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Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 14h

Jim Lee promises that DC will never use AI, saying "AI doesn't dream, feel, or make art."

Iconic Artist Jim Lee Takes Firm Anti-AI Stance at DC Comics

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 13h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 11h

This is so good that it made me deadlift 3 heirloom pumpkins and then go get a Pumpkin Spice Gladiator smoothie from Smoothie King 💪🎃

Picture of 3 heirloom pumpkins on a concrete porch stoop

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Lane! Draws! Comics! @lanedraws.bsky.social · 20h

Things aren't looking super great right now, so if you have any art you need done, I'm very available. I've worked with Ahoy, IDW, Legendary, Oni, Image, and plenty of amazing indie writers. My portfolio is down below.

Portfolio: lanelloyd.crevado.com

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Michele Manos @michelemanos.bsky.social · 15h

Senators who are concerned about RFK Jr. are awaiting a mailbag full of postcards from scientists, doctors, and other professionals. PLEASE take a minute to add your voice. We need thousands to respond:
www.defendpublichealth.org/campaign/hel...

Help Prove RFK Jr. is Wrong | Defend Public Health

When Senator Wyden stated he’d heard from thousands of doctors and scientists concerned by RFK Jr’s policies, Kennedy responded "I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day.” Let's prove Kennedy ...

www.defendpublichealth.org

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 17h

I am never going to be a fan of a politician. That way lies disappointment. But Pritzker right now is the person I think is calibrating it right.

This isn’t negotiating about social security with W. You either get that or you don’t.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 17h

Doing the Matt Bors you made me become a Nazi meme but it's because Siri and Alexa have girly names

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 19h

It's racist when you say my fancy Markov model doesn't actually know how to play Go

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 19h

What's to clarify? It's a category error to say an LLM can "plan" because that's an attribute of a living creature, not a statistical model. The onus is on you to convince the world that "infer >1 word" = "plan". Good luck. For the philosophy, see eg from @cv-danes.com

cv-danes.com/2024/12/12/a...

Artificial Intelligence and the Category Mistake

In which I make the case that comparisons between the capabilities of humans intelligence and artificial intelligence to be a category mistake and why you should care.

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kamarad evpok @handle.invalid · 20h

"why dehumanise a pile of maths" YOU CAN'T DEHUMANISE SOMETHING THAT'S NOT HUMAN YOU FUCK

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 19h

What's to clarify? It's a category error to say an LLM can "plan" because that's an attribute of a living creature, not a statistical model. The onus is on you to convince the world that "infer >1 word" = "plan". Good luck. For the philosophy, see eg from @cv-danes.com

cv-danes.com/2024/12/12/a...

Artificial Intelligence and the Category Mistake

In which I make the case that comparisons between the capabilities of humans intelligence and artificial intelligence to be a category mistake and why you should care.

cv-danes.com

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Bibiki🌱 @bibikigarcia.com · 20h

Arco is still 40% on Steam ('till October 20th) 🏹

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 23h

There was a guy in the DC Union Station men's room with a harmonica held up against the Dyson Airblade like an aggressively busking Alanis Morissette

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 1d

Everett True is an ally.

Outbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · 1d

East Oregonian
Pendleton Oregon
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 1d

#Florida woman turned AG Pam Bondi regards Senate testimony the way Don Rickles regarded comedy: Prepare your insults in advance.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 1d

At least I can still respect Larry the Cable Guy

Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 1d

New It Could Happen Here 🎤

Robert, James, Mia, and Gare talk about the comedians who sold their soul to perform stand up for the royal family in Saudi Arabia.

@iwriteok.bsky.social @jamesstout.bsky.social @miawong.bsky.social @bishonentype.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

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Pablo Galindo Salgado @pablogsal.com · 1d

🐍 Python 3.14 is here! 🎉

✨ Template strings (t-strings) for safer string interpolation
🚀 Free-threaded Python officially supported (bye GIL!)
🎨 Syntax highlighting in the REPL
📦 Zstandard compression in stdlib
🔍 Remote PDB debugging

Full release notes: docs.python.org/3.14/whatsne...

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 1d

Did you know I wrote a book about the origins of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, console RPGs, and their rise to success in North America?

Aɴᴅʀᴇᴡ Lɪᴘᴛᴀᴋ @andrewliptak.com · 27d

Aidan Moher's Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West is an outstanding exploration of the rise of the genre and how it's shaped popular culture.

Here's my review: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/aidan-moher-...

Review: Fight, Magic, Items by Aidan Moher

Aidan Moher's Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West is an outstanding exploration of the rise of the genre and how it's shaped popu...

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michael @modality.bsky.social · Jul 29

AI is two projects. The first is willfully degrading definitions to create a void of meaning (any algorithm is AI). The second is projecting propaganda into that void (AI can replace labor, is sentient).

This creates a space where you can claim "the Pac-Man ghosts are sentient" to sell products.

Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · Jul 29

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation.
After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

if you've been curious about the vague sense of conflict between the bluesky team and users of this service (which I will cop to feeding into without fully explaining), this post should catch you up nicely

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Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals

As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 2d

"For too long, we have outsourced how we define prestige to the indexers and specifically the impact factor. This has created a system in which the need to get published in prestigious journals creates bad incentives for authors to inflate their findings to tell a good story."

Putting knowledge before prestige | Laboratory News

Our reliance upon the impact factor is destroying public trust in science, argues Damian Pattinson.

www.labnews.co.uk

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 1d

Very proud to be part of the MD @standupforscience.bsky.social group where I am learning about these events from @ianlmorgan.bsky.social and @ecotrombonegal.bsky.social

Like @nicbennett.bsky.social says, resistance starts at the local level

AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 1d

V encouraging to hear @alsobrooks.senate.gov @brookelierman.bsky.social & Bmore Councilwoman Porter speak out against RFK's budget cuts at this town hall, & stand w/scientists from @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social @hopkinspro-uaw.bsky.social @uaw.org 2070

www.alsobrooks.senate.gov/press-releas...

Senator Alsobrooks Attends Town Hall Focused on RFK Jr.’s Dangerous Funding Cuts - Senator Angela Alsobrooks

September 22, 2025 BALTIMORE, MD – Saturday, September 20, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) attended a Town Hall alongside Comptroller Brooke Lierman, Baltimore City Councilwoman Phylicia Porter, NI...

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 1d

V encouraging to hear @alsobrooks.senate.gov @brookelierman.bsky.social & Bmore Councilwoman Porter speak out against RFK's budget cuts at this town hall, & stand w/scientists from @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social @hopkinspro-uaw.bsky.social @uaw.org 2070

www.alsobrooks.senate.gov/press-releas...

Senator Alsobrooks Attends Town Hall Focused on RFK Jr.’s Dangerous Funding Cuts - Senator Angela Alsobrooks

September 22, 2025 BALTIMORE, MD – Saturday, September 20, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) attended a Town Hall alongside Comptroller Brooke Lierman, Baltimore City Councilwoman Phylicia Porter, NI...

www.alsobrooks.senate.gov

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 2d

an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-waffles critic out there, i think you'd agree some of the most bigoted things are being said to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing "dna" with "whip cream" doesn't make it ok

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 4d

yeah they're really good

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to this! A non-Elsevier alternative to Theoretical Population Biology / Journal of Theoretical Biology

Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 8d

Population Biology Modeling & Theory (PBMT) is a peer-reviewed journal reporting advances in modeling and theory within population biology. Its scope spans demography, ecology, epidemiology, evolutionary biology, population genetics, and phylogenetics. PBMT will be online soon.

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