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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · 6h

I’d wear the Garfield

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Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · 7d

Xbox series finale

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Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · 8d

“Breath of the wild” was the hardest I’ve laughed in a while

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Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · 18d

Master Thief

Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · 19d

Stella ep!

Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · 24d

If you interviewed people in a bounce house you could justify owning one

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Sep 6

Do it.

Search your name.

Take their money.

It’s yours anyway.

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Sep 5

Shot dead like a BEETLE

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Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Sep 5

Just got a nice hair cut but I think the barber didn’t like me.

Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Sep 5

“I like “political candidate” he gets things done…” but my friend the things he gets done are bad things.

Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ram and Man???

Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Aug 31

Yeah you might be scary with your fascist ideals but you won’t be so big when I do my funny remark

Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Aug 21

I sometimes have a coffee when I WANT to go to sleep.

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Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Aug 18

I can’t wait to see the new Chubby Checker biopic, I heard there’s a massive twist.

Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Aug 17

Punch Drunk Love

Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Aug 10

You must buy and wear it, I don’t make the rules

Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Aug 10

Honestly

Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Aug 3

360 no scope of the human condition

Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Jul 12

Time to revisit No Man’s Sky perhaps… Many updates.

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Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Jul 4

He looks low poly, it probably looks like a cuboid

Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Jul 3

High status Brett character in 2026

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Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Jul 3

The sclunko drama reaching its peak when young foolish left his stream on live during a self swatting is officially going to be the last straw for the screen hop community. May splinto rest in hoodgelandia.

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Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Jul 2

Oh

Ben Hewerdine @theentertainment.bsky.social · Jul 1

You can’t improve disability benefits by cutting funding to it.

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