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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 18h

Cool, finally a place kids can enjoy.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 18h

4chan unlikely to be included in Australia’s under-16s social media ban, eSafety commissioner says

Julie Inman Grant says message board will need to comply with other codes which will also include age assurance for sites hosting violent and adult content * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The eSafety commissioner is not expected to block children from accessing 4chan as part of the under-16s social media ban, despite it being labelled one of the “darker” places on the internet. The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, was asked by independent senator Fatima Payman in Senate estimates on Wednesday night whether 4chan, the message board often referred to as the engine room of the internet, would be considered one of the sites required to prevent under-16s when the social media ban comes into effect from 10 December. Continue reading...

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is like the Oprah of threatening to jail people

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Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 23h

Haha! That’s great. Potato is much funnier than a mandarin though 😀

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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

Trying to speedrun martial law before the economy collapses

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 1d

If I was Halloween marketing mandarins I’d put labels on them to say “☠️☠️☠️we are the worst fruit, give this to someone as a trick, we stink and taste like shit ☠️☠️☠️”

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Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 1d

If I was a kid and I went trick or treating and someone tried to hand me a mandarin I would lose my fucking shit

Photo of bags of mandarins at the supermarket with labels saying “trick or treat the healthy way”

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Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 1d

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Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 2d

Chat, I received a reply that said “Haha hahahaha, brilliant” how do I respond?

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Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 2d

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Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 2d

Defenders of these things always say “you have no expectation of privacy in public and filming is legal” ok but we are not consenting to have that footage uploaded to the fucking internet. There needs to be restrictions and consequences on that end

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Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to whoever at Rayban who made the decision to partner with Meta on these things for turning the image of all Raybans from a timeless cool classic brand of sunglasses into snitch spectacles for perverts

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 3d

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming https://gizmodo.com/buckle-up-the-smart-glasses-backlash-is-coming-2000668213

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming

Is this #glassholes 2.0?

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

I think it should be socially and legally acceptable to smack these clean off somebody's face if they're filming you against your will

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 3d

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming https://gizmodo.com/buckle-up-the-smart-glasses-backlash-is-coming-2000668213

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming

Is this #glassholes 2.0?

gizmodo.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed" so succinct! so good!

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 3d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 3d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 3d

Bread and puppet theater

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not worried: Once ICE rounds up all the illegals, they'll stop.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d

The text here doesn’t even do it justice. Watch the video. His brain is just soup at this point.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "Please remember I wrote Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center. And I said, 'You gotta watch Osama bin Laden!' ... I gotta take a little credit."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 5d

Absolutely heinous.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 3d

I know a lot of people really really do not want to have to care about the Jay Madness Discourse.

But it is actually a really bad thing that the CEO of the platform we all decamped to because Elon got transphobic mod madness...

...is now doing transphobic mod madness.

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 3d

FREE LINK NOW

This is a Black person who has been on Bluesky forever and apparently just got banned for calling Jay transphobic.

We are at the "hurting the mods' feelings is a bannable offense" stage of Jay's meltdown, now

Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 4d

So @spacelawshitpost.me aka Link got banned. I just got text message.

So yeah. We stop saying things are accidents now?

Link of all people?

Apparently Jay said something to him before taking him down. He didn’t even get a chance to reply.

He sent this image.

This is sad.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 4d

As with AI "authors" and "artists" all I can say is what a sucker!

See, AI is about eliminating the middle man and these people don't realize that they are the middle man up for the chop. Why go to Paramount or Warner or Disney for an AI movie when you can go to the AI company?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

“.. a Hollywood studio chief was crowing about how great A.I. is because he wouldn’t have to pay ‘all these idiot producers and actors and lighting people and composers and writers and agents.’”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

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Kel @kellulz.bsky.social · 5d

How about a cat video 😺📦

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