Rocko's Modern Basilisk
@undeadinside.bsky.social
Pan transbian, fiction podcast enjoyer, tinkerer, puppygirl, goober. She/Her mid 30's
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My supervisor switched from *suggesting* to **telling** us to take the AI course.
I wrote a short essay on why I was refusing.
Good news is I’m not in trouble.
And I’m using the conversation as an opportunity to advocate for curriculum on fact checking & detecting misinformation in AI summaries.
I wrote a short essay on why I was refusing.
Good news is I’m not in trouble.
And I’m using the conversation as an opportunity to advocate for curriculum on fact checking & detecting misinformation in AI summaries.
AI is being pushed on NYC nonprofits through some insidious city grants.
Silver lining is there was a survey for feedback.
Here’s the survey link!
airtable.com/appakToRonXt...
Silver lining is there was a survey for feedback.
Here’s the survey link!
airtable.com/appakToRonXt...
December 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
My supervisor switched from *suggesting* to **telling** us to take the AI course.
I wrote a short essay on why I was refusing.
Good news is I’m not in trouble.
And I’m using the conversation as an opportunity to advocate for curriculum on fact checking & detecting misinformation in AI summaries.
I wrote a short essay on why I was refusing.
Good news is I’m not in trouble.
And I’m using the conversation as an opportunity to advocate for curriculum on fact checking & detecting misinformation in AI summaries.
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The makers of #Ihunt are asking for support against an AI movie that appears to be using bot votes.
We were in first place in this film award voting.
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
Audience Choice Awards | Short of the Year
Vote for your favorite short films in the Short of the Year Audience Choice Awards. Watch, vote, and support independent filmmakers.
www.shortoftheyear.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The makers of #Ihunt are asking for support against an AI movie that appears to be using bot votes.
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Say "fuck you" to AI slop with a vote for iHunt in the next 92 minutes!
We’re about 150 votes in the lead. Less than 3 hours left.
I think we got this. Any further votes are just a bigger fuck you to the AI slop merchant.
I think we got this. Any further votes are just a bigger fuck you to the AI slop merchant.
We were in first place in this film award voting.
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
December 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Say "fuck you" to AI slop with a vote for iHunt in the next 92 minutes!
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I'm tagging @indieshortsmag.com on this one because I want them to see how actual artists are fighting against a bot army that made slop.
Indie Shorts Magazine? You should ban AI. It makes an unfair competition, and it degrades the integrity of the medium.
ART FOR ARTISTS
Indie Shorts Magazine? You should ban AI. It makes an unfair competition, and it degrades the integrity of the medium.
ART FOR ARTISTS
We were in first place in this film award voting.
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
Audience Choice Awards | Short of the Year
Vote for your favorite short films in the Short of the Year Audience Choice Awards. Watch, vote, and support independent filmmakers.
www.shortoftheyear.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I'm tagging @indieshortsmag.com on this one because I want them to see how actual artists are fighting against a bot army that made slop.
Indie Shorts Magazine? You should ban AI. It makes an unfair competition, and it degrades the integrity of the medium.
ART FOR ARTISTS
Indie Shorts Magazine? You should ban AI. It makes an unfair competition, and it degrades the integrity of the medium.
ART FOR ARTISTS
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The funniest part is that the whole point of funding the crusades was to send your potential sources of domestic political instability (loud, violent lunatics) off on a mission where, worst case scenario, they were out of your hair for several years or, best case scenario, they died.
Far-right groups are co-opting the aesthetics of the Crusades for their own objectives, transforming an obsession with feudal justice into a campaign for a White Christian nation.
Why We Should All Be Worried About "Crusadercore"
This online trend equips young, White men with a historically bastardized visual lexicon — one that gives new credence and religious authority to far-right bigotry.
hyperallergic.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The funniest part is that the whole point of funding the crusades was to send your potential sources of domestic political instability (loud, violent lunatics) off on a mission where, worst case scenario, they were out of your hair for several years or, best case scenario, they died.
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Furthermore, every time you de-prioritize a trans actor because of that identity (keeping them out of roles because you're worried they're too "political"), you've discriminated against that actor. Period.
December 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Furthermore, every time you de-prioritize a trans actor because of that identity (keeping them out of roles because you're worried they're too "political"), you've discriminated against that actor. Period.
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The shift from "sir this is a Wendy's" to "just put the fries in the bag" indicates a cultural rightward shift; whereas the former is making fun of someone by implying they're a customer doing too much, the latter is making fun of someone by implying they're a *worker* & should know their place
December 29, 2025 at 6:14 AM
The shift from "sir this is a Wendy's" to "just put the fries in the bag" indicates a cultural rightward shift; whereas the former is making fun of someone by implying they're a customer doing too much, the latter is making fun of someone by implying they're a *worker* & should know their place
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The thing is that there is no element of my online credibility I would not burn if it guaranteed the success of this project. It has, without exaggeration, the potential to be the most important thing I've ever been a part of.
Please make ALL of the noise about it :)
Please make ALL of the noise about it :)
Hey! Hi! Hello!
Our Kickstarter is... (drumroll, if you please) LIVE!
You can find it riiiiight
here: kickstarter.dotmeow.org
But what IS .meow?
Well!
Let us explain... with video!
Our Kickstarter is... (drumroll, if you please) LIVE!
You can find it riiiiight
here: kickstarter.dotmeow.org
But what IS .meow?
