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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 15h

New "Liberty Leading the People" painting just dropped

Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 16h

Bought some new art

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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 19h

I once attended a Trek convention. It was roughly gender balanced and my girlfriend at the time is the one who got us to go. 🤓

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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 20h

Movie jewel thieves: dress like ninjas, show up with grappling hooks at 2am to rappel upside down to open the safe with a laser beam.

Actual jewel thieves: show up in the morning at rush hour, knock a wall open with a fucking crane.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Astonishing new footage shows the suspected Louvre jewel thieves making a bizarre getaway in broad daylight
www.huffpost.com/entry/new-fo...

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 1d

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 1d

Bank on the Tank!

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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 1d

Big Patreon supporter shout-out to @uyjulian.pw, creator of FSBToolEx to help Unity creators make seamlessly looping audio. Check it out on his BOOTH page 👇

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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 2d

AI hypesters never notice how people who proclaim things like "AI games are going to be amazing" are never gamers themselves. And never notice how actual gamers have favorite game designers/studios (Kojima, CD Projekt Red, etc) the same way cineastes have favorite directors.

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

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Cajsa @cajsa.bsky.social · 3d

The #NoKings protest and the #frogprotester inspired me to take a look at the amphibians in #SecondLife
www.patreon.com/posts/cajsas...

Cajsa's Choices: The Fantastic Frog Photography of SL | Wagner James Au / New World Notes

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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 5d

Super important essay from @anildash.com. People in tech who actually understand how LLMs work know they come with considerable limitations. But they rarely discuss them in public, for fear of undermining the AI hype & flimflam spouted by their billionaire bosses.👇

www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

www.anildash.com

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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 5d

Rushed, or recklessly rolled out on purpose, only making adjustments if they get enough pushback / lawsuit threats?

Atman is now vaguely promising to share revenue with IP holders; wouldn't be surprised if he's showing the big media companies KPIs of all the infringing Sora videos being created.

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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 5d

Super important essay from @anildash.com. People in tech who actually understand how LLMs work know they come with considerable limitations. But they rarely discuss them in public, for fear of undermining the AI hype & flimflam spouted by their billionaire bosses.👇

www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

www.anildash.com

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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats and welcome! ❤️🫡🇺🇸

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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 6d

Only they figured out you don't even need hidden messages visible only with special glasses, since algorithms obscure things just fine.

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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 9d

At least the trauma bond currently has a two win buffer.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10d

The owner of Twitter just reinstated the accounts of several Nazi who had been suspending for violating Twitter's rules about doxxing other users. Now here's another piece on Bluesky's intellectual diversity problem.

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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 11d

I've talked with many multiple developers of XR glasses over the years, and asked all of them, "How do you solve the creeper guy problem with your XR glasses?"

None of them had an adequate answer.

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 11d

Actual safety notice from my alma mater:

Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses being used exactly as everyone expected

The techbros are not okay (it’s a completely open campus…not all the buildings, obviously)

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Office of Public Safety

Crime Safety Advisory:
Suspicious Occurrence Reported

Dear USF Community,

We want to make you aware of recent reports of a suspicious occurrence on and around campus. Multiple community members have reported contact from an individual, described as male and wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses, who has approached women with unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions. Reports indicate that this individual may be attempting to post these interactions online under the account name "pickuplines.pov" on TikTok, Instagram, and possibly other social media platforms.

While no threats or acts of violence have been reported, we want our community to stay informed and take steps to support one another.
If you encounter this individual or any suspicious activity:

Take immediate action to report the incident at the time it occurs by calling Public Safety Dispatch.
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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 12d

If you're promoting your AI platform for use cases which are already available in unlimited quantities (i.e. free online porn), it's quite possible your AI platform doesn't actually have any use cases worth the name.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 12d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 15d

Is antifa actually Daniel Plainview?

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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 15d

If a Meta exec needs to send a memo to employees to use AI, that strongly suggests employees are not using AI much & that they haven't organically adopted it like Slack and other popular tools.

Meta's "VP of Metaverse" has zero past virtual world experience BTW.

www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

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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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 16d

"Grandma tell us again what you did to help overthrow the Trump regime back in the 20s!"

"Yes meemaw, show us, show us! Did you wear battle armor? And a steel war helmet covered in lightning bolts?

"Well..."

[Rubber squeaking and rustling from the closet]

"Something like that."

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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 16d

"Grandma tell us again what you did to help overthrow the Trump regime back in the 20s!"

"Yes meemaw, show us, show us! Did you wear battle armor? And a steel war helmet covered in lightning bolts?

"Well..."

[Rubber squeaking and rustling from the closet]

"Something like that."

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 17d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Wagner James Au @slhamlet.bsky.social · 18d

Life imitates Second Life 🫡

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 18d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 18d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 18d

Elon Musk once said he would pursue former Twitter execs to the ends of the earth. Instead, he just settled their $128 million lawsuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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