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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 15h

Best analysis of Tron: Ares I've seen, and its from my comment section.

A comment from Jessie's review of Tron: Ares - "TRON is a movie about unionizing your workplace. TRON: Legacy is movie about the tools of fascism. TRON: Ares is a movie about... how hard it is to be tech billionaire running a Fortune 500 company, I guess."

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15h

Honestly I want to throw my phone into a large body of water.

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peri-apocalyptic glitch @periapocalipticdad.bsky.social · 18h

thinking back it's hard to overstate just how much and how quickly our behavior/thinking changed with big-touchscreen-in-the-pocket adoption.

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peri-apocalyptic glitch @periapocalipticdad.bsky.social · 19h

i *really* debated with myself when to put it. i kinda feel it's 2007 (iphone then the recession changed tech a LOT) but i decided to go 2010 because i don't think most folks who agree with me would argue it as more recent than that lolsob

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peri-apocalyptic glitch @periapocalipticdad.bsky.social · 19h

good point yes! and also the rich folks are getting real rich off it. the richest people in the world are leveraging their status as the richest people in the world to take over media and governments everywhere. that's now how you and i would count our money but idk their money is different i think

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peri-apocalyptic glitch @periapocalipticdad.bsky.social · 19h

i've been reading all his stuff i like it.

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peri-apocalyptic glitch @periapocalipticdad.bsky.social · 19h

i made a chart outlining the current state of the tech industry. we haven't build anything innovative in the middle in a very long time.

a ven diagram with 3 circles labeled:
- Things we can build
- Things that are good for people
- Things that make money.

In the center it says "nothing here since 2010!"
good for people with makes money says "where chatgpt says they are"
can build with make money says "where chat gpt really is"
can build with good for people says "charity? i guess?

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peri-apocalyptic glitch @periapocalipticdad.bsky.social · 20h

"this thing that will materially erode society is a good business decision" is a big part of why we are where we are.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20h

“Another former OpenAI employee who also was not authorized to speak publicly argued that releasing a deepfake AI social media platform was the right business decision, even if it contributes to the collapse of everyone's shared sense of reality.” 💀

Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet

OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?

www.npr.org

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LK @lkcreations.art · 23h

I'm learning how to draw trees 😬
Sketch of the day ✨️

#art #sketch #artsky #ink

Outline of a mountain and a waterfall with trees on it. A silhouette stands at the bottom of it.
Brushed ink on paper.

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RJB / Mallacore 🇨🇦 @rjb-mallacore.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning.

Time for an art showcase.

Some of my scenes I made over the years.

Enjoy.

#scifi #SciFiArt

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 1d

love goddess

fanart of Aphrodite from Hades 2, wearing a modern days outfit - purple micro jean shorts, pink crop top -, lots of jewelry (necklaces, rings, earrings, ankle bracelet), her hands joined on her knees, sitting, her luscious hair floating behind her, her eyes shining pink, smiling
also flower & heart tattoos on both her arms

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23h

I love this poem. It was the last poem from Carver's last book written while he was dying of cancer. It is the inscription on his tombstone apparently too.

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23h

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

by Raymond Carver

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 1d

*wolf kisses* #halloween #art

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Aaron @lakdifflanchzed.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hell yeah

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peri-apocalyptic glitch @periapocalipticdad.bsky.social · 1d

according to my kids it's six seven

Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 1d

this raises a question as to what the coolest uniform number is

Joel Zombied 🎃🦇 @velodus.bsky.social · 1d

The swaggiest thing an athlete can do is be great with a really high and unorthodox uniform number.

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crw @maybe.fail · 1d

yet another Kavanaugh Stop

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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peri-apocalyptic glitch @periapocalipticdad.bsky.social · 1d

respect and honor from gogg

Random mobile suit of the day @randommsoftheday.bsky.social · Apr 6

Todays mobile suit: MSM-03 Gogg

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adam - i'm an elephant @a.falk.wtf · 1d

This whole thread is worth a read

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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AL Creed 👻 @alcreed.bsky.social · 2d

TREMORS

As longtime fans know, I've been drawing 8-bit movie posters for nearly a decade, and I'm pretty good at them. When I drew this one, though, I got that feeling like I hit a grand slam. It's one of my all-time favourite drawings, and one of my most popular! #Halloween

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Buttprince @buttprince.bsky.social · 1d

Gorlak above the Sea of Miasma

(My Dwarf Fortress x Caspar David Friedrich pixel art fanart!)

pixel art re imagining of Caspar David Friedrich's famous painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. Here the wanderer is a gorlak from dwarf fortress, looking out over a cavern covered in the pink miasma that is the result of decomposing rot in the game. Gem spires, giant mushrooms and a fortress are visible in the pink mist.

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Старый Ворон/Old Raven @oldvalravn.bsky.social · 2d

🔭 Перед вами ІС 5148 — планетарная

туманность, известная под прозвищем «Запасное Колесо».

Расположена на расстоянии около 3 тысяч световых лет от Земли по направлению к созвездию Журавль.

Одна из наиболее быстро расширяющихся планетарных туманностей она увеличивается со скоростью 50 км/с.

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peri-apocalyptic glitch @periapocalipticdad.bsky.social · 1d

i have a few benchmarks for how risky something is that i always consider too (my children hate it lol): struck by lightning, climbing stairs, driving a car.

　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 2d

there needs to be a standardized scale of how bad thinsg are for you. its so confusing right now. like is it "eating plutonium" bad for you or is it "not going for a daily walk" bad for you

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 2d

You know what, it’s one of those days, have Cookie Monster kaiju again.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

If ICE agents are willing to shoot a US citizen in broad daylight, as they did with Marimar Martinez in Chicago, imagine what they’re doing to undocumented immigrants.

They shot her in front of witnesses & with body cams turned on

The horrors facing those disappeared to camps are sure to be worse

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Catomica @categerbasi.bsky.social · 2d

Commision
oil over paper

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