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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 5d

We could feed, clothe, and house so many human beings.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5d

OpenAI has pledged to spend $1 trillion in the next five years.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 8d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 21d

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.

2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.

3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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nateberkopec.bsky.social @nateberkopec.bsky.social · 24d

My view on all the LLM-powered code review processes I've seen: 90% of it is just creating text slop absolutely nobody reads.

Doing it yourself, before you push to GH, is fine. But making your co-workers interpret this noisy slop is wasting their time.

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Allyson 🌸 @whimsicallyson.bsky.social · Sep 14

Is there any other industry where this is a thing? Trying to picture Enterprise buying cars and renting them to Toyota en masse...

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · Sep 12

Honestly it seems to me that one of the most important tasks for modern parents is raising their kids to be mostly offline normies

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Bishop Arrow - Comics & Art @bishoparrow.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is why it's important for you to remove source identifiers from links!!

A PSA telling you to remove everything that follows a question mark in a link due to it being used to track who you share things with. Common trackers are ?utm_source and ?si . This is the best I can do with my dyslexia trying to transcribe this, I'm sorry.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · Sep 4

Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that:

a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate

b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · Aug 29

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

A drawing of a horse. The front half of the horse is black. The back half of the horse is white. The tail is black.

Text reads: I defragged my zebra

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Aug 25

wait

does this mean

libraries are data centers?

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ptklein @ptklein.com · Aug 9

Every city in America should shut down its Main Street every weekend and play jazz and let you have a glass of wine

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Aug 7

🦡 🍄 🐍 archive.org/details/flas...

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · Jul 26

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

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Ranch Devereaux @thejacko.bsky.social · Jul 25

I’m getting to the age where I’m pretty sure everything is a scam. Unknown number? Scam. Facebook friend request? Scam. Movie over 90 minutes? Scam. Person being nice to me? Definitely a scam.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Jul 17

Stacey Sobelman
staceysobelman
ICE is offering a $45,000 SIGNING BONUS plus $100,000 starting salary.
I make $55,000 as a teacher in my 8th year with a Masters.
It was never true that wE dOn'T hAvE eNoUgH mOnEy to pay teachers more. It was always intentional. Education has been INTENTIONALLY defunded for decades because an educated populous is a threat to power. Read the books. Do the work. They are
TERRIFIED of education.

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Allyson 🌸 @whimsicallyson.bsky.social · Jul 15

Well fuck.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · Jul 1

I like being a human being who makes decisions about this one wild and precious life I’ve been given, even when it is sometimes annoying or overwhelming. It is life and it is meant to be lived. I do not want robot-mommy-slave to do that for me. Thanks anyway though, ya freak.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jul 1

Zuck of 2025 is telling Zuck of 2004 to hold his beer.

You don’t schedule meetings, it does.
You don’t organize your travel, it has already booked it.
You don’t wonder what job to apply for, it is already editing your résumé and simulating the interview.
You don’t ask what to wear, it saw your calendar and laid out your outfit.

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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · Jun 11

This is incredible

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · May 14

I’m not “tired at 8pm,” I’m the demon barber of sleep sleep

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David Nir @davidnir.com · May 8

The new pope is younger than 13 members of the Senate Democratic caucus

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Apr 27

Congress is back from recess after the weekend. Will anyone file articles of impeachment for expelling a U.S. citizen who is 4 years old and also has cancer.

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Allyson 🌸 @whimsicallyson.bsky.social · Apr 11

From their website: pronounced /vit/, like "veet" 🤷‍♀️

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Alb3rt0 (🎂B-Day Today!🎂) @albst3r.bsky.social · Mar 28

Zelda Williams (the daughter of the great Robin Williams) sure had a lot to say about the “Studio Ghibli style” AI images that have been trending recently.

I think those people should read these posts and really think about what they’re doing.

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