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Cintia 🎙️ PudimCast® @cintiapudim.bsky.social · 11d

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Albania’s AI minister speaks! And turns out to be an actor

Edi Rama, the Prime Minister of Albania, proclaimed last week he was appointing a new government minister who would be … an AI! [Politico] Rama said in July: [Politico] One day, we might even…

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1h

The craziest thing I’m chasing down: I don’t believe that stargate abilene has even close to enough power, nor is it possible for them to build it before the year 2027. They have a 200mw substation and an unfinished 350mw gas turbine plant.

They need 1GW+ and it’s still in the design phase!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1h

The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.

Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 2h

She is the COO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_o... of bsky. This is worrying because after the 'we are turning waffles into an anti-trans thing' by the CEO the CEO started to follow a transphobe. Shows a pattern.

Wonder when we find out one of them follows the discovery institute.

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getting laid like crazy since 1995

that's when i realised this internet thing had the juice

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 11h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 11h

The more I read the responses by BlueSky's dev team, the more annoyed I am about the ways that they've squandered the promise of what this site could be.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 3h

I did a WW1 one as well, as there was a real flurry of "find out your role in [X] war!!!" type stuff for a while.

Asked about ten questions then 70% time replied with "killed by artillery while doing [random mundane daily trench task]"

People got angry with that one as well.

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Avocado Aficionado @darksidestraxus.bsky.social · 3h

I was today years old when I found out the person who unironically believes that insulting Gen AI is racist is the person who came up with the Starter Packs.

Learn something new everyday.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2h

Bluesky search isn't broken, the devs are just overloading the system trying to find posts that they can use to ban random trans women

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1h

There are only two types of products and services now: outright scam and pseudo scam (where you're like ehh technically I got something in exchange for my money but cmon)

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 3h

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 4h

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 4h

Here’s the thing about social media moderation: you need to have both a provision and a practice of keeping people off your platform even if they don’t break any of your rules but are simply just a fucking asshole. And of course off-platform behavior is a legitimate reason.

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 3d

“Great. We just created AI hipsters.”

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YouTube’s AI DJ — interrupting your paid ad-free music

and we have a recording of the voice!

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Raptor @raptornx01.bsky.social · 5d

If you're simping for a tech that steals art, steals jobs, destroys relationships, causes mental harm, and even causes deaths, you don't get to cry when people mock you.

and to others, don't let bad faith actors try to use your moral conscience to manipulate you.

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does this list pass muster with you?

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Trashkitten Deluxe @trashkittendeluxe.bsky.social · 3d

Oh she's getting worse. Like any tech-fascist, she's now just throwing random social-justice language at the wall in the hopes that some of it sticks and somehow magically validates her.