Well!
Let us explain... with video!
December 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The thing is that there is no element of my online credibility I would not burn if it guaranteed the success of this project. It has, without exaggeration, the potential to be the most important thing I've ever been a part of.
Please make ALL of the noise about it :)
Please make ALL of the noise about it :)
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please helps us trounce this bullshit
shit's an automated war on imagination
shit's an automated war on imagination
The AI "competitor" just jumped a bunch of votes. Of course. They're going to try to bot out the last leg of the vote.
We have one day left to put them in the ground.
We have one day left to put them in the ground.
We were in first place in this film award voting.
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
December 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
please helps us trounce this bullshit
shit's an automated war on imagination
shit's an automated war on imagination
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The AI "competitor" just jumped a bunch of votes. Of course. They're going to try to bot out the last leg of the vote.
We have one day left to put them in the ground.
We have one day left to put them in the ground.
We were in first place in this film award voting.
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
Audience Choice Awards | Short of the Year
Vote for your favorite short films in the Short of the Year Audience Choice Awards. Watch, vote, and support independent filmmakers.
www.shortoftheyear.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The AI "competitor" just jumped a bunch of votes. Of course. They're going to try to bot out the last leg of the vote.
We have one day left to put them in the ground.
We have one day left to put them in the ground.
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as much as i hate giving my email address to anything i don't have to these days, i hate jerkoffs trying to pass off AI as art even more. take two seconds and vote for iHunt to kick scabby scammers in the nuts.
The AI "competitor" just jumped a bunch of votes. Of course. They're going to try to bot out the last leg of the vote.
We have one day left to put them in the ground.
We have one day left to put them in the ground.
We were in first place in this film award voting.
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
December 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
as much as i hate giving my email address to anything i don't have to these days, i hate jerkoffs trying to pass off AI as art even more. take two seconds and vote for iHunt to kick scabby scammers in the nuts.
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Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
December 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
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Most people who decry violence are really just upset that it's not being disguised as bureaucracy and economics and law
December 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Most people who decry violence are really just upset that it's not being disguised as bureaucracy and economics and law
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Help us whoop this fucking AI slop garbage merchant.
#iHunt currently has 436 votes. It has 320. About 37 hours remaining. They could do another bot rush.
So let's blow them the fuck out.
#iHunt currently has 436 votes. It has 320. About 37 hours remaining. They could do another bot rush.
So let's blow them the fuck out.
We were in first place in this film award voting.
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
Audience Choice Awards | Short of the Year
Vote for your favorite short films in the Short of the Year Audience Choice Awards. Watch, vote, and support independent filmmakers.
www.shortoftheyear.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Help us whoop this fucking AI slop garbage merchant.
#iHunt currently has 436 votes. It has 320. About 37 hours remaining. They could do another bot rush.
So let's blow them the fuck out.
#iHunt currently has 436 votes. It has 320. About 37 hours remaining. They could do another bot rush.
So let's blow them the fuck out.
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Every time a trans actor books work, that is a step forward. Not backwards.
Those of you who see things otherwise should turn the fuck around.
Those of you who see things otherwise should turn the fuck around.
December 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Every time a trans actor books work, that is a step forward. Not backwards.
Those of you who see things otherwise should turn the fuck around.
Those of you who see things otherwise should turn the fuck around.
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At a certain point we need to address the elephant in the room: What do we do with the 70 million strong pedophile cult after they're removed from leadership.
December 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
At a certain point we need to address the elephant in the room: What do we do with the 70 million strong pedophile cult after they're removed from leadership.
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Since it's nearly the end of the year, what's your most popular art?
Apparently it was this, a lot of y'all loved being freak defenders and I'm right there on the frontlines with you 🫡
Apparently it was this, a lot of y'all loved being freak defenders and I'm right there on the frontlines with you 🫡
December 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Since it's nearly the end of the year, what's your most popular art?
Apparently it was this, a lot of y'all loved being freak defenders and I'm right there on the frontlines with you 🫡
Apparently it was this, a lot of y'all loved being freak defenders and I'm right there on the frontlines with you 🫡
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It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
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Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
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In a small breath of reprieve, the 9th Circuit Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling from a conservative judge that would have allowed teachers to forcibly out trans students to their parents.
This case will eventually have national implications.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This case will eventually have national implications.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
9th Circuit Court Temporarily Blocks Lower Court Forced Outing Ruling In California
A lower court ruling would have required schools to allow teachers to out transgender students to their parents.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
In a small breath of reprieve, the 9th Circuit Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling from a conservative judge that would have allowed teachers to forcibly out trans students to their parents.
This case will eventually have national implications.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This case will eventually have national implications.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Tech platforms censor words, not meaning. It’s frighteningly insidious. This kind of censorship explicitly empowers bad actors by robbing their critics of the language to criticize.
Euphemisms are often the domain of fascists and predators. It’s a domain that online media wants to gate us inside.
Euphemisms are often the domain of fascists and predators. It’s a domain that online media wants to gate us inside.
December 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Tech platforms censor words, not meaning. It’s frighteningly insidious. This kind of censorship explicitly empowers bad actors by robbing their critics of the language to criticize.
Euphemisms are often the domain of fascists and predators. It’s a domain that online media wants to gate us inside.
Euphemisms are often the domain of fascists and predators. It’s a domain that online media wants to gate us inside.
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