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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 6h

I'd no more want to get an LLM to do my writing for me than I'd want to get a machine to outsource all that boring "going to gigs" or "eating chocolate" or "having sex" and save me the bother.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.social · 4h

🌹Werewolf By Night is like one of the best things in the post-2020 Marvel catalogue

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En Sabah Neurodivergent @spearhafoc.bsky.social · 3h

Sometimes I get morbidly curious about what Geoff Johns is doing in his Geiger comics, where he doesn't have access to DC characters.

But I see he's simply renaming DC characters and just doing that.

The cover to a Junkyard Joe, a robot WW2 soldier. A G.I. Robot, if you will. He's surrounded in boxes by "The Junkyard Dogs" who are just Sgt. Rock and Easy Company.

Another Junkyard Joe cover. Him popping out of a retro style comic page. He's, again, a humanoid robot in a WW2 uniform. The only difference between him and G.I. Robot is he's silver instead of gold.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 5h

Every time I hear a streamer use the r-slur, I'm unable to divorce it from them saying "I support fascism because not slurring people was a line too far."

When the word bounces off my ears, I hear it not as thoughtless derogatory speech, but an ideological announcement.

I can't be the only one.

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MOS_8502 🇨🇦 @studio8502.ca · 11h

Software is political.

Art is political.

Writing is political.

That's just how it is.

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MOS_8502 🇨🇦 @studio8502.ca · 1d

Were I a Republican in congress, I would filibuster any attempt at a continuing resolution by reading the Epstein Files into the record, just to spite my own party for being so weak.

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Cliff Chapghost (wooOOOooo) @cliffchapman.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, but fuck off, Ian Levine. Just declined a long rambling post from the horrible old bastard. I thought he was banned from the group to be honest, we've certainly not allowed him to promote his crap AI slop on there before and we're not doing it, even indirectly, now.

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MOS_8502 🇨🇦 @studio8502.ca · 2d

C64 game devs: what parts of your code do you habitually assign to which memory areas? Do you make use of the RAM under the KERNAL ROM for screen memory?

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dying ∞ deaths @mokou.bsky.social · 2d

the children yearn for borland turbo c++

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GEM is truly truly outrageous @seghaxx.bsky.social · 2d

thirsty local milfs are waiting to ~review your code~

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 2d

Okay, it's time. I have a prized Cult of the dead cow Zippo lighter. These simply do not exist anywhere. But a CDC member is hurting and I want to encourage donations to the GoFundMe, so out it goes. Details in thread.

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Nfinit @nfinit.bsky.social · 5d

Bad News for Apple and IBM: We at Commodore are about that life. We come strapped and we *will* kill you.

Commodore: It's Personal

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 5d

Bad News for Apple and IBM.

Shots fired, literally in the case of this ad, by Commodore as it pitches the Commodore 128 as the business computer of choice.

A rather clever ad with a photo of a C128 computer with a bowler hat (representing IBM) and an apple bitten into with an arrow through it resting on top and the tagline. It also lists of the pros against the competitors such as an 80 column display and up to 512k of memory.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 3d

An iPhone typically draws a couple of watts - maybe 6 watts if doing something particularly intensive.

A Commodore 64 draws 9 watts in standby, around 20 watts with the screen on.

As we can see, a Commodore 64 is several times more powerful than an iPhone.

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MOS_8502 🇨🇦 @studio8502.ca · 2d

Right now Bluesky is a joke. It’s impossible to take seriously because the people behind it are unserious. What makes BlackSky any different?

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MOS_8502 🇨🇦 @studio8502.ca · 2d

Is BlackSky going to refuse compliance with fascist laws? Are they going to protect my right to ridicule the pain of bad people? Or is it just another social media circle jerk that exists to flatter the egos of the people in charge?

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MOS_8502 🇨🇦 @studio8502.ca · 2d

It’s not a troll. It’s a fair question. What makes it any different? Why is it going to succeed where BlueSky fails? What can it do to earn trust?

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MOS_8502 🇨🇦 @studio8502.ca · 2d

Honest question: explain to me why I should trust BlackSky any more than the zero I trust BlueSky?

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Johnathan Ochonueve @johnathanochonueve.bsky.social · 2d

Operation Paperclip was us telling all those bad actors "Hey, we don't want the commies to beat us, we'll ignore your attempt at a thousand year Reich if you help".

And now we are crawling with neo Nazis.

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MOS_8502 🇨🇦 @studio8502.ca · 2d

Some things retro just didn’t age well. Like some movies.

“So there’s these geeky awkward guys, right, and they go to university and find others like them and band together.”

“With you so far, what do they do?”

“Sex crimes and chemical warfare.”

“I’m sorry?”

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MOS_8502 🇨🇦 @studio8502.ca · 2d

We don’t need “a PC but RISC-V”, we need crazy heterogeneous designs for out there computer things that only one in fifty will even understand.

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MOS_8502 🇨🇦 @studio8502.ca · 2d

I just want a 32 bit RISC-V CPU with exposed data and address buses (not multiplexed) and whatever else it needs on actual 3.3V pins. Not a fucking SoC that feeds the white slurry industry.

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Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 2d

I'm just old enough to remember "Welfare Queen" discourse.

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 2d

“Everyone has to suffer because someone might take advantage” is the lie every American tells themselves about social safety nets, so we might as well extend that delusion to everything.

Blue Bear @321steve.bsky.social · 2d

Well, without some sort of record keeping Anyone could get loans, lie about what they owe and con pretty much anyone they wanted to.
I also don't like the idea of people who are a totally bad credit risk pushing up responsible people's interest rates to cover the asses of irresponsibly people.

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Ricardo Juchem @ricardojuchem.com · 2d

Bitmap Books is trying out that new style of marketing campaign that Ubisoft and Sucker Punch did recently.

Change your statement to please the incels that never bought your stuff and will boycott company.

After this, be boycotted by the people who used to buy their stuff.

Double Boycott Combo

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MOS_8502 🇨🇦 @studio8502.ca · 3d

Sloppers fuck off.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 3d

OK, I think we can stop now. Hit the switch

💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 3d

@ai-rights.bsky.social has added you to the "ai racists" moderation list

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