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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 7h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 10h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 7h

oun mare ootbarst lyk thet, consulur, end ime haldyng ew en

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 7h

cottemt

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dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 7h

i will vote for anybody who fixes the headlight brightness situation

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 8h

I think I've played that one.

some cards from famously complicated cyberpunk card game Netrunner

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 11h

REI easily top of the list of companies most likely to do a land acknowledgement before layoffs

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11h

REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...

REI Co-Op’s Boston location is set to close next year - The Boston Globe

REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 14h

same. and I've seen ... a lot of unusual shit in federal court prior to these days.

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 15h

Chowder.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 16h

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

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 18h

I really feel like millennials especially resent the copyright theft part of these AI data centers because of this.

Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 18h

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 18h

overcursed

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 20h

I have not, but would love to if they're public!

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 20h

I have strong thoughts and feelings about this, but I bet someone's spit out an entire law review article on it already somewhere.

I'd cite the google book-scanning cases as a turning point when "if your pockets are deep enough" became an unspoken additional fair-use factor.

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 22h

sounds like they were going to hitch a ride with the ARC Rally?

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23h

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Jake, Subject Matter Expert @thewoodlandman.bsky.social · 1d

Not particularly enjoying being correct about this, actually.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

Just have to take a beat to say that the people that have long warned about state violence and the militarization of law enforcement were right.

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 1d

haha ok go off, my liege

You will not get any automated email henceforth.

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

sort of a tangent but I'd love to know if the hive[dot]ai folks are aware of that issue, and what their explanation for it is.

hive.ai

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

(but accepting your premise that any system would flag that image, I'd argue that's a strong case for "the tech isn't mature enough yet, turn it off and let users tag the post for human review if needed")

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 1d

This will put to rest forever the question of "Is horse transit?"

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 1d

New: NYC's largest transit union is taking steps to sue Mayor Adams’ top aide, Randy Mastro, and other politically-connected people over allegations they engaged in a “deceptive enterprise” to ban NYC's horse carriage industry.

w/ @simko-bednarski.bsky.social
www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/07/n...

NYC transit union preparing to sue Adams’ donors, top aide over push to ban horse carriages

New York’s largest transit union is making preparations to launch legal action against Mayor Adams’ top aide, Randy Mastro, and several other politically-connected individuals amid an e…

www.nydailynews.com

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

I think that's where we're seeing differently here - I think a properly configured automated system shouldn't find anything flag-worthy in image 4.

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

that excludes a big middle ground there, in that most automated content moderation tools have pretty tunable settings for what gets escalated for human review.

(I'd still argue those tools dish out too many false positives to be better than manual "report->review->decide" moderation in practice)

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

they're probably just misplaced.

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

for the foreseeable future, I predict this mostly leads to a boom in video authenticity expert challenges, with no substantive rule changes for ~1 decade at least.

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

exactly. but, also, in both crim and civil cases, a load-bearing form of evidence that both sides would be loath to give up.

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

I broadly like that technical solution (reminds me of PGP-based message verification ideas going back to the '90s)

the tough part is, you'd still need a rules or norms update that essentially says "video is presumed inauthentic & inadmissible unless [reliable technical solution] is used."

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