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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 38m

This is so disappointing from Miller, a guy known for his diligence and attention to every creative detail. AI couldn't do Babe: Pig in the City, and I know that sounds like sarcasm, but have you seen that movie lately? It's so gloriously weird.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 59m

It's so warm too.

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 1h

It's AI. You can find a tiktok of it and the moose is just completely still the whole time. No breathing or anything. It's fake.

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 1h

Not sure this is my most successful lewk. I think if I'd had a simple black dress it might have been better. But I don't so cat castle and jacket it is.

A woman showing off her long blue coat with a pattern of flowers and bullfinches.

A selfie of the woman with dark blonde hair, showing off the shoulder of the jacket and a strand of dark beads.

A woman with dark blonde hair in a dark dress with a cathedral window in it, also wearing a dark blue coat with flowers.

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 1h

Plus if you can't read the Bible, because it's in Latin, who knows what it says! It could say anything they want!!!

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 1h

Today just feels like a really bad day. Where the weight of everything going on is getting to me.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 1h

Without at all minimizing the horror of this position (just about nothing compares to the cruelty of chattel slavery!!!), imagine the similar conversation you could have with many, many Christians today about the abolition of prisons

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2h

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 1h

This is how reporting should be going. You should be focusing on the people who are being hurt and why. Instead of the BS excuses.

NPR @npr.org · 3h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 2h

He's the sweetest. I think of him a bit like a true tiny tim, minus the showing people's gods love by suffering in front of them. (He has feline leukemia)

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16h

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Kamu! ✨ @kamu.bsky.social · 3h

Those using AI as a crutch don't know you produce your best academic work under that hellish last minute pressure. My university professors asked to enter one of my last minute essays on the works of Marie de France into a national competition and I got a cash prize 💸💸💸

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 14h

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
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It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 2h

Proof of enjoyment:

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 3h

She wants to look amazing for world domination!

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 3h

Herschel likes me to just leave a brush for him so that he can rub on it.

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 11h

I only got a B on my Beowulf essay that was about how it was clearly just about how heroism was stupid (...not my best work) but I was still fucking proud of that.

Even if I lost like ten percent for doing L bid instead of Ibid. Because l and I look the same and I wasn't sure which it was.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 14h

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.

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 11h

The picture doesn't do justice to the way she's almost half asleep and then I put a bit of a night creme on and she's immediately awake, staring like I'm killing her one and only child.

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 11h

And now I'm self petting myself!!! After I rejected her!!! How dare I!

An annoyed orange cat stares at the camera while splayed out like she's Cleopatra or Jabba the Hut.

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 11h

I'm doing one of those nose masks and the way my cat is looking at me like "You're very weird. Why are you doing this? This is why you moved me off your lap?"

A very confused and concerned orange kitty.

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Bwillett Comics, Monster Boyfriend Specialist @bwillettcomics.bsky.social · 8d

It's official October! You are legally obligated to read my long running horror comic for the season

Bwillett Comics, Monster Boyfriend Specialist @bwillettcomics.bsky.social · Jul 20

Midnight Menagerie, an ongoing horror comedy. Join LA horror fan Shawn & his new monster friends as they stumble into supernatural situations in the spirit of the old EC comics: http://www.bwillettcomics.com/midnightmenagerie

New pages every Thursday with mirrors on Tapas, Webtoons and GlobalComix

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 13h

That more people aren't throwing mad money at Jorge R. Guttierrez shows the world is bad.

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 13h

I will hand in my museum badge and gun tomorrow.

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 13h

"I know one of your looney staff members must have done it."

...me. I'm the one who decided we should have bottle rocket day during our exhibit about building rockets and missiles.

It was me. I'm the looney staff member.

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 13h

My mom started harping in a program we're doing and how she hoped it wouldn't be doing it outside in the middle of the night

Then explained that she didn't like it that we did something in the summer in the parking lot.

Apparently we should have shot rockets inside.

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 23h

It's my first from my brain design. So I think that's part of the problem. I'm really having to roll with the punches, like I thought I could just stack more stitches but some of them don't stack they just devour each other.

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