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Machine Pervert 🤖❤️ @mienaiknife.bsky.social · Apr 7

I am once again BEGGING creatives to read Gio's essays on AI and copyright, especially this one. The whole thing. Yes it's long, but I'm begging y'all to let the issue be complicated instead of just posting short, quippy, and wrong takes about AI

Gio :⁾ @im.giovanh.com · Apr 4

Latest essay: Artists are worried about having their work exploited by AI, but the idea that training the model on scraped work in the first place is a copyright violation is bunk, and here's why.

Why training AI can't be IP theft / GioCities

you can't reserve the right to learn

blog.giovanh.com

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twist @twist.dog · 23h

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pup quat @highlysuspect.agency · 15h

windows is a pretty good alternative operating system but i just don't think it's ready for prime time yet... needs some more polish before we can really have a year of "windows on the desktop"

Dan Ryckert @danryckert.com · 19h

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18h

Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list

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Uncut Femmes @juliagiantrat.bsky.social · 1d

I went to the huge nerd convention and everyone there knew you and said nice things about you

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 22h

npr: so, no kings

tyrannosaurus rex: yes

npr: how shall I put this

trex: this interview is over

Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social · 1d

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 2d

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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kali @kalibration.website · 5d

Advice for Texture Artists - Try branching Out. Instead Of "Normal maps," try Making "Weird maps".

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Moominable Object @chimeracauldron.bsky.social · Jan 17

What the media doesn't want you to know

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Machine Pervert 🤖❤️ @mienaiknife.bsky.social · 1d

But also I don't always have a very good stamina for having an hours long text conversation. I think it's best for me to have short exchanges every few days

Machine Pervert 🤖❤️ @mienaiknife.bsky.social · 1d

Often I don't DM people that I've been meaning to chat with until I've come up with a good question that might start a conversation without being weird. So if you can come up with a question for me, that might just help me do the thing that I've been meaning to do anyways

Machine Pervert 🤖❤️ @mienaiknife.bsky.social · 1d

Would it be better to have more direct one on one conversations with people? Not necessarily me, but friends

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Machine Pervert 🤖❤️ @mienaiknife.bsky.social · 1d

Tbh I might be more responsive to Bluesky DMs than Discord DMs because I'm not logged into my online persona's Discord account on my phone. Discord won't let me log into both of my accounts on my phone

Machine Pervert 🤖❤️ @mienaiknife.bsky.social · 1d

You might not see much of me otherwise because I'm feeling pretty tired of indirect socialization via the feed right now

Machine Pervert 🤖❤️ @mienaiknife.bsky.social · 1d

If any of you internet aquantances feel like having a direct conversation with me over DMs, that's something that I think I need to do more of anyway, so feel free to try and start a conversation

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

#SaveSpeech

Theres an Age Verification bill in the Wisconsen senate that is aiming to force Adult websites to block VPNs

The bill is SB-130 /AB-105!

Folks in WI need to get out and yell at their state reps about this!

Wisconsin wants to force all adult sites to block VPNs – here's what we know

The bill has now landed in the Senate for consideration

www.techradar.com

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 2d

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are walking. Blue listens intently as Green goes on talking as he talks, leading the way.
Green: Once we get home, I'll read a book, weave two baskets, re-arrange the pantry, learn esperanto-

Blue interrupts Green, who turns to listen.
Blue: That's quite a list. Are you sure you're being completely realistic?

Green takes a momentary pause from being cartoonish, being now depicted as a painstakingly detailed and shaded painting of a fox, with fur texture, whiskers and all.
Extremely realistic Green: Of course.

Returning back to normal, Green keeps walking. Blue follows, looking at Green with suspicion.
Blue: How long did it take you to draw that gag?
Green: A lot longer than I am willing to admit.

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r e a d🌿 @wereshiba.bsky.social · Mar 23

pack howl

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.co.uk · 3d

meme text: 'me trying not to interrupt someone when they get a minor fact wrong in my hyper-focused area of expertise' (line drawing of an awkward looking thing)

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4d

@mitildide.bsky.social

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 4d

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Machine Pervert 🤖❤️ @mienaiknife.bsky.social · 3d

I got mine today

Machine Pervert 🤖❤️ @mienaiknife.bsky.social · 3d

Message to all bitches: please get your seasonal vaccines

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oddgoo @viriditax.bsky.social · 4d

somewhere in the universe there is a shell that fits you perfectly, smooth comfortable porcelain curling to an inner sanctum so unctuous that your very heartbeats feel swaddled

the tragedy is that the universe is so vast and time is so deep that you likely won’t ever find it

you can still try tho

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 4d

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 4d

RIP to Drew Struzan, the artist behind the iconic posters for so many classic Hollywood movies of the 70s and 80s

I can't pick a favorite, so I'll go with his unforgettable one sheet for 'John Carpenter's The Thing', a perfect poster for a perfect film, one I didn't know it was his until today 📽️

$art for the poster of John Carpenter's The Thing, showing a man in a parka with the hood up, arms extended, against a fractal backdrop of ice with rays of white-blue light exploding from within the hood$

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