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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 6h

Give Nagi a sickle

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 6h

People overlook the pedagogical value of bodacious edutainment at their peril.

Which is why I'm commissioning Studio Bind to adapt Das Kapital.

unhinged eldritch abomination @rhymeswithk.bsky.social · 6h

Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 6h

Me, struggling to get a win with the Defect in Slay the Spire

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · Aug 25

the human mind was not meant to perceive more than 1-2 orbs per day

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 8h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 2d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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Tony @shintonty.bsky.social · 1d

this post really lives in my head

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 1d

War on Christmas smh

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 3d

it's so fucking funny that pro-AI guys insist AI is alive because they don't understand what humans are

Shrikant Joshi @shrikant.bsky.social · 3d

That's a very dismissive construct of LLMs, IMHO. Yes they are stochastic and yes they are 'robotic' but here's a sentence for you to ponder:

Humans are just advanced language output algorithms that spit out returns based on input and their reference library.

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bill people believe anything you put here esq @polearmguy.bsky.social · 3d

"it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 3d

I swear Friedland has a curse where he can sell any bit, but the second he says something he actually thinks is true he instantly seems untrustworthy.

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder what the overlap of people with no internal monologue and people who think chatbots are people is

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 3d

I am no longer saying “I want to eat dinner” because you could replace “dinner” with “children” and that would be v problematic

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

*takes massive bong rip*

hailey
@hailey.at • 6h
an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you'd agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing "dna" with "bits" doesn't make it ok
4J @dystopiabreaker.xyz • 3d
i'm completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron
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hailey
@hailey.at • 6h
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 3d

fucked up how the Machine That Remixes Its Inputs Into Outputs has produced an Output that seems like a Remix of many of its Inputs. well applying the principle of occams razor, the simplest explanation here is that it must possess conscience. there is no other way

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 3d

“Hating a computer program is racism” is such a funny belief to talk yourself into.

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tub faucet diverter gate @fermentable.bsky.social · 3d

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 4d

If you want to see what the world's plan is for climate change, look to Gaza. The plan is walls, and exploitation, deprivation, and slaughter for anyone on the wrong side. All in the name of security for the protected. She understands this perfectly and so should you.

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 4d

Society (1989)

Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 4d

Why stop at company mergers? Billionaires could merge too. Instead of three guys, there could be just a BeZuckerMusk

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 4d

These people are starting to make me believe in p-zombies.

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Tom Arnold @tomfarnold.bsky.social · 4d

Day 4: Murky #inktober2025

It was this or Clanker.

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 5d

For Silicon Valley VCs, building a social media website is their version of posting.

They fart out some half considered bullshit and, if it attracts a following they get a big blast of dopamine.

But, eventually, they get sick of all the notifications and announce "muting this now" and take off