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Emily

@eoso.bsky.social

This is incredibly imaginative and horrifying and beautiful

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · May 7

A woman talented in the art of spinning–creating pottery by manipulating clay in her mouth–longs to become the best, but wonders if it is worth the sacrifices she must make...

"Squid Teeth" by Sarah Langan is out now!
Art by Chloé Biocca
Edited by @datlow.bsky.social

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Squid Teeth - Reactor

A woman talented in the art of spinning--creating pottery by manipulating clay in her mouth--longs to become the best, but wonders if it is worth the sacrifices she must make…

reactormag.com

May 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Reposted by Emily

Pookleblinky

@pookleblinky.bsky.social

The thing about federal bureaucracy is that all the institutional knowledge that makes them work invisibly in such as making sure your milk doesn't contain formaldehyde, is stored inside people who would make twice as much money in another job.

February 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM

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C. L. Polk

@clpolk.com

With alt-text, because yes

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"Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else.
The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn't be able to. Private schools and private limos and private doctors and private security are all pressure release valves that eliminate the friction that would cause powerful people to call for all of these bad things to get better. The degree to which we allow the rich to insulate themselves from the unpleasant reality that others are forced to experience is directly related to how long that reality is allowed to stay unpleasant. When they are left with no other option, rich people will force improvement in public systems. Their public spirit will be infinitely less urgent when they are contemplating these things from afar than when they are sitting in a hot ER waiting room for six hours themselves."
— Everyone Into The Grinder

December 2, 2024 at 4:50 AM

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Ivy - "Perfect Pervert"

@ivynyx.bsky.social

OK, but could you find a way to tune this AI so that it doesn't sexualize female or trans bodies?

We are constantly finding ourselves labeled "adult content" when it's completely innocuous.

AI moderation means that the mistakes/prejudices of the past perpetuate into the future.

Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 15

Bluesky uses AI internally to assist in content moderation, which helps us triage posts and shield human moderators from harmful content. We also use AI in the Discover algorithmic feed to serve you posts that we think you’d like.

None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content.

November 15, 2024 at 7:36 PM