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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1h

Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in a Make-A-Wish thing for unlikable children who are sticking around longer than expected.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

"Pikachu Actual, Jennifer 1, over"

"Go ahead Jennifer 1, over."

"[inaudible]...smashed and running low on Advil."

"Jennifer 1, can you make it to CVS?"

*static*

"Jennifer 1, respond!"

*more static*

www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...

Pentagon Pete Cosplays After Bizarre General Pep Talk

The Defense Secretary suited up for a new photo op with the troops.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 36m

I look forward to the argument that they were in danger from the crowd below

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s video of the incident

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 10h

so cool that red lining and economic policy has resulted in a plug and play landed gentry class

Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 12h

Another evening of “this is why your city has a housing shortage”

Another room full of (mostly) older attendees for a public meeting about the Family Zoning Plan

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 12h

Same creature

a cartoon of a man and a woman with the word animation on the bottom left

Alt: A cartoon reindeer trying to hide and seek out of a door, except he has it exactly backwards and is standing in the doorway and peeking at the wall

media.tenor.com

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 12h

My friend's cat is so cute man

A white cat looking vaguely distraught as she tries to hide under a rug, except she's on managed to get about 2/3rds of herself under it

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 12h

Snorehammer 420k by James Jorkslop

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 13h

He could never live up to the ideals of the humble possum

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 13h

Glgl

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 13h

Gavin Poosom

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Ed @ed3d.net · 13h

the people whose threat models exclude this reality should stop posting

please. we'll all be better off

eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 13h

PSA:
it would be trivial to save everything that comes through the firehose for use in training generative AI

the open design of atproto makes this possible and the culture of alt text on bluesky provides free human generated image labels

if you can see it then so can an automated system

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14h

Bluesky revealed that they are using an automated image filtering system, ie something that uses AI, and people are losing their shit.

It is made even dumber because people (understandably) have feelings about their art/photos being by AI systems… except this is a public network.

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Chelsea Love @whatserface.bsky.social · 16h

"Im from the government and I'm here to help' is the scariest thing someone could say" yeah say that to the victims of the USAID cuts, you edgelord.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 16h

just to build on this, end users periodically rediscover "not your keys, not your data" from first principles, whine about it, and then go back to not caring. seen it dozens of times.

daniel @justdaniel.bsky.social · 17h

This is a thing I think most people really don't get. High-end scraping tools can login to all of the major social media and are scraping the fuck out of all of it. There are orgs building private equivalents of the Wayback Machine for purposes much less civic-minded.

We're already in a panopticon

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 18h

Absolutely nothing about this site’s architecture stops AI companies from scraping and training on it right now. The company everyone is freaking out about has clear license terms that say they aren’t doing that, but anything you post here is absolutely being used by someone for training

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 17h

The difference between Europe being opt in and the US being opt out was a meaningful constraint on my last job xd

And I'm not prone to KEPITALISM post but I do not see even a hint of a fight on that subject happening because it would break the back of advertising (good)

ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 17h

guy who forgot he has to run a primary before the general and is alienating his base at every turn face

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 18h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 17h

I'm sorry my brain is like this btw

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 17h

missive and shootable

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 17h

The theory here: We doing crimes to create the BlueskAI, the GenAI that gives you CSAM every hundred rolls of the dice, war gooning 10% of the time, and FB political slop 40% of the time. An unquantified remaining percent is dick pics.

Bossett @bossett.social · 18h

wait so the conspiracy is that content moderation is a play to train AI in a sneaky illegal fashion, taking an absurd risk in storing pre-moderation originals, and feeding them into a genAI model... for the purposes of capturing image data before it's posted unprotected to a public social network?

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 18h

That's the one thing conservatives have that I am actually jealous of. They know how the game is played and either shut up or can at least tamp shit down before it turns into electoral problems

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 18h

hard not to get a little blackpilled about every attempt to push things leftward getting immediately cannibalized because people are too fucking stupid to understand politicianspeak

Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 19h

if you find yourself yelling at Kat over this you're ngmi

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 18h

ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 18h

Someone pithier than me really needs to figure out how to rework "Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others." into a rallying cry. It's not some high minded philosophical position, just the best solution to keeping Pandora's Box shut

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 19h

Hence there is a side of liberalism that you frame not in terms of rights but security. Unless you constrain the king, he is a security threat to you!

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 18h

up and out into the streets, exercise is important

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 18h

It is important to have a hobby

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 18h

man the logistics and economics of making games is so interesting and also some real esoteric nerd shit

Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 18h

So I regularly see some confusion about the OG female Space Marine models so let's do story time:
So before Warhammer was a thing Games Workshop started as a small miniature producer for tabletop RPGs that expanded into minature wargames as a way to get people to buy more minis.

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah I took French in college and I cannot understand the Quebec accent to save my life. I imagine it's kind of like what an extreme southern drawl is to nonnative English speakers. Weirdly though, Acadian and Cajun are mostly fine

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