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Carly Lane-Perry @carlylane.bsky.social · 3h

Crying screaming throwing up

Extended First Look at The Vampire Lestat ft. Sam Reid | Premieres 2026 | AMC+

YouTube video by amc+

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 7h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 7h

i see thiel’s fascination with the antichrist is making headlines. here’s me two week’s ago breaking this down for the average reader going “wtf?”

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god in the machine

This week if you’ve spent any time on socials you’ve probably encountered the idea that many US evangelical Christians had suddenly decided that the Rapture...

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 23h

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 1d

Or one phrase that sounds snappy & clever. There's no way to save the overall piece of work, you'd spend more time trying to fix it (winding up with a hodgepodge of tone) than just writing it yourself. But I get why people fall for that one phrase. shityoushouldcareabout.substack.com/p/ai-is-sooo...

AI is soooo good at everything - except MY job, of course x

Expertise bias: when we give AI a free pass outside our own lane, because we don’t know enough to spot the mistakes

shityoushouldcareabout.substack.com

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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 1d

I write a lot, and I like to keep an open mind, so I often check in on an LLM to see what it would have done with the same task (a long difficult email, outline of a newsletter, a way to explain a concept simply). In every 1000 words of text there will be about one sentence that sounds like me. 1/2

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 1d

A Data Love Letter to the Subway is a fantastic data-driven animation visualizing the NYC subway system. “Imaginatively animating each train line’s age, length, and path, we wrote a poetic story that explores the trains’ interwoven encounters…” [kottke.org]

A Data Love Letter to the NYC Subway

Giorgia Lupi and her team at Pentagram have created a data-driven animation for the MTA called A Data Love Letter to the Subway. More from Lupi (who calls this an “absolute dream project”): The project, “A Data L

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

The Discord age-verification hack is much worse than was originally reported. 70,000 users were affected, with images of IDs, selfies, user names, IP addresses and, in some cases, financial details.

Hackers are posting screenshots from over 1.5 terabytes of stolen data.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 1d

"Fandom becomes its own form of labour. The parasocial and the professional blur. We tell ourselves we’re supporting these girls, but we’re also fuelling the same machine that demands their perfection and cuts them down when they don’t make it" newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/pop-...

pop as labour

This week I finally got around to watching Netflix’s Popstar Academy: Katseye (you’d be forgiven for thinking this means there’s more than one Popstar...

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 1d

Burning fuel and running checklists. It‘s a small 737-800, only large planes can dump fuel.

They can land overweight but it needs a major airframe inspection if they do, so if they’re not in a rush they’ll just do laps. Take your time, check all the systems, then make a plan to land.

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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 1d

"Fandom becomes its own form of labour. The parasocial and the professional blur. We tell ourselves we’re supporting these girls, but we’re also fuelling the same machine that demands their perfection and cuts them down when they don’t make it" newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/pop-...

pop as labour

This week I finally got around to watching Netflix’s Popstar Academy: Katseye (you’d be forgiven for thinking this means there’s more than one Popstar...

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Justin @zhuoyanakl.bsky.social · 2d

the 737 doesn't typically have the ability to dump fuel. it's presumably doing laps to reduce landing weight at the moment

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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 2d

plane nerds: after FJ450 dumped fuel, why is it still doing laps up there?

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 2d

📢 A full emergency has been declared at Christchurch International Airport for an incoming flight this afternoon.

Christchurch International Airport under full emergency for incoming flight

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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 2d

hey #nzpol - I like this clear unambiguous statement from InternetNZ but can someone catch me up on _why_ the racists are so obsessed with them? Like, what's in it for the racists?

internetnz.nz/about-intern...

Our commitment to te reo Māori

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 2d

This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever made. Except that’s an evergreen statement at this point.

A pile of zines called DONT BUILD THE TORMENT NEXUS!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

- Grim that media barons are buying up mainstream media and making them fascism-enabling propaganda engines

- ULTAGRIM that so many of the big-name journalists escaping that fire are voluntarily leaping directly into a completely separate newsletter website trap set by the same fascists

Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 3d

as ever sam altman can get in the fucking sea. fanfiction is some of the most creative and transformative human work around and not whatever slop he’s peddling

Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 3d

the ick I get at Sam Altman describing Sora as fanfiction... copyrightlately.com/openai-backt...

“We are hearing from a lot of rightsholders who are very excited for this new kind of ‘interactive fan fiction’ and think this new kind of engagement will accrue a lot of value to them, but want the ability to specify how their characters can be used (including not at all).

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 3d

This is extremely exacting

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 15

Bluesky uses AI internally to assist in content moderation, which helps us triage posts and shield human moderators from harmful content. We also use AI in the Discover algorithmic feed to serve you posts that we think you’d like.

None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 4d

Light & Shadow

I love the secret feature at Nine Elms London Underground station that reveals itself during a sunny day.

If you arrive at the perfect moment, the roundel logo is beautifully projected onto the floor.

So I took Dancer Andreya with me to interact with the scene.

Light and Shadow at Nine Elms London Underground station

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Pàra - special Bluesky edition @para14.bsky.social · 5d

Borders was such an unhinged bookshop, in the best way.

The younger generations should get the experience of a vertical labyrinth of books, with countless book nooks to read in, too.

Sam[uel] Smith @sgowsmith1988.bsky.social · 7d

One council candidate’s plan for this empty centre in downtown Auckland
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

A plan has emerged for this empty centre in downtown Auckland

An Auckland Council candidate has backed a plan to move the Auckland Central Library to the Sky World centre.

www.stuff.co.nz

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