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/\__/\__/\__/ @cardiograms.bsky.social · 4d

Learning that the CEO of this website reads books from the middle to skip the "boring" parts really clarified the whole project for me tbh.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 4d

You don't have to get less angry as you get older. That's why you have to drink more water. It's coolant for the rage

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 6d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 4d

whew that last repost is really it for me when it comes to computer sentience - way too many people way too comfortable professing they want to own another agentic personality

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 4d

Luckily, computers aren't sentient. And they never will be. But the fact that people THINK they own sentient creatures and aren't troubled by that idea is... deeply worrying

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 4d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 5d

Ah so maybe the “depictions of fictional violence is the same as real violence” people and “ChatGPT should have personhood” people are maybe the same type of people

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 5d

fascinating that "no, the computer is not alive" and "yes, it's questionable to gleefully say anti-computer phrases modeled after racial slurs" are two thoughts people are struggling to reconcile

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 18d

Looking at art as Art - something that doesn’t have to swaddle you up in emotional comfort and confirm you - gives you the chance to think about what you hold as moral and why. If you want art to agree with you all the time, you erode your ability to question the world and yourself

kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 18d

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 18d

i should run the nfl. the tush push and taunting are all legal. who cares. let them play ball

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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 19d

i just keep coming back to the chasm between the excitement i felt as a kid with the ways technology could help me connect with more people directly and the demoralizing way LLM use now is abstracting away from connection by putting a chatbot between people

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 20d

every time we talk about parental permission in terms of book banning I'm like fuck man. kids have rights too. a 17-year-old should be able to check out books at the library without Mom and Dad stepping in. so should a 10-year-old or 7 or whatever. kids deserve SOME goddamn freedom and privacy

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 23d

Absolutely none of us know what we're doing. Become a writer

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 22d

Firing everyone who calls a loser a loser does not make the loser less of a loser and that's what these losers don't get. They will NEVER NOT BE LOSERS

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 22d

trans people aren't the downfall of civilization no matter how many monster truck show people who pivoted to blasphemous megachurch spectacles say so. they weren't right about pokemon cards or e-drugs or whatever, they're not right about this. it's a stalking horse for social domination by losers

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 22d

this shit on us is a trial balloon. the spiritual equivalent of the most obnoxious motherfucker in your office will not rest until he can call the cops on you for buying the wrong shoes. they never do. cut that shit off at the pass or you're next

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 22d

here's the nut of my appeal to cis people on the escalating transphobia: do you really want some college debate club dweeb who fooled a bunch of dealerships into buying him a state senate seat deciding how you dress and act and live for you

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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 26d

congratulations to our amazing friend @zinrock.bsky.social for being invited to panel at a con that will both fill the creative well AND is an accessible local Florida event! let’s help Teri get to this creative community!

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Micah @rincewind.run · Sep 5

well there's been a lot of bullshit today but hopefully we can at least end it with the Dallas Cowboys getting their shit kicked in on national television

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