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merritt @merrittk.com · Feb 20

one day soon AI will be able to enjoy jacking off and playing video games for you, freeing up your valuable time to toil in the blood mines for shelter-creds

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15h

Who Was Jeffery Epstein? Find out by watching 'The Onion Investigates: Jeffery Epstein' on The Onion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU

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Christophe @christophew.bsky.social · 15h

It’s not the sea that withdraws — it’s the world that quiets down.
When everything falls silent, there remains that fragile line between sky and earth — a breath hesitating between leaving and staying.
#photography #blackandwhite #seascape

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 15h

Nobody talks about mom when her hands rise to cover her face. Where did she go?

Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 15h

I’m currently at a pop culture convention with 120k+ attendees where there’s Game of Thrones stuff literally everywhere, and the Marvel TV panel was so overpacked they had to shut down the floor. But I will agree people do not talk about Succession quite as often as when it was airing every week.

Nobody really talks about Succession anymore. Or Game of Thrones. Sort of confirms my thesis that, with rare exceptions, television does not really matter.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 16h

I love how the big news on Trump’s tariff announcement is how moments before he made it a bunch of people made insanely profitable shorts on crypto, a thing that Bitcoin Bros are all astounded to see happening in a completely unregulated market of a fake currency primarily used by criminals.

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

JUST IN: An anonymous trader opened massive crypto short positions just 30 minutes before Trump’s tariff announcements yesterday.

They made an estimated $192M in profits.

Donald Trump needs to go to jail. He is thief, he is literally robbing people internationally.

He announced 100% Tarrifs on China and sends the US stock market into a death spiral.

At the same time someone put over 1 Billion dollars into crypto with orders for 100 million being placed on Ethereum and Bitcoin and other crypto currencies across the board whilst markets got wiped after what he said. Billions, and I mean fucking billions got wiped out, whilst Bitcoin had it a biggest dip ever in a single candle losing 20k per Bitcoin, Whilst alt coins lost over 60-70% of value, everyone with leverage on the market with even 2 x leverage got murdered and robbed.

This was co ordinated, this was market manipulation with one anonymous wallet making over 200 million dollars in one day with trades showing that they knew Trump was going to announce this and crash the market.

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skms @skms4evah.bsky.social · 16h

hallelujah 🙌
now how do i get it off my stupid iphone safari nonsense

Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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skms @skms4evah.bsky.social · 16h

thankyou !

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 1d

obsessed with the antifascist frogs in Portland, I hope they continue to multiply 🙏

Person in frog costume with poster saying 'frogs together strong'

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'The circularity has also prompted questions about how sustainable the revenues will turn out to be.'

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world

www.ft.com

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 1d

This remains one of my all time favourite pieces of writing.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19d

IT IS TIME.

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

buff.ly

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 1d

See also our position piece

Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). **Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia**. Zenodo. lnkd.in/eXDApbxJ @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these termsare orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 1d

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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skms @skms4evah.bsky.social · 1d

the two uses

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 1d

Lanky , leggy , and beautiful ! Your #FoxOfTheDay shared by @mawgdn

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

Baby in a placenta I know I know, it’s serious

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, this will be the only picture I'll share of wombat poop.

Their poop comes out in neat 2 cm cubes, about 5-8 cubes per session, which means that artistic wombat POO STACKING is a very real possibility.

How do wombats, of all animals, manage to produce these sugar cubes made of excrement?

A dark brown cubic poop from a wombat on a grey rock. Taken from a Science article. There's greenery around the rock.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1d

There's nothing I don't love about WOMBATS, from their curmudgeonly mannerisms to their armored, bony butts (that protect them from predators when they're head-first in a burrow).

But we should talk about their cubic poop & how it gets that way.

CW: animal poo in next post

a man is holding a wombat in his arms while wearing a bjp shirt

Alt: Czech professional mixed martial artist Jiri Prochazka is kissing a wombat he has in his lap.

media.tenor.com

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tante @tante.cc · 1d

I do not think that Meta's Metaverse failed cause the devs weren't efficient enough. It's conceptually flawed and underbaked at best, without vision and direction. A toy Mark no longer cares too much about.

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

www.404media.co

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 2d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway, my most N London story is when son went to new friend's house for primary school playdate he said there was a Nobel Peace Prize for the mum framed in the bathroom and I said "haha that's because she has four kids and they're making a joke" but it turned out she'd won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 2d

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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