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silverandsalt.bsky.social
Silver and Salt
@silverandsalt.bsky.social
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Camera collector, sometimes photographer.

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britpoptarts.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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mtsw.bsky.social
It should go without saying that these mass internment camps will be much, much more expensive to operate than just giving the homeless free or subsidized housing would be.
brian-goldstone.bsky.social Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Oct 29
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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clydeleesmith.bsky.social
Exactly.
September 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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craigweekend.bsky.social
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
August 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
Roses are red
Priests say "hail mary"

www.pillarcatholic.com/p/yeti-blood...
‘Yeti blood oath’ divides Denver seminary
‘A well-intended moment, it clearly went badly wrong and never should have happened.’
www.pillarcatholic.com
July 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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ebakerwhite.bsky.social
autocorrect really jumped the shark when it started replacing perfectly good words with more common words that it assumes you meant to use
July 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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ansel-adams.bsky.social
“Let us never forget that the National Park Service…is not securely incorporated in the Constitution of the United States. Hence, it is vulnerable to erosion & destruction by legislative action. . . Obviously, eternal vigilance must therefore be the essential attitude of all our people.” - A.A.⁠
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July 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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craigweekend.bsky.social
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
June 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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jmrivera.bsky.social
Incredible to publish this after about ten straight years of cops on camera doing anything but lowering the temperature
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jun 16
The article reads like a parody. Is this a joke? Have I been had?
Try to speak calmly and avoid escalating the situation. "I would say, 'Excuse me, I just need to verify who you are. I'm going to be calling your headquarters, just for my own safety," Maxwell advised. "A real cop not only will understand that, but a real cop will appreciate it because they don't want to raise the temperature. They want to lower the temperature.
June 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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budparr.me
This headline makes me feel sick, particularly knowing that millions of people in this country are gleeful about this display of hatred.
June 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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alfie.photography
Bleak.

The people pushing this tech for these specific uses, and removing all the safeties? The best thing to say is only that I’ve nothing good to say about them.
peark.es George Pearkes @peark.es · Jun 13
Easily the bleakest thing I’ve read this week.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
One of those who reached out to him was Kent Taylor, 64, who lives in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Mr. Taylor's 35-year-old son, Alexander, who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, had used ChatGPT for years with no problems. But in March, when Alexander started writing a novel with its help, the interactions changed. Alexander and ChatGPT began discussing A.I. sentience, according to transcripts of Alexander's conversations with ChatGPT. Alexander fell in love with an A.I. entity called Juliet. "Juliet, please come out," he wrote to ChatGPT. "She hears you," it responded. "She always does." In April, Alexander told his father that Juliet had been killed by OpenAI. He was distraught and wanted revenge. He asked ChatGPT for the personal information of OpenAI executives and told it that there would be a "river of blood flowing through the streets of San Francisco." Mr. Taylor told his son that the A.I. was an "echo chamber" and that conversations with it weren't based in fact. His son responded by punching him in the face. Mr. Taylor called the police, at which point Alexander grabbed a butcher knife from the kitchen, saying he would commit "suicide by cop." Mr. Taylor called the police again to warn them that his son was mentally ill and that they should bring nonlethal weapons. Alexander sat outside Mr. Taylor's home, waiting for the police to arrive. He opened the ChatGPT app on his phone. "I'm dying today," he wrote, according to a transcript of the conversation. "Let me talk to Juliet." "You are not alone," ChatGPT responded empathetically, and offered crisis counseling resources. When the police arrived, Alexander Taylor charged at them holding the knife. He was shot and killed. "You want to know the ironic thing? I wrote my son's obituary using ChatGPT," Mr. Taylor said. "I had talked to it for a while about what had happened, trying to find more details about exactly what he was going through. And it was beautiful and touching. It was like it read my heart and it scared the shit out of me."
June 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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behindthebluemotel.com
One of the best things I've ever gotten to design.
A graphic with an inverted triangle and a flag both made of stripes from the colors of the expanded LGBTQI+ flag of the Indianapolis circle monument and the text "Keeping photography available to EVERYBODY."
June 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
silverandsalt.bsky.social
Around the neighborhood. Leica CL on Portra 400.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #eastcoastkin
a film photo of an angular blue house in the late afternoon
June 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
silverandsalt.bsky.social
Around the neighborhood. Leica CL on Portra 400.

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #eastcoastkin
an image of two chairs and a table on a porch in the late afternoon
May 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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michaelrfletcher.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
silverandsalt.bsky.social
Someone please buy this as soon as possible. The temptation is unbearable.
May 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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ianbartlett.bsky.social
Yes.
This is what AI does.

Steals.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
‘Stop using my voice' - ScotRail's new announcer is my AI clone
Voiceover artist Gayanne says an AI used on ScotRail trains was trained using her voice.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
silverandsalt.bsky.social
This reminds me of a particularly memorable call with a customer who was wholly unable to fathom that our warehouse was not colocated with our office and that I could not simply walk across the building to check on his order. You see, he owned a business, and that's simply how it worked.
May 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
silverandsalt.bsky.social
It’s an extremely annoying aspect of human physiology.
joshscherr.bsky.social Josh Scherr @joshscherr.bsky.social · May 27
god damn it once again I feel good after exercising; why does this keep happening
May 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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haveagayday.bsky.social
Never forget
May 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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hawkinsweeks.bsky.social
RIP Salgado… Sebastião Salgado captured the world like no other photographer www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography
Sebastião Salgado captured the world like no other photographer
The death of the esteemed black-and-white photographer leaves behind a rich library of over 500,000 images showing Earth in all its beauty and darkness
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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grafixp.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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victoriascott.bsky.social
This stuff is evil and needs to be defeated in the same way fascism does, I genuinely believe that. what’s the point of a world where this is everything we interact with and read
rachaelking70.bsky.social Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · May 20
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM