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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 2d

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder that he gets to keep his health insurance while he worked to gut everyone else’s including his constituents

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 2d

HAPPY FRIDAY! While this is hilariously apt, I also feel like it is a good summation of how we all feel at the end of the workweek.

Survivors of a slasher movie sitting on the bumper of an ambulance at the end
[Picture of Winnie the Pooh, Tiger, and Rabbit all sitting around a table with mugs in their hands]

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 2d

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation.

"Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies.

Text and image generation
Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

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//Penumbra// @sheeropacity.bsky.social · 2d

Likely all the rich people who don't want to be taxed. Anything to protect their hoard.
The attacks on racial background and religious alignment are trying to distract from the greed. This should be a class war.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.

And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

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//Penumbra// @sheeropacity.bsky.social · 2d

Dying to know what the training set of the model is based upon. Someone in his comments celebrated 'review without bias', however, training data collected from humans inherently contains bias.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 3d

I'm not an ethicist by training but "we just built a machine that does x, it's up to people what they do with it" is not a great position to fall back on.

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SPiNDLE @aidenr0.bsky.social · 3d

i bring women kissing to your TL but cute this time

An artwork by Spindle of the characters Asimov (on the left), a half-elf with white hair, sitting on Ottilie's lap (on the right), a human with brown hair. Ottilie is holding Asi's hands and kissing her cheeks, while Asi is smiling widely looking super happy

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David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · 2d

OK, going to have trouble paying rent again this month due to back injury.

Would appreciate so much the spreading of my online shop to get some cool orders sent out next week.
All signed.

davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com

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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 2d

EA staff and CWA rally against $55bn Saudi-backed private acquisition of EA, with formal petition to regulators.

www.eurogamer.net/ea-union-wor...

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The REAL Texas Paul @paulsrockinbluesky.bsky.social · 15d

"To whom it may concern,
As stated in the Discord Terms of Service,
You have the right to opt out and not be bound by the provisions requiring arbitration by sending written notice of your decision to opt out to Discord by email to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com. The notice must be sent within 30 days of this Terms of Service taking effect, or your account creation on the Service.
I hereby exercise the aforementioned right to opt out and not be bound by the provisions requiring arbitration. This email is a written notice of said decision."
Sign with your legal name, discord username, your email address and phone number
Send to:
arbitration-opt-out@discord.com

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//Penumbra// @sheeropacity.bsky.social · 3d

Reposting again for those who missed it:

The REAL Texas Paul @paulsrockinbluesky.bsky.social · 16d

here's a reminder that discord has adopted a new arbitration policy, which means you have under 30 days to opt out of it

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//Penumbra// @sheeropacity.bsky.social · 3d

Huh. I noticed I lately haven't seen a post from that one big art account championing for activism against this platform or real world petitioning. Did they leave bsky?

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Oppai<3 🔞 ( Coms open ) @idrawoppai.bsky.social · 3d

Mai my oc commission

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//Penumbra// @sheeropacity.bsky.social · 3d

🤢🤢🤢

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Momoru @momoru.bsky.social · 4d

Nurse joy

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 4d

I found an alien in my garden this morning here at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica

I think this is Membracis dorsata, a species of leafhopper.

#invertebrates #insects #nature

Close-up macro of a small white, waxy, spiny insect nymph clinging to a smooth green stem against a soft olive background.

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//Penumbra// @sheeropacity.bsky.social · 4d

Who's yours?
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 4d

There are actors that, when they come onscreen, you’re delighted to see them and immediately assured that whatever you’re about to watch is gonna be worthwhile, mine is Jared Harris what’s yours

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 4d

When the House held a moment of silence to honor the Capitol Police on the one year anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, literally none of the Republicans-other than Dick and Liz Cheney-attended

That day, Mike Johnson and MAGA essentially spat on these heroes-both in word AND in deed

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Dnaitari @dnaitari.bsky.social · 4d

Panty

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Isobel_Starling @isobelstarling.bsky.social · 5d

Inkitt is a notorious scam 'publisher'. Of course a deluded billionaire would invest in them. kestrelcasey.com/2022/11/30/o...

On NaNoWriMo, Inkitt, and Being An Author

Continuity Notes This post has been updated several times and will continue to update if there are any major developments. I have left most of the original text intact. There is a bit at the end ab…

kestrelcasey.com

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 5d

Would it surprise you that the owner of Scientific American's parent company, Stefan von Holtzbrinck, invested $37 million in Inkitt, an AI firm?

What a SHOCK

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 6d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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//Penumbra// @sheeropacity.bsky.social · 4d

Shame on you, Scientific American. Instant loss of respect from me.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4d

On Friday I’m going to have a premium newsletter with a generous (2600 word) free intro about the nasty demands of Sam Altman and OpenAI. They need $161 billion in the next six months - it’s the only way for them to complete any of the plans they have agreed to. A truly nonsensical time.

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