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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 18m

I've seen YouTube thumbnails you people wouldn't believe

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 34m

In this case, I'm curious if people posting the original with some sort of "eek!" comment are part of a bot network.

Yes, real people are dumb and gullible, but sinister networks have an interest in suppressing collective and individual cognition and AI is a useful tool.

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 37m

AI slop is not funny, it is not whimsical, it is not scary, it is not interesting, it is not cute.

CGI is a distinct feature that's authentically helpful in storytelling, but it's all human directed.

Sharing AI slop is like handing out cigarettes at a daycare, pure moral failure.

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 39m

Love to be be a journalist sharing AI slop

Like a physician treating patients with herbs and crystals

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15h

A rat ran across the table at Al Jazeera during a broadcast 🐀 😬

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 53m

*Alaska Governor*

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 2h

Stuart Scheller thinks "palindrome" is when a washed up Alaska Governor / TV star smashes a Molson's Golden over a MQ-9

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 2h

It's 10+ years old, but my dad retired from the insurance industry and he said Justin Timberlake was the one national artist who struggled to find an umbrella policy.

Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 3h

This is a very Fedora assessment

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 11h

From an abandoned van to man with a plan

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 12h

Not me, I’m built different.

I’m closing the big one.

I’m putting Los Pollos Hermanos on Army bases.

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 12h

You’re making fun of me or Kid Rock?

Please let it be Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid Kid Rock.

Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 13h

If you’re above the age of, idk, 23 it’s bizarre and unseemly to comment on anyone’s appearance or sexuality on main.

Pathetic, unnecessary, attention-seeking behavior. Someone should spray you with a garden hose. Calm down.

Except for Michelle Branch. That light will never go out.

Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 13h

Imagine being 60 years old and going on TV and complaining about what a 19 y/o woman wears to class.

Loser energy that competes with Jamiroquai (I know his name, stay with me) complaining that his ex g/f Winona Ryder was too hot and voluptuous for his delicate tastes.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 13h

It’s possibly the worst quote I’ve ever read about human sexuality

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 13h

Imagine being 60 years old and going on TV and complaining about what a 19 y/o woman wears to class.

Loser energy that competes with Jamiroquai (I know his name, stay with me) complaining that his ex g/f Winona Ryder was too hot and voluptuous for his delicate tastes.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 20h

She will be dominating the media landscape for the next 4 decades.

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 21h

It’s only anti-Semitic if its a right wing Islamist (it becomes magically left wing because necessity)

It’s it’s a right wing Christianist it’s just a plain ol’ Liberty Whoopsie

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 23h

If I had even $10mm to my name, much less multiple billions, I would not be able to name a single activist anywhere.

Gamergate? When Nixon went bowling?

I’d be that stupid and detached.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23h

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

wapo.st

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 23h

We had people at OSC who would have struggled to complete the list if even if it were an annual reporting period

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 1d

“Our return to office mandate is expressly designed to punish caregivers, dual income families, and people with long commutes. Please quit, my groyper nephew Wynstyn needs a job.”