just like private equity fucks up everything else it touches. And while I do think more building can be helpful, I totally agree this company is not the one to do it.

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Ian @iancorrigible.bsky.social · Aug 19

At least in a global context, a shortage is definitely part of the problem, especially a shortage in the places that people actually want to live. Totally agree that we can't *just* build ourselves out of this problem, but more building is almost certainly a necessary part of the solution.

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Ian @iancorrigible.bsky.social · Aug 19

As much as I hate everything about this, at least this company is trying to solve a real problem (not enough houses!). It looks like a terrible solution to a real problem! But at least the problem exists.

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Ian @iancorrigible.bsky.social · Aug 18

Even the original survey says it's "only representative of the individuals who completed the survey." Which is a fancy way of saying it's worthless. Absolute junk science and marketing spin trying to sell us genAI crap.

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Ian @iancorrigible.bsky.social · Aug 18

Even the survey says the sample is "only representative of the individuals who completed the survey." Absolute junk science to prop up marketing copy trying to pressure people into adopting crap genAI.

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Ian @iancorrigible.bsky.social · Aug 18

By the survey's own admission this is "only representative of the individuals who completed the survey." Which is a fancy way of saying it's not representative of the industry. This is one step removed from just asking one person and claiming 100% hold that opinion. The junkest of junk science.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · Aug 15

I only did pizza for nine years, but after that (relatively) short time I got so used to the feel of dough that I could judge temperatures within two degrees by hand, nail weights without a scale, and get a full pie from phone to oven in twenty seconds.

All labor is skilled labor.

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · Aug 15

This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen

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