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Chronocosmic Wizard @aespir.bsky.social · 6h

or they put someone's grandma in jail

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 6h

Pay attention to which premiers are defending the notwithstanding clause. They want to violate your rights.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 6h

Mad God

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Zak Jarvis @zakjarvis.bsky.social · 6h

Apparently DHS includes the Ghostbusters (which tracks, honestly).

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 6h

As long as the notwithstanding clause exists Canadians have no rights.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 6h

Antifaschistische Aktion was founded in 1932.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 9h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah. Same.

Ariel @mermaidthighs.gay · 6h

im not going to mastodon so like, if this is it, hit me up for discord or signal

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 6h

I would love to buy a copy despite never having even bought a Batman comic before.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6h

My single Red Hood issue was the 15th best-selling comic of September, like out of all serialized comics in America. Incredibly funny.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 6h

Libs fawn over him for his hard-line opinions about Xinjiang and then get confused when he suggests Bad Bunny doing the Superbowl halftime show is the Great Replacement

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 6h

Drew Pavlou should be such an informative example that most hard-line anticommunists are weirdo far-right CHUDS.

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N.A. Pearson 🇵🇸🚩 @napearson.bsky.social · 11h

I wish pollsters would poll for confidence in answers

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 11h

I hate it too but pretending like only 1% of people are TERFy won't help us win.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 11h

Folks, you all are reading that Nanos poll wrong. That's change in sentiment since the last poll, not overall numbers. For instance, 45.5% of Canadians polled support or weakly support banning trans kids from sport, compared to 44.8% who opposed or weakly opposed a ban. A change of +1% support.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 11h

Please Americans do this.

Nash @radiodeadair.com · 12h

It begins.

The domino meme:

The start: "Zohran Mamdani runs for Mayor of New York."
The end: "PRESIDENT BRENNAN LEE MULLIGAN"

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 1d

Family pick: I like Chinese-set period piece mystery stories, my wife likes palace intrigue stories and my daughter, the engineer, enjoys shows about a feisty gremlin girl who likes chemistry.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 1d

So Apothecary Diaries is pretty good.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 1d

What about the labeling through The Hive? Were you lying then or did you just decide to start offloading moderation to a chatbot recently?

Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 15

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

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Rapid Onset Gooner Dysphoria @melancholytheclown.bsky.social · 1d

So an anime girl with prosthetics was labeled "explicit sexual content", & then we learn that prosthetics are commonly labeled this way, & then we learn that automod has been outsourced to this ai company, & THEN we learn that the ai company might be using all our images to train ai & mods go silent

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

thehive.ai evaluates all images posted to the site. We don't actually provide any input.

AI to Understand, Search, and Generate Content | Hive

Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understanding needs into their applications.

thehive.ai

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

I have watched my talented, ethical friends lose their jobs because Nazi fuckups like Weiss siphon all the money out of the room and use it to create propaganda mills where sycophants tell the Führer and his thugs they're so special and brave and everyone loves them

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 1d

nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright

Since their arrival, generative AI models and their trainers have demonstrated their ability to download any online content for model training. For content owners and creators, few tools can prevent their content from being fed into a generative AI model against their will. Opt-out lists have been disregarded by model trainers in the past, and can be easily ignored with zero consequences. They are unverifiable and unenforceable, and those who violate opt-out lists and do-not-scrape directives can not be identified with high confidence.

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alias is away @aliasv01.bsky.social · 1d

The Bluesky Head of Trust & Safety admitting that all posted images are processed through an AI autolabeller that presumably employees have no access to or control over? (And probably steals every image to be used in an AI “art” generator, who knows?)

Seriously, this is outrageously irresponsible.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking knew it. Artists beware - if you post to Bluesky you're training a fucking bot to copy you.

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

thehive.ai evaluates all images posted to the site. We don't actually provide any input.

AI to Understand, Search, and Generate Content | Hive

Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understanding needs into their applications.

thehive.ai

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 1d

And there it is. I've been wondering when we'd find out the ostrich farm was a grift.

windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 1d

Some insight into part of the grift running at Universal Ostrich Farms:

- Convince other farms to buy breeding hens ($45,000 for 6 birds in 2017)
- Promise to buy back chicks at $3/lb live weight

Turns out some of the ostriches on the farm are owned by others. Oops.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Creditors circle as cull controversy shines light on B.C. ostrich farmers' unpaid bills | CBC News

After years of chasing debts through the courts, creditors of a high-profile ostrich farm in southeastern B.C. have filed paperwork against the Canada Food Inspection Agency in the hopes of recouping ...

www.cbc.ca

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1d

Marineland should be permanently shut down and all the animals safely rehoused or preferably released into the wild.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Animal rights advocates urge Ontario to seize belugas, fearing Marineland may euthanize them | CBC News

Animal rights advocates are condemning Marineland’s threat to euthanize the 30 remaining belugas at the defunct amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ont., if the federal government doesn't provide funding...

www.cbc.ca

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