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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 1h

Pretty much any Māori word, which also identifies locals who are racists

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 5h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, but I was able to make this sic video of Tupac rapping with Michael Jackson, so really it's worth it.

US electricity price by year showing stead rate and then exploding in 2022.

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 5h

God, the scathing-ass articles I would write about AI if Birth.Movies.Death was still around

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 5h

Even more miserable than those on the poster: Chloë Sevigny

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 15h

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.

buff.ly

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 18h

Playing through LIES OF P and have reached the inevitable point at which I start wearying of any Soulslike: the point at which the word "swamp" appears onscreen

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 23h

You don’t need AI; AI is not “inevitable.” That’s a lie being fed to you by companies who are going to lose a fuckton of money if they don’t convince you that AI is something you can’t live without.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 1d

Very excited to see how this compares to the Brass Eye special

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Folks, it's happening.

We're releasing Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile this Thursday at 7 p.m.

Mark your calendars. Get excited to know even less about Jeffrey Epstein.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 1d

"Truthiness" was fucking satire guys

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 1d

Guys, one of these is obviously Photoshopped, using source material *from one of the other images*. You can't denounce misinformation when your opponents use it and credulously share it when it matches your views (and, not for nothing, gets you social engagement). I mean, you CAN, but not credibly.

The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 1d

As an autistic person, the erosion of objective reality in the current zeitgeist is absolutely fucking maddening

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 1d

Looks like it's made with the eyes from the "antifa" image. The face is also too small for the size of the head, and the lighting/colour doesn't match. It's not even very good Photoshopping.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 2d

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 2d

Did you see that her policy platform includes a commitment to stamping out "malicious blogging"? Lol

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 2d

She's everywhere Dylan, you should know this by now

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 2d

I just discovered this and man, she's come a long way from falsely claiming to be a founding member of the Court Jesters

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 2d

I just discovered this (via seeing that she had blocked me via Clearsky and subsequently wondering what she was up to) and it feels both insane and inevitable

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 2d

BEHOLD the majesty of the Kiwi cheese scone. This scone isn't here for a fancy tea. This scone has come to rumble. This scone demands MORE butter. This scone has OPINIONS about jam. This scone is three square meals and elevenses. This scone has HEFT.
You do not eat this scone. You experience it.

You're looking at a large yellow gold beast, AKA a kiwi cheese scone, sitting on a white stoneware plate. It dominates the plate and the small bowl featuring two hefty triangles of butter next to it. If you were to lift this scone, you would feel its heft. This scone sees cheese and says give me more! You know that if you tapped the top of this scone it would make an ominous hollow sound that, if you know your cheese scones, promises a delicious crunchy top with a soft interior. Also on this table, admiring this scone is a yellow tea cup sitting on a blue saucer. A frankly inferior looking stainless steel teapot and milk jug containing just enough brew to wash down the scone. Elsewhere on the table is a comedic book from 1936 about Gardening and my notebook that I was using to jot spotted notes. It's brown covered and nondescript, unlike the scone of might. Which is easy to descript. It is majestic.

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B. Dave Walters - Yes, it is I! @bdavewalters.bsky.social · Nov 30

Always repost

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 3d

I called that AI actor bullshit "it" instead of "her" in conversation the other day and the people I was talking to instinctively went to clutch their pearls before they realised "oh, yeah, it is literally not a person"

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4d

*takes massive bong rip*

hailey
@hailey.at • 6h
an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you'd agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing "dna" with "bits" doesn't make it ok
4J @dystopiabreaker.xyz • 3d
i'm completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron
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hailey
@hailey.at • 6h
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 4d

Oh yeah we are absolutely America's lapdog right now with this govt

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 4d

Can't wait for the "Is ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER A Christmas Movie" discourse this holiday season

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 5d

And the thing is: it can

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 5d

As toothless as the last Labour govt became in some ways, at least they weren't like "hey you know what we should become as a country, war profiteers"

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 5d

We went from "ban guns" to "manufacture guns" in six years 🙃

Govt plan to make weapons for export

Defence Minister Judith Collins wants to see New Zealand develop lethal weapons for international export through the help of tech companies. The...

www.odt.co.nz

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