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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 1d

Millennia of human cultures would correctly have recognized this as demonic

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

Zelda Williams urges fans to stop sending AI videos of her father, Robin Williams:

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on.”

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 1d

Gavin Poosom

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

It is unbelievably funny how load bearing American democratic norms turned out to be

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

Tbh this would make the redwood line so much more intuitive to me

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

Love to get sick before a big trip. Nothing like traveling for 12 hours (minimum, assuming no delays) while also feeling like my throat is made of gravel. It’s the best!

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

A black cat with green eyes and lone white tuft of fur on the center of his chest, sitting on a toy bridge, one paw dangling

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

Source on these? They kinda go hard

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 2d

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly I cannot begrudge the parents. I cannot imagine the kind of pain they must live with on a daily basis, and the emotional fortitude it takes to dedicate yourself to a cause like that is immense. But the person who built a model of a dead child should have said “no, we shouldn’t make this”

L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

Resurrection, as in using this technology to create a simulacrum of the deceased. I think that one day soon somebody is going to run a business where you can zoom with your late spouse. In fact this has already kind of happened with one of the Parkland victims www.axios.com/local/miami/...

Parents of Parkland shooting victim use AI to "bring him back"

The "AI Joaquin" uses the 17-year-old's voice and his past social media posts and other writings to mimic his personality.

www.axios.com

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 2d

I think a real problem in this world is a lack of posting bushido. You can go to war with the mods, with the big accounts, hell with the government itself on X the Everything Site, sometimes it is the honorable thing to do. But you should have your death poem written.

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

how is it that the posts that get traction always have obvious typos

L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

One thing that especially sticks in my mind is that you don't even need to be far sighted to see this. You cannot build this shit without knowing that and just not caring. And I also don't think you can untangle it from the reaction against MeToo.

L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

I do not how you even deal with this other than social norms of a strength that we have spent the last 10 years proving we can't hold onto. How are you gonna stop the most anti-social teenager in the highschool deepfaking every girl in his class into the most obscene situations he can imagine?

L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

Gonna get real dark when people start trying to honest to God res people with AI

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

Really snapped at a family member recently when he asserted that he simply wouldn't care if someone used his image to create a humiliating video of him having sex with a horse. It's pretty indicative of me to where all this shit is going, which is total normalization.

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

What are you gonna do, set up a government registry of RTX cards? Best of luck with that. No, I think the only thing out is an ironclad culture against that kind of behavior, and I'm not optimistic that we'll be able to muster it.

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

I do not how you even deal with this other than social norms of a strength that we have spent the last 10 years proving we can't hold onto. How are you gonna stop the most anti-social teenager in the highschool deepfaking every girl in his class into the most obscene situations he can imagine?

L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

Gonna get real dark when people start trying to honest to God res people with AI

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t build this shit man! Do not fucking build that machine that haunts people with novel videos of their loved ones long since gone. If you’ve got talent to cook that shit up, go to fucking Wall St or something

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

Gonna get real dark when people start trying to honest to God res people with AI

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

this zone can (will) get so much cooler

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

ever think about how they haven't even fired the "nationwide ban of mifepristone" gun yet?

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L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

Useful idiots, you might say!

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

The French? Rude? Say it aint so

L. Kandorkovich (Scared) @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

Also pretty telling that everyone's strongest defense of this person is that they were one of the earliest people on BlueSky --- ok man, who gives a shit? You just reinvented the idea that people who have been around forever get a pass on bad behavior!

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